Topic Lords

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.

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