And we know which one the fediverse users chose...

sounds like a good plot for a movie

Oh wow, with all the memes I've only ever learned the word "chemtrails". Don't think I've ever seen the word "contrails" before, even though that certainly makes a lot more sense...

Hmmm, you are missing a few... also, PureDarwin is basically MacOS (you described "femboy") with stereotypical linux userland (you described "gay"), I wonder how you got "straight" from that...

If they can predict planetary motions based on a sample of life events from a group of individuals with a balanced distribution of zodiac signs, then I will be convinced it is real.

there are plenty of pro-astrology folks on fediverse.

Skin color has a ton to do with who has money and power. That's, like, the central theme of American history.

She single, by any chance?

I'll choose making fun of astrology.

What's the difference in pretending to believe in astrology and pretending to be interested in anything else they're saying?

I just hit them with the "Oh wow that's crazy yeah I don't really know much about all of that tbh".

They're a rape apologist and trolling to try to prove a point about Cornell. Look at the comment history.

isnt chapo behind bars?

I'd say the stock market more broadly and crypto is only the latest iteration of it. But, yes, absolutely.

i did that on my last date when she started talking to me about biotec startups to invest in privately because she wasn't getting enough return on her stock portfolio and she was expected a double digit return or how else could she retire comfortably?

This will filter out anyone who denies the validity of anything.

Tis a shame

Alas

Irrespective of its truthfulness, astrology is really cool! I love learning about it. I also really like alchemy. It's kinda like looking at someone's fanfic AU. Of course 17th century guys were inventing cute lil alphabets, pretending they belonged to angels, and writing lil secret notes. Of course someone looked up at the sky and then invented a whole magic system about how the pictures affect our lives. Humans never change.

In fact things like Tarot and astrology can be used to ascribe meaning to some of the ways in which we behave - like, you can't tell the future objectively from it, but you can figure things out about your own current feelings based on what you gravitate to and what the results make you think about.

They aren't saying astrology these days is too polarized or something. They're saying the basic premise behind astrology itself is nonsensical. It's like expecting an atheist to read the Bible.

Spoken like a sag

The old I can't dance, but I'd love to hold you while you do ploy.

I can feel this post in my root chakra

Imma level with you, I have no idea what that means. But uh, it was cool hangin'

yep, he’s Trapped in the big House

Hating astrology is such a leo thing

Damn. I dislike astrology... And I'm a Leo lol. Did you see this in the stars? Is mercury in Gatorade?

I know in an earlier comment I said I dislike it, but I guess I just dislike people taking it way way way too seriously. It is pretty interesting and tarot cards and stuff and they're fun to learn about from a perspective. It's just the aspect of it being absolute truth or something I find a little perturbing.

What's sadder is that yoga, chakras, and crystals are traditionally from religions within the Indian subcontinent. Westerners are simply taking aspects of South Asian cultures, indigenous cultures, African cultures, and then bastardising them into marketable "neo-pagan witchcraft."

Have you tried Yijing / I Ching yet? It is amazing!

This made me look up astrology crypto and I tremendously regret it

Conversion therapy

I'm a mobile user with a FOSS keyboard system. When I was using android it did it all for me.

The learning dictionaries available on F-Droid don't behave as intelligently as Google's stuff. As a result I guess I look like an idiot to the sort of people I would have been.

You're so right. Being right is so much less important then tact if you want to keep touch with kind people.

context-OP referring to another podcast called Chapo traphouse

>feral pawg hunter

Uhhh based and chubby chaser pilled 🤣🤣🤣

I was raised without religion. Decided I was atheist as soon as I came across the word as a kid.

I've read large parts of the Christian Bible, in a "know thy enemy" sort of way.

Also, reading the Bible is one way atheists come to be atheists.

That said, I have zero interest in learning more about astrology. Yes, it's completely nonsensical, and not worth anyone's time pursuing. There's nothing behind it. The "basics of how it works" is that it obviously doesn't work at all. It's complete bullshit.

The things we'll do for the promise of sex.

sounds like the plot of a manga. teenagers of various zodiac birthdates come together to avert a solar system disaster with the power or friendship and shared trauma.

The belief in an external world beyond our senses is unfalsifiable. Yet, we experience social pressure to conform to that belief without evidence. Thus, realism is a religion.

I'm a chaos wizard and I think consensus reality is a mechanism of bourgeois control of the workers

No idea what that is but I'd love an explanation!

Yeah, this is what bothers me about it too. It really seems like it's just a low stakes, socially acceptable way to be a bigot.

Yeah. It's like any other religion, I guess.

Fun fact, tarot cards were invented in the late Middle Ages (from other similar cards which were popular around then, I think imported from the East?) and were used to play a game called Trumps. That's why the major arcana cards are also known as trump cards. The magical ot esoteric aspect was added later. This means that technically, using tarot to "read the future" has as much inherent validity as any other deck of cards.... I wanna see someone try with Pokemon or Uno cards 😂😂

It is a divination form. You flip 3 coins a couple of times (or flip sticks originally I believe) and you get an answer in a very vague wise person way.

I believe it is based on an Asian book that was written a while back. It was popular back in the Eu about.... 25 years ago. Way easier than tarot reading. I never got into that - tho I do love the symbolism of the cards, I even wanted to make a set from scratch.

Surely not

No, it's like an atheist criticizing the Bible by saying things that are untrue about the Bible. If you care enough about something to be informed enough to make a credible critique, that's fine. But if you're just going to harbor and further perpetuate false stereotypes about a thing, maybe just stay in your lane and a, "Hey I don't know about that stuff and I don't care," is all you need.

But atheists never claim "Abraham had two dads", and anti-astrology people don't say "Geminis like jalapeños".

I did see a Gatorade recall today so there very well could be mercury in Gatorade