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a Dyson Ball vacuum (dog at the cord)

Next time, take it to a vacuum repair tech. Should be able to replace a chewed up cord for a fraction of the price of another Dyson.

And when you tried to report it, they said "there's are no jason masks in our cast"

spooky sounds play

Personal finance is basically the study of fighting against psychology

(or sometimes convincing psychology to fight itself)

Long run savings, budgeting, ignoring short term losses. Those are not things your brain naturally wants to do.

Oh, of course...but if OP is the type of person who bought a new vacuum after getting a cord chewed up...I highly doubt they are the type of person who is going to do this repair themselves.

If it was a retractable cord, it might be more difficult if you need to replace the whole mechanism (or wind a new cord onto it), but I am pretty sure the Dyson balls have a regular cord you wind yourself.

I think the key innovation there is the "retractable drone cabin" part.

Right now, helicopters can't just land anywhere they want since pesky things like trees get in the way. The rotors are dangerous, they make a lot of noise and kick up rocks, etc.

They can lower/raise people on a line but that's far from ideal. The line can swing around, the helicopter pilot needs to be very stable, dealing with multiple people is complicated, you need safe rigging to attach people, attaching a stretcher with incapacitated patient is sketchy, etc.

But what if the helicopter could stay in the sky and you could lower a cabin? And what if that cabin had its own drone-style propulsion that would allow it to carefully adjust and stabilize its side-to-side positioning so it doesn't matter if the chopper above is getting blown around? People can then just walk (or be wheeled) into the cabin without any special safety gear or training. It can land in places a helicopter cant (like a parking lot with cars in it or a park field with too many trees).

Chopper itself could still even burn fossil fuels. Yes, it has to hover for a while, but that hover time might actually be shorter than if you are trying to do long line rescue where you have to lower first responders down, they have to stabilize the patient, rig them into a litter, and then haul them out.

Also, I am no expert, but I think a lot of long-line rescues are just short hops--they get you into the litter but you never actually get put into the chopper itself--you just dangle underneath it until they can drop you at an ambulance pickup (or land somewhere and transfer you into the chopper). Both rescuers and rescuees are dangling from the chopper the entire time until the chopper can put down. The solution Rober talks about would work more like a traditional ambulance--you get loaded in, paramedics can immediately start providing care, and it drops you right at the ER.