Brian Prost

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A meme showing a mother (labeled DAX) lifting a happy child (labeled SQLite) out of a pool, while another child (labeled JSON) struggles to stay afloat in the background. At the very bottom, a skeleton sits on a chair underwater, labeled DynamoDB
Scene from HBO’s Silicon Valley where a party, Bachmanity Insanity, is hosted on Alcatraz.
a screenshot of a post from a BlueSky user that says "test post please ignore" but there are 321 replies
Wait, another angle: the boy's name. Maybe the boy's name is "I Can," so the surgeon is literally saying, "I can operate on I Can." That would make the sentence a play on words. Let me test that. If the boy's name is "I Can," then the surgeon's statement becomes "I can operate on I Can," which is a pun. That sounds plausible. It's a common type of riddle where the name is incorporated into the sentence to create a wordplay.