#2195 Dockless RoombasThe company started out exploiting a loophole in the law banning scooters. The city was mad at first, but then they noticed how much they were saving on street cleaning.
#2196 Nice To E-Meet YouI'm inside your head and I hate it. Please let me out.
#2197 Game ShowEventually they agreed to "an auto-retracting dog leash with one end clipped to your house, so you can press the button on the handle and water-ski home."
#2199 Cryptic Wifi NetworksThey actually showed up on the first scan by the first WiFi-capable device.
#2200 Unreachable StateERROR: We've reached an unreachable state. Anything is possible. The limits were in our heads all along. Follow your dreams.
#2201 Foucault PendulumTrust me, you don't want to get on the wrong side of the paramilitary enforcement arm of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.
#2202 Earth-Like ExoplanetFire is actually a potential biosignature, since it means something is filling the atmosphere with an unstable gas like oxygen. If we find a planet covered in flames, it might be an indicator that it supports life. Or used to, anyway, before the fire.
#2203 PrescienceLots of people called their ships unsinkable before the Titanic. Voicing your hubris doesn't make failure more likely, just more memorable.
#2204 Ksp 2"The committee appreciates that your 2020 launch is on track, but the 'human capital/personnel retention' budget includes a lot more unmarked cash payments than usual. What are th--" "Public outreach."
#2205 Types of ApproximationIt's not my fault I haven't had a chance to measure the curvature of this particular universe.
#2206 Mavis BeaconThere are actually lowercase-like 'oldstyle' forms of normal numbers with more pronounced ascenders and descenders, which is why some numbers like '5' in books sometimes dangle below the line. But the true capital numbers remain the domain of number maven Mavis Beacon.
#2207 Math WorkI could type this into a solver, which MIGHT help, but would also mean I have to get a lot of parentheses right...
#2208 Drone FishingToday's consumers who order their drones off the internet don't know the joy of going out in nature and returning with a drone that you caught yourself, whose angry owners you fought off with your own two hands.
#2209 Fresh PearsI want to sell apples but I'm still working on getting the machine to do the cutting and grafting.
#2210 College AthletesTheir signature play is the three-point combinator, a recursive offense which is guaranteed not to halt and continues accumulating points until the buzzer.
#2211 Hours Before DepartureThey could afford to cut it close because they all had Global Entry.
#2212 Cell Phone Functions... tazer ... fire extinguisher ... bird feeder ... toilet paper ...
#2213 How OldWe've met! I remember you when you were thiiiis tall! [*holds a hand an inch above their head*]
#2214 Chemistry NobelMost chemists thought the lanthanides and actinides could be inserted in the sixth and seventh rows, but no, they're just floating down at the bottom with lots more undiscovered elements all around them.
#2215 Faculty:Student RatioThey managed to briefly hit the top of the rankings when they rejected everyone except one applicant, published 5 billion research papers that just said "Hi," and hired one of their graduates for $50 trillion/year (then fired them after 10 microseconds.)
#2216 Percent Milkfat"So what's dark energy?" "Cosmologists and the FDA are both trying very hard to find out."
#2217 53 CardsWell, there's one right here at the bottom, where it says "53."
#2218 WardrobeIf you'd just agree to hold your meetings in here, you'd have PLENTY of time to figure things out before the deadline.
#2219 Earthquake Early WarningsI was fired by the National Weather Service five minutes after they hired me for going into their code base and renaming all the tornado warnings to "tornado spoiler alerts."
#2220 Imagine Going Back in TimeI wonder what the trendy adults in 2019 who are too cool for Pokemon will be into. Probably Digimon!
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