My first thought went to Spike from Cowboy Bebop.

Now I’m wondering: was Spike based on Bugs?

That would be the laryngeal nerve. It’s been with us vertebrates for a long time.

I take your, “for zero reason,” to indicate that it’s silly that it’s so long in a giraffe. And it is, because it connects the larynx and the brain, two bits that aren’t very far apart. You’d never design it that way from scratch.

But the laryngeal nerve’s length has a reason: it loops around the heart and it developed in our fish-like ancestors. At that time, it wasn’t silly for the nerve to wrap around the heart, because fish don’t have necks and thus the nerve was about the same length whether it wrapped around the heart or not. As necks developed, evolution found it easier to lengthen the nerve than to reroute it. So here we and giraffes both exist, having much longer laryngeal nerves than you’d engineer if you were making us from scratch.

This is true of an enterprise/company union. Industrial unions tip the seesaw to the other side.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month - 1975

Terry Pratchett’s DiscWorld series.

I thought Inc-El was a play on inconel and that this meme was about how extremely cool the Cybertruck is.

I was confused.

Then I thought about it.

I bought my first electric car in December 2023. I ruled Tesla out because of Elon Musk.

Chili and cinnamon rolls. Are you from Kansas?

Good lord your work is impressive.

I’m encouraged that the percentage was that low.

Absolutely. To have the chance at being the first to see and experience what’s out there? Oh yes.

If it’s in the name, it ain’t in the product.