So when I got in the shower, I was half-thinking about the movie. And it came to me, that if Buffalo Bill had been more discerning about his choice of victims, he never would have been caught.

It was only because he grabbed the daughter of a senator that the FBI bothered to get serious about him serial killing all those women.

If he hadn’t grabbed her, and instead had chosen a different victim, he would have been able to make his woman suit, and maybe a woman jumper and a woman romper and maybe a couple of blankets and who knows what else.

He was in it to skin it.

And if he hadn’t taken the senator’s daughter and brought all the official attention on himself, Hannibal Lecter never would have had the chance to escape from prison. Because it was only because of the senator trying to butter him up that Hannibal was moved to the less maximum security prison where he was able to escape.

That poor guard wouldn’t have had his face ripped off if it wasn’t for Buffalo Bill.

And yeah, yays to Clarissa Darling (lol) for catching Buffalo Bill… But Hannibal Lecter was let out on the loose, and I think that’s a net negative when you really think about it. Because Buffalo Bill was staying local to the United States, and Hannibal was happily traveling from country to country and back again, leaving a bunch of newspaper serial killer names in his wake.

I guess it was a big shock when they realized like 5 big serial killers all turned out to be Hannibal Lecter.

And him being on the loose was because of a senator abusing her position to get special treatment for her daughter’s abduction case.

Buffalo Bill could have saved himself a lot of trouble and dog worry if he had simply chosen a "better" victim. And she would have been better off if she hadn’t been so kind to a "struggling" stranger.

Seriously: I was a little kid the first time I watched "The Silence of the Lambs" and I was like "No, don’t do it!" toward the screen when SHE CLIMBED INTO THE TRUCK.

Even as a kid, I realized that was a very big mistake. That all he had to do was close the door and now he’s got a girl trapped was like "Oh. No. Now you get to live in a well like in ‘The Ring’ but without superpowers."

Anyways, my big realization about "The Silence of the Lambs" is that it’s a movie about the abuses of power. That until the victim was someone "important," the police and the FBI and everyone else didn’t care. They would find another body, realize the victim was a nobody, and just shrug off their murder because it didn’t matter.

It wasn’t until someone rich and powerful was intent on getting their person back that all of a sudden a serial killer being on the loose became Serious Business.

And it’s a movie, and it was the early 90s, but it’s still pretty much the same now. And there have been multiple historical instances where basically the same situation has happened and nobody has cared until someone "important" became involved.

One of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims escaped and was running down the street naked, and the police came and Dahmer went up to them and spun some story and the police gave the victim back to him. A naked teenaged boy with marks on his body and terror in his eyes, and the police were like "Here, trustworthy looking white man, here’s this person of color. Do with him as you will." And Jeffrey Dahmer ate him.

It boggles the mind.

Like, historically speaking, serial killers are not smarter or smoother or more charming or more manipulative than other people. They were able to get away with their crimes because of systemic stupidity in law enforcement.

"You’re a white guy. You can’t possibly be the child eating monster terrorizing the city." And when they have a family and a house? "Wow. There’s no way it could be you. You have a kid. A wife. A job. You wouldn’t be able to have any of those things if you were the guy abducting people off the street and chopping them into little pieces after you’ve done terrible things to them for days and days. Like, how could you possibly have the time to do all those terrible things when you have a family you largely ignore and leave to your wife to care for? I mean, you come home every night at 8 o’clock and you leave at 7 in the morning. When could you possibly have the time to be a serial killing madman? Naw. You look innocent to me. Here, take back this terrified looking 14 year old that you’ve obviously drugged to incoherence. Keep a better watch on him next time."

Ah. It’s terrible being woke.

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I am simply so despairing of humanity.

I feel like if you’re going to store the candy on your shelves, and then shovel peoples’ orders into containers for shipping, why wouldn’t you spend the extra few dollars for glass jars? They can be sanitized with boiling water, and that’s a good thing. Plus depending on the plastic storage containers, you have to worry that they’re going to break down over years of usage as they stay under the lights in your work space.

Go glass if you’re going to do that.

Plus, if your goal customers are "crunchy moms," do you honestly think they’re going to buy from you when you store your CANDY in PLASTIC??? Like, they’re not out there buying candy in the first place. They’re making their own stuff using maple sugar and honey and agave. But to expect them to buy ANYTHING that came out of a big plastic tub? You are delusional. And you are about to lose your ass on your ill thought out business venture.

And the very idea of buying FOOD from any of these people…

Be for fucking real.

I am too poor to risk my health and my life buying food from random people ON THE INTERNET.

Like, if I had a shit ton of money and I had super great health insurance, MAYBE. But I simply cannot afford the risk of a food-borne illness and all the ick that comes with it. Like, maybe I’d be lucky to be spending a few days on the toilet, ejecting everything from both ends, but there are some diseases that are forever.

I’ve heard of people ending up PARALYZED for life after eating a bad piece of chicken.

Supporting someone’s "small business" that they basically built out of their ass is not my responsibility. I’m sorry you poured your money into a business that you didn’t actually plan for or properly think out, but I’m not here to give you money so you can give me listeria or botulism or salmonella or e.Coli or anything else that can be passed around by your unwashed containers and unchanged gloves and your loose hair.

I’m glad you have dreams. I hope you have a good life. But no. I’m not spending $180 for 2 pounds of candy you bought from a bulk retail warehouse.

Like, you’re not even making the candy. You’re just taking it out of the package and contaminating it before sending it to people.

Again: Be for fucking real.

I believe people should support small businesses. I think that people should be out there making small businesses and promoting micro-economies and building up their communities. But that doesn’t mean I support barely veiled predatory capitalism masking itself as "I’m just a small business owner trying my best uwu."

Cottage industry laws exist for a reason. Food safety health standards exist for a reason. I’m sorry if it hurts your feelings, but like 99% of people SHOULD NOT be making and selling food. That’s just flat out. You can still have a business, but please: Don’t have it be a business dealing with food or DIY cosmetics.

If there’s any risk that your product can result in someone DYING or experiencing any kind of poisoning event, why put yourself or them in that position? Make and sell bookmarks. Make pretty fake flower ornaments. Make a zine. Knit scarves or sweaters. Make lawn ornaments.

But just the idea of spending $180 for 2 pounds of CANDY??? And you don’t even MAKE the candy, you just mix it all together in a bowl and repackage it after storing it in big plastic jars with no expiration dates or nutrition information? Get the fuck outta here.

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P.S. Sometimes I feel like that "Family Guy" episode where Peter does the "That grinds my gears" segment on the news. Just being a wild crank all the time. My annoyance levels switched up to 11.

And at the same time, these people are out there smoking cigarettes.

Yes. CIGARETTES have made a comeback. It’s so fucking stupid.

I’m the only person in my family that has never smoked cigarettes. I took a puff on one when I was a kid, and that was enough for me. It was gross and unpleasant. I never picked up the very expensive habit. My mom died of lung cancer caused by her addiction to cigarettes.

So yeah. Cigarettes are deadly. And right now THEY ARE EXPENSIVE. It’s not someone with a "harmless" bad habit where they spend $5 on a pack of cigarettes a week. They’re like $30 now.

People can spend their money how they want to spend it. And I will judge them, but I try to keep it in my head where those thoughts belong. But I do have to say something right now: Tanmaxxing in conjunction with cigarettemaxxing? WTF are you people doing?!?

I see the commentary videos about it, and it’s all these white kids burning their skin to shit. Spreading that old timey misinformation that "You need to get a base tan to prevent sunburn." And I’m just like "Please cite your sources. You sound dumb as shit."

I’m old enough that I lived through the time of tanning beds and people dying from skin cancer. I’ve lived in Nevada and experienced the visual horror of skin that looks like the red and orange vinyl of the booth seating in diners. Like seeing a woman’s chest and neck that looks like the skin has been so severely burnt that it’s pulled tight and looks like individual scales rather than one smooth surface.

I’ve seen sun damaged skin, and it’s not pleasant to look at.

So the idea of these young people slathering on oils and purposefully going out to bake themselves in the sun during the hottest times of day? That they are using their weather apps not to protect themselves but to find the most skin damaging times to roast themselves? It’s not ignorance. They know better. It’s just stupidity.

Their parents spent their whole childhoods slathering them with SPF 70 and making them wear hats and sun protective clothing, and they’re spending their early to mid 20s throwing that all away. And they can’t even give a coherent explanation why.

We have fake tan lotions, creams, and sprays. You can buy a product that will give you a natural looking fake tan where no one can tell that you are naturally melanin deficient. You don’t have to inject yourself with peptides or rub yourself with carrot oil to get that visibly unnatural hue. It’s dumb.

I’m not even touching on the fact that if you smoke cigarettes, you need to avoid ingesting vitamin A supplements for like 20 YEARS afterward to avoid giving yourself cancer.

People are currently making ridiculous lifestyle choices because of shit weird people on the Internet are telling them. They are following life ruining advice from what amounts to self-motivated QVC hosts.

I’m tired.

Y’all are making me tired.

Like, you really can’t see the scam and grift that’s happening around you? These people who make A LOT of money selling anti-wrinkle creams and injections telling you not to wear sunblock and to tan as much as possible?

My dear: You are white. You already have less melanin and collagen in your skin. You might look great in your teens and early 20s, but you are in the demographic that has a more than good chance to age like curdled milk in your mid-30s and onwards. Why? Because of a lack of natural melanin and collagen.

There’s a reason why everyone was looking on in horror at the buccal fat removal trend. And now we’ve got these celebrities who are in their early 30s and they’re looking like Yzma from "The Emperor’s New Groove." I mean, she was lovely, but her character was like 60, so…

You’re burning your skin to shit, and you’re so young that you’re looking in the mirror and saying "Damn. I look good."

No, ma’am. You’re young enough that you’ve tanned up, so for a short while you get to look a bit darker, and that’s whatever. But sun exposure is cumulative. There’s less ozone layer than existed in the 1970s, so you’re getting more "bad sun" than old timey sun worshippers were getting–most of whom experienced the joys of melanomas and became big proponents of sunblock for themselves and their children (your parents or you)–and you’re not going to like the long-term effects your short-term suntan are going to bring you.

Tanmaxxing is stupid.

If you’re not already addicted to cigarettes, don’t get addicted to them. And if you are smoking, it is very difficult to stop, but you should try your best to stop smoking.

The best advice I can give you is: Don’t put your life in the hands of an Internet guru, grifter, influencer, scammer–anyone that is profiting off of you ruining your health, is not really looking out for your wellbeing. They are making money off of your misery and helplessness.

If someone makes their fortune off of selling you "health" supplements or cosmetics or cosmetic procedures… Their medical advice is not coming from a good place. They are seeking customers, and if that means making a problem for their products to solve… They are going to recommend that you tan your butthole so you’ll buy their butthole cancer cream.

It’s the nature of the beast. And the beast is hungry.

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COVID 2026 feels very mild, which I appreciate. I’ve never had COVID before, so I’m glad I didn’t get the one that makes you feel like death walking. It’s not comfortable and I don’t want it, but I don’t think it’s going to kill me at this point.

I’ve been coughing up a lot of gunk and my nose was running like crazy. For a couple days there I could hear my lungs wheezing as I was laying down, but there was no chest pain or anything. It just felt like a cold. I could handle the aches and pains with half a Tylenol.

It was having two periods in one month that got me worried, and that’s how I found out it’s COVID.

It’s weird to think my body was like "This lining is contaminated! DUMP IT NOW!" And boom. My insides decided to do a bunch of stuff without my permission and that’s that, cracker jack.

I’ve stopped coughing today. I think I’m getting over it now, though the COVID tests still show very bright double lines, so I’m obviously packed with the virus.

So anyways. I can no longer say that I’ve never had COVID. I’m no longer special. Sigh.

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If you don’t have any connection or awareness of the everyday pop culture going on around you, then you will lose touch with the current generations.

I don’t feel old because I can still understand what "the yoots" are talking about.

Do I like a lot of the stuff that’s going on? No. But at least I’m not going to be blindsided by the surprise of it all.

Like, the current big thing is teenaged "tradwives" and "SAHGFs" trying to push their lifestyle onto younger girls. There’s like 600 of them out there being like "I’m 19 years old with 2 kids and I’m a stay at home wife/girlfriend. My man is 35. He’s great." And I want to be like "Was he your youth pastor?"

And I have to wonder, if they’re really tradwives, why are they on the Internet? They should be in the kitchen alone cooking. They should be barefoot and pregnant with no money of their own. I mean, that’s the lifestyle they’re trying to talk other non-social media content creators into.

I read that book "Yesteryear," and while I didn’t really enjoy it (it wasn’t for me), I totally got the point that it was making: She presented a faux lifestyle ala Ballerina Farms "Everything is made from scratch using my own two hands and muscles" when really she had a full staff of workers in the background doing all the heavy lifting. And she was very smugly annoyed at "the feminists" complaining about her downhome lifestyle, when really they were complaining that everything she presented as being real was simply manufactured content produced by a millionaire/billionaire and the subsequent money a rich person has to cosplay that lifestyle.

And that’s what a lot of the content today is: Manufactured lifestyle content.

You don’t really live like that. You’re renting a set for a few days to film your content. You are using your children as props to either sell products or to be the products that you’re selling to the public. For money, you are presenting a lifestyle you would not choose to live yourself. You are the face of late stage capitalism.

I am glad that people are going "Ugh" about modern influencers. They are not influencing anything, they are simply repackaged QVC hosts selling stuff from their personal channels and peddling their presumed clout in hopes of getting free stuff and money from rich brands. They are insincere, and I’m relieved that people are beginning to turn away from them and their nonsense.

When it reaches the point that an "influencer" walks into a regular grocery store and acts like she’s found herself on an alien planet… They are out of touch, so why are you letting them choose how you live your life? They have no clue what your life is like, so why would you trust them to choose how your lifestyle should be? "Out of touch weirdo" as the new aesthetic? Why?

And I do blame social media companies for giving these people platforms. Why is their content being pushed by the algorithm? Why are they allowed to monetize their clearly harmful content?

I still remember years ago that story of the 9-year old girl using a straw to drink a whole glass of boiling water because she watched a monetized video that gave her the idea. Adults created content they clearly aimed at children, and the content they produced was dangerous.

There’s those squishy ball toys now that have been very popular recently, and warnings had to be given to not put them in the microwave "to soften them up" because the heat would cause the toy to burst and basically lavalike gel could get all over a person and burn them to death. Why? Because idiots on social media were putting them in the microwave and telling people it’s an easy way to make them squishier.

I don’t believe the Internet should be made safe for children. That’s an impossible thing to do. Unless a website or a blog or a video channel says theirs is child safe content, then it is intended for somewhat mature audiences. People with enough commonsense to know not to put a gel-filled toy in the microwave.

You can’t force people to child safe THE ENTIRE INTERNET because children should not be running around free on the Internet. There should be adult supervision in their lives. And if their parents and guardians would rather force strangers to completely go out of their way to protect children, then those parents and guardians should not have those children.

Like, why are you giving your child free run of the Internet? Why aren’t you supervising their Internet usage and asking questions about their lives and what they’re doing all the time on their phones, tablets, and PCs? Why are you letting them wear headphones so you can’t hear what other people are saying in the game chats and then letting them play with adults you don’t know?

Or why are you creating social media channels where you use your children for monetized content when they are too young to give their consent? Because sure, a child is going to say "Yeah, I’m okay with you putting my image on the Internet especially if it means you’re going to buy me the toys, furniture, food I want" and they’re not going to understand what that means. They have no concept of pedophiles and weirdos and child abductions. All they want is to make their parents happy, so they’re going to say Yes even if they don’t understand what is happening.

I don’t believe children should be on social media. I don’t believe that family channels or channels starring children should be monetized.

Just like I don’t think adults should be allowed to interact with children on Roblox.

For reals: If you create a place for children, pedophiles are going to go there, and it is up to the platform to put security in place that prevents pedophiles from interacting with children.

And I understand that we have reached a point where technology allows adults to make fake voices that sound like children, and that they’re going to use those voices to interact with children. Sickos are gonna sicko, it is what it is.

But there should not be content purposefully aimed at children as the audience without it going through some kind of checks. And I get that creators are bypassing parents by creating content that looks kid-friendly–bright colors, quirky outfits, a loud overacted style–on first glance, which they later excuse by saying "My content was never intended for a child audience."

My dude, you clearly targeted children with your content. Your entire thing is to make non-attentive parents think that you are child-safe content.

That little girl that drank boiling water and died got the idea from a channel that appeared to serve child friendly content. It was dangerous stuff wrapped up in wrapping paper intended for children.

It’s the same way Colleen Ballinger wrapped her content up in such a way that parents were taking their children to her shows. Because she made YouTube videos where she dressed in a child friendly way, put out a character that seemed childlike and thus "for children," and inattentive parents didn’t even take the time to realize that she was a weirdo. On the Internet.

It wasn’t until she sent lingerie to A CHILD that people started going "Hey! I don’t think this lady’s content is intended for children. I think she should be on a watch list because she might actually be a child predator!" (Allegedly.)

So even if government agencies tried to make the Internet as a whole "child safe," it would never work. Because predators are going to predator.

They are out there, 24/7 working on ways to bypass supervision so as to get to their targets. And their targets are children.

The only ones being adversely affected by the laws are going to be normal people living normal lives minding their own business. Why? Because having to send a "live" selfie and a copy of your government issued ID to sketchy social media websites is inherently unsafe.

You can’t operate under the assumption that EVERY PERSON has to sacrifice their safety and their freedom to keep children safe on the Internet. It is the job of the parents and guardians to protect their children.

And of course rebellious kids are going to sneak onto the Internet. It’s the same way rebellious kids are going to sneak out of the house, or smoke weed, or drink alcohol, or do a million other things they’re not supposed to do.

But I’m not the parent of those kids. I should not be FORCED to be responsible for their safety when their parents are right there.

Why are you giving a toddler a tablet with a direct connection to the Internet? Why aren’t you monitoring what they’re doing? Why are they able to click on links or enter video chats with strangers?

Do I think it’s the Internet’s fault that Clavicular entered incel forums and grew up to be a weirdo? No. I blame his parents.

They didn’t realize anything was wrong with him until he was smashing his face with a hammer.

He was able to purchase black market steroids, testosterone, peptides WHILE HE WAS A MINOR.

Like, there are parents out there that are like "My kid is so defiant and OUT OF CONTROL that he watches anime!" and they’re able to send their kid to a 6-week rehab camp that turns out to be a torture farm.

That dude’s parents are rich. They had enough money for him to make expensive purchases off the black market. They could have afforded a nanny. They could have sent him to a live-in private school where he wouldn’t have been able to leave campus to access a PO Box. There were so many options available to them as a wealthy family. They just simply didn’t care to try.

And that’s not my fault.

I’m not responsible for children on the Internet because children should not be on the Internet unsupervised. They should not be clicking random links or hanging out on forums with adults. They should not be forcing themselves into adult spaces to the point that the government is like "We have to close down all these adult spaces because children are there."

Nobody wants children there. Other than the children themselves and the pedophiles that prey upon them.

Just like I cringe away from the 50 and 60 year olds going onto the child dancing app to publicly share their sexual content.

"Why are you doing that? It’s disgusting. You are in public!"

And some of them like to pretend that just like children they don’t understand how the Internet works. "What do you mean people can screencap the things I’m putting out and share it other places? What do you mean they can screen record my sex vids and reupload it other places? How is it technologically possible for my image to be fed into an AI generator to create disgusting content I myself wouldn’t choose to share?!?"

I just want to be like "You aren’t fooling anyone. You are 50 years old. You grew up with the Internet. You were using CDs from AOL to go on the Internet and sext with strangers on BBS forums. You used Netscape. You are not a child. Stop it."

If you’re an adult and you go onto social media, you should have enough awareness to realize that you are in a public venue. Children are innocent and they can’t really conceptualize that there are BILLIONS of people out there and that some of them are dangerous and unpleasant. But an adult?

You can choose not to go onto social media platforms.

You can choose not to target your content toward children.

And you should have the freedom to not worry that children are wandering unsupervised on social media. They are not supposed to be there if they’re under 13 years old.

So I can see those 19 year old tradwives/SAHMs/SAHGFs and their propagandist content and I can tsk and shake my head and feel disgust at them and wonder how many of them are going to regret the lifestyle choices they bought into at such a young age. Then I can move on to other content that I prefer to see. And it’s easy for me, because I’m not their target audience.

They are preying on children. Because they are child predators. The tools of the patriarchy and religious cults that like to scream about the depletion of the domestic supply of (white) infants.

I don’t know for sure that they’re paid influencers given a mission to recruit young girls into a submissive lifestyle. But I do know that there are a lot of weirdos out there screaming pretty loudly about how bad it is that teen pregnancies are on the decline. And now all of a sudden there’s a massive amount of "tradlifestyle" influencers pushing the idea that teenagers should marry adults and start popping out babies before their bodies have fully developed.

And I’ve noticed, with all the pregnancy advocates out there, there’s very little public information about how damaging pregnancy is to the body.

I’ve known people that have lost their teeth because of pregnancy and calcium leeching. I’ve known people that have had lifetime bladder issues because of pregnancy. I’ve known people that had to get a vaginal mesh inserted because their parts were permanently loosened due to pregnancy and it got to the point where the parts were literally falling out.

Pregnancy is dangerous. Birthing a baby can be deadly. And even if you have a good birth and survive, there’s a big chance you’re going to be dealing with a lifetime of bodily harm.

Pregnancy is not a joke.

So those influencers trying to get children to buy into a lifestyle that involves multiple births before they’re 20 years old?

Monsters. Demons in human form. Every single one.

~Harper Kingsley

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