But they’re also not completely ignorant either. They’re just greedy, and don’t care about much else.

You can have a moon allergy, though, and that’s basically moon hayfever.

You mentioned diverse weather conditions in your grant application, and we can’t have that.

But sure, some bones on your ass I guess.

Exactly. Why live?

Conflict of Interest, maybe?

And it would probably be a bit weird for your friend to also be your medical practitioner.

Assuming this effect existed, wouldn’t the memory of the water be polluted with all kind of things (as water is recycled all the time)?

Yes.

If longer exposure makes the memory stronger, you should be getting a lethal dose of salt quite easily

No, it would be the reverse. The water would magnetise to the salt, and draw it out of you, making you very dead.

The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.

It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so if you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow “remember” what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through some principle of magnetism.

It’s not like it magically somehow worked, and everyone was in amazement or anything quite like that. The only real reasons it did anything at all was that its contemporary treatments were things like bloodletting, which were worse for most things than not doing anything at all, or as a result of placebo.

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Makes some sense. If it can absorb nutrients, it can probably absorb gases too.

It’s like the brain. There’s a tiny barrier that keeps the immune system out of it, and it breaking down is thought to be the cause of a few major brain conditions.

They supply the rest of the eye. It’s just the transparent bit on front that doesn’t get much of anything.

And for the robot (technically Cyborg) front, The Murderbot Diaries. The main character is a cyborg who has trouble relating to humans.

They do have blood, as any ER doc could tell you.

However, they can also breathe in a manner of speaking. Enough that it’s proposed as a possible method to keep someone alive if their lungs don’t work.

The characters not being conventionally attractive and “gender non-conforming” weren’t problems.

Just take Overwatch as an example. People aren’t exactly ranting about how Winston (a Gorilla) isn’t sexually attractive, and therefore represents the moral downfall of society and that. He’s just there.

All manner of confusion would ensue I’d assume, also being a Brit and I have never heard ‘fag’ being recognised as a slur here

Might be an Americanisation thing, where it’s leaking over either from US media, or the internet.

You joke, but there are already protheses which are proprietary, and have shut down. Artificial eyes is a famous example, where the company making one shut down the product line, and blinded people who’d had it installed, due to it just shutting off.

Only if the alternative was doing nothing. Having to sit down and stay still in a chair for many hours whilst hooked up to machinery doesn’t sound like much of an improvement.

Particularly as this is causing huge brand damage to MasterCard/Visa. If there is someone else who should take the issue, you’d think they’d point the issue at them and dust themselves off.

They’re a lot smaller by comparison. Not a lot of places accept American Express (and the few that do tend to do it for an increased surcharge), where many more would take a Visa/Mastercard.

Bug.

The original bug was a moth in computer-relays.

Humans are squishy like bug, and behave semi-unpredictably like bug. Therefore, bug.