I enjoyed hearing about meme crossovers in a recurring Reply All segment where they would take a host who didn’t understand a complicated Tweet and break down all the pieces.

Here’s an excerpt that stuck with me:

PJ: Dog underscore rates. Ok. So, there is a–there is a Twitter account, uh, that has over 2 million followers.

ALEX BLUMBERG: Ok.

PJ: And it is devoted to rating peoples’ dogs,

ALEX BLUMBERG: Rating them.

PJ: Yeah. So like, scale of one to ten?

ALEX BLUMBERG: Ohhhh.

PJ: Except they always give them above 10. Like, every single time. Um, can I just show you the best moment in WeRateDogs™’ history? Where a guy got angry, that he thought the ratings system was skewed?

ALEX BLUMBERG: Uh, so, this guy Brant?

PJ: Yeah.

ALEX BLUMBERG: He was like, “@dog_rates You’re rating system sucks! Just change your name to cute dogs!” And then WeRateDogs™ wrote back: “Why are you so mad, Bront?” And then he said, “Well, you give every dog 11s and 12s, it doesn’t even make any sense!” (laughing) That’s a guy who is not in on the joke.

PJ: Yes.

ALEX BLUMBERG: (laughing) And then WeRateDogs™–and then WeRateDogs™ says, “They’re good dogs, Brent.” Brant: “It’s a cheap gimmick!” WeRateDogs™: “Well Brint, (laughing) the people love it and I’m doing it for them, not you.” Uh. Brent: “All I’m saying is you could have real legitimate ratings instead of every just saying (laughing) every dog is a 10, 11, or 12”

PJ: So like, that is basically–that is like a good encapsulation of what is good about this.

ALEX BLUMBERG: (laughing)

PJ: (laughing) Alex Blumberg is losing his mind.

ALEX BLUMBERG: Oh, “They’re good dogs, Brent” is really funny.

Here’s the episode: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho9j

Miss that show.

Heavily featured in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwMwzGIt5ek

Does it count if I give a proof reducing the entire universe down to a 2-dimensional construct?

~240,000 micro & nanoplastic pieces in one liter of plastic-bottled water.

Mfw I read this while drinking a liter of plastic-bottled water: 😮‍💨

You would if you’d seen my cabinet impression.

Wow, rabies tag sounds a lot more intense than freeze tag

As a kid, I was at a snow park, getting towed up a hill in an inner tube. The tube was attached to a cyclical line with spaced out hooks, towing all the tubes to the top of the hill. But mine got unhooked when I was almost at the top and the tube flipped into its side, rolling sideways down the hill. I was still inside, holding into the handles, tumbling end over end but rotating too fast to fall out. The employees looked nervous when I reached the bottom of the hill, no doubt worried that I was injured and my parents would sue. But I just got up and went to the back of the line to go back up to the top.

I got a rock

Ok now I’m invested. What happened to up to? That’s supposed to be their excuse, that there’s some sacrificial lamb out there, which knocks a quarter of the price off for subscribers, this one just wasn’t it. Now you locate the rare holofoil “no up to” Amazon listing and you don’t get the 25%? Tyranny I say! We must overthrow! We demand up to 100% of the means of production!

Haven’t touched reddit socially in 8 months, but every now and then I’ll use it to search for opinions or instructions on things. Searched “reddit best domain registrar” recently and landed on a thread where top to bottom, every comment recommending a registrar was from a bot and/or banned account. No real person testimonials, all ads. And as AI implementations improve, that’s going to get harder to spot. In the meantime, I’m formatting searches like “best domain registrar lemmy” because reddit is legit that bad rn.

And I always feel a bit deceived, considering that the lines themselves are drawn characteristically well.

If Amazon wants better astroturfing from the gig workers, those gig workers doing the actual work need to get a much bigger chunk of the money. They should unionize!

Could we drag a big asteroid to each Lagrange point and let countries orbit their satellites around that?

Actually, the only qualifying factor to be sushi is for something to contain vinegared rice alongside other toppings. The rolled shape is not sushi, it’s maki.

So close, but the answer’s actually 11:

Checked five times (5) * double checked (2) = 10

Plus one more for that last 5*2 is 11. Or 12 if you double checked that one too.

So, if you double checked 2*5 five times, how many times did you check total?

You either nap a good boy or bork long enough to see yourself become a naughty boy.

And in retrospect, they completely neglected to fight for their right to party.

Not only that, there’s reason to believe that every verse in this 18th century carrol is about a bird. Specifically, birds eaten at medieval feasts. Though some of the verses are harder to decode than others.

https://www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/the-birds-of-the-twelve-days-of-christmas

This looks like a wewantplates to me. And throw those skittles in a pocket, what are they doing up there?