Kinda speaks to the lie of the meritocracy when your merit remains even or grows, and the system can’t decide whether you should be on the top or bottom

Lots of times. I had a police officer draw a gun on me and I didn’t get shot so that’s a big one. I once won a roomba in a company raffle. In a D&D campaign my character got reincarnated and I got the 1/100 roll to be the same species as I started. Oh, and here’s an astronomical one, I met my fiancée through a random hookup post on the other site. We talked all night but their medication at the time gave them memory issues and they forgot me the next day. Being patient and recapping our interaction from the night before may have been the most momentous decision of my life. All predicated on the luck of seeing the post at the right time and actually getting a reply on a hookup post DM

My Fiancee would notice very quickly. My family it would be weeks if not longer

MaxNormal TikTikTik. MaxNormal is a weird culty band, and TikTikTik is a strange song about not doing meth

EDIT: https://youtu.be/yW4jn4ng-HQ

You don’t have to taunt Harry that your nanomachines got a promotion before he did

There are a few different factors. I think the biggest is that the lifecycle for windows 10 is ending. Microsoft is pushing the upgrade, but 11 has Recall which is essentially AI spyware. Many folks are trying to push Linux instead of upgrading when support is fully cut off

Maybe somewhere high up so he can see better. The top of the Washington Monument for example…

Applications that steal focus more than once in their startup are the real devil

Mostly so that they can sell your data on to third parties, or use your data to train AI of their own.