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The Boring Company’s new cologne will make a great gag gift.
The Boring Company’s new cologne will make a great gag gift for pranksters everywhere. Whether you’d like to get back at a jokester or have to give your worst enemy something for a Secret Santa, or actually like the smell of burnt hair, it would have interesting reactions, for sure.
In September, Elon Musk shared a new idea for a men’s cologne and said it was coming soon from The Boring Company, and yes, we speculated he might just be trolling. Although Elon Musk may still just be trolling the world here, there’s a chance he could be serious. I hope he does it. It’d be hilarious.
Coming soon from The @BoringCompany pic.twitter.com/cNIbFRRXyt
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 9, 2022
Today he tweeted again that the new cologne, Burnt Hair by Singed, is coming soon from The Boring Company with a new image. Elon Musk is known for trolling, and what better way to troll the world than by actually releasing cologne?
An excellent idea for gag gifts would be to produce the cologne in 1-3 ounce bottles and sell them for $69.42 during the holiday season. And perhaps have a variety of scents. Burnt Hair. Burnt Shorts. Dirt. The last would be a nod to all the dirt The Boring Company digs up while making the tunnels. Maybe set the dirt on fire with a Not-A-Flamethrower and call it Burnt Dirt.
In 2021, Ford actually released a cologne that smells like gasoline. Ford noted that in a company-commissioned survey, one in five drivers said that the smell of gasoline is what they’d miss the most when making the switch to an EV. So it made a cologne, Mach-Eau, that “fuses smoky accords, aspects of rubber, and even an ‘animal’ element to give a nod to the Mustang heritage.”
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Judge rejects ‘gag order’ for Elon Musk
April 20 (Reuters) – Elon Musk will not be subjected to a “gag order” preventing him from discussing a lawsuit claiming he defrauded Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) shareholders by tweeting in 2018 about taking his electric car company private, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco agreed with Musk and Tesla that the proposed temporary restraining order appeared overbroad because it prevented Musk from speaking to “anyone” about the case.
Chen also found no proof that letting Musk, the world’s richest person according to Forbes, talk publicly posed a “clear and present danger” or “serious and imminent threat” to a trial.
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But the judge also said he plans to tell jurors at the scheduled January 2023 trial he had already ruled that Musk’s tweets were false, and made with sufficient knowledge they were false.
Shareholders sued over losses resulting from volatility in Tesla’s shares after Musk tweeted on Aug. 7, 2018, that he had “funding secured” to potentially take Tesla private at $420 per share, and that “investor support is confirmed.”
Nicholas Porritt, a lawyer for the shareholders, in an email said he was pleased that jurors will be instructed that the tweets “were false and were made fraudulently by Elon Musk.” He said the primary remaining issue is the amount of damages owed.
Lawyers for Musk and Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The April 15 request for a gag order came one day after Musk told the TED conference in Vancouver that he had lined up funding to privatize Tesla, but the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued him for fraud anyway over his tweeting. read more
Musk and Tesla said the proposed gag order “evokes a level of censorship” that could not be reconciled with the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of free speech.
They also said an order could block Musk from communicating with Tesla shareholders, discussing his proposal to buy Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), and trying to end his consent decree with the SEC, which requires Tesla lawyers to vet some of his tweets.
Musk has said he would never lie to shareholders. He has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share.
The case is In re Tesla Inc Securities Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 18-04865.
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Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco; Editing by Will Dunham, Bernard Orr
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Jada Pinkett Smith wasn’t the only one furious at Chris Rock’s Oscars gag. I know how traumatic hair loss is | Arwa Mahdawi
It was the slap that launched a thousand hot takes. Here’s what Will Smith hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars tells us about the actor’s early childhood. Here’s what Smith’s violent outburst can teach us about the war in Ukraine. Here’s why the whole thing felt staged. Here’s the history of public slapping in 10 gifs. Here’s why the Academy is hypocritical for saying it doesn’t condone violence, when Michael Moore got booed during the 2003 Oscars for criticising the Iraq war – and you don’t get any more violent than war, do you?
Look, you’ve probably had enough of people talking smackgate by now. I’m sure you’re over this whole thing. I get it. The sensible little voice in my head is telling me: “Arwa, don’t get involved. You don’t need to wade into this sordid story and turn a celebrity fracas into a lesson about life, the universe, and everything.” Alas, like Will Smith, I’m afraid I just can’t control myself. Just as he couldn’t repress his urge to slap, I can’t repress my urge to pundit. So I’d like to take a minute; just sit right there, and I’ll tell you why Chris Rock should never have made that stupid joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s, hair.
First things first, though: let me get the Violence Is Very Bad and Never the Answer disclaimer out of the way. I’m not trying to victim blame here; it doesn’t matter what Rock said, he obviously didn’t deserve to be assaulted. Smith was very much in the wrong. But we can recognise that, while also acknowledging how cruel Rock’s comments were. Pinkett Smith revealed a few years ago that she has alopecia; laughing about how she resembles GI Jane was in extremely bad taste. I’m firmly of the opinion that you should be able to joke about anything – but if you’re going to wade into sensitive territory, then you’d better be clever about it. “Ha ha, she’s bald and looks like GI Jane, ha ha ha,” is the sort of comment a toddler makes. It’s not funny, it’s just mean.
If you’ve never lost your hair, it might be hard to wrap your head around how traumatising the experience can be. It might be hard to understand how a throwaway gag like Rock’s can cut you to the core. I’ve never experienced alopecia but, when I was 14, my hair started falling out because of my anorexia; I’d pull big chunks of it out in the shower. Considering all the other ways starvation was hurting my body, losing a bit of ornamental dead matter from my scalp shouldn’t really have been so distressing. But hair isn’t just ornamental, is it? Like it or not, hair is tangled up in deeply rooted ideas about gender, identity and self-worth. Involuntarily losing your hair feels like losing part of yourself. And you don’t just feel lacking on the inside; the outside world treats you differently. Hair is a hell of a lot more than dead matter; it has a massive impact on your self-confidence. And Black women’s hair, of course, is even more loaded with cultural meaning. It’s not like Rock doesn’t know any of this: he’s the guy, after all, who made a documentary in 2009 called Good Hair, which examined Black women’s relationship with their hair, after his three-year-old daughter asked him why she didn’t have “good hair”. That was the most frustrating thing about his gag: he knows better; he knows a lot better.
Anyway, now that I’ve got my take in, and Smith has issued an official apology, I think we can all consider the matter closed and move on. Here’s hoping next year’s Oscars will be violence-free.
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi testifies in court but a gag order prevents her defense from being made public
Her courtroom testimony in the capital Naypyidaw, however, was not publicly available due to a gag order imposed on her legal team by the military junta.
That charge stems from letters bearing their names that were sent to embassies urging them not to recognize the junta.
Suu Kyi, who was Myanmar’s state counselor and de facto leader of the country, has been hit with a raft of criminal charges that could see her put behind bars for decades if found guilty.
They include several charges of corruption — which carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years — violating Covid-19 pandemic restrictions during the 2020 election campaign, illegally importing and possessing walkie talkies, and breaking the colonial-era Official Secrets Act — which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
Myanmar’s state media — the mouthpiece of the junta — has not reported on Tuesday’s court proceedings and the hearings are closed to reporters and the public. The gag order imposed on Suu Kyi’s legal team means there is now little avenue for the world to know how her trial is progressing, or about her health.
In September, Suu Kyi appeared “dizzy” as she heard charges and was deemed too ill to attend court. Her lawyer in early October asked the court that hearings for each case be held every two weeks rather than every week, over concerns the busy schedule was having on her health, according to Reuters.
A military spokesperson did not answer CNN’s calls for comment.
Win Myint said he declined the proposal, saying he was in good health, according to his lawyer. Officers then threatened his decision would “cause harm” but Win Myint said he would rather die than consent, the lawyer told CNN.
The gag order on Suu Kyi and Win Myint’s lawyers was imposed following this hearing.
ASEAN snub over continued violence
Tuesday also marked the first day of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders summit in Brunei. The summit began without a representative from Myanmar after the bloc excluded Gen. Min Aung Hlaing from attending over a failure to end the violence, allow humanitarian aid into the country and give access to an ASEAN envoy.
Myanmar has been wracked by violence, unrest and humanitarian crises since the military, led by Min Aung Hlaing, seized power more than eight months ago.
Almost 1,200 people have been killed by security forces since the coup, and nearly 9,200 have been arrested — including journalists, activists, protesters and anyone deemed in opposition of the military — with credible reports of torture, according to human rights and advocacy group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
The junta has also disputed the number of people killed since the coup and blames the violence on the National Unity Government (NUG) — which operates mainly from abroad or undercover and considers itself the legitimate government in Myanmar — and various ethnic armed organizations, which it labeled “terrorist groups.”
Cape Diamond contributed reporting.