The problem with blockchain is that everything you can do with it can also be done with a good database. In the case of crypto, it also means that you have to download THE ENTIRE THING SINCE IT STARTED if you want to run a full node capable of validating transactions. The Bitcoin Blockchain was - as of September 2025 - 674GB in size, adding a gigabyte every few days, meaning it is probably around 750GB today, stored on every single full node - what a waste of space. Databases are a lot more flexible in that regard.

Here's what I got from the dating pool:
Gemini: bipolar two-faced
Scorpio: will stab you and eat your soul

Typical Sagittarius! /s

I'm a Gemini actually

I have a pretty large, coed friend group, and roughly 50% of the women are into astrology, while none of the men are. Personally, I could never date someone who took astrology seriously. Fortunately, unlike this meme tries to paint them, there are many women who don't take astrology seriously.

I'm sorry. You're a Debian and I'm a Fedora. We're just not compatible.

It’s ok to be casually racist against white people because it’s “punching up”. Which implies white people are superior. Which is racist against non-whites wait…

It’s a podcast. Chapo has them on as guests occasionally

it means that the transition from evangelical child to edgy teen atheist to normal functional adult puts you at a crossroads much like the dichotomy presented in this meme. when i was 19 years old i did indeed have to choose whether to mock spiritual people, or "wrong" people in general. it was in fact a pretty witch who convinced me not to do this, and as a result i spent the next 10 years learning how to be normal to people who do not share one iota of my relationship with truth. Nearly 20 years later i do still enjoy talking to witches, in fact i can't resist it. i maintain a staunch secular humanism, which serves as a narrative anchor for anyone who wants to manipulate me with their magic spells.

Why not learn embroidery/crossstitching. Calming and fun.

Top or bottom, depends how you are feeling.

... that's like saying billionaires are superior, because you punch up at them. It's not about being better, it's about privilege.

I see this wall of text and wonder why "Nearly" is capitalized but no other words are. It's like reverse German. 😆

How is that helpful if the categories are based on birthdays?

Every straight simp.

I ditched someone when she attributed something to her star sign, because I have no interest in a relationship with someone stupid

Astrology, tarot, any religion whatsoever

I'm not going to be able to respect them, and no relationship works without respect

Just fuck off with your stupid shit

i roll my eyes at astrology but generally don't mind a little "folk wisdom" if it helps people deal with the world, though of course it often doesn't actually really help and just obscures the real reasons behind things.

kinda similar to how i think a sincere belief in religion might actually help someone in many cases, but can also veil the world and make it less accessible.

in the same vein is also folk or traditional medicine. i bet there are good insights in there, but also just a lot of bs. difficult to sift for gold.

Star racism is still racism. I don't make fun of it, I simply reject it as esoteric bigotry.

Most of the insane women that are crazy enough to spend time with me are, at the very least, in to horoscopes/tarot, so I maintain a base level knowledge on the subject.

They find it charming when I use I Ching to consult the Oracle when they can't decide what they want for dinner.

Unless of course they're born Giliac, in which case they need to be rounded up and put in cages for the safety of humanity

Heh something I would try. I mean I've thought about making clothes (recycling old stuff) since I know how to use a sewing machine, home-ec class. I have serious damage on my hands from chemicals, fingers getting pinched, -_- skateboarding, power tools, etc. My left hand shakes all the time and the thumb clicks moving it. So putting together Gundam models works out since I mostly only use my right hand, which at least doesn't shake but I don't have the mobility like I used to.

It does say every straight man in the picture

First of all, it's not guaranteed that it'll say "not controlled by anyone". For example the arms race of something like bitcoin mining leads to mining becoming unprofitable to anyone not building massive mining farms. The efficiency of mining leads to bigger control over the proof of work so there's a natural centralization of control happening with proof of work. And proof of stake isn't saving anyone either because that just opens the door to a different kind of centralization of control. Give it another 50 years and currencies like etherium will also be centralized. With all of the negatives and none of the benefits of centralization.

And that's the other point, I don't think an internationally independent currency is that great of an idea. At least I don't think it's better than a currency with a central authority. For example central authorities manage the inflation (or in case of crypto currencies the deflation) of the currency to keep is stable and usable. Central authority also keeps oversight of illegal activities, the lack of that oversight is why crypto is popular with the black market. You also get certain consumer-protections which you're unlikely to get with crypto because there's no authority to enforce them, for example if your account gets hacked or stolen you're fucked while banks would freeze your account and reverse transactions. And of course there's taxation, which I can't imagine how that would even happen with crypto.

I'm not saying blockchain itself is a useless technology, but I have don't believe it's usable as a currency. I also have some serious reservations in its use elsewhere because I have a hard time imagining where it would be better than a traditional database solution.

Seriously why is that lol

Thank you for this perspective. I was lacking it and you brought it to me.

I read most comments above this

And a centralized database can be modified at will by whoever controls it. Just because you place no value on a distributed ledger that is censorship and fraud resistant doesn’t mean that configuration has no value. Centralized currencies are secured with violence. Blockchains are secured with math.

Yes, a centralized currency can have consumer protections. What about the flip side, protection from the central bank? A central bank can restore your balance under fraud, they can also fraudulently steal your balance. Central banks also get to dictate who/what you get to spend your money on. Which is why blockchain is popular with those who oppose fascists. The government doesn’t like Wikileaks, well, they get to block payments.

Countries manage currencies for their own ends, not for the benefit on its citizens. Plus, how much violence is the central bank willing to inflict to fulfill its ends? Your whole post ignores the long history of truly awful behavior from governments in order to keep the power of money under their control.

Early in our dating, my wife had me take the enneagram test. I got a 2, she’s a 9. I told her I found a page detailing relationships between 2’s and 9’s and some of the strengths and weaknesses we’d navigate as a couple.

As I was reading it she kept saying, at first, “That makes sense!” Or “Yeah I can see that.” There were a few that were kind of out there. But she kept listening.

Eventually I revealed to her that I was ACTUALLY reading a page detailing relationships between a dragon and a sheep, our respective Chinese Zodiac signs. And that I was using this to support my argument that personality tests are astrology for educated people.

Still ended up getting laid, though not that day. 😅

Proud to be ignorant and play video games rather than learn. Perhaps if you actually got an education you’d know better.

I ditched someone when she attributed something to her star sign, because I have no interest in a relationship with someone stupid

I've just always seen this as a lack of personal accountability, and that's a massive turnoff for me.

Like, no Becky, you're not being a bitch because you're a cancer, but you are a cancer because you're such a bitch.

You forgot the part about how it's determined by giant balls of gas millions of light years away that aren't actually arranged in neat patterns, but are actually incredibly far from one another and only look like patterns from our specific position in the universe

And you can't see how stupid this is?

some people like astrology, some people like drugs, god, the universal conciousness, whatever. pick your passion.

Now hold on... One of these things is actually real though, and has very direct effects on your consciousness. It's insane to include drugs in there.

I mean, I did complete my undergrad............

They're also just inert balls of gas that are way too far away to have any effect on our planet

Cold reading. That's how it works.

because like half of all women are into astrology

like 45% of them is the latest stat. Only 20% of men believe in it

for me, it's probably 1/3 women who is into it, and they get really really angry with you if you don't take them seriously when they start lecturing you about it.

IME women and men who are into astrology refuse to take accountability for their actions/choices, pathologically.

The Orville!

how do you feel when it actively makes the world a worse place?

because a lot of these folks believe in anti-vaccination and other crazy stuff that is actively harming other people and themselves.

rich white men are privileged.

poor whites, are not privileged.

and there are way more poor white people than rich white people.

you can judge people for holding belief systems that are constructed for them to avoid personal accountability for themselves.

which is what astrology and other alt beliefs are for most of these folks. a way to explain away their problems rather than take responsibility for them.

Poor whites are still white. Yes they're still privilege

Edit - at this point 4 downvotes. 4 white people need to pull theirs heads out their ass

cool, go trade places with a poor white boy in louisana and see how much 'privilege' that life brings.

I'm sure you will love the lack of education, economic opportunity, and the backwards culture you're brought up in that you can't escape.

oh, you don't want ot make that trade? gee, maybe because you're more privileged than they are...

Honestly while I'm secular myself, this stance would lead to me politely refusing a second date.

Yes astrology is daft, but most of the things you and I believe are daft too or at least only locally true and culturally constructed rather than globally true. I don't care if someone is religious or secular, what I do care is to what extent they believe humanity can know unfiltered truth in the first place. This is a much more important and useful axis in my view than whether they are religious or secular.

In my view no human can know direct truth, they are forced to rely exclusively on the unreliable narrator of their senses and for this reason I don't trust people who make excessively confident claims about the nature of reality at all, whether religious or secular ones.

What about the flip side, protection from the central bank? A central bank can restore your balance under fraud, they can also fraudulently steal your balance.

I'll make a very simple argument here, don't elect corrupt officials who use institutions meant to work for you against you. You may not like that argument and that's fine because I'm not here to argue that argument. Instead we're going to discuss what is you argument when the centralized cabal of your blockchain currency steals your balance? Outside of forking the chain and hoping it gets accepted you've got nothing. You don't get to choose who takes over and you have no way of holding them accountable.

Before you claim this is impossible go look up Steem. That chain got hard forked into Steem and Hive and of the two Steem, which experienced a hostile takeover, is doing better than Hive, the community fork. People who opposed Steem got cut from the chain. Now, if crypto was a real currency for the sake of stability one of the two forks would have to be chosen (otherwise you end up with fork after fork), who is to say your money won't just get wiped because you ended up on the wrong side of the fork? Who is going to give you that money back? The same way your money gets wiped whatever transaction you want to do can also get wiped if whoever controls the chain decides so.

And I'll reiterate. My point wasn't that FIAT currencies are the best thing ever, my point was that they're better than the blockchain alternative because you end up with all the bad of the FIAT currency with none of the good.

I believe that is called a switch

More privelage than a black guy living in Louisiana.

And that poor WHITE boy is still going to have more privelage than a poor black one. Gee, maybe it’s like, some sort of spectrum and not quite so… black and white.