I’m 18 years old and was diagnosed with keratoconus a little over a year ago. I had significant progression and vision loss in my left eye (from nearly 20/20 to 20/80 in the span of a year) but my right eye hadn’t progressed nearly as much (i had 20/30, correctable with glasses). Though my vision had deteriorated a lot, I had no idea about it as my right eye ended up compensating for what was lost in my left eye. I was shocked when the doctor covered my right eye and I realized I could hardly see anything at all. I hadn’t noticed a change in my vision at all, I was only in for a standard eye appointment. All that to say that I was lucky to have caught my KC at a point where I could still see well combined vision. I got corneal cross linking a year ago, a month apart between my left and right eye. I actually got improved vision from the surgery and I’m now at 20/60 in the left and 20/25 in the right. I can even get to 20/40 and 20/20 with glasses. I basically got the best case scenario results from the procedure (big thanks to my surgeon and thank god for good insurance). As I’m now a year out from cross linking, I’m beginning the process of getting scleral lenses. I had my first appointment a couple weeks ago and they gave me a sample pair to try on. They were extremely uncomfortable, but my doctor said they actually fit me pretty well. I know that the customs will be much more comfortable, but I still worry as I am especially sensitive to sensory stuff like that. More than that I’m really worried about the nitty gritty of having sclerals. I have ADHD and tend to be very scatterbrained and forgetful and have been known to fall asleep in my contact lenses (which is extremely dangerous in sclerals). I’m nervous about caring for them, storing them properly, making sure I take them out at the right time, and all in all living with what is really a pretty significant medical equipment that requires a lot of care and precision, especially considering that soft lenses could probably give me decent enough correction since my right eye is still very good. I do miss seeing things crisply though. I worry that I’ll end up straining my right eye if i continue to allow it to compensate for all my vision, though i’m not sure if that’s a valid concern. I think i’m also having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that keratoconus is actually a pretty serious thing that I’ll have to deal with the rest of my life, and having to use special contacts kinda makes that feel more real. idk. The overarching question here is, are sclerals worth it? and would they be worth it in my case with my vision being what it is?

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While on an evening stroll, you somehow wound up in the middle of nowhere. You try to retrace your steps back home, but you give up when an unforecasted, sudden downpour soaks your jacket. You pace towards the only building in sight– a cartoonishly foreboding castle– and knock on the door. The stoic soul inside calmly invites you to a cup of tea, ignoring your frantic request for directions to the nearest phone booth or motel. You shrug and enter.
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Monetization is A-OK and editing the script is allowed, especially if you just want to swap a few words around (e.g. replacing 'sugar spouse' with 'sugar father' or 'glucose guardian').
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“Are you enjoying the tea, old sport? I’d like to think it’s ‘a special herbal mix’ I came up with, but at the end of the day, it’s just black tea mixed with green tea and a tinge of lemon juice [forced chuckle]”
“Now then, let’s get to business. I know you’re not here just to sip on a hot drink… You’re here because you’re lost, aren’t you? And I don’t mean that in a figurative or a poetic sort of way… You went off the path and found yourself in a place you’re unfamiliar with.”
“Oh yes, I’m quite the astute one, you see. I’m a doctor at the top of my field and as such, I have a talent for shedding light on the ambiguous.”
“Of course, my dear, I have a doctorate in Art History, so yes, I am a doctor despite all those times my parents have called me solely to tell me how I irrevocably f*cked up my life. You really learn to trace patterns from the characteristic formal qualities of pieces from each artistic movement when you’re as experienced as I am. The rebellious but actually kind of boring quality of Impressionism, the exaggerated curvatures of female sculptures from the Neolithic period, ect., ect. So, you see, the common fool couldn’t have discerned one’s backstory during a limited frame of time as I have time and time again on a daily basis.”
“Hm? You said multiple times that you needed directions? Well, I apologize, but as they say– ask not what they can do, but what you can do. Perhaps take this misunderstanding as a sign to speak less softly next time. A lovely voice like yours shouldn’t be lost in the cacophony of nonsense we call normal conversation.”
“...My ‘passive-aggressiveness’ is besides the subject of interest at hand. What we should really be discussing is the fact that you’re all lost and cold–and not to mention, completely drenched from the rain, now that I think about it… Tsk, tsk, tsk… what a massive blunder on my part! This calls for a change of clothes! Wouldn’t want you to catch a cold, now would we? Here, take this neatly folded, matching outfit that looks really good on you and is conveniently in your size. I always make sure to keep a spare set of luxurious robes around for extremely specific and situational occasions such as these.”
“You think that’s odd behavior, now do you? …You think it’s almost as if I expected you to come? …Well, you see, old sport, it’s customary in my culture to address a guest’s exact needs before you even meet your guest.”
“Indeed. It’s a tradition from, uh… New Jersey. I highly doubt such a tradition would raise an eyebrow when weighed against literally everything else from New Jersey, so you should probably stop asking about something that’s most likely trivial in the grand scheme of things. Let’s change our discussion topic to something, I don’t know, practical. Let’s start thinking about our next move, or perhaps even our future togeth— I mean your future. You’re the guest after all, haha. What sort of host would I be if I were more concerned with my own, non-romantic-in nature goals?”
“Now then, allow me a moment to retrieve my reading glasses and a sufficiently large piece of parchment for writing so we can put a few items on the docket… . How do you like your eggs? Shaped like hearts or decorated with XOXO’s written with ketchup? Do you like eggs? It’s alright if you don’t. Tell me all about your dietary restrictions; I promise I’ll find a way to work around them. What’s your stance on keeping a pet around? Are you open to pre-marital… Oh? You have something to say about the robes? Ah, I just knew you loved them! You don’t have to ask me twice— or at all. I can read your thoughts like a book. Yes, you can keep them! I had a hunch that you were just too shy to admit your gratitude towards my gift, and by extension, me.
“Oh… um. I-It seems my guilty conscience has won this time… I can’t bear to withhold the truth from you any longer… The robes I gave you does indeed have ‘My Beloved' lovingly embroidered on it in cursive. And yes, stitching conveniently sized clothing for attractive strangers is not a tradition from New Jersey, as fitting as that phrase would be in the headline of a magazine from New Jersey. Personally, I thought it was a good excuse considering the whole U.S. is a mess from top-to-bottom… I just…
“...I really didn’t expect you to arrive at this very moment. I never expected… anyone to come along besides the occasional mailman. Have you tried living somewhere with no neighbors around? It’s like being stranded on an island except I have access to water, a dope manor, electricity, food rations, and actually– this is a dumb analogy now that I think about it, so I’m just going to get straight to the point now–I’m touch starved.”
“For months I’ve played the part of the damsel in distress, waiting for someone to come rescue me from this figurative ivory tower. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve started to fantasize about being the sugar spouse of one whom I could have exclusively – a reciprocal relationship where we could build each other up on a foundation of affection. From the moment I saw you from the fish-eye lens on my front door, I knew you had potential. If I had you in my good graces and proved my own potential… I’d be able to convince you to stay with me. Our little sapling, our heuristic bond – it could have blossomed into actual love.”
“Hphm. I see how you’d be able to find love if *you\* didn’t live in ‘Dracula’s childhood home,’ as you put it. I presume a personality like yours is endearing enough to pull anyone in, but a creepy loner like me? I’d end up… hurting someone. I’m not exactly the most sensible emotionally, and I’m not as modest or patient as you are… For a second there, I was happy. I thought I had a chance to prove myself wrong and form a sincere human connection with you. But I blew it, unsurprisingly… The only real thing I gained from this experience is regret and affirmation that seclusion really is the best route for me…”
“But, still, I am your host nonetheless and you have nowhere else to go. Take this hammer and set of nails so you can board yourself up in my bedroom for the night, lest I be tempted to cuddle you in your sleep. Also, take this shovel so you can dig yourself an escape route. I’m sorry you had to put up with me”
“...You think I don’t need to apologize? But why? I’m a socially isolated stranger with morally questionable intentions. Can’t I make a good decision in my life just this once? …You want me to actually cuddle you in your sleep? You know that’s just a hypothetical possibility, right? A possibility I specifically mentioned because it was weird and something you should want to avoid? What sort of malevolent force is possessing you to say that? “
“You think it’s the least I could do to make up for ‘wasting your time?’ W-well, when you put it that way… It’s only proper. Some might say it’s even… my duty to cuddle you – a good host should always oblige requests within reason… But only for a few seconds, ok? I don’t want to overstep another boundary; I’ve already broken like a hundred during your stay.”
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I remember coming across this one video in around 2010-2013. Don’t remember what the video was called but it was something to do with demonic possession. The video starts by showing a man sitting on a white chair outside in what looks like a 3rd world country. My best guess would be South America. The man was looking straight up into the sky while making weird/demonic facial expressions. But he would stab himself with a silver piece of metal a couple times in the neck until it started bleeding a lot and would be grunting/growling and would seem unaffected by the pain. I think he just left the metal piece into his neck at a certain point. that is the whole gist of the video. Knowing YouTube’s community guidelines,this video definitely got taken down. It was a weird ass video for sure but it somehow ingrained into my brain a decade later But does anyone else remember seeing this video?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlpaD
#Guo Wengui #Ban Nong #Yan Limeng
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization.
Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global.
Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.
She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided.
Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud.
In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion.
According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.

Hi everyone! Just came back from my first trip to Japan. It has always been my biggest dream to visit Japan since I was a kid and I'm so glad I finally got the chance to go! The trip was actually planned by my boyfriend who booked everything for us in May, which is my birthday month.
Tips:
Make Reservations Months in Advance! We made reservations for cafes, activities, restaurants, and even trains months in advance to make sure we would be able to do everything we wanted; we were not taking any risks and we were so thankful for our reservations. Make sure to do your research about when to make reservations months in advance.
Pack and Travel Light. Japan isn't really suited for traveling with big luggage to haul around. The trains can get incredibly crowded, you’ll probably be walking around and using stairs frequently, and hotel rooms can be very small at times. I recommend bringing a small rolling luggage and a large backpack and only pack what you need. Leave some room in your luggage for souvenirs or snacks to bring back.
Get Yen immediately at the airport or at the nearest convenience store! You will definitely need yen for a good amount of places in Japan. My boyfriend and I tried to load money in our Suica but the machine we used only accepted yen. Luckily we found a nearby conbini that accepted our debit card but we couldn't use our credit cards for some reason because the atm required a pin number. I might have accepted Mastercard but we both didn't have one.
Bringing comfortable shoes is a must in Japan! I brought comfortable shoes and my feet still hurt by the third day because we were walking and standing most of the days. I also recommend buying Lion’s Foot Patch if you find it at a conbini (I think we bought them at Lawsons) as the gel patch felt so good after a long day of walking!
Plan more days to relax. Although I have no regrets doing all the fun things we planned for our trip, I do wish we had more rest days in Japan, especially when our feet were so sore and we were so sleep deprived from waking up early. I wish we would have stayed a full 2 weeks in Japan and planned relaxing things to do in between our activities like visiting an Onsen and staying in a Ryokan.
Get to popular places early! My boyfriend and I would wake up at 5am to get ready and beat the morning rush hour and to get to popular places before the crowds showed up, it definitely worked out well for us.
Use hotel luggage transport or lockers when necessary. The luggage transport was especially useful when traveling long distances and carrying luggage through the trains would just be a hassle. All we had to do was just talk to our hotel clerk and give him the information for our next hotel we would be sending it to, and the clerk did the rest of the work. The luggage would usually arrive 2 days after we sent it. For the rest of the time, we just used lockers at train stations to store our luggage as we went sightseeing.
Trip Report:
Sunday May 14: Arrival and TokyoDisney
Arrival at Narita Airport
Arrival was simple, fast, and easy. For immigration and customs, we just had to scan our QR codes and passport and also take a picture.
Yen situation
As we arrived at Disney by bus, we wanted to use the coin lockers to store our luggage. The lockers only took suica (maybe yen too) so we tried to buy a suica but the machines only took yen (it didn't look like it took foreign cards). We tried walking to 7/11but it was closed so we ended up just walking to our hotel to drop off luggage. We ended up spending more than an hour walking everywhere and only had 2 hours for Disney.)
Tokyo Disney
The only ride we had time for was the beauty and the beast ride and it was amazing! We loved our experience inside the castle and we were amazed how fluid the animatronics were. If I could recommend one ride in Disney it would be this one. We did have time to go on one more ride so we went on the Monsters Inc ride which was just a shooter game and was just okay.
Monday May 15: Tokyo- DisneySea
Before we went to disneysea, we wanted to try some convenience store food so we went to Lawsons and Family Mart. The convenience store food was delicious! The onigiri tastes better than the ones in the US, the chicken in the hot food section was so juicy and delicious! Definitely recommend eating the hot foods and drinks. We tried getting money out of the ATM with our Visa credit cards but it didnt work so we used our debit card because the atm required a pin number.
Tokyo Disneysea
We arrived at Disneysea almost an hour early and we still had to wait in line. After the gates opened, we went straight to Journey to the Center of the Earth, but it broke down before we were able to ride it. The staff did offer us a fast pass to use for the ride later when it would be fixed. When the ride was working again, we headed back, used the fast pass and immediately got on the ride. It was a fun. fast, and short ride. All the rides at disneysea are pretty short and are moderately thrilling. Afterwards, we went to the submarine ride, 20,000 leagues under the sea, which was a unique experience and a very chill ride. Next was the Indiana jones ride; it was fun and a much better ride than the one in california. Then we went to Tower of terror which wasn't too scary. We also went to Soaring which actually has really long lines and wait time but it was a cool experience. The ride with the longest line was probably toy story mania; we decided not to go on the ride because of the long lines and we've been to the one in california. Kings triton castle was the most beautiful area to look at and explore, our favorite part of the area was exploring ariel's trinket room. Lots of rides were closed the day we went so we didnt get to ride on the spirits roller coaster, autopia, and explorers. My favorite food i tried there was the Ukiwa bun.
We also got to eat at Magellan which is one of the more expensive dining options. We didn't make a reservation until that very same day but we luckily able to reserve a spot in the morning. The food was tasty and it was my first time going to a fancier kind of restaurant that offered 3 course meal that were all tiny portions. I got the cheaper option (around $40 or $60, i cant remember) and it was very delicious. My boyfriend got the most expensive option (around $100) and it tasted terrible! I wouldnt recommend getting the most expensive option there.
Tuesday May 16: Tokyo-Harajuku
Harajuku
We took the trains to get to Harajuku and it was a little overwhelming trying to figure out how to find our train the first few times but, after a while, it became a very easy process. We used google maps to find the trains we needed to take. Then at the train stations, we looked for signs with the name of the train line we needed and followed the arrows and asked for directions when we needed extra help. Then we used our suica card to tap into the specific station we needed to be at to find our train. Next we looked for the PLATFORM NUMBER our train would be arriving at and followed the signs for that number. Once at the platform, we confirmed if we were at the right place by making sure the ARRIVAL TIME, PLATFORM NUMBER, and TRAIN LINE on the digital signs matched the one from our google maps. Make sure to follow train etiquette by stepping to the side to let people out of the train and putting your backpack in front of you if the train is really crowded.
At Harajuku station, we put our luggage in coin lockers for the day so we could explore. We went to a conbini, grabbed some food for breakfast and went to Yoyogi park to eat since nothing was open at 7am. After eating, we went to Meiji shrine for a bit, which is also near yoyogi park, and then headed back to harajuku so we wouldn't be late for our mipig reservations.
Mipig cafe was our favorite cafe and one of our favorite experiences in japan! The pigs were so loving and friendly, they came right up to us and laid on our laps after the staff put some blankets on us. They were adorable and as many as 2-3 pigs would come up to us and sit on our laps. Some pigs would even get aggressive with other piggies if you gave one too much attention. Some pigs started chewing on my dress so I had to get another blanket to hide my dress from being eaten.
After Mipig, we wanted to get some food. We tried Marian crepes, candied strawberries, and some small cafes. We visited Anakuma cafe and it was definitely an interesting experience. A bear hand would come out of hole in the wall and give us candy and a coin to put in a gacha machine and it would also play rock paper scissor with us.
Next stop was Hedgehog cafe which i wouldnt recommend only because I learned later that hedgehogs are nocturnal and they were sleeping most of the time we were there. We ended up leaving early because there was not much to do as we felt bad disturbing the little guys.
Afterwards we visited the Kiddyland store and I enjoyed the studio ghibli section but they also had kirby, pokemon, and sanrio merchandise.
Teamlabs
Next we took a train to team labs, we got there early but we had to wait until it was closer to our reservation time before we could line up. After getting inside we had to put our shoes and backpacks in lockers so we could go through the water exhibition first. They offer shorts if you are wearing dresses as some of the exhibitions have mirror floors. I wasnt too into the water exhibition but I did like the lights exhibition and flower exhibition the best. Overall it was a cool experience and I got some amazing photos out of it.
Shibuya sky
Lastly we went to shibuya sky. We also couldn't get inside until our reservation time started. The elevator ride up was pretty cool as they played a video on the ceiling. They have some restaurants and cafes near the top, I wish I came earlier to try them but we were so tired I didnt want to stay too long. The top of shibuya sky was outside and it was cold (i wish i brought a sweater) but it was incredibly beautiful, especially at night. It's a nice place to relax and look at views. This was probably my favorite sky building out of the three i went (shibuya sky, umeda sky, and tokyo skytree).
Wednesday May 17: Nagoya-Ghibli Park
Ghibli park
We left early morning to get on the train and avoid morning rush hour. We ended up taking the Nozomi train to Nagoya. We bought our shinkansen tickets at the JR ticket booth. We recommend reserving seats as its only a couple yen more and gives you peace of mind knowing you get to choose your seats. We also grabbed some ekibens which were delicious, my favorite was the blue one with mt. fuji on it. Next we had to take a bus to ghibli park which was actually very hard to find. We had to ask for help to find it. To pay for the bus, you can use a suica card or yen to pay as you board the bus.
We arrived super early, and put some of our bags in the lockers. We went to lawsons nearby and bought a ghibli park book which features the exhibitions inside. We walked around the park a bit before we were allowed to start lining up for our reservation times. There are also no trash cans at ghibli park so make sure you bring a trash bag with you to take all your trash back with you.
Around 12pm we went inside and went straight to the first exhibition (Becoming characters in Memorable Ghibli scenes) and there was already a line to get in. Once we got in we took pictures with Noface from spirited away, ponyo, princess mononoke scene, and many more movie scenes.
The next exhibition we went to was the food exhibition (Delicious! Animating Memorable Meals). You can't take pictures in that area but it was cool to be able to interact in the kitchen spaces from your favorite movie scenes. Also, in the end of this exhibition, you can take pictures with totoro and the cat bus!
We visited the ghibli store next because I heard the lines can get rather long at the end of the day and I bought some merchandise from there.
Afterwards, we took pictures at the central staircase, the castle in the sky scene, and the scene with Yubaba.
Next, we took the elevator down to the bottom floor and took pictures in the arietty scenes, it was cool feeling so tiny while everything was supersized!
Lastly we went to the bakery to get some sandwiches. Unfortunately, the food does sell out and there were not a lot of choices left by the time we got there. The food we got was okay but nothing special.
Osaka: Ichiran ramen
After Ghibli park we took the train to Osaka. In Osaka, we lined up to get into Ichiran ramen. We ordered our ramen through a vending machine and it gave us our ticket to give to our server. We were seated in these small cubicle areas but we were also able to close the partition in between us so my boyfriend and I could share our table space together. I thought it was a unique dining experience; it was cool not having to say a single word to our server, and the food was also delicious too.
Thursday May 18: Osaka-Universal Studios Japan
Got to USJ an hour before it opened and there were still super long lines! As the gates opened up, we ran to nintendoland to make sure we got in. We went to toadstool cafe to get ticket reservations but they didn't open until 9am so we decided to take the single rider line for the mario kart ride, it was a bad idea. For some reason the single rider line still took us 30 minutes to complete and it felt like it was going slower than the regular lines. The mario kart ride was cool, it used like a VR headset and you were able to shoot shells at others but I really didn't understand what was going on.
Toadstool cafe
We went back to toadstool but all the tickets were gone, I tried talking to one of the workers if they would offer tickets later but I don't think he understood what i was saying. He actually just let me in the line after I asked a few times if they had anymore tickets for the afternoon. After waiting in line and ordering, we grabbed our drinks and table number and sat down at our table. The drinks were delicious! Definitely recommend. We also ordered some kind of mushroom pesto soup and it was bomb! We recommend that too since they don't offer it in the California Universal. We also got peaches cake for like $30 which is supposed to be for 4 people but just the 2 of us ate it. It was light and fluffy and we recommend getting it as they also dont offer it in the California Universal. The staff also came by and offered to take pics of us which was so nice.
Next we bought the limited edition wrist bands and started playing some of the mini games. We played about 3 games before we decided to leave nintendo land and check out the other areas because we also bought a reserved time to get back into nintendoland to use our fastpass for the yoshi ride.
We had a fastpass for the Jurassic park ride so we went on that next. Make sure you are prepared to get wet cause you will get soaked at the end. Then we went to Hogwarts and watched some of the shows they offered and grabbed a meatpie. We didn't stay long here as we have already been to Hogwarts in california. Next we got in line for the mario strawberry shortcake pancake and it was delicious light and fluffy! I think we also had a fastpass ride for jaws and that ride was actually really cooler than I expected . The next fastpass ride was for despicable me ride so we did that one too and it was actually better than the california version. And lastly we went back to nintendoland to use our reservation time and our fastpass for the yoshi ride. It was a cute slow ride but it had nice views of the park. I enjoyed it even though it was a kiddy ride. Lastly, we had the yakisoba shells and melon lassi and both were delicious
By this time our feet were so sore from walking for days so we left early to go rest at our hotel. I ended up being so sore and tired I just knocked out early. My boyfriend bought Lions Foot Patches from Lawson and put them on my feet while i slept. They felt so nice and cool on my feet. I recommed getting those foot patches while you're in japan.
We woke up for a late dinner and got some nearby mcdonalds. I'm not a fan of mcdonalds in the US but i wanted to try japan's mcdonalds to see if its better. I honestly didn't like the Japan Mcdonalds either even though it does taste different, I'm not sure what the hype is about with the japanese mcdonalds. I found that japan's convenience store chicken was much juicer and tasted better than the mcdonalds chicken.
Friday May 19: Kyoto-Fushimi Inari Taisha, Nishiki market, Ninenzaka
Fushimi inari taisha shrine
We got to the shrine early, maybe around 7am,and it was not very crowded but there were still people there. It was raining a bit so luckily i brought my umbrella, unfortunately my boyfriend did not, this would haunt him later. We took a picture of a map to see which way to go to reach the top as there are different routes you can take. It was a gradual climb up but my boyfriend really struggled as his feet still hurt from the days before. The gates were beautiful and there were so many areas to look at and explore as we climbed. Unfortunately my boyfriend was tired and we were in a time crunch so we didn't explore every area but I wish I could have because this was the most beautiful place I had visited in Japan. As we neared the top it started to rain more heavily and my boyfriend ended up getting soaked. The top of the shrine was anticlimactic, but we took our picture and headed back down. On our way we stopped by the little stores and bought an umbrella for my boyfriend which we were thankful they had some. As we went down the steps in the rain, my boyfriend accidentally slipped and fell on his back pretty badly. He ended up with a deep gash on his finger as the blood gushed all over the floor. Luckily I had some tissues to wrap up his finger. We headed back down the mountain and bought some bandaids at a conbini store. We also bought some strawberry daifuku at a small little shop and it was the best daifuku I ate in Japan. The mochi was a great consistency and the strawberry was the juiciest strawberry i ever had. I wish i had bought more from there.
Nishiki market
We went to Nishiki market around 11am and it was super crowded while the path was so small and narrow. We literally had to push through the crowds at times because there were so many people, it was not a fun time for me. I also ended up losing my suica card somewhere around there. I'm also not the biggest fan of seafood but my boyfriend is so he ended up eating most of the food. We ended up not staying long for all those reasons and ended up going to a nearby store that sold all kinds of different food which I liked a lot better because there weren't crowds of people there.
Ninenzaka
Next we walked to Ninenzaka which was like a 30 minute walk. It was still raining so we were just looking for a place to stop and eat for a bit. We went to Kudamono cafe and got the cloud dessert. It was pretty good and fluffy and the dessert looked so pretty. Afterwards, we had room for more dessert so we tried Meccha cafe. We ordered the matcha tiramisu and the parfait. The matcha tiramisu was probably the best dessert i had in Japan, I definitely recommend getting it! We also visited Donguri and bought more totoro merchandise. At this point, my boyfriend was so tired and soaked from the rain we decided to go back to the hotel. We took the bus this time and it was packed! We had to push people just to get out.
Saturday May 20: Kyoto, Nara, Osaka
Kyoto:
Arashiyama bamboo forest
We got to the bamboo forest early at 7am, there were a few people there but not too many like later in the day. I recommend going super early to beat the crowds. The bamboo forest was super short but it was still a cool area to check out and plus there are many things to do around the area. We walked to a nearby park next to a big river and the views were absolutely gorgeous! Kyoto is really breathtaking. After walking a while and checking out the scenery we headed back to the bamboo forest to board the Sagano Romantic Train.
Sagano Romantic Train
We had reserved seats for the Sagano Romantic Train and the views from the train were amazing! Get there early because you might have to do some minor paperwork stuff to print out your ticket if you reserved in advance. The reserved seating we had was in a train with no glass windows so you can just feel the air rushing through your hair as the train moves. Truly it was a memorable and fun experience with a lot of breathtaking nature views. After coming back to our initial departure spot on the train, we left for Monkey Park.
Monkey Park
We rushed over to Monkey park and by this time the streets of kyoto became much crowded as we had to dodge pedestrians left and right. We paid a fee to get into the monkey park and hiked our way up to the park, there were a couple benches to take rest if needed. At the top, you can see monkeys running around and playing with one another. We went inside a little building where you can buy food for the monkeys and feed them through windows covered with a mesh net. We didnt stay long as we had a full schedule planned for the day so we left to go catch a train to Nara but we did eat some amazing street food on the way. I don't know why but the street food in Kyoto was so delicious, the best I had in Japan probably.
Nara:
Nakatanidou
We arrived at Nara from the trains and went straight to Nakatanidou for some mochi and it was packed with people! It was even hard trying to get a space to watch them make the mochis. It was cool to experience the mochi making and to taste the mochi but I probably wouldn't go back there again because of the crowds.
Nara Park
After the mochis, we walked to Nara park and it was amazing! There were so many deers and they were so friendly and polite! This was my favorite part of nara for sure. For a few yen, we bought some crackers and found some deers that would bow everytime they wanted a cracker, it was too cute. The deers were literally everywhere, on the streets and even at temples.
Shrines
There were lots of shrines around the area but we came pretty late so most of them were closing up but the ones we did see were pretty neat to look at. We also ate some udon at a little restaurant next to a small lake, the views of the lake were amazing from inside the restaurant.
Osaka:
After Nara, we came back to Osaka and the streets were so crowded at night. I tried shopping at don quixote but there were just to many people to weave through that I just decide to give up and try a 10 yen cheese bread near the store. The line was kind of long but I decided to try it out, it was actually really big, not that good, and made my stomach hurt. I would not be getting that again haha
Matsusakagyu Yakiniku Restaurant
My boyfriend had reserved this place for Thursday but we were so tired that day that we decided to cancel our reservation. We decided to try to go in person on this day to see if we could get in. We were lucky that they had a spot available and we ordered a platter of A5 wagyu beef for more than $100 US dollar. Im not really a meat person but the beef was very tender and delicious and the service was very good. They took pictures of me and my boyfriend and gave me free ice cream for my birthday.
Sunday May 21: Tokyo-Joypolis, Akihabara, skytree
Joypolis
The next morning we took the Nozumi back to Tokyo and headed straight to joypolis. We got tickets that allowed us to go on pretty much any ride there. Joypolis was small but had some interesting and unique rides and attractions. My favorite was the rhythm rollercoaster where you play rhythm games on a small roller coaster. We also played a VR Laser tag which was actually pretty fun even though I dont really play VR. There was an Attack on Titan walkthrough attraction that was completely in Japanese so I didnt understand any of it but it had some very cool props inside. The other interesting attraction was a scary house, where you have to get into these lockers and a girl comes and bangs on them and then the lockers flip you back horizontally. It wasnt that scary but it was pretty unique.
Akihabara
Next we went to Akihabara just to check out but we were actually super tired so we didnt stay long. We went to a couple stores but to be honest it was actually kind of boring as I am no longer as into anime as I was when I was a kid so we ended leaving akihabara fairly quickly.
Tokyo Skytree
Instead of going to akihabara I kind of wish I just went to the tokyo skytree shopping area because there was so much cool things to do there! They have a pokemon center, a kirby cafe, studio ghibli shop, and so many stores to shop or restaurants to eat at! We also went to the top of skytree but it honestly wasnt worth the money as the very top didnt have that much stuff and we just had to wait in these super long lines to get both up and down the skytree. After the skytree, we found a yakitori spot and ate some beef skewers which were delicious. We wished we went restaurant hopping more as there were just so many places to eat in this area.
Monday May 22: Ueno Park and Departure
Ueno park
Before we left to the airport, we visited Ueno park which was only a few blocks away from our hotel. It had a beautiful lake which was covered with some sort of lily pads. The park was pretty big and it was nice just walking around the area.
Life Mart
We decided to stop at Life Mart to get some food before we left to the airport. The Meat was so delicious and was so cheap, and it had different options from conbinis. We took train back to Narita Airport, this train I think you have to reserve in advance.
Narita airport
Going back through immigrations and customs and tsa was super easy and fast. We recommended getting lunch or snack early because there were pretty long lines as our departure time approached.
We also bought Tokyo Banana for souvenir snacks to bring back to our families, its very delicious!
In the end, visiting Japan was better than I could ever imagine and I just cant wait to go back! Please let me know what your favorite parts of Japan are and what other areas in Japan I must check out!

The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization.
Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global.
Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.
She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided.
Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud.
In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion.
According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.

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1. Protecting Your Car Exteriors

During monsoons, excessive water accumulation can lead to rust and damage to your car's exterior paint. To prevent this, we recommend applying a thin protective layer of wax polish that acts as a barrier against water. Additionally, greasing door hinges and using anti-corrosion sprays on metal components help ensure their longevity. Loose rubber seals around windows, sunroofs, and replaced glass can cause water leakage, leading to rust. Promptly addressing these issues is crucial to avoid further complications.

2. Ensuring Brake Precision

Proper brake performance is vital for safe driving in any weather, especially during monsoons. Worn-out brakes and insufficient tire tread can increase braking distance, compromising safety. Regularly check and clean brake pads for optimal performance. If they underperform, seek professional assistance or consider replacing them. Reliable brakes, along with good tire grip, provide the confidence and control required for safe braking in wet conditions.

3.Tire Care for Monsoons

Tires bear the brunt of wet and slippery roads during the monsoon season. They play a crucial role in maintaining traction, smooth driving, and overall safety. To ensure optimum tire condition, check for adequate tread depth. Tires with ample tread offer excellent grip on wet surfaces. Look for faded tread-wear indicators inside the grooves, and if they're no longer visible, it's time for a tire change. You can conveniently purchase the best monsoon car tires online and have them installed at your nearest tire shop. Maintaining recommended tire pressure is equally important for optimal performance.

4.Wipers and Washer Maintenance

Windshield wipers are indispensable during monsoons. Dry rubber blades may crack and become inefficient, leading to poor visibility. Regularly inspect and replace wiper blades if necessary. Ensure the windshield wiper-washing fluid is at the optimum level for clear visibility.

5.Wipers and Washer Maintenance

A well-functioning electrical system is crucial for safe driving in monsoons. Keep your car's battery terminals clean to prevent moisture accumulation. Insulate exposed wires and promptly replace any malfunctioning headlights, tail lights, or indicators. Proper lighting is essential during heavy rains.

6.Air Filter Maintenance

A well-functioning electrical system is crucial for safe driving in monsoons. Keep your car's battery terminals clean to prevent moisture accumulation. Insulate exposed wires and promptly replace any malfunctioning headlights, tail lights, or indicators. Proper lighting is essential during heavy rains.

7.Oil and Coolant Level Maintenance

Maintaining adequate levels of oil and coolant is essential for optimal engine performance. Check the levels regularly and take corrective action if necessary. Similarly, ensure the brake fluid is filled up to the recommended level.

8.Spare and Emergency Kit Essentials

Unpredictable weather calls for preparedness. Keep spare items like wiper blades, fuses, and other essential tools in your car during the monsoon season. It's advisable to have a well-equipped toolbox that includes a tire puncture kit and a tire inflator. These tools can be lifesavers in case of emergencies on the road. Additionally, consider carrying personal items such as spare clothes, a flashlight, an umbrella, a rain suit, and a towel. These items will come in handy during unexpected downpours or unforeseen circumstances.

Conclusion

By following these easy monsoon car care tips, you can ensure that your vehicle is prepared to face the challenges of the rainy season. From protecting your car's exteriors to maintaining tire grip, brake efficiency, and electrical components, each aspect plays a crucial role in ensuring a safe and enjoyable driving experience. Remember to check and address any issues promptly to avoid costly repairs in the future. With proper maintenance and preparedness, you can confidently navigate the rainy roads and embrace the joys of monsoon motoring.
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Hello everyone,
My mom is 52 and wants to return to the workforce ideally in an assembly line-type of job, but is struggling, mainly due to uncertainty of making a resume
To summarize, she is originally from Kazakhstan but is now a U.S. citizen and speaks Russian, Kazakh & English fluently.
She has a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from a university in Kazakhstan, and worked as an engineer from 1994-2002. However, since moving to America in 2003, she has been a stay-at-home mom. 5 years ago she started selling her own pottery works online and at local craft shows to make some extra money. She had an assembly line job in high school, but I feel like that is too long ago to mention and also lacks proof
I don't know how to help her format her resume. How should she deal with the fact that the industry she wants to work in is vastly different from her past careers? Any advice on how to present the jobs? Also, how should she present her gap in employment to look the most favorable?
Any help would be SO MUCH appreciated, as I am also very unsure about the nature of job hunting in the United States and trying to do my best LOL

My apologies I am on mobil, its rather late so Im in bed no glasses on.
Moms I despise clothes shopping. I am on the bigger side. My body shape is weird. I do not look my weight. I get told I look smaller than what I should look. My legs are nice I would say.
Thighs are a bit thick though. Its my stomach that really gets me. It sticks out then folds over my pelvic area. I hope that makes sense. I have a endention going around it where my pants end up resting. Its not created from my bottoms it just happened.
I can never find anything that actually fits right. If I fond something I like and ots evem alightly form fitting I get told it needs to be bigger or I wont be comfortable. So pretty much all my shirts are a lot bigger than they need to be. I may be able to wear a 3x or a 4x...but I end up buying a 5x to 6x. Because the 3 or 4 is a little and I mean very little form fitting.
Today I had orientation for my new job. I got a 4x shirt as I was unsure if I wanted the 3x just because it felt a little tighter. It was still comfortable but I knew I had to work in it. So I got the bigger size to be safe. Which i feel a bit unsure with. But I cant go back. And the 4x was only ever so slightly bigger. And just more comfortable to me.
But pants/bottoms are the biggest pain. Shirts I know I can eventually find something. Pants/bottoms however.....it takes forever. The best fitting stuff I havr found are jeggings. Or pull on jeans. Or just plain leggings.
But Mom, these are not allowed at my new job. At all. I can only wear Jeans, Black/Khaki slacks, shorts/skirts that do not go more than 2 ins above the knee. No sweatpants, no jogging shorts, no basketball shorts...I think you understand. So the only things Ive found that fit me even slightly I cant wear to work.
I dont know when I actually start work at the store. But Mom what do I do? I have tried Walmart and there was nothing there I could fit other than Jeggings/Pull on jeans which are just jeggings. My Partner even thought about mens jeans. Which I tried on a variety. But they wouldnt go over my thighs.
He and I had no clue how to even search Mens jeans for something I could wear. And womens regular jeans didnt go as high as I need. I need to get jeans as soon as I possibly can. But I dont have anywhere I can go. Aside from maybe Belk. We also do havr an Old Navy but I dont know if they would even have anything I vould wear.
Please Mom, what do I do? I know I need a size 28w or above at least. I might be able to fit 26w but I doubt it. I apologize for this being long. Im sorry to take up so muvh of your time.

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Has anyone completed this challenge or one similar and what did your list look like?
Here’s my list I’m working through: https://boxd.it/lfDtc
Rules: There is no time limit Preferably at least 90 first time watches Films can be watched in any order Link your list in your reviews use tag 100mc for reviews and list
the prompts are as follow:

1. Watch an action movie from the 1980s
2. Watch a French horror movie
3. Watch a superhero from before the year 2000
4. Watch any film from the year you were born
5. Use a random number generator to pick a film from your watchlist
6. Watch a 2022 release
7. Watch a Korean mystery film
8. Watch one of these 30 films that Guillermo Del Toro recommends - www.indiewire.com/gallery/guillermo-del-toro-favorite-movies/
9. Watch one of Edgar Wright’s 1000 favourite movies
10. Watch a silent film
11. Watch a pre-1970 Hollywood musical
12. Watch a film considered to be film noir
13. Watch a film considered to be neo-noir
14. Watch a film made by a Mexican director
15. Watch a British comedy
16. Watch a British crime movie
17. Watch a film from the criterion collection
18. Watch a film released on Arrow video
19. Watch a film filmed in any country/state/city you’ve been to
20. Watch a film recommended by a parent
21. Watch a film recommended by a friend
22. Watch a film about a sport
23. Watch a film that won best picture at the Oscars
24. Watch a film that won at least 5 Oscars
25. Watch a film starring James Stewart
26. Watch a film starting Robert De Niro
27. Watch a film starring Leonardo Di Caprio
28. Watch a film starting Ingrid Bergman
29. Watch a film starring Frances McDormand
30. Watch a film starring Margot Robbie
31. Watch a film directed a Woman
32. Watch a film shot by Emmanuel Lubezki
33. Watch a film from the Letterboxd top 250
34. Watch a film from the IMDB top 250
35. Watch a American Western
36. Watch a Western created outside of America
37. Watch a film about a serial killer
38. Watch a family friendly fantasy film
39. Watch a rated r or equivalent fantasy film
40. Watch a non Studio Ghibli Japanese animated film
41. Watch a Studio Ghibli film
42. Watch a Disney animated film
43. Watch a Pixar film
44. Watch a courtroom drama
45. Watch a film with a number in the title
46. Watch a film with a colour in the title
47. Watch a documentary nominated for an Oscar
48. Watch a pre-1960 Hollywood romance
49. Watch a film with an average rating of lower than 3.0 by a director you like
50. Watch a war film
51. Watch a film featuring time travel
52. Watch a horror film with sci-fi elements
53. Watch a film set after the films release
54. Watch a film set at least 5 years before the film’s release
55. Watch a film released during the pandemic
56. Watch a comedy with a female protagonist
57. Watch a best picture nomination from this decade
58. Watch a film from the top 250 documentaries on Letterboxd
59. Watch a film from Ebert’s top 10 films of the 90s - www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/ebert-and-scorsese-best-films-of-the-1990s
60. Watch a film from Scorsese’s top 10 films of the 90s - www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/ebert-and-scorsese-best-films-of-the-1990s
61. Watch one of Bong Joon Ho’s recommendations - www.indiewire.com/gallery/bong-joon-ho-favorite-movies-watch/mcdhaho-ec059/
62. Watch a horror film recommended by a famous director - www.indiewire.com/gallery/directors-favorite-horror-movies/
63. Watch a film recommended by Martin Scorsese - www.indiewire.com/gallery/martin-scorsese-favorite-films-movies/woman-is-the-future-of-man-2/
64. Watch a film starring an actoactress you’ve had a crush on
65. Watch a film on Netflix in your country or any other streaming service you may have
66. Watch a film referenced in Euphoria
67. Watch a remake
68. Watch a film that was remade
69. Watch a film with an LGBTQ relationship
70. Watch a film from your least favourite genre
71. Watch a gangster movie
72. Watch a film that you missed at the cinema
73. Watch a film with a poster you prominently featuring your favourite colour
74. Watch a film watched for film club
75. Watch a film that reminds you of summer
76. Watch a film that reminds you of winter
77. Watch a film containing gore (or just a horror film if gore isn’t your thing)
78. Watch a film about food
79. Watch a film where the main character is an animal
80. Watch a film with a car chase
81. Watch a thriller set in a country you don’t live in
82. Watch a film referenced in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - boxd.it/7EOf0
83. Watch a film referenced in Friends - boxd.it/KosQ
84. Watch a film where technology is a main character
85. Watch a musical from after the year 2000
86. Watch a horror film made for kids
87. Watch a film about friendship
88. Watch a film about hunting treasure
89. Watch a Samurai film
90. Watch a film adapted from a video game
91. Watch a film based on real events
92. Watch a video nasties film
93. Watch a directorial debut
94. Watch a film starring Nicolas Cage
95. Rewatch a film you are desperate to watch again or if you don’t wanna rewatch anything watch something you are desperate to watch for the first time
96. Watch a so bad it’s good movie
97. Watch a film that won best cinematography at the Oscars
98. Watch a film released in 2021
99. A film directed by someone called Alex
100. Watch a film with a mostly black cast

After the deconstruction of the first affiliate, The Worker's are on their last leg. Eugene is holed up in the Workers' HQ, while the 3rd and 4th executives still manage what remains of the crew. Daniel and the Allied team up with Big Deal and Johan, all trained and improved, to crush the Workers once and for all. After several key matchups, we see Eli and Warren decide to leave the Workers after a fight. Sinu duels Ryuhei, but ultimately showing him that it's more important to be with the ones you love. Perhaps even Xiao Lung comes back on a favor from Jake. Gun and Goo are there in some capacity, interfering for their own motives, which nobody really knows. It would climax with Jake and Daniel, the two crew heads, about to finally capture Eugene. In a sudden twist, 5 figures appear and knock all of our protagonists down in seconds. We see a tall figure in a black leather jacket and gloves. Jake and Daniel can't see who it is, but Eugene's face is shocked as we slowly see the figure turn and smile. Although they didn't know what he looked like, it's immediate that everyone can tell that it's the first son of Gapryong Kim, and Jake's brother: Joshua Kim. Josh Kim, previously in hiding after being defeated by James Lee and Charles Choi, has returned knowing that both are weakened, and is seeking to start his control of Seoul by taking over the Workers' operations.
Josh Kim Josh was the destined successor of Seoul. As the son of Gapryong Kim, he has the same build and fighting ferocity. He wears his iconic leather jacket and jeans, and looks similar to Jake Kim but older. While perhaps not as good of a leader as Gapryong himself, or even Jake, he clearly carries his father's fighting prowess. An MMA fighter mixed with street-level moves that are not fair, but extremely dangerous and effective. Josh primarily preferred boxing and kickboxing, getting into close range to deliver a flurry of blows. Josh previously created his own gang, much like Gapryong's fist, and controlled Seoul, and were projected to be the next ones up. However, due to several extenuating circumstances, Josh and his gang were crushed by Charles before they could properly take Seoul. Had it not been for the anomaly, James Lee, Josh surely would have ran things by now. Josh's fighting level should easily be the same as Gun and Goo. Being older and coming back with experience in Mexico, he might even be able to take on James Lee. His introduction would involve him beating a tired Mandeok and Yoosung with one blow, then launching a full assault on all of the other fodder Worker executives, destroying them easily. With Josh's intentions to now take over the Workers and run it for himself, he then takes on Jake Kim, Daniel Park, and Johan Seong all at the same time. They come at him all at once, but Josh is easily able to read their attacks. Daniel and Johan copy some of his moves, but Josh's experience fighting dirty provides him with counters that our protagonists have never seen. While Jake is easily outclassed, he tries his best hold Josh down while Daniel and Johan try to deliver a finishing blow. However, while Jake was born with exceptional leadership, Josh was born with immeasurable strength, and easily removes all three from his vicinity. Johan would try to attempt invisible attacks, but Josh would be able to see them. Jake is eventually knocked out, and an exhausted Johan passes out from not being able to hurt a hair on Josh. Daniel then takes him on one on one, but is ruthlessly knocked out before he can develop a strategy.
Afterwards, each member of Josh's gang, returning from their respective hiding places, defeats the remaining members of Allied, Big Deal, and the other 2nd Gen players with ease. Below is a quick description of each of them, their fighting styles, and their weaknesses, which will ultimately be what defeats them several chapters later. Strength level: (Gapryong's fist level)
Chris Chan (Chan Won-Shik)
Chris echoed a lot of characteristics similar to Charles Choi. Hailing from a rich family, Chris was not only a great fighter, but was intelligent, had resources, and knew how to lead. He is tall, blonde, and wears a fashionable suit. He was friends with Joshua from a young age, and ruled as the defacto #2 of Josh's gang. While he exuded greater management skills, his loyalty to Josh made it so that a betrayal was never in question. Chris was a perfect fighter and excellent striker. His cunning even surpassed the White Snake. He could hit targets from extremely far away and almost knew all martial arts. He was particularly great at Taekwondo and Jeet Kun Do. He would be introduced by taking on Zack, Vasco, Jihan and Hudson all at the same time. Despite Zack's defense, and Vasco and Hudson's offensive power, none of them can land a hit on Chris, nor take his powerful strikes. Jihan would quickly fall first, while Hudson and Vasco would struggle, persevering to even stay in the fight. Eventually, Zack would remain, but only to stand there and take Chris' attacks. Chris' weakness is that he has a heart problem that he discovered later on in life. So while he's an excellent fighter, he can only exert so much energy before he passes out. Had it not been for this flaw, Chris and the rest of the crew could have perhaps even rival the original Gapryong's fist by now. This is why when Josh's crew disbanded, he left the gangism life to lead his family's conglomerate, only to be called back for one more fight. Later on in the story, our protagonists will take advantage of his weakness, tiring him out in the future, to defeat him. Strength level: (Upper King Level/Gapryong's fist @ peak)
Donald Gil (Gil Myung-Dae)
Donald Gil is a man of extremely large build like Tom Lee, and one who is incredibly strong too. Think of a strong built man wearing a thick biker jacket and with a buzz cut. While not the smartest, he was born with a very unique advantage: he has a bone density of the 99.999th percentile. That, alongside his naturally very sharp elbows and knees, has made him a defensive beast, surpassing even Gongseop in terms of durability. Donald knew all martial arts, not to practice them offensively, but so that he could position his shins and elbows at enemy blows, hurting them when they would try hit Donald. Donald's immense strength also allowed him to dish out powerful strikes, utilising his sharp elbows and knees with a mastery in Muay Thai. He would be introduced by taking on all the physically strongest of the 2nd gen, fighting Samuel, Jerry, Jibeom and Warren at the same time. They will try deliver powerful kicks and punches to a Donald that would seemingly just stand there, only for Donald to use his elbows and shins to deflect their punches, and fracture their knuckles and legs. They would try to punch him one by one, but he'd only hurt them back more. When any of them tried to tackle Donald or bring him to the ground, he'd respond with powerful Muay Thai elbow and knee strikes. While Donald's unique ability made him a dominator back in the day, it came with a weakness. Having used his joints so much in combat, he overtime wore down the parts of his body that weren't bone. His joints and tendons were weak, and he began to get injured more often. If somebody knew how to hit him, he could be injured forever. That is what made him escape to America after Josh's gang disbanded, where he became a service worker living a quiet life. Later on in the story, our protagonists will fight him with better strategy, targeting him at his joints and taking him down. Strength level: (Upper King Level/Gapryong's fist @ peak)
Benjamin Sa (Sa Sang-Ook)
Benjamin was a national team world ranked fencer throughout high school and used his sword to help him in fights with a build like Jinyoung. He wears a trench coat, with his fencing armor underneath. A master of hitting opponents with a flurry of strikes as well as only using one hand, his sword hand to fight, Benjamin had an interesting style like Taesoo, and even better attack power. He might not have fought the strongest enemies but the most in number, as he could take out dozens at a time. Benjamin maximises his damage output while finding ways to keep enemies at bay. Benjamin would be introduced by fighting Eli, Xiaolung, Jay, and Vin Jin at the same time. Initially, his powerful blade work would cut all of them at once, keeping them at bay and deflecting whatever weapons Eli, Xiaolung and Jay would use. Whenever Vin Jin would try to get close, Ben would use his superior footwork to keep distance. Upon finally hitting Ben, they'd realise that his thick fencing armor underneath was helping to absorb blows. Ben would ultimately beat them, showing that not only did he know how to use the blade of his sword to cut his opponents, but would use the hilt of his sword as a form of brass knuckles to knock people out, as well has use his athletic legs to deliver powerful kicks. After the fall of Josh Kim, Ben also decided to focus more on his sport. While he is still in top shape, his memories and clarity when it came to fighting faded. Our protagonists would later use this weakness (his lack of recent experience) to take him out, holding his right arm, which had no muscles, and taking advantage of dirty fighting tactics that Ben wouldn't have counters for. Strength level: (Upper King Level/Gapryong's fist @ peak)
Robert Wang (Wang Jiwoo)
Robert was the dog, lineman, and serviceman of Josh's crew. While he was nowhere near as strong as the other four, he had undying loyalty to the crew, as well as a very aggressive street fighting style. He was found after the formation of the gang, and proved his allegiance through service. Robert wore a simple hoodie over sweatpants, but when it came to fighting, fought like a ferocious dog. He'd take on Lineman, Brad, Jason, as well as other fodder protagonist characters. (Lower King Level) He'd eventually have to be defeated by fodder characters later, perhaps lineman, who will demonstrate massive leaps of improvement.
I've obviously made these characters extremely strong, as I wanted a real hill for our characters to defeat, as well as have them be a good transitional stepping stone into defeating characters to the likes of Charles Choi, James Lee, and potentially Gun and Goo. This is why I made them Gun and Goo level opponents at their peak, but gave them weaknesses which still made them realistically beatable when taken on by 2 or 3 crewheads with the right strategy going in. I sort of summarised each character, but if anyone would be interested in having a more fleshed out story, let me know.

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Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization.
Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global.
Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.
She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided.
Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud.
In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion.
According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.

There are instincts that you develop when you’re a parent. If you don’t have any children it might be a little hard to understand. If you have a toddler, for example, and they’re in the other room and silent for more than a few seconds, there’s a good chance they’re up to no good. I take that back, most of the time they’re doing nothing, but you still have to check. You feel a compulsion to check. I don’t think it’s a learned skill, I think it’s an actual instinct.
Paleolithic parents who didn’t check on their toddlers every few minutes, just to double check that they weren’t being stalked by smilodons were unlikely to have grandchildren and pass on their genes. You just feel you need to check, like getting goosebumps, a compulsion. I suppose it’s the same reason little kids are always demanding you look at them and what they’re doing.
I think that instinct starts to atrophy as your kids grow. They start learning to do things for themselves, and before you know it, they’re after their own privacy, not your attention. I don’t think it ever goes away though. I expect, decades from now, my own grown kids will visit and bring my grandkids with them. And the second I hear a baby crying in the earliest morning hours, I’ll be alert and ready for anything, sure as any old soldier who hears his name whispered in the dark of night.
I felt that alarm just the other day. First time in years. My boy came home from riding bikes with a couple of his friends. I’m pretty sure they worked out a scam where they asked each of their parents for a different new console for Christmas, and now they spend their weekends traveling between the three houses so they can play on all of them.
We all live in a nice neighborhood. A newer development than the one I grew up in, same town though. It’s the kind of place where kids are always playing in the streets, and the cars all routinely do under 20. My wife and I make sure the kids have helmets and pads, and we’re fine with the boy going out biking with his friends, as long as they stay in the neighborhood.
You know, a lot of people in my generation take some weird sort of pride in how irresponsible we used to be when we were young. I never wore a helmet. Rode to places, without telling any adults, that we never should have ridden to. Me and my friends would make impromptu jumps off of makeshift ramps and try to do stupid tricks, based loosely on stunts we’d seen on TV. Other people my age seem to wax nostalgic for that stuff and pretend it makes them somehow better people. I don’t get it. Sometimes I look back and shudder. We were lucky we escaped with only occasional bruises and road burns. It could have gone so much worse.
My son and his buddies came bustling in the front door at about 2 PM on a Saturday. They did the usual thing of raiding the kitchen for juice and his mother’s brownies, and I took that as my cue to abandon the television in the living room for my office. I was hardly noticing the chaos, by this point, it was becoming a regular weekend occurrence. But as I was just leaving, I caught something in the chatter. My boy said something about, “... that guy who was following us.”
He hadn’t said it any louder or more clearly than anything else they’d been talking about, all that stuff I’d been filtering out. Yet some deeper core process in my brain stem heard it, interpreted it, then hit the red alert button. My blood ran cold and every hair on my skin stood at attention.
I turned around and asked “Somebody followed you? What are you talking about?” I wasn’t consciously aware of how strict and stern my voice came out, yet when the jovial smiles dropped off of their faces it was apparent that it had been so.
“Huh?” my son said, his voice high-pitched and talking fast, like when he thinks he’s in trouble and needs to explain. “We thought we saw somebody following us. There wasn’t though. We didn’t really see anybody and we’d just spooked ourselves.”
“What did he look like?” I asked.
“Nothing? We really didn’t see anybody! Honest! I just saw something out of the corner of my eye! But there wasn’t really nobody there!”
“Yeah!,” said one of his buds. “Peripheral! Peripheral vision! I thought maybe I saw something too, but when I looked I didn’t see anything. I don’t have my glasses with me, but when I really looked I got a good look and there was nothing.”
The three boys had that semi-smiling but still concerned look that this was only a bizarre misunderstanding, but they were still being very sincere. “Were they in a car?”
“No, Dad, you don’t get it,” my boy continued, “They were small. We thought it was a kid.”
“Yeah,” said the third boy. “We thought maybe it was Tony Taylor’s stupid kid sister shadowing us. Getting close to throwing water balloons. Just cause she did that before.”
“If you didn’t get a good look how did you know it was a kid?”
“Because it was small!” my kid explained, though that wasn’t helping much. “What I mean is, at first I thought it was behind a little bush. It was way too small a bush to hide a grown-up. That’s why we thought it was probably Tony’s sister.”
“But you didn’t actually see Tony’s sister?” I asked.
“Nah,” said one of his buds. “And now that I think about it, that bush was probably too small for his sister too. It would have been silly. Like when a cartoon character hides behind a tiny object.”
“That’s why we think it was just in our heads,” explained the other boy, “That and the pole.”
“Yeah,” my son said. “The park on 14th and Taylor?” That was just a little community park, a single city block. Had a playground, lawn, a few trees, and some benches. “Anyway, we were riding past that, took a right on Taylor. And we were talking about how weird it would be if somebody really were following us. That’s when Brian thought he saw something. Behind a telephone pole.”
“I didn’t get a good look at it either,” the friend, Brian, “explained. Just thought I did. Know how you get up late at night to use the bathroom or whatever and you look down the hallway and you see a jacket or an office chair or something and because your eyes haven’t adjusted you think you see a ghost or burglar or something? Anyway, I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye, but when I turned there wasn’t anything there.”
“Yeah, it was just like sometimes that happens, except this time it happened twice on the same bike ride, is all,” the other friend explained.
“And you’re sure there was nothing there?”
“Sure we’re sure,” my boy said. “We know because that time we checked. We each rode our bikes around the pole and there was nothing. Honest!”
“Hmmm,” I said. The whole thing seemed reasonable and nothing to be concerned about, you’d think.. The boys seemed to relax at my supposed acceptance. “Alright, sounds good. Hey, just let me know before you leave the house again, alright?” They all rushed to seem agreeable as I left the room, then quickly resumed their snacking and preceded to play their games.
I kept my ear out, just in case. My boy, at least this time, dutifully told me his friends were about to leave. He wasn’t very happy with me when I said they wouldn’t be riding home on their bikes, I was going to drive them home. The other boys didn’t complain, but I suppose it wasn’t their place, so my boy did the advocating for them, which I promptly ignored. I hate doing that, ignoring my kid’s talkback. My dad was the same way. It didn’t help that I struggled to get both of their bikes in the trunk, and it was a pain to get them back out again. My boy sulked in the front seat on the short ride back home. Arms folded on chest, eyes staring straight ahead, that lip thing they do. He seemed embarrassed for having what he thought was an over-protective parent. I suppose he was angry at me as well for acting, as far as he knew, irrationally. Maybe he thought he was being punished for some infraction he didn’t understand.
Well, it only got worse when we got home. I told him he wasn’t allowed to go out alone on his bike anymore. I’d only had to do that once before, when he was grounded, and back then he’d known exactly what he’d done wrong and he had it coming. Now? Well, he was confused, furious, maybe betrayed, probably a little brokenhearted? I can’t blame him. He tramped upstairs to his room to await the return of his mother, who was certain to give a sympathetic ear. I can’t imagine how upset he’ll be if he checks the garage tomorrow and finds I’ve removed his tires, just in case.
I wish I could explain it to him. I don’t even know how.
Where should I even begin? The town?
When I was about my son’s age I had just seen that movie, The Goonies. It had just come out in theaters. I really liked that movie, felt a strong connection. A lot of people do, can’t blame them, sort of a timeless classic. Except I wasn’t really into pirate’s treasure or the Fratellis, what really made me connect was a simple single shot, still in the first act. It’s right after they cross the threshold, and leave the house on their adventure. It was a shot of the boys, from above, maybe a crane shot or a helicopter shot, as they’re riding their bikes down a narrow forested lane, great big evergreen trees densely growing on the side of the road, they’re all wearing raincoats and the road is still wet from recent rain.
That was my childhood. I’ve spent my whole life in the Pacific Northwest. People talk to outsiders about the rain, and they might picture a lot of rainfall, but it’s not the volume, it’s the duration. We don’t get so much rain, it just drizzles slowly, on and on, for maybe eight or nine months out of the year. It doesn’t matter where I am, inside a house, traveling far abroad, anywhere I am I can close my eyes and still smell the air on a chilly afternoon, playing outdoors with my friends.
It’s not petrichor, that sudden intense smell you get when it first starts to rain after a long dry spell. No, this was almost the opposite, a clean smell, almost the opposite of a scent, since the rain seemed to scrub the air clean. The strongest scent and I mean that in the loosest sense possible, must have been the evergreen needles. Not pine needles, those were too strong, and there weren’t that many pines anyway. Douglas fir and red cedar predominated, again the root ‘domination’ seems hyperbole. Yet those scents were there, ephemeral as it is. Also, there was a sort of pleasant dirtiness to the smell, at least when you rode bikes. It wasn’t dirt, or mud, or dust. Dust couldn’t have existed except perhaps for a few fleeting weeks in August. I think, looking back, it was the mud puddles. All the potholes in all the asphalt suburban roads would fill up after rain with water the color of chocolate milk. We’d swerve our BMX bikes, or the knock-off brands, all the way across the street just to splash through those puddles and test our “suspensions.,” meaning our ankles and knees. The smell was always stronger after that. It had an earthiness to it. Perhaps it was petrichor’s lesser-known watery cousin.
There were other sensations too, permanently seared into my brain like grill marks. A constant chilliness that was easy to ignore, until you started working up a good heart rate on your bike, then you noticed your lungs were so cold it felt like burning. The sound of your tires on the wet pavement, particularly when careening downhill at high speed. For some reason, people in the mid-80s used to like to decorate their front porches with cheap, polyester windsocks. They were often vividly colored, usually rainbow, like prototype pride flags. When an occasional wind stirred up enough to gust, the windsocks would flap, and owning to the water-soaked polyester, make a wet slapping sound. It was loud, it was distinct, but you learned to ignore it as part of the background, along with the cawing of crows and distant passing cars.
That was my perception of Farmingham as a kid. The town itself? Just a typical Pacific Northwest town. That might not mean much for younger people or modern visitors, but there was a time when such towns were all the same. They were logging towns. It was the greatest resource of the area from the late 19th century, right up until about the 80s, when the whole thing collapsed. Portland, Seattle, they had a few things going on beyond just the timber industry, but all the hundreds of little towns and small cities revolved around logging, and my town was no exception.
I remember going to the museum. It had free admission, and it was a popular field trip destination for the local school system. It used to be the City Hall, a weird Queen Anne-style construction. Imagine a big Victorian house, but blown up to absurd proportions, and with all sorts of superfluous decorations. Made out of local timber, of course. They had a hall for art, I can’t even remember why, now. Maybe they were local artists. I only remember paintings of sailboats and topless women, which was a rare sight for a kid at the time. There was a hall filled with 19th-century household artifacts. Chamber pots and weird children's toys.
Then there was the logging section, which was the bulk of the museum. It’s strange how different things seemed to be in the early days of the logging industry, despite being only about a hundred years old, from my perspective in the 1980s. If you look back a hundred years from today, in the 1920s, you had automobiles, airplanes, electrical appliances, jazz music, radio programs, flappers, it doesn’t feel that far removed, does it? No TV, no internet, but it wouldn’t be that strange. 1880s? Different world.
Imagine red cedars, so big you could have a full logging crew, arms stretched out, just barely manage to encircle one for a photographer. Felling a single tree was the work of days. Men could rest and eat their lunches in the shelter of a cut made into a trunk, and not worry for safety or room. They had to cut their own little platforms into the trees many feet off the ground, just so the trunk was a little bit thinner, and thus hours of labor saved. They used those long, flexible two-man saws. And double-bit axes. They worked in the gloom of the shade with old gas lanterns. Once cut down from massive logs thirty feet in diameter, they’d float the logs downhill in sluices, like primitive wooden make-shift water slides. Or they’d haul them down to the nearest river, the logs pulled by donkeys on corduroy roads. They’d lay large amounts of grease on the roads, so the logs would slide easily. You could still smell the grease on the old tools on display in the museum. The bigger towns had streets where the loggers would slide the logs down greased skids all the way down to the sea, where they’d float in big logjams until the mills were ready for processing. They’d call such roads “skid-rows.” Because of all the activity, they’d end up being the worst parts of town. Local citizens wouldn’t want to live there, due to all the stink and noise. They’d be on the other side of the brothels and the opium dens. It would be the sort of place where the destitute and the insane would find themselves when they’d finally lost anything. To this day, “skidrow” remains a euphemism for the part of a city where the homeless encamp.
That was the lore I’d learned as a child. That was my “ancestry” I was supposed to respect and admire, which I did, wholeheartedly. There were things they left out, though. Things that you might have suspected, from a naive perspective, would be perfect for kids, all the folklore that came with the logging industry. The ghost stories, and the tall tales. I would have eaten that up. They do talk about that kind of thing in places far removed from the Pacific Northwest. But I had never heard about any of it. Things like the Hidebehind. No, that I’d have to discover for myself.
There were four of us on those bike adventures. Myself. Ralph, my best friend. A tough guy, the bad boy, the most worldly of us, which is a strange thing to say about an eight-year-old kid. India, an archetypal ‘80s tomboy. She was the coolest person I knew at the time. Looking back, I wonder what her home life was like. I think I remember problematic warning signs that I couldn’t have recognized when I was so young, but now raise flags. Then there was Ben. A goofy kid, a wild mop of hair, coke bottle glasses, type 1 diabetic which seemed to make him both a bit pampered by his mother, who was in charge of all his insulin, diet, and schedule, and conversely a real risk taker when she wasn’t around.
When we first saw it…
No, wait. This was the problem with starting the story. Where does it all begin? I’ll need to talk about my Grandfather as well. I’ve had two different perspectives on my Grandfather, on the man that he was. The first was the healthy able-bodied grandparent I’d known as a young child. Then there was the man, as I learned about him after he had passed.
There was a middle period, from when I was 6 to when I was 16, when I hardly understood him at all, as he was hit with a double whammy of both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's. His decline into an invalid was both steep and long drawn out. That part didn’t reflect who he was as a person.
What did I know of him when I was little? Well I knew he and my grandmother had a nice big house and some farmland, out in the broad flat valley north of Farmingham. Dairy country. It had been settled by Dutch immigrants back in the homesteading days. His family had been among the first pioneers in the county too. It didn’t register to me then that his surname was Norwegian, not Dutch. I knew he had served in the Navy in World War II, which I was immensely proud of for reasons I didn’t know why. I knew he had a job as a butcher in a nearby rural supermarket. He was a bit of a farmer too, more as a hobby and a side gig. He had a few cattle, but mostly grew and harvested hay to sell to the local dairies. I knew he had turned his garage into a machine shop, and could fix damn near anything. From the flat tires on my bicycle to the old flat-bed truck he’d haul hay with, to an old 1950s riding lawnmower he somehow managed to keep in working order. I knew he could draw a really cool cartoon cowboy, I knew he loved to watch football, and I knew the whiskers on his chin were very pokey, and they’d tickle you when he kissed you on the cheek, and that when you tried to rub the sensation away he’d laugh and laugh and laugh.
Then there were the parts of his life that I’d learn much later. Mostly from odd passing comments from relatives, or things I’d find in the public records. Like how he’d been a better grandfather than a father. Or how his life as I knew it had been a second, better life. He’d been born among the Norwegian settler community, way up in the deep, dark, forest-shrouded hills that rimmed the valley. He’d been a logger in his youth. Technologically he was only a generation or two from the ones I’d learned about in the museum. They’d replaced donkeys with diesel engines and corduroy roads with narrow gauge rail. It was still the same job, though. Dirty, dangerous, dark. Way back into those woods, living in little logging camps, civilization was always a several-day hike out. It became a vulgar sort of profession, filled with violent men, reprobates, and thieves. When my grandfather’s father was murdered on his front porch by a lunatic claiming he’d been wronged somehow, my grandfather hiked out of there, got into town, and joined the Navy. He vowed never to go back. The things he’d seen out in those woods were no good. He’d kept that existence away from me. Anyways…
Tommy Barker was the first of us to go missing. I say ‘us’ as if I knew him personally. I didn’t. He went to Farmingham Middle School, other side of town, and several grades above us. From our perspective, he may as well have been an adult living overseas.
Yet it felt like we got to know him. His face was everywhere, on TV, all over telephone poles. Everybody was talking about him. After he didn’t return from a friend’s house, everybody just sort of assumed, or maybe hoped, that he’d just gotten lost, or was trapped somewhere. They searched all the parks. Backyards, junkyards, refrigerators, trunks. Old-fashioned refrigerators, back before suction seals, had a simple handle with a latch that opened when you pulled on it. It wasn’t a problem when the fridges were in use and filled with food. But by the 80s old broke-down refrigerators started filling up backyards and junkyards, and they became deathtraps for kids playing hide-and-seek. The only opened from the outside. I remember thinking Tommy Barker was a little old to have likely been playing hide-and-seek, but people checked everywhere anyway. They never found him.
That was about the first time we saw the Hidebehind. Ben said he thought he saw somebody following us, looked like, maybe, a kid. We’d just slowly huffed our way up a moderately steep hill, Farmingham is full of them, and when we paused for a breather at the top, Ben said he saw it down the hill, closer to the base. Yet when we turned to look there was nothing there. Ben said he’d just seen it duck behind a car. That wasn’t the sort of behavior of a random kid minding his own business. Yet the slope afforded us a view under the car’s carriage, and except for the four tires, there were no signs of any feet hiding behind the body. At first, we thought he was pulling our leg. When he insisted he wasn’t, we started to tease him a little. He must have been seeing things, on account of his poor vision and thick glasses. The fact that those glasses afforded him vision as good as or better than any of us wasn’t something we considered.
The next person to disappear was Amy Brooks. Fifth-grader. Next elementary school over. I remember it feeling like when you’re traveling down the freeway, and there’s a big thunderstorm way down the road, but it keeps getting closer, and closer. I don’t remember what she looked like. Her face wasn’t plastered everywhere like Tommy’s had been. She was mentioned on the regional news, out of Seattle, her and Tommy together. Two missing kids from the same town in a short amount of time. The implication was as obvious as it was depraved. They didn’t think the kids were getting lost anymore. They didn’t do very much searching of backyards. The narratives changed too. Teachers started talking a lot about stranger danger. Local TV channels started recycling old After School Specials and public service announcements about the subject.
I’m not sure who saw it next. I think it was Ben again. We took him seriously this time though. I think. The one I’m sure I remember was soon after, and that time it was India who first saw it. It’s still crystal clear in my memory, almost forty years later, because that was the time I first saw it too. We were riding through a four-way stop, an Idaho Stop before they called it that, when India slammed to a stop, locking up her coaster brakes and leaving a long black streak of rubber on a dry patch of pavement. We stopped quickly after and asked what the problem was. We could tell by her face she’d seen it. She was still looking at it.
“I see it,” she whispered, unnecessarily. We all followed her gaze. We were looking, I don’t know, ten seconds? Twenty? We believed everything she said, we just couldn’t see it.
“Where?” Ralph asked.
“Four blocks down,” she whispered. “On the left. See the red car? Kinda rusty?” There was indeed a big old Lincoln Continental, looking pretty ratty and worn. I focused on that, still seeing nothing. “Past that, just to its right. See the street light pole? It’s just behind that.”
We also saw the pole she was talking about. Metal. Aluminum, I’d have guessed. It had different color patches, like metallic flakeboard. Like it’d had been melted together out of scrap.
I could see that clearly even from that distance. I saw nothing behind it. I could see plenty of other things in the background, cars, houses, bushes, front lawns, beauty bark landscape.. There was no indication of anything behind that pole.
And then it moved. It had been right there where she said it had been, yet it had somehow perfectly blended into the landscape, a trick of perspective. We didn’t see it at all until it moved, and almost as fast it had disappeared behind that light pole. We only got a hint. Brown in color, about our height in size.
We screamed. Short little startled screams, the involuntary sort that just burst out of you. Then we turned and started to pedal like mad, thoroughly spooked. We made it to the intersection of the next block when it was Ralph who screeched to a halt and shouted, “Wait!”
We slowed down and stopped, perhaps not as eagerly as we’d done when India yelled. Ralph was looking back over his shoulder, looking at that metal pole. “Did anybody see it move again?’ he asked. We all shook our heads in the negative. Ralph didn’t notice, but of course, he didn’t really need an answer, of course we hadn’t been watching.
“If it didn’t move, then it’s still there!” Ralph explained the obvious. It took a second to sink in, despite the obvious. “C’mon!” he shouted, and to our surprise, before we could react, he turned and took off, straight down the road, straight to where that thing had been lurking.
We were incredulous, but something about his order made us all follow hot on his heels. He was a sort of natural leader. I thought it was total foolishness, but I wasn’t going to let him go alone. I think I got out, “Are you crazy?!”
The wind was blowing hard past our faces as we raced as fast as we could, it made it hard to hear. Ralph shouted his response. “If it’s hiding that means its afraid!” That seemed reasonable, if not totally accurate. Lions hide from their prey before they attack. Then again, they don’t wait around when the whole herd charges. Really, the pole was coming up so fast there wasn’t a whole lot of time to argue. “Just blast past and look!” Ralph added. “We’re too fast! It won’t catch us.”
Sure, I thought to myself. Except maybe Ben, who always lagged behind the rest of us in a race. The lion would get Ben if any of us.
We rushed past that pole and all turned our heads to look. “See!” Ralph shouted in triumph. There was simply nothing there. A metal streetlight pole and nothing more. We stopped pedaling yet still sped on. “Hang on,” Ralph said, and at the next intersection he took a fast looping curve that threatened to crash us all, but we managed and curved behind him. We all came to the pole again where we stopped to see up close that there was nothing there, despite what we had seen moments before.
“Maybe it bilocated,” Ben offered. We groaned. We were all thinking it, but I think we were dismissive because it wasn’t as cool a word as ‘teleport.”
“Maybe it just moved when we weren’t looking,” I offered. That hadn’t been long, but that didn’t mean anything if it moved fast. The four of us slowly looked up from the base of the pole to our immediate surroundings. There were bushes. A car in a carport covered by a tarpaulin. The carport itself. Garbage cans. Stumps. Of course the ever-present trees. Whatever it was it could have been hiding behind anything. Maybe it was. We looked. Maybe it would make itself seen. None of us wanted that. “OK, let’s get going,” Ralph said, and we did so.
I got home feeling pretty shaken that afternoon. I felt safe at home. Except for the front room, which had a big bay window looking out onto the street, and the people who lived across it. There were plenty of garbage cans and telephone poles and stumps that a small, fast thing might hide behind. No, I felt more comfortable in my bedroom. There was a window, but a great thick conical cypress tree grew right in front of it, reaching way up over the roof of the house. If anything, it offered ME a place to hide, and peer out onto the street to either side of the tree. It was protective, as good as any heavy blanket.

The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers
Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization.
Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global.
Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.
She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided.
Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud.
In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion.
According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.

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When I was 16 yrs old, I was brand new in America. My family didn’t have much and I was so shy because I barely spoke the language. Nobody asked me for prom but I still wanted to go.
My mom made my dress all by herself and I was so proud of her. She drove me to the prom and once in there I realized my dress was way different from everybody else. You could tell my dress was home made. I felt embarrassed but I was determined to enjoy the experience and I did. I had really good memories of that night but I also had bad ones.
I remember seeing my classmates hopping on limos and having so much fun while my mom showed but in her busted car to pick me up. I wasn’t upset at my mom at all, I was grateful, I just wished I could have been jumping in limousine with everybody else. (I was 16!!)
Fast forward to today. We are financially well and when my son said he wanted certain suit, the store lady was like “I’m sorry but that’s a $600 suit, before I said anything, my mom was like, “and? If that’s what my grandson wants, that’s what he gonna get”
I felt like cry because I know how stressed she was making my dress 18 years ago. My son is shy but he managed to ask a girl and she accepted!!! We went Corsage & Boutonnière shopping today and I did not care for the price!!
Then we went to check the limo we rented and omg!! It was so beautiful, they have a bunch of neon lights inside, they’re gonna provide snacks and juice for the kids! (His 3 best friends are joining) It was pricey but thinking about my boy making good memories with his friends made menot care about money at all.
Tomorrow is barbershop and a facial (yes, I had to book it) I hope he has the time of his life!!