The article says “banned from purchasing tobacco products” and that the same smoking restrictions will now also apply for vaping. I don’t think it mentioned nicotine specifically. I think it mentioned banning the sale of disposable vapes too but here goes my memory span, useless.

People are still allowed to smoke in private spaces like their homes, but the public spaces ban would now be extra. It’s an interesting move, I don’t smoke or live there but I see both the potential good and bad ramifications from this.

Why aren’t the genders switched in this comic if it is about that?

Because at the time of publication, probably somewhere in the 80’s, this wasn’t even something on people’s list of concerns. As sexist slander this is very weak, because the point isn’t to throw dirt at women. It does present two stereotypes though, a nagging woman (or perhaps a clean freak woman), and a suicidal man. Both are statistically true, women tend to fuss more over cleanliness and men have higher rates of suicide than women. Are you also upset over every piece of media that shows a woman cooking for her husband or men as the main income earners in a household?

How do you determine when a piece is sexist or not? Is gender switching your gold standard? If so, this also works with genders switched. You would have your stereotypical abusive husband completely losing it over the house-cleaning wife leaving a stain after killing herself. The underlying criticism would be the same, people valuing more the material than people’s lives. The man would be demonized in this situation just as much. What a slaveowner husband, husband bad.

I like to weigh in the body of work of an artist (if I am aware of this work) and take it into account. People’s views show through, but you can’t usually pick them up based on a single piece. Funny how some people here are completely fine with dumb jokes from people who are either openly nazis or have a clear disdain for minorities and women, but get riled up over something by an award winning artist known for championing human rights in his work.

And my grandfather was alright, as far as I’ve known. You probably got confused with your thread of replies. Thanks for your concern though.

Valuing more a piece of upholstery than a human life. Satire on materialism with an absurd delivery.

If you really think this is about wife bad you are probably missing the point of the comic.

It’s difficult to find ones without text. Glad to see the Quino appreciation :)

I guess you can interpret it that way. If you were familiar with this artist you’d know it’s more likely to be “the rich value more the material than the people in their lives”. Poking a jab at the superfluous wealthy upper class is a recurring theme with him. And yes you are right, this is decades old.

What content warning should I use? I already tagged

Omg. I didn’t even realize. In my defense, Quino’s work probably precedes the loss trend. I couldn’t find the date for this one but he was at his most productive in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. He passed away in 2020.

Omg comparing yourself to Socrates is just hilarious

Bro. He’s practically Jesus. Or a doctor, I don’t know. Were you expecting anything less?

That’s got to be the most friendly and polite swan ever

I guess what I’m asking for is an ELI5 of the mechanisms involved, which I figured were understood from the comments.

I already understand that not everyone can bypass something like this, in fact it’s likely I couldn’t either. We also agree that nobody should in the first place. I see anonymity as a right

It’s the mechanism apparently being impossible to be cheated on what I don’t understand. Or maybe I’m just hopelessly confused.

I should have replied under the post instead of under your comment, but it was your comment the one triggering the oh wait what moment for me, sorry. Don’t feel like you have to give me an answer if I’m not making any sense

Can someone ELI5 this for me please? I’m clearly not getting what’s going on

Same as with an em dash. But also as with the em dash, it’s now becoming much more frequent because of LLM usage. People see stripes and call it a tiger.

I like the subtle hint on that graph at the end of the bed.

That’s sad. I’m not a fan but it sucks that she’s stuck with an addiction that jeopardizes her own life. I hope she can overcome this for good.

Fanning yourself in Victorian fashion is all the rage now, back in vogue

I’ve… Never heard of this game before, I must try

Agreed, unfortunately I think this will only fuel further age and ID verification enforcements. And of course change nothing in the design of the platforms.