The Organization to which the Borg think it is only ever neccessary to send one Cube at a time to assimilate, even if it fails every time.
ST first contact (at Earth, attacking the United Federation of Planets); "One cube has entered visual range. Speed warp 9 point..."
ST voy (In Delta Quadrant); They swarmed our system - Hundreds of Cubes.
A Galactic power in the fictional Star Trek Universe. The Federation is located in the Alpha Quadrantof the Milky Way Galaxy. It is comprised of 150 Member Worlds spread across 8,000 Light Years and probably the only true large scale democracy in the quadrant. It was formed on August 19, 2161. The capital planet is Earth. The Federation is governed by the Federation Council consisting of representatives from each of the member worlds. The federation also has a president which looks after the administrative role.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”