So we have senators voting to go to war against a country they don’t know anything about.

And through all their bluffing and bloviating, is the reason they’re doing all this because of their religion? Like, they see themselves as "Soldiers of God," so they’re going to "go to the Middle East and kill all the infidels!" because they think a "Holy Crusade" will launch them straight into Heaven?

Ugh.

I’m super tired of apocalypse cultists. I really wish the mainstream Christians would step up and step on the poisonous offshoots that are turning the world against all Christianity.

I think one of the worst thing to ever happen to the human race and the world was the advent of televangelists. Because it allowed backwoods pseudo-Christians to share their cult with the world.

And yeah, I can speak badly about the actions committed by the followers of a religion. It’s my opinion that they are spreading great harm to everyone and everything around them. They are actively causing harm to the world, and if we’re not allowed to call them out for THEIR ACTIONS without being accused of religious intolerance, I really feel that the 90s mission of tolerance has been led askew.

Countries should not be going to wars that involve guns, missiles, drones, poison gas, and NUCLEAR WEAPONS because of someone’s religion-fueled life mission.

And that some of the people backing up all the craze are desperate alpha/beta/sigma/delta LARPers that masturbate to the idea of full-flexing on a group of enemies and dry humping their dead bodies? Double ugh.

I’m just like "You wanna show off your BIG alpha cock to the WORLD??? Then it’s time to break out the Robot Jox! We don’t need to turn the world into a post-apocalyptic hellscape where even rich people can only afford a single hotdog because meat is so expensive. We could just set up stadiums and stream the fights and each country and each country’s team can make a buttload of money. And nobody has to die."

Seriously, a real man/real woman that wants to protect their loved ones and have a safe haven home that’s basically a warm womb for their beloved children would be 100% anti-war.

You don’t want people busting into your home and robbing everything you own and/or hurting your family? Don’t create a hostile environment.

Dudes should not be dressing as cops and murdering people in their homes.

Cops should not be dressing as cops and kidnapping and murdering people.

Police officers and military personnel should wear clearly identifiable uniforms WITH uncovered badge numbers. I think there should also be some kind of easily remembered nickname/callsign on their uniform. That way if someone can’t remember the long badge number, they can still be like "Officer Mad Cheetoh Dog was the one that helped us out. We’re really grateful he was volunteering at Toys For Tots today. It was good that his utility vest had a fully stocked First Aid kit including Narcan and an epinephrine auto-injector he knew how to use."

We all want to feel safe and happy. It’s only the weirdos that are desperate for conflict and war. Everyone else just wants to live their life and not be bothered by creeps and bullies. The kind of people so horny to oppress others that they’re willing to be horrifically murdered to have just one opportunity to successfully force someone else against their will.

There’s a movie I saw that’s about the end of the world. There’s some cosmic event happening–giant sunflares?–that will result in the death of all life on Earth within a handful of hours. And the main character wants to spend his last bit of time alive at a big party rather than alone with his girlfriend. But on his way to the party, he ends up saving a little girl that’s been kidnapped by pedophiles and tries his best to get her back to her family before flaming death hits the planet.

It wasn’t the best movie I’ve ever seen, but it makes you think: What would you do if you knew you only had hours left to live? What would other people do?

It’s like The Outer Limits (1995-2002 version) episode where during the night a scientist realizes something has happened to the sun and the other side of the planet has already been burned of all life. And when the sun comes up in his hemisphere, he will die with everyone else.

He had to decide whether it was better to wake people up and let them know they will die at dawn, or if it is better to let people sleep through their deaths. Undisturbed and vaporized, or upset and horrified before being vaporized.

In the scenarios from that movie and The Outer Limits episode there is nothing anyone can do to stop their deaths. But right here and now?

Say No to war.

Stop all genocide.

Protect the environment.

Tax the rich.

If we want to keep the world from burning, we have to stop idiots from lighting the match.

~Harper Kingsley

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Proper aftercare is essential in all walks of life.

Sometimes I wish I’d take better care of myself. I wash my hands and forearms. I wash my face and neck. I have washcloths. I moisturize my skin when I remember, though I know I should take better care.

So it’s like, I should remember to rinse my mouth out and drink some water after smoking.

I should hydrate and remember to urinate regularly.

More yoga. More stretching. More deep breathing. More beneficial health things that I don’t commonly do for myself. But that I should.

Beforecare, aftercare, and during care are all necessary things.

Only water goes in the eyes. A lot of it.

Closed-toe shoes. Ones that are lightweight and you can run in, but with soles thick enough to step on broken glass.

I bought some lightweight robes. I may set up a little wardrobe near the front door. That way if someone gets called out of bed without time to dress, there’s a chance of putting on a robe. It gets chilly at night/in the early morning.

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I hate that everything is going to get so expensive.

Some people don’t understand. They’re like "It’s only $1 or $2." and I just want to scream "PER ITEM! It is an extra $1 or $2 or $20 PER ITEM."

I can’t afford to pay an extra dollar or two on EVERYTHING. And even the things whose price doesn’t go up will suddenly be a sacrifice to make because that "$1 or $2" has to come from somewhere. And it turns out that somewhere is a product a consumer otherwise would have bought.

But now they’re not buying those products. Those companies are losing money on unsold merchandise (that now costs more to produce because the parts come from overseas), and as a result employees have to be laid off.

There’s a reason we went into the Great Depression era at a horrifying 8% and a few years later it was like 36%. The only thing that saved us was the war.

We don’t like to draw attention to it, but we walked out of World War II with a lot of money. There were less people, the uber-rich had war profiteered their way out of debt and back into the heights of rich, and the country’s treasury was fat. A lot of the country’s problems were fixed due to war.

So there’s proof that war is very profitable for business. So I can understand how an ignorant amoral person would think that starting a bunch of wars would net them a ton of easy cash. I can understand, but I feel they should be treated with strict punishments. They should not live the rest of their life well.

There are some absolutely reprehensible things that simply cannot be forgiven. And starting a war so as to "enhance profit margins" is unforgivable. ESPECIALLY since we had a thriving stock market that was pumping out wealth.

Being told "Hey, don’t do this, it will cause a war" but still tromping forward to be a global-sized asshole… You can fuck right off with that. You’re a criminal and you need to be punished for the common good.

Other rich people need to see that their shenanigans will not be allowed to continue. And maybe they’ll sit their children down and actually teach their children. "Don’t do [terrible thing for the environment, dangerous drug party, MLM scheme, prank videos, bad landlord behavior]. This is not the time to be a fool, and honestly, there’s never a time to be a fool. You ruin the money when you enrage the public. Stop being a dangerous weirdo in public. You’re too rich not to have a staff of people to keep you from making a fool of yourself. Spend your money wiser."

If you have access to Netflix content, watch "The Fall of the House of Usher." If you can handle the gore, it is a horror story after all.

Prospero "Perry" Usher is the kind of rich idiot that doesn’t mean to kill a warehouse full of partygoers, but when he’s so stupid and ignores all the good advice he receives, the result is a writhing mass of melting death.

He didn’t mean to kill all those people. And he definitely didn’t mean to kill himself. But that’s the result that happened because he had way too much money, privilege, and access to stuff that it would be better if he’d never heard about.

And the idea that his father Roderick made Frederick take Perry to that meeting.

Knowing that his youngest son is fickle and flighty. That he is badly educated–to the point that he viewed that meeting about company properties that are so toxically hazardous that they’re poisoning the neighbors as a chance to pick out a place for a drug and sex party. And I mention "drug and sex party" because it was a bunch of nearly naked people wearing masks and having a great time. So when they all got melted into bones and goo… Identifying the bodies must have been near impossible.

I look at influencer-culture out there, and I feel like I’m seeing a scary number of people who remind me of Perry Usher.

They don’t mean to bankrupt their followers and thus disrupt their own cashflows, but their advice has resulted in some bankruptcies.

"Sorry, brah, I didn’t know what ‘tariff’ meant. My bad. Please don’t unlike, unfollow, unsubscribe, unlove me. You’re an essential part of my job as a grifter and ghoul."

So yeah. Things are going to get more expensive. Times are going to get harder. And there will be more desperate grifters pulling real life and Internet schemes.

Protect the old people and children. Keep in mind that MLMs are scams that will drain your money. And now is not the time to waste your entire family’s savings on a wedding spectacle extravaganza.

For reals: That $4000 bouquet of flowers was not worth the money you paid. Bride tax is real and you got snookered.

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Unfocused Thoughts

I’m watching YouTube videos and trancing out.

Beige Moms

I do think it’s terrible that some people can be like "I love my aesthetic more than I love my child" in real life. And that they’re so proud to be terrible people.

There have been so many studies done into the issues of child psychology, and some of the best advice is bright colors; primary colors; contrasting colors; fully enunciated words, and if you do use baby-talk, use it to sound out the pronunciations of words. "Ba ba" for a bottle. "Ew" for a dirty diaper. Your child would be able to communicate with you as they transition into using full words and sentences.

So with all the information out there about early childhood development, it’s disturbing to have people basically screaming on social media that they care more about optics than they do the literal human being they have created.

And if it’s just them trying to seem cool, and then once the cameras are off they bring back out the child’s real toys, making those videos in the first place–for profit!–makes them into terrible people.

So they’re either phonies or they don’t love their children.

"What do you mean they don’t love their children? They gave birth to them!"–Just because someone gives birth to a baby doesn’t mean they’re going to be a good parent. And a big red flag is the using their children as props to make money. It’s the whole "This house is my house and every bit of it must be decorated the way that I like, even the parts where other people are supposed to live."

If someone wants to be a beige person, there’s nothing wrong with that. As long as you care enough about your children to make exceptions to your aesthetic, go off on your lack of color love.

Bloom Ads

From all the commentary YouTube videos I’ve watched that have mentioned Bloom… I think the problem is that influencers aren’t speaking the same English as I know.

When someone says they "drink three drinks every day," I’m not expecting them to show me a water, an orange juice, and a coffee.

When someone says "I drink three drinks every day," MY BRAIN translates that as "Geez. This person may be an alcoholic."

Who the hell counts WATER as a drink? Or orange juice? Or coffee? "I drink three things every day" is different from "I drink three drinks everyday." When "drinks" is the subject, I automatically assume a "drink" is an alcoholic beverage.

So when these influencers are trying to deal with "bloating," I don’t think they know what that means.

For influencer-culture, "bloating" seems to mean being full of food. While in normal speech, bloating is the uncomfortable feeling in your stomach. You’re full of gas and you’re constipated. Your gut and your intestines feel like they’re trying to climb into your chest cavity. To me, that is the sensation of bloating.

Having a full-feeling stomach because you just ate food is not bloating. And yeah, your stomach will stick out a little, but that’s because there’s food in there.

And I guess for that purpose, Bloom and products like it are useful. You drink it and you go shit. It’s a laxative in a cup. That costs a ridiculous amount of money.

And if someone really cares about health and not about "health," they would use some fiber powder that is actually intended for the purpose of being fiber, and eat some fruits and vegetables. You can add a scoop of fiber powder to your smoothie, and drink some actual fruits and vegetables and yogurt and all that other good gut health stuff people should be ingesting on a daily basis.

You get all the nutrients and the fiber and the feeling of FOOD and you don’t have to wonder what a supplement company means when they talk about their "proprietary blend."

The words "proprietary blend" are a big warning sign on the label. "We have 1000 milligrams of saffron, chamomile, rosewater, sucrose, erythritol, and coal all mixed together in a proprietary blend" that could very well be 99% coal.

I tend to side-eye supplement products because since they’re not food, they’re not regulated in the same ways as food. That’s how people have been getting away with packing their own bottles of vitamins to sell from their garages. You can’t even be sure they contain the amount of the product they say they do, which has resulted in either negligible amounts or so much of some vitamin or mineral that it can absolutely destroy your organs.

We’ve got people making their own commercials at home and there’s no regulatory body overseeing any of it. Like, sure, a viewer can flag a questionable video, but 9 times out of 10 the video won’t be taken down because it doesn’t actually go against the Terms of Service. It just gives really bad cleaning advice or health advice or somehow manages to send people down a rabbit hole that results in them drinking a bunch of raw milk and shitting their pants.

So I think the problem with Bloom ads is influencer-culture, and that some influencers have basically learned how to human from the Internet. Which means a vocabulary that uses in-group definitions for everyday words, resulting in terms like "bloating" meaning something completely different to the influencer than what the actual medical condition really is.

Bloom does not help with bloating.

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P.S. "sucrose" and "erythritol" are likely ingredients you want to avoid.