To them “the machine” is the liberal shadow state, wokeness etc. which they think controls the world.

Admittedly my info is a couple decades old. When my college friends studying in Australia tried to hitchhike with their thumbs, drivers angrily returned the gesture. They were later informed that it meant “up yours” and that the correct way was to point an index finger toward where they wanted to go. Maybe years of Americans visiting have changed this.

Funny thing from an Australian friend who moved to Seattle where I live - we used to have a restaurant called Dag’s that served “Dag-burgers”. She said to her “dags” were little balls of shit clinging to a sheep’s fur. She sent home a photo of herself by the sign and her relatives thought it was hysterical.

And this means A-Okay, not whatever the hell nazis decided.

Incidentally, if you’re one of the people who changed from this to a thumbs-up to make sure nobody thought you were evil, the thumbs-up gesture in Australia means “up yours”. Morally perfect hand gestures aren’t easy.

Why does a calculator need my fucking email address? We’re not pen pals, just do this arithmetic.

Also are the Rolling Stones involved? Asking for a friend.

Deconditioning. If we had a really serious full-on plague we’d eventually get casual about the corpse disposal wagon.

Maybe it’s the same normal human inconsistency as those of who support public health care and basic income, but ironically still buy stuff from capitalists.

Can I mambo dogface to the banana patch?

I agree, capitalism is just one way greed manifests itself. Greedy opportunists figure out how to exploit any system. The people douchevoting you are binary meme-brains who think you’re saying capitalism is the greatest thing since Betty White because you didn’t explicitly say the opposite.

When did Meredith at Dunder Mifflin become a vampire?

Please do! Are we talking about Microsoft Bob or what?

While I was there they were working on integrating presence detection. I saw some demos where lights would go on and off when you walked from room to room, and music you were listening to would follow you. If you were using a computer your desktop environment would migrate to a computer in the new room. Never saw that hit the market in any way I was aware of.

Lots of stuff MS Research did never saw the light of day. One time when my kids were playing Toontown I found a bug that let a player slip behind the graphics. You could see that the clerk at the store was just a legless torso floating in the air, and you could even go behind the walls and fly backwards into empty space until the whole world shrank to a dot. This same bug was present in a MS project called V-Worlds I had worked on a couple years earlier, so I always wondered if they had made a deal with Disney to use the code or if it was just a common graphics bug.

Gorram right!

Former Win10 user here, also a former MS employee, now on Mint. I never even heard of Recall but holy crap on a cracker, Microsoft - seriously? SERIOUSLY?

You guys have absolutely lost your fucking minds. My advice is to make Microsoft great again by quitting and forming a bunch of startups, where you can work on innovations that are actually good and useful. For the sake of your own sanity.

To get the feel of this speed, it’s about 10 minutes of driving on a clear freeway, in one second.

[OCD folks do your thing (sigh) and remember I’m one of you, but I am not trying to be exact, just giving the general feel of it.]

Not as laughable as the assumption that “needing a large gender affirming car” was the actual reason someone bought a car, without knowing anything about them except that they’re male. Maybe that proves psychic powers are real too!

Anybody can create a meme, but too many people get too much of their “information” from them.

More sociological insights from the keen minds who teach us you need a small penis to like sports cars.

Throwing away money isn’t evil when WE do it!

Yessir, that’s the saucer what took muh cousin Darryl.

No, the big cloud of data points says they are pretty dependent and the little outlier says outliers can exist.