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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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Why is a private Facebook group for women expelling Jewish members?​

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Girls Night Out is a secret Facebook group for women in Los Angeles. “Secret” because if you search for it online, you won’t find it. “Secret” because if you want to be a member, you must be invited. Created by a USC communications grad as a virtual sorority house and networking node for the sprawling megapolis in 2011, it has grown to more than 30,000 members.

GNO is a place to share social news (recommendations about restaurants and nail salons) and also to talk—about politics or relationships or show business. “It’s a place to feel safe with no men around,” said one GNO member. It also offers valuable work opportunities for LA’s large freelance population. By commenting on threads, fitness trainers, chefs, makeup artists, and the like can prove their bona fides and, if they are lucky, get new clients. Artists can sell their wares and PR pros can announce hot new openings and popup stores.

“I was told this is the spot where everything happens,” said a 28-year-old actress. “Everyone’s in it, and they have a subgroup called GNO Casting,” on which she learns about auditions. It’s also the perfect gateway drug to the dream of going viral. “I’ve seen a girl make a random post about macrame—and suddenly she has like 30,000 posts and her business is popping.”

GNO’s commercial promise is so great that a nutritionist who, in three years of membership had not gotten a single client from the site, still holds out hope. “All you need is one person and they can then tell their friends,” she told me. “All you need is one.”

GNO’s numbers grew and the reach of its network multiplied—until 2020. After hundreds of Black Lives Matter protests erupted statewide following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, GNO decided to increase its commitment to the BLM movement. “Once the protests started happening, people posted about how to get involved—organizations to support, where the protests would be,” said one member.

The group also tried to add administrators and moderators who were BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color). Moderators help decide if posts comply with the rules of the group and Facebook’s community standards, and they have the power to admit and boot members; admins do the same, but have the additional power of adding or booting admins and moderators.

On Aug. 22, a young Jewish group member saw a sign hanging over the heavily trafficked 405 freeway in LA that read, “The Jews want a Race War.” It upset her, and she asked in a GNO post what others thought about it. A member suggested some Jewish representation was also needed in the group, after noticing some “fishy anti-Semitic stuff.” At first, the comments responding to this suggestion were positive.

Then, on Aug. 29, a member posted: “I feel that the Jewish admin who is appointed must also acknowledge the occupation of Palestine.”

And all hell broke loose.

Within hours, every Jewish member who had tried to explain why a litmus test for a “good Jew” was anti-Semitic was thrown out. Every Jewish member who asked why an American Jew should have an opinion on a foreign matter (however incoherently phrased) was expelled. Anyone who made a comment supporting Israel, explaining the history of Israel, or who “liked” such a comment, disappeared. Said one Jewish member who was not expelled, “It was all over so fast that if I hadn’t personally known one of the girls who was thrown out, I wouldn’t have known anything had happened. And the 29,990 other people have no idea those women have been kicked out.”

One of the members who was severed from the group, a Korean American Jewish woman named Skylar Cutler, was so incensed that she contacted Tablet with her story. “The swiftness with which the Jewish women were kicked out without any explanation,” she wrote, “was shocking and a moment of realization that anti-Semitism is now mainstream. Even though the Jewish women who spoke out were ethnic Korean (not white), Mizrahi (not white), Sephardi (not white), and Ashkenazi (not white), we were collectively dismissed and branded as ‘white racist bad Jews’ who were in support of oppressing the ‘brown and Black’ Palestinians.”

A small but loud cohort of women on the site espoused a simple but false syllogism: “Israeli=white and Palestinians=Black.”

Tablet has chosen not to publish the names of any members of GNO who have not explicitly agreed to have their names revealed, as they have indicated fear of the consequences for their work and personal lives. Although Tablet has interviewed and read posts written by a dozen members of GNO, only Skylar Cutler was willing to have her name published. Formerly employed in the entertainment world at a network, she has now left show business.

“What I saw and experienced in that group,” wrote Cutler, “was Jew-hatred cloaked in the veil of social justice. I had to speak out.”

After the GNO post that lit the fuse, the rumpus was over in a few short hours. Cutler had argued valiantly: “Do Arab admins here have to acknowledge the historical and ongoing slave trade of Africans and Arabs?” she asked. “Are American admins, regarding our war with Iraq, our treatment of our Natives, etc., also asked to acknowledge the ongoing conflicts of our country?”

An Israeli member added: “Of course I’m against the mistreatment of Palestinians. I’m vehemently against Netanyahu. I’m against annexation. I’m pro-two state solution. But asking all Jews to speak about Palestine is inherently anti-Semitic, whether intentional or not. Most Jews have absolutely nothing to do with the Israeli government.”

Another asked why only Israel was blamed for the lack of a peace agreement, and not the Palestinian leadership or the Arab League.

The member who originally proposed the “litmus test” statement about “the occupation,” responded with false claims: “Palestinians are being annexed from their lands … you cannot be for Black liberation and for the occupation of PALESTINE!”

A Russian Jewish woman then remarked, “Please educate yourself on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

The litmus test proponent then made her intentions clear: “They should be removed from this group, because they’ve been hiding their racism and here it comes out.”

Cutler offered some history of the founding of Israel.

She was the first to be expelled from the site.

One Jewish member noted in despair: “Was Skyler [sic] just kicked out for acknowledging that we are allowed to be sympathetic to both sides? If she really was kicked out for that, I have no words.”

Finally, the woman in charge, the single administrator left standing after an internal administrative purge orchestrated by herself, the single person responsible for approving posts, admitting new members, and selecting the expelled, wrote:

“Skyler [sic] wasn’t kicked out for acknowledging we’re allowed to have sympathy for both sides. She was kicked out because her rhetoric was strongly skewed toward one side.”

The admin further wanted everyone to know that the request for a statement “acknowledging the occupation” was not “anti-Semitic.”

Perhaps she just didn’t understand. A recent poll conducted by the American Jewish Committee shows that nearly half of all Americans say they have either never heard the term “anti-Semitism” (21%) or are familiar with the word but are not sure what it means (25%).

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti-Semitism includes illustrative examples. One is: “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.” Also: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”

The admin believes she, in fact, does understand anti-Semitism. She wrote: “Does anti-Semitism exist? Absolutely. Do people commit heinous crimes against Jewish people? Absolutely. Is it wrong, inhumane and evil to desire to hurt one group of people because they are of a different race, religion, ethnic background, gender, etc.? Of course.”

But she promptly turned to another anti-Semitic trope, suggesting that Jews have been warped by their long history of persecution to become persecutors themselves. “Being a member of one oppressed group does not absolve you from accountability. The oppressed can absolutely become oppressors. There’s always a hierarchy in systems of oppression.”

Moreover, she advanced a popular but incoherent idea of the social justice movement: “It’s unethical and contradictory of anyone to align themselves with one fight against injustice and yet support, encourage, or ignore other acts of injustice.”

The admin absolved the member who asked for the pledge, because she “didn’t place blame on anyone. She simply said if there’s a Jewish admin, she hopes they will acknowledge the occupation of Palestine. In response to that one comment, all of this.”

And “all of this” meant the expulsion of several women whose income, already strained under the impact of COVID-19, was further damaged by her action, including two Black women who tried to explain to the admin that anti-Semitism was anathema to the group. She threw out both a Black Jewish woman who attempted to explain the Jewish point of view, and a Black Christian woman (and an admin) who objected to anti-Semitism on the site.

But no one who expressed anti-Semitic views was expelled.

“Definitely it was upsetting,” said one 30-something woman who was booted. “Obviously when you see anti-Semitism, it’s hard, but I’ve never had it blatantly directed against me. And when that happened and I was excised from a place just for standing up for Jews, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh’. It was eye-opening.”

With the absolute power she seized and zealously guarded (members say a group as large as GNO needs five to 10 admins and moderators to properly handle all the posts), the admin had her way. And she reveled in her accomplishment. A few weeks later, she tweeted “#PSA The only people complaining about #CancelCulture are the white people who’s [sic] bullshit is no longer being tolerated. KEEP CALLING THEM OUT.”




The rules of GNO are explained in the “About” section of the group. “Please, be kind,” directed the founder, who has since become disappointed with GNO, according to current members. “Please be respectful, open-minded, and supportive when posting. This is a safe and pro-female space.”Among other things, what is not allowed: “racial slurs or other racial remarks or actions (no matter what your race is).”

Members are also asked to keep the group’s posts private. The women who forwarded relevant posts to Tablet did so because they felt their sudden expulsion had broken the rules of the group, as well as Facebook’s own community standards: “Expression that threatens people has the potential to intimidate, exclude or silence others and isn’t allowed on Facebook.” Not to mention real exclusion from the virtual public spaces whose civic importance Mark Zuckerberg likes to praise.

Since the regime change, all views on GNO that conflict with those of the single admin have been silenced. Even those who were kicked out of GNO are afraid to speak because they “don't want to be doxxed or have an army of FB and Twitter warriors sending petitions to their employers.” Others say they can’t afford the chance that the admin will use her power to “bad mouth” them to the 30,000 remaining members. Tablet has chosen not to publish the name of the admin responsible for the actions that led to this story, though her identity is known to every member of GNO.

Zuckerberg believes the future of Facebook lies in private groups. “Privacy gives people the freedom to be themselves and connect more naturally,” he said in a statement. But what if being themselves is hateful to others? It wasn’t until last month—October 2020—that Facebook updated its rules to ban content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust, prompting a headline in Time magazine to read: “Critics ask what took them so long.”




The GNO story took three months to play itself out. In late August, at the beginning of the discussion about adding a Jewish admin, a young woman enthusiastically offered her services. She said she, too, had encountered anti-Semitism. “I was with friends and they said, ‘Don’t you think [anti-Semitism] is warranted and can’t you understand their feelings given what Israel does?’”

She was upset.

“Like, excuse me,” she wrote. “I turned down Birthright and have never been to Israel.”

She defined herself as a “good Jew”—one who disapproved of Israel. She made clear her views about the Jewish state in a post in the middle of the brouhaha: “Being for settlements on Palestinian land is absolute colonizer behavior and it is imperialistic.”

And so, on Sept. 9, she was chosen to be a moderator.

Another member objected to this woman’s selection, posting to the group: “95% of Jews in America support Israel’s existence and I would rather have someone who represents the Jewish majority to be an admin rather than someone on the fringe who doesn’t recognize a majority of Jewish issues. I sure don’t support the government. But I’m not comfortable with an anti-Zionist as the Jewish representative of the group.”

The objector was expelled.

By Oct. 28, the new moderator had given up her post, claiming the job was stressing her out.

On the night of Nov. 29, the GNO founder, finally responding to the many messages sent her way by members and former members warning her of trouble in the group she had founded nearly a decade earlier, reasserted her authority: She asked the single admin to step down, then cut her power by downgrading her to moderator, and began an investigation. She readmitted all the Jewish women who had been expelled, and named three Jewish, Israel-supporting women of color, including Skylar Cutler, as moderators.

The admin reacted by leaving the group with a cadre of her followers. They released a statement saying they felt their efforts “as WOC” had not been valued, even after they had invested months “trying to right GNO on our own.” They urged women who appreciated “the culture we have tried to create” to follow them to a new FB group: L.A. Femme. “If we have learned anything from 2020,” they wrote, “it’s to know your worth.” The former admin has been permanently banned from GNO.

Cutler is satisfied with the outcome. Although anti-Semitism is still present on the site, she says, “there’s now Jewish representation to help moderate healthy conversations and discussions.” And she has found new work: building coalitions between Jews and Asians for the group Democrats for Israel. “Jewish people make up just 2% of the U.S. population, and we can't fight this fight alone,” she said. “We need allies.” Her determination to fight anti-Semitism in progressive spaces has been emboldened: “We shouldn't have to hide ourselves. We shouldn't be attacked and discriminated against for being Jewish.”
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California really can’t catch a grip on how to control themselves.

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165 Pounds of Meth, Cocaine Seized After Ultralight Aircraft Delivery in California near Border

Border Patrol agents seized nearly 165 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine smuggled into the U.S. on an ultralight aircraft.
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165 Pounds of Meth, Cocaine Seized After Ultralight Aircraft Delivery in California near Border​

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents seized nearly 165 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine smuggled into the U.S. on an ultralight aircraft. The agents found the nearly half-million dollars worth of drugs north of the California-Mexico border.

Calexico Station Border Patrol agents working in the city of Calexico, California, on December 3 heard a loud noise coming from the sky. The agents contacted the station’s Remove Video Surveillance System operators for assistance, according to information obtained from El Centro Sector Border Patrol officials.

Surveillance operators confirmed that an Ultralight Aircraft (ULA) illegally entered U.S. airspace from Mexico, officials reported. The surveillance team worked with the agents to pinpoint where the ULA descended and came back up.

Agents went to the area and conducted a search which led to the discovery of three large bundles that appeared to contain drugs packaged in clear wrap and duct tape. They did not find any people or the ULA at the scene. The surveillance team observed the ULA ascending and returning to Mexico.

Agents opened the packages and found 120 small packages that tested positive for methamphetamine. Five bricks tested positive for the characteristics of cocaine, officials stated.

In total, the agents seized 151.55 pounds of methamphetamine worth an estimated street value of 340,998. The 12.35 pounds of cocaine reportedly has an estimated street value of $148,200, officials declared.

Agents turned the drugs over to special agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for further investigation.

In July, El Centro Sector agents seized another 145.5 pounds of methamphetamine delivered to U.S. soil by smugglers utilizing a ULA, Breitbart Texas reported.

Twice in 2019, Tucson Sector agents interdicted attempted smuggling operations utilizing ultralight aircraft. The incidents occurred in May and again in October.
 
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Why Nengi decide to bone BBNaija whatsapp group
Nengi wey come out as second runner-up for di show, tell her fans for one Abuja meet-up say na becos she no like 'wahala'.
For inside one viral video wey don begin spread for social media, she say: "About di house, I be friends wit who I be friends wit. I no like to force friendships. I tink I be di only one wey no dey di group chat," na so she tok.
Nengi also tok say ex-housemates wey she no mention dia name, approach her about joining di group.
"Dem approach me and I tell dem no I no want dey there. I no see di need to pretend or be in a space with pipo who... I no like wahala. If I know say dis energy no dey good for me, let me just stay..."
Although she no win di season 5 edition of di show, Nengi don bag many endorsements including appointment as Senior Special Assistant to Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri.
Nengi on receiving di appointment say she get passion to support girl child to di best of her ability and she wan also use her voice to fight gender based violence based on say she don experience am first hand.
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The 'Jewish POC' moderator they appointed is not an actual Jew.

She's a Korean convert


It's interesting in this context of Palestinians being black, Jews being white, that she's essentially LARPing as a Jew

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"I realize the privilege of being able to hide my Jewish identity during a time when antisemitism is soaring and becoming mainstream once more. I also realize that belonging to two communities give me the unique ability to bridge the gap between our communities."

"I was born to survivors. Koreans have been colonized, oppressed, dehumanized and survived attempts at erasure. I willingly joined a nation of people who have also been marginalized, colonized, oppressed, dehumanized and survived attempts at erasure. We have much in common."

The TL;DR is that she's an Asian woman who married a Jew and somehow in crazy LA land that makes her a better Jew than actual Jews.
 
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The 'Jewish POC' moderator they appointed is not an actual Jew.

She's a Korean convert


It's interesting in this context of Palestinians being black, Jews being white, that she's essentially LARPing as a Jew

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"I realize the privilege of being able to hide my Jewish identity during a time when antisemitism is soaring and becoming mainstream once more. I also realize that belonging to two communities give me the unique ability to bridge the gap between our communities."

"I was born to survivors. Koreans have been colonized, oppressed, dehumanized and survived attempts at erasure. I willingly joined a nation of people who have also been marginalized, colonized, oppressed, dehumanized and survived attempts at erasure. We have much in common."

The TL;DR is that she's an Asian woman who married a Jew and somehow in crazy LA land that makes her a better Jew than actual Jews.
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Zodiac ‘340 Cipher’ cracked by code experts 51 years after it was sent to the S.F. Chronicle​


The solution to what’s known as the 340 Cipher, one of the most vexing mysteries of the Zodiac Killer’s murderous saga, has been found by a code-breaking team from the United States, Australia and Belgium.

The cipher, sent in a letter to The Chronicle in November 1969, has been puzzling authorities and amateur sleuths since it arrived 51 years ago. Investigators hoped the Zodiac, who killed five peoplein the Bay Area in 1968 and 1969, would reveal his name in one of his many ciphers, but there is no such name in the 340.

According to code-breaking expert David Oranchak, the cipher’s text includes: “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. ... I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice (sic) all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me.”

Oranchak, a 46-year-old web designer who lives in Virginia, has been working on the Zodiac’s codes since 2006.

“This is exciting,” Oranchak said in an interview Friday. “We’ve been sitting on the solution since last Saturday. When I first started looking at the Zodiac ciphers all those years ago, I thought, ‘Oh, I can just write a computer program and solve it,’ but it’s been kicking my a— all this time. Until now.”


Cameron Polan, spokeswoman for the FBI’s San Francisco office, confirmed Oranchak’s claim Friday. In a statement emailed to The Chronicle, she said:

“The FBI is aware that a cipher attributed to the Zodiac Killer was recently solved by private citizens. The Zodiac Killer case remains an ongoing investigation for the FBI San Francisco division and our local law enforcement partners.

“The Zodiac Killer terrorized multiple communities across Northern California, and even though decades have gone by, we continue to seek justice for the victims of these brutal crimes,” she continued. “Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, and out of respect for the victims and their families, we will not be providing further comment at this time.”

This is the second time a Zodiac cipher has been cracked. The first, one long cipher sent in pieces to The Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in 1969, was solved by a Salinas schoolteacher and his wife.

Known as the 408 cipher, it said little beyond: “I like killing because it is so much fun.”

To crack the 340 cipher — so named because it contains 340 characters — Oranchak teamed up with two fellow, amateur code crackers and ran the bewildering set of symbols through special software programs. His teammates were Sam Blake, a mathematician in Australia, and Jarl Van Eykcke, a warehouse operator in Belgium.

“I could not have done this without them,” Oranchak said. “All of us in the crypto community on the Zodiac figured the cipher had another step beyond just figuring out what letters belonged to the symbols, and that’s just what we found here.”

Oranchak’s findings started leaking out on some of the many Zodiac amateur sleuth forums, such as zodiackillersite.com, over the past couple of days, causing much excitement in that widespread world of true-crime buffs.

In most ciphers, like the 408, the solution consist mainly of figuring out which letters are represented by certain symbols. In the 340 cipher, it turned out the alignment of the words runs diagonally down the page, and they occasionally they get shifted over a column.

It’s a complicated bit of code creation, Oranchak said, but a basic scheme for it can be found in at least one U.S Army code manual from the 1950s.

As the team began breaking down the methods in the cipher, they unpeeled a couple of phrases that let them know they were on the right track. There were references to “gas chamber” and “the TV show,” which seemed to refer to Jim Dunbar’s “AM San Francisco” show on KGO-TV that aired in October 1969. On that show, Dunbar and attorney Melvin Belli took a call from a person claiming to be the Zodiac, and he said, “I don’t want to go to the gas chamber.”

In the solved cipher, the Zodiac writes: “That wasnt (sic) me on the TV show.”
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Text of the 340 Cipher
The solution to the 340 cipher, according to Oranchak’s team:
I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
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GRAPHIC EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Mexican Cartel Severs Hands of Three Thieves​

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GRAPHIC EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Mexican Cartel Severs Hands of Three Thieves

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Members of one of Mexico’s most violent cartels severed the hands of three individuals they accused of common thievery. The victims were left sitting with posterboards and a bag containing their hands in a show of force.

The case took place over the weekend in Silao, Guanajuato, when motorists called 911 claiming there were bleeding individuals on the side of the road. Authorities and emergency medical personnel responded to the scene and found two men and a woman with severed hands. Next to the three victims, the gunmen left a black plastic bag holding six severed hands. Authorities rushed the victims to a hospital. Several green posterboards claimed the victims committed robberies against innocent locals. The messages were signed by Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). It remains unclear if the brutalities were actually committed by CJNG or a rival trying to draw heat to the cartel. No arrests have been made. While Mexico City continues to pronounce overall improvements in public safety, the once peaceful state of Guanajuato is now one of the most violent in the nation. The brunt of the violence is tied to CJNG’s push for regional control.
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Chick-fil-A’s Polynesian sauce spontaneously explodes, customers claim
By Alexandra Deabler , Fox NewsDecember 18, 2020 | 3:24pm | Updated
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A logo sign outside of a Chick-fil-A restaurant location in Martinsburg, West Virginia.



Things are getting explosive for Chick-fil-A fans.

Chick-fil-A customers are claiming the Polynesian sauces are opening up randomly of their own volition.

In a recent Reddit post, a customer with the user name ShanNtrav alleged their Polynesian sauce “opens up and gets everywhere” after “a month or 2” of having it. And, apparently the user, who keeps “a zip lock bag of fast food sauces” is not alone in either their keeping of the sauce – which Chick-fil-A has shared is one of their most popular sauces along with their signature sauce – nor the explosion of it.

“They just easily explode. Not sure why,” one person sympathized.

“I’ve even had times when working and stocking the poly sauce i’ve found it randomly exploded in boxes…. i guess that’s just how it is,” an alleged Chick-fil-A employee shared.

Though the Redditors are not the only ones to notice the Polynesian sauce phenomenon. This issue has reportedly been going on for years, with tweets calling it out going back to 2016. (It should be noted, those witnessing the exploding sauces seem to have had the packages for some time and not in a fridge).

No one has found a reason behind the explosive condiment. The Redditor posed the possibility of it being “something acidic in the sauce that eats through the packaging.” Though, there does seem to be a pretty easy fix, according to one Reddit user.

“This hasn’t happened to us since I started keeping them in the fridge,” a person wrote.

Chick-fil-A did not immediately return comment regarding the Polynesian sauce’s supposed predilection for exploding. However, there is a workaround for those who can’t part with the tangy dressing – and also don’t want to keep it in the fridge for some reason.

In March, the fast food chain began selling its Polynesian and signature Chick-fil-A sauce in retailers. In October, the brand shared they would be rolling out to select stores nationwide.
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Is keeping a supply of fast food sauces on hand for months at a time normal behavior? Seems kinda weird to me.
 
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There's a son of a billionaire named David Dalio who died in a car crash. https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/h...billionaire-hedge-fund-founder-dies-car-crash

Devon Dalio, 42, son of billionaire hedge fund founder Ray Dalio, was killed on Thursday afternoon after his Audi smashed into a Verizon store in a Greenwich shopping center and burst into flames, local news outlets reported.

The cause of the deadly crash is still under investigation, Greenwich Police Department Public Information Officer Mark Zuccerella said.

In a tweet, Devon's father Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Westport, Connecticut's Bridgewater Associates - the world's largest hedge fund, said his family "would prefer to be incommunicado for the time being."
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One commenter joked by wondering if that guy have something on the Clintons.
 
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'I've Eaten Chick-Fil-A for 135 Days Straight'
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ON 12/18/20 AT 5:03 AM EST
01:17Pennsylvania Man Records 132 Days Of Ordering Chick-Fil-A
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Ilive in Nazareth, Pennsylvania which is about 1hr and 30 minutes each way between New York City and Philadelphia. I'm married with a one-year-old daughter, and my wife and I have lived here our entire lives.

We had a couple of vacations cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and there were no concerts or sporting events to go to. Then, one day in July I looked down and realized I'd been to Chick-fil-A for 12 days in a row. I remember thinking that there had to be a record.

I looked it up online and the unofficial record was by a guy in California who had been to Chick-fil-A for 114 days consecutively not including Sundays when they are closed. I thought I could probably do that. It was a long way away, but I felt it would give me something to look forward to.

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I called my wife and she just said, "you're crazy, but do what you want to do if it's going to make you happy." I started on July 13 and here I am now in December still going strong.

It's been easy, it's 10 minutes from my house and I go to the drive thru every day—the inside is closed because of the pandemic. By August or September the staff started to get to know me and know my order.

I usually run over and grab breakfast or dinner; for breakfast I'll order a chicken biscuit and for dinner I'll just order a chicken sandwich. I'm actually a very picky eater, which is why I always order the same thing. Every now and then I'll mix it up a bit and get chicken nuggets, but I'd say 90 percent of the time it's been the exact same orders.

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The drive thru staff know me by my voice now. They're really great and my local restaurant has really great people that work there. They remind me of the company I work at, with just really, really nice people. So, I enjoy going there and I like to see them every day.

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Stock image of a Chick-Fil-A outlet.
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Early on, in the middle of August, I had done 30 days in a row and I pulled up to the window and talked to the girl who was working there. I said: "Hey, today I've been here 30 days in a row" And she really seriously said: "I've been here more than that!" because she works there. I admit it did deflate me a little bit, but I just kept going.

They are closed Sundays and they were also closed on Thanksgiving so up to and including December 17 I've eaten there 135 consecutive days that they are open. Normally on a Sunday we just have a couple of nice meals here with the family at home, but I love chicken so I usually eat chicken on Sunday too—a nice piece of grilled or baked chicken. I eat chicken a lot, obviously, but I still eat in moderation. I eat Chick-fil-A every day but I'm not eating fried food for every meal of every day. I go there once a day. It's not that healthy but I'm not pounding my body with fried food three or four meals a day. I eat my chicken for breakfast, a little snack for lunch and something like grilled chicken for dinner. Just normal stuff. I eat a lot of grilled chicken, I like pasta in moderation and I love fruit.

I see some of the comments from people but I'm not worried about that. There's enough going on in the world, I was just doing this as something for myself to help get me through. It's been a rough year for everyone and there was nothing to look forward to. I've spent around $7 a day, so it's not cheap but I don't drink coffee or anything. If I was getting a coffee every morning I would be spending maybe $4 to $5. I probably spend around $40 a week, but if I couldn't afford it I wouldn't be doing it.

I had a general check up in June so I knew what my blood work was and everything was fine. I'm planning to have another check up in a few months and compare. I haven't talked to the doctor about what I'm doing but I feel fine. I exercise and I have recently lost some weight and it's all about moderation. I'm not eating eight pieces of fried chicken a day. I'm generally a fairly healthy person and I feel fine. I'm a big guy and I've always been a big guy.

I see from the outside it may not look like the healthiest thing to do and it probably isn't, but I don't smoke and I don't drink. This is my thing right now.

I was joking the other day that around day 100 I was eating my chicken and I was hooked on apples and I was eating way too many apples every day. The combination of fried chicken and way too many apples didn't work for me.

Since I started this, I've had friends I've worked with in the past and people from all over the U.S. from Atlanta and Nashville reach out saying they've seen me on the news. It's crazy, I was just doing this for fun and for something to look forward to and it's kind of blown up to this. But I'm going to keep it going. Originally I was going to go until the end of the year, but everything is still locked down. All the restaurants are closed again here in Nazareth, so I'm going to keep going for as long as I can.

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Matt Stoudt at Chick-Fil-A in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019.
MATT STOUDT
My wife is used to it by now. She's been on board but it's only really inconvenienced her a handful of times. We were on vacation in Atlantic City, New Jersey and the closest Chick-fil-A was probably 25 minutes away so that was a bit of an inconvenience. And there were probably a few nights when I got home from work late, at around 7.30pm and wasn't hungry but I had to go. Those nights I ended up getting home at around 8.30pm because it was so busy and I had to wait. But she just rolls her eyes and says, "whatever you want to do." I'm not harming her and she's been a great sport with it.

I haven't heard from Chick-fil-A and as far as I know they don't want to be a part of it, but our local restaurant does know about what I'm doing. I'm going to keep going though, it's not about that. It's something to look forward to and it gets me through. I really struggled this year; I'm an extrovert and I like people and going to do things, I like seeing my friends and family, and I struggled quite a bit with being locked down—like the rest of the world.

I get up, work, come home, look after the baby and eat some chicken. That's what my life has been for the past five or six months. So really starting this and getting into it has given me a sense of accomplishment. Even just the journey, because I don't know when the end will be; whether today or in a month.

If things go back to normal and I can book a vacation to look forward to, this might be it, but if things are going to be like this for a while and this one ends I might try something else. A buddy of mine from work and I were joking because he eats peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day, so I said that we should try the peanut butter and jelly sandwich record.

We were joking, but who knows. I think this is going to be it, but I never thought I'd be doing this.
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'I've Eaten Chick-Fil-A for 135 Days Straight'

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I was wondering what made this newsworthy, until I realized here I am, posting this.
 
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