Monday, July 31, 2017
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Link List 7-30-17
Fishing Prank on Younger Brother - Gif was too big for me to upload
Allegedly drunk clown arrested with machete taped to his amputated arm, Maine police say
Federal Court: Public Officials Cannot Block Social Media Users Because of Their Criticism
Blowing Out Birthday Candles Increases Cake Bacteria by 1,400 Percent
10 Famous Book Hoarders
Man arrested for using $2 bills at Best Buy - Not an Onion headline, I promise.
GOP Rep: ‘Law Abiding’ People Who Have Made ‘Wise Decisions’ Don’t Need Full ACA Coverage
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Lord's Name in Vain
The Nice Guys was one of the best movies to come out in 2017. I highly recommend it.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Suburbicon | Official Trailer
Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, directed by George Clooney, written by the Coen Brothers.
In theaters October 27th.
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Link List 7-27-17
In 1993 a man named William Brennan walked out of the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas with $500K in cash and chips and vanished, along with his cat. He has never been heard from since, making it one of the most successful casino robberies in history.
Oscar Winner Mahershala Will Star in True Detective Season 3 - I'm very excited for this. I am anxiously awaiting to see which people are picked to be directors. This will be the determining factor of the quality.
A Reddit Legal Advice post about the most outrageous HOA problem. There was an update posted here later on. My goodness.
Here is a handy infographic from VOX explaining what is next for the GOP's effort to repeal the ACA
Over 2,500 products have shrunk in size over the past five years but are being sold for the same price, official figures show. - Hidden inflation. Products are packaged in smaller and smaller containers with shittier and shittier ingredients.
Wal-Mart is developing a facial recognition system - If they can identify shoplifters, they can identify everyone else too.
New Study Out
CHAMPAIGN, IL—Confirming that the findings were consistent across all age, gender, racial, and socioeconomic demographics, a study published Monday in The American Journal of Psychology determined that “hangin’ in there” is the best one can ever expect to feel. “After surveying the emotional state of thousands of respondents, we have concluded that the maximum amount of happiness a human being can now experience falls within the range of ‘gettin’ by’ to ‘hangin’ in there,’” read the report in part, which went on to note that “hangin’ in there” was an extremely rare experience for the vast majority of people, and that lower-grade feelings such as “so-so” and “eh” were far more common. “Although a very small subset of subjects reported occasions of having dispositions elevated to the point of ‘can’t complain,’ this was considered to be an anomaly and not statistically significant.” The report pointed out, however, that while “hangin’ in there” represents the highest potential state of contentment one can hope to reach, there is still no known limit to how shitty one can possibly feel.
TheOnion
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Everything Wrong With John Wick Chapter 2
I hesitate to even post this. John Wick and John Wick Chapter 2 are two of the best movies I have seen in recent memory. I guess CinemaSins says that no movie is without sin.
Shot Caller | Official Trailer
Release date is TBD. I can't really find a reliable source. I think the studio has moved the release date a few times now for whatever reason. Probably Summer 2017.
ZeroMedia
An Old Tradition
Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict.
She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.
She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walked behind their husbands, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime and women seemed happy to maintain the old custom.
Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you still abide by an old custom, that you once tried so desperately to change?"
The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, "Land mines."
via
True Ownership
GM has joined with John Deere in asking the government to confirm that you literally cannot own your car because of the software in its engine.
Like Deere, GM wants to stop the Copyright Office from granting an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow you to jailbreak the code in your car’s engine so that you can take it to a non-GM mechanic for service, or fix it yourself. By controlling who can service your car, GM can force you to buy only official, expensive parts, protecting its bottom line.
As Consumerist quips, GM wants you to know that the car in the driveway is “literally not your father’s Oldsmobile.”
Read the rest…
Monday, July 24, 2017
Link List 7-24-17
Koch Brothers Bankroll Move to Rewrite the Constitution - Here's an in-depth look at what a constitutional convention could entail and just how dangerous it is (and how close we are to reaching one). States Likely Could Not Control Constitutional Convention
Watch dumb people answer questions - Another fine example of why we need to fund public education. Ugh
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Gerrymandering Case May Be Most Important Decision SCOTUS Faces
A New Website to Search Good Non-Fiction Books
10 Underrated Crime Movies
Sunday, July 23, 2017
The Devil's Fungus - Clathrus Archeri
The Shape of Water | Official Trailer
From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER - an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment. Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones.
In theaters December 8, 2017
Sessions Commits Perjury
Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador, U.S. intelligence intercepts show
"I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign." - Jeff Sessions testifying under oath
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions — then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump — were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.
One U.S. official said that Sessions — who testified that he has no recollection of the April encounter — has provided “misleading” statements that are “contradicted by other evidence.” A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had “substantive” discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
Surfing Without Waves
Name: "eFoil"
$12,000
Pre-order Link:
And before someone asks, no, it's not CGI
A foilboard or hydrofoil board is a surfboard with a hydrofoil that extends below the board into the water. This design causes the board to leave the surface of the water at various speeds.
The Guy That Really Hated His Wife's Cat
A
man really hated his wife's cat.
One day, unbeknownst to his wife, he put the cat in his car and took it to the end of the block and let it go.
When he got home he saw that the cat had beat him home.
Undeterred, he put the cat in the car and took it a few miles across the city and tossed it out the car again.
Upon returning home, he was astonished to see that the cat had beat him home again.
Determined at this point, the man took the cat and drove him across the city, over the river, through the woods, and clear across three counties before putting the cat outside and driving off.
Several hours later the man's wife was at home when the phone rang.
She picked up and it was her husband.
"Is the cat there?" He asked.
"Yes..." she replied.
"Well put him on the phone, I'm lost"
via
One day, unbeknownst to his wife, he put the cat in his car and took it to the end of the block and let it go.
When he got home he saw that the cat had beat him home.
Undeterred, he put the cat in the car and took it a few miles across the city and tossed it out the car again.
Upon returning home, he was astonished to see that the cat had beat him home again.
Determined at this point, the man took the cat and drove him across the city, over the river, through the woods, and clear across three counties before putting the cat outside and driving off.
Several hours later the man's wife was at home when the phone rang.
She picked up and it was her husband.
"Is the cat there?" He asked.
"Yes..." she replied.
"Well put him on the phone, I'm lost"
via
The Very Unlucky Man
There was this very unlucky man who only had one testicle.
One day while he was traveling on a plane, the captain makes an announcement and tells that one of the engines of the plane have failed and one person must be thrown off the plane.
To pick this person, they write everyone's seat numbers on papers and put them in a bag.
Not surprisingly, the number pulled was this unlucky guy's seat.
He was like "Ahh, man. I will jump only if you know the answer of the question I will ask."
People agree and he asks this question by pointing to one of the other guys in the plane, "How many testicles I and this guy have in total?"
Everyone answers confidently,"Four, of course four."
The unlucky man laughs and pulls down his pants revealing his only testicle.
The guy he pointed also pulls down his pants and he has three testicles.
via
One day while he was traveling on a plane, the captain makes an announcement and tells that one of the engines of the plane have failed and one person must be thrown off the plane.
To pick this person, they write everyone's seat numbers on papers and put them in a bag.
Not surprisingly, the number pulled was this unlucky guy's seat.
He was like "Ahh, man. I will jump only if you know the answer of the question I will ask."
People agree and he asks this question by pointing to one of the other guys in the plane, "How many testicles I and this guy have in total?"
Everyone answers confidently,"Four, of course four."
The unlucky man laughs and pulls down his pants revealing his only testicle.
The guy he pointed also pulls down his pants and he has three testicles.
via
Saturday, July 22, 2017
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