Also learn the Heimlich maneuver if you can. It’s easy to learn and you don’t need to be certified. Never thought I’d need it but I saved my brother’s life many years ago. An outlier for sure given about 6,000 people in the US die from choking each year, but still.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21675-heiml...

Heimlich maneuver is good, but it must be done right, and customized for the person. Doing it wrong can cause injury that can kill a person.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9108913/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37695097/

Imagine what they’ll say 600,000 years from now.

“Humans began to acquire knowledge around the time of Dacro and the Second Wormhole Leap. The farther back we go…”

Agents probably won't refer to all members of Homo as humans, I would imagine.

Should have put a “C.” in the middle of the name. Would have been an instant buy.

Oh very very well done.

On a related note (la), if this floats your ice cream, you might be interested in Ben Houge's Food Opera sound/dining experiments (http://www.audiogustatory.com/).

My daily meditation: “Now when we fought you had the eye of the tiger, man—the edge—and now you’ve got to get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?”

RIP Carl.

This comment was the best roller coaster I've ridden in a long time. Thank you for the great writing. I can't stop laughing.

This answer unlocked a principle in my thinking about a certain class of problems I’ve been struggling with in a different domain. Thank you!

FWIW, I used Suica on Apple Wallet on my iPhone 12 in July of this year. Adding money to the card required a debit card tied to my bank. Payment failed with a Visa credit card. Additionally, payment only worked during Japan business hours. But as long as there was money on the card, the card itself (on the phone) worked around the clock. The card worked for train travel, convenience stores, and vending machines.

Toyoda Automatic Loom Works had the jidoka system which automatically stopped the loom when a thread broke[0] preventing downstream production issues. Later used in the Toyota Production System.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakichi_Toyoda

Even so, it feels like an off-brand article for The Paris Review, in both content and style. I’d be interested in learning the context.