I want to issue a blanket apology

[conuly]

This is not my fault, but I still feel bad: if all the links lately are depressing, that's because everything sucks. There's, like, no good news to be had anywhere. I'm gonna issue a formal complaint to the management as soon as I find their mailing address.

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[acelightning]

Rob Brezny, practitioner of "Free Will Astrology", teaches the concept of pronoia. It's the opposite of paranoia - it's the belief that the entire Universe is a vast conspiracy to bless you in particular, and every living being in general. Here's a website of pronoiac good news.

[greghousesgf]

isn't "free will astrology" a contradiction in terms?

[acelightning]

Not really. Brezny often uses the old astrologers' slogan, "The stars IMpel, they do not COMpel." The information astrology (or any other form of divination, really) can provide is meant as advice, more than anything else. (On top of this, Rob Brezny himself is a smart, funny old hippie, and I'm an old hippie myself, so I like the way he presents things.)

[greghousesgf]

"if it doesn't happen like we said it would you can't sue us"

[acelightning]

Well, yeah, that too... but they pull the same thing in hospitals...

[greghousesgf]

never heard of malpractice suits? Hospitals get sued for their mistakes all the time.

[acelightning]

Hospitals, and individual doctors, have to have "malpractice insurance" - like car insurance, if someone files a claim against your for damages, the insurance pays all or most of it. The cost of the insurance is very high, but the cost of even one malpractice payout is a lot higher.