Women only breastfeed their male babies if they’re hot, incel insists

@Moggie, you comment here and have the blessed Shiro (RIP) as your avatar, so you’re all right by me.

@Big Titty Demon: probably knows a lot about breasts. 🙂

@Dormousing_it: My brother and I and most of our friends are in that group also. Formula was modern and space-age and status and White. So it didn’t matter if your baby was Chad, Stacy, or landwhale, it got formula. I suspect this particular incel is way too young to know that, and no one likes him enough to point it out.

@Allandrel: sometimes they look like a pink or brown Winston Churchill.

@Naglfar: I am so glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read “Well, it’s all fun and games until your nipples start experiencing Lorentz transformation.” Exactly my point. Or you might end up with a goatee on your nipples, because parallel universes.

@Elaine
They’re the same about once a day, presumably.

@Naglfar

Oh, absolutely! Roosh V is a good example of that, judging by the excerpts from his Bang books that David has discussed here – it very much sounds like he isn’t enjoying the sex (or rape) itself but is just doing it to add another notch to his total.

@ dali

They’re the same about once a day, presumably.

Twice a day if you’re a hobbit.

@TheKnd

It seems to me that Incels have put sex on such high a pedestal that every form of positive interaction can only be explained through it.

Negative interactions as well. Any rejection is interpreted as sexual rejection.

I know from having breastfed my three that moms have a strong bond to their children that doesn’t include any ‘hotness’ factor attached. Incels are a disturbing bunch.

[OT] but where can I get reliable medication?

Lately I suspect I’m getting a smattering of dud pills mixed in with the working ones when I buy OTC meds at a Rexall in my area. Both the Allegra and the ranitidine are affected. When I get a dud one of the former I’ll have sniffles, congestion, or other nuisance symptoms well short of the 24 hour mark, and with the latter, episodes of heartburn or worse, one of those god-awful cramps well short of the 12 hour mark.

This started a few months ago, and is more prevalent with the Allegra. Today was especially bad — I suspect I got two, maybe even three dud pills in a row. Last night’s definitely was because I woke up today with quite a lot of congestion and sniffling, and I’m not sure the previous night’s was 100% effective either. Today the nasal symptoms got bad enough for me to resort to taking the next one early, and not only did it fail entirely to kick in, the sniffling has gotten even worse to the point where it is seriously inconveniencing me. When my nose isn’t tickling, it’s itching; when it isn’t itching, it’s running; when it isn’t running, it’s stuffed up; etc.

I’d take yet another one, but if it’s a dud with respect to some proper subset of active ingredients, I worry I might OD on one of the others. Plus, what’s stopping that one from also being a dud?

I need two things, a short-term fix and a long-term fix.

For the short-term fix, I need some way to stamp out this reaction on the spot, and at least make my nose no worse than it was at this hour yesterday. Whatever it is needs to act quickly, and most importantly it needs to be something I already have lying around here somewhere, or some combination of such things. So, something that can be made with some combination of: possibly-defective Allegra 24 pills, possibly-defective 150mg ranitidine pills, possibly-defective 81mg aspirin pills, a handful of Halls lozenges (none of these have yet been defective), water, cola, and commonplace foodstuffs. I won’t be able to go out to get anything for at least several hours, and possibly not for 2 days, and nobody delivers to here.

For the long-term fix, I need to know how to restore the status quo ante in terms of the reliability of the medications at issue, or else what substitutes would be more reliable. I have access to a very limited selection of pharmacies: that Rexall, a Shopper’s Drug Mart, and one or two mom-and-pop type operations. Again, ordering online is out of the question as nobody delivers to my area. Replacing the OTC versions with prescriptions is not possible as I have no doctor and HealthCareConnect doesn’t work. I don’t know why the QA would be slipping here as there doesn’t seem to be a single point of failure. The OTC meds are prepackaged and sealed by their respective manufacturers, so unless there’s a storage problem at the Rexall (temperature?) that could affect the pills right through tamper-evident blister packs without leaving a sign, the decline in quality/reliability seems to require simultaneous and separate failures at the two manufacturers, or their distribution infrastructures.

Of course, there are more constraints on any solution to this problem: 1. It must not cost me additional money, on a per-mg of the active ingredients basis, 2. it must not require (much) additional travel on my part (going to the Shopper’s Drug Mart instead of the Rexall would be acceptable, in a pinch; going to Toronto would not), and 3. it must not require (nonexistent!) delivery from online sources.

I would also like to know who or what is responsible for this having happened in the first place, instead of the quality and reliability of these things continuing at their 2019 and early 2020 levels unaltered. I did not make any changes that could explain this, which makes it look suspiciously like I’m being punished for someone else‘s screwup, which is of course not acceptable. If there’s someone out there whom I owe a knuckle sandwich, and who owes me a couple of hundred bucks in compensation for my lost time and money in dealing with this (including the total, pro-rated cumulative retail price of all of the defective pills I got sold, which is about 50 cents per 150 mg ranitidine tablet and a dollar for each Allegra 24 tablet; every cumulative hour I’ve wasted wiping my nose, making any extra trips to the store in the near future, or etc. will be assessed at the local minimum wage of $14), I’d like to know who it is.

Resistance or evolution of your condition is the most likely culprit, yes.

I never heard of big pharma putting placebo in the middle of their batch. It don’t even particulary make sense for most medication, who are cheap to mass product and where loss of confidence would be a big problem for the manufacturer.

I have heard of people stealing pills to make drugs from them (for some specific medications), but never that they replace their pills by fake one. It look like quite a lot of effort to do that compared to just stealing them.

Surplus, bodies change all the time. You most likely are becoming resistant to the antihistamines. This is common.

Similarly with the ranitidine, if your problems are of the frequent heartburn nature it could be you’ve developed an ulcer of h. pylori, which the ranitidine wouldn’t be adequate for. Or you’ve gotten an additional (new) gastrointestinal problem. Or, the otc dose just isn’t adequate.

For example, I’m on metoprolol right now on account of too many bloody heart palpitations. Usually 25 mg works perfect, but some days I start having palpitations 5 hours early. It’s not because my pills are duds, it’s because (1) I ate food with my pill that causes it to absorb too quickly or (2) I was more stressed or (3) I was more active or (4) I was more sluggish than usual or (5) infinitely many other things that can effect the complicated biological organism and microbial network that is me.

If you’ve been taking ranitidine and an antihistamine over the counter long term, YOU NEED to get a doc and talk to them. Long term use of antihistamines can cause resistance, and long term use of ranitidine can hide worsening gi problems.

Get appropriate diagnoses, when you can.

Just to clarify here: I do not have access to a doctor.

I don’t currently have a “family physician”. Nor is there apparently any way to change that, because HealthCareConnect doesn’t work, or at the very least, doesn’t work for me for some reason.

There are no walk-in clinics or anything similar in the town I am in, or anywhere within my travel radius (short of spending hundreds on Greyhound or similarly, and many hours of getting tickets, waiting, travel, more waiting, more travel, and so on, anyway).

If someone who knows the Ontario health system knows any “cheat codes” or secret tricks or something for getting HealthCareConnect to work, I’m all ears. Short of that, I simply do not know what I can do. I can only assume that, like so many things in the way of human bureaucracies and things, HealthCareConnect presents the appearance of being a neutral, orderly machine-like system where you take a ticket, wait until it’s your turn, and then get a standardized service much like accessing a web site or doing commonplace impersonal transactions like buying things in the store or withdrawing money at a bank or getting tickets and then seats in the cinema or on the bus, but in actuality there’s some sort of politics involved, with some people being ignored outright while those deemed VIPs because they’re rich, politically connected, friends with with the head bureaucrat, or etc. get bumped to the front of the line, and most people get a quasi-neutral service that’s somewhat degraded in speed because of the VIPs getting to jump the queue, and for whatever reason I got put into the “ignore outright” category (or maybe a very slow-moving minimal-priority queue, an “anti-VIP” line of sorts), probably because I’m of low socioeconomic status and suspected of being a net public money consumer rather than a net tax payer into the system, or perhaps because I’m autistic and flubbed some social cue or other bullshit that they judge you on in deciding how much heel-dragging they’ll do before they let you have a doctor.

So, I’d like it if someone who knew how HealthCareConnect works under the hood could give some pointers on what social cue or other gimmick might get me into the “normal” queue (or even the VIP one, if only to compensate for the amount of time I’ve already spent stuck in the anti-VIP one, though I expect the only way I could swing that now would be to win the lottery and then slip the right person a few C-notes or something).

I do have an upper-middle-class father who might be able to get me some sort of elevated status, if there is class-based discrimination going on here, and if I got the needed information on how he might invoke that in my favor — people to call, or whatever. In case that information helps. I really don’t actually know how they prioritize people, other than it’s very obviously not a simple matter of “first come first served” or I’d have been served six times over by now. (I’ve heard of other people who signed up later than me who were already connected with a doctor by them. So I have concrete proof it’s not just first come first served. Everything else is just speculation, based on my prior experiences as an autistic person trying to navigate tangled social hierarchies and webs, and on the known proclivities of humans to discriminate on the basis of perceived class, race, ability, sex, and so forth.)

@ lollypop

You have to make them remember you.

“Squeaky wheel gets the oil.”

@surplus

also, I’m not a medical doctor, or a nurse, or anything like that. I’m an archeologist, I can make you a Oldowan tools and which herbs you can use to make a tea that helps with arthritis pain but I can’t help more then that. To me it sounds like it’s a similar situation that if I were to have surgery, I would have to be honest with my doctors about my “alternative” methods for dealing with physical pain and anxiety (in the form of special brownies) because the anesthesiologist will have to make corrections accordingly to what will work best for me. You body builds up tolerances and resistances to things. Which is why medicine that once worked for you no longer does. Not because it is a dud. I sincerely hope though that you will be able to go to a doctor or a clinic or something that can give you some long term help for your condition, because obviously you are in a lot of pain.

Also I don’t know much about you surplus. Your medical background or things like that. But my mother’s own condition began to take place after she had given birth to my siblings and I. I don’t know if you have ever given birth or if you are even a person that can get pregnant, but if you have given birth and your problems started to increase after pregnancy and child birth, that is something you should bring up with the medical professional when you are able to see someone.