Wednesday 8/16/23
Celebrate:
National Airborne Day
National Bratwurst Day
National Roller Coaster Day
National Rum Day
National Tell a Joke Day
True Love Forever Day
World Calligraphy Day
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The Barbie Movie has inspired Gino's Cheesesteak and Onion in Fayetteville, NY to debut a new sauce. Malibu Barbie Dream Drizzle.
The sauce is the restaurant's house-made ranch with garlic, chili, and mixed with dragon fruit to get the vibrant pink coloring.
He's gone through 46 gallons since late July.
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In the new action thriller Heart of Stone, Gal Gadot is an elite spy for an agency powered by artificial intelligence, a premise so topical that the Netflix exec who gave it the greenlight is definitely getting a promotion. It costars Alia Bhatt and Jamie Dornan. Of course AI is a big issue in the writers and actors strikes.
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Michael Oher, former NFL tackle and the focus of the hit 2009 film The Blind Side, has alleged the couple that took him in during his teenage years lied about adopting him. In a Tennessee court filing, Oher said the couple, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, did not tell the truth about his adoption status and instead tricked him into signing papers that made them his conservators.
He asked a judge to terminate the conservatorship and to require the couple to turn over a full account of money they made off of his name. Oher also requested the Tuohys face some sort of sanctions and be required to pay compensatory and punitive damages, according to the Associated Press. The filing also revealed that Oher only learned of the status of his adoption this year.
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We actually know who came up with the term "LOL" for "laugh out loud." A guy in Canada named Wayne Pearson was the first to use it back in the 1980s.
He was in a chat room in the early days of the Internet, when a friend said something that really did make him laugh out loud. So he typed "LOL." Then his friend asked what it meant, and other people in the room started using it.
Well, Wayne, you had a good run. But we're sorry to say your day has finally passed because kids apparently think "LOL" is CRINGE now.
They have started using "IJBOL" for "I just burst out laughing."
The worst part is we're already pronouncing it wrong. Instead of saying each letter, you're supposed to say EEJ-BOWL.
It's not even a new term. It's been around for over a decade. But young people prefer it, because it seems new. And because they associate terms like "LOL" and "LMAO" with Millennial humor, not Gen Z humor.
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A team at Cornell found out your password can be stolen just by listening to you type, possible by training an A.I. to do it. They had it listen in while they hit each key on a keyboard 25 times, and it learned what each one sounded like.
It's something hackers could use if they were sitting near you in a place like Starbucks. So the researchers basically created those conditions for their test.
They used a phone to listen in on people typing, and the A.I. was able to guess which keys they were hitting with 95% accuracy. Then they tried it over Zoom, and it was still right 93% of the time.
It works by analyzing the sound each keystroke makes, and also how quickly one key is typed after another. For example, it might take you longer to hit the "X" on your keyboard than the "A".
Experts say it's more proof that how we log into stuff needs to change. Instead of typing passwords in, things like fingerprints and automatic password managers will be the way to go.
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People on a Reddit thread are talking about the "controversial" things that people only pretend to hate and here are a few of the best ones:
1. Pumpkin spice
2. Fanatics . . . like the fan bases of Taylor Swift, BTS, and Marvel
3. Nickelback. Or Creed. Or "Hagar-era Van Halen."
4. The word "moist"
5. Emojis
6. The American versions of international cuisines . . . like tacos, pizza, and Chinese food. Just because it's not "authentic" and "traditional."
7. Apple . . . or Google
8. Pineapple on pizza
9. Air fryers
10. "The drama."
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"MENU ANXIETY."
30% of us get menu anxiety, especially younger Americans. 41% of people in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s get anxious, compared to just 15% of people older than that.
The top three things we're thinking about when we order are the taste, the price, and how long it'll take to make it.
How messy it is also made the top five. And if you're in that younger demographic, you might also be worrying about the ENVIRONMENT.
Only 7% of older Americans think about the environmental impact of their meal, compared to 20% of Millennials and Gen Zers.
They're also twice as likely to say that seeing the word "vegan" or "vegetarian" makes them more likely to order something.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Of the top 15 highest-grossing movies in U.S. history, "Titanic" is the only one that isn't part of a franchise. The other 14 movies have a sequel out, have a sequel coming soon, or were a sequel themselves.
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