Why do people do this shit to themselves?
I swear if the Borg came down some people would be lining up to join the club.
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Hey, free healthcare!
Insert robo-eye since the left eye is not perfect 20/20
Anything breaks, we'll just replace it.
Including the brain. Especially the brain.
Borg-Garek, is that you?
They are tech writers, that's their job
If it actually worked, it would be really useful for a lot of people (it's me. I'm a lot of people)
Yeah, if the Borg weren't so violent towards non Borg they would be the actual end goal of a lot of nerds. You're telling me we could be socialist cyborgs in space?
But the federation is already socialist.
So? Can't the Borg also be socialist? We have multiple capitalist groups right here in real life
Star Trek Spoiler
See Picard series 2 for that
Quoting the renowned Mike Wazowski: "How many kids you got in there?"
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
I would be lining up to become part of the Borg tbf. It's basically giga-socialism
I don't think you understand what the Borg are about.
Fully providing every single need to their people in an attempt to create the most efficient worker possible? It just so happens that their "work" is assimilating people into the hive, but... The methods surrounding their work are pretty nice.
Amazing. Can't tell if you're joking or you are for real.
Amazing. You've yet to actually make a point in this conversation, only disparage mine without any counterargument lol
At what point did I mention anything about the hive mind being a good thing? The only thing I praised was the fact that the hive provides homes and sustenance for its workers
That is basically the "but Hitler built the highways" argument.
I mean... the method is basically "join us or die"... I don't think that's particularly nice...
I'm not talking about the method they use to work, I'm talking about the methods they use to facilitate that work. They provide their workers with homes and sustenance. I would expect to put entertainment on that list too if they weren't cyborgs
Do you? The Borg are a collective consciousness, it’s the most democratic government in the galaxy.
My only problem with the Borg is they have a queen.
Democracy isn't that everyone is being forced to be of the same opinion. They don't vote for their actions, the hive mind overrides each personality with the overarching Borg characteristics, mean assimilation of every worthy race, eradication of danger. There is no individual left in this. If you think that is democracy or socialism then I don't know what else to tell you.
I don't think enforced conformity through literal mind control counts as democracy.
my private fan theory is that the Borg are actually the good guys but we only ever hear the gReAt fEdErAtIoN's POV
Journalists? Probably just to see how it will go wrong and report about it so we don‘t have to.
I find it stupid yet somehow helpful.
It records everything you say, it also takes your time after to read the scripts, which could can be helpful at some point.
It's a no from me.
I think the Borg would take one look at me and declare me a total loss.
I like how they put in italics “it listens to all your conversations” and yet it’s still third in the list. Reminds me of how most mass media approach mass surveillance!
ewwww, a paywall.
I don't think writers should be paid either. We have AI to do all writing now anyway, so what do we need writecels for anyway? 😏
A Firefox fork like IronFox with an aggressive adblocker setup like uBlock Origin in medium mode blocks paywalls and all kinds of annoying popups on most sites. Takes a bit of tweaking to not break some sites, but after that it's amazing.
You need to learn to jump over the wall https://archive.is/2025.03.12-190857/https://www.theverge.com/reviews/627056/bee-review-ai-wearable
I compared Bee’s version of my day with my diary entry. I wrote about trying Paddington Bear-themed marmalade sandwiches in our office kitchen. (Not a fan. I did, however, note that the strawberry-flavored shortbread cookie was excellent.) I wrote several paragraphs about a sensitive text conversation I had with a friend. Bee never picked up these moments because memorable things aren’t always spoken aloud. It made me wonder: in a hypothetical future where everyone has a Bee, do unspoken memories simply not exist?
I liked reading this part because I had not considered that consumers of these products would have an expectation of their device to document their thoughts.
Unlike the Rabbit R1 or the Humane AI Pin
And they describe the exact same crap.