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[-] menemen@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

This is dumb. Dinosaurs looks are so diverse. He should have chosen a specific one.

[-] Jorgelino@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At least narrow it down to clade, like just Theropods or something.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

That's like saying Huckleberry Finn doesn't exist. Just because it's made-up doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It exists as a concept which billions of people understand.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I think it is pretty clear in the context of the joke that they weren't saying the concept doesn't exist they were saying the attributes of the concept doesn't exist.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

Counterpoint: how can Huckleberry Finn exist if our eyes aren't real?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Nothing is real! I'm the only sentient entity in the universe. Now stop arguing with me, me.

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[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

The Sun's position on the ecliptic at the vernal equinox is not a "concept", it's a physical reality, recognised by the International Astronomical Union.

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 54 points 10 months ago

You don't have to steel it. It's a virtual picture. You can download it and share it with everyone, as often as you like, whenever you want. There's no cost attached in sharing data other than hardware and energy

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago
[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 28 points 10 months ago

Yep, OP ~~stole~~ distributed this meme.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

You wouldn’t download a meme.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

But....you mean...my nfts?

[-] explodicle@local106.com 10 points 10 months ago

Those are copy protected by nobody wanting them.

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[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Enjoy this FREE* meme

*Messaging and data rates may apply

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[-] cuerdo@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I would argue that the zodiac is the proto-science of psychology.

This is people trying to find behavioral patterns

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago

Faulty pattern recognition isn't something we should be holding on to.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 17 points 10 months ago

It is the alchemy to the chemistry is what they are saying

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

So not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 points 10 months ago

Interesting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 22 points 10 months ago

I usually say "Ophiuchus"

Which is the official 13th zodiac sign that was removed because 13 is a "bad" number

[-] starman@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Actually it was not removed. It just wasn't on the ecliptic plane before standardisation in 1930.

Constellations on sky change from time to time thanks to axial precession.

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Username checks out.

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[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Turns out you can make up any arbitrary distinctions and they just start existing. The question is if they severe any useful purpose.

I can make zodiac 2.0 exist by adding shoe size to distinguish between regular aquarius and aquarius without platypus (above EU 42 is with). So now the Zodiac 2.0 exists with the same predictive power as 1.0.

[-] Ludrol@szmer.info 14 points 10 months ago
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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago
[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

As a zodiac sign, no they do not.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Isn't it about time we do something about that? I'm going to write to my congressman.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Considering how the universe is full of stuff circling around stuff circling around stuff circling around... the zodiac signs have moved over the last couple of millenias.

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[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Actually they do. The zodiac ~~sign~~ constellation of a day correspond to the constellation over which the sun while be at noon. So you do have a zodiac ~~sign~~ constellation associated to your day of bird. But depending on how your culture group stars in constellations you might be from a different zodiac. If you want to follow a classical westerner map of the sky, they will be 13 of them.

Also, note that the zodiac signs won't cut the year in equal parts. Some constellations are just bigger than other and the sun path across the sky changes more or less quickly from a day to another depending on the time of the year.

Edit : typo

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[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

You're missing out on some wild pussy.

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[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Whatevs more freaky rock ladies for me

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[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

While most zodiac signs are inspired by real animals, wtf is an "aquarius"?

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 18 points 10 months ago

In Dutch we don't use the Latin names for zodiac signs (and we call them "sterrenbeelden", which means "star images" or maybe "star statues"). Aquarius is "waterman", which I guess would translate to (surprise) "water man".

Why? Not sure, but it might be because of Simon Stevin who insisted we use Dutch words for mathematical concepts, and thought up some words like "evenwijdig" ("same distancey") for "parallel" and "wiskunde" ("certainty knowledge") for mathematics.

[-] rbhfd@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Literally, "water man" is correct. But I would translate it a bit more loosely as "water bearer".

Most, if not all, names of zodiac signs in Dutchare are literal translations from Latin. But while most people understand that Leo means Lion, how many know Cancer is Latin for crab?

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[-] ExLisper@linux.community 9 points 10 months ago

Gemini, Virgo, Libra and Sagittarius also are not animals. Almost half of them isn't. But you're technically correct that 'most' is. Which is the best kind of correct.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

An age. I heard a song about it.

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[-] LukeySixx@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

That made me spit out my coffee🤣

[-] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

The actual signs exist (get yourself a planisphere or a stargazing app, find some dark skies, and discover them for yourself!), it's just all the magic personality nonsense associated with them is bullshit.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

The signs don't exist. It's just a random collection of stars.

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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

Pfffft if none of them exist then how did the Rat play a flute while standing on the head of the Ox to impress the Jade Emperor and become the first zodiac sign?

Checkmate, atheist.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago
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