ZK translation: be reborn an isometric drone

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Bruno. I am aware of this meaning of the word.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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