Condor has a virgin birth. Do you think that her name is "Mary"? [smithsonianmag.com]

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2021:

It happens in some species. What is worth noting for interests sake, is that both clones from the mother, were male. This happens because while in mammals like humans, males have an XY chromosome combination and therefore must have, both a male and female parent. In birds it is the opposite, males having two identical chromosomes, so that one or a doubled copy will yield a male, while female is determined in birds by having the equivalent of a Y passed down from the father. Ain't nature cute.

I think that this is sometimes real instead of a cartoon.

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2021:

"You will feel better when we empty the collection."

Uh oh! It's started! Just saw my first Christmas TV commercial (Audi)!

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2021:

You are lucky, in the UK it started a month ago. The "Christian hypocrites worship consumer trash culture festival," gets longer and longer every year, could make me turn Islamic.

Carbon Capture & Storage. Who's kidding who?

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2021:

That would be funny, if it was not so painfully true.

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2021:

That's a coincidence, if you think about it, that has a complimentary meaning to todays Socrates quote.

And Americans complain about Russian interference in their elections. Why?

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2021:

Do as yee would be done by. LOL

Finished a quilt I started last spring. It's called "ponds."

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2021:

Wonderful. I would love to have that on my bed.

Anyone know why my photos display upside down or sideways when I post them?

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

This site only displays photos landscape fashion, always has, just crop the images to be wider than high.

I have placed this in the Health and Happiness section simply because talk about SCIENCE actually ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

TEST, DOUBT, WORK.

Trump's New "Free Speech" Platform Will Ban You for Criticizing It - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

Who'd have thought that would happen. LOL

What the fuck is with FB?

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

The only reservation I have about this site is, that it runs on FB software, I hate to think that the pathetic little Zuc is making money out of it.

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

Works well for me, though there could be other definitions of immaturity given. One that I like is. The inability to distinguish between, I want, and, its true. Sadly though, however you define it, there are a lot of people who will willfully chose it, even though they could do better, and there are many things in our cultures which actively promote it.

How atheists have become racist.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

Sorry but its moved on again, its about education now. It seems that your link goes to a blog type news page which changes often.

Lower working memory capacity linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines during the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

That is a very long way of saying. If you see someone without a mask, they are probably a stupid ass. But it is always nice to have tested scientific proof.

Sooooo, what exactly is the purpose of this app?

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

Hello and welcome. Its basically a good place for boring old farts like me to hang out, a bit like a digital version of a lake side fishing tackle shop which does coffee, really.

great butt tatt

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

The problem is that we have mothers in law in England, but not armadillos.

And for something completely different .

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

Leaf filters are cheap, quick and easy to install, there should not be a big price difference, Snapping in a leaf filter while fitting the gutters, hardly counts as an extra job.

Researchers Are Figuring Out Why Some People Can 'Hear' The Voices of The Dead

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2021:

It says. "The Spiritualists on the whole had their first auditory experience young, at an average age of 21.7 years," So not at three or four when they start with language, but about the age when Mom and Dad stop saying things like. "You will go to the see the doctor, or you will get a proper job."

“Beds are dangerous.

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2021:

You are much safer laying down on the railway tracks, very few people die on the tracks compared with those who die in bed.

Climate change: Four things you can do about your carbon footprint [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2021:

Glad to see that cheese and beer are well down the list, I can live with that. But seriously, good stats are worth a lot of opinion, and those look like good ones.

Today I got an email from someone threatening me.

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2021:

I often used to get letters from people who claimed to be debt collectors, threatening to take me to court over an unpaid bill to a company that did not even exist, and offering me easy payment terms if I settled quickly. They probably did not know that, as a one man business, I know exactly what things I have ordered and from whom. But if I had been a small company with maybe ten or twenty employees, it could have been very different, and I have no doubt that given the bank details, they would not have stopped at collecting the so called debt, but would have quickly emptied every penny out of the account.

I return to blogging after a hiatus due to personal and global horror.

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2021:

I still have hopes, as an outsider looking at the big picture, that US democracy which has survived many challenges over the last two and a half centuries, is strong enough to meet and overcome this one. But it does increasingly begin to look like the last days of the Roman republic. Part of the problem is probably complacency. Two and a half centuries ago, the US was one of the, most democratic countries in the western world, but the myth that no country could attain a better standard of democracy than it then possessed, seems to have effectively stopped progress. The rest of the world moved on improving and refining their institutions, but the US remains, apart from giving the vote to women, (Of which they were one of the late adopters. ) stuck in the eighteenth century. The example if this, which struck home to me most recently, was a photo posted on this site not so long ago, of people forming a line ( for miles ) in the sun to cast their votes, and the information that some states were trying to stop water being given to them. Without dragging Americans across the Atlantic and forcing them all to live in Europe for a few years, it is hard to describe just how horrific, primitive and backward this looks to outsiders. There is absolutely no way that such a thing would even be accepted on the smallest scale, in most European countries, the very sight of it is shocking. Providing an easy, comfortable and fair way for everyone to cast their votes, is seen here as one of the first and most important duties of any government. Such a thing would result in the call for a rerun of the election. I remember reading years ago as a school boy in history class, a text which listed the reasons why the ancient Roman republic failed and fell into the hands of tyrants. One of which was, that Roman democracy was so primitive and ill devised in the first place, that voters were herded around in crowds in the sun to cast their votes. As school children we thought that this was a great joke.

Purloined from fbuk. Is this what C19 lockdown & social media result in? Pumpkin porn?

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2021:

Been vegetating too long.

Transgender and transrace - what´s the difference?

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

They are quite different. Since as race is a purely cultural idea, there can be no biological reason for wanting to change the race you were said, by culture, to be born into, since biology only exists in the real material world and can never be a part of a purely human cultural construct. (You therefore either accept the false concept of race and with it the one you were assigned to, or you reject racism, in which case race does not exist so you can neither be assigned one or adopt one. ) Gender however does exist in the material biological world, as a real thing, so that it is perfectly possible to be assigned to the wrong gender, and have a need to amend the mistake.

A survival kit provided by the government during self-quarantine A mini library on the train A ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Wonderful very well organized and designed.

So, this happened this morning.

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

No idea. Not enough information, you are asking us to assume, based on stereotypes. But like the old joke goes. Assume makes an ass out of you and me. (Spelling joke.)

The UK government have got to do better.

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Yes, well the UK also has existing laws against FGM, but last time I looked at the stats nobody had ever been prosecuted. Religions will always get away with things, either because the laws are too weak, or because they are not enforced, until there is a political will to stand up to them. And that is not going to happen until the secular community has done a lot more work.

Understanding and Disabling the Trumpite Cult, Part III Finally, let’s address the issues of ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Do nothing. It is already sick and will start to die soon, the one thing that could revive it is a aggressive stance by liberals creating a right wing reaction, especially getting them to unite. https://agnostic.com/group/trumppinata/post/630849/beau-of-the-fifth-column-lets-talk-about-trumps-week-https-www-youtube-watch-v-yxi6 https://agnostic.com/post/630358/nothing-can-stand-forever-before-the-greatest-force-in-human-life-the-one-power-which-destroys-ever

[tweaktown.com] So much for the Fermi Paradox, or total BS? Thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Don't hold your breath.

Which mask would you choose?

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

The black one. Though I already made my choice.

Imagine a smartphone or computer screen that is not only unbreakable but can behave like a solar ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Keep mine in a wallet. Never had a screen break.

Facebook name change: Facebook changes its company name to Meta

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Groan.

Religion is a culture of faith. Science is a culture of fact =- Richard Feynman

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

Interesting. Many would say, that science does not deal in facts, but only in best possible tentative models, which may be subject to revision. And that that is not only its strongest point but also the one on which it differs most from religion. It would be nice to know exactly when he said this. Did scientific philosophy and popular science change, or is it that if you have the stature of a Feynman, then you are entitled to be more assertive ?

Hi there.

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site, and do check out the groups if you have time, there is a lot of life there.

Are some antibiotics stronger then others?

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

The word antibiotic, just means, literally, something which destroys living things. Bleach for example will even deal with humans, so if you have a nasty infection of humans in your area, getting enough of them to drink enough bleach, is sure to clear the problem up. I think though that your former president got it a bit wrong though, when he recommended it as an internal antiviral. Or maybe he just wanted to get rid of a few humans, ( Makes government a lot easier. ) who knows ?

I have just made a significant discovery.

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

Oh I love me some chemical, just for personal consumption in privacy you understand. I would not trade in them for profit or encourage anyone under the age of forty to use them.

November 5th?

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

Off course why look after your allies when they are no longer useful. On the other mater. It was perhaps a good thing for the followers of Fawkes and his buddies that the plot did fail. Catholics were a very small and distrusted, even hated, minority in England at the time, can you imagine the genocide and violent backlash that would have resulted had some of them really blown up the king and parliament. The reaction of the religious zealots among the protestant majority especially, would have been horrific. The whole plot was mad and ill conceived from the start.

I have a few. How about you?

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

One or two, but most died.

Just read this article on my MSN news feed.

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

A heroic act of courage and self sacrifice, going deep into the enemy camp to gather information, you deserve a medal and a pay rise ! And don't ever do anything so stupid again !!!!

the QP w cheese is funny but pot isn't sold the same as in my day now its by the gram.

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2021:

I once spent a small fortune on a new engine for my van, after the timing belt snapped and the engine chewed itself to bits before I could pull up. As it happened, just the following week, I drove my van down a narrow echoing alley between high buildings, suddenly, as I put my foot down, there was a horrible loud grinding crunching sound, like metal being tortured by an army of midgets with sledge hammers. Took me half a min to spot that a two stroke bike was following me. Boy, do I know that feeling of release.

The most dangerous man in America is …….

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2021:

Yes he claims to have the backing of the ultimate authority, and the funny thing is, that the ultimate authority never needs to turn up in person, and put him right when he makes a mistake. From which you can draw two conclusions, either the pastor is indeed always right, or ............. ?

The most dangerous man in America is …….

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2021:

You grew up OK by me then.

Another Amazing Aviation fact.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2021:

I just treat jokes like that with the ' gravity' they deserve.

The future we foresaw is here.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2021:

And are they unhappy, just like every straight laced granny said they would be.

Hmm, seems like Huey ( Outback Australian name given to the Bringer of Rain.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2021:

Don't forget to take your tinfoil hat off. It makes you a target. LOL

I dreamed that one day I'd become a grumpy old man.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2021:

I made it and its great. Do join as soon as you can.

To celebrate the day! [fb.watch]

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2021:

Actually C. Columbus did not discover America for several reasons. Mainly that, quite the contrary, he spent all his remaining life trying to persuade people to believe that it did not exist, because he saw the people who said that it was a new to them continent, as a challenge to his claim that he had discovered a new route to the East Indies. Plus he never landed on the continent but only the islands.

"It is no longer who reaches the highest, but the one who, influenced by the beauty that surrounds ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

Appreciation is the secret of life and happiness.

Who Cares If Anti-Vaxxers Quit Their Jobs? - National Memo

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

There is nobody who can't be replaced, by someone who can do the job better. And if an employer had been unlucky enough to employ an anti-vaxer, then they have probably spent the last five years thinking. "I wish they would find another job or do something really bad , so that I can sack them."

Then there is this…

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

If it was only limited to fondling.

Roll up, roll up! Going cheap. Starving Afghanistan girl babies..

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

Yes it was on the BBC news last night too, made my friend cry.

Richard Dawkins - Science is the poetry of reality [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

Bit short. Poems are best if not too long, yes, but that feels cut in half.

Don't feel bad Japanese friends. It doesn't make much sense to us either:

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

Judging by the picture, I think that they understand Christmas perfectly. LOL

Hi all, I'm New here, hope all you doing great 😊

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site.

" Zoroastrianism " the Prototype of all main religions! [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

He does not mention it, but of course Zoroastrians are heavily persecuted to this day, especially in the Islamic countries. One of the reasons why they worship mainly at home, rather than in temples, is because keeping a low profile and not open holding rituals in temples, is the main way they have avoided persecution for centuries.

It seems that a lot people are overworked. Do you notice this?

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

Like LovinLarge says, you are bound to be overworked, if your employer won't pay enough to attract another person to do a two person job.

This seems very pertinent in today’s political atmosphere! [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

The main cause of stupidity is not lack of brain power, most of us can manage, for example, long division, if given enough time and tutoring, but that is the problem, time, effort and duty are required. The main causes of stupidity are laziness, impatience and selfishness, and of course the fact that where there are such human weaknesses, then like all human weaknesses, there are alway thousands of clever and morally bankrupt people, willing to exploit them for profit and power, by feeding those weaknesses.

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) The Absinthe Drinker 1901

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2021:

The subject has been addressed by many artists since at least Degas, P. Picasso is perhaps being satirical and producing an amalgam of all of them, to undermine the pretensions of artists social statements. His version certainly has humour, which I am sure is deliberate.

Sounds about right

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

And while wearing all this silk in my designer palace, at the heart of my own country in the middle of one of the worlds greatest and richest cities, and beneath the roof that Michealangelo painted for me.

Makes sense to me!

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

To prove that your father is a dog. Imagine that you have bought a dog, therefore it is your dog. Your dog has mated with a bitch and made puppies, therefore it is a father. Therefore your father is a dog.

who gets to the end of a porno

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

Who does not fast forward the start of a porno ?

“Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered”………………Socrates.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

Work it out for yourself and you will not forget it. It is a good way, but sadly it requires both courage and effort to do, and humans are not big on those two things, so it is never likely to be popular, a lot easier just to be told what to think and rely on someone reminding you if you forget.

Lots of people are kind to others and are great at giving advice, but are really hard on themselves.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

Thats how it should be, have low expectations of others and they will never disappoint you, expect better things of yourself and you can always lower your standards if you have to.

My people skills are just fine...

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

So are mine. All attempts to befriend me so far have been successfully defeated.

How does it happen?

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

The main question is. Was he ever truly an atheist ? Among Christians the term, atheist, can be used for all sorts of often slight and vague losses of faith in the absolutes of their dogma. While using the claim that you are a recovered atheist, wins a lot of hand claps among Christians, so there is a strong incentive to exaggerate claims. And exaggeration is easy to do for Christians, because you have already adjusted your brain and conscience to moving in the world of total dishonesty, required to believe anyway.

2.5 billion-year-old traces of life locked inside primeval ruby: [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

Greenland is pretty special itself, it seems to be about the only continent to have survived intact from the earliest times.

I love the look of lavender, the colour is superb, but cannot stand the smell.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2021:

Sad that you don't like the smell. I have fond memories of seeing it growing wild in Portugal alongside Asphodeles.

Don't make exuses for nasty people. Putting a flower in an asshole doesn't make it a vase.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Look. What my former girlfriend and I did in the privacy of our own bedroom, is none of your business.

Geroge Carlin on the use of soft language [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Is there a link missing here ?

Ive been thinking that on the weekends my daughter is at her Dad's I've been acting like a hermit.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Go for a walk, this time. And if it is a regular event, then find a charity which needs help, from selling goods in the shop to cleaning cages in an animal shelter. You will meet more people, get to know them much better, get more active, and be doing something worth while at the same time.

There was a time when "free-thinker" was a common synonym for "atheist".

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

I think you have a good point. But there is a small qualification which needs to be made, which is that you are making an assumption that modern atheists and free thinkers are the "same people" as you phrase it, as the atheists and free thinkers of the past. But that of course is probably not the case, since as a movement becomes more respectable, popular and even mainstream, more people join it, and the new people will not need or always have the same intellectual rigour, strength or bravery that the early members had or needed, when the movement was new and in need of strong thinking and rigourous defense. Indeed many of the latter joiners may well join it, not because they are interested in the arguments, but because they see it as a safer place than other institutions. They will therefore be more interested in defending and maintaining existing, or even just perceived, status quo, within the group, which is what they joined for, than in supporting the intellectual advances if any.

So, I've been gone awhile tending to my professional life while my personal life continues to ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Why would percentages matter to someone who is arguing about absolutes anyway ? Though I would not point that out to him, logic is usually met with aggression.

God Took ‘Prophetess’ Kat Kerr ‘Into the Near Future’ and Showed Her Trump Back in the White...

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Tell her to hold her breath, and it will happen.

Astrology is based on ancient attempts to make sense of a world that makes no sense.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

It is easy to understand how it began, because of course, some things, like the seasons the tides and the breeding cycles of many animals, are in fact, predictable by observing the movements in the sky. And in ancient times, when most people lived by primitive agriculture and/or hunter gathering, those sorts of things and predicting them, would have been really important, in a way that we can hardly understand now. While the movements of the planets and stars, were one of the few entertainments available while you sat round the campfire at night. So that it was only a small jump of false logic to start thinking. If the big really important things follow the movements of the stars, perhaps the little things do too.

Interesting! castroann35 is a Christian and gay and wants to meet someone less than 100 kms from ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Most likely not Christian, not female, and just possibly living in Kabul but not certainly. 'It' has invited at least one other member to change app's. Never leave the app with a stranger, down in the dark alleys of the web, you can find yourself alone and missing the contents of your bank account. LOL

I am of the opinion that Castroann35 is a troll or something else as she wants me to communicate ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

If they ask you to change app, they will be a scammer or hacker rather than a troll. Don't do it, obviously.

I found this an interesting look at Daniel in the Lion's Den and the ancient site Gobekli Tepe.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Very speculative, interesting idea, but no real proof. However since no one has come up with a final theory about why Golbekli Tepe was built, one persons speculation is as good as any others.

'Bomb Cyclone' Approaches as U.S. Readies For 'Strongest Storm in Northwest History' [msn.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Bye bye, been nice knowing you, looks like you are going off grid for a while though.

When I die, I want to be composted. [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Die in the forest, where the wildlife can eat me.

My girlfriend is in Turkey and I can tell I need to see Turkey.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Turkey is wonderful. The last photo is of my friend, who was even older than you when we went, so if your friend goes again, don't let her leave you behind. And even as an atheist/agnostic, waking up in a little village to the sound of the call to prayer, and the cock crow, is just amazing.

Tomorrow is my first 79th birthday.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Happy birthday, I never would have guessed at more than 50. Enjoy and party when you can.

Science is gaining more of an understanding on why people fall for conspiracy theories.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

So they are saying that good exciting fiction can sell anything, however silly the idea you are selling as long as the fiction is really crude, dramatic and pushes the lowest common denominator buttons. You could for example, get a whole series of authors to write a string of books, about a tribe of nomadic shepherds fighting to overthrow far more numerous and technically advanced peoples, and steal their lands. You could have many setbacks, lots of lost battles and some won, a proper soap opera, with many heroes all failing in the end, due to moral temptation, really evil male villains, lot of nicely misogynistic female villains, and a final hero who saves the day but fails to overthrow the main villain completely, so that the threat remains ready for future installments. Bet that would sell anything.

I hate cats.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Could be true. Mohamed hated dogs, and loved cats, Moses however did not like pigs, how can it be that you can believe in a god who created the earth, claim to honor him, yet despise part of the creation you attribute to him ?

I am student teaching this semester and I caught two teachers trying to teach Bible stories to the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

True perhaps, because you have the separation of church and state. But I grew up in England where the Church of England especially, but others also, was integrated into the schools, and where the churches are strong with you, Christianity is almost extinct here, we are nearly a whole secular country. Nothing kills the churches quite so well as making them an arm of the state.

New to the site and I need to gain some “cred”/points.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Hello and welcome , enjoy the site. As to points just get involved and the points come without you hardly noticing.

Warrant: Baldwin Didn't Know Weapon Loaded With Live Rounds

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Why in this century are they not using CGI to generate gunfire anyway ?

Wisconsin audit finds elections are "safe and secure."

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

I often wonder if they stop to think. That they are accusing many hard working officials and volunteers, often with no great attachment to either side, who gave up a lot of their lives to help with the often dull and hard mechanics which make democracy work, of taking part in something dishonest.

Elephants have evolved to be tuskless in response to tusk poaching, study finds.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2021:

And fish are growing smaller bodies, to squeeze though the holes in fishing nets. But according to most creationists, nobody ever saw any evolution happen.

Church leaders can be so foolishly smug.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

I will settle for that.

Good Morning ( from Virginia) to all you Heathen Sinners out there.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

And good morning to you. If it is very early with you, be very careful, a few of our female members may still be out on their broom sticks, and I would not want you involved in any mid-air collisions.

Live and Let Live... ❤️

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

I respect any opinion, that I think is worth arguing with. LOL

if Potential Spam calls back I'm gonna ask 'em out.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

I also find that sympathy works well. Express the deepest concern for their health and wellbeing, and then point out the existential horrors of mortality, and the dismal consequences of spending your life in a dead end job, especially when viewed for the perspective of a deathbed. ( A few comments about eternity and the nature of Kali, the dark goddess, and the inescapable vastness of her dark all enveloping cloak, usually help. )

3 reasons why Donald Trump's new social media company is doomed to fail [cnn.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

It will fail because of Trump, his retail businesses failed, his hotels failed, his presidency failed, his golf courses failed, his golfing career failed, his attempts to be a global statesman failed, his marriage failed, his attempts to crush global warming science failed, his attempts to down play the virus failed, and his law suits have failed. Do you see a trend here?

Excerpts from Thomas M.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

Why would a relativist be defending " established knowledge" surely established knowledge is as far away from relativism as you can get. Seems ironic.

Elephants are rapidly evolving without tusks to escape ivory poachers, study finds [abc.net.au]

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

And fish are evolving smaller bodies, so that they can squeeze through the holes in fishing nets. Though of course, according to creationists, nobody has ever seen an example of evolution.

Some of us are so easily misled.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2021:

No the wine only promises to put you in direct physical contact with Jesus. Fails on that promise too, but there you go.

Optimism is hope plus action.

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2021:

No. I think that it is more often, hope plus inaction. If you want things done, get an OC pessimist every time.

Sometimes the little details make all the difference.

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2021:

I wonder what is on the front ?

I live in the country and today I drove the 12 miles needed to pick up my dog from the groomer.

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2021:

Sound amazing. But sorry the link does not seem to work.

It has taken me 3 weeks and lots of paid and friendly help to consolidate my husband's 30x30 shop ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2021:

Looks like a lovely place to stay, I would book in there.