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Grant Approved

The application has been reviewed. Both departments have signed off — Kernel Compilation with a terse stamp, Functional Safety with a lengthy memo about the importance of exhaustiveness checking and a footnote about :any being an explicit opt-out rather than a default.

The silly walk has been officially certified. It is, the Ministry concludes, two walks working in concert — one handling the mechanical business of putting feet on the ground, the other ensuring that the feet go in sensible directions. Neither walk understands the other. Both are essential. The resulting motion is, somehow, both silly and effective.

The man in the suit crosses the dotted line one more time on his way out. Nobody stops him. That, as it turns out, is still the entire point.