So did Microsoft just read the script to The Matrix and say "ya, let's do that!".

"The human body generates more bio electricity than a 120 volt battery and over 25000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the energy they would ever need." -- Morpheus

I'd really like to get a one armed drill instructor to teach me how to fight giant bugs before I go to the Stars on a Ship as a Trooper.

Don't Do It! If you unionize, what are you except a collection of neutral uncharged particles?!

I'm guessing, next time, they need to measure the width of a horse a bit more precisely.... https://story.fund/post/158244...

all good. i should have been more clear than random sarcasm. Consciousness is a complicated concept to wrap your head around (in a meta way). And i believe (without much knowledge/evidence on the subject) that it could exist on a gradient. However, we tend to define it as something like "the thing human brains do" but I have to yet to hear a consensus on what slightly conscious would even mean. Does it apply to dolphins/octopuses/crows/dogs/all mammals/all animals? We don't really have a measure of "that creature is only 37% conscious". I was just making fun of the term "slightly conscious" as being as a weird turn of phrase similar to "slightly dead". Using such a term is opening a very large can of worms. :-)

My point wasn't that nothing exists on a gradient, but that some things are ill-defined on a gradient. Pregnancy, life and the state of being human are all things that could be defined as black/white, but if you dig deeper, are more complicated questions than we have ready answers for. Are viruses alive? Slightly? If you are "dead" for 5 minutes but then revived were you only slightly dead? At what moment did we stop being Homo erectus and become Homo sapien? In the US we even have a horrible history of defining someone obviously 100% human as 3/5ths of a human based upon melanin concentration. In general, if you deny someone human rights based upon (insert bigoted/racist/sexist reason here), that seems to indicated you think they are less than 100% human. Or to combine those two, if you are brain dead, in a coma for months/years, but breathing with or without support, are you alive? human?

I just found my girlfriend is slightly pregnant which is too bad since my parents are slightly dead, so will never meet their slightly human grandchild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... If not for superman these John Deere tractors might run over Ricky!

just because of the world we live in, i'm sure i'll be hearing some new conspiracy theory that the 5G speeds in 'merica are low due to people resisting getting their vaccinations....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We should just start measuring internet speeds in petabits/second.... Time to make a call to Comcast to see if they can increase my home internet to a few millionths of a petabit/second.

Hopefully unionizing the workers will remove any extra ions. Seems like that could be dangerous to have your entire workforce ionized...

So the state government is responsible for setting up a utopian infrastructure to coddle the companies into staying, but the companies don't pay any taxes to the state? I can't see how that is sustainable.