ZK translation: be reborn an isometric drone

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Mark.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not goan to look up The Mandella Effect yet but I will throw out an
> answer.
>
> Drone's deepest meaning comes out of: a steady noise. A sound that doesn't
> change and simply repeats itself unmusically.
> Like the sound bees make unremittingly. Like drone [bees] make who are as
> mindlessly programmed as automatons. All they do
> is try to fuck the queen. That's all they do. Like little robots [drones].
>
> The female ants are the worker ants, with a group mind "intelligence"
> worth admiring.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Huh. Can someone else shed some light or at least back me up/shout me
>> down? I always associate drones with work, not the shirking thereof.
>> Getting some Mandella Effect vibes here, people.
>>
>> On a tangent, I heard somewhere that that there's a woman who remembers
>> the Mandella Effect definitely being called the Sid Vicious Effect.
>> Ffffreaky deaky.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mindless automaton is what I have always thought it meant, but
>>> apparently it's not (explicitly) in the dictionary.
>>>
>>> From the OED:
>>>
>>> 1. The male of the honey-bee. It is a non-worker, its function being to
>>> impregnate the queen-bee.
>>>
>>> 2. fig.
>>>  a. A non-worker; a lazy idler, a sluggard.
>>>  b. A pilotless aircraft or missile directed by remote control. Also
>>> attrib.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As in, worker drone like a bee. Mindless automaton.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Mike Jing <
>>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> P147.7-14   The guide had told us about brains preserved in insulated
>>>>> vessels. Now she added that heads, entire heads with brains intact, were
>>>>> sometimes removed from the bodies and stored separately. One day in decades
>>>>> to come the head will be grafted to a healthy nanobody.
>>>>>        And would all the revivified lives be identical, trimmed tight
>>>>> by the process itself? Die a human, be reborn an isometric drone.
>>>>>
>>>>> In what sense is the word "drone" used here?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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