"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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My husband has given up


He has announced to his parents (who take zero precautions) that we are having dinner indoors at their home with them every week.
He told me asking people to test before we see them is antisocial behavior.
He said operating with the assumption that everyone could potentially be sick is ridiculous.
We took precautions for the last three years and got married last year but has now decided it’s all too much. He says masking in indoor public places is enough but we shouldn’t limit seeing family and friends. I’m feeling a sense of dread and loneliness.
If I bring it up , it turns into a huge argument.
His family knows we’re Covid safe but they don’t get it . We bought them air purifiers but they don’t use them. And now my husband refuses to even remind them that they should have it on at least when we visit.
I feel stuck, my one person who was in it for the long run is now against me. He repeatedly tells me his family cars about me and wants to see me more often but I don’t feel cared for when they don’t do anything to help us feel safe .
Numerous times his family has invited us over to their home and they have symptoms but assured us it’s “just a cold” “just allergies” despite them not testing.
Im grieving . I have given up so much in order to be safe. I gave up my dream wedding so we could have something safer. I rarely see my own family. I have spent so much money on masks, nasal sprays, etc. And now I feel it has all been for nothing, as I am expected to just act normal around his family.
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AIO: Might lose a friendship over precautions and pandemic awareness?

Just need some perspective and to vent…

A friend I have had since kindergarten has been pushing for an in-person hang session. I told her my boundaries: 1) test on my Pluslife, 2) cancel if either of us have symptoms (even if a test is negative), 3) cancel if we have been near symptomatic individuals or asymptomatic individuals with known positive tests. She agreed but later said she was “bending over backwards” to make me comfortable. I said, if this is “bending over backwards” then maybe we should just stick to Zoom for now. Then she sent the attached message.

We haven’t hung out in person since the summer of 2023 because I had two family members have major health crises involving intense treatment and surgery, but we have had a number of Zoom calls since then. She insists she takes “a lot” of precautions: vaccinates yearly, only gets takeout, and only hangs out with a small group of people. But she was asking me to meet her and her family at a restaurant for her birthday, wanted to get pedicures a week before a family member’s surgery, attends football games because her family has season tickets, and works in an office every day. Her mom has tested positive 4 times, was on oxygen for nearly a year, and early last year they thought she had a stroke but it was just her brain swelling. When she was in the hospital for this encephalopathy I asked if she masked, and she said she didn’t except in her mom’s room because it was required.

She has already betrayed my trust around Covid: 1) came over to my house coughing in March of 2020 and got mad at me when I kicked her out; 2) came over and hung out all day, but as she was leaving mentioned that her roommate was “super sick” and testing to see if it was Covid; 3) had been begging to hang out in person (luckily I declined, cases were too high for me) and then later in the same text exchange mentioned she wasn’t feeling well; 4) lied and told me she has only had Covid once (she has “allergies” a number of times every year) but then slipped up recently and told me it was actually twice that she’s tested positive.

I feel very alone. Most of my friends have gone “back to normal” and look at me like I’m being extreme. I can’t bring up Covid; either their eyes gloss over than they stare at me with a blank expression or they get weirdly defensive. Before this text exchange, I asked her how do we go back to normal? Everyone is sick, new autoimmune issues everyday, new health problems, people are still dying - and she said I should try Buddhism. I feel like her responses are super flippant and, on top of this, I think the division in our morals is starting to cause problems for me as well. Am I overreacting? Being a bad friend? How do I even tell her all of this without blowing the friendship up anyway? It feels like a lost cause and I’m losing hope and perspective.
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After much cyberbullying and deeply autistic signature analysis, true and honest rdrama haters have decided that this is how you should do your signature instead of looking like you did it in some 1st grade cursive learning book
 
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Drama Fan said:
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After much cyberbullying and deeply autistic signature analysis, true and honest rdrama haters have decided that this is how you should do your signature instead of looking like you did it in some 1st grade cursive learning book
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Everyone should develop their own incomprehensible doctor style signature. This signature does look pretty sweet especially the "J" and the squiggly bit at the end. If it were my signature I would just use these two elements and that'd be it.
 
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Whenever or if ever Null gets the gumroad stuff figured out then he should do another movie review. Seeing how that might be awhile I'm being conservative and aiming for June. That should give us all plenty of time to watch Anders als die Andern, also known as Different From the Others. There's a few different places to watch it.
Yes, it is a silent movie but some y'all need some culture in your life, I swear. To think, this movie was almost wiped from human history!:'(
 
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Null said:
I've always liked the post truck. I'm not a car sperg so I've never been fascinated by it.
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I remember alot of leftys said the drivers lived in squalor because the cars didn't have AC

So I asked both the USPS and UPS drivers, around 30 or so that I could find.

All agreed that AC would be fucking useless, because they leave the car so often
 
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I remember alot of leftys said the drivers lived in squalor because the cars didn't have AC

So I asked both the USPS and UPS drivers, around 30 or so that I could find.

All agreed that AC would be fucking useless, because they leave the car so often
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There was a lot of commotion in the southwest when a Phoenix, AZ UPS driver had a heat stroke. I think this actually happens a lot and the union blames the drivers.
 
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On hearing the Twin Peaks theme, I was immediately apprehensive that Josh was going to be mean about a life long hero. But, it was quite a touching mention, thank you, nice show.

I recommend everyone, even if you don’t like Twin Peaks, to watch Twin Peaks: The Return, as it’s probably the best television in the last 10 years.

Also this



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It doesn't matter that modern nuclear power is safe and secure, it doesn't matter if meltdowns are extraordinarily rare, it doesn't matter that the Chernobyl power plant was outdated by the standards of its own time or that its staff were incompetent, what matters is there's a proof of concept that nuclear power plants can explode under their own pressure and render the immediate area a permanent no-man's-land for millions of years and that's all people think about when they consider nuclear power as an alternative to coal or gas, because Chernobyl left an impression
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And here’s a weird thing, I woke up in the night and couldn’t get back to sleep, so watched random YouTube. The video I clicked on was how Bill Gates is paying to recommission Three Mile Island with 100% of its output going to run a Microsoft AI server farm. Did I dream this?
 
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