The Picard Maneuver
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Well that’s much better
I did some googling and found this. Not sure if it’s the most common name for it or not, because I’ve never heard it:

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They’re angry and sent me a DM suggesting I was either paid $7000 and/or am a nazi if I saw anything to do with politics in this meme. You be the judge.

He’s famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).
People give him challenges all the time, and it’s really impressive.
Here he is finding someone’s location based on a picture taken from a plane.
It’s nobody’s decision but yours, but I will point out that as humans, we are very poor predictors of how we will think or feel in the future.
When we’re depressed, our brains process thoughts of the future as if we’ll be sad forever. When we’re happy and have lots of energy, we make big plans as if we’ll always feel that way. Lottery winners feel an initial euphoria and think they’re set for life, but studies show their mood returns to baseline after about 1 year. Age and development helps you push the fog of foresight a little further, but it’s still hard.
I don’t know you, but if I were speaking to myself at age 22, I would caution making a decision like that so early. I still cringe about being tasked with picking a college major at 18 and how wrong that could’ve gone, and this is easily 100x more important.
I did some searching and I’m seeing 1937 and 1938, so yeah, that’s probably about right.
It looks real, and the follow-up gets weirder.

A quick search found the following panels here, if anyone is interested:

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I guess there's a collector out there for just about everything.English
10·5 个月前Gotcha, sorry. I’ll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.
I may have to one of these days.
Just did some digging, and it’s legit and from a 1994 book called “The Internet Guide for New Users” by Daniel P. Dern.
Mildly interesting side-note, I found someone’s blog about posting this image and book to a (now non-existent) fediverse server. https://doughnut.neocities.org/blag/15
The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•When you get a chance, you take it.English
51·5 个月前It’s against the rules!

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•When you get a chance, you take it.English
54·5 个月前The band Green Day invited a fan up on stage to play one of their songs, but he played the song Wonderwall instead as a joke.
Guitarists playing Wonderwall for people has been a meme since the 90s. Here’s more about it if you’re interested:
It’s so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it’s flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos…
Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I’ve been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven’t added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.
How is Nintendo going to feed its family now?
The Monterey Bay Aquarium otters are my favorite.












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