Friday July 7 Daily Links

FRIDAY 7.7


NEWS STORIES

 



Missing Man Was Never Missing?

After reports flew around about a 25 year old man being found after being missing for eight years, reports flew in from neighbors that he’s been living with his mom for years.

Guess nobody was really looking for him.

Read more at ABC 13


Worlds Largest Video Screen Lights Up Vegas

It looks great, but it was two billion dollars. TWO BILLION. And it’s a tv screen.

Read more at NY Post.


Subway Is Willing to Slice in Store To Get You Back

After declining sales for years, Subway is desperate to win back customers and is now going to do their meat slicing in stores instead of shipping their meats pre sliced.

Hey call me crazy but I like em presliced.

Read more at CNN


OceanGate Suspending All Operations

The company that owned the doomed submersible that imploded near the Titanic wreck says they are suspending all operations after the disaster.

Awww man. Just two weeks too late.

Read more at TMZ


Bill deBlasio and His Wife Announce They Are Dating Other People

The former Mayor of NYC and his wife are splitting up. Sort of. They have agreed to keep sharing a home, and the title of husband and wife, but they’re just going to see other people, and not so much of each other.

She’ll do okay but ole bucket hat is going to be learning to use the cuck chair.

Read more at NY Post.



SPORTS



Britney Spears and Victor Wembanyama Steal All the Headlines With Insane Incident

A security guard allegedly grabbed Brit at the Catch restaurant in the ARIA Hotel in Las Vegas, after she allegedly grabbed emerging basketball super star Victor Wembanyama’s ass. He was walking through when tons of fans were shouting for him, and among those women was Britney Spears who ran up to him and embraced him.”I didn’t see what happened, because I was walking straight and we were told, ‘Don’t stop,'” Wembanyama said. “But that person grabbed me from behind — not on my shoulder, she grabbed me from behind — and so I just know the security pushed her away,” Victor said. He kept going, not even knowing it was the famous pop star who had approached him. His security allegedly handled her a bit roughly.

Britney next time just call ahead. You can get in anywhere.

Read more at TMZ


Shaq Reacts To Not Being One of the Most Important Lakers on a List

Jeanie Buss, who owns the team, made a list of the five most important Lakers of all time. Shaquille O’Neal was not on that list. He posted a response to the list. “Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” he asked.

There’s a lot of great names missing Shaq. Jerry West is the logo of the league and he didn’t make it.

Read more at Sports Illustrated.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Cellphone Hits Drake On Stage

During the opening night of his tour, a fan threw their phone on stage, hitting Drake on the wrist. He’s fine.

Drake has been phoning it in for years.

Read more at TMZ


Eagles Release Dates For Their Final Tour

Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, have announced dates for their final tour with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey, that could go well into 2025.

Just 30 years after their first last tour.

Read more at Variety


Madonna Was Revived With Narcan

Radar Online is reporting sources who say that before Madonna was admitted to the ICU last week, her lifeless body was discovered at her home, and she had to be revived with Narcan- a drug typically used to revive someone from a narcotics overdose.

Who knew that Narcan could help with a bacterial infection?

Read more at pagesix.


Larry David Shocked To Find Out Something About His Mom

Larry David didn’t know anything about his moms past, so he went digging into his ancestry. On Finding Your Roots, he learned his mothers real name, wasn’t Rosa, it was Regina. And he learned she was born in Poland.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.


Ranking Sports Movies Biggest Cheating Scandals

Space Jam should hae made the cut.

Read more at The Ringer



TRENDING & VIRAL



Zuckerberg Finally Gets a Win

Over 30 million people signed up for Mark Zuckerberg’s new Twitter competitor, “Threads” in under 24 hours.

Cool. Can we dump the metaverse now?

Read more at mediaite


Twitter Wants to Sue Meta

Mark Zuckerberg got a lawyer letter alleging serious, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of trade secrets and intellectual property regarding the launch of Meta’s new “Threads” app. “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information. Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta.”

Ah, so that’s how geniuses make their money.

Read more at semafor.

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Cannabis Linked to Serious Mental Health Crisis

A major new study has found that people who use large amounts of weed are more likely to be diagnosed with conditions like bipolar disease, schizophrenia and depression. The report did not say that use of marijuana leads to those conditions, just that there is a correlation between people who have the conditions and use. “These findings may indicate that a subgroup of the population is at high risk for both cannabis use and certain psychiatric disorders, based on their genetics,” according to the author of the study.

Well it’s a little late to bring that up

Read more at WSJ


New Study Finds We Are Most Attracted To Ourselves

This is why twins have so much sex.

Read more at NY Post.



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