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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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Rare turtle washes up on UK beach 4,000 miles from home​

(ARTICLE HERE WITH VIDEO, I can't fucking embed the video on this post and I don't know how)

One of the world's rarest turtles is beginning to show signs of recovery after washing up on the Welsh coast.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle has been named Tally by Anglesey Sea Zoo, where it is being nursed back to health.

On Sunday, Tally was found on Talacre beach, Flintshire, 4,000 miles (6,437 km) away from its usual waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

But how did Tally end up so far from home?

Nick Hartley explains.

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Jesus Quintana said:

Rare turtle washes up on UK beach 4,000 miles from home​

(ARTICLE HERE WITH VIDEO, I can't fucking embed the video on this post and I don't know how)

One of the world's rarest turtles is beginning to show signs of recovery after washing up on the Welsh coast.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle has been named Tally by Anglesey Sea Zoo, where it is being nursed back to health.

On Sunday, Tally was found on Talacre beach, Flintshire, 4,000 miles (6,437 km) away from its usual waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

But how did Tally end up so far from home?

Nick Hartley explains.

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Central America so bad even the turtles are trying to escape
 
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A rare sea turtle and seal pups have washed up on UK beaches after a storm​

(full article here. I clipped it because already posted the news about the turtle a few days ago)

A seal pup named Jupiter washed up in the UK this week and was rescued by the British Divers Marine Life Association.


A seal pup named Jupiter washed up in the UK this week and was rescued by the British Divers Marine Life Association.

(CNN) A rare sea turtle and dozens of seal pups have been washed onto the UK's beaches after the country was hit by Storm Arwen last week that brought strong winds and the deaths of three people.
The severe weather, with winds reaching speeds of over 90 mph (144 km/h) in some areas, created challenges for marine life, driving several creatures far from their homes.
Among them was an exceedingly rare Kemp's Ridley sea turtle that ended up on Talacre beach in North Wales -- around 4,700 miles from its home in the Gulf of Mexico.

A seal pup named Deimos washed up in the UK this week and was rescued by the British Divers Marine Life Association.


A seal pup named Deimos washed up in the UK this week and was rescued by the British Divers Marine Life Association.
 
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Seth Rogen goes viral after shrugging off Los Angeles car burglaries: 'It’s called living in a big city'

Comedic actor Seth Rogen trended on Twitter after he shrugged off Los Angeles criminals breaking into cars, suggesting it's simply part of normal life in a big city.
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Seth Rogen goes viral after shrugging off Los Angeles car burglaries: 'It’s called living in a big city'​


Comedic actor Seth Rogen sparked a Twitter frenzy after he shrugged off Los Angeles criminals breaking into cars, suggesting it's simply part of normal life in a big city.

The viral uproar began when the "Knocked Up" star reacted to a tweet from YouTube personality Casey Neistat, who wrote on Wednesday, "so our cars got robbed this morning because Los Angeles is a crime riddled 3rd world s---hole of a city" and expressed gratitude toward the LA Police Department for arresting the criminal and retrieving all the stolen belongings.

"Dude I’ve lived here for over 20 years. You’re nuts haha," Rogen reacted. "It’s lovely here. Don’t leave anything valuable in it. It’s called living in a big city."

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"i can still be mad tho right?" Neistat asked, adding, "feel so violated."

"You can be mad but I guess I don’t personally view my car as an extension of myself and I’ve never really felt violated any of the 15 or so times my car was broken in to," Rogen responded. "Once a guy accidentally left a cool knife in my car so if it keeps happening you might get a little treat."

Neistat told Rogen he "didn't get any treats" and that the thief had taken decorations for his daughter's seventh birthday party but then asked, "how did you get your car broken into 15 times?"

"I lived in West Hollywood for 20 years and parked on the street," Rogen wrote. "Also it sucks your s--- was stolen but LA is not some shithole city. As far as big cities go it has a lot going for it."

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Critics piled on the wealthy actor for being so dismissive of car burglaries in Tinseltown, many accusing him of being "privileged."

"I don’t think ‘my car’s been broken into 15 times’ is doing the pro-Los Angeles work Seth seems to think it’s doing here," Washington Post contributing columnist Sonny Bunch reacted.

"I, too, am unbothered when one of many cars gets broken into. I just ask my assistant to get it all cleaned up and repaired. What’s the big deal?" Tablet Magazine's Noam Blum mocked Rogen. "Viewing crime as some quaint reality of urban living akin to deer eating your vegetable garden is some bulls--- Hollywood-goggles romanticization of something that has no redeeming value and doesn't require some loss of humanity to prevent."

"You know, people talk about how this or that statement embodies ‘privilege,’ and 95% of the time it's total bulls---, but this... yeah," political commentator Cathy Young tweeted.

"Multi-millionaire celebrity explains to you why having your car broken into isn't a big deal and you should just get over it," Daily Caller reporter Dylan Housman wrote.

"Why is it ok? It may not be a huge deal to someone with [tremendous] wealth, but it certainly is for someone who's struggling. Might be the difference between making it & not. And regardless, the idea that it's just ok...cost of living...is ...am unhealthy one," entertainment journalist Katherine Brodsky replied.

"Seth Rogen is only funny when he's not trying to be," Substack writer Jim Treacher quipped.

Rogen appeared to respond to the backlash, suggesting he'd rather clash with his critics privately.

"A lot of people come at me and talk s--- on Twitter hoping I’ll engage with them publicly and give them attention, but instead I DM them and tell them to go f--- themselves privately. It’s a lot more fun," Rogen tweeted.
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"LA is great, crime makes cities cool! I've been robbed 15 times!"

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SNL’s Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Prove Just How ‘Dumb’ They Are

And exasperated Dr. Fauci was joined by the worst members of Congress on this week’s SNL cold open: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Ted Cruz.
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Saturday Night Live returned from a four-week hiatus this week with a holiday message from Kate McKinnon’s Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“Do people still think I’m sexy or are we done with that?” Fauci began. “With COVID cases on the rise, people still have a lot of questions: ‘Is it safe to travel? Can I still use this as an excuse to get out of stuff? I would like to never work again.’”


To answer those queries, Fauci presented a series of increasingly absurd scenarios that began with basic situations like indoor dining and air travel and quickly escalated to include prominent figures like the “two unemployed” Cuomo brothers and the objectively worst members of Congress.

“Hello, I’m disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,” Pete Davidson said with his “disgraced” brother Chris Cuomo by his side. “And we both lost our jobs… because of COVID.”

Next up were Republican Congresswomen Lauren Boebert (Chloe Fineman) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong), both carrying semi-automatic rifles. “The government has been using this fake disease to strip us of our freedoms. Do they think we’re dumb?” Greene asked, to which Boebert replied, “Please, would they give a dumb person a gun? Yes.”

“First, they said the shutdowns were until they found a vaccine,” Greene continued. “Then they found a vaccine and said it worked. Then they said everyone should get it. Then people got it and it saved their lives. If that’s not communism, then honey, I might not know what communism is.”

“So Merry Christmas, and remember,” Boebert concluded. “Guns don’t kill people, people people people.”

And finally, Fauci was joined by Aidy Bryant’s Ted Cruz, who told viewers, ”Hey, if you’re sick of seeing me, imagine how sick I am of being me.”

 
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Rare turtle washes up on UK beach 4,000 miles from home​

(ARTICLE HERE WITH VIDEO, I can't fucking embed the video on this post and I don't know how)

One of the world's rarest turtles is beginning to show signs of recovery after washing up on the Welsh coast.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle has been named Tally by Anglesey Sea Zoo, where it is being nursed back to health.

On Sunday, Tally was found on Talacre beach, Flintshire, 4,000 miles (6,437 km) away from its usual waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

But how did Tally end up so far from home?

Nick Hartley explains.

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They're cute and I love them.

Please don't tell the Chinese they exist or the poor things will be extinct by next Monday.
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Truck Driver Sentenced 110 Years For Deadly Crash Stemming From Brake Failure Even Though Everyone Agrees It's Unreasonable​

“If I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence," the judge admitted.​

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A truck driver whose lumber-hauling semi crashed into stopped traffic on Interstate 70 in Denver in 2019 and killed four people was sentenced to 110 years in prison on Monday. The brakes on 26-year-old Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ tractor-trailer failed, leaving him no time or room to stop.
It’s a punishment nobody seems to agree with. Not Colorado District Court Judge Bruce Jones, who said, “If I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence.” Not the families of the deceased, some of whom support incarceration but none who appear to be calling for Aguilera-Mederos to die in prison.
Aguilera-Mederos was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Road rage wasn’t determined to be a factor, either. He did reportedly pull over to check his truck’s brakes before the crash, but determined it was safe to continue. Video shows him bypassing an emergency ramp he could’ve used and struggling to keep his truck within the lanes of the highway, at one point forcing a pickup into the left shoulder. From ABC affiliate KMGH-TV:
In an interview with police and through a translator, Aguilera-Mederos said he lost control of the vehicle after noticing his brakes were failing, but that he had only been traveling at 45 mph at the time. The downhill grade increased his speed as he entered Lakewood, he said. He didn’t want to drive off the road for fear of rolling the semi, so he tried to maneuver to the right shoulder and avoid the stopped traffic on I-70, according to the affidavit. But he saw the shoulder was blocked by another semi, so he swerved left — back into lanes of slow stop-and-go traffic from a previous crash at I-70 and Ward Road — and closed his eyes, according to the affidavit. The crash, which occurred around 4:50 p.m., caused a massive blaze in the eastbound lanes near Colorado Mills Parkway.
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The traffic that Aguilera-Mederos encountered was congestion from a previous accident in the vicinity. In total, 28 vehicles were affected in the pileup, and at least six individuals were hospitalized for injuries, according to a CNN report published shortly after the crash more than two years ago.

In October, a jury found the truck driver guilty of 27 counts: four counts of vehicular homicide, six counts of assault in the first degree (extreme indifference); 10 counts of attempt to commit assault in the first degree (extreme indifference); two counts of vehicular assault (reckless); one count of reckless driving; and four counts of careless driving causing death.

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The length of prison time is due to Colorado law, which established mandatory minimum sentences for some of the charges Aguilera-Mederos faced while also mandating that these charges must be served consecutively, not concurrently — or, one after another, not at the same time.
Judge Jones said he has “no desire to see” Aguilera-Mederos spend the rest of his life in jail, according to the Denver Post. The driver’s attorney, James Colgan, told CNN after the sentencing that there will be an appeal:
“The issue with this appeal will not be the sentence itself. Under the law, the Court was not incorrect. However, the law, as written, is barbaric and Draconian,” Colgan told CNN. “There needs to be a change in the law.”
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The Denver Post’s editorial board is calling for Colorado Governor Jared Polis to commute part of Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence. Perhaps the driver lacked the experience to deal with such an emergency — he was just 23 years old when the crash occurred. Perhaps he underestimated the severity of the problem until it was too late, and he had nowhere to go. Regardless, sending an employee to a lifetime-and-a-half in prison as a result of a tragedy stemming from equipment failure isn’t going to do anyone any favors — especially when nobody, not even those who lost loved ones, wants it.


TL;DR: Dumb spic gets the book thrown at him for white-knuckling it down the mountain.
Someone else gives some well-needed context:
Some context for those of you not from Colorado, who don’t know the circumstances of what happened beyond what you’re reading in this article.

I-70 just west of Golden, Colorado goes up from ~6600 elevation to about ~7600 elevation over the course of 3 miles. When you go up that hill, big trucks stay in the right (slow) lane and everybody goes around them. When you come DOWN that hill, there are TONS of signs, warnings, cautions, a runoff ramp etc telling everyone — especially truckers — about the quick decline.

This guy’s brakes didn’t fail due to a mechanical issue, his brakes failed because he didn’t know how to drive his truck down a steep hill. Meaning, down-shifting to engine brake. He used his brakes down that hill, not his gears, which caused his brakes to fail.

There’s a dashcam video showing him swerving all over the place going down the hill, going past a truck runoff ramp. He had the chance to stop his truck on the hill while his brakes were failing, and he didn’t.

The bottom of the hill in Golden is almost 4 miles from where the accident occurred in Lakewood. Meaning, he continued driving on flat / level interstate for at least 3-4 minutes before having the accident in Lakewood. He had plenty of time to down-shift, engine brake, pull over to the breakdown lane on flat level interstate.

All these negligent/indifferent/wrong choices that he made over the course of 7-8 minutes led to the deaths of 4 people. This wasn’t a case of a semi truck driving in town then *surprise* your brakes failed. This was a tragedy 7-8 minutes in the making, with multiple opportunities for the driver to save lives.

I say this ^^^ stating no opinion on the sentence he was given, but only to provide context that so much media coverage lately doesn’t have the time or the interest to give.
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@Long Tongue Silver just the fact that the asshole didn’t even go into the breakdown lane, let alone use the truck runoff lane, showed he had no care at all for the people around him. If he had just gone off into the ditch and risked his own life it would’ve been bad that a half-trained idiot destroyed a truck and tied up traffic for hours, but no, he had to plow into a bunch of people. Probably wasn’t even trained in how to do an engine brake.
 
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@Long Tongue Silver just the fact that the asshole didn’t even go into the breakdown lane, let alone use the truck runoff lane, showed he had no care at all for the people around him. If he had just gone off into the ditch and risked his own life it would’ve been bad that a half-trained idiot destroyed a truck and tied up traffic for hours, but no, he had to plow into a bunch of people. Probably wasn’t even trained in how to do an engine brake.
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Mandatory minimums are still absolute horseshit.
I don't think anyone's arguing that he wasn't at fault here. But he shouldn't have to rot in prison over it.
 
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Mandatory minimums are still absolute horseshit.
I don't think anyone's arguing that he wasn't at fault here. But he shouldn't have to rot in prison over it.
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Well, not for 110 years. He should probably do a bit of rotting though. This sounds a lot more like a dumb guy panicking and fucking up and not even being trained by whatever shitty company employed him to do a job he clearly didn't know how to do.

People have got much less for cold-blooded, malicious murders.
 
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Well, not for 110 years. He should probably do a bit of rotting though. This sounds a lot more like a dumb guy panicking and fucking up and not even being trained by whatever shitty company employed him to do a job he clearly didn't know how to do.

People have got much less for cold-blooded, malicious murders.
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10 years is right about what I'd give the dumbass.
 
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