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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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(CNN) — You can -- and should -- eat popcorn in bed at this one-of-a-kind Airbnb. Located in Bend, Oregon, this rental has everything: a sofabed, free snacks, a VCR and a big TV.
Yes, you can sleepover at the world's last Blockbuster video store.
Since 2004, store manager (and would-be superhost), Sandi Harding, has run the operation in the spirit of the time when Blockbuster stores and their laminated rental cards and late fees were part of the cultural vernacular, when everyone was encouraged to "Make it a Blockbuster night!"
The makeshift living room is perfectly situated for a nostalgiac Blockbuster night.
The makeshift living room is perfectly situated for a nostalgiac Blockbuster night.
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This limited overnight experience is part thank you to residents of Deschutes County for keeping the last Blockbuster alive and kicking -- and a way to let people outside central Oregon know it's there and needs support to keep things humming like 1994.
The store is going full '90s with this overnight -- including creating a living room within the store, with decor from the decade, a gigantic era-appropriate television, a VCR and all the store's VHS tapes to choose from to complete the mise en scene.


Don't have sex in the blockbuster sir

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I swear I distinctly remember Portugal the Man saying their Blockbuster in Alaska was the last one.

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Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

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It is unclear whether transgender and gender-diverse individuals have elevated rates of autism diagnosis or traits related to autism compared to cisgender individuals in large non-clinic-based cohorts. To investigate this, we use five independently recruited cross-sectional datasets consisting of 641,860 individuals who completed information on gender, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses including autism, and measures of traits related to autism (self-report measures of autistic traits, empathy, systemizing, and sensory sensitivity). Compared to cisgender individuals, transgender and gender-diverse individuals have, on average, higher rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses. For both autistic and non-autistic individuals, transgender and gender-diverse individuals score, on average, higher on self-report measures of autistic traits, systemizing, and sensory sensitivity, and, on average, lower on self-report measures of empathy. The results may have clinical implications for improving access to mental health care and tailoring adequate support for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.

Takeaways:
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals were 3.03 to 6.36 times as likely to be autistic than were cisgender individuals, after controlling for age and educational attainment.
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals scored significantly higher on self-report measures of autistic traits, systemizing and sensory sensitivity and scored significantly lower on empathy traits compared to cisgender individuals.
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals had elevated rates of multiple other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. (ADHD, bipolar, depression, OCD, learning disorders, and schizophrenia)
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals were more likely to report that they suspected they had undiagnosed autism.
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Twitter is now testing an AI to determine naughty language and trying to train it to give automated N word passes + allow woke assholes through.

Thanks again to all the fuckwits in the "Youtube Skeptics" community who supported that obvious bait AI seeding "social network" (Not Parler, the other one) so they'd have the groundwork to do this to us later.
 
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Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

Abstract
It is unclear whether transgender and gender-diverse individuals have elevated rates of autism diagnosis or traits related to autism compared to cisgender individuals in large non-clinic-based cohorts. To investigate this, we use five independently recruited cross-sectional datasets consisting of 641,860 individuals who completed information on gender, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses including autism, and measures of traits related to autism (self-report measures of autistic traits, empathy, systemizing, and sensory sensitivity). Compared to cisgender individuals, transgender and gender-diverse individuals have, on average, higher rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses. For both autistic and non-autistic individuals, transgender and gender-diverse individuals score, on average, higher on self-report measures of autistic traits, systemizing, and sensory sensitivity, and, on average, lower on self-report measures of empathy. The results may have clinical implications for improving access to mental health care and tailoring adequate support for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.

Takeaways:
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals were 3.03 to 6.36 times as likely to be autistic than were cisgender individuals, after controlling for age and educational attainment.
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals scored significantly higher on self-report measures of autistic traits, systemizing and sensory sensitivity and scored significantly lower on empathy traits compared to cisgender individuals.
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals had elevated rates of multiple other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. (ADHD, bipolar, depression, OCD, learning disorders, and schizophrenia)
  • Transgender and gender-diverse individuals were more likely to report that they suspected they had undiagnosed autism.
  • Nature proves what we already knew.
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This is better said "Autists are easier to sucker into cultlike behavior".
 
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So there was a bombing in portugal today and somebody is very sad

 


Days after my 32nd birthday, I sat hunched over my computer typing feverishly into oblivion as the sky darkened outside. It was Memorial Day weekend and instead of being at someone’s barbecue drunkenly two-stepping to Earth, Wind & Fire I was drafting invoices — two invoices — to two men from my past that I had been enamored with. Invoices to reckon with the pain and anger I was feeling. The only shards that I was left with when the romance was over.

Both relationships had soured for different reasons. But sadly, each had the same, predictable end. So, I gathered up all the time I lost as my rage funneled into a foreboding and ferocious cloud. My desire was to tangibly contend with multitudes of regrets.


And so, I typed, as the sun set, the cicadas starting to roar, and lightning bugs flitting through the heavy, humid air of yet another Southern summer in Atlanta. Using the template for what I’d otherwise invoice for written work I’d completed as a freelance writer, I filled in their names, how they could pay — my preference was PayPal because I’d get the money instantly — and proceeded to list out my gripes. I mean, line items.

Each one was like an ultimate truth being harnessed, a rebellion thrown out into the world, instead of a tight-lipped, lonely acceptance of bothersome deal breakers. There was the unending emotional labor, the flights, the Ubers and Lyfts to visit each of them out of town because we didn’t live in the same state. Sex — all the God-awful sex I’d zone out during and positions which were more painful than pleasurable. The lingering embarrassment from being dumped via email—while I was traveling internationally—from one of those men. The admittance from the other man that he wished he loved me and that he’d be fine casually dating me forever. For each invoice, I tacked on a miscellaneous fee simply for all the time I invested into them — into us — that I couldn’t get back. The total for both invoices came to $38,000.

I even offered payment plans.

Mariah Carey, the multi-octave diva herself, inspired me in this pursuit. I’d seen someone amusedly tweet that Carey allegedly received a multimillion paymentfrom her billionaire ex-fiancé, James Packer, for uprooting her life and in service of her time that had been wasted.

Carey’s gumption in requesting compensation got me fired up enough to actually do it. I was convicted enough to risk looking foolish and overzealous in asking for what I felt was owed. Many of us look at the embers of a relationship’s end and have nothing but misgivings and fury about the ways we accommodated our partner that availed to nothing but resentment. If all of those feelings could be translated into something tangible, as in money, would it mean something bigger than healing?

I’ll never know because neither man paid my invoice. They didn’t acknowledge receipt of those invoices either. They did, however, look at the email I sent each of them. I know this because I use email trackers. One viewed the email once, the other twice. Weeks later, when it was clear they’d never respond I knew I had to find a way to move on. I had to stop thinking they could nurse old wounds. I had to look toward a different future, one where I’d never be this consumed or dejected when it came to dating and men again.


Two years later, I laugh at the lengths I went to assuage my angst. Now that the invoices are in my rearview mirror, I recognize that men were too central to my world. In honest reflection, I spent too much time willing men to pay attention to me, to treasure me as I felt they should, and not enough time merely existing peacefully as the woman I am. Actively dating had unknowingly become a monstrous toxicity in my life that didn’t need as much space. Men didn’t need to be the center of my universe anymore.

I started investing more time and energy into my career. Working to manifest long-held goals and dreams all of a sudden felt more in reach because I had fewer distractions and more mental space to hold them. I no longer had to compromise my boundless ambition and drive in service of a romantic relationship.


My healing and my peace are important. I began to gravitate toward friends with whom I can actively process inner growth. We supported each other as we healed, instead of constantly talking about dating. I made it clear dating was not a focus for me. I remained open to those I met who were of intrigue, but I no longer put forth the effort to ensure dating was something I actively did. I stopped waiting for the reactions to these declarations. I no longer cared because I already knew it was deemed “odd” for a woman in her thirties to not be hyper-focused on her happily ever after. The last time I went on a date was more than a year ago.
But I also knew there was more out there for me. There was more than squeezing myself into small spaces in order to be more palatable to men in hopes that I will be deemed worthy enough to be chosen. Choosing myself, all those glories and pains, seemed more gratifying. More centered. More true to who I have come to be. And believe it or not, it was those two invoices that set me out on this path to clarity and freedom.
 
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Even without the Earth Wind and Fire reference you can tell right away that the author is black. Shitty black writers all sound the same, something like a middle school kid who first discovers a passion for writing.

I’ll never know because neither man paid my invoice.
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A black woman trying to extract money from a black man without pussy on-offer, a court order, or even a kid in the clinch! Not so bright this one.
 
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I’ll never know because neither man paid my invoice. They didn’t acknowledge receipt of those invoices either. They did, however, look at the email I sent each of them. I know this because I use email trackers. One viewed the email once, the other twice.
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"Holy shit! Honey, look at this crazy shit my crazy ex sent me!!! L Oh Fucking L!!!!!!

Quick get lil Tyrus off to the grandfolks, tonight we're making another kid!"
 
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Relationships are two way streets. If you look back on one and feel like you're owed something for your time because things didn't work out, chances are you probably owe more than what you are owed in your make believe world of compensation.

If they were to pay you, all that would make you is a high-maintenance whore who obviously lost their worth somewhere along the way.

Relationships are personal investments of time, money, and emotions, and investments don't always work out. Climb off that cross, use it to build a bridge, and get over it.
 
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