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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

4d ago

Visions of the future

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God I wish the worst thing this timeline had was Gen Z cringe, sounds like heaven.
- I had a mentor tell me, "wish in one hand, shit in the other. Which one fills up first?". Not 100% sure what they meant, but it sounds provocative
  
  Shitting is more productive than wishing.
  
  It's easier to understand if you say "wish into one hand, shit into the other. See which fills up first"
- Unfortunately it's all related

oh no kids use words I don't understand what a hellscape
- Gyatt rizz, fam!
  (I do not know what this means)

I feel so fucking old, spending all that time and energy, trying to translate the first half.
- unc
  
  And a happy unc to you too.
- We're going to need Linguistic Archeologists pretty soon.
  
  Those already exist
  
  Urban Dictionary and Knowyourmeme exist.

I long to be out there, with my brothers, waging war against the Empire
- It’s too late. The brain rot has taken over Skyrim
- Those eyes have seen some pixels

It strikes me that this might be exactly why Rome prevailed.
"Commander, we are poised to break the Roman line! Our time is now! Give the order and their forces will be crushed!"
"Bruh I have like zero bars right now what the fuck"
- I think it's more that the Carthaginian army was unstoppable in the field but didn't have the necessary siege equipment or technical knowledge to take Rome before allied reinforcements arrived but sure why not, Hannibal didn't finish the job because he had no bars.
  
  So you're saying Hannibal didn't finish the job because he had no (cross)bars?
  
  So if I had a time machine you're saying it might be worth it to learn some ancient languages and take a book on basic siege engines back with me?

What on earth does demure mean apart from its usual meaning?
- It was a meme to call everything "demure" for a while, stemming from a viral video.
  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/very-demure-very-mindful
- In this case, mostly being non-imposing in an "elegant" manner
- The same as its initial meaning, but lacking the "submission" context. It's a mindful attempt to be kind and facilitating to other people.

The Fall of Civilizations podcast had a wonderful episode about Carthage that I found very sad and beautiful.
- To be fair "sad and beautiful" is the standard for the Fall of Civilizations podcast
  
  I found the story of Carthage to be particularly interesting because they fell because Rome was so petty that they couldn't allow them to exist. Cato was a dick.

He should be in the Alps already if he’s serious about this.
- I hope he doesn't find a stranger there...

WE NEED TO GO BACK! WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ELEPHANTS!!!

Read Philip K Dick. He's got books about that.

Ok but
I watched that Hawk Tuah thing and I'll admit I laughed pretty good.
I don't know why it became a meme though
- Hawk Tuah was fascinating in observing the generational divide in meme cultures.
  Boomers found it crass, GenX/Xilleniala mostly found it funny at face value, and Zillenials/GenZ made hawk tuak jokes steeped in 5 layers of irony because they found it "cringe".
  It was Minions 2.0.
- I don’t know why it became a meme though
  Cute girl talking about riding dick in a humorous way.

Apparently it didn't work.
- Or maybe it did and we were saved from a worse path.
  
  I'm definitely not mentally prepared to find out what the timeline worse than this one is like.

We need to erase Christopher Columbus
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_Christopher_Columbus

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiick

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