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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Quincy Promes, a negro Dutch citizen soccer player who plays for Spartak Moscow (and is their best player who won them their first cup since the fat Yeltsin years, lmao) is currently in prison in Dubai, to be extradited to the Netherlands where he was sentenced in absentia for cocaine trafficking.

He was about to leave Dubai for Moscow BUT he did a li'l hit and run and was arrested at the airport for being a shitty hit-and-running faggot. The extradition request came later.
Enjoy prison, child.
 
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Mysterious 'zombie' ecosystem discovered deep beneath the Earth's crust
A mysterious ecosystem has been found within the Earth’s subsurface and it is baffling scientists.

The amazing discovery was made by a team of scientists involved with the Deep Carbon Observatory research programme, who set about digging within the Earth’s subsurface – the region which exists beneath the planet’s crust – to examine "deep life".


During their research, they discovered that there is a huge amount of carbon, as well as “barely living zombie bacteria” which came as a shock.

The team’s findings were shared at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in 2018, where they explained that drilled between 2.5km and 5 km into the seafloor, taking samples from several continents and seas.

Using samples of “microbes from continental mines and boreholes more than 5 km deep”, the experts were able to construct models of the biosphere beneath the Earth’s surface. The total area of this biosphere is believed to be between two to 2.3 billion cubic km.

The biosphere, dubbed a “subterranean Galapagos” is largely comprised of two types of microbes, bacteria and archaea. The biosphere contains 23 billion tonnes of organisms and is almost twice as big as all the world’s oceans.

Isabelle Daniel, a mineralogist at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France, said in a statement: “A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited.”


She added: “Experimental investigations told us that microbes could potentially survive to great depth, but at that time, we had no evidence.”

Over 1000 experts worked on the project and found a whole host of “microbial dark matter”, which is the name given to populations of cells that are unable to be grown or cultured in a lab due to their incredibly slow replication or difficult growing conditions.

Despite being in pitch darkness and nutrient-scarce environments, an incredible 70 per cent of the Earth’s bacteria and archaea live in these extreme places.
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Betonhaus said:
Mysterious 'zombie' ecosystem discovered deep beneath the Earth's crust
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When they say "incredibly slow" they mean it. Some of these microbes take over 10,000 years for a single division.

I'm honestly not sure it's a great idea to bring shit this weird to the surface and fuck around with it. I hope they're being very careful. God forbid we end up with some shit that is basically from Krypton and removed from its hobbling environment goes completely apeshit on us.
 
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When they say "incredibly slow" they mean it. Some of these microbes take over 10,000 years for a single division.

I'm honestly not sure it's a great idea to bring shit this weird to the surface and fuck around with it. I hope they're being very careful. God forbid we end up with some shit that is basically from Krypton and removed from its hobbling environment goes completely apeshit on us.
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If something comes from that far down, and has a metabolism so slow that it takes ten thousand years to divide, it will have zero defence against even a tiny amount of uv light. To get rid of it all you'd need to do is put it in direct sunlight for half an hour, and there is no way in hell that it'd be able to evolve a defence or spit out uv immune babies before it died.

The very things that help an organism survive a kilometre down in the earth's crust would kill it on the surface.
 
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The very things that help an organism survive a kilometre down in the earth's crust would kill it on the surface.
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Until we find the one exception.

Another thing is I'd assume most or all of these things are anaerobic and just oxygen would kill them, although possibly also really slowly since they'd have to metabolize it for it to poison them. Part of why tuberculosis is so difficult to kill is its metabolism is so slow it uptakes antibiotics slowly too.
 
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Until we find the one exception.

Another thing is I'd assume most or all of these things are anaerobic and just oxygen would kill them, although possibly also really slowly since they'd have to metabolize it for it to poison them. Part of why tuberculosis is so difficult to kill is its metabolism is so slow it uptakes antibiotics slowly too.
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Eh it’s just like phragmites so what if they kill are marshes a little bit. It will only infest shit up the place and then we have to hire people to set them on fire every year.
 
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Eh it’s just like phragmites so what if they kill are marshes a little bit. It will only infest shit up the place and then we have to hire people to set them on fire every year.
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Anything that far down has been there for literally billions of years. Like possibly even pre-Hadean. There may be some downright Lovecraftian shit down there, lurking for billions of years.
 
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President Joe Biden's recent footwear choice has sparked speculation he is donning more stable shoes to help prevent his more frequent trips and falls leading into the 2024 election.


An Inside Edition report discovered the sneakers Biden, 81, was seen wearing over the last month are the Hoka Transport, a 'commuter-friendly' shoe for 'performance.'

The laces have a pulley mechanism giving wearers a bypass to tying their shoes. ...
 
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Betonhaus said:
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What's amazing to me is this sort of thing outstrips everything we knew up to this point. It's not just "Life Found Underground," it's "Life found undergrouns which outweighs the entire known biosphere two to one."
I hope they're being careful, although the risk is minimal. Given they sterilize planetary probes to avoid contaminating Mars I'm pretty confident they are treating this stuff like the Andromeda Strain, even though (as others point out) it's not likely there's a real threat from it.
 
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President Joe Biden's recent footwear choice has sparked speculation he is donning more stable shoes to help prevent his more frequent trips and falls leading into the 2024 election.


An Inside Edition report discovered the sneakers Biden, 81, was seen wearing over the last month are the Hoka Transport, a 'commuter-friendly' shoe for 'performance.'

The laces have a pulley mechanism giving wearers a bypass to tying their shoes. ...
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Just have him wear boots, it's not fooling anyone anyway and the press attention would probably be fine.
 

Porcupines escape Scottish farm, wander to nearby neighborhood

Porcupines escape Scottish farm, wander to nearby neighborhood

A pair of porcupines escaped from a farm park in Scotland and caused a scene when they were spotted wandering through a residential neighborhood.

Officials at Dalscone Farm Park, near Dumfries, said two porcupines managed to break the door of their enclosure and made their way to Heathhall, about a mile away.



Ben Best, the farm park's owner, said a Healthhall resident called to report the porcupines were wandering through his back yard.

Best said personnel were able to wrangle the animals into a trailer for transport back to the facility.

The park joked on social media that the porcupines "broke the Internet" when they were spotted by neighborhood residents.

Best said the porcupines were not injured during their time on the loose.
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Should we give some kudos to that guy who wrote this article to Islam?

March 21, 2024

Exploding The Myth That Islam Is An Abrahamic Religion​

By Sha'i ben-Tekoa

The Gods of Political Correctness dictate that all religions are of equal worth; that there are “…three great Abrahamic religions,” and “The Arabs are Semites too, so they can’t be anti-Semites.” All three of these sacred cow clichés need to be slaughtered on the altar of truth.
While Christianity and Islam are both offshoots of the Jews and took from them the concept of having one’s own holy writ, their self-definitions as new faith communities were radically different. The Koine Greek language narratives that Christians append to their version of the Hebrew Bible purport to be a continuation of Jewish history. The Catholic Church even defines itself in Latin as Verus Israel, the True Israel.
But Muslims do not claim this. On the contrary, the Koran plagiarized many of the stories in the Hebrew Bible but always with changes, and when a Muslim is asked to explain the different versions of the same stories, he will say the Jews stole them from Islam.
When asked to explain how this theft happened since the former text came into the world in the year 1313 BCE at Mt. Sinai and the latter over 2,000 years later, in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, the Muslims say that Musa (the Arabic mispronunciation of the Hebrew name Mosheh) brought the Koran down from Mt. Sinai—not the Torah as the Jews believe. And then, down below, the evil Jews snatched it away from Musa and re-wrote it and called it their Torah. When Muhammad came along, he restored the original text, today’s Koran.
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Thought this was kind of interesting. Seems like this town tried defunding their own Fire Department so they could rely on other nearby town's, but the nearby towns are saying "Nah this is your problem now"
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Ohio FD places 4-mile limit on mutual aid after neighboring FD cuts staffing​

Lima Fire Department mutual aid limit seeks to keep a minimum number of crews available in city​

By Mackenzi Klemann
The Lima News

BATH TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The Lima Fire Department is limiting mutual aid to Bath Township to a four-mile radius from Central Station on S. Main Street due to an increase in mutual aid calls from the Bath Fire Department, which cut staffing after a failed levy campaign in November.

The new limits, outlined in an email from Deputy Fire Chief Lee Short to Bath Chief Joseph Kitchen on Feb. 6 , say Lima Fire intends to keep at least two engines and one EMS squad in service for emergency calls in Lima.

“It would be difficult for us putting a crew that’s going to end up being all the way up on Cool Road " to respond to an emergency call in Lima, Lima Fire Chief Andy Heffner told The Lima News.

Records show that Bath is increasingly dependent on mutual and automatic aid from neighboring fire departments for emergency calls since the township started budget cuts in November, as minimum staffing levels in Bath declined from four to two people per 24-hour shift.


Lima Fire provided mutual aid to Bath 12 times in January and February alone, while Bath Fire has not given mutual aid to Lima since Sept. 2022, according to statistics provided by Heffner.

Perry Township records show the township fire department has provided mutual aid to Bath at least seven times this year while Bath assisted Perry once, a significant increase over the 15 mutual aid calls Perry made to Bath in 2023.

Emails from Kitchen to township trustees show Bath is requesting mutual or automatic aid more frequently because its crews are already responding to other emergency calls.

Among the incidents highlighted by the emails are a Jan. 28 emergency call during which an Allen County sheriff’s deputy drove an ambulance to Lima Memorial Health System so Bath’s only two EMS providers on duty could care for a trauma patient who was injured in a hit-and-run crash, according to an email from Kitchen to the trustees.


Platoon Chief Jared Jenkins “was frustrated that because of current staffing levels, only two EMS providers were on duty—it was difficult to provide the proper level of care provided,” Kitchen wrote.

When the patient died at Lima Memorial Health System, Kitchen wrote that he “attempted to reassure Jared that I was confident that they did all they could and that I appreciated their efforts.”

Bath Fire needed mutual aid on three fire calls between Jan. 1 and Feb. 6, including a smoke alarm at Procter & Gamble, a house fire on Harding Highway and a propane tank explosion that caused a garage fire on Leonard Avenue, Kitchen wrote to the trustees when he informed them of the new Lima mutual aid guidelines on Feb. 6.
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Murrieta police drawing interest for using LEGO heads to block suspects' faces in social media posts​

In 2021, the state legislature passed laws preventing law enforcement from posting mugshots on their social media accounts, except in certain situations. That's when the department began using emojis to block the faces of suspects seen in arrest photos. They eventually settled on LEGO heads.
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MURRIETA, Calif. (KABC) -- The Murrieta Police Department is getting a lot of attention about the mugshots and arrest photos of suspects they're posting to their social media accounts.

Not because of whether they're posting them or not, but the alterations being made to the photos: the suspects' faces are being covered with LEGO heads.

"It's just a little fun to get some attention," said Lt. Jeremy Durrant. "Game the social media algorithms, gain some traction, likes and follows, stuff like that."

Durrant said the department first started posting mugshots on its social media accounts about five years ago. At the time, they did not cover the faces of suspects.

"We began publishing a weekly roundup where we started putting out booking photographs of arrests we made during the week," said Durrant.

But they didn't always get the reaction they were seeking.

"Those posts would sometimes get a little off track and focus more on the physical appearance of the suspects that we posted about versus the story and the good work our officers were doing," said Durrant.

Then, in 2021, the state legislature passed laws preventing law enforcement from posting mugshots on their social media accounts, except in certain situations. That's when the department began using emojis to block the faces of suspects seen in arrest photos.

They eventually settled on LEGO heads.

"I think the community enjoys it," said Durrant. "They like that we're putting out the work that we're doing, and at the same time, making it a little humorous."

At the beginning of 2024, a new law went into effect strengthening the state's original restrictions on law enforcement posting mugshots on social media. New restrictions include requirements that even mugshots that are allowed to be posted be taken down after 14 days.

However, there are some departments that still post photographs of suspects on their social media accounts.

"We were one of the first agencies here in Riverside County that was posting booking photos," said Riverside Police Ofc. Ryan Railsback. "And we've been doing it for years, and we learned our audience wanted that."

Railsback said they're still able to post photos of suspects they arrest while complying with the law. While they do not post booking photos of suspects on social media, they still can post photos taken during the arrest.

"If an officer is at the station, or at a scene, and we get over there and take our own photos of them in handcuffs, sitting on a curb, or something like that; it's not a booking photo, according to the law," explained Railsback.

The Murrieta Police Department recently received a request from the manufacturer of LEGO heads, The LEGO Group, requesting them to stop using the trademarked images on their social media pages.

The Murrieta Police Department said it will comply with the request, and come up with another option to block the faces of suspects they arrest in the spirit of the state law.

"I definitely believe strongly in the value of transparency and letting (the public) know what their police department is doing out there, while at the same time, complying with state law and respecting the suspect's rights as well," said Durrant.

Source: https://abc7.com/murrieta-police-de...cts-faces-in-photos-on-social-media/14550918/
 
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