Have you ever tried faking your parents signature to get out of school? I have
Yeah. I’ve been able to do it since I was 10. It’s really easy. I can also fake my husband’s and siblings’. It’s also a pain in the ass to change your signature. So if someone learns to copy it (like say based on the signature that was literally required to be on the card), it’s much hard to change it compared to a pin (which should definitely not be written on the card).
I struggle to think of what that extremely secure infrastructure would look like. Are you imagining signing on an electric terminal and having a computer compare signatures at the time of sale? That seems like the most secure and still wildly insecure compared to a pin.
And, the next ultra-big step: How would a non-techie figure this shit out?
They don’t have a computer, another computer with a different OS, or bitwarden.
Do you think signatures were at all secure? If they cared about security they’d do chip+pin like most civilized countries.
You work at IBM or something? Who even still uses VHDL?
No? They tried to recruit from places that they wouldn’t traditionally in order to get a more diverse hiring pool. So instead of just hiring the managers buddy, you set up a booth at the traditionally black college’s career fair.
It doesn’t automatically save anyone. The CEO isn’t personally murdering anyone. Their policies don’t go away. The health care industry isn’t magically made better by one CEOs death. It leads to a slight chance of health care reform as the comic states. But we actually have to do more to get that outcome.
Wonder if it was a poll during 2020. COVID really highlighted cleaners’ jobs as essential.
Elective is a terrible name for what it actually means which is basically just “not emergency.” Even if it’s super necessary, if you schedule it in advance, it’s elective.
Intuit and H&R Block.
I don’t think the gender reveal party adds to that in any way. It doesn’t matter to the kid and everyone else in the kids life is going to still have the anticipatory moment of finding out their assigned birth gender even if it’s just the parents/doctor telling them. The gender reveal party is such a minor thing years down the line; it’s not like a wedding or something. It’s like saying that theming your kid’s 2nd birthday party Bluey and them deciding they don’t like Bluey when they turn 10 is going to be such a bummer.
NIPT is now standard care in the US. It is covered by insurance and offered to every pregnant person. I didn’t say everyone gets it, just that it’s increasingly used. Something like 25%-50% of people do it and it’s growing in popularity. You haven’t answered if that would take the creepiness out
Most names are definitely gendered. If they weren’t, changing your name when transitioning wouldn’t be so incredibly common. You might think they’re unnecessarily gendered, but they are currently gendered. You also haven’t answered if you’re ok with expectant parents and parents of infants telling people the kid is a girl or a boy without the party.
I don’t know the episode, but when is House not an ass? Him signing you up for a surgery that you haven’t even had time to consider and consent to because he thinks he knows best is not kind. And if you do balk, he’d belittle you.
Unless you really are drinking that much water. If you’re drinking a few gallons a day, expect to be peeing constantly. Your body isn’t going to water to retain all of that and it has to go somewhere. Most bladders can only hold like 2 cups.
Placebos are so effective, we’ve just started selling them explicitly (Zeebo). If it’s cheap and doesn’t have any negative effects, I don’t care if it’s a placebo or more; it works.
People do often take a blood test on Mom which will include some fraction of fetal DNA. They can do a blood test where they just check if there’s any Y chromosome (sneak peek) or they can take a blood test which is to check for chromosomal abnormalities which also happens to tell you the sex chromosomes (NIPT). These happen much earlier than you can tell via looking at genitals on ultrasound and is increasingly becoming how people find out the sex of their baby.
People very often say they are having a girl or a boy and give them a gendered name. Do you have an issue with that?
Very often at this point, expectant parents are basing it on the presence of a Y chromosome or not, not on genitals. Does that take the creepiness out for you?
Do you have a problem with them disclosing the gender of their children at all?
We often don’t have handicapped bathrooms, but a handicap stall in the gendered bathrooms.
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