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

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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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Michigan man sentenced to prison in drowning of autistic son​

Tue, January 19, 2021, 9:44 AM
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FILE - This image released by the Ottawa County Jail, shows Timothy Koets. Koets, a former western Michigan college professor has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in his severely autistic teenage son's drowning death in an icy backyard pool. Koets was sentenced Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 to a minimum of two years in prison and a maximum of 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. (Ottawa County Jail/The Grand Rapids Press via AP File)More
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A former western Michigan college professor has been sentenced to prison for manslaughter in the death of his autistic teenage son, who drowned after spending an hour in an icy backyard pool with his arms restrained.
Timothy Koets, 51, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of two years in prison and a maximum of 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. He had pleaded guilty in December to involuntary manslaughter and child abuse in the March 2019 death of 16-year-old Samuel Koets.
“Sam had value, and the sanction will not restore Sam, but it will recognize that all humans have value, and because of the neglect you committed, a valuable human has lost his life,” said Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge Jon Hulsing.
Samuel Koets drowned in the backyard pool at the family’s home in Georgetown Township, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) west of Detroit. His parents said he had autism, was nonverbal and functioned at the level of a 13- to 17-month-old child.
Samuel's arms were bound to keep them restrained, and authorities said Timothy and Michelle Koets would restrain Samuel’s arms to prevent him from harming himself or others.
Timothy Koets previously admitted in court that he was negligent for leaving his son unsupervised on a back deck before he left for work to teach classes at Grand Rapids Community College.
He said he woke his wife before leaving so she could watch Samuel. But Michelle Koets, who had worked a night shift as a registered nurse, fell back asleep after her husband said he was leaving.
Authorities said Koets knew his son had later gotten into the icy pool because his 13-year-old daughter texted him a photo of his son standing in the water.
The daughter told police she went around the house yelling for her mother, but no one answered. She said she saw her brother's arms were restrained and then left, but her father then asked her to check on the “freak,” the Grand Rapids Press reported.
According to court records, Koets' daughter replied that she thought her brother was stuck and sent her father another photo, showing him chest-deep in the pool water.
Koets instructed the daughter to get her mother, and after she shook her mother awake Michelle Koets sprinted to get her son out of the pool, where he had spent an hour. But Samuel had gone under and couldn’t be resuscitated despite attempts by arriving rescuers.
Koets’ attorney David Kallman called the situation a “very unique and tragic” case, noting in court Monday that his client will have to live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life.
But Paul Kraus, Ottawa County prosecuting attorney, said Monday that Samuel was “routinely" left unattended even though he could not care for himself. He said authorities had been called 15 times to the family home, mainly because Samuel “was unattended and had escaped from the residence.”
Timothy Koets told the court he and the family learned to manage Samuel’s autism as best as they could and mentioned that he had used the word “freak" to describe his son in a text conversation with his daughter.
“The words that I used were not good," he said Monday. “It was a way of blowing off steam and I’m not excusing myself for that, but I would never harm or abuse Sam."
After their son’s death, authorities said the Koets continued to fill their son’s Ritalin prescription for months and used the drugs themselves.
Koets was also sentenced Monday to between two and four years in prison in the Ritalin case after also pleading guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
Michelle Koets was sentenced in June 2019 to 21 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge of obtaining a controlled substance by false representation.
Timothy Koets had been a full-time faculty member at Grand Rapids Community College, but he was terminated by the school in January 2020.
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“Sam had value, and the sanction will not restore Sam, but it will recognize that all humans have value, and because of the neglect you committed, a valuable human has lost his life,” said Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge Jon Hulsing."

"His parents said he had autism, was nonverbal and functioned at the level of a 13- to 17-month-old child."

Mutually exclusive statements. We will refer to this as the retard value dichotomy. Full scale perversion of the human mind is one of the sickest and most disturbing things in the human experience. It is monstrous. They are monsters.

The parents obviously passed their autism along (really filling the dead tard's ritalin prescription to abuse it?) and are pretty special in general, but the whole thing sounds like a series of unfortunate (?) events, the tard got in the pool, the sister took swimtard photos, the dad told the sister to wake the mother, the sister was too dumb to do it, the dad told her to do it again, the mother finally woke up but by then the tard was drowned. Tbh it's a little "confusing" because the mother was left in charge of the tard, but the father caught the criminal charges. Just like the father caught years for filling a shitty ritalin rx and the mother got 21 days. It's "mysterious" why that happened in our sick misogynistic society.

I'd probably rather do 2 years than have to take care of a shitting, screaming, spastic tard for the same amount of time, never mind decades. Prison's pretty bad but it's not THAT bad.
 
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Woman Behind Bernie Sanders’ Iconic Mittens Quit Making Them Because High Taxes Killed Her Business

JANUARY 22, 2021 By Jordan Davidson

The Vermont school teacher who made Bernie Sanders’ mittens, featured in the most recent viral meme, said she had to stop making them after the federal government taxed her too much.

“People have been contacting me thinking that they can get mittens, and actually they can’t. I don’t have any more, and I don’t have much of a mitten business anymore because it really wasn’t worth it,” Jen Ellis explained to Slate. “Independent crafters get really taken for a ride by the federal government. We get taxed to the nth degree, and it wasn’t really worth it pursuing that as a business, even as a side hustle.”

Even though Sanders admitted in 2019 that he would raise taxes on the middle class to support his Medicare for All plan, Ellis has shown support for the senator, sending him the repurposed sweater mittens in 2016 because she was “heartbroken” that he lost the Democratic nomination and “probably wouldn’t run again.”

“I thought, ‘I’d like to make him a pair of mittens.’ And I did,” Ellis said. “I totally remember the night I did it. I was thinking to myself, ‘Is this crazy? I don’t even know this guy.’ But I wanted to make them for him, so I did.”

And despite her outrage at the government for taking her money, Ellis told the Washington Post on Wednesday that she appreciated parts of Sanders’ radical education and debt-forgiveness platform.

“I’m also super pro-Bernie and as a public school teacher, I can see every day how families are struggling. People are just trying to make ends meet and they need things like student loan forgiveness and free education and a lot of the things that Bernie is fighting for,” she said.

The mittens first caught the public’s attention in 2019 after a picture of Sanders lending them to someone on the campaign trail circulated the internet. After that, Ellis took it upon herself to sew 10 more pairs and mail them to the campaign.

Following Inauguration Day, however, Ellis said the response and requests for her now-famous mittens were overwhelming, crashed her Gmail, and showed her the downside to raising taxes.

“I mostly just make them as gifts,” she said, explaining that it was too difficult to keep up while she teaches second grade and raises her own children.
 
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LordofTendons said:


Woman Behind Bernie Sanders’ Iconic Mittens Quit Making Them Because High Taxes Killed Her Business

JANUARY 22, 2021 By Jordan Davidson

The Vermont school teacher who made Bernie Sanders’ mittens, featured in the most recent viral meme, said she had to stop making them after the federal government taxed her too much.

“People have been contacting me thinking that they can get mittens, and actually they can’t. I don’t have any more, and I don’t have much of a mitten business anymore because it really wasn’t worth it,” Jen Ellis explained to Slate. “Independent crafters get really taken for a ride by the federal government. We get taxed to the nth degree, and it wasn’t really worth it pursuing that as a business, even as a side hustle.”

Even though Sanders admitted in 2019 that he would raise taxes on the middle class to support his Medicare for All plan, Ellis has shown support for the senator, sending him the repurposed sweater mittens in 2016 because she was “heartbroken” that he lost the Democratic nomination and “probably wouldn’t run again.”

“I thought, ‘I’d like to make him a pair of mittens.’ And I did,” Ellis said. “I totally remember the night I did it. I was thinking to myself, ‘Is this crazy? I don’t even know this guy.’ But I wanted to make them for him, so I did.”

And despite her outrage at the government for taking her money, Ellis told the Washington Post on Wednesday that she appreciated parts of Sanders’ radical education and debt-forgiveness platform.

“I’m also super pro-Bernie and as a public school teacher, I can see every day how families are struggling. People are just trying to make ends meet and they need things like student loan forgiveness and free education and a lot of the things that Bernie is fighting for,” she said.

The mittens first caught the public’s attention in 2019 after a picture of Sanders lending them to someone on the campaign trail circulated the internet. After that, Ellis took it upon herself to sew 10 more pairs and mail them to the campaign.

Following Inauguration Day, however, Ellis said the response and requests for her now-famous mittens were overwhelming, crashed her Gmail, and showed her the downside to raising taxes.

“I mostly just make them as gifts,” she said, explaining that it was too difficult to keep up while she teaches second grade and raises her own children.
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In an ironic turn of events, Bernie is the one being refused a refund.
 

JoJo Siwa comes out: YouTube star opens up about her sexuality​


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LOS ANGELES -- YouTube star JoJo Siwa appeared to share her sexual orientation to her fans when she posted a photo of a shirt her cousin gave on her on Twitter that said, "Best. Gay. Cousin Ever."

Siwa, 17, posted the image on her account Friday and her fans quickly rallied behind her.

"Personally, I have never ever been this happy," Siwa said in an Instagram Live post on Saturday.

She shared her experience with the news and explained that she wasn't ready to put a label on her sexuality just yet.

"I'm not ready to say this answer because I don't really know this answer ... I think humans are incredible people," she said.

"Right now, what matters is that you guys know that no matter who you love that's OK, and that it's awesome, and the world is there for you!"

Siwa went on to explain how she came to the decision to come out, saying she has just felt that way her whole life.

"I always believed that my person was going to be my person and if that person happened to be a boy great and if that person happened to be a girl great!"

The whole video is Siwa gushing with excitement as she keeps explaining how happy she is with all the love and support.

"I'm just so happy! I'm the happiest I have ever been!" she said.

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Alright... But as what? :cringe:

Is she a lesbian or some genderspecial? Because the article doesn't say. And the only thing she says is that she wasn't sure what her sexuality was. Maybe she'll troon out soon.

I only know who she is from The Masked Singer. Never heard or her before that. But girl is begging for traction alopecia. And judging by that hairline it's already starting.

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IAmNotAlpharius said:

Michigan man sentenced to prison in drowning of autistic son​

Tue, January 19, 2021, 9:44 AM
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FILE - This image released by the Ottawa County Jail, shows Timothy Koets. Koets, a former western Michigan college professor has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in his severely autistic teenage son's drowning death in an icy backyard pool. Koets was sentenced Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 to a minimum of two years in prison and a maximum of 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. (Ottawa County Jail/The Grand Rapids Press via AP File)More
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A former western Michigan college professor has been sentenced to prison for manslaughter in the death of his autistic teenage son, who drowned after spending an hour in an icy backyard pool with his arms restrained.
Timothy Koets, 51, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of two years in prison and a maximum of 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. He had pleaded guilty in December to involuntary manslaughter and child abuse in the March 2019 death of 16-year-old Samuel Koets.
“Sam had value, and the sanction will not restore Sam, but it will recognize that all humans have value, and because of the neglect you committed, a valuable human has lost his life,” said Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge Jon Hulsing.
Samuel Koets drowned in the backyard pool at the family’s home in Georgetown Township, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) west of Detroit. His parents said he had autism, was nonverbal and functioned at the level of a 13- to 17-month-old child.
Samuel's arms were bound to keep them restrained, and authorities said Timothy and Michelle Koets would restrain Samuel’s arms to prevent him from harming himself or others.
Timothy Koets previously admitted in court that he was negligent for leaving his son unsupervised on a back deck before he left for work to teach classes at Grand Rapids Community College.
He said he woke his wife before leaving so she could watch Samuel. But Michelle Koets, who had worked a night shift as a registered nurse, fell back asleep after her husband said he was leaving.
Authorities said Koets knew his son had later gotten into the icy pool because his 13-year-old daughter texted him a photo of his son standing in the water.
The daughter told police she went around the house yelling for her mother, but no one answered. She said she saw her brother's arms were restrained and then left, but her father then asked her to check on the “freak,” the Grand Rapids Press reported.
According to court records, Koets' daughter replied that she thought her brother was stuck and sent her father another photo, showing him chest-deep in the pool water.
Koets instructed the daughter to get her mother, and after she shook her mother awake Michelle Koets sprinted to get her son out of the pool, where he had spent an hour. But Samuel had gone under and couldn’t be resuscitated despite attempts by arriving rescuers.
Koets’ attorney David Kallman called the situation a “very unique and tragic” case, noting in court Monday that his client will have to live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life.
But Paul Kraus, Ottawa County prosecuting attorney, said Monday that Samuel was “routinely" left unattended even though he could not care for himself. He said authorities had been called 15 times to the family home, mainly because Samuel “was unattended and had escaped from the residence.”
Timothy Koets told the court he and the family learned to manage Samuel’s autism as best as they could and mentioned that he had used the word “freak" to describe his son in a text conversation with his daughter.
“The words that I used were not good," he said Monday. “It was a way of blowing off steam and I’m not excusing myself for that, but I would never harm or abuse Sam."
After their son’s death, authorities said the Koets continued to fill their son’s Ritalin prescription for months and used the drugs themselves.
Koets was also sentenced Monday to between two and four years in prison in the Ritalin case after also pleading guilty to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
Michelle Koets was sentenced in June 2019 to 21 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge of obtaining a controlled substance by false representation.
Timothy Koets had been a full-time faculty member at Grand Rapids Community College, but he was terminated by the school in January 2020.
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The dad's clearly a psycho because no sane person would willingly take ritalin
 
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When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad​

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Screenshot: Dalian Railroad, Apple Daily

Adobe’s Flash, the web browser plug-in that powered so very many crappy games, confusing interfaces, and animated icons of the early web like Homestar Runner is now finally gone, after a long, slow, protracted death. For most of us, this just means that some goofy webgame you searched for out of misplaced nostalgia will no longer run. For a select few in China, though, the death of Flash meant being late to work, because the city of Dalian in northern China was running their railroad system on it. Yes, a railroad, run on Flash, the same thing used to run “free online casinos” and knockoff Breakout games in mortgage re-fi ads.




I find this personally fascinating because I have a little experience with Flash and its programming language, ActionScript, from some past lives. My goofy hoax Kyrgyzstani dead-goat-polo arcade machine’s code was written in Flash/ActionScript, and I pissed away most of my money in the early 2000s trying to start a webcasting company that used a Flash-based player. So, I know it can actually be made to do all kinds of interesting things.

Hell, YouTube used to run on Flash until 2015. It wasn’t all stupid little web games but, that said, I can’t for the life of me fathom why anyone would want to run a freaking railroad network on it, with physical, multi-ton moving railcars full of human beings on it.

So, when Adobe finally killed Flash-based content from running, this Tuesday Dalian’s railroad network found itself ground to a halt for 20 hours.

The railroad’s technicians did get everything back up and running, but the way they did this is fascinating, too. They didn’t switch the rail management system to some other, more modern codebase or software installation; instead, they installed a pirated version of Flash that was still operational. The knockoff version seems to be known as “Ghost Version.”



Screenshot: Dalian Railroad, Apple Daily
This, along with installing an older version of the Flash player to work with the knockoff Flash server setup, “solved” the problem, and the railroad was back up and running.
This is all fascinating to me. It’s not like Flash’s demise was sudden; it’s been known since 2017 that it was going away, and this railroad somehow managed to ignore that until they had absolutely no choice, and everything stopped.
And, while it’s tempting to mock their not-really-a-solution solution, the truth is the system is running again! So, I guess that’s a victory?
Plus, the control room of that railway might just be the last place on Earth you can enjoy Strongbad’s Emails in the medium they were originally intended, not debased by some filthy .swf emulator.
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Broad in small town in small religious state, is surprised when the god-bothering idiot that manages her fast-food work fires her, for discovery of porn done on the side. Let me be clear, they're all inbred idiots, and I would fuck none of them -
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At this time, I have been unable to find any non-ugly pictures of Lonna Wells, or any pictures of the undoubtedly fat/old/hairy Arkansawyer woman that fired her from Taco Bell.
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I assistant managed a Taco Bell, as long as she could keep the drive thru moving and didn't steal too much she's good to go. I had this kinsey level 39 guy steal whole bags of nacho cheese and it was the bitchiest firing you ever laid eyes upon.
I call bullshit.
 
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