4. Don't Freak Out, But I'm Arresting You

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Lords:
* Elena is reading Cordyceps by Benedict_SC. https://archiveofourown.org/works/6178036/chapters/14154868
* Avery's solo album is on Bandcamp. https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases
Topics:
* 2:58 Male pigeons feed their young with "crop milk" produced in glands in their throat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cropmilk
* Fennec Foxes. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fennec&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
* "Squid will survive and may even flourish under even the worst-case ocean acidification scenarios." https://news-oceanacidification-icc.org/2019/06/14/squid-could-thrive-under-climate-change/
* The Honeyguide will show you the honey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyguide
* Do birds sweat? https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061208141845AAtuY9L
* "Several months before his death, Lee had an operation to remove the sweat glands from his armpits." And this may have lead to his death from heat stroke. https://www.history.com/news/bruce-lee-death-mystery-solved-sweat-glands
* 18:07 Elena's friends use lexicalized emoji to communicate.
* Alice and Kev, homeless Sims. https://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/
* Happy Birthday, Wanda June. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HappyBirthday,WandaJune
* 35:08 The story of the guy who wanted and then didn't want a mattress.
* Vintage Pump Organs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiqnINpIz74
* 44:46 Singing cowboys and their ethical codes, which demanded their young fans keep clean and invest in savings accounts. http://www.cowboyway.com/GeneAutry.htm
* Alice's Restaurant Massacree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPx2t7xoF1k
* 55:40 Dimensions in candy space: chocolate, fruit, ...?
* All figs contain a dissolved wasp. https://gardencollage.com/inspire/wild-earth/true-dead-wasps-inside-figs/
* "An emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) can control the minds of roaches with a sting of its venom." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/parasitic-wasps-parkinsons-future-research-spd/
* The neotenized Domesticated Red Fox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticatedredfox
* Humans may have domesticated themselves: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-humans-maybe-domesticated-themselves
Microtopics:
* Infohazards.
* Living in a house with instruments on the wall because you're a musician, not because you're a massive hipster.
* Scientists who would describe cottage cheese as creamy.
* Pigeon milk cappuccinos.
* Animals that thrive in the city biome.
* Anaerobic squid thriving in the oceans we ruined.
* Honey-loving birds ditching their lame badger companions for fire-making humans.
* Flame-throwing badgers demanding bird exes take them back.
* Birds sweating out of their throats.
* East Asian people have different earwax from white people.
* Going deaf every few months due to earwax buildup.
* Monetizing your overactive sebaceous glands.
* Transplanting superior Asian sebaceous glands into your shitty white person's body.
* What do mammals have that birds haven't taken from us?
* The kiwi bird has ostrich-sized eggs.
* Realizing that the kiwi isn't the size of a kiwi.
* Thanking people by applying a turkey to them.
* Missing the rest of the conversation because you were trying to find the perfect emoji.
* Needing more than one train emoji.
* Starving because your food options are equidistant.
* Building the perfect Sims family so you can wreck their lives.
* Walking into a random house and the occupants being fine with it.
* Debuting moon landing footage you found in the bathroom.
* Opening up a cabinet at NASA and moon rocks spilling out.
* Your bosses at NASA not really caring when you destroy old SETI documents.
* Cats climbing discarded mattresses to hunt.
* Sense of thirst being hereditary.
* Kidney stones as a delayed sign of thirst.
* Finally getting to the part where the guy wants a mattress.
* Being finished loving the mattress.
* The Sunken Mattress Fallacy.
* Discovering the organ you just destroyed was from the 19th century.
* Playing music by touching the bones of a dead creature.
* Being the de facto authority because everyone else knows even less.
* Putting money into Gene Autrey's savings account.
* Building good citizens through singing cowboys.
* Issuing an arrest warrant for secret reasons.
* Appreciating the 19th-century sheriff's weird forehead while waiting to be arrested.
* Sitting there on the Group W bench.
* Teacher rewarding you with the cheapest possible candy.
* Mistaking your deodorant for tamarind candy.
* Being weird in the way that figs are weird.
* Fertilizing figs with your dissolved corpse.
* Sharing your fig with a friend so only one of you eats a dissolved wasp.
* Not believing new information because it's implausible that you didn't already know it.
* Wasps parasiting other wasps.
* Figs no longer being considered vegan.
* Closing your tiger restaurant because tigers are infeasible to farm.
* Accidentally inventing puppies when you just wanted your fox farm to be safer.
* Collecting a breeding population of raccoons.
* Rats escaping their cage so they can cuddle you.
* Outliving your pet parrot.
* Being an ageless rat guardian.
* Orcas rubbing themselves on flat rocks and nobody knows why.
* Orcas rubbing themselves on flat rocks because they're itchy.
* An octopus friend to untangle wires for you.
* Uplifting the octopus race merely by lengthening their lifespan.
* Uplifted octopodes inventing Twitter and becoming miserable.
* Thinking your chimp knows ASL because it's mirroring your actions.
* Worshiping Cthulhu in a secular humanist kind of way.
* Making jokes no-one will get instead of doing proper marketing.

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Lords:

Elena is reading Cordyceps by Benedict_SC. https://archiveofourown.org/works/6178036/chapters/14154868
Avery's solo album is on Bandcamp. https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases

Topics:

2:58 Male pigeons feed their young with "crop milk" produced in glands in their throat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_milk

Fennec Foxes. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fennec&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
"Squid will survive and may even flourish under even the worst-case ocean acidification scenarios." https://news-oceanacidification-icc.org/2019/06/14/squid-could-thrive-under-climate-change/
The Honeyguide will show you the honey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyguide
Do birds sweat? https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061208141845AAtuY9L
"Several months before his death, Lee had an operation to remove the sweat glands from his armpits." And this may have lead to his death from heat stroke. https://www.history.com/news/bruce-lee-death-mystery-solved-sweat-glands

18:07 Elena's friends use lexicalized emoji to communicate.

Alice and Kev, homeless Sims. https://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/
Happy Birthday, Wanda June. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday,_Wanda_June

35:08 The story of the guy who wanted and then didn't want a mattress.

Vintage Pump Organs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiqnINpIz74

44:46 Singing cowboys and their ethical codes, which demanded their young fans keep clean and invest in savings accounts. http://www.cowboyway.com/GeneAutry.htm

Alice's Restaurant Massacree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPx2t7xoF1k

55:40 Dimensions in candy space: chocolate, fruit, ...?

All figs contain a dissolved wasp. https://gardencollage.com/inspire/wild-earth/true-dead-wasps-inside-figs/
"An emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) can control the minds of roaches with a sting of its venom." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/parasitic-wasps-parkinsons-future-research-spd/
The neotenized Domesticated Red Fox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox
Humans may have domesticated themselves: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-humans-maybe-domesticated-themselves

Microtopics:

Infohazards.
Living in a house with instruments on the wall because you're a musician, not because you're a massive hipster.
Scientists who would describe cottage cheese as creamy.
Pigeon milk cappuccinos.
Animals that thrive in the city biome.
Anaerobic squid thriving in the oceans we ruined.
Honey-loving birds ditching their lame badger companions for fire-making humans.
Flame-throwing badgers demanding bird exes take them back.
Birds sweating out of their throats.
East Asian people have different earwax from white people.
Going deaf every few months due to earwax buildup.
Monetizing your overactive sebaceous glands.
Transplanting superior Asian sebaceous glands into your shitty white person's body.
What do mammals have that birds haven't taken from us?
The kiwi bird has ostrich-sized eggs.
Realizing that the kiwi isn't the size of a kiwi.
Thanking people by applying a turkey to them.
Missing the rest of the conversation because you were trying to find the perfect emoji.
Needing more than one train emoji.
Starving because your food options are equidistant.
Building the perfect Sims family so you can wreck their lives.
Walking into a random house and the occupants being fine with it.
Debuting moon landing footage you found in the bathroom.
Opening up a cabinet at NASA and moon rocks spilling out.
Your bosses at NASA not really caring when you destroy old SETI documents.
Cats climbing discarded mattresses to hunt.
Sense of thirst being hereditary.
Kidney stones as a delayed sign of thirst.
Finally getting to the part where the guy wants a mattress.
Being finished loving the mattress.
The Sunken Mattress Fallacy.
Discovering the organ you just destroyed was from the 19th century.
Playing music by touching the bones of a dead creature.
Being the de facto authority because everyone else knows even less.
Putting money into Gene Autrey's savings account.
Building good citizens through singing cowboys.
Issuing an arrest warrant for secret reasons.
Appreciating the 19th-century sheriff's weird forehead while waiting to be arrested.
Sitting there on the Group W bench.
Teacher rewarding you with the cheapest possible candy.
Mistaking your deodorant for tamarind candy.
Being weird in the way that figs are weird.
Fertilizing figs with your dissolved corpse.
Sharing your fig with a friend so only one of you eats a dissolved wasp.
Not believing new information because it's implausible that you didn't already know it.
Wasps parasiting other wasps.
Figs no longer being considered vegan.
Closing your tiger restaurant because tigers are infeasible to farm.
Accidentally inventing puppies when you just wanted your fox farm to be safer.
Collecting a breeding population of raccoons.
Rats escaping their cage so they can cuddle you.
Outliving your pet parrot.
Being an ageless rat guardian.
Orcas rubbing themselves on flat rocks and nobody knows why.
Orcas rubbing themselves on flat rocks because they're itchy.
An octopus friend to untangle wires for you.
Uplifting the octopus race merely by lengthening their lifespan.
Uplifted octopodes inventing Twitter and becoming miserable.
Thinking your chimp knows ASL because it's mirroring your actions.
Worshiping Cthulhu in a secular humanist kind of way.
Making jokes no-one will get instead of doing proper marketing.

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