@froztbyte @angrystego

To be fair they all too often have less agency about getting pregnant than they should, and getting pregnant is something women may fear or dread depending on the circumstances such as “was it rape” “is he abusive” “that’d really fuck up my career that is finally getting going” and “am I in Texas or Florida or Georgia or…”

Also, accidents happen, probably even with birth control defense in depth.

@V0ldek @sue_me_please

IVF isn’t required if fertility concerns or frozen eggs aren’t involved, they can give you the home game.

And it should be no surprise that sperm banks want to be able to compete on the “quality” of their donors.

Just watch out for the bank that is 75% doctor jizz but it’s all from the proprietor.

@V0ldek

Yeah I'm not dismissing that. It's a big ass shark in a tank.

Or the guy who made a cast of his own head using his own frozen blood, that's kept in a special refrigerated display case.

@corbin

I just mean "weird" in terms of “valued far higher than the average person might expect” but I'm not implying that that value isn't merited. I'm not one to dismiss a Rothko.

@froztbyte

Sounds like someone under a lot of pressure to raise revenue and not having much success.

@sc_griffith

In Night Watch:
“Vimes/Keel tells Ned Coates not to put his trust in revolutions "They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes" This is a common theme in Pratchett regarding authority figures”

That said Vimes does participate in a revolution of sorts in that book, as “John Keel”, in the past.

@sc_griffith

I think Pratchett understood that, despite people romanticizing revolution, revolutions often end up opening the door to something as bad or worse. Especially in a place like Discworld.

@Ragnarok314159

Sir… sir... SIR. I'll have you know that I, too, have seen laminar flow in the stream from a faucet. I’ll not have my qualifications dismissed so haughtily.

@dgerard

7 bits were good enough for Jesus.

@mawhrin @naevaTheRat

Investing in shell is arguably ethical if you're doing it to exert shareholder influence or just be a pain in their ass at annual meeting time.

@Soyweiser @gerikson

Are ice cream vans involved?

@gerikson

Even if it doesn't rapidly degenerate into a full-blown Kessler Event, I'd have to think there'd be enough going on there to increase uncertainty and risk.