• Admiral PatrickOP
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      1224 days ago

      Indeed.

      “Who’s in the mood to add a little bit of their biological and technological distinctiveness to our own?”

      • Flying SquidM
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        524 days ago

        Honestly, I never really thought that being a Borg would be as horrific as the show tried to claim, especially with the way Seven described it.

        • Admiral PatrickOP
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          624 days ago

          I guess it just depends on how much of “you” is still in there and aware. If your consciousness and will are fully suppressed, yeah, it probably wouldn’t seem all that bad.

          OTOH, the body horror of the assimilation process could go either way. The nanoprobes could suppress the pain, or they could just paralyze you. I just try not to think about that lol.

          • Flying SquidM
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            I suppose it’s hard to know how much awareness there was in Seven compared to the general population since she was part of Unimatrix Zero.

  • Flying SquidM
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    1924 days ago

    More like a Borg drone voluntarily making ChatGPT her queen even though it’s an idiot and not Alice Krige.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      924 days ago

      Yeah, I had that same thought but figured they’d merge at some point lol

      even though it’s an idiot and not Alice Krige.

      Now I’m imagining a Borg collective of just Pakleds.

      • Flying SquidM
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        You are smart. You will be assimilated to make us go.

        • Admiral PatrickOP
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          824 days ago

          We are Pakleds. Pakleds not smart. ChatGPT smart. Put ChatGPT in Pakled. Make us smart. This is smart idea.

  • teft
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    Bell Riots start in a little under 8 days. They kick off in the early morning of September 1st. Our trio of temporal travelers will arrive in 6 days.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      824 days ago

      Yes, my bad. I always think there are only 30 days in August. lol. Aug 31st is always like a surprise “bonus” day for me. 😆

    • @Death_Equity
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      Roddenberry better be right about this one. If the Simpsons can call it as much as they have, Star Trek can have this one.

      • teft
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        Then the site is wrong. 9am September 1st is past the time the riots start and thats 192 hours away. 192 hours is 8 days exactly.

        • Flying SquidM
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          424 days ago

          and thats 192 hours away.

          Not anymore.

          • teft
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            I was only using that as a measurement to show that the site was wrong. Even when I posted it I was wrong since I’m in Bogotá time.

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              Ah! Colombian deception! I never trusted you folks and your… um… Rainforest? I don’t know enough about Colombia to insult you properly. Oh well.

              • teft
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                I’m american but you really wouldn’t want to insult these people. They’re the kindest coolest people I’ve met. It’s like if Risa were a country.

                • Flying SquidM
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                  424 days ago

                  I can believe it. I knew a Colombian exchange student when I was in high school and she was awesome. I would love to get in touch with her again, but I only remember her last name, and it wasn’t exactly an uncommon one.

              • @[email protected]
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                I don’t know enough about Colombia to insult you properly.

                Just remember that they fuck donkeys. I think that should be enough

                • Flying SquidM
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                  124 days ago

                  Someone saw that Sue Perkins show…

        • NegativeNullM
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          You are right! I never looked closely enough to verify!

      • teft
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        I figured out what the clock on that site is calculating. They’re showing time until the riots end

        var countDownDate = new Date("Sept 3, 2024 05:00:00 PDT").getTime();

        So just take two days and a bit off that display and that’s when they should start.

  • @[email protected]
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    1224 days ago

    That’s… just weird. There’s performance art, and whatever this has turned into with time.

      • @[email protected]
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        If the Borg ran on Windows, they’d have to spend time adding RAM every time they add a drone and the cubes would have to reboot at least once a week.

        If it was MacOS or iOS, they’d be limited to a small number of species they could assimilate.

        • @SkyezOpen
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          “Captain, the cube has released the tractor beam and dropped shields.”

          “Is it a trick?”

          Entire cube turns blue

          “No sir, forced update.”

  • @inb4_FoundTheVegan
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    I will give you a “cool” but with a “creepy” and “weird” attached.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      1024 days ago

      I agree with that and also agree with the opposite: anyone trying to start a conversation with me while I’m wearing headphones is very disrespectful lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah, I can see that, though you might want to give the other party some time to explain what the issue is, just incase it is something important

      • @[email protected]
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        Then the other party would probably need translation back, so just use a loudspeaker and swap translation direction.

  • @pturn1
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    But, the all important question remains: where is the best place to eat cheesecake within a mile of New York???