maniclucky

The inverse of Clark's saying: sufficiently explained magic is indistinguishable from science (credit: Girl Genius webcomic)

Would you recognize if someone made a block diagram of your brain?

I think you meant century.

Correct, I just don't feel like pretending that that's a thing they might do and that it isn't the racism causing the problem.

Except adjusting for race is not appropriate. They are a significant portion of his constituent population. It may help explain a factor as to why it's higher in his state. But I'll bet being in a red state is also a factor given things like doctors fleeing, budget cuts, etc.

Additionally, such stats are prone to reflecting biases in the system rather than actual medically relevant information. Do black women have worse outcomes because of biological reasons, or because they are treated worse. This is one of those stats you have to be careful with because a nontrivial amount of time, it's damn near proof of racism.

If only states were capable of doing things to improve the lives of their residents above what the nation as a whole can do. Clearly it's impossible. Woe be this poor powerless state politician.

Your justification doesn't hold within its own logic. And doesn't address how blatantly racist the statement itself is.

A lesser point: the writing is pretty bad even by who standards. Trying too hard to check inclusion boxes when they would be nailing it with a little less effort. A random line in Gatwas second season about it being illegal for nurses to not know sign language, despite the presence of universal translation, was a hamfisted attempt to force inclusivity. Good impulse, heinously bad execution.

A larger thing that stood out to me was a recent episode (first of his second season). They go to the planet, find the bad guy, turns out he's a literal incel (feels like they didn't have to be so on the head, but that bit is whatever) stalking the new companion. In the end he unceremoniously dies. The Doctor and the new companion shared a laugh.

The Doctor doesn't laugh at death. Granted I've never watched the originals, but the other Doctors have no shortage of hang ups about it. The tenth goes out of his way to give the bad guys a chance to end peacefully on his debut episode before killing them with a frown. The fourteenth chastised a person for trying to take advantage of the bad guy hanging from a ledge in her debut episode. The eleventh was a showman, but treated a good man going to war with proper, barely restrained rage. The twelfth has a sizable plotline about his issues with soldiers that interferes with his relationship with Clara.

It just doesn't feel like the Doctor that I grew attached to, even Jodie Whittaker (who I argue was a victim of bad writing). I blame Disney.

Similar genre with a tiny setup difference: portal fantasy. Think Narnia or Inuyasha in which characters return from the other world

I'm guessing existing while brown.

Or grooming children at church.

I'm a fan of the shortest splitline algorithm.

I hounded my boss for a year when COVID hit to make it permanent. Worth every bit of annoying him.