Five Jokes: 4-3-2024

Taylor Swift's Billions, Amazon's "Just Walk Out" Adjustment, A Potential Fix For Climate Change, Space Station Trash, and Joker 2's R Rating

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• Taylor Swift has landed on Forbes' World's Billionaires list with a $1.1B net worth. Swifties now believe her lyric, 🎵 You/With your words like knives and swords and weapons/That you use against me 🎵 is about the concept of taxes.

• Amazon is removing ‘Just Walk Out’ technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain — and stop white people from calling the police whenever a Black person “just walks out” with a bag of groceries.

• As climate change gets worse, researchers tested a machine designed to reflect sunlight back into space. Explaining it simply to reporters, the lead researcher pointed to the sky, shouting, “I’m rubber! You’re glue! What you warm on me, bounces back onto to you!”

• International space station trash may have hit a Florida house. Problem is, detectives can’t tell which part is the home and which is the space trash.

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• ‘Joker 2’ has an R rating for ‘strong violence’ and ‘brief full nudity’ — finally answering the number one question asked by Batman fans: “Do Joker’s shrubbery match the match the branches?”

  

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