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"Women are ontologically predisposed to beliecing in nonsense magic. I am a feminist."
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The actual reality is that for most people the line between "literally true" and "i only believe this silly thing because it's fun" is very blurry, which is how they can believe things like "children are getting sex changes in school" and other dangerously evil nonsense
I don’t really feel any urge to defend astrology people but strong feelings about it are a variation of this, certain kinds of people do not understand pastimes predicated around “you are socially expected to lie about it”. Astrology is mostly two people who don’t seriously believe it playing magician with each other, and they both know the other is lying, and lying is the entire point. Much like seeing a celebrity impersonator. But this kind of entertainment is very difficult to grasp for autistic people, who, when trying to replicate its whimsy, need to create hard lines at the “point where the lying begins and ends”. The autistic version of the same phenomenon is LARP, as in, *actual* live-action roleplay. Which takes all the whimsy out of playing pretend
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i always tell people to guess and give them 3 guesses and they literally ALWAYS guess wrong and then get mad at me because they feel stupid. i just tested your theories
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While it’s true some people dismiss astrology on misogynist grounds, I’m afraid that Le Guin said it best.
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7yo (doing his math homework): It’s asking how many boots two octopi would need. I’m pretty sure the answer is zero.
Me: …
7yo: Because they don’t have feet. And they swim in the ocean.
Me: You can also tell your teacher that “octopi” is an etymologically inaccurate plural.
6yo: What’s the biggest number?
Me: There are an infinite number of numbers so there’s no biggest one.
6yo: What’s the biggest number you know the name of?
Me: A googolplex.
6yo: Which is bigger, a googolplex or a googoobazillion?
Me: There’s not a number named a googoobazillion.
6yo: If there are an infinite number of numbers, there must be one named a googoobazillion.
Checkmate.
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1.) Astrology itself has connections to esoteric nazism.
2.) Assuming a belief system that isn't western is inherently progressive is Orientalist
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Another irony about Bluesky is that a chunk of their userbase moved there "to prevent AI scraping", but Bluesky is about the only major social media site that has a free and open firehose API. You can download everything ever uploaded in there for free, for any reason you want.
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"just stop torturing children" is such a reductive argument that completely oversimplifies the issue. it also just shows how ignorant you are of omelavian culture. this is an ancestral practice that has guaranteed the prosperity of our society.
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What I don't get about the "it's just fun!" defense of astrology is that a worldview where your personality, fortune, and romantic compatability were all arbitrarily determined at birth by something completely outside your control actually sounds miserable and depressing, not fun
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Is the economic opportunity for young men in the room with us right now?
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Took a B12 vitamin this morning in hopes it not only solves all of the issues I currently have internally but but also globally, reaching people in all corners of the world
