Hag-afying as we speak

At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.

And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?

Repaired this COOLPIX S3000 which had a cracked gear in the autofocus motor. This was once a family camera my mom gave me, together with a couple other old digicams we’d had over the years.

After getting the new gear in, cleaning the sensor & rear lens element well, and reassembling everything, I then took it out for a spin to see how well it worked.

So far, so good. It’s not the fastest (early 2010) and still can’t quite lock on properly in low light or at certain distances, but it’s focusing much more efficiently than before.

They said this in a post including that it’s okay to kill Zionists and they explicitly support all armed resistance

Here are all the direct links to help that I could find. If you know of a major organization like the Red Cross that would usually send aid to these situations, they'll likely have a page up no more than a day or two after I post this(August 10th), but right now I'm only linking to pages that have donation links specifically to help with search and rescue/aiding survivors for this disaster. The charities are:

Convoy of Hope

Catholic Relief Services

DirectRelief

UNICEF USA

Gareth Jones exposed what communism brought to the world in 1933, well over a decade before the CIA was founded.

The Male Romantic Fantasy

I’d say that men usually feel most loved when this normal state of affairs is negated; when they are made to believe that a woman’s love is not conditional in the cause-and-effect manner described in the parent post. Love is work for men, but it can be rewarding work when things are going smoothly and the woman is happy as a result. But the male romantic fantasy is to be shown that the woman feels the same way and stands by him when he’s down on his luck, when the money’s not there, or when he’s not feeling confident. He wants to know that the love he believes he’s earned will stay even when the actions that feed it wane (however temporarily). A good woman can often lift a man up in his times of need and desperation and weather the storm even when things aren’t going well. The male romantic fantasy is an enduring and unconditional love that seems to defy this relationship of labor and reward. A man wants to be loved for who he is, not for what he does in order to be loved.

An interesting way to examine this is to look at what women often call romantic entitlement. An entitled guy is a dude who maintains an unrealistic notion of men’s typically active role in love. Before acknowledging reality, this boy uncompromisingly believes that he shouldn’t have to do anything or change anything about himself to earn a woman’s love; he wants to be loved for who he is, not what he does.

All men secretly want this, but there comes a day when they eventually compromise out of necessity. After that day, they may spend years honing themselves, working, shaping themselves into the men they believe women want to be chosen by. A massive part of what causes boys to “grow up” is the realization that being loved requires hard work. This impetus begins a journey where a boy grows into a man by gaining strength, knowledge, resources, and wisdom. The harsh realities of the world might harden and change him into a person his boyhood self wouldn’t recognize. He might adopt viewpoints he doesn’t agree with, transgress his personal boundaries, or commit acts he previously thought himself incapable of. But ultimately, the goal is to feel as if his work is done.