LesleyNathanThinking of survival shows like Alone, is "wilderness survival" a sport?Regional differences in the tone and caliber of NextDoor postsPastry arbitrageThe Light That Shines When Things Endhttps://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/bOfIPmqs.pngWild takahē (TAH-kah-hay) have been reintroduced into the mountains of New ZealandHow are we feeling about the Boston Robotics advancements? Welcome our new robot overlords or not?Hyper Light Breaker.Bumpy Grumpy.Recording a podcast from inside a toilet.Fishtank bubbling noises.Assigning a point value to eating reindeer lichen.Eating your belt because someone famous ate their belt once in the 19th century.Starving contests.Calling in an air drop for your favorite outdoor survivalists.The reality show where a guy is living alone in an apartment scouring thousands of magazines for offers of free stuff.The "it's a living" joke.Pez Guy.Trying to redeem Pepsi tokens for a fighter jet.A boiler room full of people tilting soda bottles.Weary cereal mascots.Hippies living in a canyon until Topanga emerges.Making a Nextdoor post about a guy peering in your window and the replies are like "it's cool it's just Window Peering Jim checking out your remodel."Making a Nextdoor post about finding a baby goat and what do I do and a reply saying "you need to call the Goat Goddess" and another reply saying "I'm the Goat Goddess and I can help you."Encouraging microcultures.Surfacing positive comments to the top of Youtube videos.Using technology to steer people away from being terrible.Writing a story about a guy with a sword.Writing a parody of bad fanfiction and building Minecraft worlds to support your world building.Whether jokes are funnier now or if old jokes are just out of fashion.Trying to relate to the kids by saying "I can has cheeseburger?"How art used to happen before copyright law fucked everything up.The dudes at the farmers market selling tomatoes that are obviously from the grocery store.The farm with a sign that says "come pick pumpkins at our pumpkin patch" but the pumpkins are just sitting on the ground and by pick they just meant "select."The Quasi-Authentic Experience.A pumpkin velcroed to a vine.A large hill. (Not a mountain.)Making the light a liar, at least until your mid-thirties. Ruining an otherwise amazing moment.A Minority Report precog murder kind of situation.Whether the light has a bell too.A poem that's just a shower thought if you think about it.Taking the eggs to an incubation center.Muppet Bird flavor.Cutting open a cookie monster to reveal the cookie layers inside.Seeing the Cookie Monster's leg in the window of the butcher shop.The roast chicken saying "It's a living!" as you slice it up.Robots that sound like bees.Slipping on the ice and hearing the bees.Whether fun robots are even scarier than serious robots.Moxie the child companion robot.A dog named Spot and his SDK.Too loud, too scary, too many bees.People who can pollinate.If it's empty, fill it with bees.Memes that the kids don't think are old because they have fallen out of the cultural memory entirely.Still being on Twitter because you have games to sell.
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