My mother in law who's into this sort of stuff warned me a few days before the Facebook blackout about this. Her exact words were "Mercury is in retrograde and that is bad news for technology" i just brushed it off and a couple days later Facebook had the worst outage of its history. Gave me chills. But not enough to change my sceptic ways (again her words)

Mercury retrograde happens every few months and lasts three weeks. And it's also "bad news" for travel, change, decisions, activity...

I'd get chills too, tbf, but your MIL's gnostic pronouncement is total foofoo

> Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..?

For a fact, Facebook engineering uses mercurial instead of git in their tooling. They are going to do some 'hg rebase' whenever the stars are out of alignment =)