{"id":7269,"date":"2026-09-05T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/news-of-the-world-3\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:45:06","slug":"news-of-the-world-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/news-of-the-world-3\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rabies in North Carolina<\/h2>\n<p>If you or someone you know recently visited a petting zoo and came into contact with baby goats in North Carolina, please contact your doctor. You came into contact with rabies.<\/p>\n<p>A mobile petting zoo passed through North Carolina and visited at least 10 locations, and the baby goats have tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p>Rabies is 100% fatal.<\/p>\n<p>Do not fuck around. Do not wait and see. Talk to your doctor and get the rabies shot.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re showing symptoms, you&#8217;re dead.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But there&#8217;s been cases where people were treated and they survived the rabies!&quot;&#8211;Yes, a <em>handful<\/em> of people went through horrendously damaging medical treatments and managed to survive WITH LASTING PHYSICAL DAMAGE, by which I mean, only ONE person didn&#8217;t have brain damage and severe physical impairments. ONE PERSON.<\/p>\n<p>Rabies is no joke. Go to your doctor if you came into contact with the rabies goats in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<h2>Age verification company leaked all data<\/h2>\n<p>So, age verification isn&#8217;t safe. Who knew? (Everyone. Everyone knew.)<\/p>\n<p>Hackers had a tap directly into an age verification company, so they were able to access via live feed every single ID and selfie that was submitted to the company. Every single one.<\/p>\n<h2>Trusting your life to AI isn&#8217;t a good idea<\/h2>\n<p>Some hikers had to be rescued on Mt. Shasta because they trusted their flight plan to Gemini, the well-known WORST AI out there. You know, Gemini, the one that regularly tells people to poison themselves and their families via its bad advice. The one that thinks there&#8217;s 3 R&#8217;s in the word &quot;cookie.&quot; That one. They trusted their lives to it.<\/p>\n<p>They are idiots.<\/p>\n<p>They could very well have died because just a day or two later there was a massive snowfall, which meant it was probably already cold af on Mt. Shasta.<\/p>\n<p>They are going to be paying a LOT of money for their emergency rescue, but they are lucky to have survived their stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>Do not be stupid like them. Do not put all your trust&#8211;and the lives of you and your loved ones&#8211;in the metaphorical hands of AI.<\/p>\n<h2>MMA fighter wants to fight a chimpanzee<\/h2>\n<p>Who knows if it&#8217;s really going to happen. Hopefully the chimpanzee renters are going to put their foot down to prevent the blatant abuse of an innocent animal.<\/p>\n<p>BUT there&#8217;s literally a guy out there letting people bet via crypto on him fighting a chimpanzee. And <em>anyone<\/em> betting that he would win in a fight against a chimpanzee? Total idiot bet.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he&#8217;s fighting a baby, an adolescent or full grown chimpanzee is going to rip his genitals off and gouge out his eyes. They immediately go for the soft tissue, no hesitation, no surrender, no man&#8217;s junk is going to survive!<\/p>\n<h2>Governor Tim Walz for the win!<\/h2>\n<p>Governor Tim Walz passed a bill banning the use of AI to generate nude images of minors.<\/p>\n<p>Elun Mosk sued to block the bill, and lost.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God for Tim Walz.<\/p>\n<p>And also, why is Elun Mosk so interested in seeing nude images of minors? What is going on there?<\/p>\n<p>Remember back in the day when those kids were trapped in that cave and that hero guy ignored Elun Mosk&#8217;s suggestions on stopping everything to create a brand new type of submersible and just went in there and saved those kids before they died, and Elun called him a &quot;pedo guy&quot;? And then later, when the guy sued Elun for defamation, Elun won the case because he said that &quot;pedo guy&quot; was a regular harmless diss people use in South Africa and that <em>everyone<\/em> calls each other that, no big deal?<\/p>\n<p>Hm. So people were regularly calling Elun Mosk &quot;pedo guy&quot; to the point that he recognizes it as a regular everyday harmless insult people use toward each other.<\/p>\n<p>Where there&#8217;s smoke, there might just be fire.<\/p>\n<h2>Measles, measles, everywhere, not a single droplet safe to drink<\/h2>\n<p>Seriously: Measles is <em>EVERYWHERE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently three people DIED from the measles, and RFK Jr and his ilk are pushing to have their deaths NOT be included in the measles numbers. Why? Probably because <em>measles is fucking <strong>EVERYWHERE<\/strong><\/em> right now. Just all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>And I know it seems heartless, but if you don&#8217;t vaccinate yourself and your children and you get measles? I&#8217;m to the point where I don&#8217;t care. Stay home. Drink some chicken soup. Don&#8217;t give it to other people. Try not to die. Fuck off.<\/p>\n<p>We have been <em>SCREAMING<\/em> for DECADES at this point that people should vaccinate. Vaccination is good. Vaccination is safe. Vaccination is what creates herd immunity and protects the public at large.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, for the first time since 2015, we&#8217;ve got people dying from measles in the United States. It was 2 children in Texas and 1 adult in New Mexico. Dead. From one of the most easily preventable diseases we know.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, sure, measles is <em>super<\/em> communicable. It can linger IN THE AIR for like 2 hours after someone leaves the area. You can touch a counter that&#8217;s got measles droplets, rub your nose, and boom! You&#8217;ve got the measles.<\/p>\n<p>But we have a vaccine for it.<\/p>\n<p>We have been mass vaccinating populations for the measles since the 1960s. That&#8217;s over 60 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason for there to be mass outbreaks of the measles in modern times. It&#8217;s sheer hubris.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My child is <em>special<\/em>. They were given to me by the stars and universe. There is no <em>chance<\/em> that they will ever catch a highly communicable disease. I have never feared the measles. I have never known anyone to ever catch the measles. There&#8217;s no way it could ever effect my family.&quot;&#8211;Beloved, you were vaccinated as a child.<\/p>\n<p>At least have the common courtesy to offer your child the same chance at a long and healthy life that your parents and the government gave to you.<\/p>\n<p>We are at the point where these kids are reaching an age where they&#8217;re going to start sharing their stories. And on one hand, I&#8217;m kind of curious, but on the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember all the books from the 90s that were all about horrific events of child abuse? There was a whole genre of children dying in hospitals from cancer and different genetic diseases and what-have-yous, and then there were the books about the abused kids with &quot;multiple personalities&quot; and lifelong disabilities caused by &quot;the things that <em>happened<\/em> to them.&quot; I remember reading the stealth anorexia one where I didn&#8217;t understand what was happening, but the girl never ate! Or she was always pushing her food around or scraping her plate off into the garbage. And then all of a sudden she was being rushed to the hospital and then she was in a program at the hospital and they described anorexia for the very first time, and that was the first I&#8217;d ever heard about anorexia or bulimia or eating disorders or anything like that.<\/p>\n<p>And crazy me, I was like &quot;I want anorexia.&quot; The same way I was like &quot;Having diabetes sounds so cool&quot; after I read the book about the girl with diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>So in a few years we&#8217;re going to get some books out, and there&#8217;s going to be fully vaxxed kids on social media being like &quot;I wish I could catch the measles. It sucks so much that I&#8217;ve been fully vaccinated and I&#8217;m completely safe from the measles. I feel like I&#8217;m missing out. Those painful red dots <em>look so cool<\/em>. And that measles can completely reset your immune system and damage all your other immunities? You measles kids were so lucky.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Just a shit ton of tell-all books from people describing how life is when you&#8217;re raised by parents that don&#8217;t care if you live or die. Describing what it&#8217;s like to have parents give you the gift of an old timey disease that had been nearly eradicated until your parents and their friends brought it back.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the books by people that were raised unschooled, or as part of someone&#8217;s religious quiver&#8230; We are looking at a deluge of barely survived delulu.<\/p>\n<p>I can already see it starting. I&#8217;ll come across YouTube comments and someone will reveal that they were raised unschooled and that it&#8217;s been so hard for them trying to catch up with regular society. That they&#8217;ve been <em>struggling<\/em> desperately to get enough education that they can get a job that isn&#8217;t menial in nature. Or the people revealing that they were raised unvaxxed, and how they had to sneak out with their younger siblings to get vaccinated behind their parents&#8217; backs because they were terrified of dying from preventable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much going on in the backrooms of American culture. Terrifying and weird bullshit that should not be happening.<\/p>\n<p>But here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Three people have died from the measles in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>And the guy running the CDC is asking the higher powers to have those three deaths be attributed to something else, so in the history books it will show that NO ONE died from the measles in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like that&#8217;s a disservice to the children that died. They are losing their place in history, and considering how young they were, they never had a chance to make much of a mark in the first place. THEY WERE CHILDREN. Unvaccinated children that died from a disease that has a vaccine. In 2026.<\/p>\n<p>~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\">https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\">https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimichee.com\">https:\/\/kimichee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social\">https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everand.com\/author\/262822558\/Harper-Kingsley\">https:\/\/www.everand.com\/author\/262822558\/Harper-Kingsley<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/author\/harper-kingsley\">https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/author\/harper-kingsley<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/author\/harper-kingsley\/id444850597\">https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/author\/harper-kingsley\/id444850597<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabies in North Carolina If you or someone you know recently visited a petting zoo and came into contact with baby goats in North Carolina, please contact your doctor. You came into contact with rabies. A mobile petting zoo passed through North Carolina and visited at least 10 locations, and the baby goats have tested&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/news-of-the-world-3\/\" title=\"News of the world\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News of the world<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","Layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Tf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7004,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/rabies-is-real-and-its-real-deadly\/","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":0},"title":"Rabies is real and it&#8217;s real deadly","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"September 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"So, they're on the lookout in Seattle for two people that fed water to a bat that turns out to have had rabies. 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