• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Taking advantage of the best daring lip sensitivity to investigate with anomancy the boss, getting ascending to the employee of the month.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    Your bumhole tells me you’re a skeptical. So I probably can’t interest you in a great wrinkle- removing miracle-cream? A smoother hole begets a healthier life, a higher libido and more financial stability in life.

  • Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    Not any more than palm reading is a science (it’s not.) It could be considered an art I suppose, but science needs to be things that can be tested and produce repeatable results.

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      Not any more than palm reading is a science

      Well… stick with me here, this is just a devil’s advocate hypothetical.

      Your hands are your primary method of interacting with the world. The creases, callouses, and other incidental features are reflections of the ways you most frequently use them.

      Obviously you can’t divine the future, but you can gather information about a person. I dare say you could devise experiments to detect correlations between certain features of the hands, and features of the person: their profession, hobbies, grooming habits, clumsiness, etc.

      I think a sincere scientific study could identify several hand features with moderately predictive correlations.

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      6 hours ago

      If me and 5 friends read your a-hole, I bet all of us would come to the same conclusion.

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        5 hours ago

        Still wouldn’t make it scientific. Nothing was tested. It was only observations and imagination. You could all lay in the grass and agree that a cloud shape looks similar to something else. Doesn’t mean a thing.

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    23 hours ago

    “Science” has a rather strict “scientific” definition. Predictability, repeatability, etc. I don’t remember details.

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    22 hours ago

    From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.

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    22 hours ago

    I can tell by the flavour that a new love interest will come into your life imminently.

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    22 hours ago

    It can be considered pseudoscience. The question is - do we want to consider it at all?