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‘SNL’ Weekend Update covers Pentagon leaks, asks why everyone keeps crying around Trump?
Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update routinely covers the hottest and most pressing news from the past week and last night was no different.
The segment started with the biggest news: the man who leaked national secrets has been identified and arrested. Jake Teixeira of the Massachusetts Air National Guard leaked classified Pentagon documents on social media to impress his friends in a group chat he started named “Thug Shaker Central.”
“Thug Shaker Central is also what Colin calls Atlanta,” host Michael Che jokes. Che continues by saying that President Biden downplayed the leaks because “when you’re over 80, a couple of leaks is nothing to be embarrassed about.”
The segment continues with co-host Colin Jost wondering why every time former President Donald Trump tells stories, someone is always crying.
“It never sounds like excited crying, like when teenagers see BTS,” Jost says. “It sounds more like sacred crying, like when hostages see Jigsaw.”
Other big news Jost and Che satirize include Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ undisclosed ties to conservative billionaire Harlon Crow and a potential 2024 presidential campaign by South Carolina senator Tim Scott.
Winning Strategy: John Wolford Keeps Finding Ways to Move the Chains
Winning Strategy: John Wolford Keeps Finding Ways to Move the Chains
Scientists Create Eco-Friendly Paint That Keeps the Surface Beneath Cool
Chanda and his team tested the impact this paint had on the temperature of buildings covered in structural paint versus commercial paints and they found that structural paint kept surfaces 20 to 30 degrees cooler. This, Chanda said, is a massive new tool that could be used to fight rising temperatures caused by global warming while still allowing us to have a bright and colorful world. Unlike white and black cars, structural paint’s ability to reflect heat isn’t determined by how dark the color is. Blue, black or purple structural paints reflect just as much heat as bright whites or beige. This opens the door for more colorful, cooler architecture and design without having to worry about the heat.
It’s not just cleaner, Chanda said. Structural paint weighs much less than pigmented paint and doesn’t fade over time like traditional pigments. “A raisin’s worth of structural paint is enough to cover the front and back of a door,” he said. Unlike pigments which rely on layers of pigment to achieve depth of color, structural paint only requires one thin layer of particles to fully cover a surface in color. This means that structural paint could be a boon for aerospace engineers who rely on the lowest weight possible to achieve higher fuel efficiency. The possibilities for structural paint are endless and Chanda hopes that cans of structural paint will soon be available in hardware stores.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Dow Jones Newswires: Singapore’s central bank unexpectedly keeps monetary policy unchanged
I can’t believe this keeps happening: leaked Ukraine War plans spread in part through a Minecraft Discord server
One Destiny 2 gun keeps appearing in cutscenes, and now we know why
A Destiny 2 gun called the Khvostov 7G-02 has been appearing in Lightfall cutscenes, leaving players wondering why this weapon, which players receive early on as part of the FPS game‘s New Light campaign, seems to appear without a good reason. This led some players to suspect it may return as an Exotic weapon, but Bungie implies that won’t happen. In a recent post as part of the Destiny 2 team’s This Week at Bungie blog post series, cinematics director James Meyers shared why this gun makes a seemingly random appearance.
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