Five Jokes: 5-6-2025
Skype Down Forever, Israel's Plans For The Gaza Strip, Self Driving Trucks, Elon Musk's Texas Neighbors, and Google's Film Initiative
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Skype, once a global leader in digital communication, has officially shut down — but true believers say its merely “busy,” “inactive,” or “away.” One prophecy even states that it will brb.
Israel’s Cabinet voted to seize the Gaza Strip for an unspecified amount of time. However, Gaza residents seem to know the exact number, with many promptly marking…
…on their calendars.
Self-driving semis are officially making long-haul deliveries in Texas without anybody onboard. That is, unless you count the mice on all those McDonald’s trucks that’ve organized into looking like a zombie driver who waves at frightened children on school buses.
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A $6 million home purchased by Elon Musk in an exclusive Texas suburb is now the center of a battle after his team erected an unauthorized 16-foot chain-link fence, installed a metal gate, and mounted outward-facing cameras. For a sense of scale, here are two of Musk’s neighbors hoping to borrow a human trucker he’s frozen in carbonate.
Finally…
Google has quietly launched a film and TV production initiative called 100 Zeros. Their first film is said to be about a man searching for answers about taxes only to find ads suggesting he has far worse problems.
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100 zeros? That's what a real Googol (Google) is!
I hope it's not a portent for all of what they make sucking.