Jen and Noam talk about the very dumb LA bus stop sun shade/night light things, Magneto, Noam’s new X-Men character idea, the fake NYC veteran displacement story, the real NYC Citi Bike story, and other random stuff

We will be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live!

https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

La Sombrita, which apparently is Spanish for “giant waste of money”  

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/transportation/2023/05/18/ladot-introduces-new-shaded--lighted--solar-powered-bus-shelters

Elon compares Soros to Magneto:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/16/george-soros-elon-musk-adl/

A nonprofit fabricates a story about veterans in NYC being displaced in favor of migrants, nobody checks story because why would they do that:

https://apnews.com/article/migrants-veterans-evictions-new-york-buses-hoax-be45e60b829c35352ac236d1c2ca15cf

Twitter makes a dumb story about two random people fighting over a bike go viral. Nobody checks story because why would they do that:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/bellevue-worker-seen-in-citi-bike-video-has-receipts-showing-she-rented-bike-lawyer/4346955/