Months and months ago i was watching this documentary about this little blond 5 or 6 year old ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Teaching religion at all to children is a form of abuse. If religion was a thing only licensed for consenting adults, I would not have such a problem with it. But then if it were only licensed for adults, there probably would not be much of it, you have to get their brains while they are soft and easy to manipulate.

We have handlers instead of leaders.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

And kept American wages down.

Four years ago today, I took these photos on Roach Hollow Road, Woodbury, Tennessee:

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Beautiful, is there anything more evocative than a sloping grassy field, you can just feel your childish legs pounding as you ran downhill.

Daily search to find something to be offended about.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

In Australia, you are always ahead of the curve. Sorry I did not mean to say curve, that's a sexist word, of course I did not mean that women are curvy and men are always straight, although of course they are not all straight, some are gay or trans, and womens body shape is not and issue, however much I may think it is, but maybe that is just my male tendency to objectify them, which is wrong of course, Jesus this is getting to be a long sentence, although of course I do understand that some people may find me using Jesus that way is disrespectful to their beliefs, for which I am very sorry, but this sentence is getting very long and I do not wish to get into trouble with the, grammar Nazis, not that taking an interest in good grammar makes you a Nazi of course. Oh #### Bye.

Plants are amazing.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Not all that much new news, but kind of nice to have science confirm what every gardener always knew. That there are a lot of plants that you can walk all over, and the following day you would never know anyone had been there. After all a lot of them must have evolved to be trampled by animals.

Before the germ theory of disease became popularly understood, it was common to believe that sick ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

If God and, " the things we don’t know the natural explanations of yet" are synonyms" then you may use either. But the vast advantage of, things we don't know yet, over god is not only that it is more exact, but that it does not come with the vast evil baggage that the God word carries, including the potential for misunderstanding, and/or the vast potential for criminal use. Trying to cure differences, including those between some of the more extreme sceptics and moderate religious believers, is a very worthy thing. But the unintended consequences of using such methods to do so are truly horrible. Going into a prison to make friends with murderers and rapists and trying to heal their rift with society and its values, may well be a worthy thing, but it is not a good idea to do so by starting the conversation with. 'Rape and murder are not bad things, society should stop using those words for them.' Especially since if they ever leave prison, they can then use your every argument, you encouragement and everything you have given them to start recruiting others into cults of rape and murder.

Your Thoughts on Philosophy

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Depends on what you are discussing. But yes, philosophy is a needed thing, since there are some things which need to be addressed, which are beyond the limits of purely evidence based knowledge. (Science especially.) And you only have three things for that: Logical reasoning beyond evidence based knowledge, but using that as a starting place, called philosophy, (the good sort). Instinct, gut feeling. And faith, blind acceptance of culturally passed on information, including religion. For me at least, in that order of preference. And I never found I needed to go beyond one and two in practice.

“Science seeks the truth, and it doesn’t discriminate.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Or, you get nearer to truth the harder you work at it, and the more you are prepared to give up for it.

Little guy was eating my grass...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Great photo.

"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles — others their principles for the ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

And what do you need to succeed in politics therefore, but no real principles.

Marsh flight

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Cool.

Waitress kicks out white Trump supporter as he shouted racist slurs at diners.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

In Britain the owners of pubs etc. in some towns often work together, so that if someone gets barred from one, they get barred from all the pubs in town, apart from perhaps the odd sleazy one. Hope that works in the US.

Seven weeks after posting this [agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Beautiful, and when you think that it means more than a inch, perhaps inch and a half of growth, each day, you have to be amazed at how quick and ready the plants are to exploit the short growing season. Is the grass area a community space?

Today's hike: Mighty Mouse fights Devil's Club. Lanham Lake, WA

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Do you have a scientific name for Queen's Cup please ?

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Allow a consensus to form on the major political issues, and encourage people to bury themselves in junk popular cultural debates. (Fortunately the modern western media manages to avoid that. [ Irony. ] )

To this community: I have been taking needed breaks from this site.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Been nice knowing you, bye.

Some time i wonder if all the Christians are going to snap someday and gather all the nonbelievers ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Gather all the none believers no. But small groups of them gathering small groups of none believers, perhaps yes. Because as they go into decline, they will become increasingly dominated by the criminal fringe and turn ever more to the dark, then they will start to feel cornered and threatened, not just by none believers, but by still perhaps resurgent religions like Islam and Buddhism. It will be small and mean and pointless, but never underestimate how nasty small and mean and pointless things can get, when fanatics are cornered and don't want to admit to themselves they have lost all the arguments.

Just curious what subject is more favorable.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Maths, because it is not possible to understand any other subject, especially philosophy and psychology, without a deep knowledge of maths, it is the key to understanding. PS. I am no good at it.

I had to go to our Botanical Gardens today to pick up 2 fruit tree seedlings - so took some snaps of...

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Lovely gardens. And I really like the way they get the plants to grow out sideways like that, never seen that landscape gimmick before.

Rest in Peace Ennio Morricone .

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

I was just about to post exactly the same thing, you beat me to it, you fast lady you.

“Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay”............Daniel Defoe.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Let the good times roll.

When someone starts brow beating you with their religion what do you do ?

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Sadly I usually do nothing but leave. I really should engage with them, but then you have to be very careful to be extra polite and charming. Because you have to remember that they have probably been sent out by their cult to be annoying, so that people will threaten and insult them and their beliefs, that's why they are there. That way it reinforces the cults message that, safety, comfort, friendship and moral support only come from within the cult, and that the outside world is threatening and immoral. Sending them out to annoy people is part of the brainwashing.

There's a whole series of the soft white underbelly videos.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

I do not have a problem with people reading the bible as metaphorical poetic essays, if they do not take its as proof of supernatural guidance. Though I have yet to hear that any of them ever got anything other than the most banal and shallow insights from so doing.

Wedding guests stripped Gro's garden without permission.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Some people just don't see taking growing things as stealing, even though they may have involved more direct effort from the owner than things which are just bought. A couple of year ago my friend and I visited a public garden in the next county. While we and several other people sat on some benches in plain sight, two women arrived and started to look at some flowers. They decided that they would like some for their own gardens. So since the plants were in seed they started to collect the seed in to their shopping bags. They did this by ripping the plants, ( which were still growing and flowering, ) up by their roots and tipped them upside down into their bags, then dropped the remains on the ground. They did this quite shamelessly in front of everyone.

This morning's views....

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

I wish I could grow Monarda, it just does not seem to like my soil.

How Wolves Change Rivers [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

Wonderful, and I love the sound track at the ends.

'You started the corona!' As anti-Asian hate incidents explode, climbing past 800, activists push ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

There are three stages: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they blame the wrong person. With credit to a quote from Alexander Von Humboldt: “There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”

People sometimes...😂😂

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

Because Fred Flintstone let them hide in his cave house of course. LOL

Couldn't resist, my very favourite bird - the Large Frogmouth and baby

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

Beautiful, the little one is really cute.

I have always feel that I was denied a life.

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

I can tell with further search that: You have enough education to type a post. You have a internet link. Enough health to sit at a computer. You have connection to a global site where you can encounter many other people. Those are really big gains, which put you ahead of ninety nine percent, of all the people who ever lived.

An interesting essay on compulsion and obedience in the pandemic... USA - [reason.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2020:

In the UK people generally went fairly well with the government close down orders, but then we expect the same government to look after us.

The jury may be still be out on this one, but I put my money on the hydroxy...

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2020:

You may like to see. https://agnostic.com/discussion/512242/who-halts-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-covid-19-patients first though.

These comments are so sad to me because it’s obvious that this person doesn’t see what’s wrong...

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2020:

An interesting thought though about schools. In the UK religion is now a minority activity, and has faded almost completely from the lives of large chunks of the population. Yet many state schools are religious and mainly christian. I myself went to one where christianity was pushed hard, and the effect was that, most of us were well aware that religion was at the core of the systems failings, so that even by the age of twelve or fourteen most of my fellows regarded religion with contempt.

There are some very memorable quotes in this brief presentation, i.

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2020:

Yes but I always though that voting papers should include a 'none' box, and if enough votes go into that, the parties are forced to put forward new candidates.

The Six Grandfathers before it was known as Mount Rushmore

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2020:

Was a beautiful mountain back then.

Hello, I just learned of the existence of this platform today and decided to check it out.

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site, and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone.

This Math Equation Is Dividing The Internet: [iflscience.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2020:

1.

I really don't like religion.

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2020:

Do not forget that you do not have to tell anyone, about your religious deconversion, other than those on this site who will offer you support. Being a sceptic is not like being in a religion, you do not have to confess it. I know that it is hard to hide behind a mask all your life, but if you want to let off steam, that is what this site is for. And life is very long, you are just starting out in it, but take it from me, (very old) you will be amazed at just how many things you will see change over the years. There may even come a time when you, for whatever reason will find it easy to come out. Until then stay strong.

If "god" gave us life, then he surely he (it?

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2020:

For wheels you need roads on which they are great, but they are no good for climbing in the trees, and if you evolved in a world covered in trees. Good clue there.

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2020:

They demand freedom for the media to provide them with confirmation of what they would like to think, if they were not too lazy to do their own thinking.

I truly don't understand the religious.

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2020:

Christianity is a me centric faith, ( my salvation, my relationship with god, what Jesus can do for me etc. ) it does not even have the social/political content of Judaism or the submission to legal structure of Islam. Therefore it attracts people with a me centric view.

Relativism the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2020:

There are lots of other good arguments against it as well. For example that it is anti-progressive, since if there is no absolute truth, then there is no point in looking for one. So that relativism which seems at first to be ultra liberal, because it is inclusive, in fact proves to be ultra conservative, since it creates a world without the need for improvement or even motion. The other problem with it is that it leaves the proponent having to defend all views however horrible. A better way to achieve a tolerant attitude to all ideologies, is to accept the idea that there is perhaps a final perfect model of the world and truth, but that final complete truth is probably unattainable by humans. Because if you accept that, then while no one has a final complete truth, it is still possible with thought and effort to move nearer to that goal, and it is also possible as our common sense tells us that some are nearer than others. But since no one has a final answer, we may still all be corrected, or moved closer to the point of perfection by anyone.

With Edge, Microsoft’s forced Windows updates just sank to a new low It undermines ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2020:

Linux.

One thing that always bothered me, and is one of the myriad of reasons why I left Christianity, is ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2020:

The great thing about god is, that since it does not exist, you can endow it with any properties you want, or put it in any packaging you want. The ultimate advertisers dream, no actual product to get in the way of the claims.

Would anyone agree or object if I posted "symphonic metal?

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

You want do do it, go for it, what can happen ?

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Yet there are far more people trying to live there, than trying to understand it.

Posted something similar on fb but deleted it - unsure how it would "come off", despite seeing calls...

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Yes. And you may also like to think about the use of 'black' and 'white' in this sense. I have never in fact seen a truly white person, the palest are cream or off white, while most are pinky beige, neither have I seen a black person, a very dark charcoal grey with hints of tan being the darkest I know of. Why therefore choose words which push the polarity to the extreme, beyond reality, if the people who created the language's conventions did not have and extremist agenda, and a desire to polarize.

I’ve been on dating sites where some of the women characterize themselves as free thinkers and ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Maybe they don't charge any money, when they do the thinking for you, before they tell you what to do. It may be a small difference, because in my experience, most women are willing to tell men what they should do for free, but they don't usually promise to think first.

.......... [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Someone said. Every disaster movie that you ever saw, started when some greedy self seeking politicians chose to ignore some scientists. But you alway thought, that is just a silly over the top fiction really, that could never happen in real life. So how is life on Amity Island then ?

A couple of people on here have suggested that masks are not necessary if you maintain "6' apart".

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

The bottom line is simple. The more you do, the more you stay alone, the further apart you stand, and the more barriers to droplets you stay behind (screens masks), the safer you and everyone else is. And the more people there are who do more, even mindlessly when the risk is tiny, the sooner it is all over. They are not either or options, they are more is better options.

Poll: Most Americans Don't Believe Trump is the Right Person for the Job

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

Yes but Xi Jinping and Putin think he is by far the best person for the job, could not be better if they hand picked him themselves. So how much time need we spend on the opinion of most Americans.

It seems there are a lot of experts on COVID and mask wearing.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

It is best to follow the advice of the WHO, which is probably the most credible and widely sourced.

What’s the difference between praying at a church, temple, mosque and praying at a casino?

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Yes but it does not work any better.LOL

Found this while checking out something that was posted about phobias. [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Lovely. The effort we males have to put in. LOL

Looking for friends with dry sense of humor, intelligence, and kindness.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

You see, you just joined and already people are having fun on your post. PS. Watch out for the men on this site, some of them can be a bit funny, you know. Well and watch out for the women too, same goes, and I guess I had best not leave out the trans-gender people either. In fact just be wary of everybody.

How many times a day do you receive a comment from someone that starts with "I know you don't ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Never, I live in the UK, it not a problem here.

It is exhausting to watch the news and/or social media.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

The media is not interested in wisdom, because it is conflict not understanding which pulls in the viewers and readers, and with them comes the revenue.

"A good cause need not be tarnished by its most fanatical expressions.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

And sometimes it is taken over by them.

[youtube.com] Ticked Off Vic: Maskturbators | VicDiBitetto.net

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Very Good.

Looking for friends with dry sense of humor, intelligence, and kindness.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone. I even think there are groups for humour, intelligence and kindness, where the self proclaimed hang out, though I would avoid those groups if I was you. (Being self proclaimed they are probably all from the USA. )

My wife and I out watching the cormorants. Real clowns and we love them. She took the last two.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Well done amazing shots and great models.

The Rabbit Outbreak | The New Yorker

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2020:

According to that it could even be bought across borders on fur coats, if it lives that long. Animal products should not be allowed on planes, simple as that.

I hate people degrading the name Karen.

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2020:

It is very cruel and silly. Fortunately I think that it is just a passing fad, which will soon be forgotten. I met an Adolphus the other day, quite a young man and not extreme right.

And that's a wrap on my residency!!! I'm now a board-eligible medical physicist!!!

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2020:

Well done and good luck with the future.

Happy last day of Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Here’s to my first year being openly bi 🤩 xoxo

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2020:

Namaste

“Man’s inhumanity to man, makes countless thousands weep”..............Robert Burns.

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2020:

Ok. But a bit obvious really.

Exponential logical extension of hell?[agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2020:

Groan.

Polls > Plain Posts?

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

Never wanted to be tied to a post of any sort. Not kinky that way.

The Bible: a book where the protagonist kills more people and in more brutal, sadistic fashion than ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

Yes and recommends killing more often than peace by more than twenty times. And then hands out eternal infinite torture for finite sins.

Nasty! [bbc.

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

If its vital back it up on an external drive, not the cloud, but a flash drive, disc or plug in hard drive. Use several different ones on different days.

Recently, a trend has appeared to ignore punctuation.

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

Yes, but if you don't make errors, you will never catch a pedant, and I do like reeling in pedants. Nothing is more fun than watching pedants squirm and then sucking the juice out of them.

I'm still figuring out this site. What are folks down to talk about?

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Anything you like, just make a post and the site bores, like me, will soon find you. But do also check out the groups there is something for everyone.

Racism and Religion.

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

Hello and welcome, do enjoy the site.

Racism and Religion.

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

They both come from the same basic failing which is laziness. Both are ideologies which offer simple easy to understand answers to nearly everything you are likely to have a problem with, and therefore save the effort of have to address each problem individually.

“There are no foreign lands; it is the traveller only who is foreign”.

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2020:

Sounds like a line from Travels With a Donkey, one of the first real travel books.

I don't know if all Christians are Karens but it seems all Karens are Christian.

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

Well it does sound like unicorn abuse, and elf abuse, but I think that it is not really as bad as ghost abuse,.

Hello, I'm new in this platform although I am an Atheist from quite long time before that I am a ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. Yes religion, theist or polytheist, is not a belief in god or gods, that is deism. Religion is three beliefs in one. First there is a god, second that god has something to say to people, and third that god was not clever enough to tell everyone, but could only manage to tell a few people who were then entitled to ask for money, power or sex before they could pass it on. Does that sound like a very profitable, if dishonest business to you ? I like that think that I will post it.

Parties — Not Protests — Are Causing Spikes In Coronavirus : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

Most protesters wear face coverings of course, but perhaps even more important is the fact that they are generally outside and moving.

"The story I’m about to share with you about Joe Biden is special — in fact, I’m fairly ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

I try not to bother with the US political stories on here too often, since its not really any of a Brits' business, and usually to an outsider they are a bit dull anyway. But that was well worth reading, nice story.

He gave his ONLY begotten son. Virgin my ass! He fucked her! [bing.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

They can't have it both ways. (Though he may have. LOL. )

When the spouse discovered she'd married a herb/veggie garderner, she thought if she bought hybred ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

I can understand. I have a garden full of orange day lilies, dating from the time when it was a large new garden, and I was in a hurry to fill it with things that were cheap and easy to multiply. In the last few years however I have started treating them as weeds. (Tip. Glysophate weedkiller kills slowly, a fading yellowing death, especially in autumn, so you can alway blame the death on a mystery illness.) Recently an large area came free for planting by the village bowling green, which adjoins my plot. One of the bowlers said. "I will plant some flowers for you, save you a few pence." Which he did , and they were day lilies. "What colour are they ?" I said, hoping that he had given me some rare colour forms. "Oh they are orange." So now I have to wait a couple of years before they can mysteriously die.

Are you guys getting paid? 😂

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

I only got a pen and a teeshirt just once. "If there is dirty money about where is my share." R. Mayal

I didn't think today would be as difficult as it was.

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

I am sure that she will have kept the things of his that mattered to her, and it is those that are the important things. It is not the number of your keepsakes, but how much you treasure them that matters.

What brings out the Know-It-All in you?

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

Everything really. I tend to like to please people and feel that I am making a contribution, so I tend to try and add something when I can. But I sometimes wonder if it is not all too easy to overstep the line and become a boring know it all, or even worse a pedant. (Though for myself I secretly love a good pedant, there are one or too truly wonderful ones on this site, who always raise a smile.)

"Think of yourself as dead.

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2020:

Big ask.

The News In Cartoons (updated June 26)

Fernapple comments on Jun 27, 2020:

Like the first one especially.

A nice time to be out and about nature wise.

Fernapple comments on Jun 27, 2020:

Wow great shots. I especially like the Coot.

What kind of favorite tree is in your yard?

Fernapple comments on Jun 27, 2020:

Wonderful tree looks really great being free standing. I don't really have a favourite tree, in part because I don't have any free standing ones, but I am very proud of my small wood which I planted myself, over twenty five years ago. There is nothing very rare in it just common birch , ash and silver willow with a few pines. But to have grown some good wildlife habitat, yes I am pleased with that.

Answer to My friend asked me- “Out of numerous species of the same ancestor throughout ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 27, 2020:

I don't think that the basic assumption. "only human beings turned out having such complex consciousness " Is all that sound anyway. Depends a lot on how you define consciousness and complex, and if you can prove that a small difference in consciousness, magnified by tiny physical changes such as the shape of the larynx, are not enough to lead to the development of culture, and with that an apparent collective consciousness, which is a technical rather than genetic emergence.

I have some rhubarb growing in my garden that can be harvested.

Fernapple comments on Jun 27, 2020:

Look up 'rhubarb crumble' on the web , you will find lots of versions, but they are all so easy to cook, and so delicious it should not be missed. But do grow Angelica as well, it is very easy to grow, and if you add about one part angelica to three of rhubarb it improves every dish vastly, taste of heaven. But do be wary of harvesting rhubarb too late in the season, it gets tough and acidic as the summer goes on, a spring dish really. Rhubarb also makes a good sauce for many savoury dishes.

Opinion is a matter of education or illusion?

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2020:

Sometimes it is just hormones.

We ended up worshiping people with awards and qualified papers as better humans instead of ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2020:

Very true, and sad to say we often end up worshiping those who are neither, but just those who have power, fame and wealth, even when it is power, fame and wealth gained in bad ways.

Hi, i guess I'm new here.

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site and if you have time do check out the groups, there is something for everyone.

Are they playing with marbles in most seats of government?

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2020:

Rouelette? For those able to waste the wealth produced by others.

What to Do When You Need to Use a Public Bathroom During a Pandemic

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2020:

The other danger, which I don't think you mention. Is simply that. A. a lot of public bathrooms are still locked and closed, And B. even if they are open there is rarely anything to stop several people entering at once, meaning close proximity in a small often badly ventilated area. Best carry a chemi-loo in the car, or better yet don't make long journeys away from home anyway.

It's rather disheartening to think I sat isolated in a 12x12 room for over 3 months now (leaving ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2020:

Yep, people who have been raised in a culture of entitlement, have difficulty understanding that you have to invest something in the short term, (not just money but time, effort, self sacrifice etc.) to get the long term benefits. And there is nothing like, a capitalist consumer culture with easy credit, to promote shallow entitlement in people. Can you not find a friend with a garden you could use sometimes ? My deepest sympathy if not.

As Confederate Statues Come Down, It's Worth Remembering That the Civil War Wasn't the Only American...

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2020:

Interesting as a Brit. I know very little about US history anyway, good read. Nothing is ever as simple as popular myth makes it. It also explains the common question, often asked about G. Washington especially. How could a slave owner be a champion of democracy ? If the Revolutionary War was fought in part to protect against abolition, then problem solved.

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2020:

Mind you Nietzsche was no, happy go lucky, sunny side up, person either. LOL

Vaccines for the rest of the world? How does that work? [theguardian.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2020:

One of the current front runners, is said to be being developed in Britain now, at Cambridge. And since it involves a synthetic way of stimulating the bodies own cell to produce antibodies, without using real viral parts, it is said that if it works it will be ridiculously cheap, and that a litre will make a two hundred thousand or more shots, giving a price per shot of less than pence. But of course it may not work, and if any are found and require collecting fresh viral samples each time, then they could be hugely expensive, hundreds of dollars each shot, and therefore only a luxury for rich private patients. It is just a roll of the dice how much the vaccines, if any, will cost, so it is hard to predict if they will or can be rolled out globally.

When will covid19 end?

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2020:

If no vaccine is found, then like something between winter flu and Ebola, it could keep coming back and be with us forever.