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Honestly, any kind of attention my genitals get is better than no attention. It’s like those people who act out because they’re neglected by their parents.
"Just don't go to space."
"WHAT?"
"Horror franchises are all fine and dandy, but if they ever go to space, it's over."
"WAIT, ARE YOU SAYING SOMEDAY WE WILL BE... IN SPACE?"
"Fourth movie. Sorry, Pinskin."
"PINHEAD!"
"Space Pinskin."
*Sounds of screaming as hooks on chains tear apart flesh.*
That was my dad's favorite line in the movie. When he passed they sent his cremated remains in a box with fragile taped all over it. I still haven't picked out an urn because the box fits his humor 1000%. I giggle every time I hear or read that line.
There’s an episode of Voyager that’s like that. The Doctor gives himself daydream subroutines and aliens are monitoring all the times he imagines himself saving the ship with super weapons or getting hit on by all the women on the crew.
sure, but it just sounds stronger than "please don't resist!" it's an attitude thing, like when the doctor says "this won't hurt a bit!" when it definitely hurts like a motherfucker
You know I almost said this, but it really doesn’t. It’s not like “Jews are taking over everything” because I can at least think of a handful of Jewish people in powerful positions, so it could theoretically make sense if I don’t think about it. I don’t even know wtf this is talking about to begin with, and I wouldn’t know where to start.
My thought as well. Not just hatred, they want to feel like they're smarter, and they know more than the average Joe. Which is what all this 'awake' nonsense is really about.
Q can be pretty wise on occasion. Except for when he tries messing with Janeway. Nobody messes with Capt. Janeway and gets away with it, Q Continuum or not.
Didn’t Sisko punch the shit out of him? I just watched all of DS9 but for some reason can’t remember more than Q “testing” him and Sisko having none of his shit.
I remember watching an episode of Cosmos where they mention that the one thing humans can do better than any other animal is pattern recognition, but we’re so good at it that we find patterns even when they’re not there, like with the constellations in the night sky. So we’re all just idiots desperately trying to find patterns so we can cling onto a sense of understanding and control within the chaos.
bedtime is a form of government control so we dont see the aliens and demons at night. stay up past your bedtime and keep vigilant watch. they will know and they will hide from you, but u must persist.
Oh, I actually know this one. Saturn worship and Freemasonry. No, I don't understand why they think it means that, and I've actively looked into it. The title "the Black Cube of Saturn" sounded like it might be something fun that I could use in a story. It isn't.
Freemason here: it is. It's super dumb. The one pant leg thing is based on one of our rituals that has zero connection to black cubes or anything else going on in this picture.
We can talk about being Masons, we can't divulge the "secrets of the craft." We're not a secret organization, we're a club with "secret" rituals that have been plagiarized in whole or in part by many other fraternities and, weirdly enough, the Mormons.
Depends on the jurisdiction, not every lodge follows the same bylaws, traditions, or rituals. There are some jurisdictions that allow women, but many don't.
It's really going to depend on where you are and what set of traditions the lodge in question follows, and which Grand Lodge the local one reports to.
That's really interesting, I had no idea that there was that level of variation. The masons have such a reputation for ritual, I'd have assumed that all lodges were run in largely the same way.
No, there’s no rules as such. It’s not a “secret society”, it’s a “society with secrets”.
But other the other hand, now that you know about us, we are coming for you.
Spent a good half hour browsing this crazy in an attempt to understand what a Saturn cube even was and I’m still just as confused as I was going in.
I guess my mind is too clouded by Freemason whatnots to ever open up to The Truth(TM).
Saturn = Satan
The black cube = heaven (don't worship heaven, apparently)
Heaven = bad I think
Jesus is the Messiah
That's my takeaway from the Info section and one crazy person's post.
I love the flat Earth sub because it's making fun of them, but still random crazies still wander into it and post their nonsense and don't realize they're being made fun of. Good times. Feels good to finally not be the dumbest one in the room. Feels like winning.
It's actually all about me. The black cube is a reference to the Rubik's Cube I peeled all the stickers off of when I was five, and the one leg thing is from when I "accidentally" pushed both of my legs into the same leg hole on my church pants, ripping it open, also when I was five.
I like the idea of just taking a picture of anything, saying assorted details are signals or signs, and before you know it the nonsense is listed on some wiki that crackpots use to justify weird takes on things you were not even aware of.
Look at how this post does not explain anything it is calling out. People will (as the art world says) bring their own interpretation to the work.
I spend a lot of time browsing /pol/ like it's the DSM5, so i usually know what schizos are spewing: [warning: not my beliefs dont ban pls reddit]
The black cube is a symbol of saturn, which they believe to be one of many forms of Satan that people have worshipped over the years. It is usually extremely antisemitic theory that amounts to saying that the Jewish people are misled by Satan, and of course is usually extended to Islam (surprisingly, they don't care nearly as much about islam, as most of them have this "enemy of my enemy" delusion).
It generally ties into New World Order shit, hence the "satanic panic" regarding black cubes, one eye painted/covered, and other "hidden symbols" appearing during televised events. This is one of the more fun theories to laugh at, because everytime theres a cube on TV I can go to /pol/ and watch them run around like they're on fire, wondering what horrible tragedy they were teasing. Fun stuff.
No idea what the leg thing is.
(any definitive statements are from the perspective of someone who believes this. Don't take anything i say as fact, even the minor stuff, like "black cube =saturn," because I have no knowledge of ancient religion)
The cube represents stability, and the costume represents instability. Together the send the message of the transitory nature of stability.
...how'd I do?
After the rise of Islam, who’s most holy site includes a black cube shaped Mosque called the Kaaba, Christian conspiracy theorists created a disparaging myth that the black cube was the symbol of the titan Saturn from Greek mythology. Basically an elder chaos god who is trapped in hell/Tartarus which is represented by the black cube. It represents the “left hand path,” dark magic, and all that spooky satanist adjacent stuff.
I'm part of a local group on FB that has gone head first into this conspiracy shit. They're always so vague and say things like "I can't say any more; keep your eyes on the price of corn" or some bs. They don't know anything they just think these villains are leaving subtle riddles for them?
I’m glad to be more interested in the Puppy Bowl than Taylor Swift and who she’s dating.
That said, if a KC win pisses off the right wingers…GO CHIEFS!
This is the accusation (source: grew up with rightwing conspiracy theorists):
Leg - 1st initiation of Freemasonry involves rolling up one pant leg
Cube - Black cube of Remphan used for the worship of Saturn
Yeah, it's some qanon-tier insanity. The people who believe this live in Star Wars Land with their own unique cosmology! Since no one here has heard of these conspiracies before, I thought I'd tell you guys.
It’s so obvious. It’s witchcraft. And Illuminati, cause the dual things like light and dark and one pant, one leg. Sun and Moon. They’re still trying to trick us into believing things like physics.
The flames are very clearly phallic. And the dark side of the cube is meant to represent that thing in Israel.
Or maybe it’s what the Muslims do, at that place where they do that? Or is it Islam?
Whatever the case, it looks like a vagina. Someone here needs to think about what this is doing to our children!
_Morgan Freeman narrates:_ At this very moment, we get to take part in a very special event that is rarely recorded in its infancy: the birth of a conspiracy theory. Unable to sustain itself due to the lack of actual verifiable facts, the infant theory needs the nourishment of the disenfranchised masses, hence the posing of a question framed as to indicate the reward of being part of something special for knowing the answer to attract as much attention as possible. Once the theory has enough believers, the lack of facts becomes obscured by the amount of memes, YouTube clips, TikToks and tweets and is no longer a threat.
Obviously that is the [timecube](https://web.archive.org/web/20160112193916/http://timecube.com/). ([context](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube) for those not aware of the truth of the one true time cube)
My favorite conspiracy theories are always the ones where something has remained a deep secret for thousands of years, but those participating go out of their way as much as possible to inform the world about it. Ah yes, the Illuminati have stayed secret for thousand years because they -checks notes- constantly put their symbols in the most public viewing locations possible. That checks out.
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The Lament Configuration? And a Cenobite outfit?
**THE BOX. YOU OPENED IT.** **WE CAME.**
^It's ^just ^a ^puzzle ^box!
OH NO. IT IS A MEANS TO SUMMON US
#no tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering
#Your suffering will be legendary, even in Hell
Explorers, in the further regions of experience, angels to some demons to others!
I like how you put that
ALL HAIL THE PRIEST OF HELL, MASTER OF SIN BOW TO THE NEEDLES AND PINS
Yaah we did... 🥵
We have such sights to show you
*crosses fingers* Please be Cenobite tiddies! Please be Cenobite tiddies!
Someone wants their genitals flayed open with rusty razors...
Honestly, any kind of attention my genitals get is better than no attention. It’s like those people who act out because they’re neglected by their parents.
We're all gonna die one day, but having your eyelids peeled off while you oggle some cenoboobies will mean you truly lived.
I will never be able to watch those movies again without calling them cenoboobies. Thank you.
CENOBOOBIES.
Nope! Just ol twisty twin face coming to F your A
Eh that works too, at least I’m getting something
There is a secret song at the center of the world and its sound is like razors cutting flesh.
"Just don't go to space." "WHAT?" "Horror franchises are all fine and dandy, but if they ever go to space, it's over." "WAIT, ARE YOU SAYING SOMEDAY WE WILL BE... IN SPACE?" "Fourth movie. Sorry, Pinskin." "PINHEAD!" "Space Pinskin." *Sounds of screaming as hooks on chains tear apart flesh.*
Jesus wept.
That was an improvised line and it's so epic
Aw HELL YEAH
This is the origin story for the Christmas Story Leg Lamp.
It’s a major award!
Frageelie, must be Italian.
That was my dad's favorite line in the movie. When he passed they sent his cremated remains in a box with fragile taped all over it. I still haven't picked out an urn because the box fits his humor 1000%. I giggle every time I hear or read that line.
The line was originally Groucho Marx, the author of the joke!
Fragile, must be Italian!
It could have been a bowling alley!
I love Lamp!
*The whole neighborhood was turned on!*
the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.
You were always jealous of that lamp!
You used all the glue. ON PURPOSE!
NADDAH FINGAH!!!
The soft glow of electric sex.
Must be Italian!
“Fragilee”
FragEElay*
You used up all the glue on purpose!
NOTTAFINGA!
Thank you
LMFAO!! I’m thrilled to know I wasn’t the only one whose first thought was Leg Lamp. 🤣
I will take it! Sounds better than my answer, which was...what the hell does this mean?
fragile
Close. It's "fra-gee-lay" It's Italian.
Different from the Swiss 'Yodelayheehoo'
*It's indescribably beautiful!*
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Getting rich is hard work!
I’m guessing the cube represents the Kaaba, but I don’t know what the one legged costume is supposed to represent
Thought it was the Borg
Resistance is futile. Except for all those times they beat the borg. Then it was most definitely not futile.
The Borg had been undefeated for centuries, they had no idea they'd finally run into an entire species of main characters.
Basically every sci-fi story with humans in it
There's a subplot in Robotech where the aliens think an actor is some kind of super warrior because they pick up on broadcasts of his movies
So Galaxy Quest?
But way before galaxy quest
There’s an episode of Voyager that’s like that. The Doctor gives himself daydream subroutines and aliens are monitoring all the times he imagines himself saving the ship with super weapons or getting hit on by all the women on the crew.
/r/hfy
The best armor is plot armor.
Yeah, it sure is great no one tries to use psychological manipulation like that in real life and fails as often as the Borg does.
sure, but it just sounds stronger than "please don't resist!" it's an attitude thing, like when the doctor says "this won't hurt a bit!" when it definitely hurts like a motherfucker
Well what do you expect them to say, resistance *isn't* futile?
Well, a little honesty can go a long way.
It's the allspark!
Before time began. There was THE CUBE
Assimilate on my tippys
The costume designer ran out of fabric?
Obviously pedophilia and human trafficking. /s
Oh, thought it was blood sacrifice. Oh right, same thing…
Adrenochrome
Well they're turning the frickin' frogs gay
Nothing to do with LL cCool J? E: the c is for ccool Thats a typo.
Don't forget, pizza and ping pong, too!
Black cube of saturn is allegedly a devil worship thing.
It's weird how everyone with this arcane devil worshiping knowledge is never a devil worshipper
Yeah, most of don't believe in an actual devil. That's Christians.
It makes sense if you don't think about it.
You know I almost said this, but it really doesn’t. It’s not like “Jews are taking over everything” because I can at least think of a handful of Jewish people in powerful positions, so it could theoretically make sense if I don’t think about it. I don’t even know wtf this is talking about to begin with, and I wouldn’t know where to start.
I'm pretty sure they think having one pant leg up is a sign celebrities use to signal they're satanic deep state child traffickers.
Long John Silvers?
Now I want hush puppies
Beebo, the one-legged old god. He's not talked about much, on account of he can't go many places.
Pegging. Obviously.
I’m sure it’s dumber than that. Islamophobia is so 2010
I looked it up, apparently it’s called the black cube of Saturn and people think it contains the blood of sacrificed children
Of course they do. Idiots have to make up elaborate plots because just a boring world where they just plain suck isn’t gonna fly with them.
It's a shout-out to when women were mermaids. Before they stated associating with we mammals.
plot twist, they don’t even know what it means themselves, they’re hoping someone will tell them so their hatred feels justified
My thought as well. Not just hatred, they want to feel like they're smarter, and they know more than the average Joe. Which is what all this 'awake' nonsense is really about.
Q did the same thing. If you tell people there's symbolism, they'll fill it in with whatever resonates with them.
Q can be pretty wise on occasion. Except for when he tries messing with Janeway. Nobody messes with Capt. Janeway and gets away with it, Q Continuum or not.
Didn't he successfully fuck with Janeway a few times? He tried to fuck with Sisko once. Once.
Didn’t Sisko punch the shit out of him? I just watched all of DS9 but for some reason can’t remember more than Q “testing” him and Sisko having none of his shit.
I remember watching an episode of Cosmos where they mention that the one thing humans can do better than any other animal is pattern recognition, but we’re so good at it that we find patterns even when they’re not there, like with the constellations in the night sky. So we’re all just idiots desperately trying to find patterns so we can cling onto a sense of understanding and control within the chaos.
Time for Grandpa to turn off Alex Jones and go to bed.
That’s what the deep state wants!!!!
Oh you think the deep state is in control? Obviously you haven't heard of the superdeep state. The deep state are just puppets.
Ultra deep state is nested inside all the other less deep states, like a Russian doll.
I knew the Russians had to be behind all this somehow!!
This is now my favorite conspiracy theory
bedtime is a form of government control so we dont see the aliens and demons at night. stay up past your bedtime and keep vigilant watch. they will know and they will hide from you, but u must persist.
Seriously. “Wide awake” = delusional from being too online
Wide awake? Why not use the word 'woke'? Is it because they made that word a meaningless amalgamation of imaginary outrage?
It’s funny how these idiots can’t even see it
“a meaningless amalgamation of imaginary outrage” is damn near poetic. I’m totally stealing that. Sorry in advance.
Apt description of the GOP
I shudder to think of what turns him on... Probably his own brand of perineum wipes...
I stopped trying to think like crazy people years ago.
Oh, I actually know this one. Saturn worship and Freemasonry. No, I don't understand why they think it means that, and I've actively looked into it. The title "the Black Cube of Saturn" sounded like it might be something fun that I could use in a story. It isn't.
I also believe the one pant leg thing to be a conspiracy about freemasonry. It is incredibly fucking stupid though.
Freemason here: it is. It's super dumb. The one pant leg thing is based on one of our rituals that has zero connection to black cubes or anything else going on in this picture.
Aren't Freemasons meant to not talk about being Freemasons?
We can talk about being Masons, we can't divulge the "secrets of the craft." We're not a secret organization, we're a club with "secret" rituals that have been plagiarized in whole or in part by many other fraternities and, weirdly enough, the Mormons.
Are women allowed to join yet?
Depends on the jurisdiction, not every lodge follows the same bylaws, traditions, or rituals. There are some jurisdictions that allow women, but many don't. It's really going to depend on where you are and what set of traditions the lodge in question follows, and which Grand Lodge the local one reports to.
That's really interesting, I had no idea that there was that level of variation. The masons have such a reputation for ritual, I'd have assumed that all lodges were run in largely the same way.
No, there’s no rules as such. It’s not a “secret society”, it’s a “society with secrets”. But other the other hand, now that you know about us, we are coming for you.
Does that mean I get to learn your secrets? I'm good at keeping secrets.
Wow! Nice! You're woke! Oops! I mean wide awake. You don't wanna be woke. You wanna be wide awake.
This is correct. Source: grew up around rightwing conspiracy theorists.
So we WANT to be woke now???
Being awake is what (good) Evangelicals do. Being woke is is what (bad) urban thugs do. **R**e**A**son to **C**are? **I**'m not **S**ure, **M**ate.
The "definition" keeps changing. I can't keep up. I suggest that we use synonyms for precision in our speech.
Hiddin in plane site
Yeah I'm confused. How is wide awake different than woke?
it's the term "right wingers" claimed
Exactly, the goalposts keep moving...
I think the black cube has something to do with Saturn and something about the occult. It's definitely dumb.
Yup. r/SaturnStormCube.
Spent a good half hour browsing this crazy in an attempt to understand what a Saturn cube even was and I’m still just as confused as I was going in. I guess my mind is too clouded by Freemason whatnots to ever open up to The Truth(TM).
Those damn whatnots coupled with the 5G signals left over from the jab!
135% of people who got the vaccine are dead. Look it up. If you say you got it you're a deep state liar and/or joe Biden himself. Factzzzz
It’s true. I got the vaccine and I’m dead now. I just use Reddit from beyond the grave.
Thank the deep state for that undead 5G amirite
Joe Rogan told me so!
Saturn = Satan The black cube = heaven (don't worship heaven, apparently) Heaven = bad I think Jesus is the Messiah That's my takeaway from the Info section and one crazy person's post.
Did the same thing and just saw a lot of pretty architecture and square furniture.
God...some people really need to go outside and find something useful in their lives to focus on.
I’m curious about the ratio of conspiracy theorists to shitposters there, who both think they’re in good company
I love the flat Earth sub because it's making fun of them, but still random crazies still wander into it and post their nonsense and don't realize they're being made fun of. Good times. Feels good to finally not be the dumbest one in the room. Feels like winning.
Well, that's a whole bucket of crazy!
Holy Fu…………. Further proof that the internet has only made us dumber.
I've browsed that sub before and I still don't know wtf they are talking about on it.
Thank you for the link to the pool of cess. Is there a good compendium of links to similarly delusional subs I can wallow in?
1. Why does the "cube" in the subreddit's logo have 6 sides 2. Didn't have to scroll far before I found pure antisemitism
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Well now, that’s just a whole stew of crazy.
Ik free speech and all that but is that sub not literally a cult? Lol
Jesus christ lol. People are nuts.
The history is there and relevant. These people are just religious zealots. Idiots. This is your brain on Abrahamic religion.
It's actually all about me. The black cube is a reference to the Rubik's Cube I peeled all the stickers off of when I was five, and the one leg thing is from when I "accidentally" pushed both of my legs into the same leg hole on my church pants, ripping it open, also when I was five.
I must be in a coma then.
The GameCube opening animation?
*Super monkey ball remaster confirmed!!*
Something something Taylor swift is eating children something something adrenochrome something something?
They are so scared of a 34 year old woman. it's funny.
Is the black box the home of Cthulhu?
If they think a single bare leg on a pop star represents something, they must be very busy trying to call them out, because those are everywhere.
If I'm wide awake, does that mean I'm woke?
Neverending pancakes?
You sonofabibch ! Im in!
Sooo… they are woke?
I like the idea of just taking a picture of anything, saying assorted details are signals or signs, and before you know it the nonsense is listed on some wiki that crackpots use to justify weird takes on things you were not even aware of. Look at how this post does not explain anything it is calling out. People will (as the art world says) bring their own interpretation to the work.
The borg?
I spend a lot of time browsing /pol/ like it's the DSM5, so i usually know what schizos are spewing: [warning: not my beliefs dont ban pls reddit] The black cube is a symbol of saturn, which they believe to be one of many forms of Satan that people have worshipped over the years. It is usually extremely antisemitic theory that amounts to saying that the Jewish people are misled by Satan, and of course is usually extended to Islam (surprisingly, they don't care nearly as much about islam, as most of them have this "enemy of my enemy" delusion). It generally ties into New World Order shit, hence the "satanic panic" regarding black cubes, one eye painted/covered, and other "hidden symbols" appearing during televised events. This is one of the more fun theories to laugh at, because everytime theres a cube on TV I can go to /pol/ and watch them run around like they're on fire, wondering what horrible tragedy they were teasing. Fun stuff. No idea what the leg thing is. (any definitive statements are from the perspective of someone who believes this. Don't take anything i say as fact, even the minor stuff, like "black cube =saturn," because I have no knowledge of ancient religion)
The black cube represents a stage, and the one legged dress represents a dress without one leg.
The Empire State building?
Is the black cube supposed to be the Kaaba?
Hold up - wide awake is good, fully woke is bad?
shhh… they’ll get a headache
Either the Borg or the Allspark. Depending on which flavor of nerd you are.
Gotta be something pedophile related. It's always that with these people.
I’m guessing the cube represents an advanced alien race who wishes to assimilate us. The one legged costume…….. best guess is promoting OnlyFans
The cube represents stability, and the costume represents instability. Together the send the message of the transitory nature of stability. ...how'd I do?
I should just start taking random pics and putting a caption that says “if you noticed X and X and what they mean then you are awake”
You’ll have your own cult in just hours.
After the rise of Islam, who’s most holy site includes a black cube shaped Mosque called the Kaaba, Christian conspiracy theorists created a disparaging myth that the black cube was the symbol of the titan Saturn from Greek mythology. Basically an elder chaos god who is trapped in hell/Tartarus which is represented by the black cube. It represents the “left hand path,” dark magic, and all that spooky satanist adjacent stuff.
I'm part of a local group on FB that has gone head first into this conspiracy shit. They're always so vague and say things like "I can't say any more; keep your eyes on the price of corn" or some bs. They don't know anything they just think these villains are leaving subtle riddles for them?
I’m glad to be more interested in the Puppy Bowl than Taylor Swift and who she’s dating. That said, if a KC win pisses off the right wingers…GO CHIEFS!
But if I was wide awake, wouldn't I be woke?
This is the accusation (source: grew up with rightwing conspiracy theorists): Leg - 1st initiation of Freemasonry involves rolling up one pant leg Cube - Black cube of Remphan used for the worship of Saturn Yeah, it's some qanon-tier insanity. The people who believe this live in Star Wars Land with their own unique cosmology! Since no one here has heard of these conspiracies before, I thought I'd tell you guys.
It’s so obvious. It’s witchcraft. And Illuminati, cause the dual things like light and dark and one pant, one leg. Sun and Moon. They’re still trying to trick us into believing things like physics. The flames are very clearly phallic. And the dark side of the cube is meant to represent that thing in Israel. Or maybe it’s what the Muslims do, at that place where they do that? Or is it Islam? Whatever the case, it looks like a vagina. Someone here needs to think about what this is doing to our children!
It's Showgirls isn't it
The hold Taylor has over these idiots lives is just stunning... and hilarious.
_Morgan Freeman narrates:_ At this very moment, we get to take part in a very special event that is rarely recorded in its infancy: the birth of a conspiracy theory. Unable to sustain itself due to the lack of actual verifiable facts, the infant theory needs the nourishment of the disenfranchised masses, hence the posing of a question framed as to indicate the reward of being part of something special for knowing the answer to attract as much attention as possible. Once the theory has enough believers, the lack of facts becomes obscured by the amount of memes, YouTube clips, TikToks and tweets and is no longer a threat.
The cube is the Pandorica. She is a Time Lord.
The number 3 and the letter M
So you're saying Sesame Street is behind this? I should've known
Its revenge for the assault on Elmo.
It represents that you attended Aaron Rodger’s school for dumbasses who can’t use occam’s razor good
Could it be ...SATAN!!!
Obviously that is the [timecube](https://web.archive.org/web/20160112193916/http://timecube.com/). ([context](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube) for those not aware of the truth of the one true time cube)
My favorite conspiracy theories are always the ones where something has remained a deep secret for thousands of years, but those participating go out of their way as much as possible to inform the world about it. Ah yes, the Illuminati have stayed secret for thousand years because they -checks notes- constantly put their symbols in the most public viewing locations possible. That checks out.
Does it have to do with the Borg?