Even if they did want children, without the support systems, it may not be feasible for them to have kids. Having them might mean choosing to starve or go without a house.
Even if you’re in a country with a public health care system, a sick/young child means having to take time off work to care for them.
Plus the Roman Catholic attitude is that God’s far too important to do little mundane things like that.
You have to put in the effort to get well, you can’t just sit back and expect God to do all the work.
I think they’re just poking fun at EV being about vehicles in general, and not specifically about the autocar.
Perhaps even thrice.
They already did. You just need some very powerful hardware to actually host the full thing (or at least, a lot of VRAM).
That was the intended audience for the comic at the time, though.
CAD was very much immature nerd humour (as was the style at the time), and it’d be inevitable that a sudden tonal whiplash to a serious tragedy around a miscarriage, out of seeming nowhere, would be received poorly.
People forget that strikes are a civil option to the alternative.
I should be quite surprised if it was legally binding, as opposed to tradition.
The Parliament doesn’t immediately stop functioning if the Black Rod breaks, is stolen, or is out for repairs, for example.
Headline made me think that “The Mainichi” was the culprit for the thefts.
No, it was a weasel. One of the other kinds of long, furry noodle creatures.
Yes. For a while, South Korean internet nicknamed him the “Gold Goblin” (after Diablo), since he was so disliked that anyone shown hitting him would receive a decent amount of money in donations.
This way when the country bursts into flames it won’t bring the rest of the world with it.
The interconnected nature of the world these days means that it would be inevitable that everyone else would be embroiled in whatever it is that happens.
Plus the military doesn’t want to show the full extent of their intelligence capabilities right off the bat. They would much rather be underestimated.
Where’s the Tumblr?
Interestingly enough, you can also 86 a person. This means they’re not allowed to come back to the bar/restaurant/etc…
Sounds like a murder/assassination euphemism.
Is there a cheesy black market?
There is, like there is for olive oil, or maple syrup. Especially if it’s authentic. Olive Oil infamously has multiple fakes floating about, where it’s something else passed off as olive oil.
Got bored and looked it up, and there aren’t, surprisingly. At least not in the 2019 revision of the Major League Baseball rules. But they do define what a ball is, and isn’t, and a baby is not considered a valid ball (3.01).
But at least according to Rule 5.01©(1), if part of the baby gets on the batter, they might be considered “hit by pitch”, and therefore eligible to advance to first base. (It would be considered a ‘dead’ ball, which is funny, given the context.)
The rules aren’t written expecting the ball to break into bits upon impact, so it’d depend on it actually happening to get precedent.
But at least going by 4.01(a,e), it’s the umpire’s fault for providing an invalid “ball”, and they might have to clean up, since they’re tasked with replacing the “ball” if damaged.
The baby is hardly going to make it out of the stadium if it splashes on impact.
Eigth implied fact: The baby is durable enough to be hit by a baseball bat hard enough to fling it out of the stadium, and remain in one piece.
Plus wealth generally means power and connections, all of which makes it easier for someone to get wealthy.
Microsoft would almost certainly have never become what it is if Bill Microsoft wasn’t wealthy enough to have a family computer ahead of most people being able to have one at home, and his mother wasn’t friends with an IBM chair.
Naturally, IBM would be much more likely to hire someone who comes with the recommendation of a higher-up than Afferige Mann, who is applying based on an ad in the paper, and has only worked retail.
Plus wealth gives a safety net. It didn’t matter for Bill if the first few Microsofts failed, he can try again until he hits it big. Afferige has non-such luck. If he starts a company and it folds, he may not have the money to start another.