Also, donate your time to review papers, an absolutely critical part of “peer reviewed journals”, for the people charging you both.

That’s a weird way to say “take a walk”, but ok.

Exactly what I was thinking. If I saw this I would look for hinges before stepping up.

Even worse, he is headed up. Why is he looking down?

You can cut cheese with a wire. Imagine having a thin piece of metal through a hole in your ear with weight on it. Your lobe is the cheese the ear ring is the cutter.

Ah, that makes sense

How does a driver choose how close someone follows them?