Love, Death & Robots

When the yogurt took over, we all made the same jokes.

"Finally our rulers would have culture.

Our society is curdled.

Our government is now the cream of the crop," and so on.

But, when we weren't laughing about the absurdity of it all,

we asked ourselves, "How did we ever get to the point where we were,

in fact, ruled by a dairy product?"

Oh, as a matter of record, we knew how it happened.

Researchers took one of their most computationally advanced strains of DNA

and grafted it onto Lactobacillus delbrueckii,

commonly used to ferment yogurt.

Initial tests appeared to be failures.

However, one of the researchers sneaked some of the bacillus out of the lab

to use for her homemade yogurt.

The night of June 27th, it became sentient.

The yogurt declared it had arrived at solutions

to many of the country's problems.

But it wanted payment for that.

We.

Want.

Ohio.

That's fine, we will just go to China.

They promised us a whole province.

The yogurt was crafty and shrewd...

and got a century-long lease on Ohio

with the promise that it would respect the human and constitutional rights

of those who lived within its borders.

There it kept evolving, and soon,

it handed over a complex formula

to eradicate the national debt within one year.

Follow it exactly.

Any deviation will bring complete economic ruin.