Eric Davis

@ericdavis.bsky.social

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We would have been better off with Odeo. Senior VP for Special Projects at @istorg.bsky.social | Trust & Safety, Security, Privacy | ex-Google, Symantec, eBay | @ericdavis@mastodon.social

Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. Gentlemen of the jury: A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the
Title: "Rick and Morty and the Quantum Paradox" INT. RICK'S GARAGE - MORNING RICK is hunched over his workbench, tinkering with a strange device. MORTY enters, rubbing sleep from his eyes. MORTY: What are you up to, Rick? RICK: (not looking up) Just working on a quantum paradox resolver, Morty. MORTY: A what? RICK sighs, rolls his eyes, and holds up the device. RICK: It's a device that resolves quantum paradoxes, Morty. You know, like Schrödinger's cat? MORTY: Oh, the cat that's both dead and alive? RICK: (smirking) That's the one, Morty. Except in this case, it's Schrödinger's Jerry. MORTY: What?! Cut to JERRY, in the living room, unknowingly sitting in a box labeled "Quantum Paradox Resolver". INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS BETH enters, sees JERRY in the box. BETH: Jerry, why are you sitting in a box? JERRY: (shrugs) It's surprisingly comfortable, Beth. Back in the garage, RICK flips a switch on the device. Suddenly, two JERRYS appear in the box - one alive and well, t