Wednesday, May 20, 2020

sweden peaked something like a month after everywhere else, so of course they had the highest per capita rate...last week.

this is like something from a fox news article, it's just blatantly absurd, it has no remote intent to be honest, which gets me asking the same question yet again - what is going on here?

why are they going to such ridiculous lengths to flat out smear the swedes on this?

the signals are that undoing all of this bullshit might be a lot harder than anybody assumes.

https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/sweden-recorded-the-most-coronavirus-deaths-in-europe-per-capita-over-the-last-week-according-to-data/articleshow/75841917.cms
shocked, huh?

if we were to actually run an electric current through doug ford, would it polarize a field in the direction perpendicular to his gut and simulate a reaction of vomiting bullshit out of his mouth?

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/coronavirus-covid-19-local-news/ford-shocked-by-covid-19-testing-numbers-vows-they-will-increase-2365234
We’re creating the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Program. This benefit will provide forgivable loans to landlords so that they can reduce by 75 per cent the rent for small business tenants that have lost the majority of their revenue because of COVID-19. 

what is this, some kind of twisted joke?

it's 2020 and canada is bringing in trickle down economics.


they're stuck in a fucking time warp, or something.
modern relationships are what they are. that's fine.

they're not for me.

i'd rather keep to myself.
maybe i'm very emotionally and sexually immature, but i simply could not deal with being cheated on. it tore me up inside, over and over again; i simply wasn't able to deal with it.

i never tried to tell her what to do. remotely. i made no attempt to interfere with her decision making, and fully respected her bodily autonomy.

but, i had to get up and walk out because it was just ripping me apart, and the fact that my decision was final was very much centered in the fact that i never wanted to feel like that ever again.
listen...

i dumped sarah in late 2004 and moved out unilaterally in very early 2005. she was cheating on me and refused to stop; she wanted an open relationship, and i said 'no' and i walked out on her.

she couldn't pay the rent, and ended up homeless. so, she ended up at my apartment, and i told her 'no'.

but, we maintained a friendship of varying distance from 2004 to about 2010 or so that involved going for coffee from time to time, and meeting up for walks. and, yes - we were still having sex for quite a while after.

around 2010 or so, she decided she didn't want to talk to me anymore. i never really got a straight answer, and i've gone through various hypotheses, but as far as i can tell, she rejected me because she decided i was gay. and, after almost ten years of a friendship that was very important to me (she's the only person i've ever had sex with), i reacted very badly to that. i valued her friendship very strongly, and hoped to maintain it forever.

but, i've never had any interest in rekindling any sort of romantic relationship with her, at all, and any suggestions otherwise are just flat out wrong - something that i think she actually understands. if anything, she seems to be mad at me because i don't want to get back together with her. but, the decision i made in late 2004 was permanent, and i've held to it as closely as i can. she's had two children, since then - something that i've tried to be emotionally supportive of, but that i ultimately can't and won't accept in any official capacity. she asked me to be her first child's godparent, and i turned it down.

at this point, it's been so long that trying to rebuild some kind of a friendship seems pointless. that's something that makes me sad, certainly - that was perhaps the only friendship that i've ever had that i very much wanted to maintain.

but, the fact is that i dumped her a long time ago, and i've made no attempt at all to win her back since.

i hope that point is as clear as it can be - and it can't be very clear from a distance, i get that.