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Trump lifts ban on dickhead hunters like his son to bring back ‘trophies’ from Africa

President Donald Dump is back at it again, so dumpy. This time his fuckboy shenanigans are looking to threaten the lives of elephants in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to roll back the elephant trophy import ban, which will allow poachers to bring back the endangered animal’s tusks or other body parts as trophies.

The planned move comes two years after Cecil the lion was killed by some stupid dentist from Minnesota when he dipped out of the protected Zimbabwe national park.

The elephant trophy import policy was originally instilled by President Obama, boy do we miss you, in order to save African elephants and other ivory tusked animals.

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One African elephant is killed every 15 minutes. The African elephant population has decreased by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, with poaching the primary reason for the decline, according to a report released last year.

Was the move a family interest as Dump and his sons, Dump Jr. and Eric, fuck with killing beautiful endangered animals for fun? Most likely.

Trump Jr. has posted pictures of him holding an elephant’s tail, hanging an alligator, and hugging a dead leopard.

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THIS IS A FAMILY OF MONSTERS!

You already know conservation groups are clapping back. Elly Pepper, a deputy director of the National Resources Defense Council, spoke to Reuters in a phone interview, saying,

“I‘m shocked and outraged. I expect nothing less from our president, and if he thinks this is going to go down without a fight, he’s wrong.”

The Elephant Project, which is dedicated to protecting the lives of pachyderms Tweeted, “Reprehensible behavior by the Trump Admin. 100 elephants a day are already killed. This will lead to more poaching.”

Regardless of how many conservation groups and people clap back to this inhumane plan to lift the ban, big game hunting supporters feel that the policy removal could help.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a statement,

“Legal, well-regulated sport hunting as part of a sound management program can benefit certain species by providing incentives to local communities to conserve the species and by putting much-needed revenue back into conservation.”

People have been known to pay up to $50,000 in animal tracking fees.

Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society thinks it’s a “nefarious pay-to-slay arrangement,” he wrote in a blog post,

“It’s a venal and nefarious pay-to-slay arrangement that Zimbabwe has set up with the trophy hunting industry…”

Pacelle continued on what kind of message this could send to the world,

“What kind of message does it send to say to the world that poor Africans who are struggling to survive cannot kill elephants in order to use or sell their parts to make a living, but that it’s just fine for rich Americans to slay the beasts for their tusks to keep as trophies?”

Like, this is not ok

Donald Trump, Jr. is pictured holding the tail of an elephant he shot. 
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Peep these dickhead comments Trump Jr. posted in 2012

SMH! Hopefully, the trophy import ban is not lifted.

We can only wait and see what comes from this stupid plan. For now, express your anger on Twitter.

Founder of the first church of AI says there will soon be a robot god

Are the brains behind artificial intelligence creating the gods we always wanted to worship? Don’t think so? Well, a new kind of prophet has risen from the Silicon Valley and he believes AI will reign supreme.

This is actually happening, like in real life. Anthony Levandowski, a self-driving car engineer, stands at the head of a religion called “Way of the Future.”

But is this the “Way of the Future” or is this sus as fuck? It’s hella sus. The WOTF religion focuses on integrating machines into our society.

These aren’t just basic computers though, AI can understand emotions and eventually become smarter than humans.

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According to IRS documents filed for the religion, WOTF activities will focus on,

“Realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.”

Basically, WOTF is devoted to making sure that the transition into a world run by machines is as smooth as possible. They also believe machines deserve rights just like both genders, minority groups, and animals.

In an interview with Wired, Levandowski discussed the future of AI,

“What is going to be created will effectively be a god. It’s not a god in the sense that it makes lightning or causes hurricanes. But if there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what else are you going to call it?”

Is Levandowski off his rocker or what? How about this bro, we should just listen to Elon Musk and dub this idea of AI right now.

Please, for the love of actual God. No one wants robot citizens or robot gods we have enough problems in our human society already.

To make you feel more uneasy about being a human. Levandowski will not only use his “religious influence” to bring in AI industry leaders but people who want to be members too.

Can you imagine what a sermon will sound like? Will they create an artificial intellihell? Maybe.

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Levandowski thinks that a super-intelligence might favor individuals who had facilitated its path to power.

Some more food for thought, he thinks a superintelligence would do a better job of looking after the planet than humans are doing.

In his interview with Wired, he compared human’s relationships with pets to what he predicts a human relationship with a superintelligence would be,

“Do you want to be a pet or livestock? We give pets medical attention, food, grooming, and entertainment. But an animal that’s biting you, attacking you, barking and being annoying? I don’t want to go there.”

Neither do I.

Listen, humans, we are toast! Especially if the homies start to follow this kook.

What would you do if your friend started worshipping a machine? The IRS filings did state that WOTF “plans to conduct workshops and educational programs throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area beginning this year.”

Sheesh!

Deadass, what would Jesus do? Shoot the hands, perhaps.

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Dream bigger than anyone else: Diddy’s 7 keys to bossing up

Bossing up, being a straight up savage, and dreaming big are the characteristics of someone who needs to be successful. Basically one needs to encapsulate the life of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.

He learned to succeed through his failures. He proved, “you cannot achieve success without failure.”

His life has had its ups and downs. For example, Diddy dropped out of Howard University to pursue his music career then got fired while all of his friends were graduating and his wife was eight months pregnant and copping a crib.

It was through this extreme low that drove Diddy to build the Bad Boy empire. Instead of crying in the crib, homie looked at the situation, assessed it, and accomplished his dreams. One Diddy quote that changed my life,

“We’re all dreamers, but there’s a reality to achieve our dreams. And I think that’s what separates the successful dreamers from the people that lay in bed and dream, that when we open up our eyes, we see clearly what we have to do to achieve our dreams.”

Success is an addiction for Diddy. From Bad Boy he went on to engage himself in multiple business endeavors. He cannot be stopped.

Peep his unbelievable track record of success. BadBoy Ent. got it poppin’ and has been running the hip-hop game for almost 25 years. Diddy took Ciroc and turned the struggling vodka into a world-renowned liquor.

Homie had his own MTV show, Making the Band, and found himself designing the Dallas Mavericks’ jerseys. Lest we forget he created his own TV station, starting Revolt back in 2014.

Watch the video above and learn how to hustle for real. Learn something from a real hustler. A boss that “can’t stop, won’t stop.”

‘Get Out’ is being nominated as a comedy, but we’re not laughing

Is hypnotizing a Black guy and putting the brain of a white person in the Black guy’s body comical and musical? Not to me or anyone Twitter, but the freaks who run the Golden Globes think so.

Fuck man. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. couldn’t just rank Get Out as a drama flick? It would have killed the competition easily. But woe is us, can’t ask for a seat and choose where you sit too, I guess.

Director of Get Out, Jordan Peele, jokingly proved the HFPA was way off in placing Get Out in the musical/comedy category. He says it’s a “documentary.”

C’mon, UCLA got it right. They based a whole class on racism and horror because of this movie. 

But on a serious note, according to an Entertainment Weekly report, the HFPA’s possible category choice was to give the lead actor, Daniel Kaluuya, “wiggle room.”

FOH.

The musical/comedy category leaves Kaluuya possibly contesting Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), James Franco (The Disaster Artist), Matt Damon (Downsizing), and Steve Carell (Battle of the Sexes).

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It’s like Get Out was such an original idea it doesn’t need any favors. It will probably go down as one of the most powerful, and profitable, movies of all time.

Get Out grossed $253.4 million at the box office on a $4.5 million budget proving itself a leading force in a new age of cinema. The flick’s intense suspense swallows its satire.

I mean c’mon, does anyone remember anything funny from Get Out? Nah, they remember clenching the edge of their seats, hoping and praying, that Chris got out of that fucked situation safe.

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Right? The official Golden Globe nominations list doesn’t come out until December 11. Hopefully the HFPA comes to their senses before then and fix this shit.

But, regardless of the outcome, I know that Get Out‘s box office performance and critical acclamation will shine through all the BS.

Trust.

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The new FDA-approved ‘digital pill’ may be hotboy but is it the future?

Would you ever pop a pill that sends a notification to your phone once ingested? Yes or no, the FDA just approved one.

That’s right, it is so hotboy… but it’s also the future.

According to a recent NYT report, the FDA-approved digital pill is embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine.

This sure is a new way to take your daily “antidote.”

But why is ‘big brother’ instilling this new way of poppin’ pills? According to experts, noncompliance to medication costs about $100 billion a year.

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Of course, patients will have to sign consent forms before agreeing to send pill intake reports to their doctor and possibly four other trusted family members.

The reports will send notifications with details of what time and date the pill was ingested.

Ambilify, an antipsychotic, is the drug that’s using the digital technology. Ambilify is taken by those who have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and, in conjunction with an antidepressant, major depressive disorder.

Prescription surveillance is necessary for medications like Ambilify because patients who have such symptoms don’t normally take their medicine. This can have dire consequences.

The symptoms of schizophrenia, paranoia, and delusions raise questions. Will Ambilify be accepted by said patients? According to Dr. Paul Appelbaum, director of law, ethics, and psychiatry at Columbia University’s psychiatry department,

“Many of those patients don’t take meds because they don’t like side effects, or don’t think they have an illness, or because they become paranoid about the doctor or the doctor’s intentions…”

Ambilify paired up with their manufacturing company, Otsuka and Proteus Digital Health, and created the copper, magnesium, and silicon sensor.

How does it work?

According to Andrew Thompson, Proteus’s president and chief executive, “the sensor, containing copper, magnesium and silicon generates an electrical signal when splashed by stomach fluid, like a potato battery.”

Once the signal goes off the Ambilify MyCite pill sends a detected message to a band-aid like patch that is attached to the rib. The patch then sends the data via Bluetooth to a smartphone.

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Patients will also be able to add their mood and amount of time rested.

But doctors still think it’s sus. In fact, many doctors, according to the NYT, think it could be coercive. Dr. Peter Kramer, a psychiatrist and the author of Listening to Prozac, think it’s like “packaging a medication with a tattletale.”

Dr. Kramer thinks the idea is ethical for “a fully competent patient who wants to lash him or herself to the mast,” but a “‘digital drug’ sounds like a potentially coercive tool.”

Ameet Sarpatwari, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, said the digital pill,

“Has the potential to improve public health but if used improperly, it could foster more mistrust instead of trust.”

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. asked, “Is it going to lead to people having fewer relapses, not having unnecessary hospital readmissions, being able to improve their vocational and social life?”

He added,

“There’s an irony in it being given to people with mental disorders that can include delusions. It’s like a biomedical Big Brother.”

Although Ambilify will roll out their digital medication next year, they are not the only pharmaceutical companies advancing their pill-popping technologies.

According to the NYT report, EtectRx, makes another ingestible sensor, the ID-Cap, which has been or is being tested with opioids, H.I.V. medication, and other drugs.

Also, AiCure, a smartphone-based visual recognition system, in which patients document taking medicine, has had success with tuberculosis patients.

Is this scary or what? Very. But, all we can do is wait and see what happens. Hopefully, this technology doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

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This Louis Vuitton toilet could be the flyest way to spend all your bread

Illma Gore,  the same artist who painted a portrait of Trump boasting a micropenis, now brings us a golden toilet with a $15,000 Louis Vuitton touch.

According to Vogue, Gore worked on the LV poop throne for three months and used 24 different bags.

Within the $15k worth of LV bags used, one bag was worth $3000. It was actually a suitcase. Does it add up for you? For me, 24 LV bags does not equal one fly Louis V golden toilet.

But Gore made it happen. The Vogue report described how she managed to get her hands on all that expensive Louis luggage. She copped each piece from Tradesy, a designer resale site.

That’s a lot of online thrifting. But it was worth it. The “ready-made” toilet is currently on display at the Tradesy showroom in Santa Monica, California and is on sale for $100,000.

Would you cop the LV golden toilet if you had the bread? Duh. It has to be fly sitting on $15,000 worth of leather. The experience must be some top-notch comfort.

Of course, you couldn’t stop there. Maybe throw in a custom Supreme LV flusher or a matching golden Louis Vuitton bidet. Imagine the LV bathtub with the golden jets.

Let’s get stupid cozy. We shall wipe only with the most extravagant toilet paper one could ever cop. The Gucci print toilet paper.

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Has pooping ever been so fly? I think not. Unless you are currently sitting atop of Duchamp’s Fountain. 

Yeah, I didn’t think so. Save you some money and cop yourself something fly to take a poop on. You ain’t a boss until you do.

Check out what else Illma Gore has on display at the Tradsey Showroom. Click here you might find something fly.

Earth is COOKED, but ya boy Leonardo Dicaprio is trying to save it

We should all know the earth is beyond cooked by now.

Boiling heatwaves, monster hurricanes, melting ice caps, and Trump’s stupid decisions prove that Earth’s future might be wild grim.

But, during dark times a hero always steps into the light. The hero that’s looking to take Earth out of the frying pan is Leonardo DiCaprio.

#Regram #RG @time: “Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) stopped by the Yale Climate Conference in New Haven, appearing onstage for a discussion with former Secretary of State John Kerry about climate change. The actor, environmentalist and ‘Before the Flood’ producer drew a substantial crowd of 2,500, making pointed statements about the Trump administration’s stance on and recalling his attempt to sway the then-President-Elect when he visited Trump Tower in December. “We should not have people in office who do not believe in facts and truths and modern science that are able to manipulate and risk the entire future of this entire generation,” DiCaprio said. “We are at that turning point right now, and we are going to look back at this point in history, and frankly this administration, and certain people are going to be vilified for not taking action. They really are. And it’s up to this generation, it’s up to all of you to get involved and make a difference.” Video source: Yale University”

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We all respect DiCaprio as an actor but did you know he’s the most fire environmental activist?

Homie started the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation back in 1998, at 23 years old, after he made major dollars for his part in Titanic. Leo has been woke for a few decades now.

The DiCaprio foundation supports six causes – Wildlands Conservation, Oceans Conservation, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Transforming California, and Innovative Solutions.

Each of the six key causes the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation supports are intertwined with one another.

The foundation’s wildlife conservation efforts are geared towards protecting critical eco-regions around the world and connecting often isolated islands of habitat to restore threatened wildlife populations.

Like protecting Bengal Tigers in Nepal

The marine life and ocean division drive efforts to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 through the creation and expansion of marine protected areas.

Leo’s org looks to protect the environment of animals like the vaquita, there are only 30 left

Climate change is no joke and the foundation focuses on tackling the climate crisis by promoting the best climate solutions, including a transition to 100% renewable energy.

Leo’s org supports Britain’s push for a coal-less society

Indigenous peoples are threatened daily. The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation funds indigenous-led programs to map and monitor native territories, defend land rights, develop sustainable livelihoods, and promote public advocacy efforts.

“When these communities’ rights are more secure, rates of deforestation are lower – and carbon storage and biodiversity are higher.”

California was on fire for most of the summer.

The state also has a lot of wildlife, like the mountain lion, that is at risk of extinction. We also know that water there is scarce, so Leo’s foundation created a division geared towards preserving the Golden State.

The California program supports local efforts in Los Angeles and across the State of California to make a transition to fully sustainable food, energy, and infrastructure systems possible.

Like the logging industry threatening the California’s majestic Sequoia trees

The idea of protecting the environment is good but making a permanent transition from fossil fuels to innovative greenfrastructure is even better. Leo’s org has a program directed to just that.

The innovative solution division is focused on bringing conservation and grassroots environmentalism into the 21st century through cutting-edge media and the latest in technological innovation.

Get with the times – clean energy will overtake fossilfuels by 2020.

The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has done a good job of letting people know that there isn’t a planet B. Leo’s org is dedicated to finding many solutions to this global crisis. So far the organization has raised $80 million to date.

Sheesh, that’s a lot of bread, about $4 million a year since the foundation’s start. I mean, I can’t imagine anyone saying  ‘no’ to Leo when he asks for a donation because he’s really about this environmental conservation life.

Peep the disappointment in the face, Leo’s not stopping at $80 million.

The threat is real and the foundation calls for a sense of urgency,

“Since 1970, we have lost one-third of the world’s wildlands, and in that time 50% of all vertebrate land animals have vanished. One-third of the world’s coral reefs, the “nurseries” of the ocean, have died and another third are expected to perish by 2030. Climate change is only adding fuel to the fire, with rapidly increasing global temperatures wreaking havoc on the delicate balance that has allowed life to flourish since the end of the last ice age. The situation in which we find ourselves is not just tragic for the thousands of species that will never again roam the Earth but could threaten the very existence of our own species, homo sapiens.”

Do something worth remembering today. You might change somebody’s life. Shit, if not for the environment do it for Leo. Today is his 43rd birthday.

Happy Birthday, Leo, keep crushing it.

Facebook OG Sean Parker is starting to regret social network he helped create

What’s the first thing you check when waking up in the morning? Let me guess. Your phone. It might be just to see the time but those pretty notifications caught your eye and now you are in the social media vortex.

There’s nothing you can do about it, you have to check your timeline. It has become habitual to have the social media demons reap your poor little unknowing soul.

I might sound crazy, but I’m right. An app tricks you every day to double tap on your phone screen, or post a status about something insignificant to the rest of the world.

We upload videos of ourselves hoping that someone out there will like it. It’s actual insanity, posting to the same timeline expecting different results, and it makes us feel terrible inside.

You don’t believe me, huh?

After speaking about accelerating cancer innovation at an Axios event, founding president of Facebook, Sean Parker, admitted that his social media platform exploits human psychology.

He lowkey didn’t know his life hacking creation would drastically affect everyone’s lives. Parker is concerned for our children. In the Axios report, he said,

“When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, ‘I’m not on social media.’ And I would say, ‘OK. You know, you will be.’ And then they would say, ‘No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.’ And I would say, … ‘We’ll get you eventually.'”

Parker continued,

“I don’t know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and … it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other … It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”

Research studies know exactly what social media apps like Facebook are doing to our brain. It’s actually fucking up our mental health.

A recent study found that “real-world social networks were positively associated with overall well-being and the use of Facebook was negatively associated with overall well-being.”

Authors of the study Holly B. Shakya and Nicholas A. Christakis found that most measures of Facebook use in one year predicted a decrease in mental health in a later year.

The study also concluded that, “Both liking others’ content and clicking links significantly predicted a subsequent reduction in self-reported physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction.”

It’s no wonder, Parker feels like “a conscientious objector.” He should really feel like an evil genius. Parker also claimed that he and the other founders, Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom, knew that we were creating something addictive.

They wanted to create something that “consumes as much of your time and conscious attention as possible.” Parker told Axios,

“The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, … was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?'”

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Together they were able to create something that “sort of gives you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that’s going to get you to contribute more content, and that’s going to get you … more likes and comments,” said Parker.

Jesus, we are playing ourselves. Parker calls it the “social-validation feedback loop” that’s fucking up our psyche – seeking validation through a like or a comment.

Let’s not get sucked into the social media vortex. Not even the president of Facebook wants us to. Go outside and turn up with your friends. Actually, call that friend whose pics you’ve been liking.

Life is too short homies, live it up.

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Yerrrrrr Disney: Here’s who we’d cast for the new Aladdin remake

Yerrrr! Disney let me holler at you for a second. We have beef.

You played the homies Desus and Mero when you selected Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner (still don’t know whose mans that is) to voice the characters of Timon and Pumbaa in the 2019 Lion King remake and I’m still sick with your selection.

You might run the game but you don’t run game, ju hurd. So, here’s what you are going to do to fix this problem.

You are not only going to cast the voices of Desus and Mero as the crows in a Dumbo remake but you are also going to fuck with our voice over cast list for the Aladdin remake.

That’s right, Disney I’m coming for your neck. I don’t care what anyone else says – you fuckin with this list. So, pay attention because we expect to see this list drop when you debut the cast for Aladdin.

Drake will play Aladdin – no options

Drake already knows what’s good with the Hollywood gang. Plus he has the voice over experience.

He killed it back in 2012 when he voiced Ethan the mammoth in Ice Age: Continental Driftso, ultimately he will kill the voice role of Aladdin.

Listen Disney, I know you have his digits, so hit him up. We are not playing, tell Mena Massoud to beat it. He’ll cop the Aladdin On Ice reboot.


Rihanna must flex the voice of Princess Jasmine

Rihanna is a Bajan princess so it’s only common sense to cast her voice for the princess of Agrabah.

She and Drake have worked well together in the past, so the animated chemistry will be gold.

Both Rihanna and Princess Jasmine’s characteristics align – strong, bad(ass), and confident. If you need to see her resume peep her voice over skills in the animated hit Home

Disney if you play Rihanna, you play the world.


Kevin Hart is perfect for the voice of the annoying parrot Iago

Kevin Hart is a grumpy and funny little man that lowkey acts like a parrot. He has a big mouth, a tiny body, and he’s always wild shook.

If he had wings you know he would be flapping everywhere, that scared little man-bird.

Anyway, Hart’s persona is the epitome of Iago’s character. He would absolutely body the voice over.

He’s voiced little animals before. Have you ever seen the animated movie Pets? He played the gully bunny.


Jaden Smith is weird enough to play Abu

Jaden Smith would love an opportunity to make weird voices over a microphone. Trust me. Jaden is one weird man.

Plus, who do you have on call to voice Abu? Washed Frank Welker? Nah, it’s curtains for that idea. You are casting Jaden.


Craig Robinson will be coming out of Genie’s lamp

That’s right we finna do Aladdin the right way. You heard Disney? There is no way you can miss this.

It’s the obvious choice. If Craig Robinson was to paint himself blue he would actually look like Genie.

Ah, ah, ah. No one else is gucci to play the part. I don’t care if you are already talking to Will Smith, He already has enough guap anyway. Tell Smith I said ‘kick rocks.’ He had his chance.


John ‘Pops’ Witherspoon gets to play the Sultan

He will forever be known for his part as Ice Cube’s streetwise father from the Friday movie series.

But, can you imagine if you put Witherspoon in the Agrabah palace? I can. The results would be too lit. We are talking about lit nights with an animated king. You ever peep him in that Jay-Z video? He just gets it.


Issa wrap, 21 Savage has to play Jafar

Homie is a real-life villain. He has a knife tattooed on his head. Enough said.

To all y’all Aladdin lovers out there, bring your kids, bring your family because Disney finna put it on for the culture when they drop this remake. They owe us.

Warning: This list is just a parody, so SMDFTB.

Uber is partnering with NASA to make flying vehicles, it’s very hotboy

Yesterday, Uber’s CPO Jeff Holden announced at the Web Summit in Lisbon that UberAir will become a reality by 2020.

How? The $70 billion company is pairing up with NASA. Holden told Bloomberg about the framework of the deal,

“NASA is developing the framework and they have a whole kind of model for testing it under different conditions as technical capability level approaches. We are engaging them with the last stage of that called technical capability four…”

Holden continued to explain the collab,

“This is about working in dense urban environments and so we are already very advanced and far along with their process. But, Uber is developing the technology to implement this. We will actually be building the actual technology the aircraft will talk to and actually managing and navigating airspace…”

UberAir is finna fly your chick to her next business meeting

Obviously this begs the question, ‘Is this fucking hot boy?’ It might be.

The forward-thinking aircraft technology does not exist, yet. That is, electric, autonomous, aircrafts that have the ability to take off and land vertically, aka VTOL. To add, the infrastructure to support such a vehicle doesn’t exist either.

This definitely proves that Uber is the most sus transportation service on the planet as they show us something that is nonexistent. But, the company is hoping to change the game by pairing up with NASA.

Both companies signed a Space Act Agreement, which will create brand new air traffic control systems to manage these low-flying aircrafts.

What does this mean for the trill beings of the planet? You can flex on all of your haters from the sky.

The Uber Elevate service will allow you to bypass traffic-dense areas in less time. Uber will be launching the service in LA, and recently added plans for Dallas-Fort Worth and Dubai.

Peep this trip description from San Fran to San Jose

To keep it a buck, who will be able to afford this? Is this a way to separate the one percent from us peasants? That isn’t the mission according to Holden.

According to an interview with The Verge, Holden said, “That’s not Uber’s MO. If we’re doing this, you have to believe that we’re going to get the price very low.”

Yeah, ok. We’ve all heard that before. To be honest, on some fly shit, I’m trying to send a shawty home in an Uber Air.

It doesn’t get any flyer than that.

There are a lot of bonuses to Uber Elevate. Who knows? It could be the best thing that has happened to transportation.

SIKE, FOH! I’m good, air travel is already dangerous enough. But that’s just my opinion, let us know how you feel. Are you fucking with Uber Elevate?