Five Jokes: 6-4-2024

Spotify Price Increase, CEO Wages, 'X' Now Allows What You'd Expect Something Named 'X' To Allow, Bald Eagles No Longer Endangered In New Jersey, and A Complaint From Lupita Nyong’o

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Y’all hear about this?..

• Spotify is increasing U.S. prices again. Forcing more Americans to make a choice between rent and access to songs that make you say, “I’m pretty sure that’s Dua Lipa but I don’t have the energy to check.”

• CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year. And, somehow, they still look like this:

  

• Elon Musk’s ‘X’ announces new rules allowing porn. Elon apparently made the decision after reading everyone’s jokes about ‘X’ from one year ago.

• New Jersey plans to drop the bald eagle from its endangered species list. The details of why are scarce. But, let’s just say… a few of the fellas called a meeting.

  

Finally…

• Lupita Nyong’o described press junkets as a “torture technique” — all but confirming reports that Guantanamo Bay detainees are repeatedly forced to describe “how fun it was voicing Garfield.”

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