Oh boy, make sure you’ve got tissues at hand. It’s a beautiful game though, enjoy!

I’m glad to hear that, hopefully she’ll recover well and be happy and healthy

Can do. I’m not sure what’s unclear, so I’ll cover my bases.

Endometriosis - as part of the period cycle, the layer of the womb’s walls that’s inside (endometrium) thickens, ready to take a fertilised egg, but if there’s no egg (or none in time) make itself a cozy home among that lining, then it sheds, and is ejected from the body along with blood during periods. Endometriosis is a disease where that lining starts to grow elsewhere outside the uterus, most commonly around it, but can end up all over the body, even inside lungs or growing on skin. And, of course, it makes periods quite a bit more painful. Current estimate is that it affects 10 percent of menstruating people, yet it’s regularly misdiagnosed or the diagnosis is delayed, leading to years (if not a lifetime) of pain. This article is a good read on the troubles with endometriosis.

The research about its effect on men or another one about how endometriosis affects the sexual wellbeing of men - even though over the recent couple of years there’s been an increase in the number of studies on endometriosis, it’s upsetting to people that instead of focusing on better diagnosis, care, alleviation, etc, people are still looking into “but what about the men 🥺”. Not to mention the biased / lacking variety selection of participants for existing research. This all ties into medical misogyny and women’s concerns being consistently dismissed (see more below).

On period pain - this article is a good read (anti-paywall proxy), but in a nutshell, it is so “normal” that people have pain during periods that people just suffer in silence, or are dismissed when they do try to seek help. There are some materials (example, example) online, though even official materials can downplay period pain, which is just an example how normal and systemic it is, though one should not be surprised as half report their symptoms/concerns being dismissed. Which also ties into endometriosis, since it can increase the painfulness of periods, to the point of being debilitating. Not to mention the general dismissal of people’s pain in gynecology, what with for example medical professionals underestimating pain and just not offering pain medication.

On the cervix - things have gotten better in gynecological care in more recent years, though there’s still a lot of room to grow. In Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), Kinsey’s group wrote that the surface of the cervix is “the most completely insensitive part of the female genital anatomy.” based on a reaction to a gentle stroking by a probe. And then, it was taught to doctors for years, decades, and some healthcare providers still keeping to the old beliefs. It’s obviously wrong (ex. a neat read on cervix and pleasure), but what do you expect, the doctors no longer use the word “hysteria”, but medical misogyny is sufficiently embedded that just slapping on a generic diagnosis is a thing.

Did that clarify things for you or is there something more you’d like to know?

On a side note, menstrual cramps are supposed to feel, at most, like sore muscles after a workout (probably since they’re essentially getting a non-stop workout for a week). Sharp, especially debilitating, pain is a cause for concern and should be addressed, however doctors usually don’t care (plenty still think the cervix doesn’t feel pain), and medical research is notoriously behind, case in point the relatively recent study that looked into how endometriosis affects the male partners of the person having periods.

That’s why I appreciate the few and far between sites that have a banner… That’s just “we don’t track or nuffin’, see here what we do”, so it’s clear that they’ve considered, any potential scripts did load successfully, and they’re hopefully not lying

I actually some time ago listened to a podcast (can’t remember the name) where the guy had his little daughter (like preschool) rate his dad-ness on different scales by just drawing a line on the paper and asking her to put her finger on it to show her rating. Though it was apparently biased because that morning the dad had made the daughter brush her hair. In any case, he took sub-millimeter measurements, did the math, and ended up with a number just like that… Which he ofc printed on a mug 😁

Exactly! Now you’re getting it 😁

It’s not profitable for the mill, yes, but the millers (board members and C-suite) are making Hella bank

Their business is the LLMs. It’s like asking if a loaf of bread is expensive, then why don’t millers bake bread using their own flour

You know you can have opinions about things, and thinking they’re bad, without being outraged, right? Like, I think (idk about what you’d think) that dog poop smells bad. That is my opinion, and it’s consistent no matter where I am or what I’m doing. I don’t feel strongly when dog poop is mentioned. I still decline when someone offers me a bag of dog poop. If someone talks about a big poop their dog did, I don’t feel big emotions, I just know that I don’t like it. The same is with politics. Like I believe that all people should have access to free healthcare. Am I seething with rage constantly over the state of US healthcare? No. Am I upset whenever someone discusses which health insurance company they should go with? Also no, it’s them doing their thing trying to survive. But if someone’s saying “oh we should replace the national health system in countries X, Y, and Z with a private system like the US”, I’d potentially even comment on it, but still not have a burning flame of outrage inside.

Do you get my point? You can have knowledge, opinions, and reactions to things without being constantly full of a certain emotion or another.

I’m assuming the US, because

https://www.steinberginjurylawyers.com/blog/what-you-should-know-about-californias-good-samaritan-law.cfm

https://www.heitingandirwin.com/suing-the-good-samaritan-when-good-intentions-cause-serious-harm/

https://abcnews.com/TheLaw/story?id=6498405&page=1

https://nevinlawgroup.com/how-many-successful-good-samaritan-lawsuits-are.html

4.7% of lawsuits ending with a judgement against the good samaritan is not much, but more than 0

Yes, both sides are bad. But it’s like having a puppy mulching machine that only uses live puppies. The current goal is to vote for the side that throws in 1 puppy a day in order to stop the side that throws in 1 puppy a minute. Then, once the puppy-a-minute people are sufficiently far from the puppy mulching machine, the goal shifts to voting for the side the throws in zero puppies instead. Right now it’s not possible to go to zero puppies, so gotta work with what’s possible, no matter how much it sucks. At the same time keeping away the feral ones that throw in boxfuls of puppies constantly, which is getting harder by the day since they made friends with the puppy-a-minute people.

Well what do people expect, it’s a cash grab series milking a dead cow, of course the focus is on getting every last penny/watch/stream out of gullible sods rather than actual quality

It seems like a really interesting idea, but yea, reaching critical mass is hard. Having a module instead of a full rewrite would be too big indeed, but the module mentioned in the comments would be a better idea. Sadly having something even half as big as AO3 would be quite the effort to maintain.

Don’t even need the good looking tbh

Oh, I forgot those were a thing. Ad blocking DNS does wonders

Is the reason why I have a Gmail. It’s the same one I’ve had for a long time, last time I checked it, the unread emails count was past 9999. I wonder what Google thinks of me 🤔

A pigeon? How dare you! That’s almost as bad as calling someone an absolute walnut!

There’s a journalist that did a video walking down a hallway in one of the gov buildings in Washington. One office door after the next had a “I stand with Israel” sign

It’s like being psychology adjacent and having to double check which CBT do people mean