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[–] menemen 54 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

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[–] Anticorp 49 points 9 months ago (8 children)

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 15 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Anticorp 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 6 points 9 months ago

Where we're going we won't need eyes to see.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaybone 10 points 9 months ago

You wouldn’t download a meme.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those are copy protected by nobody wanting them.

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[–] misterundercoat 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Enjoy this FREE* meme

*Messaging and data rates may apply

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[–] cuerdo 26 points 9 months ago (8 children)

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

This is people trying to find behavioral patterns

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] zxqwas 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I usually say "Ophiuchus"

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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 10 points 9 months ago

Username checks out.

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[–] TheBat 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] mriormro 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As a zodiac sign, no they do not.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Thcdenton 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Whatevs more freaky rock ladies for me

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 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 6 points 9 months ago

An age. I heard a song about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Only half of the Zodiacs are inspired from real animals. Gemini is two humans, Virgo is a virgin woman, Libra is a Weighing Scale, Sagittarius is a Centaur with a bow, Capricorn is a Sea Goat, and Aquarius is... a cup of water, I guess?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

He made up the sign and constellation Dinosaur.

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[–] LukeySixx 8 points 9 months ago

That made me spit out my coffee🤣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat 7 points 9 months ago
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