Новости за 03.04.2023

Twitter users are speculating that a new update to the app is an attempt by CEO Elon Musk to bury news of a racketeering lawsuit against him.

Louisiana State University defeated the University of Iowa to win the Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, which marks LSU’s first national title. But since LSU’s victory on Sunday, the conversations around the title game have been less about the game itself and more about a gesture made in the game’s final seconds—and the double standard applied to LSU’s star player compared to Iowa’s.

A food blogger urged her followers to check their fruit for mold after she says she accidentally bought moldy dates at Costco.

A woman on TikTok is claiming that she found used Apple AirPods in her Amazon package, sparking debate about the origins of the headphones.

Against all expectations, the new Dungeons and Dragons movie is the feel-good hit of the season. In many ways a standard type of family blockbuster, it stands out in two key areas: Sincere, unironic engagement with its goofy source material, and laugh-out-loud comedy.

Different species have different ways of courting potential mates. Male peacocks strut around and show off their feathers. Male penguins will grab the smoothest, prettiest pebble they can find and present it to a female, and the two begin to build a nest together and try to have little penguin babies of their own. And some humans will seek out a potential partner while at a bar by offering to buy them an alcoholic beverage in order to strike up a conversation and see if there's any romantic interest between the two of them. Читать дальше...

A Cincinnati-area TikToker showed a DoorDash drink delivery that was an absolute fail, leaving commenters weighing in with other DoorDash fails they claim to have experienced.

An image purporting to show WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange physically unwell in London's Belmarsh prison fooled countless people online despite being generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

The United States economy reportedly hit its highest inflation rate in the last 40 years in the summer of 2022, and unfortunately, there are still many citizens who are feeling the financial burn of these price spikes in 2023 in the form of layoffs, being unable to find a job, and spending lots on groceries. The U.S. Department of Labor will release a revised inflation report on April 12, 2023, which will assess the current rate in the country.

Last night, 60 Minutes, one of the nation's premier media platforms, aired an extended interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of the biggest conspiracy theorists in Congress.

Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today's edition of web_crawlr. 

The giant ice cube discourse is back.

A bar patron on TikTok, Chloe Cockett @chloecockett, said she was "catfished" by her drink. Her £16 alcoholic drink at a Copenhagen, Denmark bar contained a giant type of ice cube called the Collins Spear in it, leaving little room for the liquid. In U.S. dollars, that drink cost Cockett nearly $20.

In the video, she starts to pull the Collins Spear out of the glass, revealing just how little alcohol she received.

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The question of who gets a blue checkmark is one of the most visible problems of Elon Musk's tenure at Twitter—with increasingly ridiculous repercussions. This weekend's update was impressively self-defeating, with Musk failing to implement his much-touted plan to make checkmarks a commercial status symbol.

A recently announced partnership between Bud Light and transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney sparked an alleged boycott across social media.

A photographer recently shared one of the downsides of shooting weddings: getting forgotten when it’s time for everyone to eat. 

A TikToker shared a genius, and totally legit, hack for avoiding the purchase of overpriced hotel bottled water.

Work from home jobs have become increasingly popular due to benefits such as increased flexibility and less time spent commuting. However, as one TikToker’s recent video shows, working from home also comes with its own set of problems.

Two women headed to Las Vegas were refused alcohol at the airport because the only ID they had on them was a vertical one.

A local Popeyes is getting roasted on TikTok for constantly being closed up to 7 hours before its listed closing time. Surprise, surprise, it's located in Florida.

A TikTok video showing the chaos at a Wendy’s location has gone viral, with users expressing outrage over the high-stress working conditions in the fast-food industry. 

Strawberries and blueberries are regularly touted as consensus health foods. But when a woman shared her hack for determining fresh strawberries and blueberries at a grocery store, every chimed in with opinions for making the fruits last.

A woman recently shared the “brokest thing” she has ever done: Return a freezer-burnt pint of Ben & Jerry's to the convenience store.

With the cost of groceries skyrocketing in the United States and with no signs of inflation slowing down in 2023, there are throngs of people looking for lower-cost solutions to keep their fridges full and their pantries packed without breaking the bank.