• Deceptichum@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Well Intended Leftist: I want to do something productive for society.

    Tankie: I want to bash you

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    7 months ago

    Larpers hate it when you ask them to join the shit brigade/bathroom cleaning.

    fight tankies, I guess.

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    As a side note: blows my mind there are people over the age of 9 that persist in actually believing in tarot cards or astrology.

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      So independent of any woo-woo, tarot cards are designed to be a potent conceptual microcosm. That means that when you shuffle the cards and do a reading, with a decent understanding of what each of the cards represents, you essentially make a little randomly generated conceptual perspective through which to view the problem. Extremely helpful for shaking out of an established mindset, finding an unexpected angle which reveals connections you hadn’t considered.

      I can’t really speak to astrology, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be approximately accurate for some reason other than the stars themselves. Perhaps the changing temperatures of the seasons have a slightly noticeable effect on natal development.

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        Astrology is only accurate in that everything it says is vague and easily interpretable in multiple ways.

        A teacher did an experiment where he handed his class custom astrology reports based on their birthdate, and asked them to rate how well they fit each of them. Everyone gave it a high rating, and said it was very accurate. He had them pass the paper to a different student, and everyone laughed because everyone got the exact same astrology report.

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          Certainly sometimes, not always. I was convinced to get a “proper” chart done, and the results were more specific and accurate than I expected. Certainly not vague newspaper predictions. I’m not going to claim the whole practice is authentic, but like I said I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to have some actual correspondence to some unknown tangible cause unrelated to the stars.

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            Certainly sometimes, not always

            That’s not the basis of a good prediction. Imagine flipping a coin. You can “guess” the answer with 50% accuracy by just choosing heads each time.

            But that’s cheating you say? You could also get 50% accuracy by just flipping another coin and using that choice. Or just choosing the opposite that just appeared (heads, tails, heads, etc.). That’s not good enough for a prediction.

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              I’m not trying to sell anyone on astrology here. All I said was sometimes it’s so vague as to to apply to anyone, but not always.

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                If it isn’t vague, it isn’t astrology.

                They are just reading your body language and things they find online about you.

                The location flaming balls of gas are have no influence on your life. Except for the sun.

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                  It was automated so it wasn’t that.

                  Once more, not saying the stars have anything to do with, except that they’re in the sky in a particular time of year. If astrology is based on anything, it’s probably the effects of the seasons.

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    7 months ago

    Guess who’s going to find out leftist societies still have prisons for pieces of shit that are intolerant of others?!