Five Jokes: 9-23-2024
Cards Against Humanity vs. SpaceX, 50 Years Of Dungeons & Dragons, Janet Jackson vs. Kamala Harris, The Rise Of Religious Men, and The Rise Of Gen Z Tech Workers
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Makers of the humorous adult party game Cards Against Humanity say that SpaceX has trespassed on and damaged land it owns near the U.S.-Mexico border. To make matters worse, Elon Musk has instructed lawyers to respond to each of their complaints with a printed meme of Doc Brown saying “Land… where we’re going, we don’t need land…”
Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year. Meaning druids, warlocks, and barbarians alike have united in frustration over how they’ll soon retire without pension armor.
After stirring controversy with her remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris, Janet Jackson is walking back an apology made on her behalf. Being a Jackson and all, you know she did did it to a killer beat.
For the first time in modern American history, young men are more religious than young women — which gets scarier once you realize their bibles have an extra chapter titled The Handmaid's Tale.
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Tech workers under 25 are becoming more common, while the proportion of workers older than 40 shrinks. The trend correlates with the rising sense of confusion and sorrow any time someone over 25 posts a TikTok.
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