15 Psychological Facts That Will Blow Your Mind! - TopThink [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Love the way he does the graphics.

The Hubble Space Telescope Has a New Camera Glitch [space.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Given that it has done so much for so long, I think that the world has had good value from Hubble already, a few glitches now are not a big deal.

Improvement Suggestion - Can we split the Grrr/Dislike into two emojies for a post Like vote?

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I think that would be good, though I asked for a "thank you" emoji but got nowhere despite support.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Burns knew nothing of course about evolution by natural selection, which would not become widely understood for another hundred years. Moreover he worked for the Revenue, which is likely to give you a strange view of the human race !

Well, this was a weird glitch.

Fernapple comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Quite a few words like that especially if you use UK English, get flagged by the spelling thing.

This must be the right place to ask this question.

Fernapple comments on Mar 4, 2019:

The ancient Romans used sponges on sticks, which they then cleaned by dipping them in salt water. Unfortunately they often used the same salt water more than once!

My favorite quote by Christopher Hitchens: "The four most overrated things in life are ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Cricket, French cooking, Hollywood films and tomatoes.

"Ye" wasn't really a word - we just used to use a single letter for the "th" sound, called thorn, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

The Ye, is often combined in popular culture with "old" with an "e" as in "Ye olde mobile phone shop." And people often pronounce the "e", yet it make sense to spell old with a silent e since the "o" vowel is soft. Who I wonder made us change the spelling.

Your shitty childhood isn't an excuse to be a shitty person.

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Yes and if you are a shitty person more shit sticks to you.

Just know that

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

It usually is.

Gun slips from waistband, shoots man in genitals

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

He was lucky, most hit a leg artery and die of blood loss.

This must be the right place to ask this question.

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Certainly a really interesting question and some really interesting answers too. No problem with posting it, good post.

The infamous "chat" has been a hot topic around here recently.

Fernapple comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Never got involved with chat, the few times that I clicked on chat to see what it was like I was the only one there, so I gave up.

Woo alert! "The biosphere is calling to you via ultrasonic energy. Can you hear it?

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Full cream woo alright.

Felix Mendelssohn.

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Not a Mendelssohn I knew, great.

Dual senate?

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Would anyone really bother with both, I doubt it, then you would just have two going their own ways.

I realise that by and large Real Estate Agents are greedy bastards but this latest missive, even in ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Obviously someone has profit-sized a bright future for themselves.

Concrete. Savior or villain? [theguardian.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

A lot of carbon is produced in the making of cement.

Possessions are like flying birds, never to find a permanent dwelling.

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

A lady in my village acquired a small inheritance and she spent it on a lifetime membership in several clubs she liked. She said it was the best thing that she ever did, because the very next year her house burnt down and she lost everything except of course her social investments.

Awaiting flooring installers today.

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

Its been done yes, but I would not restrict yourself to indigenous plants, most food plants cause little environmental damage if grown on a small scale, and that cat is out of the bag anyway. And since you will be growing mainly food plants, which means a narrower range of plants anyway, the local wildlife will probably benefit from a bit more diversity, even if it is artificial.

Yesterday's model. A spontaneous shot of a cute dog?

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

The best models are timeless.

Growing old

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

Always did, went bald by eighteen, often mistaken for brothers.

“It is our suffering that brings us together.

Fernapple comments on Feb 25, 2019:

If only life was that simple.

Just a suggestion to you "posty linky" people.

Fernapple comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Yes and put your remarks at the top, don't comment on your own post please, is one that we get often. And I would add, perhaps not a good idea to give likes to people who do.

Interesting shoe that would sell if it was on the shelves of a shoe store today. [mymodernmet.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Amazing state of preservation, but how do they know it was a womans shoe and not a mans.

Religion fills a social void, how do you get social belonging? Outside of this site of course

Fernapple comments on Feb 24, 2019:

Keep busy, a busy person soon attracts plenty of people who want something. Now, sorry I must leave I have to go in search of a social void to escape into.

Don't know if this has always been here and I never noticed, but there is the emoji notification and...

Fernapple comments on Feb 24, 2019:

There used to be a thumbs up yes, I noticed the change, it makes it more difficult to glance quickly down the list and respond to the comments first.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.....Lewis Carroll.

Fernapple comments on Feb 24, 2019:

The important thing is to keep moving, then things happen. See. H. G. Wells "A history of Mr Polly."

Imagine...

Fernapple comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Always assume the worst, then you nearly always get a pleasant surprise.

Finally found that crystal

Fernapple comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Don't put it under your pillow, or in your navel during sex.

Scene from a small village

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2019:

Wow, the Med. it haunts my dreams.

Just wanted to thank those who created and those who run the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2019:

Yes love it, even the odd techno bumps and grinds are more fun than annoying.

What are your thoughts on transhumanism? Should we try to improve ourselves through technology?

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2019:

No one has ever got a technology genie to get back in the bottle. It will happen good thing or not.

I can't help myself, I had to do another one, Chiricahua National Monument Arizona.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2019:

Best yet.

Three days ago it became a year since, I freed myself from religious bs and became an atheist.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

General protestant might have been good, as would never was in religion, which is me.

This has been happening since I came on the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

This may be a daft thought but I just tried it on one of my posts, and when the new page comes up your post appears at the top looking exactly like it did before. To see the list you have got to scroll to the bottom. Forgive me if you have already done this.

This has been happening since I came on the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

It may be your op. system, mines Windows 7. try looking for it if you can on someone else's computer. It could be if you are mobile, from reading these posts over some time, a lot of this sites features only work on desktops and perhaps laptops, don't expect too much on a phone or tablet.

This has been happening since I came on the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

When I click on the "see more" button it takes me to another page where everyones photo is displayed, Its quite a nice feature but I have no idea why people are not seeing it, only that perhaps you have to wait, some things on here are slow.

One of 6 Dragon planters I made of free salvaged redwood and 1/8" oak plywood.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

That's wonderful. Do you use a fretsaw or a router ?

Three Conservative MPs have resigned.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

Usually the two main parties get together and squash them flat. Sad but true.

First frog-spawn of the year on the garden pond, I do not know how cold blooded creatures do it when...

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

We just hit mild weather though it wont last, but our pond is spring fed and never has more than a little ice round the edges. In fact in cold winter it steams.

Wonderful fashion statement with succulents... Low water requirements a plus!

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

That is really quite beautiful, but what really amazes is that it seems to be several flats and yet everyone somehow has got together.

One frosty day on the St. Clair River.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Wonderful

Hey everyone! I'm a new member here, and I'm looking for some guidance from someone who has been ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2019:

If you have the support of two "out" sisters is it not just a small step for you ?

I have noticed a graying out of some posts.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2019:

No not seen that, maybe it is your device.

Does the "Share" function actually work?

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

I copy and paste, its quick easy and gives you the chance to easily change a post slightly for each group.

Mario Lanza.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Its a good tune but those have to be the most dire words ever.

Scotland’s Antonine Wall — scars of the past

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Maybe it will serve well as a linear nature reserve. Large parts of the old Iron Curtain are now doing a good job of providing wildlife with a much needed safe corridor.

If you work hard.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

The harder you work the more damage you cause to the planet.

@Admin, I'm not so sure this new feature that kicks posts in the general discussion to the top on ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

It is not good things move around too much, you want to go back to something and its gone, its nearly as bad as facebook.

Shot taken with GoPro, hanging the line of my kite.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Kite much better than a drone, well done and much more fun.

@Admin, I'm not so sure this new feature that kicks posts in the general discussion to the top on ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

My vote is for liked the old way better.

The origin of the hokey pokey can be traced back to Shakespeare

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

How sayeth he truly, yet miseth that leg which men of all manner do call the right one. Ti's but half a hokey which forth not thy lovers pokey.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than Answers which can't be questioned.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2019:

He nailed the difference between the science and the religious outlooks in one short sentence.

Yes It Is!!!..

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

Socialism means placing more faith, hope, and more of the power in the state, and that depends on the state. The trouble is that, in many nations placing faith in the state means placing your faith in an institution far more cruel, ruthless and exploitive than the worst of capitalist corporations.. Socialism only works well in states which are well educated and highly democratic, where people have real control over the state in which they invest their hopes and wealth. The more education and democracy you have the more socialism you can enjoy, but both the democracy and the education have to be maintained. Especially since there is another form of economics, in which the political and economic establishments are one and the same, and it is called feudalism, into which socialism automatic degenerates in counties which have weak democracies.

Gnostic Gospels - In 1945, 52 texts that came to be known as the Gnostic Gospels were discovered at ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

So what.

In the Bible where Jesus says "He who is without sin the first stone" Two questions come to ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

The story is a very late addition to the bible, possibly only added in the middle ages, and even if the bible is not total fiction, this story almost certainly is. And in any case the woman is not the point of the story but only exists to show up the falsehood of her accusers, it would work just as well if she were a man or a thief or a murderer the details are trivial. There is a very common hypothesis among historians that most of the more liberal of the Jesus teachings are the later additions, and that the hard line old testament preachings were the only ones in the earliest lost copies.

[ancient-origins.net] Wow...what are the creationist/young earthers going to make of this?

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

They already have bristle cone pines that are older than their earth, and they wriggle round that. (Big trees, you don't need a microscope to see.)

When did you first realize that religion made no sense?

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

No one time, I was not raised in religion, and any interest I grew in youth just faded away. I was however one of those toddlers who like to ask logical questions, so I soon learned that the price of logic is being hit a lot. Fortunately I survived and managed to hold on to a little of the logic, though I don't think I am as good at it now as I was then.

Black Snow Is Falling from the Skies in Siberia, and It Is Toxic [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

The video about the cancer forming effects of deodorant was interesting too.

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Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

Yes perhaps. But does the bliss last ?

Before digital cameras I shot primarily black and white and developed my own film, printed my own ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

Yes I did hand tinting too but never came close to this. Very beautiful.

I’ve been saved

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2019:

I can here that gravelly voice say it.

Ooooooooooooooooooklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.....

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2019:

Wow, that is the most frightening photo I have ever seen!

It’s subjective.

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2019:

An old one I like is. A persons worth is measured by the size of the hole they will leave in the lives of others when they are not there.

My compost heap is underperforming lately, and I want to add a starter/booster.

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2019:

Fresh grass mowings in a bunch mixed in the center work well, if you don't have them at this time, then urine. I see several others have said that already, but I will add that it is best watered in the center with three/four times as much water, so do it in a bucket first.

Whoop a bottle of gin and a red rose...oh this man gets me ;)

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2019:

Roses need to be in a vase of water they will die if you put them in gin. The idea is you drink the gin until he looks like he is the most hansom desirable man in the world. Then the following morning drink plenty of orange juice until you can smell the rose again.

Science is a journey toward truth, religion is pretending you have already arrived there.

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2019:

Yes that gets it in a nutshell. Science will of course never have a final truth about everything, the universe is just too complex for that. Yet that is exactly what makes it a lot better than simply, taking your personal prejudices, declaring them to be THE truth because you are a special person chosen by divinity, and therefore entitled to despise anyone who disagrees.

Astronomy's awesome!

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2019:

U lattle spilling messtook mikes aul der deference.

One more from the forest...

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2019:

That took some work.

HELP! A woman in her 50s is convinced humans can get pregnant by cats/dogs! What should I do?

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2019:

This is a world where many people believe that there is an invisible man in the sky who made the universe. The only difference is that there is only one of her.

oh sorry i forgot that am new here how on earth do people text on here can someone put my fat ass ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2019:

You need to fill in your Bio first, then when you have earned a few points/trust it will all start to open up.

Texas butterfly sanctuary files emergency restraining order to stop Trump's border wall construction...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2019:

Good for them, in all the debate this is the first time I have heard an environmental issue raised.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2019:

And even if you only know a little history , you will see that people keep doing the same old mistakes over and over.

Damn Android TV.

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2019:

You are so lucky, it could be far worse. Imagine if you had to watch some of the rubbish programs.

Richard Feynman is supposed to have said that “Philosophy of science is about as useful to ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2019:

In the day to day working life of scientists perhaps. But to the ordinary person in the street, the basic philosophy of science, without getting too deep into the detail, is priceless! Because it is nearly the same thing as learning to think, especially understanding the idea that it is good to recognize you can be in error, and being able to change is wisdom.

How many of us here in the Senate have read the phrase, "I came here to find love, and stayed for ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2019:

I try to post and comment only when I think I have something interesting to add, so that the few other dull, boring and mindless ones on the site will not feel there is nothing here for them. I try to do it in the groups mainly, staying away from the US political content on the front page, if I can, because I do not think that the mainly US members need lectures from ill informed foreigners about how to run their country. But sometimes the mischief gene just gets the better of me.

Not sure if I should educate Christians.... Just joking....

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2019:

The second is a whole lot easier.

Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2019:

So it seems Nate does not like him then.

Why is it so hard for my to put a picture on here?

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2019:

I keep a file which is easy to find on my desktop and drag or paste my photos for sharing to that, and then it is easy to find when on the site.

One for the Scam crew, Raven, Stinkeye et al to pay attention to: [news.com.au]

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2019:

How long does the net have to exist before people understand that you can not assume that anything on it is real. Very sad, but if this was a church taking money from people, for having a date with an none existent lover in the sky, would the authorities be concerned ?

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Given that she had endured the violent occupation of her homeland, gained her education illegally through the hidden underground movement, lost her family and been forced into exile, and then lost both a baby and a husband, and by the end, possibly reach an age when the dangers of radiation were finally understood, I guess that she knew more than most about what there is to fear in life.

The contiguous United States just lost its last wild caribou | Science | AAAS

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Sad but true, I heard an apologist saying that over population is not an important issue compared with environmental concerns like. "Plastic and CO2 pollution." Who does he suppose causes plastic and CO2 pollution, if not the excess humans. Could it be the fairies ?

Can't make fun of tree-huggers.....

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2019:

And if I make nature an offering of a few seeds, I get back, barrow loads of vegetables. If I go to church, (I don't) I make an offering of large sums of money, and all I get is a rubbish cracker and some fake wine.

Underwater Archaeologists Find Surprising Artifacts from Major Roman Naval Battle [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2019:

I did not know that such artifacts as rams had ever been recovered, that is news to me. It speculates though that they threw cargo over the side when at the end of the battle. But of course lightening the ship may have been a standard thing to do before the battle, not likely but possible.

“Laura Macdonald, a Carleton University professor and former director of the school's Institute ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2019:

It says, faith in the role of the state. The trouble with that is, that in many nations placing faith in the state means placing your faith in an institution far more cruel, ruthless and exploitive than the worst of capitalist corporations.. Socialism only works well in states which are well educated and highly democratic, where people have real control over the state in which they invest their hopes and wealth. The more education and democracy you have the more socialism you can enjoy, and the democracy has to be maintained, especially since there is another form of economics like socialism, in which both the political and economic establishments are one and the same, and it is called feudalism, into which socialism automatic degenerates in counties which have weak democracies.

First transplant of Canna & Calla lilies from seed.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Good way to look forward to summer.

I love my camera.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Great shots, I like the last best too.

Share your art! I like to draw animals as distinct individuals, through the lens of scientific and ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Wow. those are very beautiful. I garden and grow plants and teach others to do so.

Out of the mouths of babes

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Poor kid fancy loosing your grandparents like that. You know what they say. "The grandparent, so easy to use even a child can do it."

I’m an atheist.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Point out that you are an atheist, then ask her to choose.

This is why religion is so messed up

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

You also have to ask yourself how many translators and editors are lost in the past before the earliest version we have.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence....David Hume (1711-1776)

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Seems such a modern idea for such a long time ago, you have to wonder at the worlds painfully slow uptake.

Watershed maps, in brilliant color [bigthink.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Really wonderful. A original new and worthwhile idea in maps, which is rare in such an old technology, and beautiful too.

Another from Germany

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Where in Germany please ?

I propose we start a new game on Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2019:

The one good thing is that there is a lot more interest is in the groups, and perhaps the front page helps to filter out the banalities, and displays them clearly for those who want them.

Why does it seem that people who never had an interest in religion or were atheist suddenly hit a ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2019:

I never had an interest in religion, but it was only when I reached a certain age that I truly became an atheist. Maybe it is just that you don't have time for thinking about your world view, when you are young and busy with all the usual trash.

Photos !!.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2019:

Even if they wish to hide, and they may have good reasons for that, they can still find an amusing picture surely. I think it is just can't be bothered. Either that, or they want people to know in advance that it is a boring banal post they copied from the web, the two seem to go together.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable!......Mark Twain.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2019:

He also would quote B. Disraeli. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Which is very similar. Obviously he did not like statistics. And the word in those days, was probably used in something closer to its original meaning which was something akin to, "measurements by the state".

Ok, this is supposed to be the serious group and I have made several wisecrack comments.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2019:

I think that some of the groups could do with more support, so more members would help there, and I generally tend to find that there is more interest in the groups than the mainstream postings, where it often seems that you see the same issues being aired in much the same ways time after time. I know that some members have left or become inactive because of that . Maybe the groups could grow into sub-sites with time.