Freerider

I am genuinely surprised you weren't already a signature author. Congratulations!

How delightfully passive aggressive of you 😘 Even though you won't read this, I wish you a peaceful day.

I wholeheartedly disagree with you. edit: oops, I did not read the exchange wit pvtguy before I wrote this. I did not aim to re-awaken your trauma with this comment.

What I do not understand is how easily Giacomo and Emilia are dumping Marco. At lunch time he is sitting within eye sight, obviously not feeling well and they just don't seem to care. No invitation to come over, not even a few words are exchanged. And then for their little trip nobody thinks about inviting him along?

Stronzi is correct. Or "stronze" if it is aimed at solely females. 😇 Now you can change the subject 😂

You are very right in warning against using Google Translate without sufficient knowledge of a language/culture. The word stronzo has a similar meaning as "asshole", stronza for a woman/girl. Fico is being used in a different way: "sei fico!" is similar to the english: "you are bad!" (as in "you are cool!") "Sei fico" is a positive thing. Daniele certainly thinks Giaco is fico.

A 42 footer pulled by a Ford Mondeo? I am surprised he even got it to move away from wherever he got it. 😂

This was a happy chapter. Thanks Dodger!

No, sorry that definition of astrology is too limited. Astrology claims to be much more than just calculating a celestial map. Astrology is a type of divination that involves the forecasting of earthly and human events through the observation and interpretation of the fixed stars, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets. edit: definition source; encyclopedia britannica

It does not imply that others can't question one's beliefs.

You write faster than I can read. I will put it on my list 😀 Scientists being human is not an excuse, just an observation.

As long as one is not bothering others one can believe what one wants. Now you are getting in my field: random number generators, white and pink noise. I am not familiar with the University of Virginia research. What Google tells me after a quick search is that this regards pseudo-RNGs. No surprise that the results will be predictable and possible biased then. But maybe we are getting off topic with our very entertaining (for me at least) slow chat. ☺️

I agree. Just making sure we are on the same page here 😉

Is is easy to test scientifically and it has been done many times. It always fell short of scientific evidence. A famous case where scientists came "close" to prove there was more between heaven and earth was the Stanford Research Institute. Specifically the testing of Uri Geller is still quoted as a huge success for parapsychology (mainly by Geller himself 😄). But the tests were laughably flawed at best. Scientifically the tests were of zero worth, but for PR purposes they are still gold. People just want to believe so desperately. That multiple astrologers come up with the same chart after given a person's details does not prove anything byond the fact that they probably made the same "calculations". It proves nothing of astrology.

Many examples of that unfortunately. Scientists are human after all. Yet, we can not interpret Schopenhauer in a way that makes everything that is ridiculed an eventual truth. Many ideas are ridiculed for good reason. Lack of repeatability, lack of falsifiability and lack of testable predictions are very good reasons for ridicule.