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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."
 
Canadian firefighters Halloween party allows group dressed as KKK members to join annual gathering: ‘A mistake was made’
New York Post (archive.ph)
By Nicholas McEntyre
2024-10-30T05:16:06GMT
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A Canadian firefighters’ Halloween party sparked outrage when a group of four people appeared to be dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, as white robes and pointed hats made up the racist costume.

The masked party-goers walked into the North Sydney Firefighters Club in North Sydney, Nova Scotia for the holiday celebration with one holding a makeshift cross on Oct. 26, according to video obtained by CBC News.

Fire Chief Lloyd MacIntosh said the unidentified individuals, who were not club members, were admitted into the hall by volunteers working the door and were allowed to stay after the cross was confiscated and they were told to remove their hoods, Global News reported.

“A mistake was made,” MacIntosh said. “They were allowed in, they shouldn’t have been.”

The firefighters’ club offered a similar answer when pressed by outraged social media users for the blatantly racist costumes.

“We made a mistake!,” The North Sydney FireFighters Club said in a Facebook post Sunday evening.

“We apologize to any and all of our community who were offended or hurt by our lack of actions. These four individuals are in no way, shape or form associated with our organization,” the post read. “We promise to be better in the future.”

Tia Upshaw, the CEO and Founder of Black Women in Excellence was dumbfounded to watch the robe-clad partiers show up to a fire hall in 2024.

“Ku Klux Klan, KKK, I don’t care what rock you come from under, everyone knows what they stand for who they were and what it represents for Black individuals,” she told the outlet.

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Some users weren’t thrilled with the response from the club that hosted the event calling it a “pathetic apology.”

“This is not a mistake, this is blatant racism. They should have never been let in. Apologies are meaningless with no actions behind them,” one comment read.

“What they did was hurtful to people and … many would argue hateful,” Jason MacLean told the outlet. “It indeed was — and this is where people need to not shy away — it was a racist act.”

MacLean, whose father worked with the fire department in North Sydney, called for its members to take “anti-racism” training.

North Sydney Deputy Fire Chief Wade Gouthro stated the “situation” wasn’t what the fire department stood for and he decided to speak out after being contacted and messaged throughout the day.

“I have been reading your comments and to be honest I have been very reluctant to post just because I don’t want to add fuel to the fire so to speak,” Gouthro said on Facebook. “I can tell you this, the members of North Sydney and myself are very sorry from the bottom of our hearts and we ask for your forgiveness.

“We would certainly never intentionally hurt or insult anyone regardless of race, color, orientation or religion. We spend all of our time trying to do right by the community and are here to do all we can for anyone,” he added.

Gouthro, who was working the night of the party and not in attendance — but had been to the annual gathering over the last 29 years — says he wasn’t making excuses for the unidentified individuals.

“When we have Halloween dances you never know what you are going to see come through the door. Most times we think ah it is a costume without really thinking of the big picture or the past it represents,” he said.

The Cape Breton Regional Police are investigating the incident to see if a crime took place at the party.
 
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This includes all archived pages, although the blog still loads:

https://blog.archive.today/ https://www.ghostarchive.org/archive/mFwDX

Edit: Pages are intermittently loading although I haven't gotten an archived page I have bookmarked to load yet.
 
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The Apple Scam​

The most audacious kind of marketing.

This an insult:

Apple is currently picking up a lot of mockery because, for the new Mac Mini model
  • one Mac Mini with 32 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD costs one dollar more
  • than two Mac Minis with each 16 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD combined, so in total also 32 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, just with two Macs surrounding them.
This entire Apple marketing is a pure scam.

I once had a Mac Mini, the second model, from 2010 or 2011. Back then you could - complicated, but still - screw it open and replace the normal so-dimm RAM sticks and even the hard drive (2.5 inch SATA flat), and, if you got the missing special flat ribbon cable on the Internet, even add a second hard drive. But I recently threw that one away because it was hopelessly outdated. Apple itself hasn't been releasing MacOS for it for years, and I used it with Linux for some time, which wasn't worth it anymore because of an ancient processor, just SATA, and just USB 2.0, while you can get used 1-liter-mini-PCs with a much newer processor (6th or 7th generation), USB 3.0, NVMe slot, SATA slot and so-dimm up to 32 GB RAM for 120 euros already, and machines with N100 from 150 euros onward. It simply isn't worth extending the lifespan of a 13 year old computer, so it was thrown out. Also, I once upgraded it years ago, more RAM, replaced the old drive with an SSD, and in spite of video instructions I didn't manage to do it flawlessly because they used some screw construction which wasn't clearly discernible in the video, namely two cascaded screws on top of and inside each other, which you can screw in after the other, but can't unscrew without complications, and something broke. Not that it was a biggie, something like that sticks together even without that screw, but it was such a pain, and you had to first understand the construction.

But still: Back then, they still had replaceable and upgradeable RAM sticks and hard drives.

They changed that shortly after, at least the RAM is soldered in, and I think there is another obstacle for SSDs so that it is mandatory to buy both with the machine and can't upgrade it after.

And then they put up such sky-high prices to offer the same device simultaneously for cheap for the lower market segments as well as for expensive for those who want to do serious work with them.

If the EU had it in them, they would put punishing tariffs on computers in which SSD and RAM aren't replaceable/upgradeable, analogous to the seller warranty, because that is also a culprit for, when you've got too little memory or the SSD is used up (they don't last forever) you have to buy a new computer instead of refurbishing the old one. Because, so far, even if I don't like the EU, its coercion has had very positive effects on Apple. They had to move away from their proprietary Lightning plug (for which they had a patent and could thus control very precisely who is allowed to offer Apple accessories and at what price) towards USB-C, and the latest iPhone can be disassembled using a special technique, namely by supplying a small voltage on parts of the case, because they used a glue that chemically transforms with some electricity and stops sticking. Attach a 9V battery, wait a minute, bam, battery is ready to be replaced.

Brilliant method - but only made possible through the EU kicking Apple's butt.

And that is why the EU should go and kick Apple - and the other manufacturers - in the butt so that they offer replaceable memory sticks and SSDs again - and ideally also barebones models without any.

Some manufacturers argue that their computers are now so thin that so-dimm versions unfortunately no longer fit, even Ethernet is too tall allegedly. But some time ago, some vendor suggested a new standard which works with a different plug and with double the bus bandwidth, therefore only one module instead of two and much slimmer, solving exactly that problem. But I have never heard about that one again.

It's become a general money maker to sell computers with soldered RAM so that you pay hellishly high prices - if they get offered at all. I am often astounded what kind of expensive stuff is being sold which then has only 8 or, best case, 16 GB RAM.
 
Another one which I don't think deserves its own thread, but is worth sharing. Translated by me, original source [A]


Soylent Red​

It begins.

Compared to beef, Impossible Burgers aren't much different, but they require 96% less land, 92% less water, and generate 91% less greenhouse gas and they aren't more expensive.

— N. Schmid ⚡☀️ (@N_Schmid) November 5, 2024

If you let your meat get printed in the 3D printer from cell cultures, you can pick what kind of beef you want to simulate.

I'm just waiting for a fast food chain named "Burgers on Demand" to open up, where you can choose what area of the world you want to simulate as a meat source. At Subway, you're already getting assaulted by a catalogue of questions for the sandwich builder.

It's got its advantages too. If the fat marbling in the steak comes from the 3D printer, you can print logos, slogans, portraits. Or advertisements. Your steak is being presented by ... Or shortly ahead of the election, campaign advertisement of course. "This steak from the 3D printer does less harm to the climate."

What would also be progressive is if, when placing the order, you'd have to put in your healthcare card with access to the digital patient file so that thing calculates how much fat and salt you're allowed to consume and logs the consumption in your medical record.

And döner kebab skewers can be constructed differently. I'm imagining a kind of spiral instead of a straight skewer. On top, a printer output that injects meat and fat filament correspondingly, the heating rods around it, and until the thing has passed through the spiral and comes out the bottom, it's cooked and roasted. As a long ribbon. Also great for text.

It's also going to become a household item. Just like you got ice cube makers in the fridge, you're going to have filament bottles in the fridge that are directly connected to the printer with tubes, and using the smart fridge keyboard, you can order your steak. Angus today, please.

Back then, the waiter asked how you'd like your steak, and you said something like "medium" or "well done". Or "bloody". In the future, he's going to ask what kind of marbling pattern you prefer. Checkerboard. Strips. Bavaria diamonds. Or what percentage share of fat.
 
Breaking News: Wasp Atrocities in the Hood
A male camwhore on Twitter (SFW: https://x.com/ilydari0z; NSFW: https://x.com/Darioaltz) has reportedly started a beef with a local wasp nest.
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As you can see here, this peaceful and clearly reticent creature has cone to his home in hopes of a reconciliation and a possible two state solution. This reasonable request was followed by peaceful protests targeted at the targets friends and family to bring truth to justice.
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These reasonable requests to parlay were met with shocking violence instead as gangland killings erupted in the Hood.
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In retaliation, the Wasps have begun hunting down the camwhores family and another major conflict has erupted under the Biden administration.
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Further incidents will be reported, so stay tuned.
 
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Cc @Null, this one is short and entertaining and you can shake your head


Sitting in the forest is too dangerous​

In Baden-Wuerttemberg [South West Germany, one of the largest German states], more and more municipalities are getting rid of the benches in the forests because sitting in the forest is allegedly too dangerous.

Not because of stabbers, but because of climate change. The trees are allegedly too dry, branches could break off and fall down. But while taking a walk is at one's own risk, you can hold the forest owner responsible if you get hit by a branch while sitting down. Because there is a public right to enter a forest, but there is no right to sit down in one. Therefore, benches are a special service by the forest owner for which he is legally responsible.

Only Germany can pull off such stunts.
 
Karma visited Jackson, Mississippi recently.
An indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of Mississippi charging Hinds County District Attorney, Jody E. Owens II, 43; Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 41; and former President and current member of the Jackson City Council, Aaron Banks, 47, all of Jackson, with participating in a bribery scheme to enrich themselves. Owens, Lumumba, and Banks are scheduled to make their initial court appearances today before U.S. Magistrate Judge LaKeysha Greer Isaac in Jackson.

“The indictment alleges that Jackson’s mayor, the district attorney in Jackson, and members of Jackson’s city council conspired to accept bribes in exchange for official acts benefiting purported real estate developers,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Officials who abuse their positions of authority to enrich themselves undermine public confidence in government. The Justice Department is committed to restoring that confidence by working with its law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute public corruption.”
 
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Trump and censorship​

You gotta hand it to Trump: He doesn't waste any time.

This earns @realDonaldTrump a space on Mount Rushmore.


— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) November 9, 2024

The new US Vice President has already told von der Leyen and her commission very clearly that, in case X, formerly Twitter, should get censored by the EU, the USA will immediately cease all support of EU and Nato in Europe.
Censorship is deprivation of liberty!
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— Hermann (@Hermann130164) November 9, 2024

This is surely going to be funny and I already like this a lot. There's going to be quite some censorship conspiracies coming to light. Internationally.

However, his enemies aren't asleep either:

Breaking: CNN Reports The Pentagon Is Meeting In Secret To Plot Against Trump
For Breaking News And Reports Go Here:https://t.co/n6SlDavbf0


— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 10, 2024

This is going to be a joy because it's already clear that Vice President JD Vance is certainly not going to hide like Kamala Harris did as Vice President, but he's going to be quite active together with Trump.

Oh, guys, this is going to be funny.
 
his hair looks fake
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Also this city has a failing water system. Seems like Mayor corruption spent more time trying to look like Drake and getting bribes then actually fixing the issues of the city. And if your curious, the media blames racism and the republican Governor the water issues. Not the decades of the city being ran by black democrats.
 
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Also this city has a failing water system. Seems like Mayor corruption spent more time trying to look like Drake and getting bribes then actually fixing the issues of the city. And if your curious, the media blames racism and the republican Governor the water issues. Not the decades of the city being ran by black democrats.
Since 1997, almost 30 years to be more precise, the last white mayor of Jackson was J. Kane Ditto.
 
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Urgent recall of dangerous foodstuffs​


In the USA, the vendor Costco was obliged by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to recall 79,200 pounds of flawless butter because they didn't write on it that butter is made from milk - it already is in the list of ingredients that the milk is made from "cream", but apparently it did not mention that cream contains the allergenic milk, and allergenics have to be strictly noted and labeled as such.

Too many people of the current generations don't know anymore that butter is made from milk, and milk comes from cows, and consider it a chemical factory product. And thus, it could happen that somebody who is allergic to milk unknowingly and guilelessly buys and consumes butter for the first time because he didn't know that butter contains milk.

If Donald or JD hears about this ...
 
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Completely batshit professorships​

The university of the Lower Rhine

put up a job listing for the professorship "Fabric design in the context of gender studies".

It is obviously a political benefits position for feminists who are close to The Party and unfit for the labor market. This is so dumb and corrupt that I wish that they get just what they are looking for. But from experience, such stupid positions are fit exactly to a certain applicant in advance, in a corrupt way.

Conveying subject-specific content as well as socio-cultural, aesthetic, ecological, economical, and technological relations in supervising the development of fashion assortments

Innovative and future-oriented development of the design field, gender justice, diversity and sustainability and applied artificial intelligence

Typical academic bullshit bingo: Just put in all the words that give you money from the politics: Gender justice, diversity and sustainability and applied artificial intelligence. I'm surprised that wind turbines and solar panels aren't in there.

German academia can just bugger off.
 
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