Five Jokes: 1-8-2025

Facebook Fact Checkers, Joe Biden’s Fiery Night, The DOJ vs Landlords, Chat GPT’s Dangerous Potential, and Biden’d Regrets

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Anyway, here are FIVE JOKES!

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• Facebook’s fact-checking partners say they were ‘blindsided’ by the company’s decision to axe them — stating, “Hey, for all we know we might not be fired at all. This could all be one, big, convincing rumor.”

• Joe Biden was forced to spend an unexpected night in Los Angeles due to the powerful winds and wildfires pounding the county. He’s said to have used the time as practice for repeating “this is fine” to himself during the inauguration.

  

• The US Justice Department has accused six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high. Yeah, it’s only six of them because every other landlord turned off the lights and hid in a closet whenever the DOJ knocked on the door.

• The Vegas Cybertruck bomber used ChatGPT to plan his attack. OpenAI has since adjusted the algorithm to be way more specific when someone asks how to make Da' Bomb Beyond Insanity from Hot Ones.

  

Finally…

• In exclusive sit-down, Biden revealed his biggest regret and the compliment Trump gave him. Both happened to be the same two words: “Lookin’ alive!”

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IN OTHER NEWS…

[Interesting Headlines Minus Jokes]

• NASA Wants to Explore the Icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn With Autonomous Robots

• Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Greubel Forsey 'Hand Made 1' watch worth about $900,000 in yesterday’s video explaining Meta's decision to end third-party fact checking. Only two or three models are produced each year.

• Demographers say that in the fall of this year, college recruiting offices will confront the long-anticipated drop-off in the number of applicants from among the next class of high school seniors.

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