ok your PP is perfection now i read it in his voice
the cube can be placed end to end and even stacked. we can grind up anything to make an organic slurry. the water loss will be temporary and worth it, once they are inside we'll set up the best reclamation systems possible
we already have the interior space, let's just stack them in the data centers for maximum throughput. Throw a fence around it. nobody enters, nobody leaves
let physical degradation do it's thing, the goo will provide no medical intervention.
meanwhile we'll be outside building socialism as the cubes go offline one by one. 5 years tops.
watched the first couple eps with my partner after watching the Roman legion vs modern defensive position scene on youtube.
once we realized the whole show was just about a brutal power imbalance and the JSDF curb stomping fantasy Rome-China, we checked out. it's just a neo-con fantasy but instead of Iraq it's fantasy Rome-China and waifu liberation. yeah it's a slave society being liberated, that's cool, but the stakes just weren't there. can't have the military take a scratch like it was a recruiting commercial
better fix would be: gate opens, Rome-China kills civilians (canon), JSDF storms gate, sets up firebase (canon), crushes conventional scout army (canon), then Rome-China deploys sorcerers, dragons, monsters and modern humans have to think on their feet, find allies, and prevent a million-strong magic army from breaching the Gate and overrunning Earth (not-canon, but BETTER).
only cool thing was the show unabashedly showed the U.S. doing brutal imperialism openly, attacking allies (Japan) militarily, and being led by (not) Trump.
in my version, I could totally see the U.S. allying with Rome-China, trading tech for magic, and fight this awesome multi-dimensional techno-arcane world war
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it definitely gives you a way to just blow it off "ehh i'm just a male lesbian and like women's clothing". "i just like women so fucking much i want to be one." also the gender envy thing i thought that was the end all be all. "wanting something you can't have, wish fullfillment, thinking you would have an easier life as a woman". so many excuses in sequence, year after year. while i love my cis womens i really wish i hadn't kept getting in relationships with ones that were kinksters and turned on by it mostly because it just kept encapsulating my gender identity into "hornyness" which created a self-perpetuating cycle and stunting my partner and I's relationship by like a decade
apologies for info dump
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yeah. there is an ASMR transfemme youtuber i stumbled upon that was (and is) doing a whole "take it back for us" thing. she does purely affirmative and empowering feminization RPs, mostly SFW (her audio stuff might be less so) and her voice training is so on point too, she sounds so good but i just don't dig the lip smacky ASMR stuff she does. no real interest in it but i'm glad she's out there trying to find other lost eggs and help them through a different medium.
imagine traveling nuggie chefs, world renowned, entirely doing it for the craft, going from town to town, communal cafeteria after communal canteen.
both professional and hobby, each with a unique take. lab-grown or vegan, your choice, with some traditional communities still donating from their flock
post-capitalism, nuggies aren't made but also taught. quality over quantity baby, unlike anything you've ever tasted in the before times
flashbacks to the flickering flames of the last Tyson factory, a place of horror no use to the new society (fuck Tyson seriously)
i've dreamed of this day my entire life

i promise i won't toy with them in their final days with malicious prompt injections