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Putin Gives Alaskan Guy a New Ural Sidecar, Dude Pretends He's Affected by War

I don't know if you know this, but the world seems to get stranger and stranger by the day. Whether it's 1,000-year storms happening every year—wonder why?—or everyone's fascination with artificial intelligence—it's basically just fancy-pants predictive text that hallucinates and is error-prone—but the world is a weird place to be. 

I personally blame the rise of the internet, which, yes, is where you're reading this now, but we'd be better off had we just not brought it to life. Because every day I open this god-forsaken hellhole of a browser tab, I find myself with headline after headline that makes me go, "What kind of world are we living in?!" Again, strange for someone so perpetually online as me, but this headline that I wrote above has to take the cake. 

Yes, you read it right, Russian dictator or so-called President Vladimir Putin was recently at a summit between him and the current President of the United States, Donald Trump. And at the summit, which took place in Alaska, he gave a local a new Ural motorcycle and sidecar because it was a photo op masquerading as being "a nice guy." 

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