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YOU GET TO KNOW ANYWAY, AHAHAHAHAHA!

... nah, seriously, it's just touhou (Chen, specifically) fanart with a burrito probably shopped in. Fifty/fifty odds the original prodding object wasn't even a dong!

Maybe a typo, maybe incest, I'unno, I'm half under a siesta right now.

Some years ago I saw a guy at Burger King who looked like a thin Saddam Hussein.  Is that worth anything?

Leviathan got bloody weird in places. And by "in places" I mean all of it. Fairly enthralling, but a manga series that definitely fits in the WTF thread.

And @Arx, that's largely what a living will is for. At least in some places, you can already have appropriate medical treatment (including information release, I do believe) dictated beforehand, to varying degrees. Just have the appropriate papers on you or filed somewhere accessible. Hospitals being a bit more proactive in informing patients they can write the things and the degree to which they can/will be followed in the jurisdiction in question would probably be a good idea in general, though, sure.

E: Though, at the same time, being in the states I'm a bit leery about the hospitals having much input or being allowed to put pressure on (potential) patients regarding such things. I would entirely expect some of the rat bastards we have running hospitals (or worse, the insurance companies) to abuse that sort of program, trying to coerce the injured or ill into preemptively agreeing to excessively expensive treatments.

I could see limited case stuff as a possibility, but I don't blame doctors for not going that route, either. You may not care about your history of syphilis, but you damn sure better believe someone that's transitioning or getting help for gender dysphoria in a country that's viciously transphobic cares about their medical history being kept damn tight, just as an example. Similarly, there's a number of cases where elderly or whatev' had their information shared out without consent and ended up with their lives utterly bloody ruined due to ID theft, fraud, etc. Then there's the (serious, bloody huge) problem of patients that need help, but are worried enough about what they need help for being spread out that they don't share relevant information with their doctor -- that's led not just to the person in question dying, but other people dying, too, and it can really easily (in the case of, say, mental illness problems, which news getting out about can have a person go from having a steady job and surviving to being fired, unhireable, and on the streets) lead to lives being ruined.

I'm personally pretty behind medical privacy laws having zero exception clauses behind them. There's benefits to exceptions existing, but there's also substantial enough negatives I can see just saying no, unilaterally.

Ah, looking at it more, it's more understandable. It's not just a stylus, it's a ludicrously overdesigned stylus that also, apparently, somehow, is powered by a battery instead of plugged into something like a sane peripheral, stuffed with all sorts of things that will happily fail within entirely too short of a period. Yeah, some R&D had to go into how to both create an engineering failure and convince people to buy it, so... kudos, I guess? I'll admit to a lil'envy at them finding their minute born suckers before I did, ha.

... ten cents of plastic, ten cents of metal, 98.80 dollars profit. I'll give 'em this much, as ripoff artistry goes they're damn good at it.

One day I may learn to use something beyond paint. That day is not this day.

... except it wasn't? And it was the OP that locked it, for pretty understandable reasons.