Saturday October 1, Daily Links

SATURDAY 10.1


NEWS STORIES

 



Putin Vows Any Means Necessary to Keep His New Territories

The Russian warmonger says he’s annexed new Ukraine regions and he’s keeping them, no matter what he has to do to defend them

He’s the Rootinist Tootinist Putinist outlaw of 2022. #RootinTootinPutin

Read more at The Sun


See What the Hot Women of the GOP Want in a Man in New Dating App Trailer

Democrats are not welcome on a new dating site created by Kayleigh McEnany called The Right Stuff. In a new trailer for the app, politically conservative women tell you what they’re looking for in a sweetheart. This sounds like you just want a guy who will pay for everything.

This looks like if the 1950’s had dating apps.

Read more at mediaite.



SPORTS



Tua Got Macgruber Trending

Head Coach Mike McDaniel was trying to get across that his star player Tua is okay after his second head injury and shared a story about the plane ride home with the press. He said on the flight, Tua “pulled out his phone and started playing my cult favorite classic movie, ‘MacGruber,’ that he watched and was laughing with me. I think he was just happy to be with his teammates. All of his teammates were so elated. I mean, this was a scary, scary situation for all of us.”

If that doesn’t convince you he has a head injury, nothing will. Can someone also check Mike?

Read more at NY Times.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



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Nobody Believes Trevor Noah Left Daily Show to Focus on Stand Up

The Daily Show Host is leaving after 7 years, and claims that the schedule is too grueling. He’d like to return to focusing on stand up, he said, but nobody seems to believe him with media headlines and socials post yaing “yeah right” and “sure thing pal” and alleging that Noah was fired for poor ratings- sometimes as low as 400,000 viewers. Jon Stewart’s Daily Show averaged 2.5 million viewers per show.

He didn’t have many viewers but at least one of them is Dua Lipa.

Read more at Barstool.


Bruce Willis Okays Deep Fake Bruce Wilis Movies

Willis has sold the rights for his digital look alike to appear in commercial ventures meaning Bruce Willis could live on as a Hollywood Star forever. The company, Deepcake, released a statement from Willis.”I liked the precision of my character. It’s a great opportunity for me to go back in time. The neural network was trained on [the] content of Die Hard and Fifth Element, so my character is similar to the images of that time. With the advent of the modern technology, I could communicate, work, and participate in filming, even being on another continent. It’s a brand new and interesting experience for me, and I [am] grateful to our team.”

Can’t be worse than the last ten movies he made.

Read more at arstechnica.


The Community Movie is Going Straight to Peacock

It’s happening and will have six of the nine central characters and actors. Joel McHale (Jeff), Danny Pudi (Abed), Alison Brie (Annie), Gillian Jacobs (Britta), Jim Rash (Craig) and Ken Jeong (Ben) are all back for the movie.

It’s nice that some people are uncancelled and some people stay cancelled.

Read more at THR


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Todrick Hall Ordered to Pay Six Figures

Hall was the darling of Celebrity Big Brother…until he wasn’t. It all fell apart at the end and soon after, so did his life when he got sued for unpaid rent on a house that he had told everyone he bought. He got sued and now the judge has ordered him to pay over $100k in unpaid rent.

Well Todrick, if you had beaten Meisha Tate, you’d be sitting pretty now.

Read more at TMZ



VIRAL & TRENDING



Robot Breaks 100 Meter Dash Record

Cassie the robot runs the 100 meters on two legs in 24.73 seconds, setting a new record in the Guiness Book of World Records.

We already have robots that can do this. We call them cars.


Gorgeous Video Uses Nothing But Google Street Images

Gotta admit, this sure beats travel.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Animal to Human Diseases Expected To Become More Common

Zoonotic diseases- those that can start in animals and transfer to humans are on the rise and scientists think that trend is likely to continue. They believe environmental factors like deforestation, population growth and breeding have eroded boundaries that used to help keep those diseases from affecting humans.

Thanks experts, now we’re all itching.

Read more at NPR


Coffee is Good For You But How Much?

A 12 year study has concluded that coffee drinkers had some health benefits and lower death rates, lower risks of cardiovascular diseases, including strokes, some cancers, and some liver and gastrointestinal disorders. But they don’t know what the right amount of cups per day is optimal.

The answer is, three cups and four donuts.

Read more at lifehacker.


Average Person Spends 10 Years of Their Life on Autopilot

A study says we spend up to four hours a day on autopilot, kind of drifting through your day without making active decisions or thoughts.

Yeah we call that living

Read more at Study Finds



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