A few weeks back, Marjorie Taylor Greene did something she’d never done before: She admitted she’d done something wrong and pledged to do better. After repeatedly comparing attempts to stop an out-of-control pandemic to the Holocaust — then doubling and tripling down on it after being called out, including by the social media team for the Auschwitz Museum — she did the unthinkable and apologized. But her promise to become a better person lasted, oh, about three weeks.
As per The Washington Post, the most controversial freshman lawmaker is back at it. President Biden recently announced he was taking the push to get everyone vaccinated one step further, saying he’d send people door-to-door, offering live-saving jabs. After all, right now the vast majority of COVID-19 cases, and COVID-19-related deaths, are from people who haven’t received even a first injection.
But Greene wasn’t having Biden trying to save American lives. “Biden pushing a vaccine that is NOT FDA approved shows covid is a political tool used to control people,” she tweeted . “People have a choice, they don’t need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations. You can’t force people to be part of the human experiment.”
The “brown shirts” are a reference to what were dubbed “brownshirts” — what people called Hitler’s paramilitary organization, so named because of the color of their garbs.
This being Greene, her comment was, along with being offensive, misleading. All three vaccines being distributed in the U.S. were approved by the Food and Drug Administration last winter, at the behest of no less than then-president Donald J. Trump. They don’t, however, have full approval, and the organization is under pressure to do so to convince doubters, like Greene, to get vaxxed. (Greene, of course, has declined to say whether or not she’s been vaccinated.)
In mid-June, when she was being called out even by top members of her own party, Greene tried to educate herself about why making comparing life-saving actions to life-killing ones is not only inaccurate but wrong. She even went to D.C.’s Holocaust Museum. But clearly learning about one of the 20th century’s worst atrocities didn’t take.
More than three years ago, Nipsey Hussle released his official debut album, Victory Lap,which arrived after years of critically acclaimed mixtapes including The Marathon Continues, Crenshaw, and Mailbox Money. The 16-track effort would become of the best hip-hop releases of that year and it later earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album. Now it’s earned a new milestone: Its 100th overall week on the Billboard album chart.
It’s a feat few artists today have achieved, and it demonstrates the power Nipsey has continued to exude well after his untimely death. The album’s success started with its release, as it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. It was later certified Platinum at the beginning of 2020.
The news comes after an announcement that revealed Nipsey would receive a posthumous star on Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame in 2022. Next year’s class of inductees also includes Ashanti, Black Eyed Peas, DJ Khaled, and late actress, producer, and writer Carrie Fisher. Nipsey’s star joins previous hip-hop inductees like Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, and 50 Cent.
Nipsey’s alleged killer, Eric Holder, still remains behind bars on a murder charge. Despite it being more than two years since the shooting, a trail for the murder has not begun.
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Seventeen years ago, Ben Stiller and Jack Black teamed up in a forgettable comedy called “Envy” about two guys who are best friends, neighbors, and co-workers at 3M. However, their relationship sours when Black’s character becomes wildly successful after inventing the Vapoorizer.
The Vapoorizer is a powerful spray that makes dog poop mysteriously vanish. Although the invention seemed pretty unlikely at the time it made countless dog owners fantasize about a magical day when they’re liberated from having to pick up after their pets.
Excited to try #RocketBook but why does it remind me of the #VaPooRizer? https://t.co/8Bp4LBjLYU
It’s been 17 years since the release of “Envy” and nobody has figured out how to vaporize doggie doo-doo quite yet. But a new invention called the Beetl may be even better because it hunts down the dog poo for you.
The Beetl is an autonomous robot that cruises your lawn, locates dog poop, and then picks it up with a claw. It’s equipped with computer vision and a front camera that helps it navigate lawns and locate piles of poop.
via Beetl Robotics
“There are over 35 million households in the US with dogs and backyards,” the robot’s creator, Beetl Robotics, says on its website. “Nobody likes picking up poop, so we built a computer vision-enabled robot to address the needs of dog owners everywhere.”
Think of it as a Roomba that instead of sucking up dirt in your house, picks up poop outside.
Just like a Roomba, you can program the Beetl to roam within preset boundaries so it stays in your yard or avoids going into the street.
After the Beetl finds a pile of poop it picks it up and places it in a container you can throw out when full. The Beetl runs on a battery and will charge itself when it’s about to run out of power.
Beetl Robotics says it’s “probably the smartest pooper scooper ever” and that it “relentlessly” hunts and disposes of dog poop. The Beetl also connects to the cloud to learn new ways of detecting dog poop as the technology improves.
Imagine how great it would be if the Beetl eventually developed a sense of smell? Then, it wouldn’t even need a camera.
The company hopes to take the design one step further by creating a Beetl that can mow your lawn as well. This version would be equipped with a sickle-bar grass shear that cuts grass with a mechanism similar to a shaver.
Now, all of this probably sounds great to you, but there’s one catch, Beetl Robotics hasn’t set a date for the product to come to market so you’ll have to wait a little while longer before your poop-free days are over.
But for now, take solace in the fact that one day you will be able to walk across your lawn with confidence, knowing you can do so without stepping in doggie doo.
The age of Instagram and the ubiquitousness of photo editing tools that can completely change the way you look—on a screen, at least—have made body image issues even trickier to navigate than they already were. While “perfect” model bodies used to be the Photoshopped domain of magazines and print ads, now anyone with a smartphone can manipulate their image to be more or less curvy, lean, muscular—whatever the “in” body type is at any given moment.
The problem is that young people see such images and then look in the mirror. Faced with the reality of a human body in all of its normal imperfections, it’s easy to feel down on what you look like, especially when it doesn’t match the (highly edited) ideal version of a human body your favorite influencer shares in her Insta feed.
At least one country is taking action on the issue in an attempt to assuage some of the damage such comparisons can cause. Norway has passed legislation that requires content creators to disclose when they’ve edited a photo. The addition to its existing Marketing Act states that any photo in which “a body’s shape, size or skin has been changed by retouching or other manipulation” must be marked as edited. The reasoning behind the law is that undisclosed photo editing “plays on social insecurity, bad conscience, low self-esteem or contributes to body pressure.”
According to The Hill, the law applies to advertisers as well as social media influencers and content creators.
The issue is definitely real. BBC reports that the majority of kids under 18 said in a UK survey that social media images were “extremely influential” on their body image. Only 5% of them said they wouldn’t consider dieting or getting surgery to change their appearance. Other research has found that social media can be a positive influence on body image when people post body-positivity-oriented content, but most social media influence has a negative effect on body image.
All of this isn’t surprising. But as much as Norway’s requirement to disclose photo edits seems like a move in the right direction, it’s not going to do much to solve the real problem.
I think most people, even young people, know that social media photos have been edited. It’s not like it’s a big secret anymore. If you are on Instagram, you know that people have put automatic filters on their photos or adjusted the exposure, brightness, contrast, etc. to create the most pleasing image. That’s literally the way the app is used by almost everyone.
Filters and lighting adjustments aren’t new, and they’re not the real problem. Professional portrait photographers manipulate lighting and use filters all the time to make people look their best. We’ve all taken photos in bad lighting and wondered, “Yeesh, is that really what I look like?” No, it’s not. Cameras don’t capture exactly what our eyes perceive and the wrong lighting can make us look unnaturally bad. Adjusting lighting before and/or after taking a photo can actually give us a more true-to-life image, as long as it’s not overdone.
Photoshopping bodies, though? That’s a whole other story. Literally adding or taking away skin or fat to change a body shape should be noted. Making someone’s eyes bigger or nose smaller or lips fuller—not to make the image look more like how they really look, but to create an unrealistic ideal—is worth disclosing. But even not all Photoshopping is bad. I’m not bothered if someone uses Photoshop to remove a big ol’ zit from their face, for example, but I do care if they erase part of their cheek to make their face look slimmer. Blemishes happen, but they are temporary. They’re not part of how you really look. But changing the shape of your face or body? That’s what creates unrealistic expectations and body image issues when someone looks in the mirror.
Some might argue that makeup can do many of the same things photo editing can do and can also lead people to unrealistic beauty standards, though. So should makeup be disclosed too? Do we really expect people to only show raw, bare-skinned, no-make-up photos of themselves to be considered authentic? I don’t think so, but the line for what needs to be disclosed is definitely a bit fuzzy.
Still, I don’t think the issue is that people don’t know that images are manipulated on social media. I think the real issue is the normalization of following influencers who constantly share photos of themselves all the time in the first place. For instance, the Kardashians have nearly a billion Instagram followers between them, and almost all they post are selfies in various states of undress. I don’t think disclosing that their photos are edited would do anything to change the impact accounts like that have on their followers.
What we really need to do is teach young people that their value and worth aren’t to be found in what they look like, either in real life or on social media. And neither is anyone else’s, even if they’ve made millions off of their image as their “brand.” Find your worth in what you’re contributing that’s making the world a better place, not in how many compliments your social media images get.
We also need to teach kids to analyze their own habits when it comes to who they choose to follow: If you’re following people who share selfies to get attention or likes or beauty praise, why? What purpose does that serve? Is it actually serving you in any way other than to make you wish you looked different? Are there actually inspiring influencers who are making a real difference in the world that you could follow instead?
Norway’s law might make a powerful statement, but I don’t think it will solve the problem it’s attempting to address. Appreciate the attempt to tackle body image issues, but the real problem goes deeper than any law or photo editing disclosure can go.
One of the best stories of the NCAA Tournament is staying in the NBA Draft.
Jason Preston, a 6’4, 187-pound guard from Ohio University, told ESPN through his agency, Roc Nation Sports, that he was staying in the 2021 NBA Draft. Preston originally declared without signing with an agent so he had the option of going back to school, but will stay in after he reportedly impressed at the NBA Combine.
Ohio University junior guard Jason Preston will remain in the 2021 NBA Draft and sign with agent Drew Gross of Roc Nation Sports, Preston told ESPN on Wednesday.
Hardest decision of my life.. but the time is now!! To Ohio University… I’m so so so THANKFUL and I’ll always be forever GRATEFUL for taking a chance and believing in me. I LOVE YOU FOREVER BOBCAT NATIONBut always know first you always have to BELIEVE IN YOU!! pic.twitter.com/qbmW9FyhXr
Preston’s story is incredible. He averaged two points a game in high school, went to prep school, made his own highlight video and then posted the video to Twitter where it was then seen by Ohio head coach Jeff Boals and resulted in a college scholarship. Last season as a junior, he missed some time due to COVID-19, but also dropped 31 points against Illinois and was the driving factor in the Bobcats reaching the Sweet 16 in the tournament. For the year, he averaged 15.7 points, 7.3 assists and 7.3 rebounds while shooting 38.5% from three and 51.4% from the field.
Where he falls in the draft remains to be seen. He seems to be ranked a high second round pick right now, which isn’t a bad place to be. But perhaps some teams in late first round believe in him enough to take a flier on him there. For what it it’s worth, he spent Wednesday working out with the Lakers, who pick No. 22 overall.
Regardless of where he ends up, Preston has taken the next step from complete unknown to a legitimate NBA prospect who seems like he’ll get drafted later this month. That’s a cool story for someone who took the beaten path to get here.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the fifth episode of Loki, which went live on July 7.
Disney has always known cute, from the earliest cartoons of its founder, Walter Elias Disney, through The Mandalorian, which lives on a platform that wouldn’t exist without his tireless work almost a century ago. And it looks like, with its third show, the Marvel wing has finally found its Baby Yoda: Its most recent episode featured something that was called “Alligator Loki,” which is as cute as you’re going to get with a creature who could chomp someone’s hand off (and, in the episode, does).
The show’s fifth episode finds Tom Hiddleston’s mischievous antihero surrounded by variants of himself from other dimensions: Boastful Loki, President Loki, Kid Loki, etc. There’s also Classic Loki, played by no less than Richard E. Grant. But one clearly stood out from the rest, including the guy who once played the peerlessly disreputable Withnail: one that’s a small alligator wearing Loki’s ostentatious horned headgear.
In a new behind-the-scenes piece on Marvel.com, Hiddleston though it offered some deep stuff about identity. “The question is, ‘Is he really Loki? Or is he just green?’” Hiddleston asked. “It’s such a funny question that [the Lokis] all bicker about. One thing about Loki is that Loki loves to be right. And they all have a different opinion about this alligator.”
But others weren’t taking it that seriously. Series director Kate Heron had a jokey post about how the lizard Loki is a “diva.”
Happy Episode Five “Journey into Mystery” @LokiOfficial day! Here is one the biggest divas and the most demanding actor I’ve ever had to work with, taking a break from his reign of terror to relax in his chair #alligatorloki#lokipic.twitter.com/3WH57yt0Bz
Anyway, perhaps Alligator Loki can get a spin-off series where he hangs with Baby Yoda (sorry: Grogu), BB-8, and any other recent Disney-owned cute critter. Of course, the last two better watch themselves around this hungry, hungry green guy.
Late last year the hip-hop community was shocked by news of MF DOOM’sdeath. The rapper passed away on Halloween, but his family opted to keep the news from the public until they were comfortable. Now, seven months later, he’ll be honored with a new street sign in Long Beach, New York.
Earlier this year, one Dr. Patrick C. Graham, who went to high school with DOOM, started a petition for getting a street sign named after him. Though he initially wanted to call is KMD-MF DOOM Way” — the first part a reference to the hip-hop duo with which he first made his name — a new report from HipHopDX reveals it will likely be called something else.
“Right now, there’s discussion instead of just ‘KMD-MF DOOM WAY,’ there’s going to be some indication of his actual government name,” Graham told the publication. “That’s all I knew him as was Dumile [laughs]. They were trying to do it before his birthday, but I feel we shouldn’t rush.”
Graham also spoke about the steps he took towards making the street sign a reality. “I had several community members contact me to see if I could get engaged with it,” he said. “I used to run the Martin Luther King Center there, so I still have a close connection to the community. I was born and raised there, went to high school with Dumile. So I said give me a minute and I’ll craft a letter to the City Council based on how I see it and then converted that letter into a petition. The group said they loved it and we moved forward.”
The news comes after Your Old Droog’s “Dropout Boogie,” which features a verse from DOOM, was released.
It’s a strange time we live in, where Joe Rogan is the NewsRadio alum with one of the biggest podcasts in the world. What’s more, one of the reasons it’s popular is because it’s so controversial. The guy who used to make people eat bugs for entertainment has garnered a lot of critics, and a new report reveals some of them are employed by his homebase at Spotify.
As per Insider, some staffers at the streaming service, which has had exclusive dibs The Joe Rogan Experience since December of last year, have taken understandable umbrage with their company helping disseminate a podcast featuring material that may be making the world a worse place.
Things came to a head last fall, when Spotify was inking their deal with Rogan. One employees, writing anonymously on the app Fishbowl, said, “I’m personally bothered by his transphobic comments and am concerned with the way he might spread misinformation.” There was enough pushback that the company held a town hall meeting, but it doesn’t appear it went so well. They refused, for instance, to force their new big get to receive editorial supervision over what he says.
Spotify staffers aren’t the only ones connected with the service to take issue with their big-time colleague. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, fellow Spotify podcast stars, were also not happy with things he’s said about a once-in-a-century public health crisis that is yet to come under control.
In the American craft beer world, there’s no disputing the appeal of the IPA in all its various forms. But before there was the IPA, there was the traditional pale ale — a crucial entry in American craft brewing history. Brass tacks, a pale ale is simply a top-fermented beer that’s brewed using (you guessed it) pale malts. The category of pale ale includes the aforementioned IPA, blonde ale, English bitter, American pale ale, and almost a dozen other offspring.
Today, we’re zeroing in on craft-brewed American pale ales. First brewed in 1980, this style began in the US with the introduction of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Still considered the best example of the style today, it opened the door for breweries all over the country to produce their own versions. While the classic version is recognized for its floral, hoppy characteristics, American pale ales can vary widely when it comes to how the hops are used.
Below, we asked a handful of our favorite bartenders to tell us the best American pale ales for fans of bitter, floral, and citrus-filled hops. Check their entries out and click on the prices if you want to give any of them a try!
Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue
Toppling Goliath
Shaun Traxler, bartender in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Toppling Goliath’s Pseudo Sue is an absolute killer in the pale ale category. Brewed in Iowa, this single-hop beauty is a perfect pale to session a few of. Toppling Goliath makes this brew using only the Citra hops, known for (you guessed it) its bright citrus notes. It’s only mildly bitter so, again, it’s easy to run back to your fridge to open another only to find that you’ve finished the six-pack. It’s a pale that won’t scare some hop-haters away, but it’s also a pale that IPA drinkers will fall in love with.
Pale Ale is a classic American tradition, and we actively seek out those that are making excellent examples of the style. This has a nice golden color, crystal clear, floral hops up front, hints of grapefruit, and subtle lemon zest are what we look for. It has nice drinkability/crushability at 5 percent ABV, which is what we search for in a pale.
Ozark American Pale Ale
ozark
Emily Lawson, bartender at owner of Foxhole Public House in Bentonville, Arkansas
The Pale Ale from Ozark Beer Co. in Rogers, Arkansas is my go-to. They produce a variety of year-round and seasonal beers. Their pale is a real winner. It’s crisp, hoppy, and perfect for warm-weather drinking.
Indeed Day Tripper
Indeed
Joe Harvey, lead bartender of Thr3 Jack in Minneapolis
The Day Tripper Pale Ale from Indeed Brewing Co. is a must-try if you’re looking for hops but don’t want an IPA. Locally brewed in Minneapolis, Day Tripper is Indeed’s flagship beer. As a medium-bodied pale-ale, and with a reasonable 5.4 percent ABV, you’re able to enjoy the hops of this one more than once. They add four pounds of hops to each barrel of Day Tripper to ensure a delicious hop bitterness with subtle notes of citrus and malty sweetness to balance it out.
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada
Jake Conover, general manager at Bruz Beers in Denver, Colorado
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is, hands down, the showcase industry-standard strive to be pale ale. It’s been around forever, and it will survive the haze craze because it’s everything a hoppy beer needs to be. It’s so hoppy, people even add it to lists of IPAs (with a disclaimer that it’s technically somehow a pale ale).
Bell’s Midwestern Pale Ale
Bell
Lauren Paylor, owner and co-founder of Focus on Health in New York City
Bell’s Two-Hearted is my go-to, but it’s technically an IPA. Bell’s also makes a great pale ale called Midwestern. If you find it, you’ll be treated to a nice blend of sweet barley, pale malts, and floral, citrus-filled hops.
When it comes to fresh, hop-forward pale ales, it’s really tough to beat Lagunitas Born Yesterday with its combination of Sabro, Simcoe, Citra, and Mosaic hops. It’s crisp, floral, spicy, and refreshing.
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Tim Robinson screams a lot. On I Think You Should Leave, his characters — and pretty much any protagonist not played by him — gets worked up over something patently ridiculous: hot dogs, “complicated” shirts, classic cars they don’t actually own, dirty tables. It’s a schtick he’s evidently been doing since his early days. In a new profile in Vulture, Keegan-Michael Key, who was one of Robinson’s first improv teachers at the Second City Detroit, reminisces about a sketch he did where he made America’s 16th president into a real piece of work — right before he was assassinated.
In the piece, Key describes the young Robinson as “an extremely eager student, always wanted to push, always wanted to figure out a little more.” He remembers an improv sketch in which Lincoln is at the Ford’s Theatre, unwittingly awaiting his murder.
“He just played him like a completely uncouth a**hole who had never been to a theater before,” Key told Vulture. “He just went on and on being disruptive and loud, and [the comedian playing Mary Todd Lincoln] keeps going, ‘Shhh, please.’ At one point, somebody comes to say something to him, and she’s like, ‘Honey, the play!’ And he’s like, ‘This is still going on?!’” Key then made a gunshot sound, bringing the sketch to an ending as sudden as any on his hit Netflix show.
It’s not hard to imagine Robinson’s “uncouth a**hole” version of one of America’s most beloved commanders-in-chief. If he ever did in on I Think You Should Leave, it would probably go on for seven minutes of shouty terror. And it’s good to know that the Tim Robinson of today was pretty much there from the start.
You can watch the second season of I Think You Should Leave on Netflix.
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