Preemptive compliance.

This is a great overview of what we know about Mangione and, if he was the shooter, what likely drove him. Chronic pain is horrible and so are insurance companies.

This is also at least the third story I’ve heard of someone having their life ruined by a beginner surfing injury. He seems like a normal, decent dude (for being 26, rich, and a tech bro) and it really sucks that that happened to him. Murder is bad etc but I get it.

That’s why the term “misogynoir” exists. It’s both, and they pile on and increase each other.

Exactly. She’s using straight needles (with a knob on one end) instead of double-pointed needles. DPNs are also straight I guess! But “straight needles” specifically means the ones with one point and a knob.

More info: https://creatingruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/do-you-knit-like-miss-marple/

There was a bizarre movement in the Victorian era to get people to knit with their needles held with tips pointed down because it’s “more ladylike” but it’s also very difficult and irritating to knit that way so it didn’t catch on.

I don’t think there’s any way to knit a tubular sock on straight needles; the geometry doesn’t allow it. You can knit a sock flat and then sew it up into a tube, but it would look different from the comic.

Edit: actually now that I’ve thought about it more, I think there is a way but it would be super annoying (slip every other stitch so you’re knitting the back and front of the tube at the same time, that might work…). Basically the equivalent of writing a letter by writing every other word and then going back to fill in the rest. Possible, but no reason to do it.

That’s called ‘frogging’ (because you rip-it, rip-it), and you don’t use needles to do it.

Artists. I beg you. Do any research into what knitting looks like before drawing someone knitting.

There are 15,000 McDonald’s in the US and turnover is pretty high. It’s an old stat but I don’t expect it’s changed much over time.

My husband and MIL both worked there so it tracks with my family members at least!

One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s, so that’s quite a lot.

In their 90s? Gimme some bread and dancing then!

Yeah, though clues are few and far between; the

is the biggest clue. From Jordan’s other writings, the

and that led to the Age of Legends.

Losing consciousness for any reason = ER. A friend passed out during dinner and we weren’t sure what to do, so we called the triage nurse and they were like “ER now!” (He was fine, they never figured out what happened and it’s never happened again, but it’s definitely stayed with me.)

Great criteria. Another “straight to the ER” one is loss of consciousness; people get knocked out in movies all the time so it’s easy to assume it’s fine, but it’s not.

He’s surrounded by toadies who told him he’d win the first one, and he lost.

True: they’re obviously neither a woman nor a man with empathy.

You’re obviously not a woman: if you were you’d know that we talk about this stuff all the time, and that it absolutely is not obvious to women in blue states how scary things are in red states.

One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s.