Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Half Dead, Half Live From New York...

Tuesday's top stories are here.
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You'll Love This Thanos-Led 'Saturday Night Live' Script, Even If You Don't Like Either Half Of The Mashup, How TurboTax Tricks You Into Paying To File Your Taxes, and more.
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FUNNY BUSINESS
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You'll Love This Thanos-Led 'Saturday Night Live' Script, Even If You Don't Like Either Half Of The Mashup
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For better or worse — okay, probably worse — you're not up-to-speed on US pop culture unless you keep up with "SNL" and the MCU. This spec script dances on the line between loving homage and cutting parody for both.
DISGRACEFUL
The Dark Design Patterns TurboTax Uses To Trick You Into Paying To File Your Taxes
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Did you know that if you make less than $66,000 a year, you can prepare and file your taxes for free? No? That's no accident.
STICKING THEIR NECK OUT
The Strange Tale Of The Great 1911 Trans-Saharan Ostrich Heist
atlasobscura.com
The mission was to clandestinely make his way into French Sudan, locate the ostriches, and secure a flock for South Africa, before the Americans or local French officials, who had tried and failed to develop their own ostrich farms in Algeria, caught on.
ADULTING WE DIGG
Here's An Adulting Task You've Been Putting Off. And It's Super Easy
trustandwill.com
Trust & Will has made it easy to literally create an entire estate plan over a glass of wine on your couch. You can do it after you watch GOT on your couch, and they will even mail you the documents for free.
NOT-SO-FUNNY BUSINESS
A POULTRY SUM
Inside The Quietly Lucrative Business Of Donating Human Eggs
wired.com
Over four years, Ashleigh Griffin donated her eggs six times at three different clinics. Four of those times, her ovaries became painfully swollen and she experienced weight gain, abdominal pain, severe nausea and had trouble urinating; once she was hospitalized. For her efforts, she was paid $61,000.
MONEY ON THEIR MIND
4 People On Feeling Crushed By Their Student Debt
thecut.com
We are in the midst of a student-debt crisis: cumulatively, nearly 45 million people owe $1.5 trillion in student loans. If nothing changes, the problem will only get worse. Those living with debt say they struggle on a daily basis with paying bills, getting approved for apartments and simply breathing.
ALL THAT GLITTERS
The Company That Sells Love To America Had A Dark Secret
nytimes.com
For thousands of women, working at the nation's largest jewelry retailer meant unequal pay, harassment or worse.
CAREFUL WHAT YOU SEARCH FOR
My Search For A Boyhood Friend Led To A Dark Discovery
wired.com
A surfeit of ugly knowledge is a feature of our age. But when information is everywhere, some things are better left buried.
BUNNY BUSINESS
FURRY FURY
Guy In Easter Bunny Costume Breaks Up Fight — Then Finishes It
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The man in the bunny suit, real name Antoine Edwards, told Orlando authorities and media that he broke up a scrap between a man and a woman — and then laid into the man.
IN THE NEWS
US Threatens To Veto UN Resolution On Rape As Weapon Of War, Officials Say
Ukraine Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky Wins Presidency By Landslide
DIGG PICKS
The Hoodie You Wear Daily Is Weary And Has Requested Backup
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Here are three hoodie options. Dress them up, dress them down, the hoodie loves you no matter what.
Let's get down to business.