• dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Astrology I think works better when they focus less on predicting people’s characteristics than looking at people’s patterns in their life. If Saturn is returning to your “insert astrology term here” that means 29 years have happened which means great changes which is pretty typical for humans. People go through big changes at their late 20s and late 50s / early 60s. Since the stars goes through regular patterns and using this a time based guide a lot can be understood about human nature. This is a lot of astrology but the patterns at birth is more popular or at least the most commonly understood portion of it.

  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Obviously biased. Every astrologer is a world leading expert. That’s just a true and correct fact. Where are the error bars? Why not use violin plots? Correct science is what will prove astrology correct. I know that because I’m a Leo. Seriously, astrology is important for weeding out tinder profiles.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So, yes, some people go too far into astrology and some people are actual grifters, but a lot of times, I think most of the time, people are just looking for a little fun. Yes, I know a tarot reading is bullshit, but it can be fun to do and it can be enlightening to see how I think it should be interpreted. Sort of like the idea of ink blotch tests, but that’s not a great comparison.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      I agree with you. I think it’s more about having fun and the “show” of having your fortune read. It might also help you think about stuff.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I’ve done tarot and it’s good for helping analyze possibilities. A draw when you’re worried about something can give you a vague situation and it’s often easy to imagine exactly what that is. The caveat is it’s not more likely to happen just because cartomancey says so

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Sounds a bit like making a decision by flipping a coin. Whatever you’re hoping for when it’s in the air is the right answer, regardless of what the outcome is.

    • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I really hope this is true because I have met soooo many people in my personal life who seriously believe the position of the stars affects every little facet of your life.

        • Gabe Bell@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Honestly?

          No.

          The original comment was “you can’t reason someone out of a belief they weren’t reasoned into” and I was just playing on that by trying to reason them out of the belief that you can’t reason someone out of a belief…

          Or at least suggest that you can reason someone out of a belief they weren’t reasoned into. Because it seems within reason that you can reason someone out of a belief they weren’t reasoned into and the reason I suggest that is it seems perfectly reasonable.

          (Yeah – sometimes I just get bored and want to see how long I can keep a sentence going and use the same word in it before it breaks down into total chaos).

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Does “fucked off” mean “pissed off” in some vernacular? Not sure I’ve seen/heard that before.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Gotcha. Is it a new usage? I wouldn’t say my british slang stays super up to date necessarily… maybe I forgot this one, but I don’t remember seeing/hearing it in the past.

        • ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml
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          3 days ago

          Australian here, heard it all my life. Also, in our dialect you can use fuck to mean pretty much anything, as long as it’s clear from context what sentiment you’re going for

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Haha alright. Yeah same in America, sort of. “fucked off” would always mean “left” for us though

            • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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              3 days ago

              Doesn’t ‘piss off’ can mean ‘leave’ in American English too? I use them pretty much interchangeably, maybe ‘fuck off’ expresses a stronger intention.

              • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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                3 days ago

                In America, “piss off” can mean “leave”, but “pissed off” means angry (usually, depending on context it can also mean left). “fuck off” means “leave”, while “fucked off” either means “left” or “screwed around”. It’s complicated haha. In this post, I guess “fucked off” could’ve meant “left” too, but that reads very awkwardly to me so I decided against that theory. Then others are telling me it can mean angry, or least I’m taking their responses to mean that, so I’m thinking OOP meant that here. But maybe I’m still confused! /shrug

  • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    What on earth does this mean? I’m not a world-class expert in mathology but I’ve never seen this kind of relative comparison before.

    • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I think they just left off the subject of each phrase; 0 out of 152 astrologists did better than 5 out of 12 questions. Though it is phrased weirdly either way.

    • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      None of the 152 people in the trial correctly guessed correctly on more than 5 profiles, out of the 12 profiles they were given.

    • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Well I suppose what they’re saying is no response had a success rate equal to or greater than fifty percent, but yeah it’s not exactly reported academically.