Friday April 10: Daily Links

FRIDAY 4.10


NEWS STORIES

 



Poll: Dems Would Drop Biden For Cuomo

You wanna take Biden off the ticket!? You have to go through CornPop first. He’s a bad dude and the name Joe scares his grand kids with when they won’t do their chores.

Read more at nypost.com.



US Senate Says Don’t Use Zoom

The US Senate has become the latest organization to tell its members not to use Zoom because of concerns about data security on the video conferencing platform that has boomed in popularity during the coronavirus crisis. Regular folk, this doesn’t affect you. Nobody cares what gossip you have about Brenda in accounting.

Read more at arstechnica.com.



Fran Lebowitz Is Not Leaving New York

Yes. New York City is now the epicenter of the global pandemic. Now let’s look at the upside. Times Square has cleared out the tourists.

Read more at newyorker.com.



Bill Gates Weighs in on the US Pandemic Response So Far

Big Bill Gates warned us about the dangers of a worldwide pandemic years ago. We laughed in his four-eyed nerd face. Now who’s laughing?

No one. This is an awful pandemic.

Read more at npr.org.



Peanut Butter Bread Is The Big Reboot

Now that we are facing the New Depression, it’s time to bring back some depression era food.

Peanut butter bread. It’s my new jam.

Read more at buzzfeed.com.



Bar Owner Peels Three Grand Off The Walls To Pay Staff

A bar owner in Georgia peeled $3700 that was stapled to the walls to give to her staff. She pulled the bras and panties off the ceiling too, but no one wanted those.

Read cnn.com.



SPORTS



Most Sports Fans Not Coming Back

Every sports league needs one thing to fill its stadiums and it’s not a winning season. It’s a vaccine.
762 Americans were asked a number of questions about the current and future state of sports, but the most notable one was in relation to whether or not they will attend a game if play resumes prior to the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. A fairly decisive 72% of respondents said they wouldn’t take the risk, (although that number drops to 61% among self-identified sports fans) but 76% said they’d happily watch them on television even if they’re played without spectators.

When we say we live and die with our team? That’s a lie. We want to live.

Read more at espn.com.



This Will Make You Forget About The NBA

ESPN is rattled because the idea of sport has completely changed. This could be the sport of the future and it will take place right in our living rooms.

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack.



Runner Creates ‘Social Distancing’ Device

They say there are no stupid ideas and yet this is a really stupid idea and if you disagree .. you are stupid.

Read more at yahoo.com.



ENTERTAINMENT



Keanu Reeves Doppelgänger!?

If you are looking for a great way to meet women, we have the perfect idea.

Look like Keanu Reeves.

Read more at ladbible.com (via fark)

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Rebecca Black Comes Out As Queer

Rebecca Black went on a podcast and came out as queer and revealed her last relationship was with a woman. Sounds like we’re gonna get a follow-up to “Friday” with “Pride Day.”

Read more at pagesix.com.



5 Movies Sci-Fi Predicted Would Be 2020

Quiet Place, Mission To Mars, Edge of Tomorrow, Pacific Rim, and Reign of Fire are 3 sci-fi movies set in the future, which is now the present. No diseases in any of these huh? That’s cool. Can we trade!?

Read more at nypost.com.



Hulu Isn’t Having Any Of The Shit From Twitter Trolls Complaining About Parasite Subtitles

The Hulu Twitter account was getting bombarded with people complaining that “Parasite” had subtitles instead of being dubbed into English and Hulu issued the perfect response: “If you don’t want to read subtitles, you can always learn Korean!”. This big dick energy off streaming services knowing there’s no other place to go right now is great!

Read more at indiewire.com.









GOING VIRAL

Check These Arial Pictures Of Area 51

If you look closely enough, you can see some Area 51 raiders still trying to figure out how to see dem aliens.

Read more at petapixel.com.



Dude Opens Airplane Slide In The Street

Shit gets boring during a lockdown. Might as well buy an old airplane slide off of eBay.

Read more at digg.com.



Lady Gives Some Shit To Snakes Not Socially Distancing

Come on guys, listen to Cuomo.

Via digg.com.

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