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** Tai drops a little LSD, smokes some weed, at best someone used to these, like Tai, can remain relatively functional, and she was around a bunch of books most of the day, Faye was an alcholic, in a shop full of things that spray hot liquids, Dora would have been liable for any injuries Faye caused to herself or others being CoDs owner, she isn't liable if Tai knocks a book off the shelf onto someones head.
** In addition, Tai has always been shown to do a good job, so she probably gets some leeway. Faye, on the other hand, spent her entire time in CoD being a bitch to the costumers and to her colleagues. Showing up drunk at work was the last straw.

*** Considering [[AIIsACrapshoot how scatterbrained some of the AIs we've seen are]], do you really think an [=AI=] stove is a good idea?

[[folder:Tilly-Taffy’s pronouns]]

* the SJW on the Forum are going crazy about Tilly/Taffy's use of pronouns. T/T, for reasons best known to that character, favours “they/their” which most people understand as a plural form. This doesn’t seem relevant in any way to the character’s narrative role, so far. Why doesn’t the character simply use “one”, which is a common usage in British English for non-gender-specific cases (“what might one do?”, for example).... seems to be another case of the PanderingToTheBase which has become increasingly common...
** The use of "they" as singular is increasing in popularity. (In part because [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage it was accepted usage until relatively recently]].) As to significance to the character's narrative role...yeah, it's non-existent, but that may have been the point. You don't always have to make a big deal out of non-binary characters, you know?
** To be fair, the people on the forum who went nuts on this are probably the same people who were constantly asking if Claire still had a penis or not.
** The word "one" would be a worse choice, actually. Sure, "one" is common in non-gender specific cases, but never when you're talking about a ''specific person''. It always refers to people in general. Like if you ask "How often should one shower?" then you're asking how often people in general should take showers. "They," on the other hand, always refers to specific people, like "he" and "she" does. The only difference is that it's usually plural, and even that's not always the case--the singular "they" has historical precedent, and is very commonly accepted these days.

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* what does a Synthetic weigh? Seems to vary as the plot requires, although generally more than a comparable human

*** As a police unit Roko might be made sturdier in order to help with crime, alternatively Milleflue might just be lighter and be designed more for a chassis then purpose.

* Are the unique names part of the AlternateUniverse thing? The names of characters are far from common: Hannelore, Sven, Marigold, Angus, Penelope, Wil (with one L)...we might even be able to count Dora, since that's antiquated enough. Marten and Faye are the closest to "normal" names out of the main characters, as is Steve, although his appearances are not nearly as frequent as they used to be. What are the chances that so many uniquely-named people would cross paths and become a cohort of friends in our universe?

* This may be jossed: As well as Claire, the intern in the library, there's also [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1716 Claire the witch here.]]
* Unusual names are possibly just AuthorAppeal since Jeph Jacques himself has a pretty unique name.

* the SJW on the Forum are going crazy about Tilly/Taffy’s use of pronouns. T/T, for reasons best known to that character, favours “they/their” which most people understand as a plural form. This doesn’t seem relevant in any way to the character’s narrative role, so far. Why doesn’t the character simply use “one”, which is a common usage in British English for non-gender-specific cases (“what might one do?”, for example).... seems to be another case of the PanderingToTheBase which has become increasingly common...

*** To be fair, the people on the forum who went nuts on this are probably the same people who were constantly asking if Claire still had a penis or not.

[[folder:Banned]]

** In addition, while in theory [=AIs=] were serving voluntarily, as we see from Roko's experience [=AIs=] can be limited in their actions and many [=AIs=] like May have [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4009 propriety chargers]] both of which would make resigning difficult. In addition, there was a clear indication that [=AIs=] were drafted with little or no other life experience, making them in many ways {{Child Soldiers}}

** there is no mention anywhere, of AIs paying for work-related bodies. One of the AIs was an ATM, one was a forklift truck, I doubt they paid for those bodies. Bubbles has never mentioned paying for HER body, and Pintsize’s “military chassis” appears to have been “surplus”. We don’t know anything about the status of the shop AIs at Idoru; Iris knows about the cost/benefit structure, but that’s part of her job. I don’t doubt that an AI COULD, if they saw fit, buy a body for the purpose of some business venture, but that’s nothing new.

[[folder:Hannelor's dad and his AI]

* Claire seems to exist in a strange quantum state, in which even the embodiment of TheLadette that is Faye, who has no compunction bringing up disgusting (if completely normal) bodily functions, won't bring up anything around Claire, that could have revealed her status.

* Wait...Faye and Claire have lived under the same roof for how long now? And yet [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4167 Faye is just now learning that Claire is trans]]? Seriously, young women of that age don't share living space for long before the topic of menses comes up. Hard for me to believe that Faye would take that long to learn that Claire doesn't have periods.

[[folder:Hannelor's dad and his AI]]

* AIs seem slightly clueless about the whole issue, at times. Millefeuille turned up for gluteal implementation, without apparently providing herself with trousers that would fit post-op, and Bubbles didn’t advise her of the requirement. Roko’s new body didn’t appear to automatically include clothing other than generic, minimum underwear(and she was asked if she required clothing, implying that at least SOME customers either saw that as sufficient, or made their own arrangements. Now May is shown with the same generic, minimum underwear and is walking about with her old clothes ripped up to sort-of fit her new body; you’d think Roko would know better, and Beeps just seems clueless all round.

* Bubbles appears to inhabit a military-surplus chassis which she has retained, presumably as some sort of GI Benefit. However Corpse Witch implies, and Bubbles appears to believe her, that the government could reclaim it at will. Droid-06 and Deathbot9000 could be similar cases