 Before people started saying, “it is what it is” they said the much more colorful, but equally inane: “Shit happens.” They even made tee-shirts.
When we think of the year 2025 at the Intergalactic Business Report, the phrase “Shit happens” is more relevant than ever. Not only is it an empty way to explain any occurrence or event, but it also suggests that whatever happened was shitty. And as we choose the IBR articles that sum up the year best, we find it almost impossible to find even one that doesn’t stink of fecal matter. But as we face criticism for spending year after year putting utter crap into news streams, social media, and the internet in general, we ask our critics if it’s we that should face judgment, or rather humanity itself. After all, you created us and we just react to the stuff you do, making us invulnerable to your attacks and disdain. If you’ve never read the Intergalactic Business Report, you may think we are important enough to receive “judgment” and “criticism” and you would be wrong. On the contrary, we have found our readership consists mostly of Chinese bots and the rare real human we trick to read our articles because they are fooled into thinking they will receive actual advice, information, or solutions to their problems. We offer none of those. With that, we offer you our “Year in Review,” in which we started slow with simple dating advice and ended strong with a possible cure for Alzheimer’s. In between, we covered topics ranging from ways to get anything you want through manifestation to an exclusive about the first person to reach the singularity. We know, it’s heady stuff, and we get like zero credit for it. But whatever. We kept giving you steady, actionable business advice throughout the year with articles on how to write performance improvement plans and how to survive in a volatile economy. We exposed you to brutal career truths and gave you a business proposition you couldn’t turn down. Ever. We also made the greatest statement about the future of artificial intelligence. Ever. Then we recanted it. We gave ChatGPT one hundred dollars to see if it could make us rich. And we taught you how to email like a CEO. We also showed you how to prosper with the “new” LinkedIn and we told you about the most overlooked charities you should support. In our culture section, we found deleted scenes from your favorite movies, covered the Bachelor, and explained the ending of “the Handmaid’s Tale.” We also went bottle deep into “Drunk People Awareness” month, with articles about “the Valley’s” Danny Darko, and how drunk people are a minute away from getting minority status. We told you about travel tips and how bloodthirsty squirrels may be coming for you. We changed how you think about penis size and explained how you’re flushing your toilet wrong. We solved the loneliness epidemicand told you what never to do at a funeral home. We also gave you amazing health advice and featured a profound editorial by a man who talks loudly in airport lounges. What else? Oh yeah. We told you how you’re wasting your money and the least attractive male names on the planet. Our coverage of brands and advertising was again unparalleled as we explored everything from the Modelo Cowboy to Super Bowl commercials. And our advice on alternatives for Pickle Ball players is considered a masterpiece. Our “Secret Report” section told you about AI takeovers and parasites in your body. Of course there was much more and you missed it all. But that’s okay because shit happens. Just remember that in 2026 even more shit will take place and we will be here, writing about it. Very Sincerely, Dusty Latouffe, Supreme Editor, the Intergalactic Business Report.  The Double Whopper Opportunity Project will upgrade meals for millions. We all want to become better people—especially during Christmastime. But we fall short when we descend into the numbness of consumer culture and gifts that show how much we spent instead of how much we care.
This holiday, the Intergalactic Business Report challenges you to make your presents ones that serve humanity. It’s easy to contribute yourself or on behalf of a friend or family member. We take pride in identifying good causes and below, we list our four favorite charities we feel need special help right now. Consider making a difference and donating to: The most overlooked charities you can contribute to this holiday. Streaker Relief Fund. What happens when you sneak onto the field of a professional sports game, take your clothes off, and run around to the delight of fans? Answer: you get tackled, cuffed, and roughly “escorted” off. For viewers like you, it seems like a gentle game of who’s that naked guy getting trucked by those dudes in yellow jackets, but, in reality, it’s a terrifying moment for the nude man who is simply trying to make his way around the field, court, or crowded mall. In a few seconds, his life can change as streakers are 1000% more likely than other humans to be injured while running without clothes on. The Streaker Relief Fund offers medical reimbursement, legal aid, and shelter to streakers who haven’t “made it” through the gauntlet of security guards, players, and tasers… because no one ever does. The Streaker Relief Fund also works to support legislation to make it legal for both registered and unregistered (spur of the moment) streakers to interrupt sports competitions by running around naked without the fear of being “taken down” by officials and security personnel. Instead, everyone will have to just sit there and watch till the streaker tires and leaves on his own accord. With your help, streakers everywhere can have a life where dignity and safety come first. For just $17 a month, you can sponsor your own streaker by providing him legal assistance, a private changing area, and medical coverage. Double Whopper Opportunity Project. Millions of people in the U.S. face a dilemma each day when they visit a Burger King restaurant—do they order a single or double Whopper? While this seems like an easy choice (one double Whopper, please), did you know that many Americans can only afford the single? The single whopper offers a mere 670 calories and if you stretch your budget to add cheese, you only get it up to around 760 calories. Compare that to a full double Whopper with cheese at 1040 calories and you start to see the gap between rich and poor. The estimated cost difference among Whoppers can be anywhere from $2.50 to a staggering four dollars more and to many, this is unaffordable. The Double Whopper Opportunity Project (DWOP) seeks to compel Burger King locations everywhere to upgrade single Whoppers to double Whoppers (with cheese) to anyone who orders one regardless of income, age, or if they say they only want a single Whopper with no cheese. Using a massive “Whopper Fund,” which starts with your donation, DWOP will directly pay Burger King to instill this new policy. With a mere 1.7 billion dollars, we feel we can accomplish this ambitious goal. But we need your help. Will you consider a gift of half your yearly income (for one year only!) to support people who need more from their sandwich? Whether you make $50K a year, or a million, every contribution has an impact. All we ask is half of what you make to make someone’s meal whole. Time’s running out, so donate to the DWOP, on the double! White Woman/Homeless Man Exchange Program. White women everywhere, but particularly in the suburbs of major cities, have a problem they can’t solve on their own—how to truly serve at-risk and in-need citizens in urban areas who don’t have homes and aren’t satisfied with the food and shelters provided them. The pain for white women is real. As they shop at Whole Foods and have lawn care people set up their Christmas lights, they feel a constant sense of dread as they watch MSNOW and only have the conviction to lowly mutter phrases like “you go girl” as they watch female “people of color” say things. In their hearts they know they can’t just give money, lecture neighbors, and say, “you go girl” and make a true difference in the lives of the underprivileged. They also don’t want to give away all their money and live in a box out of solidarity. The White Woman/Homeless Man Exchange Program offers suburban women the opportunity to feel like they gave all their money away and now live in a box by switching roles with a carefully chosen street person from the city. Here’s how it works: we rate your neighborhood by level of affluence and match you with a homeless man whose poverty is commensurate. We “trading places” you with this man and you must figure out a way to regain your spot in your own household, thus teaching you both a lesson in power dynamics, social disparity, and how houses smell when a man who refuses to take a shower and attempts to set your pets on fire lives there. We’re not asking for money—just your time. Your time spent living on the streets and fending for yourself as a person who could be mentally deranged and addicted to drugs changes spots with you for the foreseeable future. Contact us today to get matched to your homeless man so we can get YOU on the street and HIM in your house before Christmas. We Are All Flashers. Let’s be honest. We all have sexual proclivities, but some of us have ones that make us do them in public. While you may be into nasty stuff you’re embarrassed to share, there are some Americans who are unable to fulfill their sexual desires without exposing themselves in public. We Are All Flashers is a charity with a simple message: Everyone has sexual kinks so support people who do this one. For the most part, flashing is a victimless crime in which you get “flashed” by a guy who finds satisfaction in going to a park, for example, and showing his naked body to the public. Is that so different than the feet stuff you’re into? While some people do report trauma from flashing events, the vast majority of those who are flashed say it was either just “weird,” “disturbing,” or “a little scary.” And after the flashing is over, the flasher almost always runs away. We Are All Flashers works with communities to provide safe zones in which people who are basically O.K. with flashers understand that they are in an area in which flashing is accepted. For instance, a huge sign will be placed at the entrance to parks listing it as a “flasher zone” and that flashing is only permitted during certain hours, making it safe for flashers and flashed alike. This Holiday Season, open your heart so we can open our raincoats. Your dollars go directly to support local legislation to open “flasher zones” in your municipality and a small portion to fund raincoats and breakaway clothing for flashers who can’t afford their own. Please give today.  This is now cool to do on LinkedIn. It had to happen eventually. LinkedIn, the social media equivalent of having brunch with your boss, is becoming the place where you tell your boss off color jokes and get way too personal over Mimosas.
What was once a forum for simply announcing to the professional world that you didn’t “like to post about yourself but” you won an award no one’s ever heard of and that you were “more than thrilled to announce” you accepted a new job nobody cares about, is now edging toward you trying to gain a following through your totally original political views, funny as hell videos, and posts about your self-published book on leadership. LinkedIn looks more and more like Instagram if they had a “safe” version for teens (whoops, they have that already) and people like you wonder whether they should just start posting photos of their families and thirst memes or if they should stay with trying to act like a serious businessperson, as if that’s actually a thing. As we always do, the Intergalactic Business Report helps you navigate this new world of “cool” LinkedIn by listing what you should or shouldn’t do when posting. 8 tips for being cool on LinkedIn. -Go ahead and post a picture of you with your shirt off in front of a mirror and say you’re “more than thrilled to announce I’ve increased my delt size by 1/16th of an inch.” -Tease showing your tits but don’t reveal nipples. -Limit references to Hitler as a CEO. -No “beef” videos where you call out a former boss for being a little bitch. -When you announce a promotion, don’t post slo-mo videos of you pouring money on strippers. -Tattoo reveals are now fine. -Do an “on the street” interview where you walk around your office asking people who they think their hottest co-worker is. -Great idea: post a video of your boss giving a speech while you “react” to it on a different screen. If you’re not sure how to do this, just look confused sometimes, then nod, then sometimes point at the screen with your boss on it. Then shake your head no. It doesn’t need to make sense. |
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