dmention7

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[–] dmention7@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe their ship yards just extrude borg ship out of a square tube, and they cut them up on the conveyor belt

In this case, I'd still expect more like a cylinder, but I love the idea! Borguccini? Borghetti?

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I'm hardly a lore expert, so maybe there are good in-univerese reasons they are cubes. But if you think about ships being assembled organically, I'd expect a more spherical shape once you get past a certain size.

It's been a long time since I've seen any of the movies, but now that you mention it I do seem to recall that spherical ship... Now I wonder if there's a tetrahedron borg ship out there somewhere

[–] dmention7@midwest.social -3 points 2 months ago

Found the guy who is afraid to wear skinny jeans or use a normal diaper bag.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I know it's a joke, but they literally assimilate their tech (and the Borg themselves) from the countless existing races they come across. They are a collective free of hierarchy, and therefore no central planning or structure to the way they implement tech, hence why everything is messy and organic (ironically), rather than tidy and organized.

The fact that their ships are perfect cubes has always bugged me in that regard. Spherical ships would have made a lot more sense.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 21 points 2 months ago

Thigh high stockings under a hospital gown...

thisbetternotawakensomethinginme.jpg

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why is he able to continue dismantling the country? Because a significant number of people support what he is doing in some way or another.

Why do they support him? Because his messaging, as inane as it is, resonates with a lot of people who genuinely see him as a strong, confident leader.

Why do they see him as a strong confident leader? Because he talks and acts like a schoolyard bully, and a lot of people mistake overcompensating for insecurity as confidence.

It's not going to work on all of his supporters, but just like with the Epstein Files (WHICH HE STILL HAS NOT RELEASED), if some chunk of his supporters see the emperor is naked, it erodes the mystique. Fact-checking him is useless because Trumpism is all about feelings--at least SOMEONE is realizing this and taking advantage of it.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

1 energy = 1 money

🙏 🤲 🙏 🤲 👀

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Trade me some energy and you've got a deal lol

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, Energy + Money needs to be like your first 5 years out of university, assuming you landed a good job. Most of my adult life has felt like a full money bar, but empty time and energy.

Here's to getting old I guess, so at least I can have some time again! 🍻

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

Regular people have no problem being called weird (in fact, a lot of us actively celebrate our weirdness), but a fascist movement simply falls apart without the solid conviction that they’re the only sane and normal ones.

Somehow I had never made this connection until just now! It always struck me that just calling them "weird" seemed so effective, since it's not even really an insult, but this makes complete sense.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lean is thought to have developed in Houston around the 1960s, when blues musicians would take Robitussin and cut it with beer.

What the actual fuck

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

They had us in the first 89%, not gonna lie!

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