my boyfriend and I sometimes struggle to be on the same page when it comes to comforting- often i just want to vent and don’t need advice, whereas validation confuses him and he wants a plan of action
to counter this, we’ve come up with a system where we ask: “do you want advice, empathy, both or neither?”
if it’s just advice, i know to go straight to action points and not spend time on fluffy words
if it’s just empathy, he knows i want to be reassured and comforted and that’s all
if it’s both, it’s time for advice that recognises how hard the situation is and is perhaps gentler in nature
if it’s neither, just a hug is really good
i recommend trying to use this in your lives! it makes sure you’re giving and getting what you need, and reduces the risk of resentment or similar
Internet users are pledging to vote out lawmakers in 2018 if they do not support Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to restore FCC rules
Net neutrality advocates have hit an important milestone and are gaining ground in Congress. A Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality has hit the 30 sign-ons from Senators needed to force a vote on the Senate floor. The CRA allows Congress to overturn the FCC’s decision, which has generated widespread bipartisan backlash, with a simple majority vote in the Senate and House, which is increasingly within reach with several Republicans already publicly criticizing the FCC’s move.
Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future (pronouns: she/her), issued the following statement:
“Internet users are angry, educated, and organized. We refuse to back down. Net neutrality is too important to the future of our democracy. Today’s news shows that lawmakers from both parties cannot hide from their constituents on this issue. Every member of the U.S. Senate will have to go on the record, during a tight election year, and either vote to save the Internet or rubber stamp its death warrant.
We will not be fooled by trojan horse legislation branded as a compromise. Millions of people from across the political spectrum fought hard to win the Title II net neutrality protections that the FCC just callously slashed at the behest of telecom lobbyists. The Congressional Review Act gives Congress the power to reverse that corrupt and illegitimate decision and restore the basic protections that enable free expression, creativity, and innovation online.
Any lawmaker foolish enough to be on the wrong side of history by voting against the free and open Internet will regret it come election day.”
Last week, Fight for the Future announced a no holds barred campaign at VoteForNetNeutrality.comcalling on Internet users to pledge to vote against lawmakers who don’t support the CRA resolution to overturn the FCC decision and restore net neutrality protections. Millions of people have taken action in recent months, bombarding Congress with a flood of phone calls, emails, faxes, tweets, protests, and constituent meetings.
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To be clear, if it does get overturned, the president can still veto, and two-thirds of Congress (in both the House and Senate) will need to vote to overrule the veto. So a simple majority is not enough, and calls / emails should be placed to get as many congresspeople on board as possible.
No. No, you know what? NO. This is NOT how medicine works. NOT. AT. ALL.
First of why is anybody asking a doc stuff like this over iMessage? How can you even get a wrong number like this??? So no.
Secondly no. You can’t just google symptoms and hope the right thing will come out of it. Especially like this, it is an incredible coincidence that the person googling it got the right answer in the end. In the worst case you get answers for everything from “its an infection” to “it’s cancer” from google.
And do you know why? because symptoms are stuff like “pain” or “a red
rash” and it’s not like that “pain plus rash plus random symptom a
equals specific sickness XY” No it’s not like that. It’s more like “this
sickness MAY cause a number of the following list of symptoms” as well
as “this symptom MAY appear in following sicknesses”
To find the
right diagnosis you gotta combine a lot more than the knowledge of
symptoms. You need the result of your examination, you need blood tests,
pictures, a whole lot of tests. Not just to confirm your theory but
also to prove that it isn’t something else. Pain in the chest could just be from a pulled muscle. It could also be an upset stomach, the onset on an pulmonary infection or an heart attack. And you GOTTA PROVE that it isn’t one of the serve ones that could lead to death.
So just googling symptoms is like the most bullshit way to get to an diagnosis, let alone to get to the treatment, like that is another whole box. (because who would have thought, there are different options for each sickness)
And what the fuck is up with that “it took 3h for trained medical professionals for figure out what took you 3 minutes”? NO THIS IS BULLSHIT. The person googling stuff didn’t figure it out. They gave an guess that happened to be correct.
But you know what the trained medical professionals did? They figures it out. They tested this shit, asked a lot of questions, they examined the patient, did maybe a arteriography and a duplex sonography of the leg to find that there was an blockage of an arterial vessel. They might have done some blood tests and went on to search why there was a blockage, what kind of it and THEN decided that it was the best to put in the stent. They needed these 3 hours to figure out if it was an blockage or a leak of the vessel or something entirely else. They needed the time to figure out if that person even could have the OP, if there were contraindications for this procedure or if there was a better option for this case. And most likely there were other patients they had to care for at the same time too so yeah.
Trained medical professionals figure stuff out. They do the work on the patient.
Some random person googling symptoms are making guesses with the internet.
To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa. So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.
Luanda, Angola
Agadir, Morocco
Lagos, Nigeria
Cairo, Egypt
Port Louis, Mauritius
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Algiers, Algeria
Tripoli, Libya
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tunis, Tunisia
So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.
these look so beautiful omg
Lets not forget the beauty that is Chefchaouen, Morocco;
Absolutely magical place. I visited there over 20 years ago and what was remarkable was how cool the blue walls were to the touch. And the Moroccan people are so friendly and hospitable.
ches
AngelMihe 