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TerpenoidTester 24 points ago +24 / -0

On September 25, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) wrote a letter canceling the upcoming conference panel, “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology,” which they had previously accepted.

Of course Canada is somehow involved.

“The reason the session deserved further scrutiny was that the ideas were advanced in such a way as to cause harm to members represented by the Trans and LGBTQI of the anthropological community as well as the community at large,” the rejection letter declared.

"The community at large"...huh?

The panel proposed and initially accepted for the annual AAA/CASCA fall meeting noted that “there are multiple domains of research in which biological sex remains irreplaceably relevant to anthropological analysis” and therefore cannot simply be substituted with “gender.”

“Contesting the transition from sex to gender in anthropological scholarship deserves much more critical consideration than it has hitherto received in major disciplinary fora,” the proposal read.

Ready for some bullshit?

“This decision was based on extensive consultation and was reached in the spirit of respect for our values, the safety and dignity of our members, and the scientific integrity of the program(me),” the letter said.

At least the people involved had some pushback.

In their response to the letter, the six panelists — all serious scholars — note their puzzlement “at the AAA/CASCA adopting as its own official stance that to support the continued use of biological sex categories (e.g., male and female; man and woman) is to imperil the safety of the LGBTQI community.”

The panel “included a group of diverse women, one of whom is a lesbian,” the response observes. “In addition to having three fields of anthropology presented in our panel, our panel also included anthropologists from four countries with three languages – an international panel concerned about the erasure of women.”

Hey, they've got some balls!

Anthropologists around the world “will quite rightly find chilling this declaration of war on dissent and on scholarly controversy,” they conclude. “It is a profound betrayal of the AAA’s principle of ‘advancing human understanding and applying this understanding to the world’s most pressing problems.’”

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TerpenoidTester 2 points ago +2 / -0

To be fair they are commonly lumped into the same category so I shouldn't say it is a 'totally different' breed however they have much different temperaments.

AmStaffs are smaller, less aggressive and have a much less 'pit bull' looking head and build. Bull terriers are generally pieces of shit because they inherit the worst of both pit bulls and terriers.

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TerpenoidTester 13 points ago +13 / -0

One of Trevon Hamlet's core memories from attending Colorado is living on campus his freshman year and being able to count on one hand how many Black people he would see in a day.

BULLSHIT.

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TerpenoidTester 5 points ago +5 / -0

That's a bull terrior.

Totally different breed and mix, take a wild guess what the 'bull' is from.

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TerpenoidTester 21 points ago +21 / -0

Judge Mary Marubio ordered 19-year-old Darrick Bender to go home under a nighttime curfew and said he must avoid getting near the animal’s owners, CWB Chicago reported Tuesday.

Female judge in Chicago letting a black juvenile off without punishment for an obvious crime?

Surely he didn't do anything stupid like run from the cops right?

Two men matching descriptions apparently ran from officers at the scene. Bender ducked behind a house, tossing a backpack over a fence moments before the officers nabbed him.

The bag reportedly held a loaded 9-millimeter handgun featuring a laser sight, loose ammunition, and a pair of 50-round drum magazines.

Oh well, maybe he wasn't ID'd by the victim?

The neighbor later identified the suspect, whom he claimed shot his American Staffordshire Terrier in the head.

Hmm. Looks pretty open and shut.

“Prosecutors charged Bender with aggravated cruelty to animals, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and reckless discharge of a firearm endangering others. And they asked Judge Marubio to keep Bender in jail as a public safety threat, court records show,” the CWB Chicago report said.

However, Marubio decided to release the suspect, and he was also told to check in with the court’s pretrial services division along with the other stipulations.

Damn, maybe this is just a weird oversight?

Following the decision, an Illinois man who allegedly abandoned his dead wife’s body on the side of a road was freed due to the cashless bail system, the outlet reported Friday.

Uhhhhh nope.

Don't worry! If violent criminals with illegal guns shoot your beloved dog and run from police, destroying evidence in the process, they'll get hit with...curfew.

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TerpenoidTester 26 points ago +26 / -0

Portland subreddit is celebrating it so "local cheap mom and pop stores will replace it."

Yes, they are that stupid.

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TerpenoidTester 16 points ago +16 / -0

“The official in question accepted fully that what had happened had not been acceptable but stressed that it had not been intentional,” said the statement.

“The official concerned said that upon realising the mistake they immediately rectified it and ensured that the competitor concerned was presented with her medal before she left the Field of Play.”

The statement added that the official had expressed “deep regret” for what they had described as an “honest error” and a request to apologize in person to the competitor and her family had been initially declined.

“A written apology provided by the identified individual has since been issued to the competitor and her family,” the statement said.

What a joke.

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TerpenoidTester 26 points ago +26 / -0

“All y’all talm bout he updgraded dis and dat s–t ain got none to do wit all that lol it’s about how he switching his identity to fit the occasion.”

I can't fucking believe they included this with the 'angry texts' about it.

That shit is hilarious, imagine being a professional journalist and having to use some dumb bitch on twitter as a fucking source in your article.

Christ that is sad.

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TerpenoidTester 25 points ago +25 / -0

I got a good laugh in the Purge 3 when the black gangster boss told his guys not to loot or steal anything during the purge.

Some of the writing was just unforgivably bad in that one as far as realism. They slowly turned into total fantasies as they progressed.

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TerpenoidTester 12 points ago +12 / -0

His neighbors all tried to kill him for "flaunting the money he made off them" so they didn't work out so great for him.

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TerpenoidTester 11 points ago +11 / -0

Yes, FOIA's can be used at basically every level of Government, including state and city.

This is a first though outside of Pfizer, nobody else has tried claiming that the information "isn't worth the effort" of the city to produce.

https://www.doj.state.or.us/oregon-department-of-justice/public-records/attorney-generals-public-records-and-meetings-manual/i-public-records/

Here's a good resource to show just how little they want you using FOIA's. They try to make it seem incredibly complicated and borderline illegal so you won't do it.

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TerpenoidTester 2 points ago +2 / -0

It isn't about the law, it is about accuracy.

The term is not a catch-all that describes everything. That is like arguing that beer shouldn't be called beer, it should be called 'alcohol' with no differentiation from hard liquor.

It's a legal term that specifically means something. Misusing it doesn't help anyone.

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TerpenoidTester 20 points ago +20 / -0

This might be the most bold lie I have seen come out of a city Government.

NBC Chicago reports that the city of Chicago’s finance department has denied NBC 5 Investigates’ Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for copies of a year’s worth of invoices. The invoices are related to more than $57 million spent on a staffing company that has a contract with the city to provide staffing in shelters.

The city claims, “The burden of redacting records ‘outweighs public interest in the information.'”

Hahahaha. The 'burden' of redacting records. So don't redact them you pussies.

I've never seen this excuse used outside of Pfizer. Did Pfizer tell politicians to start using it too?

In February, CBS 2 revealed their FOIA request, on how the city has spent the more than $100 million, was also denied by Chicago Office of Budget & Management.

In the denial letter to NBC’s recent FOIA, the city said the request for 498 payment vouchers (that would require redactions) was “unduly burdensome” and would impose “immense burden on the department’s time.”

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TerpenoidTester 2 points ago +2 / -0

It is a semantic issue. You are including "vaping" to include 510 threaded cartridges as well as juul style cartridges.

You can't do that, those are two entirely different industries that you are using the same term for.

They are legally separated so you shouldn't just call them all 'vaping' because it is inaccurate and leads to this exact problem.

Vaping is for tobacco. It has NOTHING to do with cannabis.

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TerpenoidTester 2 points ago +2 / -0

You are referring to cartridges. That is different from THC products that can be used in vape batteries, which is what she was selling.

It is a legal distinction in every legalized state. You cannot sell a product containing THC that can be used via a vaping battery.

They separated the two industries and it is a major penalty if you get caught mixing them.

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TerpenoidTester 43 points ago +43 / -0

This is a fucked up story.

The father decided to contact Lawrence High School Principal Dan Bowers to protest, but the principal claimed he had no control over the Bulldog Health Center and would do absolutely nothing to help.

Representatives from the Bulldog Health Center boasted to Sack that they were allowed to give his daughter prescription drugs without telling him. They also refused to say a word about why the drug was unlabeled nor why there was not a safety container.

Sack then pulled his daughter from the Lawrence High School to make her appointments with a doctor and a therapist. Someone at the school responded by snitching to Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Child and Family Services, which the Maine Wire notes is the division of state government tasked with investigating allegations of child abuse.

Here comes the gestapo.

On Thursday, an agent from Child Protective Services (CPS) called Sack and informed him that he would be arriving shortly to make a surprise visit to his home to conduct a child welfare investigation.

“They called and said it was an emergency situation at my house, that I was pretty near holding my daughter hostage, is what the gentleman that came yesterday told me,” Sack said.

“He had information that only the school and Bulldog Health Center had,” he said.

For three hours, CPS Agent Dylan Wood grilled Sack and his family individually and as a group, including asking questions about Sack’s firearms and where he keeps them.

The agent eventually indicated to Sack that the complaint was without merit.

Pretty astonishing how they are sneaking in firearm questions after handing Zoloft to a fucking 17 year old and not informing her parents.

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TerpenoidTester 2 points ago +2 / -0

They separated the two industries, it is HIGHLY illegal even in legalized states to sell any vape product with THC.

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TerpenoidTester 22 points ago +22 / -0

This is amazing.

Erin DuPree was the newly appointed Director of Minnesota’s marijuana regulatory agency, having been elevated by Democrat Governor Tim Walz. Walz said DuPree was an effective leader who would successfully oversee the state’s new pot market in a press release Thursday.

According to news reports, DuPree owed $12,500 total to two different vendors she failed to pay and $71,000 owed for state taxes, and she just recently settled a $45,000 tax lien with the federal Internal Revenue Service.

She was also caught selling vape products with THC, which was prohibited under the new law.

Just wait for the explanation:

In a statement, DuPree said, “Conducting lawful business has been an objective of my business career. However, it has become clear that I have become a distraction that would stand in the way of the important work that needs to be done.”

Online, the detractors were more specific that DuPree had a defunct consulting firm, ran a Pilates studio and not an actual comparable business in the industry, she was set to be paid a high salary at $151,505, and was caught selling products that would have been found to be illegal by the office she was planning to run.

The Democrat Governor Tim Walz said that she was an “excellent choice.” The Democrat Lieutenant Governor said she had “outstanding business acumen.”

What a surprise, the handpicked individual was a criminal. I suppose the background check they did just checked who she donated to...

Also notice the total lack of accountability on her part, claiming her criminal deeds are a 'distraction'.

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TerpenoidTester 30 points ago +30 / -0

He's the presidential candidate for the Dems. They can't have him publicly pushing this issue as hard as he is considering how wildly unpopular it is.

It doesn't surprise me at all that his image is now being 'cultivated' to create something the media wants. All that anti-vax stuff with his daughter? Scrubbed. Look for that to be a 'far right talking point' soon.

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TerpenoidTester 8 points ago +8 / -0

Last October, a Parliament committee was told that £5.6 million a day was being spent on hotels for people who have arrived in the UK and submitted an asylum claim. A year later the figure hit £8 million per day with over 400 hotels being used to house illegal immigrants. Three billion pounds each year for this new business.

Astonishing waste.

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TerpenoidTester 15 points ago +15 / -0

Using his verified X account Wednesday, Brooks posted a photograph of a hamburger, fries, and what was left of what looks like an alcoholic drink. He added this caption: “This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.”

Brooks’ tweet received so much attention (most of it ridicule) that the airport restaurant in question, the 1911 Smokehouse Barbecue, responded on Facebook. Above a photo of Brooks, the restaurant piled on the scorn with what can only be described as an awesome fact check:

Looks like someone was knocking back some serious drinks – Bar tab was almost 80% and he’s complaining about the cost of his meal keep drinking buddy – we get paid off everything.

It really is astounding how modern journalists truly believe they can lie with impunity nowadays.

This may seem small but lets be honest, thirty years ago publicly lying would get you fired from any reputable newspaper. Now he'll just ignore it and the whole thing will go away in a few days while his buddies all cover for him.

Frankly I wish businesses would begin suing these assholes.

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TerpenoidTester 35 points ago +35 / -0

I went to the Dallas subreddit out of curiosity and the cope seems to be: he was always a Republican and ran as a Democrat 'just to win'.

They are trying to recall him now.

The irony is palpable.

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TerpenoidTester 26 points ago +26 / -0

An ad for shaving razor company Braun is taking fresh heat on social media after users noticed it featured a trans male model with double mastectomy scars shaving their beard.

Why? WHY?

Conservative commentators on social media ripped the brand — a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble — this week, claiming it is "celebrating the mutilation cult of gender."

P&G also owns Gillette.

In the image, there were double mastectomy scars on the model's breasts while shaving facial hair with what was reported to be the Braun Series X Hybrid Trimmer.

Here comes the bullshit:

A Procter & Gamble spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the image represents real Braun consumers.

They said, "This is one of hundreds of images on our site showing people using our products — all of which are reflective of the consumers we serve."

Is it so fucking hard to sell products to men...without involving trannies?

P&G is really asking to get fucked here but they own a massive portfolio. Expect more of this and quickly.

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TerpenoidTester 7 points ago +7 / -0

They had evidence, but what can they do when it is suddenly removed?

It isn't about liking or disliking anyone, he has been protected for years by the higher ups.

Why the protection ran out now I can't say, but he's well known in NJ for committing a wide variety of crimes.

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