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Lords:
* Erica plugs increasing optional mask compliance by farting
* Jenni plugs birds
* Jim plugs metaplugs repeating plugs
Topics:
* The System, and by extension, The Talenti Cup System
* Decentralizing social media is gonna be real good for people not yelling at each other & kinda bad for sharing specialized information
* We just taught Winston about "peeing in the woods" when we were going on a hike and now he wants to "pee in the woods" everywhere
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud
* Mark Rosewater designed devil fruits
* Esper says: "As a longtime (since 1999, with only one substantial break) Magic: the Gathering player, it does my heart good to hear Mark Rosewater come up. His GDC talk about lessons he's learned in designing games is really sharp stuff (if a little 101 in places), check it out sometime."
* Decarbonizing the language
Microtopics:
* Meta-plugging repeating plugs.
* Bee Movie but it’s text to speech.
* Increasing optional mask compliance by farting.
* Mass: the volume of gas inside you, and how to increase its compliance.
* A meme that people teach to each other.
* Packing a shoe into a box and opening up a big box of mold years later.
* Categories of things that fit into one-pint gelato cups.
* The Body Box.
* How to make itinerant lifestyles bearable and possible.
* Organizing your entire house into the House Box.
* Using your Dunbar number to keep track of your house plants.
* Getting on Topic Lords by searching "pineapple on pizza"
* Social media platforms that are owned by a rich asshole.
* Drastically improving productivity in the workplace by banning the email forwarding of news articles.
* The overwhelming feeling of shame when you don't have a take on the latest discourse.
* Going on Tori Amos AOL chat to talk to your social group.
* Buddha's list of 89 things that make you angry.
* We've invented a new way to be angry.
* Repeating topics because you've forgotten what you were just talking about.
* Peeing in the laundry closet and calling it peeing in the woods.
* Explaining to a three year old when it's ok and when it's not ok to pee outside.
* Pee-ka-boo.
* Everything sucks and I have no control over anything but I can poop in the front yard.
* Taking increasingly larger shits in Richard Kind's cat box.
* How George Clooney gets away with poop modification.
* Taking increasingly larger shits in the Li-Cor machine that measures leaf respiration.
* Whether playing Tom Jones at work constitutes sexual harassment.
* Tom Jones in his leisure suit.
* Cleaning up the lyrics to make rock and roll palatable to white people but leaving in the line about the "one-eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store."
* Whether it's still sexual harassment if nobody points out that it's sexual harassment.
* Jocund company.
* Telling the story of the time you saw a bunch of daffodils.
* Seeing a bunch of daffodils and shouting "Fuck! These fucking flowers are fucking pretty as shit!"
* Conceiving of yourself as an indoor person, separate from the outdoors.
* Reading a Japanese dictionary of dirty words and saying "Fuck! These fucking dirty words are fucking good as shit!"
* Conceiving of interior spaces as being one with exterior spaced.
* You can't unpee the bush.
* Finding and eating devil fruits.
* Eating the fruit that lets you talk to dragons when dragons don't exist.
* Seeing a gun dog and assuming that it was a dog that ate a gun fruit but actually it was a gun that ate a dog fruit.
* What happens if you eat a second devil fruit.
* Dengue fever creeping up into Texas from Mexico.
* The best place to contract Dengue Fever.
* Burning the candle at both ends of the day.
* Eating the burrito from both ends.
* Harvesting the bioluminescent fungus.
* Turbines on a windless morn.
* Burning solar panels as a fuel source.
* The worst thing to happen to Twitter/the best thing to happen to Mastodon.
* The Dunbar Number for plants.
* Voting someone out of the marriage because there's only room for one person in here.
