174. Occam's Raccoon

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Lords:

• Chris
• Alexander

Topics:

• Words with similar sounds/meanings but no relation to each other at all.
• Virtual marble runs with guns
  • https://www.youtube.com/@mikan2d
• The "broom method" of dealing with a hydrogen leak
  • https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/706885583716466688
• Poem by Dr. Seuss: “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
• Loveland Frog (Ohio frog bigfoot?)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog
• Ghosts are real: what are the economic consequences?

Microtopics:

• Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
• Lords starting with Xa.
• Moving boxes that have handles built in.
• All else being equal, a raccoon did it.
• Proto-Indo-European.
• Putting the S in Island.
• The era of Topic Lords when we only discussed Shakespeare.
• Some of the things you expect are wrong, and vice-versa.
• Bacteria finding proteins hanging around and deciding "this is part of me now."
• Branching path structures shooting red and blue bullets at each other.
• Escalating Revenge Core Destruction.
• If pachinko were extremely elaborate and violent.
• Oil timers.
• Turning over the rectangle on your desk and forcing the red and green combatants to fight for you once more.
• Apollonian circles.
• The ancestry of Firefox.
• Web browsers surrounded by water on all sides.
• Using the entirety of your computing resources to do basically nothing.
• A phone app that makes your phone display Flying Toasters but only while it's in your pocket.
• Computers that are really good at getting hot and not very good at not getting hot.
• An air conditioner but backwards.
• Marbula One.
• Marble races except every marble is armed with an assault rifle.
• The year you finally get into Blaseball.
• How Blaseball works.
• How to detect a fire that you can't see.
• Glass Onion: debunked.
• A hell planet completely saturated with a volatile gas populated by lava monsters.
• Why leave the house? Just send a probe and infer the existence of your neighbors.
• What "from" means in "escape from the tank"
• The jingle the hydrogen truck plays as it trundles by.
• The Snack of the Stars.
• Safety testing various propellants.
• What your voice sounds like without any transmission medium.
• The Gregorian Underwater Choir.
• Naming Helium after the sun because that's where we discovered it.
• The Lorax threatening you with a bat.
• My huge sawed off flashlight.
• Stay back, officer, it's just just a flashlight.
• Replacing your self-defense rabies bat every time it dies.
• Brushing your self-defense bat's teeth.
• Dr. Zeus's book of adult poetry.
• Is the Death Star brutalist? Can brutalist architecture be round?
• Bee Barns.
• A four foot tall frog guy who lives in the woods.
• A frog guy. A guy who is a frog.
• A frog guy caught between two worlds of posture.
• A Wikipedia user whose thing is to make photo illustrations of cryptids and extinct animals.
• What happens to Pikachu's soul when it dies.
• Ghosts: what do they do all day?
• Ghosts exist, and they can talk, and they know all about the afterlife, but also they're huge liars.