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Plus, France To Spend $215M To Destroy Surplus Wine, Airlines Are Beginning To Weigh Passengers And Germany Is Expected To Be Only Major Economy Not To Grow This Year
News For The Boys
August 30, 2023
IN TODAY’S NEWS
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🤖 Google Meet’s new AI will be able to go to meetings for you. So long as it doesn’t learn terrible corporate-speak… We’ll circle back on this one 🥴
🇩🇪 Germany expected to be the only major economy not to grow this year.
🎮 Xbox introduces new strike system to curtail bad behavior. Today’s kids wouldn’t survive in the old Modern Warfare lobby days lol.
🛩️ Another airline is set to weigh passengers before they fly.
🤦♂️ New TikTok bomb threat ‘challenge’ lands four high schoolers with terrorism charges, because… Of course it did. TikTok never fails to disappoint.
NOTABLE NUMBERS
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$215 million: That’s how much France is set to spend to destroy surplus wine as demand continues to plummet. Sacré bleu!
1: That’s Novak Djokovic’s ATP ranking after his first-round win at the US Open. Back on top once again.
4: That’s the number of work days the United Auto Workers Union is demanding in a lead up to a potential strike. It’s worth recalling that the transition from a 6 to a 5-day workweek was popularized by Henry Ford.
$175,000: That’s how much Kevin Costner’s estranged wife wants a month for child support. What is she feeding these kids??
186: that’s how many miles a Chinese dissident jet-skied to asylum in South Korea. DJ Khaled could never…
W AND L OF THE DAY
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W: Max Verstappen ties Sebastian Vettel’s all-time record for consecutive wins (9). Will he get his 10th? Yes, he’s in a Red Bull 🚀
L: ‘Stranger Things’ fan says she was scammed out of $10,000, left husband after believing she was dating actor. Cirque du Soleil behavior 🤡🎪
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