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happy April fool’s btw
Good April’s Fool joke!
April Fools was a week ago; why the hell is this post still on the front page?
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God I fucking hate April fools Day.
It’s great being in a time zone where it’s already April 2nd when the Americans start pulling this shit. You think you’ve made it through the nonsense and then BAM, here’s another day of it except ramped up to 11.
I genuinely feel for you. I have NEVER liked April fools jokes.
April’s fools Day is every day.
It feels like that doesn’t it?
Made me do a double take. The way the world is right now, it wouldn’t be the most shocking thing.
Im still waiting for the foretold Oscar Mayer-Intel
I’m more curious about Starbucks Exotic Coffee for Men
I fucking hate April Fools
Oh boy this is why I hate most April fool jokes.
They are generally not funny, just stupid.On top of that, so many people forget it’s April 1st, and actually believe it
I tend to remember, but ive been caught off guard finding fake news months or years down the road when the site doesnt take down the ‘joke’ or add a disclaimer
Having a sense of humor helps.
It would help if anyone just posting obvious lies like they’re jokes had a sense of humor instead, yes. “Just a prank, bro!” as a holiday sucks.
Having a sense of humor helps.
True and people without any shouldn’t attempt April Fool jokes
There is nothing in the headline that is joke adjacent; it falls flat as a joke and therefore isn’t a good April Fools joke.
The Onion get this correct, that a joke has to have some context to be funny. This ain’t it.
The joke is obvious for anyone who knows the situation with AMD and Intel for the last few decades. AMD buying Intel would be a monopoly issue, and AMD has survived as the smaller company keeping Intel from being a monopoly.
This is as obviously a joke as saying that the New England Patriots will be changing their name to the New England Redcoats. Sure, you need to know who the Patriots and Redcoats are to get the joke, but if you know literally anything about football and US history the joke is obvious. Or a hockey team choosing to change to focus on ice dancing. Or a Thai restaurant choosing to forgo spices.
All of those require a small bit of context to be funny. All humor requires context to be funny. Just because you didn’t understand the context doesn’t make it funny.
The problem with your explanation is that Intel is troubled enough to be purchased, and the US currently has no issue allowing monopolies. In a world in which Paramount is buying Warners, and Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot, AMD buying struggling Intel is not an obvious joke. Or at least it isn’t without some additional tag. “AMD set to buy beleaguered Intel in an all-DDR5 deal.”
Look at any of the websites trying to be the Onion. They seldom get the thing that makes Onion headlines just right.
Your Patriots joke works (and would be a pretty good April Fools joke) because it’d come out of nowhere. If you make the same joke but about the Washington Commanders changing their name to the Corporals (a joke structured the same way as yours), it wouldn’t be as obviously a joke because that team has a history of name changes and Trump telling them to change their name isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Your Patriots joke also works because the joke isn’t that they’re changing their name, it’s that they are changing their name to the opposite. “New England Patriots changing their name” isn’t funny. “AMD buying Intel” contains the same amount of information; that is to say nothing funny.
I said before that a joke has to have context to make sense. That’s not quite right. It has to have context and we all have to kinda agree what that context is. You assuming that an AMD/Intel monopoly is impossible is what makes the headline a joke for you, but if I disagree about the context (that said monopoly is possible) than it doesn’t work. Judging from the other replies, I don’t think I’m the only one for whom it doesn’t work.
The impossible monopoly is part of why it is obviously a joke. The fact that AMD was the small dog by a significant margin for all of that time period and Intel running themselves into the ground enough for getting bought out a possibility is another part. There are a lot of things going on that make it funny.
That’s the thing, I don’t think it’s impossible at all.
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There is also this for the people who missed the context.
At press time, the companies said the deal was expected to close shortly after the industry finished checking the calendar.
No this is too stupid, obviously it would be a major monopoly issue, and would never be allowed by authorities.
USA yes, because they effectively have zero monopoly control and consumer protection, but the rest of the world would not allow it.It is not funny, and just a waste of space on my screen.
“It is can’t be literally true so it must not be funny,” said the user without a sense of humor.
Haha you are funny. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
I enjoyed it so it was a good use of my screen space which zeroes out your criticism :)
I enjoyed it too and I wish it took up more of my screen space. We’re in the lead now!
There are tens of us!
OK IDK why you found that funny, usually a joke needs an element of surprise, since there was absolutely no surprise for me, I didn’t. Maybe it just requires to be less informed IDK???
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or if you truly don’t understand. But let me know if you’re serious and I can fully explain why everyone else here finds it funny. There’s no shame in not understanding.
Oh I understand the misunderstandings that can make it funny to the uninformed.
But please, on the off chance that it’s an angle I missed, please explain how something impossible is considered funny.
I did forget it was the 1st, and I did laugh initially. Then I remebered the date. So to me at least, it was funny. :shrug:
Well at least some found it funny.
It got a lot of people
If you dont like it, just turn your phone off for a day there, bud.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
What a completely moronic suggestion, how do you figure that makes any sense?
It’s like saying If you don’t like chicken, just stop eating.
I have no idea how it’s possible to be that stupid??? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 What a completely moronic reply. Ill forward you April Fools jokes all day if you’d like. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
OK, maybe there will be a nugget in there, challenge accepted.
Bonus points if some of them are actually funny, and not just stupid.April Fools!
Got’em. Not spending my day personally forwarding you shit.
Oh just doing the talk and not the walk, That figures from the content of your previous posts.
What are you going on about now?
I read this from the start with the mind that it’s probably an April fool’s joke, but not once did I see any indication to exaggerate or build up to a humorous absurdness. It’s just a long article that could be true but isn’t. Stupid and a waste of time.
Well, it closes with:
At press time, the companies said the deal was expected to close shortly after the industry finished checking the calendar.
I agree, but it’s still better than the “pranks” that hugely wink at you and think they’re clever, but they’re obviously some marketing team trying to come up with ideas that aren’t offensive… yeah, I said it, this dreck is better than that dreck. heh.
I’m annoyed because I only saw it on my feed today. Luckily I was about 2 sentences in before I checked the date.
Wouldn’t the SEC look upon jokes like this poorly?
SEC? In this day and age? Yeah… right…
Depends on the bribe amount (or lack of)
They would if AMD actually announced something like this.
This is entirely a Techspot joke, there is no AMD press release: https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-release-search.html
Ah shit lol.
Next up: Boeing Buys Airbus 🤣
RISC-V buys NVIDIA
Pepsi buys Coca-Cola
That wouldn’t be too far fetched. Pepsi is a much larger company than Coca-Cola. Practically everything in the snack aisle is owned by Pepsi.
Some of the companies/brands that PepsiCo already owns: Frito-Lay, Quaker, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Naked, etc.
If you’ve got no taste;)
If, it would be the other way around.
Nah, I wanna ruin air travel 😈
OK then it’s correct 😁
lol. Nice April Fools post. I think the cruelest tech related Aprils fools post I’ve seen claimed that Apple was open sourcing their x86 MacOS versions. Creating a Mac binary compatible BSD distro. That really hurt. I love OSx/2010s MacOS. Nothing on Linux or BSD side comes close. I am really holding out hope for RayvnOS.
Rumors say they will buy Nvidia after.
This shit is dumb. It was dumb on Reddit and it is dumb here. Why do we want to make ourselves suffer obnoxious fake news once a year?
a few minutes earlier
“hmm, I’m bored. Oh look here’s some people enjoying a small laugh. Imma shit on the fun. How DARE they enjoy a joke I personally don’t like. The FOOLS! THE ABSOLUTE MORONS! I simply MUST tell people their frivolity is absurd.”
Reddit didn’t invent April fools day, why give them credit they don’t deserve if you dislike them?
Reddit went absolutely bonkers overboard every year with dumb April Fools posts to the point where it crowded out every real topic and made the site unusable for the day, even back in the early days when it was otherwise very usable.
I personally never saw that level of bullshit overload anywhere else.
One of the things I like about Lemmy is that it avoids (somewhat) the everybody-piles-on-same-joke plagues that swept through Reddit. I’m hoping we as a community can keep avoiding them (somewhat)
Sorry for all you beans and Stör enjoyers. This place is big enough for the both of us but sometimes it does get uncomfortable.
once a year?
