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If you were one of the few people who had heard of the film Khali The Killer before this week, you may have just missed out on your opportunity to catch the movie online for free.

On Tuesday, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment mistakenly uploaded the entire full-length feature film — all 1:29:46 of it! — to its YouTube channel. The company meant to upload a red-band trailer for the film, but somehow the whole thing wound up as a free-to-watch video for the entire public to see. It has since been taken down. 

According to the Independent, the entirety of Khali the Killer remained up on YouTube for approximately 6 hours and was viewed around 11,000 times before being removed from Sony’s YouTube channel. There is no longer any mention of the film on its Upload page. The snafu was first noticed by CBR. Sony never uploaded the intended trailer in its placeGizmodo grabbed the follow screenshot before the video was removed from YouTube. Read more…

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Life is full of existentially difficult questions. Here’s one of them: Out of all the non-dairy milks, which milk should I use?

To be honest, that’s a super personal Q, and it’s not one we can answer on a broad scale. There are so many different milks, after all, and so many different human bodies with different dietary needs. How could an objective “best milk” possibly exist?

What we can do, however, is recommend milks for different scenarios. That way, you can make an informed milk decision the next time you have to choose a side in the Milk Wars. And you will have to choose a side. Read more…

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In the midst of Chris-mas in July, on the very day Americans celebrate Independence (and inhale an exorbitant amount of hotdogs), Captain America is celebrating 100 years of fighting the good fight.

The patriotic Marvel supersoldier also known as Steve Rogers was honored by his onscreen representative, Chris Evans, on Thursday. 

One quarter of the Hollywood Chrises, Evans took to Twitter to celebrate both the 4th of July and a century of the Cap. 

“I love this country and I’m proud of how far we’ve come. Be safe today!” he wrote. “Also, Happy Birthday to a very good friend of mine. I hear 100 is the new 20.” Read more…

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Did you think the internet forgot about Fergie’s  questionable performance of the national anthem during the NBA All-Star game?

Nope.

In celebration of the Fourth of July and whatever the hell came out of Fergie’s mouth that night in February, Bad Lip Reading released a very patriotic rendition of the performance. 

Poor Fergie. Nobody wants her bread.  Read more…

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The controversy over another bad Scarlett Johansson casting decision continues to reverberate as several prominent transgender actors have spoken out about her upcoming role as a trans man. 

When it was announced that Johansson had signed on to star as real-life massage parlor owner Dante “Tex” Gill, a transgender man, in Rub & Tug, the casting was met with backlash, much like Johansson’s casting in Ghost in the Shell, where she played a Japanese manga character.

Johansson stirred up a bigger ruckus with her tone-deaf response to the criticism, issued by her rep to Bustle: Read more…

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Tear down the walls and you never know what you’ll find.

Alex and Jess Monney were in the middle of remodeling their bathroom when they discovered a note left by the previous homeowner, who upgraded the room in the summer of 1995.

“Hi! We’re the Shinsekis! We remodeled this bathroom summer 1995,” the note reads. “If you’re reading this, that means you’re remodeling the bathroom again. What’s wrong with the way we did it?”

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While Yelp will forever be a battleground of hot takes and battles between business owners and customers, the site won a legal skirmish that, for now, protects it from liability over negative reviews.

So sayeth the California Supreme Court, anyway, who ruled 4-3 this week in favor of the online review site, affirming that the site was free from liability when people who are Mad Online™ say mean things about a place of business. 

The case, reports the New York Times, stemmed from a San Francisco attorney who claimed a former client’s Yelp posts about his business were defamatory. A San Francisco Superior Court judge agreed and ordered the posts taken down. When the client didn’t delete the posts, the attorney got a court order for Yelp to delete them. But Yelp continued its fight through the legal system. Read more…

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It’s time to celebrate America. What better way to cheers to the old white men who created America than to honor the middle-aged white men who still control it?

Of course, in America today, some of our politicians don’t command much reverence or respect. Instead, we’ll look to our titans of industry as the larger-than-life figures charting the course of the American behemoth.

In few other industries does the cult of personality function so strong as in the technology world. Here we find the digital world’s founding fathers — and rest assured, it’s a list that comes complete with entitled attitude and problematic relationships with minorities and all. Read more…

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Like many young women my age, I have come to fear my office air conditioner and all the pain and misery it brings.

It’s a familiar story. In 2015, scientists found that the math typically used to set the temperature in most office buildings was biased in favor of men. The formula uses the metabolic rate of a 40-year-old, 154-pound man, not women, to determine comfort levels, which is why many women are miserable all the time (plus the whole centuries of oppression thing).

Little has changed since the study was published. And because I can’t change culture alone, I’ve decided to accommodate, not fight for justice. Read more…

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Reigning hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut defended his title on Wednesday and set a new world record at Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, New York. No one even came close. 

Chestnut, described on ESPN as having the “the esophagus of a champion” and the “the stomach of a warlord” scoffed down 74 hot dogs and buns in just 10 minutes. This marks his 11th win in the last 12 years.

Following Chestnut, Carmen Cincotti shoved 63 hot dogs down his gullet, and Darron Breeden managed to devour 43 dogs. 

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