Five Jokes: 11-2-2023

China Pays For Local Spacecrafts, George Santos Remains In The House, WeWork's Bankruptcy Plans, Artificial Intelligence Can Identify Geese Now, and Robotic Seeing Eye Dogs

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• China is offering cash to local space and rocket startups in an effort to challenge SpaceX. Isn’t it nice knowing that some of the starships used in future space battles were made by local mom n’ pop manufacturers? “Hey, where’d you get that Death Star? Etsy?”

• Rep. George Santos survived a vote to expel him from the House — prompting historians to call him “The Jazzy Jeff of politics.” No matter how hard you try, he keeps coming back.

  

• WeWork plans on filing for bankruptcy. That is… as soon at they find a room that isn’t double-booked by another failed startup filing for bankruptcy.

• Artificial intelligence can now ID individual geese. And there’s hope that the technology can soon help Americans tell these men apart:

  

Finally…

• Scientists have created a robotic seeing eye dog. Yeah, A.I has gotten so out of hand that both man and man’s best friend are out of work. 🥁

  

  Now dogs are fetching newspaper’s for themselves so they can sniff out the Help Wanted section. 🥁

  

  And, get this — the scientists say the robot seeing eye dogs are authentic to the real thing, with one exception: smellier poops.

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