Five Jokes: 5-15-2024

Google Search Re-Design, King Charles III's Portrait, $800 Pee Jeans, Comcast's Streaming Bundle, and The Quest For Paper Bottles

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Hey! It’s Wednesday in America, and doesn’t it feel like we’re all severely underplaying how cool it is to see Carrie-Anne Moss holding a lightsaber?

Anyway, here are Five Jokes!

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• Google is redesigning its search engine to have ‘AI Overviews’ and automatic categorization. That’s right, Google now has the same processing system as that auntie you haven’t seen in a while. Just a quick overview of your life based on limited information and an automatic categorization of “your weird little friends.”

• King Charles III's 1st portrait as king has drawn mixed reactions. Take a look for yourself:

  

  Yeah, chief among those disappointed in the painting: Activists who planned on splashing tomato sauce at the unveiling. “Huh?! Guess this won’t change much.”

• A high-end fashion brand’s $800 jeans that make you look like you wet yourself have sold out — despite the much more affordable $50 “poop slacks” being readily available.

• Comcast will launch a streaming bundle of Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ — putting the company in a unique bind of not being able to call the service “cable,” and definitely not being able bundle it into the word “stable.”

Finally…

• Companies are on a quest to make a paper bottle. This would insure recyclability and make it that much easier to write “NOT VODKA” onto one with, say… a pencil.

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