Five Jokes: 12-11-2024

Amazon Car Dealership, The Onion’s Rejected Bid For Info Wars, The Rising Popularity Of A Certain Self-Help Book, LinkedIn’s TikTok Vibes, and ’Darkness’ Predators

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• Amazon’s online car ‘dealership’ with Hyundai is now live. It’s the clear result of a brilliant executive asking “What if car dealers pressured you into a free trial of Prime?”

• A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet - forcing the company to invest in InfoGalactica instead.

• A decade after it was published, the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic. Most annoying, the author’s children use quotes from the book during arguments with her.

• LinkedIn wants to have its TikTok era — though the jury is out on whether dancing with a “open for work” watermark will get you that marketing exec gig, Jerry.

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• An eerie 'darkness' predator has been discovered in the deep ocean — or is that just what the whitefish want you to think?

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