The Picard Maneuver
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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Does the matrix have you?English
56·1 month agoYear of the Linux desktop:

The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Is it impolite to crosspost someone else's post to another community on Lemmy without saying anything?English
5·1 month agoI never mind when people crosspost things that I post. It’s just a way of dispersing content to relevant communities.
Also, the cross-posting feature usually automatically provides a link to the original, so I don’t know if there’s a need for an etiquette around it.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•What booting from your first Linux ISO feels likeEnglish
14·1 month agoI laughed and then was surprised by the comments. Damn, tough crowd. I didn’t think OJ jokes would still be so touchy in 2026.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
Star Wars Memes@lemmy.world•The student becomes the masterEnglish
35·1 month agoYour training is finally complete.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Life is a mysteryEnglish
401·1 month agoBold choice by Sam Reich. That mic is probably half as tall as he is!
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Adapting to the timesEnglish
6·1 month agoWe used to be a proper country.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Adapting to the timesEnglish
15·1 month agoThe fact that we can even ask…
Looks like it originated from this 5 year old reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/lnmvge/weirdos_oc_revised_edition/
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Body positivityEnglish
7·1 month agoYeah “You mean like my idol??”
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Body positivityEnglish
17·1 month agoSurely it’s happened. A lot of dudes with perfectly good hair are anxious about balding.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Body positivityEnglish
73·1 month agoMake it so.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Body positivityEnglish
12·1 month agoI’m thinking the other way: if it ever happens to me, I’ll just embrace the baldness. But I imagine it’s a lot easier to say that now than it would be at the time.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.English
4·1 month agoVery true. I think there definitely needs to be a framework for accepting late work in these cases, which is much better than calling it 50% out of thin air.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.English
2·1 month agoDon’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about punishment for behavioral issues or expelling students. What I’m suggesting is that the logic of grades determining behavioral issues is flawed, and it’s far more likely that both the behavioral issues and poor grades are symptoms of something else.
I’m saying that throwing out the legitimacy of our metrics by fudging the numbers for these students is not the right approach and is in fact a disservice to them.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.English
2·1 month agoWhat would be a better way to check whether students have acquired the necessary knowledge other than a scored assessment of it?
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.English
82·1 month agoIt seems like there’s almost certainly a confounding variable here: the kids who are likely to engage in criminality are also the ones most likely to do poorly in school, skip classes, and be held back.
It’s more correlation than causal - for the same reason that we couldn’t just give every student straight A’s and expect them to have similar outcomes as students who would have otherwise earned straight A’s.
Working backwards like that is like trying to help someone lose weight by tweaking their scale to always show a healthy BMI.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.English
11·1 month agoI’m really sorry to hear that. I think a lot of parents are in the same boat, and we’re going to see the effects of it for years.
The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.English
34·1 month agoI thought the second one might be (unfamiliar with it, it was just in the search results), but NYT is definitely not right wing, and the NAEP and Wikipedia are fairly neutral.






It’s “Mr. Joshua”, aka Pants (or Pantspants). I have no idea why he never signs or watermarks his comics.
https://www.instagram.com/pantspants/