The_Picard_Maneuver

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/37a41f6e-4c43-485f-9dec-eb86169c11f6.jpeg

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

My man!

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Wow, I didn’t expect it to work, but I used the built in image search thing on my phone, circled the blurry object in question, and it found a match:

Amazon link

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

This cannot be a real language.

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

These are great!

The one I think is really going to stick with me is:

“Smaken är som baken: delad” - Taste is like the bum: split.

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

Tried googling some key phrases and just came across a comment about it being from the Clone Wars novelization. I’m not sure which book that would be though.

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

Is this a real line? I don’t remember it, but that’s pretty hardcore for Spock.

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

Well damn! Sounds like it’s time for another rewatch for me…

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I don’t know that I’d call them bell-bottoms like the ones in the 70s (with skinny/normal legs, then large at the bottom). Pants in this style in the 90s and early 00s were really baggy all over and frequently dragging on the ground.

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

I think they didn’t express it very clearly. Seems like they mean “short-circuiting” your reasoning when cognitive dissonance is present.

For example, maybe you have a couple of incompatible thoughts::

“I want to do X. That seems like a great idea!” “X is very risky and probably not healthy for me.”

…which creates mental conflict, so you just turn off your brain with a “YOLO” or “What happens, happens” and act on the most immediate impulse.

The_Picard_Maneuver, 2 days ago

That’s not a Thought-Terminator, that is life!