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The time machines rest and humans pretend they were going to be productive anyway.

means The hours when something (a machine, a system, or a person) is offline, idle, or not being used for its normal work.

from A straightforward compound of 'down,' meaning inoperative or out of service (as in a machine being 'down'), and 'time.' It rose with industrial and computing usage in the 20th century, originally tracking how long a machine sat broken or idle before it could work again — only later did it get borrowed, half-jokingly, for humans needing a break.

server meaning
System offline, revenue silently bleeding
human meaning
Scrolling disguised as recovery
irony
Planned downtime always runs long
origin
1940s factory term for idle machines
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