The "whoops it's unplugged" was a joke about the root cause, but also intended to imply equivalently poor attempts to keep the machine working. That is I do not

The "whoops it's unplugged" was a joke about the root cause, but also intended to imply equivalently poor attempts to keep the machine working. That is I do not think they literally did not plug it in, but I do think they are not trying very hard to keep the machine up and running.