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The Picard Maneuver

@ The_Picard_Maneuver @piefed.world

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  • He's real, I just know it.

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  • Always...

  • Bullying

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  • The writer's struggle

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  • That sounds like some Lovecraftian story: briefly glimpsing knowledge beyond human limits, then losing it forever.

  • NSFW

    I have made yet another dumb thing

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  • Just casually breaking the meta

  • Anyone play EGA Trek in the late 80s?

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  • This looks cool!

  • It's free real estate

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  • I don't have anything to add, but I want to say that I found this comment super interesting.

  • It's free real estate

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  • You know, I bet I would still watch that.

  • It's free real estate

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  • I choose to believe that it's usually like that, and we're just seeing the days where something interesting happens.

  • It's free real estate

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  • It speaks to a larger cultural ignorance or poor literacy to even consider it, in my opinion. I've seen similar reactions to talking about "plantation-style" home architecture. It's as if many people have only ever heard these words in connection with slavery from their lessons in school.

  • It's free real estate

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  • I've always thought it was an odd change. I get why they did it, but the original clearly wasn't being used in the way the change implies.

    It has the same energy as saying that you can't use the term "whitelist" and must substitute "allowlist", or "master bedroom" to "primary bedroom", or that time they changed "monkeypox" to "m-pox".

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    How futuristic

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  • Oh, I hadn't seen it before. I can remove if it's a recent repost.

  • Completely unhinged

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  • I'm real! I've been posting daily here for quite a while now. Just my way of trying to support federated social media.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • I'm so impressed by the organization.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • Taking our time

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  • You're not alone. I can't remember it either.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • In some ways, we all become our fathers I guess, lol.

  • Can't be too careful

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  • God damn it

  • He probably just forgot

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  • Maybe they've gotten really spoiled by technology and have to divide up the "labor" of asking the replicator to make things for the kid.

  • Being British

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  • It's an English stereotype that they feel awkward when expressing emotions and would rather suffer silently than "impose" on someone by asking for help.

    (edit: or at least that was my read. The other person who replied might be right that it could be a joke about recent events, because they arrest 30+ people per day for social media posts.)