Oh wow, you found some no name crypto and apparently it is representative of everything.

More importantly I can find a whole bunch of fiat countries that have failed. Why don’t you go and lick fascist boots instead of spreading nonsense.

Oh wow, you found some no name crypto and apparently it is representative of everything.

No. I found a real life example so you wouldn't say "that's impossible". Now how about you stop ducking and address my original point.

More importantly I can find a whole bunch of fiat countries that have failed. Why don’t you go and lick fascist boots instead of spreading nonsense.

Irrelevant.

The difference is most of them don't believe in any of it. It's just entertaining to them. Find ten people who say like astrology and ask them to make base a life deciding event on it all 10 of them will make the decision on factors outside of astrology.

An easy way to tell, if they ask what month you were born in, they don't believe in astrology... As the months don't line up with the stars.

#NotAllWomen

Jokes aside, you'd be amazed at just how wide the astrology demographic is.

Yeah, and the women who believe in astrology are dumb.

But there are men who don't believe in it but have some other crackpot/spiritual nonsense to fill in that 30% gap.

as a wood rat, i agree

I mean, with the person I recently met and was into significantly, they've specifically told me they aren't into me. Though they certainly acted like they were for a while before. And then later we got momentarily drunkenly intimate but they've since stated it meant nothing. I've also since made a pretty big ass of myself because of the roller coaster of emotions and they're pretty cold towards me now.

The dating pool where I live is also unfortunately quite small in terms of people I'd be willing to even be with even in a city. Living in a red state is hell.

And then you have people like my own mom who judges, and forms whole opinions about, people based on their astrology signs.

Even if some sort of behaviour completely contradicts their supposed astral sign, she'll make it fit.

you realize it's incredibly common for folks to do this? of any gender?

i broke up with most of my exes because they false presented themselves to me. they saw absolutely nothing wrong with it, and to them I was the one who was awful and terrible for not 'loving and accepting them for who they really are'. i had one ex who specific said 'you'd have never dated me if i had told you the truth'.

was I sexually assaulted by those women? who deliberately lied to me to have sex and engage in a relationship with me?

I don't think very many people would consider what they did as sexual assault.

The two main ones I see are, 1) statements like, "I think it's ridiculous to think the stars control our fate." Which, they don't. While there is a branch of "naturalistic" astrological rooted in Aristotle's classical elemental ideas, virtually no one uses that model, and the prevailing thought these days is the movements of celestial bodies are more like symbolic markers. You never see anyone accuse clocks of controlling time, for instance.

And the other one is the perpetuation of the idea of each person's sun sign essentially determining their entire personality or whole events. The sun sign is obviously a large variable, but in actual astrological practice the natal chart factors in the total state of the entire solar system with an honestly staggering number of variables. That's not the whole story either, because people change over time, and astrology has methods for forecasting those changes by producing whole charts at multiple times and places.

Which, if you think the premise as a whole is still ridiculous - that's fair. I'm not trying to defend astrology here, just saying that people can at least try not to perpetuate stereotypes.

Permanence isn't forever. Sorry your comment had me laughing in my head about the idea of object permanence truly meaning forever and it not being relative/subjective.

I'm a bit more open minded; who really knows what's going on beyond the reality that we see and interact with on a daily basis.

That said, I do think that anyone who claims to be an expert on that stuff is full of shit and either lying to everyone else or themselves.

Though my name comes from understanding enlightenment in a Buddhist sense is real, though even that isn't as mystical as it can seem to the unenlightened. It's just the process of growing wiser and "enlightenment" is the moment of epiphany when some piece of wisdom clicks.

Like one of the early ones I remember having is realizing that doctors, police, or whatever authority people are just people like anyone else, they have good days and bad days where they might just want whatever problem you have for them to go away rather than get solved. Some are diligent workers, some cheated their way to where they are, some failed upwards. Some think "I don't know" threatens their position and will instead lie with confidence, assuming you'll never know any better. Some assume they even know better without actually knowing and just act on that.

It's obvious in hindsight but felt pretty profound when it clicked in my mind.

A rather free love friend of a friend was trying to fuck guys from every sign of the zodiac, and she hadn't gotten to Cancer yet. As an amateur astronomer now, and a child who was raised by a lunatic into all sorts of woo, I declined on principle.

Look, have your fun. But woo is a relationship red flag for me. You cannot remind me of my mother if you want me turned on. I haven't gotten laid countless times. I don't need or want sex that badly. I desire someone I can trust to keep a firm grasp on reality.

Yeah, I ain't putting up with that either. People can have their beliefs, but getting my head screwed on straight was a hard fought, lifelong journey. I cannot go back.

what i find creepy af is women who tell me i remind them of their dad and it turns them on... on a date, or worse, in bed.

it's so gross and weird. another bizzaro double standard, because I'd be a huge creep told them they reminded me of my mom.

Shut up Wesley

Also, crypto and blockchain has an ENORMOUS negative ecological and energetic impact; I think that AIs are worse on that, but I'd still say that if AIs are the number one, cryptos are the number two.

And then you have the worst part: incel cryptobros, the face of crypto. And with them, lots of scams (even within stablished coins), sects and all kind of grotesque things like that.

Moreover, crypto is somewhat exclusionary and elitist, because it assumes that you have a somewhat decent hardware that, with the current hardware problems, isn't the case anymore for almost anyone, and even before that, a lot of folks hadn't the opportunity. Yet it's said to be democratic and free (as in Freedom). There's a clear contradiction.

Yes, everything that demonstrates you are wrong is irrelevant. Must be nice to live in a world of make believe.

Bro dodged a bullet 💀

And wtf, what's that shit of judging a person you don't ever know just because of some crazy cards bs.

That's how anyone should be!

Then yeah, they're stupid. Any problem?

GreenteaOS too!

If this is the only way to get you to address my point go ahead, start explaining how your nonsense argument demonstrates what I said is wrong. You can start by explaining what you think my point is because at this point I'm more than certain you can't even get that right.

I'm okay

The stars. Keep up with the conversation!

yes, i do in fact realize that it's incredibly common for folks to be shitty human beings. i have elected to not be like them. because they are shitty. "everyone's doing it" does not make it right.

furthermore, literally all the rest of my post after the first sentence, set aside purposefully with two line breaks, intentionally did not specify or even mention gender. so I'm not sure why you brought it up as it were relevant.

above and beyond standard social contract expectations,
i shall additionally, PERSONALLY decline to perform acts that feel wrong to me,
irrespective of others' opinions.

At a glance: is this another ReactOS but with .js files in the repo? Why the fuck?

Ah yes, the science of anecdotal observations...

Maybe, but I've just never met one

Well, IME people who talk like you, who boast about how truthful and honest they are, are the same ones who lied.

Weird how that works out, isn't it?

Almost as if folks who boast about how honest and great they are, typically aren't either of those things. And their need to boast is projection/overcompensation for their true behaviors.

Your irony is on point.

Esoteric girl fascism

Come to think of it, it is weird that the way you think things are just so happen to work out in your favor. It's almost as if you never had anything relevant to say in the first place.

Gay men too…

It's tough having no patience for pseudoscience in 2026

Sagittarius

Oh! Haha. Then you'd be wrong ;)

Sadly, yeah it is getting more like that year after year. Too many tiktok crackhead crazies out there, and they didn't exist 5 year ago.

your premise here is that real things aren't real.

good luck with that. all I see here is something trying really hard to feel they are 'one up' on other people because they have mistaken skepticism for reality.

so wait, none of it is deterministic... but we should use those to figure out how determine how we treat other people?

You are re-inventing racism, but making it more complex and stupid.

Your reading comprehension is lacking, or you just didn’t bother to read my whole comment. I specifically said that all people should be treated the way we currently only treat the people belonging to the most privileged groups, which would be to judge them by their individual actions and not by their race, ethnicity, class, sex, gender, orientation, etc.

Right, it's not that you theory is faulty, it's that I'm stupid.

How do we treat the most privledge groups? hmmm well we worship them and aspire to be like them... so we are all supposed to worship and aspire to be like each other? How exactly... does that make any sense in the real world?

You yourself are loaded with your own biases, and yet your standard is 'nobody should have any biases and we should all treat each other as if were were white male billionaires'?

So if I'm a white male billionaire, and you are too, which of us should be giving giving massive tax subsidies to each other? I would wager a guess, that you don't think that's how we should treat each other, and it's more like you are the white male billionaire and i should be giving you my money...

Your theory immediately breaks down when you apply it to real world scenarios. All pie in the sky idealism does, because we don't live in a the Kingdom of God where resources are infinite. Everyone is finite and everyone is biased and everyone is a white male billionaire in their own head.

Wow, you are adding in a whole lot that I didn’t say. I certainly don’t assume that anyone worships or aspires to be like white people, men, straight people, or cis people. As far as class, I was leaving the ultra-rich out of the equation, as they are such a tiny portion of the populace that they cannot occupy the cultural privileged/default/“normal” position - that position is filled by the “middle class”, which could be loosely described as those who appear to the outside world to be financially comfortable (even if their reality is different).

The idea of privilege is that for each axis (race, sex, etc) there is a group that does not face the same obstacles as the other(s). Thats it. It doesn’t mean that if you are a member of a privileged group that things are easy, just that you are less likely to face those specific forms of discrimination. Most people are privileged on some axes and not on others, and even people who are privileged in literally every category can have very bad things happen to them that are no fault of their own, because that is true for anyone at any time.

All I am saying is that privilege means not having to overcome the same level of stereotypes, prejudice, and aggressions (micro- or direct). In a halfway decent society, members of groups not viewed as default also would not face such obstacles, and everyone would be judged on their own words and actions I don’t know why you are so resistant to understanding this relatively simple concept.