| No images? Click here  BROUGHT TO YOU BY  TGIF! We made it through another week. Treat yourself today, especially if you're a parent whose child just completed their first week of school. - Annie ON OUR RADAR This week we've also got a woman who thinks white people enjoying rain is problematic, an actor who compared bodily autonomy to student loan forgiveness and a guy who thinks quiet quitting is for chumps.  A viral Reddit thread rounded up some of the most astonishingly illegal things around the globe and you may have been inadvertently breaking the law this whole time. SALES WE DIGG | SPONSORED  Cake's Labor Yay Sale Is Happening Right NowCake is celebrating the long weekend with an epic Labor Yay Sale. Get 20 percent off site-wide now through Monday. Don't miss out on your chance to stock up on all of your favorite bedroom essentials. AROUND THE WEBWhat Different Age Groups Think About 'Quiet Quitting' The generational divide when it comes to work attitude is clear — and perhaps unsurprising. Passengers Keep Airdropping Nudes, And Airlines Apparently Don't Have A Plan Sexual misconduct on planes has been on the rise in recent years, and now, apparently, we have to worry about being cyber-flashed via airdrop. Cool! 'There Are No White People There': Jackson's Water Crisis, Explained Years of neglect, racism and poor infrastructure have created a "constant state of emergency." Lea Michele Responds To Rumors She Can’t Read, But Still Doesn't Say She Can If you're going to deny rumors that you're illiterate, you do kind of need to actually deny them. VIDEO OF THE DAY Dave Grohl, Jack Black, Beck And John C. Reilly Performing 'Summer Breeze' Together Is The Most Ambitious Crossover Event In HistoryThe impromptu supergroup performed at Judd Apatow's recent benefit concert at Los Angeles's Largo club. DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED  Ending Soon: Get Your Desk Space Back With Stacked ScreensHaving two monitors is nice, but the space requirements are tough. Squeeze in more stuff by stacking one on the other. IN THE NEWS📰 Argentine Vice President Survives Assassination Attempt When Gun Jams. Vice President Cristina Fernández was unharmed after a gunman’s weapon failed to fire as he tried to shoot her at close range outside her home. (NBC News) 🎥 President Biden Gives Speech On The 'Continued Battle For The Soul Of The Nation.' Watch the primetime address here. (YouTube) 👀 Russian Oil Firm Boss ‘Dies Falling From Window’ After Opposing Ukraine War. Lukoil, the Kremlin’s second-largest oil producer, called for an end to the conflict in March. (The Independent) ➡️ Comedians Tiffany Haddish And Aries Spears Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse. A pair of siblings allege that Haddish and Spears recruited each of them to perform inappropriate acts on camera when they were children. (The Daily Beast) FROM THE ARCHIVES These Marimba Players Didn't Have To Go So Hard But They Did ThatHillcrest College Marimba Band brought home the Marimba Challenge Cup with this banger in 2017. GET MORE FROM DIGG   Did someone forward this email to you? Subscribe to the Edition and Digg's other newsletters. |
Friday, September 2, 2022
A List Of Surprisingly Illegal Activities
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Amazon's Billion Dollar Bet On 'LotR'
| No images? Click here  BROUGHT TO YOU BY  Happy first day of September! No better time than now to get in your feelings and blast Green Day. - Annie ON OUR RADAR This week we've also got Taylor Swift's new album announcement, Danny DeVito not recognizing BTS and J.K. Rowling publishing autofiction about being bullied for her anti-trans views.  In "The Rings of Power," a new series on Prime Video, Middle-earth's second age comes to life. A prequel to the "Lord of the Rings" franchise, the show will premiere on September 2, 2022. HOME BUYING WE DIGG | SPONSORED  The Future Of Homebuying Is Here | Better MortgageWhen we couldn't find a better way to buy a home, we created one. Apply 100 percent online, get pre-approved in as little as three minutes, and close 10 days faster than the industry average. AROUND THE WEBA third of pub visits are now alcohol-free, but drinking has been losing its cred in pop culture for a while now. They Hate To See A Nepotism Baby Winning The feelings we may have toward a nepotism baby — frustration, admiration, indifference, schadenfreude — say as much about us as they do about the children of privilege. Inside Brendan Fraser's 'The Whale' Transformation: 'I Wanted To Disappear' In their first interviews about 'The Whale,' Fraser and director Darren Aronofsky talk their incredibly elaborate, sensitive work on this film, about a reclusive English teacher on the verge of death. VIDEO OF THE DAY People Call Their Exes To Ask Why The Relationship EndedA group of people call up their ex-lovers to find out what went wrong, and get answers to questions they've been wanting to ask. DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED  Labor Day Sale: Save An Extra 20% Off On ShortsFrom now through Labor Day, Huckberry is discounting hundreds of shorts — their last warm-weather promotion of the year. IN THE NEWS🗳️ Democrat Mary Peltola Defeats Sarah Palin In Alaska Special Election. Peltola, a Yup'ik Eskimo, will be the first Alaska Native in Congress. (The Hill) 📈 Reports Of Sexual Assault In US Military Increased 13 Percent Last Year. The latest numbers are certain to anger lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have been critical of the Pentagon’s efforts to get a handle on sexual crimes and misconduct. (NBC News) 👀 Putin Snubs Funeral Of Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The Kremlin says Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Gorbachev, with whom he had a fraught relationship. (CNN) 🇵🇱 Poland Puts Its WW2 Losses At $1.3 Trillion. Warsaw will demand German reparations. (Reuters) THROWBACK THURSDAY Revisiting The Launch Days Of The Most Popular Video Game ConsolesWe use charts, interactive graphs and videos to visualize how many people worldwide bought which video game consoles en masse. Which did you wait in line for? GET MORE FROM DIGG   Did someone forward this email to you? Subscribe to the Edition and Digg's other newsletters. |
