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A Little Bit of Awesome: 3/11/2020 Edition

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A Little Bit of Awesome: 3/11/2020 Edition

A guy wanted to stop his cat from jumping on the kitchen counter, so he lined it with tin foil and then waited to see if it worked. It did. When the cat jumped up and touched the foil, it immediately recoiled backwards and landed on the floor. It wasn’t injured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBK_do_Ki8


A guy wanted to help his girlfriend do a cartwheel, so he lifted her up by the waist so she could spin in the air. But halfway through the flip she farted right into his face.


A cop near Atlanta recently saw a woman walking home in the cold . . . gave her a ride . . . and bought her kid a birthday cake. His supervisor saw body-cam footage of it during a random audit, and posted it online.


Deepfakes are “synthetic media” in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness. When it comes to political messages faked and shared on social media, deepfakes can be dangerous. But for movie fans, they can be fun. Like the ones being created by a YouTube channel (Ctrl Shift Face). It’s latest video puts Willem Dafoe into Silence of the Lambs as Hannibal Lecter.


 

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