u/subcommandertpol

I can't take this. I'm from Germany and more and more people are voting for the fascist party AfD. It could become the ruling party soon in one state. I can't fucking take this knowing our history. I'm looking at the US and just know that's gonna be us in ten years, because any american trend becomes a european trend next. They're already taking away more and more social and cultural support programs and our government STILL actively supports the israeli government. I can't take it anymore, it's emotionally breaking me. I can't relax, I can't not think about it, I feel like as a human this is my responsibility and everyones responsibility, to look out for each other!!! As soon as I try to take a day to stay away from the news and calm down from these anxious thoughts, all I wanna do is not ever think about all the bad in the world again. Suddenly the slightest bad news triggers me. So I go all in again instead, because the empotional impact of a single bad event is not so awful when you're already surrounding yourself with bad news all the time. I feel like my choices are either blissful ignorance or being permanently unwell. I can't do anything in between. But I can't tolerate blissfull ignorance when I know I am like german citizens a hundred years ago, if I don't pay attention now, I will end up being one of those who "didn't know" what their government was doing, but really they did, they were just too comfortable in their privileges to resist. I think we're already at the point where being passive is enough to make you complicit so I can't be passive. And I know that a therapist (though I am not in therapy right now) would say that me being so caught up in this is because it's a special interest / hyperfixation, what I can't understand is why everyone doesn't feel this way!!! I feel like pathologizing these feelings is just another way to try and put activists in their place. Many of us are neurodivergent but WE'RE RIGHT. THE WAY THE WORLD IS GOING IS NOT RIGHT. I just wonder if I can ever find some peace of mind like this. I'm falling apart but it's preferable to the world falling apart.. :( Idk. I think I need a hug. I only like hugs from my mom and my best friend, but this is something they don't understand about me. If anyone has advice, or kind words, or anything,much appreciated.<3

Hi, the camera I own is a Lumix DMC-GX80. I love photography but have never been in the financial position to spend a lot of money on equipment, this is a camera my sister bought for herself and doesn't really use. The lense on this camera is a 12-32mm zoom lense. What makes this lense awful for me is that it doesn't have a focus ring. It only does autofocus. Now the camera has a M4/3 mount, which from my research so far seems to already have very limited lense options. Half the results when I search are mislabeled 4/3 mount lenses. I don't have any special wishes for a lense; all I want is one with manual focus! I like to take my time taking pictures and feel like the autofocus severely limits my creative control. I wouldn't mind a zoom lense again, maybe something in the higher mms, or if it's a fixed one I wanna try 50mm. I know there's adapters to connect other lense mounts to M4/3, but I'd rather not pay the extra money and risk the lense I buy not working at all, especially since my budget will mean I'll have to buy used, so no returns. I need to stay under 100€. Does anyone have tips for finding a lense like that?

been using moonreader on my phone and i love it, but I can't find a setting anywhere to turn off the automatic vertical scrolling that happens when you tap and move up or down. i keep accidentally scrolling the page away and losing where in the text i was. in the control settings there's a swiping setting, i set both up and down swiping to do "nothing", but it did nothing to change this. anyone know what the problem is? is this only possible in the pro version? or is it a bug? i'm on a google pixel 6a, android v. 16. thanks

Hey, ich habe eine mega spezifische Frage: Als ich ein Kind haben wir immer Strumpfhosen getragen, die aus 100% Baumwolle waren. Die waren dehnbar genug, dass man rein passte, aber längst nicht so dehnbar wie die heutigen, die alle einen Elasthan-Anteil haben. Sie waren auch aus gröberem Garn, natürlich viel feiner als handgestrickte Sachen, aber gröber als zb. Nylonstrümpfe. Diese Stoffqualität hat was total nostalgisches für mich, bisschen rau und kratzig aber trotzdem irgendwie angenehm. Nun suche ich einen solchen Stoff als Meterware; glaubt ihr das gibt es, und wenn ja, unter welchem Name? Jerseys sind meistens weich und dehnbar und sehr kleinmaschig. Mit "Socken/Strumpfhosenstoff als Meterware" finde ich online gar nichts. Vielleicht gibt es das wirklich nicht, aber ich dachte ich geh mal sicher und frage hier! Liebe Grüße

I can't help but think my thick, wiry, coarse hair texture has something to do with my HS. In my groin area, a lot of the hairs are multiple hairs coming out of the same follicle or pore. That always struck me as odd, I think i started noticing it around the age of 20 so shortly before my HS started. Before that I think it had been growing normal. What I notice is that often, when two hairs grow out of the same follicle, one of them will be my normal brown color, and one will be shorter and white and have thick sebum all around it when you pull it. It's weird cause I'm 24 and not going grey anywhere else on my body. Those white hairs are also completely painless to pull, unlike the brown hairs. They are also EXTREMELY hard and thick. When I pull one and then poke my skin with it, it feels like stabbing yourself with a dull needle. (It feels that way with my regular brown hairs, too, but much more so with the white ones.) I don't even understand how my body can produce something like that. And it's like, if those are sitting in my skin, no wonder I get awful inflammation! Both the hair follicle thing and the white hair thing only happen in my groin area, which is also the only place where I have HS. My armpit hair is much less thick, and even though armpits are a common place to get HS, I've never had any there. That may not be a coincidence. Has anyone noticed these things in their own hair? I pretty much feel like a freak thinking about my hair follicles so much, but then other people don't spend days at a time limping cause their hair follicles cause them painful oozing wounds lol. Now I just gotta somehow convince my insurance that that's why I don't just want but NEED laser hair removal (their response was just a straight up no. not even any explanation beyond "sorry you're suffering but we don't cover this". ugh)