Thursday April 15: Daily Links

THURSDAY 4.15


NEWS STORIES

 



White Soldier Harasses Black Kid Walking Through Neighborhood

A 42 year old man is under arrest after a video went viral showing him harassing a black man earlier this week. “you’re in the wrong neighborhood, motherfucker” the soldier said to the man. “I ain’t playing with you. … I’m about to show you what I can do.”

It’s not the wrong neighborhood, buddy, you’re just in the wrong decade.

Read more at NY Post


In 2021 a Town Voted to Remove a Lynch noose From City Logo.

Placerville was a gold rush city, previously known as “hangtown.” The town’s circular logo shows a miner panning for hold, with a tree behind him that has a noose hanging from a branch.

Okay well this is a start, but we really should get them off the trees too.

Read more at Huffpost.


Mars Insight Could Possibly Die for Good

NASA’s $800 Million Mars Insight has a problem- its covered in Mars dust and its solar panels are having trouble recharging. To conserve power, Insight has initiated an emergency shutdown and if conditions don’t improve, it could die for good.

To be fair, who could have anticipated the red desert planet to have have dust?!? Could have added some windshield wipers to those solar panels but hindsight is 20/20.

Read more at yahoo.



SPORTS



Man Says Aaron Donald Brutally Assaulted Him

A man says NFL player Aaron Donald, assaulted him resulting in 16 stitches near his eye, a concussion and an arm injury. Donald is a defensive tackle for the LA Rams and former all-american.

Who would have guessed that an NFL player had anger issues.


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CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



People Think HBO is Remaking the Last Season of Game Of Thrones

The internet is in a frenzy after HBO’s Game of Thrones tweeted three simple words. Winter Is Coming.

Sorry kids, Winter has left the building.


New footage of John and Yoko Rehearsing

Before famously recording their legendary pacifist anthem “Give Peace A Chance” at their Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on 31 May 1969, John Lennon & Yoko Ono rehearsed an early version of the song while at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel in the Bahamas just days before, on 25 May.

The video features John humorously ad-libbing lyrics for the verses before being joined by Yoko for the memorable chorus that became an anti-war anthem for a generation and which remains an enduring protest song more than 50 years later.

This is so much better than Mick Jagger’s new song.


Courtney Stodden is Non Binary

The 26-year-old model announced new pronouns on Instagram.

Courtney, you had breast implants, are you sure you know what non-binary means?

Read more at people.com.

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Ellen Ratings At All Time Low

The ratings for daytime talk show “Ellen” have been dropping all year and now the show has taken another hit to the tune of 11% in one week, leaving her with less than a million viewers. Ellen’s Game of Games Primetme Show has lost half of its audience compared to last year.

Maybe we should put her on Jeopardy.

Read more at showbiz411.


Netflix Show Will Help You Sleep

Netflix has teamed with Headspace- the app that helps you relax- for a show titled “Headspace Guide to Sleep.”

Oddly, Netflix is already the only way most of us can to sleep.

Read more at THR.


Old Clip of Billy Eichner Prediction that Colton Underwood from Bachelor is Gay is Going Viral

Billy’s gaydar never fails.



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Robodog Patrolling With NYPD Freaks Out People on the Street

These bystanders perfectly react to seeing NYPD cops walking a robot dog in NYC.

If you think this is scary, wait till you see Robocop walking a real dog in about two more years.

Read more at futurism


Curious Bear Wants Nothing to do with Yappy Dogs

If Goldilocks would have had a dog she could have kept all the porridge.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Study Says Magic Mushrooms Better For Depression Than All Our Other Drugs

A new study says psilocybin, the “magic” in magic mushrooms, “is at least as good — and probably better — than the gold standard treatment for depression,” said Roland Griffiths, director of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University, who was not involved in the study.

We knew this in the 70’s when it improved a Jethro Tull concert.

Read more at NBC News.


Cracked Lists 15 Iconic Characters Who Didn't Look Anything Like They Were Written

Maybe you didn’t know it but Forrest Gump was written as a Chubby Pothead who looked more like John Goodman than Tom Hanks. Cracked lists Gump and 14 other tv and movie characters who looked nothing like the source material.

You forgot Jesus.

Read more at cracked.


Does Birth Order Really Effect Personality?

While many can a debate if first born, a middle child or the baby family really seem to have certain personalities but… we all can agree we know a crazy ass only child when we see one.

Read more at time.


Who is the Greatest Fictional Detective?

Hercule Poirot?? Okay guess you’ve never heard of a little someone by the name of Ace Ventura?!?

Read more at washingtonpost.



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