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☆ I love Quarter Pounders. But I don’t get why people enjoy chicken
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Saira Mueller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

I’ve never really understood why people enjoy eating chicken. Like the frenzy of people crowding Chick-fil-A or Popeyes when a limited-edition chicken sandwich goes on sale, as if it were the latest iPhone release. Or the fact that there’s something called the “chicken sandwich wars,” which could return in 2024 — thanks in part to the recent limited release of two new McDonald’s crispy chicken sandwiches. Compared to the aroma of freshly baked bread or the sizzle of bacon — scents that beckon me closer — the fried chicken smell is like an unwelcome intrusion. Why exactly do you enjoy eating chicken?

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☆ I play Chiefs' mascot KC Wolf, and this is why I'll be wearing SpongeBob SquarePants boxers at the Super Bowl
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dan Meers, 57, who has played KC Wolf, the mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs, for 34 years. They were starting up a new mascot program — this new KC Wolf character — and wanted to know if I was interested. I've walked five women down the aisle dressed as KC Wolf. Now I've actually got a tuxedo that fits KC Wolf. This week, ahead of the Super Bowl, we've got 42 KC Wolf appearances in Kansas City.

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☆ Is Homer Simpson a Good Dad Now?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Sopan Deb | More About Sopan Deb | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Homer Simpson may be maturing, or so he says. In the third episode of the current season, the show’s 35th, titled “McMansion & Wife,” Homer meets a neighbor who compliments the grip on his handshake. Strangling the boy has paid off,” Homer says to his wife in the episode, which aired on Oct. 22. Times have changed.”It was not clear whether this signaled a lasting shift in the show, which was renewed for a 36th season this year. A spokesman for Fox, the network that has long aired “The Simpsons,” declined to comment.

Persons: Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, Bart, ” Homer, Marge, “, ” Organizations: Times, Fox

☆ Sen. John Fetterman is selling 'body double' T-shirts, leaning into the right-wing conspiracy theory
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. John Fetterman will begin selling "body double" T-shirts on his campaign website. It's a cheeky reference to the right-wing conspiracy theory about the Pennsylvania Democrat. One T-shirt, emblazoned with the phrase "John Fetterman's Body Double," sells for $35 apiece. Fetterman for PA"John has loved having fun with the body double conspiracy theory and the new Senate dress code, and he loves trolling," said spokesman Joe Calvello. AdvertisementAdvertisement"It's all true," Fetterman joked to a reporter about the body double theory earlier on Tuesday, the audio of which was posted by the senator's own office on Twitter.

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☆ Bottas settled for a six pack after winning weight in beer
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ZANDVOORT, Netherlands, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas settled for a six-pack after winning his weight in beer in a cycle race in Colorado over Formula One's August break. "The prize for the best costume was your weight in beer, and I really wanted to win the prize," said Bottas of last week's event. "I was thinking about it, obviously being mainly an American crowd, so I went for The Simpsons and Duffman." Bottas admitted his favourite character was Homer Simpson but also figured it would be tougher riding uphill dressed in that guise. He also rode a 100-mile gravel race on Sunday, finishing 20th out of 926 entrants.

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☆ How Hip-Hop Changed the English Language Forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Miles Marshall Lewis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +16 min

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☆ ‘Futurama’ Review: Latest Go-Round Mines the Past
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Mike Hale | More About Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

If “Futurama” were a person, you could imagine it saying “Doh” when it returns after 10 years and “The Simpsons,” the show in whose shadow it has always resided, is still around. The new season picks up in the next moment, with both fictional time and the actual show rebooted. If you haven’t watched the show before, you won’t know what you’re missing, but you probably will be aware that you’re missing something and that this is a problem. A greater concern is that a little of the zip has gone out of the writing and the overall comic conceptualism. Episodes aimed at big, easy targets like Bitcoin and Amazon feel routine, no matter how many opportunities they provide for making connections to the show’s past.

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☆ Is A.I. the Greatest Technology Ever for Making Dumb Jokes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Via Janelle Shane AI Weirdness Generated by A.I. Optimists cite scientific advances and other examples of human intelligence and machine intelligence augmenting each other, robots and people walking hand in hand toward the singularity. possibilities on a two-dimensional plot, where one axis runs from “machine stupidity” to “machine intelligence” and the other from “human stupidity to human intelligence.” Scientific leaps — like physicists’ developing A.I. Machine Intelligence, Human Stupidity Not just any A.I.-generated post deserves to be charted in the Funposting Zone. After all, the machines can keep improving, and human stupidity — the engine of many of history’s best jokes — isn’t going anywhere.

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☆ The Martian Chronicles
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Alec Nevala-Lee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Instead of astronauts, exploration has been left to robots, which attract passionate fans of their own. As Shindell observes, a trip to Mars “always seems to be two or three decades in the future,” allowing policies in the present to be justified or forgiven indefinitely. To his credit, Shindell persuasively argues that Mars is most instructive when it sheds light on how we see ourselves. Proposals for Martian colonies are often tangled up with the language of capitalism and privilege, treating the planet as an escape hatch that minimizes the need to solve problems on Earth. It fills the same imaginative role today that America once did for Europe, which underlines the danger of exporting old assumptions to an undiscovered country.

☆ Elon Musk jokes that The Simpsons predicted he would buy Twitter in an episode that aired in 2015
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk posted a picture on Saturday joking that The Simpsons predicted he would buy Twitter. Musk acquired Twitter on October 27 for $44 billion, seven years after the episode aired. Musk, who became Twitter's new owner after closing the acquisition deal on October 27, posted an image from a 2015 Simpson's episode featuring Musk. It seems unsurprising that Musk has drawn attention to an episode that one critic described as "more like a love letter to Musk than a proper Simpsons episode." Much like in The Simpsons' episode, some celebrities and politicians think Musk may have also gone too far with his ambitions for Twitter.

☆ AI tech like Dall-E 2 will eventually kill smartphone apps, A16z VC Peter Levine says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The A16z venture capitalist Peter Levine told Insider that apps were heading for obsolescence. Tech like Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion that generates AI artwork will have more uses, he said. Peter Levine is best known as a general partner at the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. This, instead, would be a series of AI agents that generate what you ask for when you ask for it. The Andreessen Horowitz general partner Peter Levine.

☆ Fact Check-The Simpsons did not predict the date of Queen Elizabeth’s death
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Altered and fabricated footage purportedly showing scenes from the animated television show The Simpsons has been shared on social media to claim that the series “predicted” the date of Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and the nation's figurehead for seven decades, died on Sept. 8, 2022 aged 96 (here) (here). It highly resembles an edited image, debunked by Snopes in 2017 (here), that was fabricated to show former U.S. president Donald Trump. Matt Selman, executive producer of The Simpsons, tweeted on Sept. 22 an article by Variety that debunked the claim that the show had predicted the death of Queen Elizabeth (here). The Simpsons did not predict the date of Queen Elizabeth’s death.

☆ (video) Și iarăși The Simpsons. Animația, într-un episod din 2012, a prezis victoria lui Joe Biden la alegerile din acest an
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

(video) Și iarăși The Simpsons. Animația, într-un episod din 2012, a prezis victoria lui Joe Biden la alegerile din acest anThe Simpsons au prezis, din nou, rezultatele alegerilor din SUA. Amintim că The Simpsons este cunoscut pentru prezicerile pe care le face. În serialul animat s-au făcut preziceri precum 11 septembrie 2001, victoria lui Obama și a lui Trump, chiar și discursul Gretei Thunberg, înainte cu 10 ani ca acesta să aibă loc. Iar acest video era pe internet și se presupunea că face o prezicere și la alegerile prezidențiale din 2016, când a câștigat Donald Trump.

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