Five Jokes: 2-20-2025
Education Ultimatum, Xbox AI, The New King Of Late Night, Asteroid Tracking, and A KFC Move
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The U.S. Department of Education has given schools and universities that receive federal funding an ultimatum: eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal funding. It’s only a matter of time before student athletes of color give schools and universities their own ultimatum: Black history or risk no touchdowns.
Xbox is pushing ahead with new generative AI despite developers saying ‘nobody will want this,’ meanwhile parent company, Microsoft, has made a key breakthrough in quantum computing. So, if we don’t want it here, perhaps we do in other dimensions.
Fox News late night host Greg Gutfeld has toppled Fallon and Colbert in the ratings. To be fair, most viewers aren’t wearing their glasses and are shocked by how political Garfield the cat is is getting. “Is he… wearing a suit?”
On February 7, NASA upped the likelihood of an asteroid striking Earth from 1.2 percent to 2.3 percent, then the probability went up to 2.6 percent and it was most recently updated to 3.1 percent. In response to this, President Trump reportedly asked NASA, “Is it because of something we’re wearing?”
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KFC is moving its corporate headquarters from Kentucky to Texas - the perfect place to launch their new slogan: Same Bucket, Bigger Prices.
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