So? Can’t the Borg also be socialist? We have multiple capitalist groups right here in real life

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

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

Electric motors have high torque at low RPM

For anyone scrolling by and curious about this, this is caused by the combination of physical and electrical resistance. In a typical engine, RPM and torque go up together because it requires more force to get to those higher RPMs (IIRC this is called positive correlation). In a circuit, you have to kind of convince the electricity that it would be better off somewhere else (by connecting to a ground, this is due to electrical resistance), so you have to give it a heavy upfront load to get it going which causes a lot of torque due to the physical resistance

I’m stealing that quote, that’s fuckin fantastic. If you came up with that, kudos

mfker I didn’t set a time, hopefully the other guy reminds me at a better time

BROLIGARCHY

Brother that is the funniest fucking portmanteau I’ve seen in ages. Thank you for this lmao

Amazing. You’ve yet to actually make a point in this conversation, only disparage mine without any counterargument lol

You’ll probably have an easier time you research some writers who come from more Matriarchical societies. Typically, these are gonna be places with very old cultures. Native populations (almost any country tbh) and Islanders tend to be good bets for that

Ooh, Warm Bodies is great on this list to my memory. She quite literally warms his heart with her love

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.

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?

I would be lining up to become part of the Borg tbf. It’s basically giga-socialism

I don’t think anybody can dethrone Google Maps

I wonder how the whole “AI is more important than copyright” thing could play into this… Someone could totally program an “AI” map assistant right?

Yo, startpage looks sick. I’ll have to poke around and see if I can find more info on that it looks super useful. My quick test just now was “cloture 2025” which returned 4 news articles followed by basically nothing but .gov links, whereas Google returns way more “news”

Yeah I think I’m headed in this direction. I’ve also been thinking about one of them self-hostable search engines a lot

People are giving great answers here. One I didn’t notice at a glance is that the Fediverse is feckin small. Most of the world doesn’t know it exists yet, and centralized social medias are probably not gonna be super big about pushing that info through their algorithms

I’ll really really appreciate this. I like having a few federated services to bounce between when I’m bored, but not a huge fan of actually using pixelfed since it’s more akin to social medias I never used. Having pixelfed content more easily accessible in Lemmy will make it a lot easier for me to interact with larger portion of the Fediverse

Making jokes about it to shine light on the fact that it’s happening right now, and to cope with that

Yeah, it’s honestly mostly an issue of me dipping into programming and not properly sticking to it for long enough to wrap my mind around some concepts. I heard all the warnings that “learning to program is usually one of the hardest things someone has accomplished” because of how late we learn it and all the other complications. I also, however, have heard my whole life that I learned fast and picked things up easily. Boy oh boy was one of those messages more useful than the other lol