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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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I watched count dankulas interview with lord miles, and there is definitely an intention seeking part of him, but that's literally anyone who posts shit on YouTube and had an online career.

But the other big thing you can tell by watching miles talk is that he just likes to do shit and experience unique things. Like he seems like one of those guys that would do crazy shit for kicks like underwater cave diving.

I know right now he's going to some mountain in Afghanistan that no westerner has been too In like 80 years just to plant a flag.

He's also trying to use his Taliban connections to open up a gold mine.

I'm sorry, but it's fucking cool, and it's interesting. He is literally just a guy who has an intense urge to go everywhere he's not supposed to and then when he survives he wants to make money and be famous. Which is basically exactly what the British explorers and conquistadors were like.

You don't have Taliban bros, or a gold mine, you haven't run with the snakes, you're not currently dick waving the Indian navy for fun. You haven't forced the British government to negotiate with the Taliban only for the British government to demand women's rights as part of returning you home and then being laughed at by ragheads.

If your reaction to this guy doing all this shit is like "God I can't believe he wasted the divine and important time and money of the British government and I can't believe he would just go places people tell him not to and want attention, I hope he diiiieeeesss!"

Then you are a gay faggot and a dork. I hope he lands in the island and gives them a toilet in order to make them more advanced than their Indian neighbors, I hope he continues to do worse and worse shit. I find him entertaining, and I think it's more admirable to be an adventurous and daring retard than an intelligent but meek homebody.
 
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God's strongest milkman said:
I watched count dankulas interview with lord miles, and there is definitely an intention seeking part of him, but that's literally anyone who posts shit on YouTube and had an online career.

But the other big thing you can tell by watching miles talk is that he just likes to do shit and experience unique things. Like he seems like one of those guys that would do crazy shit for kicks like underwater cave diving.

I know right now he's going to some mountain in Afghanistan that no westerner has been too In like 80 years just to plant a flag.

He's also trying to use his Taliban connections to open up a gold mine.

I'm sorry, but it's fucking cool, and it's interesting. He is literally just a guy who has an intense urge to go everywhere he's not supposed to and then when he survives he wants to make money and be famous. Which is basically exactly what the British explorers and conquistadors were like.

You don't have Taliban bros, or a gold mine, you haven't run with the snakes, you're not currently dick waving the Indian navy for fun. You haven't forced the British government to negotiate with the Taliban only for the British government to demand women's rights as part of returning you home and then being laughed at by ragheads.

If your reaction to this guy doing all this shit is like "God I can't believe he wasted the divine and important time and money of the British government and I can't believe he would just go places people tell him not to and want attention, I hope he diiiieeeesss!"

Then you are a gay faggot and a dork. I hope he lands in the island and gives them a toilet in order to make them more advanced than their Indian neighbors, I hope he continues to do worse and worse shit. I find him entertaining, and I think it's more admirable to be an adventurous and daring retard than an intelligent but meek homebody.
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People don’t dislike Miles because he travels. There are ten bazillion adventure travel bloggers out there going to remote and interesting places in the world, meeting people and doing interesting things. They’re all over YouTube.

People dislike him because he has a grating, obnoxious, 4chan-infused personality. If you find that personality winning and based, then congrats on having the same taste as the Taliban I guess.
 
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LavenderMenace said:
What is it with white boys wanting to goto a place full of Africans who don’t want to be bothered???

Worse. Colonizer. EVER.
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North Sentinel Island is in the Indian Ocean; the closest countries geographically are Thailand and Myanmar, though politically it's part of India. The Sentinelese are about as African as you are.
 
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A Sentient Cloud said:
"OMG HE'S GOING TO LITERALLY KILL THEM LITERALLY" when the far more likely case, assuming this isn't more attention whoring, is that he either ends up in Indian prison because what he is doing is illegal, or on the off chance he manages to bribe a couple of fishermen to take him there, he takes an arrow to the throat from 20 meters the second he sets foot on their shores and is never seen again.
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And most likely the Indian navy just stops him and tells him to GTFO.
 
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el bandito loco said:
his video has a few minutes straight of him explaining this and what precautions he is going to take to avoid it. he's an idiot but he's not entirely unprepared or unaware of basic consequences
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I’ve watched the video.

Just because he’s aware of the possible consequences doesn’t mean his properly preparing for how to prevent them.

I’m sorry but he’s nothing but a guy chasing fame through clickbait. He’s not an explorer. He’s a retard.

And this is a belief I’ve held since he first went into Afghanistan during it’s collapse.
 
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S1apSh0es said:
This is where I stand. He quietly literally can kill the entire population by coughing on him. I mean anyone who’s had 8th grade American history knows how basically every time the Europeans came into contact with a new native population they were decimated by disease. It’s like basically guaranteed.

And if I recall correctly from some reading I’ve done; a white guy visited that island in the 1800’s and introduced a new disease that killed a decent amount.

Not saying I want Miles to be blown up by the Indian Navy or get a spear to the face….. but like…. FAFO.

I’m just sick of this guy in general.
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lmao who cares about some literal spearchuckers if they get a coof and their population gets decimated its not like they are of any value or have anything interesting to add besides being uncontacted for everyone else in the world to read an article about them
 
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S1apSh0es said:
I’m sorry but he’s nothing but a guy chasing fame through clickbait. He’s not an explorer. He’s a retard.
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I hate this gay modern mindset that someone needs credentials or some kind of lofty statement of intent in order to do or be known as something.

He goes places few dare to go with the intent to explore. How is that not a goddamn explorer? Do you think explorers of the past were doing it for some noble pursuit of expanding knowledge, or for money and legacy?

Whether you like him or not, to essentially accuse him of LARPing when he's actually in the arena is gay and retarded.
 
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New cocaine color just dropped:

Mystery ‘pink cocaine’ allegedly enjoyed by Diddy sees bump across NYC’s drug scene (Archive)​

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The Big Apple’s newest drug bump isn’t so pretty in pink.


A pink “mystery powder” reportedly beloved by disgraced mogul Diddy and linked to a dangerous Venezuelan gang is blowing through New York City’s illicit drug scene, law enforcement sources and experts tell The Post.


The synthetic drug concoction known as “tusi” or “pink cocaine” has popped up in a growing number of recent narcotics busts, including of an Upper East Side woman who allegedly openly sold it on a messaging app, sources said.


“It is cheaper than coke,” said Ray Donovan, former chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration. “It is a cheap club drug.”

Tusi originally sprang up in Latin America within the last decade — as a phonetic play on “2C,” a group of psychedelic drugs popular in the nightlife set — said Joseph Palamar, an associate professor of population health at NYU Langone who recently published a study on the pink powder.

But the drug isn’t primarily 2C — or even cocaine, despite its monikers, he said.


Instead, it’s always mostly ketamine, in addition to swirling cocktail of other narcotics such as MDMA, methamphetamine, opioids and small amounts of cocaine, depending on whoever is brewing the batch, Palamar said.


The only ingredient that apparently won’t get users high is what gives the drug its distinctive pink color: food coloring.


“It’s the new mystery powder to hit nightclubs,” Palamar said.


“I think everybody’s concoction is going to be different from the next person’s.”

The candy-colored drug’s Latin American link isn’t just in its origin, but also in its association with the notorious Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela that accused NYPD cop shooter Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 19, said is smuggling guns into migrant shelters, according to authorities.


Jason Savino, the NYPD’s assistant chief of detectives, told Fox 5 last week that the gang has expanded into trafficking tusi. Police sources told The Post that Tren de Aragua-linked crooks are peddling tusi on Roosevelt Avenue street corners, a notorious open-air drug and prostitution market in Jackson Heights.

But other pink cocaine-peddling slime are homegrown, sources said.


Bradley Fernandez — a 36-year-old busted by NYPD cops in April on the Lower East Side with a half kilo of tusi, as well as cocaine and guns — had no known Tren de Aragua association, according to sources. He has pleaded not guilty to drug and firearms charges, court records show.


Tusi first popped up on the New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office’s radar about 2023, when investigators that January stopped a Toyota Highlander in the Meatpacking District hauling a 10-pound bag of pink cocaine, officials said.

Since then, investigators with the office found that an Upper East Side woman, Deidra Jackson, brazenly advertised on the Telegram messaging app that she was selling tusi, authorities said.


“Toosi/Pink Coke” was one of 10 different drugs listed on a “menu” posted on Telegram by Jackson, according to a screenshot provided to The Post.


A probe by Homeland Security Investigations ended with a June 25 bust at Jackson’s York Avenue apartment, in which authorities arrested her and confiscated “cocaine and a pink powdery substance,” a criminal complaint states. Jackson pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on a $200,000 cash bond, authorities said.

NYPD sources said that tusi has another street-level nickname because of its association with a jet-setter: the “Diddy Drug.”


New York’s own Sean “Diddy” Combs’ penchant for pink cocaine was alleged in a high-profile civil lawsuit against the embattled hip-hop mogul.


His ex-girlfriend Yung Miami transported the drug for him on a private jet from Miami, Florida, to a Virginia music festival because “because “Sean Combs wanted tusi but Brendan [Paul, Diddy’s alleged drug mule] forgot it,” the lawsuit states.


Law enforcement sources said that tusi’s loosey-goosey combination of ingredients raise drug users’ ever-present risk of accidental overdose to new heights.


“We saw one drug dealer marketing two entirely different substances as ‘pink cocaine’: one, a mixture of cocaine, ketamine and MDMA dyed pink; another batch, ketamine alone,” said Bridget Brennan, the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, in a statement.

“What the seller calls the product may have no relationship to what it contains.”


Dealers could also mix fentanyl — a synthetic opioid commonly cut into cocaine and heroin, and linked to 200,000 overdose deaths since President Biden took office — into already free-wheeling tusi concoctions, an NYPD source said.


“We want to raise awareness, because that’s the next thing — it’s just a matter of time we see fentanyl make its way in there and it gets stepped on too many times,” Savino, the NYPD official, told The Post this week.

Ex-DEA official Donovan agreed: “It is not big yet, but the concern is that it will catch fire.”


Even without fentanyl, tusi use can lead to dangerous reactions, Palamar said, noting nightclub-goers can mistakenly think their “pink cocaine” will counteract the effects of alcohol.


Ketamine, the concoction’s primary ingredient, can be deadly when mixed with alcohol, he said.


“You literally don’t know what they’re putting in it,” Palamar said.
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Coo Coo Bird said:
New cocaine color just dropped:

Mystery ‘pink cocaine’ allegedly enjoyed by Diddy sees bump across NYC’s drug scene (Archive)​

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This shit's been around forever, maybe even before Breaking Bad popularized the "muh uber purity color durgs" nonsense. Journalists forever behind the curve and failing at everything.

It's straight up nonsense, while there can be numerous (dis)colorations from various drug syntheses, what the colors really indicate are incomplete reactions and lack of purification/filtering/wash etc. Pure shit is basically white to colorless - the farther away from white it is, the more impurity it contains as a general rule. Obviously most of these branded color drugs are just dyed for marketing purposes, which is of course even stupider.

The picture makes it even funnier because the "cocaine" looks so bad. Clean coke doesn't look like pixie dust powder, no matter what color it's dyed, and why is there a straight razor blade there? Does anyone use straight razors instead of regular 10 cent one-sided disposable razor blades?

Fuck this gay earth
 
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Mepsi Pax said:
why is there a straight razor blade there? Does anyone use straight razors instead of regular 10 cent one-sided disposable razor blades?
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It's actually a safety razor. As for the popularity of them, I can't help but remember that non-binary Mexican politician who died in a drug-fueled murder suicide used them:
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3/15 But why did Ociel have a blade in his hands? It is known that to cut some drugs, it's very common to use a (disposable) blade. And as the autopsy revealed traces of drugs in their bodies, this explains the reason for the improvised weapon. It means, it was not premeditated.

FTR, I'm not sure how you call this, but this is the weapon and I'm calling it a blade from now on.
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Mepsi Pax said:
It's straight up nonsense, while there can be numerous (dis)colorations from various drug syntheses, what the colors really indicate are incomplete reactions and lack of purification/filtering/wash etc. Pure shit is basically white to colorless - the farther away from white it is, the more impurity it contains as a general rule. Obviously most of these branded color drugs are just dyed for marketing purposes, which is of course even stupider.
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If meth has a color, it's usually from the coloring of the pseudoephedrine pills used as a precursor. Pure meth is clear.
 
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Getting An Autism Diagnosis In Adulthood
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For Diana and others like her, getting an autism diagnosis in adulthood led to a new understanding of themselves, ending the confusion or self-doubt they felt growing up.


“It was a huge relief that there’s a name for it, and it encompassed all of my traits,” says Diana, who works for the military.
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