ZK translation: be reborn an isometric drone

[Bruno]

Mike, check out for instance the music of Dogs Blood Order:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoPdQFYOJRI&t=118s

You will feel a monotonous dragging towards self-annulation. This is drone,
musically.


2017-11-09 10:48 GMT-06:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> 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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