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.

Not in the current standard model, for sure. Or is there a reason empirically why they simply can't be.

Pretty flowers and closure. Two of my favorite things. Crazy that the AI could detect exactly what they were based on the original image. Thanks for following up!

Sounds like a challenge.

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

Vine was started in early 2013 and in mid to late 2012, this video was popular: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo

That's about six months of true vertical video hate before the war was lost.

Who's Al??

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

Reminds me of when I sold all those magazine subscriptions so I could win an IR messaging device, enabling me to send short text messages to other people with the same device from all the way across the room. What a revolution.

I love happy endings.

Mid 20s for me. Not from the ear canal, but I have hairs growing along the helix on both of my ears. On the plus side, I now know what that part of the ear is called.

Agreed that it's possible, just very very expensive to make it look good. For Chopper, I think they'll pay up, but I'll bet there will be a lot of devil fruit users who get cut purely because showing them on screen costs too much money for too little payoff. Which is unfortunate, but understandable.