And, just like that, Astrocoin was born.

It’s ok to be casually racist against white people because it’s “punching up”. Which implies white people are superior. Which is racist against non-whites wait…

To my understanding white isn't really a race.

We kind of just like... pick and choose who ever we want to consider white.

I suspect if I went around saying Russians are white people like Americans like South Africans, and like French people. Many people would give me the: 🤨

Finally. These are some of my favorite kind of white girls.

I prefer dark hair but I am a sucker for pale skin.

This might be controversial but hear me out:

The idea of an international independent currency that can be made use of anonymously and therefore not controlled by anyone is a great idea.

Most smaller coins are just scams, reimplementing the same protocols that earlier schemes did and eventually adopting a clear pump & dump characteristic.

However, I personally believe that bigger coins like etherium that don't fold as quickly and stick around are genuinely a good idea.

Moreover, there's use cases where transactions are tracked for different systems, for example tracking an interconnected energy grid and usage of households.

And then you also have to consider that block-chains themselves can just be used to keep a fulsome record of something, with the main goal of decentralizing control over that record. I'm sure there will be quite a few use cases for it that make more sense and it's quite a shame the stigma of crypto got attached to it.

If you wanna learn more about how block chains are actually researched, you have to dive into academic publications, but then you will find out scientists have a very different vision for this technology which is way more useful. And for the sake of actual science, I hope they don't get buried under the stigma of crypto, because oftentimes these are just very smart people with lots of passion for something that they genuinely see value in.

Yeah, Blockchain is really the prime example of a solution looking for a problem. Everything you can do with Blockchain can be easier done using less ressources with other techniques. It sounds fine on paper, and as you said there might be some esoteric use for it someday in the future.

Proud to be ignorant and play video games rather than learn. Perhaps if you actually got an education you’d know better.

Just what a Gemini would say!

have you ever had anyone argue with you about your star sign?

I have, it was wild. They insisted my DOB was wrong and I was totally a Capricorn. They also argued with me that my job was awful and unfulfilling, despite me saying I enjoyed it. That was also bizarre.

It's tough having no patience for pseudoscience in 2026

Early in our dating, my wife had me take the enneagram test. I got a 2, she’s a 9. I told her I found a page detailing relationships between 2’s and 9’s and some of the strengths and weaknesses we’d navigate as a couple.

As I was reading it she kept saying, at first, “That makes sense!” Or “Yeah I can see that.” There were a few that were kind of out there. But she kept listening.

Eventually I revealed to her that I was ACTUALLY reading a page detailing relationships between a dragon and a sheep, our respective Chinese Zodiac signs. And that I was using this to support my argument that personality tests are astrology for educated people.

Still ended up getting laid, though not that day. 😅

because they are

nobody takes them seriously other than teenagers and other emotionally immature folks.

It's clearly pseudoscientific nonsense. But it's easier to say "I'm a pisces" instead of "I'm feeling hesitant about the future of our relationship, Sarah" if she is into that. The value is in being able to reference loose personality archetypes without having to spend a paragraph describing someone.

Also, at the time most of the zodiac and star chart arrangements were plotted out, the Earth had an entirely different north star than it does now. So your modern star sign would not even be consistent with the ancient charts and star signs, yet somehow all the same definitions and assumptions are supposed to apply.

updated my comment lol

total Capricorn move

According to whom?

yeah but you get laid more if you agree to blame nebulous abstract concepts for personal and social grievances.

or blame their parents.... that always works too.

yup. my idiot brother consciously made it his personality to dislike everything. he still can't figure out why he doesn't have friends. i've tried explaining how you build closer relationships over stuff you like rather than stuff you dislike. he doesn't like that.

Tbf The show was well written for a children's show... But it was still a children show

for a lot of people being picky means they will never get laid. and that's fine, if you can accept that.

but they don't. they are enraged by the lack of 'quality' people available to them. and offended by the abundance of low quality people available to them.

the idea you can 'raise your standards' and get 'better results', in dating/mating, is mostly cope. Especially when you start looking at the statistics. truth is people really should lower them, and well, humble themselves. because most folks aren't nearly as 'hot' as they perceive themselves to be.

it's also highly subjective. I attract a lot of very desirable women, but they aren't desirable to me due to my own biases and lifestyle preferences. Just yesterday I got like half dozen likes from women on Hinge, but they all worked in finance or pharma, so I rejected them because for me working in those industries means 'low quality' just like believe in astrology. But if I wanted to get laid? Yeah I should get over that bias, those type of women really like me, even though I hate them. And I only developed this bias due to my younger years... repeatedly trying to date them and running into the same miserable issues again and again.

Oh sorry, only 43% of women aged 18-49, I guess 43% is nowhere near half. I suppose if you're a granny chaser then it is indeed only a quarter. If you're into LGBT folks, it actually goes above 50% (over 60% for LGBT women).

Since my own dating pool and most of my friendships are smack dab in the middle of that 18-49 demographic, I can tell you it's easily around half of women around that age who believe in astrology, tarot or something else similar here in Estonia, so it's not US specific either. Including a lot of otherwise very intelligent women. A master's degree in a STEM field for example does not discourage one from believing in astrology by any means.

Or perhaps you just don't know enough women?

Oh and men aren't all innocent either. A fifth of men aged 18-49 believe in astrology or similar superstitions too. Less than half as many as women, but still a significant amount.

I don't disagree, but it's twice as common among women. That's why there's a stereotype in the first place.

I use Arch btw.

1. Straight

2. Femboys

3. Straight dude who thinks acting gay would get him invited to girl sleepovers.

4. A pansexual who's also Aromatic.

5. The straight guy who's into grannies.

6. The guy who thinks they have a type, but their type would never date them.

8.Aeroace but would set you up with their friend

1. The gay who only wants to top

2. Old grandad gay. Someone who wasn't shy boning dudes back when they would've been executed for it.

12 The kinda gay who would only hangout with people over 40.

1. The bisexual who didn't care exploring further cause they live in conservative environment(relatable)

2. The guy who thinks applying nailpolish makes him gay.

GreenteaOS too!

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

I don't know if the website has been updated recently, but http://www.whatstheharm.net/astrology.html has a pretty good record of the harm various pseudosciences have caused.

the problem is people are willing to commit violence for beliefs.

not so much empirically verified science.

It shows a lack of understanding which correlates nicely with other wrong beliefs, some of which are very harmful.

it doesn't.

but woo-woo beliefs are infiltrating every aspect of life, including places where they do not belong, like public health and the justice system. and that's problematic for everyone.

This was foretold! “Today, you might run into a kind stranger asking you a question that you maybe answer with a touch of silliness.”

Cold reading. That's how it works.

Well… their photons do reach our planet after sometimes thousands of lightyears’ travel… I will call that impressive.

I upvoted, hoping you were sarcastic.

I believe that is called a switch

Surely not

Hmm?

What does that even mean in this context, "latent"?

You mean "unexplored"? If I'm a "latent" homosexual, it just means I'm homosexual, no? So if by "go" you mean "be true to myself", then fine, I guess?

But if I'm bi, or straight, I can't just turn off my attraction to the opposite sex to "go gay".

Please correct me if I'm wrong, non-straight, non-gay people! Is it possible to just flip your attractions off? Sincerely, cis straight male who's earnestly trying to be as woke as possible and educate myself to be accurate and inclusive.

Emotions can be based in reality. Or they can be based in false perceptions of reality.

That's what makes them valid or invalid.

Your fear of the boogeyman in the closet is invalid. Your fear of the drunk driver weaving around you on the highway is valid.

Of course, if you don't believe reality exists, or that reality is entirely derivation of your emotions, then yeah, you should be very very afraid and you should invest in anti-boogeyman man traps to put in your closet so he can't get you at night.

But of course, most of us would consider people who believe in boogeymen to be delusional. Delusion is a symptom of psychological problems. And delusional folks think it's everyone else who is insane for not seeing the Boogeyman.

people have lots and lots of emotions that are not based in external reality, many are based in fictions they make up in their heads. but of course, being able to recognize and admit that... is not a capability many folks develop. many folks never question their emotions at all.

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

what if you believe but you don't believe as much as the other person?

We have been married for 46 years now. Despite the fact she was into astrology and I listened intensely to her about it in the beginning. It is called learning everything about each other. And if anyone was "rapey", it was her. These days she laughs and says it was the rebellious catholic upbringing in her, (I still call her a recovering Catholic). And that I was oblivious to all the hints she was dropping in front of me.

It all just one of the many shared memories we have together. I wouldn't give any of them up for life itself.

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.

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.

Yeah, but how many of them come from a family where they were never expected to work or pay their own bills?

At least in my experience of a handful of folks in Marine Biology research... every single one of them.

Working low/minimal wage work isn't so bad if your folks are loaded and you'll just inherent their wealth. It's just a waiting game.

isnt chapo behind bars?

I see this wall of text and wonder why "Nearly" is capitalized but no other words are. It's like reverse German. 😆

it was in fact a pretty witch who convinced me not to do this, and as a result i spent the next 10 years learning how to be normal to people

Oh man story of my life. Woah. It often makes me think of the saying...

“As he received his trophy, the plucky quarterback unfolded the story of how he ‘came back’. He said ‘They say behind every great man there’s a woman. While I’m not a great man, there’s a great woman behind me.’”

From my perspective, the Witch in my story doesn't want to talk to me anymore. None the less words cannot express my gratitude for her setting me on the path I am on now. I still feel like I owe her an apology letter. 🤔

tl:dr Males 13-25 stop "teasing" or "joking" rudely with girls and women. You will most likely regret it. Dearly.

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

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

Did you spill soda on your shift key?

Yeah, it's deterministic sorting. That's what racism is too. The idea you must possess/lack inherent traits based on your race, for astrology it's your DOB.

This isn't the 'gotcha' you think it is. I could just as well ask the fedora fanclub how they respond to someone saying 'bless you' when they sneeze. The point is there are local truths and there are global truths, and you don't have undistorted access to the latter. None of us are playing with a full deck.

To use your own example of fiat money, we all know it's a society-wide fiction but it is kept up willingly and enthusiastically for the reason there'd be a very non-fictional economic meltdown if we didn't do that. We are pretending a small-t truth is a capital-T Truth for practical reasons alone. The danger comes when we forget we're doing that and mistake our aggregate belief for reality itself in my opinion.

I cannot stand people who think they are personally exempt from this kind of thing; people who insist their imperfect senses give them full and perfect access to objective truth. These kind of people are dangerous whether they're religious or secular, I would much rather date a superstitious person who was aware most of what they believe is vague and wooly than someone who calls themselves a rationalist and makes these massive sweeping metaphysical judgements about things.

The way people treat vegans and vegetarians is so weird.

If someone doesn't smoke you don't smoke with them. If they don't drink you don't drink with them. If they abstain from sex you don't have sex with them. If they don't like sports you don't go to the game with them.

If they don't eat meat they're just an asshole.

It's not a hobby though. Or a personal preference like veganism, it's a belief system based on an incredibly unimaginative fairy tail.

Somebody may very into collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards but they would quite rightfully be called crazy if they started to insist that they really had magic powers. There is quite an important distinction between an interesting hobby that you kind of suspension of disbelief, believe in, versus an actual astrology theolog who insists that it's all real.

The key is to be just a little gay, as a treat!

So it is. I grabbed the first result, sorry.

Gotcha, I was tagging along on top of your jokey joke.

everything thinks their dating preferences are reasonable. no matter how absurd or statistically self-defeating they may be.

FWIW I've dated 100s of people, and only like 2 of them liked video games. So for me it's just not worth trying to find that because it's statistically impossible.

Some things you just have to compromise on, I also really like tall women, but statistically dating women over 5'9" eliminates 95% of women, and the average height of whom I have dated is 5'6". The amount of women 5'9" or taller I've dated is also 2, and both of them hated video games. Median height is 5'4".

So I'm not going to find anyone to date if I want a woman who is 5'10" and likes video games. They just don't exist in a statistically relevant amount.

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