again: stop protesting.

just go live.

do you need the government to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do? really?

https://globalnews.ca/news/6897862/doug-ford-2nd-anti-shutdown-protest-toronto/

so, i slept on how to get these live links into the master document....

i only have 36 html files, all dated to the last days of the month. each file has a handful of links in it...

so, rather than throw everything back into flux by installing to the 90s laptop, it makes more sense to just edit the html files in notepad and then copy them over.

hopefully, these problems with my access terminal will be resolved within a few weeks. it really relies on being able to get a workable reimaging process in place.

once i get the links in these files hardcoded, and the files copied into the master document, i'll be done processing all of the files on my external drive for the month of 01/14. there will still be a few things left, but that will be the crux of it, and i can get to the rebuild.

i'm going to have to get some groceries, eventually.

so, snap out of it.

all you've ever gotten from doug ford is a constant stream of steady bullshit, it's all you're getting from him now and it's all you'll ever get from him in the future - because that's what he does, he bullshits.

you have to wonder.

if you could put him in some sort of squeeze device, and just compress his fat ass, would shit come out of his mouth?

if you can send me a link to a press conference where doug ford isn't talking out of his ass, a situation where he isn't blatantly bullshitting, i will buy you a beer when this is done.

i suspect it's never happened.

so, we need to consider the source when he speaks.

it's just bullshit after more bullshit after more bullshit....

he's head bullshitter.

we need to wise up, ontario.

every word out of doug ford's mouth is just a steady stream of complete bullshit - just like it has been for years and years.

he's only capable of doing one thing, and it's bullshitting people.

nothing's changed - it's bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

we have no idea what's going on here at all.

i don't want hope and bullshit.

i want facts and data.

when your leaders lie to you, withhold the facts, and talk down to you like you're children, you do not live in a free society - you are cattle, you are enslaved.

everything that doug ford says is the opposite of reality, but that was true before this started, wasn't it?

we need to build immunity faster, or we're going to be enslaved forever. if you want this to end sooner, then get out there and spread this faster.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-premier-says-province-will-open-sooner-than-thought-if-physical-distancing-continues-1.4922022

let's get a nap in first.

fwiw, i sent something to my isp a few days ago regarding the listener, and the stats magically snapped back into place as a result of it.

what that tells me is that the isp is working with the cops.

saving it locally didn't work, and it shouldn't have.

i'm going to have to get 2003 up on the 90s laptop...this is so annoying...

so, now i'm running up against what i knew would end up being a major annoyance, and i don't know how i'm going to deal with.

i need to find a way to copy data from the internet into a word document that i can read via word 2003. and, yes - i need to be able to do it via word 2003, because every other version of word is absolutely horrible. but, more specifically, the xml formatting is unworkable. it will break the document - i need to find ways to get around it. i cannot upgrade. i cannot convert. i have to get the data into 2003.

i can't use google docs, and i can't use microsoft's cloud - they both insist on the xml architecture. i can't install word 2003 on this chromebook, either.

the major annoyance is this chrome os, which is useless for doing anything other than browsing the internet, or very lightweight cloud purposes. and, that's fine - it's all it was intended to do in the first place. i'm just in a limbo until i can fix my laptop properly by building a winlited image for it that i can reinstall on demand when the cops hack into it.

i could perhaps try to save things over html and copy them over with a usb key, but i don't actually think that's going to give me the formatting i want.

what i might have to do is install word on the 90s laptop (which is running xp) and then copy over the formatting into the doc file, and then move it back.

why don't any of the clouds offer 2003 support? i don't know. but, they don't...so i'm stuck....

yeah. these are really my only two options.

it has to do with the way i coded the website. if i launch the files locally, and copy them into the master document, the links will be local. if i want the links to actually go out to the appspot site, i need to copy them directly over from the live site.

i'm making some progress here on this master document finally.

i'm starting to come to terms with the reality that i'm going to spend this summer inside by myself, and i'm ok with it.

i'm behind on everything, and i'm not getting younger, so let's hope i get a lot of work done - let's hope that the beginning of this month is a major pivot into taking a good chunk out of finishing up period 3 (2003-2007).

so, no - i don't oppose a ban on guns.

but, it won't help...

what would help is banning religion, and you can't do that by force, you need a social revolution.

so, you keep blaming this on guns...

the actual problem is religion.

you can ban guns all you want, but so long as you still have religion, you're going to have patriarchy, and you're going to have dominance and control and violence.

we need to look at stuff like this, not bans on weapons:

https://www.government.se/49b730/contentassets/87a9c5e22af14395aff3411dbd197f58/patriarchal-violence---an-attack-on-human-security

and, i would reiterate the point i've been making for a long time now: if you want to get to the causes of gun violence, and actually put an end to it, you need to look at ways to abolish patriarchy and the institutions that uphold it, not ways to ban guns.

i don't really expect that banning guns is going to have much of an effect on the prevalence of violent crime. as is often the case, the issue in nova scotia appears to have been about patriarchy, rather than about guns. so, it doesn't really get to the root causes.

but, i don't have any particular opposition to banning guns, either.

so, i mean, do this if you want - i don't really care. but, if we're standing here in five years and still dealing with exactly the same problems, don't say nobody told you that it wouldn't make any difference.

it's not clear if these 11 strains are the same 11 strains as in the phantom indian preprint, but this article discusses the same question of differences in virulence in the various strains that are developing - and concludes that we are dealing with multiple viruses.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/21/watching-for-mutations-in-the-coronavirus

this is our history.

we should stop running from it and embrace it.

https://www.cgai.ca/searching_for_a_middle_power_role_in_a_new_world_order

i don't tend to pick sides in general, and i'm not going to pick sides, now.

you should expect me to be broadly critical of all sides, if the data justifies the criticism.

i'm not going to hold back.

now, understand this - my position here is that truth is paramount. you can't build solidarity on lies, and friendship isn't real if it's based in falsehoods.

but, you should realize this as well - if somebody will not criticize you when you're wrong, then they aren't really your friend, either. that's a key aspect of what friendship actually is.

no, i don't want to pick sides in a nationalist debate between the fascists in china and the capitalists in america. canada's self-interest is not served by either entity.

our focus should be in building and nurturing a non-alignment movement that allow us to maintain sovereignty as a middle power.

this archive is a little behind, as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1431/

the article i'm looking for should probably be here, but isn't yet.

the cited researchers appear to be real people, at least.

*shrug*

https://ijmr.icmr.org.in/ijmr/aheadofprint.aspx