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can you explain what "cultural astrology" is?

it's essentially astrology that is employed on a wide scale to designate roles to individuals in the existing hierarchy of their culture. The circumstances of your birth are seen as determining not just your personality, but also your prospects socially and financially. people born under perceived unfavorable conditions are treated as pariahs, and any abuse or misfortune they experience is seen as inherently justified (this can extend as far as justifying honor killings). marriage and job prospects are heavily influenced by astrological tellings, and parents/communities will often deter their children from pursuing the lives they want due to this. as you would assume, the system generally exists to reproduce the social order manufactured by things like class while obscuring class as a variable by insisting that it is the universe that justifies this order. they typically have arbitrators (in the case of hinduism, it's typically a pandit but like I also feel like I should note that "astrology expert" is a huge grift for tons of different people in india) that make so much money off of their perceived insights and spiritual blessings/rituals meant to undo bad energy and whatnot.

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hindus are truly so good at weaponizing social justice rhetoric and the language of decolonization to justify horrific oppression, and all of you who are uncritically agreeing with that shit about 'cultural astrology' are extremely susceptible to a kind of fascism that is actively killing and oppressing muslims, dalits, adivasis, and anyone who is not part of the savarna hindu elite in india.

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this is the most powerful gif I have on my laptop

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

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fat weasel in a cave

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2014-01-11 03:08:30

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on the way home, the Tesla Model 3 barreled into a tree and exploded in flames, killing von Ohain, a Tesla employee and devoted fan of CEO Elon Musk. Rossiter, who survived the crash, told emergency responders that von Ohain was using an “auto-drive feature on the Tesla” that “just ran straight off the road,” according to a 911 dispatch recording obtained by The Washington Post. In a recent interview, Rossiter said he believes that von Ohain was using Full Self-Driving, which — if true — would make his death the first known fatality involving Tesla’s most advanced driver-assistance technology.

Finally, they have a witness. A survivor of an Autopilot mishap who can testify that the driver was using Full Self Driving mode at the time of the crash.

See, this has been impossible thus far because (1) survivors are rare, and (2) Teslas are programmed to automatically disengage Self-Driving milliseconds before the crash so that when investigators review the telemetry it clearly shows FSD wasn't turned on.

And due to this technicality, Musk has been able to claim Autopilot has never killed anybody. Until now.

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people who grew up poor and go on to place these huge academic and professional expectations on their children with no idea of how to achieve them beyond "browbeat the kid until results occur" are so funny because they will eventually meet these actual old money families with their thoroughbred kids and wheel out their anxious 6th grader as if the opposing family in question won't regard the thing as little more than a well trained mutt. because no amount of congeniality can obscure the absence of calm that is only afforded to those with wealth. the lack of ease, lack of tuned refinement, lack of nutrition, lack of entitlement stemming from being told that you have a special human soul that the world should bend to nurture riddles the poor child like a disease. the poor parent senses the disparity between the children, but ignores the child's disposition existing as a reflection of the parent's upbringing and pivots to believing that the gap can be overcome with more arbitrary achievement, more studying and more working. the poor child will proceed to be wound tightly while the rich child observes them on the other side of the cat's cradle.

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A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it? Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they're at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program "Where's Daddy"). One input to the AI is whether you're in a WhatsApp group with a suspected member of Hamas. There's a lot wrong with this - I'm in plenty of WhatsApp groups with strangers, neighbours, and in the carnage in Gaza you bet people are making groups to connect. But the part I want to focus on is whether they get this information from Meta. Meta has been promoting WhatsApp as a "private" social network, including "end-to-end" encryption of messages. Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It is beyond obscene and makes Meta complicit in Israel's killings of "pre-crime" targets and their families, in violation of International Humanitarian Law and Meta's publicly stated commitment to human rights. No social network should be providing this sort of information about its users to countries engaging in "pre-crime".

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shout out to this self made goon queen sitting among her used tissue as she contemplates what her next hand drawn coomer masterpiece will be

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