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It’s not the Rapture, it’s magical thinking

I don’t think I believe in "The Rapture," but it does seem as though the best people are being called home before Big Trouble happens to the rest of us.

I mean, ever since the deaths of Alan Rickman, Chadwick Boseman, and Betty White, I’ve had a sense that all the best people were being picked out of the herd and sent on to a better simulation before the demons break out in this one. And now we’ve lost Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, and I feel the looming sense that bad times are coming.

But I’m pretty sure it’s all just magical thinking.

All the best people from my childhood are old now, and it’s a sad fact of the matter that old people do tend to pass on. It’s the cycle of life.

I’m just really sad at the passing of Dolly Parton. She was such an angel.

She would have been a billionaire if she was selfish and horrible, but instead she was a millionaire because she went out of her way to use her excess wealth to help humanity and the world. She gave books to children. She funded vaccine research. She was always kind and considerate and I’ve never heard any accounts of her being unpleasant or mean or a source of negativity to another person.

She lived her life with grace and beauty. And the world is a lesser place without her in it, but it became a better place for once having hosted her presence.

And I’m heartbroken over the death of Tim Curry. I love "Clue" and "Rocky Horror" and he was absolutely terrifying as Pennywise the Clown. He was a grand talent, and we have all suffered a loss with his passing.

It’s sad when the legends of our youth pass out of our lives, but it is part of the cycle of life. They have moved on to a beautiful afterlife. They will be missed.

Japanese vending machines

I’ve been watching the videos of "Dig Dig JAPAN" on YouTube, and they’re no-dialogue videos that come with subtitles telling you what’s going on. And it’s the creator trying different products and experiences in Japan.

I’ve enjoyed watching the various trials of products from Daiso and other 100 yen shops. And I’m not saying I’m jealous we don’t have those shops here… but I am very envious. I wish we had those kinds of shops and products here.

Plus I’m learning a lot of stuff about Japanese snack culture.

Did you know they call minute rice "alpha rice" in Japan? And it’s seen as an emergency food?

It was while watching Dig Dig JAPAN trying "emergency curry rice" bought from a vending machine that I found out minute rice can be made with cold water. You just add cold water and let the rice soak for 60 minutes and you have "cooked" rice to eat. And it works because minute/alpha rice is precooked dehydrated rice.

So if you put minute rice in like a plastic jar or something, it would make a good addition for your disaster preparedness kit. Just include a few small cans of side dishes to eat with the rice or some dehydrated miso soup packs and voila. Or if you were really fancy, you’d include a few packs of ramen, then when you’re done eating the noodles you could add the rehydrated minute rice to the soup for a second serving.

Anyways, Dig Dig JAPAN went to a BANK that had a whole section of food vending machines inside. That way you get some cash money and spend it before you even have a chance to leave.

And those vending machines! There’s food you microwave, food you rehydrate, and frozen food. There was oden in a can where you slightly pop the top then put the can in boiling water to heat it up, then you can eat it right out of the can. There was frozen cake rolls, emergency curry rice, frozen soup from a local restaurant, and frozen chicken wings. There was even a carton of raw eggs!

Talk about a bank of vending machines.

I wish we had that kind of technology here in the United States. But we can’t even count on being able to get lettuce that won’t cause debilitating diarrhea.

Vivarium

The movie "Vivarium" is an interesting movie. It’s about a young couple looking to buy a house, so they follow a realtor out to a new housing development. And then he leaves them there.

You can feel their sense of shock and disbelief as they try to figure out what is happening and why.

I don’t want to spoil the movie in case you want to watch it, though I’m really kind of desperate to share my opinions on the movie because I have lots of thoughts and feelings. It was very fascinating.

So down at the bottom, past my signature, I’m going to include spoilers and thoughts. Please ignore them if you haven’t seen the movie or if you want to see the movie first.

"Vivarium" starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg.

I had the vending machine and "Vivarium" topics first, but I reorganized things because I think more lighthearted topics following sadness and grief can help lighten the emotional load.

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The "SNATCH MOBILE"?!?

I get that the company is being "funny" and "cute" with their PR, but… Eh.

On one hand, they’re like "We’re being playful about telling people that they’re ugly and they need plastic surgery, but if they can’t afford that, our products are the second best choice." Which is very big levels of bad. And I don’t like it and all that. But…

My dudes, "snatch" is a term for female genitalia.

So if I’m walking down the street and I see the "SNATCH MOBILE" parked outside my neighbor’s house… I’m going to be filled with so much side-eye.

So, they’re not going to have to tell us the source of beef anymore? Is that how I’m understanding things?

During a time when people are dealing with diarrhea lettuce and bowel dropping blueberries, they’ve decided that consumers don’t need to know where their beef is coming from?

Hm.

Did you see that lady who rushed her way through an engagement and wedding, and that now she’s married she’s not happy the way she thought she would be?

She’s 33 and thought she was passed her expiration date, so she just grabbed the first man she came across and now she seems really miserable. Like, there’s big "I thought I would have my wedding and that would be the start of my happy ever after" vibes from her.

But like, "You don’t know him. You went on like one date then arranged for him to propose to you so that he could get a green card. And you did everything on social media so you could get your wedding sponsored by big brands."

I don’t know, but it seems like she’s aged 10-15 years since the start of her whole wedding journey. All the happiness and joy has seeped out of her and all that’s left is tiredness and a looming sense that she’s fucked up.

I feel like people need to stop believing that getting married will solve all their problems. They focus the entirety of their beings on having a fabulous wedding and they have no clue how they’re going to deal with the follow-up marriage.

Seriously: If you’re choosing someone based on how good they will look in wedding photos, it is clear that you don’t really know that person. Definitely not enough to tie all your financials with them.

So, Log Cabin Republicans have decided that they don’t support trans people. They’re removing the "T" from "LGBTQ" in all their mission statements and everywhere else.

And like, dude. I don’t support Log Cabin Republicans.

They’re queer and they’re here, but like, the most important thing to them is that THEY’RE REPUBLICANS!

They literally vote against their own rights and freedoms in the shittiest of ways.

They can fuck right off with that and everything else.

Play-doh contains wheat and is not safe for people with celiac disease to play with?

Kindergartens in more than 70% of counties no longer reach herd immunity levels of vaccinations for measles

People are not vaccinating their children, yet still sending them to public school, and now there’s a real risk that if you or your child is immuno-comprised, you could catch the measles.

Like, I can’t afford to go to Disney Land, so I’m not stressed that I’m going to go visit Mickey and come back with the measles. But I could go to the grocery store and come back with the measles. And like, measles can linger up to 2 hours in the air after the sick person leaves. So, it’s a real and horrible danger.

"We have medicines. People don’t die from the measles anymore unless they have other conditions. You’re just being paranoid!"–But like, you might not die from the measles, but it does have a secondary thing where it completely resets your immune system.

So you get the measles, and then later you’re no longer immune to things you used to be. The chances go up that you can catch other diseases you otherwise didn’t have to worry about.

I really don’t want to experience the shingles. It seems like it sucks. A lot.

Oh, and there’s something about leprosy spreading on the east coast? Yikes.

They’ve come up with an mRNA treatment that prevents the recurrence of skin cancer. So that’s some good news.

I really think all those people using the melanotan(?) peptide will appreciate it in the not-too-distant future. Because if you don’t know, it’s a peptide that "naturally" makes peoples’ skin tan more than they’re genetically predisposed toward. Which is how you get those hyper-Caucasian people tanning to African levels of melanin. They use the peptide then they go outside under the sun or they use a tanning bed.

And seriously, tanning beds are a literal cancer upon humanity. And not just because those two girls got turned into jerky in that one "Final Destination" movie.

And speaking of peptides, there’s one called "the Barbie Peptide" that a lot of the Mormons are using. And it’s like, "Why are you volunteering to be the test subjects for non-approved science experiments? You have no recourse if those peptides fuck you up."

I don’t even really know what peptides are. I just know that people are injecting them or snorting them or whatever they’re doing to get them into their bodies, and there’s a good chance that a lot of them are going to regret their choices.

I watch Wonny videos on YouTube and he covered that whole situation in China where people thought they were getting hyaluronic acid injections and it turned out they were HGH (human growth hormones), and as a result their faces would just start swelling and the tissue would just start growing uncontrollably. And the doctors couldn’t do anything to remove the growths because if they do anything, the body would respond by producing even more tissue.

It’s real horror movie stuff happening.

So I seriously don’t understand how blasé people are about injecting chemicals into their bodies without understanding what those chemicals are or how their body could react.

There’s people now doing those eye color changing treatments. And one guy got it done and one of his after questions was "Is this permanent?" And like… Shouldn’t the doctor have made sure he understood what was being done and that yes, it is 100% permanent?

But then again, there are just a lot of ignorant people out there doing things to their bodies without really understanding what they’re doing. Like the woman that got a nose job because she wanted her future babies to have beautiful faces.

She thought her plastic surgery would be inherited by her children.

People are dumb. And "medical professionals" should be making sure people understand what they’re agreeing to before injecting them, cutting them, or providing them with substances that end up with them reenacting the ending scenes in "The Substance."

Surgery does not affect your genes. And peptides can give you cancer, or at least organ failure. That’s helpful information to know.

Or like when that lady got surgery to tighten her snatch and then found out afterward that it’s really painful and uncomfortable to live without a labia.

Some things cause permanent damage. And people need to know and understand the risks before they undergo medical procedures. And I’m sorry, but yes, medical professionals should be making sure that people understand what they’re asking for.

And I thought it was really funny when someone was talking about the live action "Disney Snow White" movie and it was pointed out that Doc likely has a doctorate in mining.

Do not trust his medical advice. He is not that kind of doctor.

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I’ve made some videos that you can see on my Patreon (https://patreon.com/harperkingsley). Some for free, some for free and paid members, and some for paid members. There’s content for everyone!

They’re mostly typing videos, which means there’s no audio. Or spellcheck.

Enjoy!

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I wake up every morning
and I wash my face.
I look into the mirror
at my own disgrace.
Who are you? I like to say
to the person peering back at me.

But like… in song.

I feel like if your parents are related to the point that people are like “Is this an incest?” you should marry someone who FOR SURE has no genetic relationship with you.

Yeah, a new “Alabama Monday” episode just dropped on Layze’s channel.

And for whatever reason, every time those peoples’ videos are shown, HER HEAD LOOKS HUGE. Like a bobblehead. I think it’s a weird camera angle thing, because otherwise her neck wouldn’t be able to hold her up.

I keep reading “ancient times” Chinese novels, and every time a character turns around someone tries to force them into marrying their cousin and… No.

“Alabama Monday” but in old timey China times.

Anyways, sometimes I’ve just gotta find the small enjoyments in life.

I don’t want to watch those weird peoples’ nasty mukbang videos. But finding out they’re cousband and wife?

Ah, strangers on the Internet. Why do I know so much about you?

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