The Picard Maneuver
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Oh wow, in my head I pictured it starting around 2006 or so.
Community, IT Crowd, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Scrubs… The 00’s had a lot of great sitcoms. We didn’t know how good we had it.
It got so popular, had occasional Star Trek references, even a cameo by Leonard Nimoy, and I still couldn’t get myself to enjoy it. It’s such a a shame.
301·7 days ago
I had them! Hurt myself plenty…
They have them and can do both. I think field sobriety tests might be more common these days if they suspect you’re on something other than alcohol though.
And the fact that they could be anywhere.
3·13 days agoSearching just leads me to a bunch of random Pinterest pages, so I’m not sure of the original artist, but here’s a link:
THIS is what I’m talking about!
How can we call ourselves a modern society without King of the Hill paintball?
I have no idea what the original was, but it became a format that people started using for memes. Here are a few random others:
16·14 days agoSchools (both K-12 and university) keep loosening their expectations of students, and now we have kids starting college with 6th grade reading levels.
School administrators don’t want their graduation stats to look bad, and universities don’t want to lose $$ by flunking students out, so there’s a massive conflict of interest that is ultimately resulting in a disservice to students and society at large.
The other day, I saw this 8th grade graduation exam from a county in Kentucky in 1912, and it drives home how much things have changed:
No, let’s just move him to a different monastery.
Wow, I didn’t realize Lexapro had been around so long.
These kind of products went hard in the Y2K era.
A lot of young men are lacking role models and community these days.
More kids are growing up without fathers around now (single parenthood is up from 9% in the 1960s to about 25% today).
Most people’s source of community used to be church, but since the advent of the internet, people are rapidly moving away from organized religion. I think this has disproportionately impacted men, who tend to be less social on average.
And I think in general, a lot of young men feel like nobody cares about their personal struggles.
So, even some toxic dude like Andrew Tate can show up and say “Hey, you’re great. Here are the reasons why things are bad for you and what you should do, and here’s a community of like-minded people to interact with.” and these guys are going to dive in head first.