Sometimes I contemplate the merits of maybe having something like a "thinking license"
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Sometimes I contemplate the merits of maybe having something like a "thinking license"
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aprilfollies
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Jason Bellew,💻🤠🏳️🌈🐻❄️🖖🏻
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Wasn't there an episode of All in the Family where they did that to figure out the sex of the Gloria's baby?
As I recall it didn't work then either.
Quinn Norton
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Wow. The world is certainly full of things.
Bjørnar (he/him)
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Sexing animals is _nothing_! This lady explains how you can determine the gender of a body in an unmarked grave!
"While you are standing in the center of the suspected gravesite, balance the handle of one of the rods on your index finger, hold the rod straight down. The rod will begin making a circular motion. The rod will then rotate counterclockwise for the male, and rotate clockwise for a female."
jayhistoricalsociety.org/pione…
FIAR Light
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •scientificamerican.com/article…
A Backyard Bird Offers a New Way of Thinking about Sexes
Donna L. Maney (Scientific American)Andrew
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •potentially hazardous object
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Dervish
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Gorgeous na Shock!
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Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •When I was a kid, my grandad told me that they hired a guy to find ground water on their property by dowsing so they could dig the well for their new house. This was back in the 50s. My grandad was skeptical, but it did actually work.
When i got older, I realised that the house is on the slope of a mountain, so there is probably ground water pretty much everywhere on that property. I bet that guy they hired knew that too!
N3VEM
in reply to Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻 • • •myrmepropagandist
in reply to N3VEM • • •@N3VEM @veronica
Hiring a dowser to seed my random number generator and wondering why they are so mad at me.
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Jon Het.
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in reply to Jon Het. • • •@Jon_Kramer @N3VEM @veronica
I do not know what that is and I think I do not want to find out.
Jon Het.
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gender fluid bird obviously
Jay
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Laux Myth (aka Martin)
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •John M. Gamble
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •And of course it's an established "technique".
"Bouly claimed to be able to detect unexploded ordnance from WW1 and also to detect molecular changes in laboratory experiments. He was the founder at Lille in 1929 of the Association of the Friends of Radiesthesia (Association des Amis de la Radiesthésie)."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radies…
method of divination; pseudoscientific or occult supposed ability to detect radiation emitted by a person, animal, object or geographical feature
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Argus
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Octorine
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •thefathippy
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •As kids/teens, we used that scientific method to determine not only the sexes, but the order and number of children we would have. My great grandmother swore it worked. She was far from alone in that view.
In a shocking twist, her soothsexing was incorrect.
Oggie
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Complete random thing, and I am not a crazy person- this works*!
*Okay, so obviously as written fuck no. But sexing a bird is -super hard - for some species, but people get really good at it creepily fast, and can't explain -why- they are good (gestalt of incredibly minor signifiers), so they will, basically, 'know' with great (85%+) reliability. The weird string thing is just subconscious expression, easy to do. The crutch of a ritual helps it to be more easily expressed.
Fish Id Wardrobe
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I have an odd perspective on this: the problem is pretending that it's science.
It's magic. Admit it's magic, not science, and I'm fine with it. Pretending it's science is assigning it a reputation for accuracy that it doesn't deserve.
Does it really matter if we call a girl parrot "Bobby"? It does not. So using magic is fine here. As is flipping a coin.
Menno
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •James Cameroun
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