1: What is the best and worst purchases you’ve made?
Already answered, but I’ll add that deciding that whenever I think of something it would be useful to have I will just buy a bunch of it on Amazon has been an incredibly good decision that hasn’t cost me much money. Strongly recommend to anyone with an income, moderately recommend to anyone with good runway / expectation of an income.
Some example purchases: a ton of zip ties, a set of screwdrivers, a set of small plastic drawers to keep things organized, a bunch of power strips, various cleaning supplies that I needed at least once, a large pack of pencils and pens.
3: What is the craziest thing one of your teachers has done?
Asked me, and I fucking quote: “But what about the possibility of a collection consciousness”.
Fuck you and your shitty off-brand new age continentalism.
Maybe they just wanted to talk about the Borg :(
In the Voyager episode “Drone”, the Borg (or rather, disconnected Borg nanoprobes acting autonomously, but presumably with standing orders from the Collective) create a drone using a genetic sample and whatever tech they could scrounge up and convert into implants and a gestation vat. The being comes into existence already Borg-ified (still without a live connection to the Collective, but with a homing beacon).
I think this indicates that the Borg *can* have kids if pressed, though prefer to reproduce via assimilation.
(yeah, the kid was made with heavy technological assistance, but they’re *Borg*, they do *everything* with heavy technological assistance, so I don’t think that stops it from counting)
That probably means they could be a self-sustaining civilization without assimilating people, which is enough to put the borg on the “dickbags” side of the dickbags/tragic axis.
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