Sunday July 4: Daily Links

SUNDAY 7.4


NEWS STORIES

 



NYC Shades Cleveland For No Reason at All

The city’s official twitter account posted, “A gloomy day in New York City is still better than a sunny day in Cleveland.”

Is DiBlasio doing the tweeting for NYC now?

Read more at mediaite.


London’s Giving 200 Box Homes to the Homeless

The UK has already experimented with giving these prefab mini houses to the homeless to solve the growing problem. It will cost $65k for the entire project.

Sounds like they’re putting out 200 cardboard boxes. Aren’t the homeless already living in those?

Read more at designtaxi.


The West Has a Real Water Problem

Water is fast becoming a major problem in the West- its disappearing at an alarming rate in the Summer, and there’s also a lot less snow melt runoff in the spring.

Oh, which way is this hand basket going? Hell?

Read more at CNN.


Bezos Has Some Tips For His Workers on How to Think About Their Careers

The Amazon founder says that he has realized that you can’t think in terms of finding balance in your work and home life- you need to think of the two as parts of a circle. He says that when he is happy at home, he is happier at work, and vice versa, and thinks his workers should look at their ‘careers’ in the same way.

Obviously, Jeff, you’ve never worked at one of your warehouses.

Read more at businessinsider.


Ransomware Attacks Are SO HOT Right Now - 1,000 Companies Hit

A large ransomware attack has affected 1000’s of small businesses continuing a new trend that’s popped up in 2021. Bitcoin is down right now so all of these companies can pay these hackers off on the cheap.

Read more at Yahoo Finance.


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SPORTS



Cowboys Are Back! On Hard Knocks

The Dallas Cowboys are returning to tv series ‘Hard Knocks’ for 2021. This is their third time being featured on the show.

The team you love to hate on the show you hate to love.

Read more at CBS Sports.


Sixers coach Loves Ben Simmons

“Ben’s great,” Sixers Coach Doc Rivers told TMZ. “I want him back. He’s terrific. He’ll be great.”

“I think he doesn’t need a lot of fixing. He’s gonna be great for us. He’ll be great.”

That’s the exact thing you say when you’re trying to sell your car.

Read more at TMZ.


Angels' Shohei Ohtani Is Too Good For Words

After Ohtani increased his MLB home run total to 30 and stole his 12th base, Joe Maddon said there weren’t words for how good his play is, suggesting that maybe supercalifragilisticexpialidocious might work.

The single best athlete in sports is being ignored because he plays for Anaheim.

Read more at espn.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Henry Winkler Confuses The Internet

Beloved actor Henry Winkler tweeted that we need a cataclysmic event to bring us all together as a nation, confusing the internet who kind of feel like we’ve had enough of cataclysmic events.

Aaaaayyyyyyy.


Seth Rogen Calls Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympics Suspension Racist

Rogen says that the bias against weed is rooted in racism, and said the US should be ashamed of its treatment of the runner. “Also,” he added, “if weed made you fast, I’d be FloJo.”

Seth if you smoke two more joints you’re going to sound exactly like Kevin smith.

Read more at Huffpost.


Bruce Lee's Daughter Wants QT to Shut Up

When asked how Quentin Tarantino could rectify the controversy regarding her father, Shannon Lee said “He could shut up about it.” Or, she suggested, “he could apologize or he could say, ‘I don’t really know what Bruce Lee was like. I just wrote it for my movie. But that shouldn’t be taken as how he really was.’”

Hold on Shannon. If it wasn’t for Tarantino nobody would be talking about Bruce Lee at all.

Read more at variety.


Smash or Trash: 24 Hour Entertainment Districts in NYC

The city is floating.a very controversial idea that would finally make the big apple a city that never sleeps. The idea would be to create 24 hour entertainment zones where bars and clubs could stay open around the clock.

24 hour districts in NYC?

Everything is on the table right now,” said Ariel Palitz, who runs the city’s Office of Nightlife.

This sounds like code words for casinos.

Read more at CBS Local


Andrew Cuomo’s Daughter Comes Out, Again

Cuomo’s daughter Michaela has already come out as queer, and had previously come out to family and friends as bi sexual and later pan sexual. Now she says she has come to understand that she is demisexual. Demisexual people only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond.”

Oh. We thought it meant you were only attracted to people who look like Demi Moore.

Read more at NY Post.


Ultimate Slip n Slide Gets Flushed

That NBC game show based on people playing on a Slip n Slide was almost done filming when a diarrhea outbreak caused production to halt. Now it looks like the show is getting dumped.

So they’re shitcanning the diarrhea show. Got it.

Read more at The Daily Beast.



TRENDING




VIRAL VIRAL



5 M&Ms = Guinness World Record

A guy broke the record for most M&Ms stacked when he stacked up 5 of em. “I was pretty ecstatic when I got the fifth. I can’t lie. I was running around the room, arms in the air.”

MLB is promising to check for sticky substances.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



WWTFFT??

What would the founding fathers think about 2021 America? Well, only 34% believe the founding fathers would consider the nation to be a success. Another 41% believe the Founders would consider the nation a failure.

100% shouldn’t give a fuck what the founders would think; they’re the ones that got us into this mess.

Read more at mediaite.


Are These The 30 Best Action Movies Of The 90s?

Inside hook has determined, IN ORDER, the 30 best action films for the decade that was the 90’s. Finally, a list we can all argue about.

Read more at Inside Hook.



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