Well you wouldn't believe or read about But it has happened.

Druvius comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Some birds can be notoriously difficult to sex, with some surgery being the only way to tell for sure. If it hatches though, I got nothing. ;)

Sociopathic traits linked to non-compliance with mask guidelines and other COVID-19 containment ...

Druvius comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I was going to say, they tend to be very poor at assessing risks. One of the reasons attempts to use them as commandos or in bomb squads fail. No surprise.

Anthony Fauci: "Helpless Means You Can't Do Anything. There's a Lot We Can Do." - DER SPIEGEL

Druvius comments on Aug 22, 2020:

There is a lot we could do, Trump just refuses to acknowledge that, let alone do anything.

The historical rose garden Melania removed.

Druvius comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Huh? Everything I can find says the Rose Garden got a badly overdue renovation, and the design work was done in concert with the White House Historical Preservation committee. Doesn't look terribly tacky to me:

Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics Governments should stop spending ...

Druvius comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Unfortunately weapons are the world's second largest industry. Mass insanity really.

The antagonism to science, as it's ever increasing in our country, is taking us on a path to ...

Druvius comments on Aug 20, 2020:

A huge part of the problem is that the modern sciences of advertising and propaganda have made huge strides in manipulating people. And there are religions, politicians, and industries who don't give a crap about anything but their own profits. Lead paint/gas and cigarettes were where these techniques came into full flower and successfully sowed doubt about well established science for decades so they could continue to market their toxic products. Now we are seeing the same techniques used to sow doubt about global warming with great effect. And sadly in politics and religion as well. Not sure what the solution is, but reinstating the Fairness Doctrine would be a good start.

Interesting! From the article: IN FEBRUARY 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek ...

Druvius comments on Aug 19, 2020:

Fascinating, a little dated though. They have subsequently been created, wikipedia has a nice article.

Trump Pardon Susan B Anthony Posthumously. What a Letdown

Druvius comments on Aug 18, 2020:

Smoke and mirrors is all he has, all he ever had. Getting more pathetic all the time.

Green Party and other third-party candidates may be electable to some state and local offices.

Druvius comments on Aug 18, 2020:

Spewing vote-shaming sh_t like this is why Clinton lost. Ain't gonna help Biden win, but if he loses boy, you've set yourself up to feel all proud and righteous. There's no good way to manipulate people into voting the way you think they should vote, give it up.

Pentagon Announces Task Force to Study UFOs The mission of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task...

Druvius comments on Aug 17, 2020:

Your tax dollars at waste.

High-resolution view of Pluto Sputnik Planitia, captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Druvius comments on Aug 17, 2020:

And Pluto is still a mystery, astronomers expected to find a heavily cratered geologically dead orb. Instead it clearly has active geology, still unexplained from what I can find.

An unusual meteorite, more valuable than gold, may hold the building blocks of life ...

Druvius comments on Aug 17, 2020:

All meteorites are considerably more valuable than gold. Gold is at $60 per gram, meteorites start at $300 per gram and go way higher for unusual ones.

Its amazing how people will subconsciously buy into Trump's bullshit.

Druvius comments on Aug 15, 2020:

Sadly blame shifting has been so normalized by both parties now that its spread much further than Covid-19. The insidious thing about the "It's China's Fault!" propaganda is that EVEN IF IT WAS TRUE, so what? Whether natural or unnatural in origin, Trump's response to Covid-19 is a textbook case of incompetence. Where Covid-19 came from is irrelevant. "China did it!" is a double false argument, one inside the other. Great political propaganda, terrible way to cope with a real world crisis.

I found it interesting that, of all people, Sarah Palin extended a very cordial and mature ...

Druvius comments on Aug 15, 2020:

I recall her saying a lot of silly things, but don't recall her sinking to Trumpian level mean spirited name calling. Good for her, extreme mindless partisanship is destroying the country, any steps backward on that are a good thing.

Have you heard of THIS problem if you get Coronavirus?

Druvius comments on Aug 11, 2020:

A couple I know in Holland caught it in March. They still have not fully recovered. Not a damn cold or flu.

Unlike most of Cassini’s images, this one is completely different, for in this image, Saturn is ...

Druvius comments on Aug 11, 2020:

And the one star to the upper left is Earth, every human being ever is in this photo. Some of them were waving. :)

I get the idea that people usually call themselves Agnostic out of fear that using the name Atheist ...

Druvius comments on Aug 9, 2020:

I'm an Ignostic Episcopalian. Works for me.

This is horrible. Is this article accurate? [allthatsinteresting.com]

Druvius comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Human sacrifice was fairly common in the ancient world. At least dozens of cultures/civilizations practiced it. Wikipedia seems to have a nice article on it. Grim business indeed, why it evolved in some places and times, I doubt it's super well understood. Jared Diamond had some unpleasant thoughts along those lines.

30 Cats Who Decided To Pretend To Be Penguins | Bored Panda

Druvius comments on Aug 7, 2020:

It's called spyhopping, where an animal does this to get a better look. Generally considered a sign of intelligence. Also used to describe when fish etc stick their heads out of the water to look at stuff, same caveat applies. Great White Sharks spyhop, they aren't the mindless predators many think.

CA Christian School Plans In-Person Classes Since God “Spoke To Us Very Clearly” | Hemant Mehta ...

Druvius comments on Aug 6, 2020:

If the God they hear is telling them to sacrifice their children, pretty sure that's not the God Jesus was talking about.

This could be one of the most important inventions ever - [nature.

Druvius comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Maybe, but a big problem with desalinization is that every gallon of clean water produces a gallon and a half of polluted water. I couldn't find any mention if this method addresses that ugly problem.

When a keyboard warrior calls me stupid, yet expects me to listen to what they have to say while ...

Druvius comments on Aug 6, 2020:

"Name calling is the first and last refuge of those who can't construct a logical argument." Yeah, waste of time to argue with such.

Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes ?

Druvius comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Hint is the word, far more work needs to be done to come to any conclusions. It's also a little problematic because no mechanism by which an earthquake could be predicted has ever been established. The big famous one that was predicted in China in retrospect was an earthquake "that wanted to be predicted." IE yes, it gave all sorts of clear signs in the days before that something was brewing. No other quake has ever signaled such since. And then there's the fact that earthquakes themselves are still very poorly understood. Interesting preliminary study, but that's all it is.

Here are a couple old jokes.

Druvius comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Q: How many men does it take to put a new roll of toilet paper on the dispenser? A: No one knows.

Yeah.... .

Druvius comments on Jul 30, 2020:

been there, lol.

I so much hate to say "I told you so," but it seems I may have been right on the money when I ...

Druvius comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Republican leaders have already broken ranks and made it clear this isn't going to happen. Trump is desperate at this point and just spewing crap, it will get a lot worse as the election gets closer. No one knows what's going to happen but it's certainly possible he's going to be abandoned by his party because he's dragging them down with him. Hell of an election.

For anyone interested in British Archeology and the BBC - Time Team TV series just go to YouTube and...

Druvius comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Great show, always really enjoyed it. It's free on Tubi, but only season one last I checked.

Donald Trump’s Campaign Is Pretending There’s No Pandemic | HuffPost

Druvius comments on Jul 30, 2020:

It's getting weirder every day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Udvtf77hb0

[bbc.

Druvius comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Idiotic self serving nonsense from Trump isn't a plan, he couldn't plan his way out of a paper bag. He's just grasping at straws trying to bend reality to his will. Granted scariest election of my life, God only knows what he will try in order to salvage his deluded fantasy that he is a combination of Jesus, Caesar, and Einstein.

[msnbc.

Druvius comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Only if he means a victim of his own incompetence, hubris, and magical thinking.

'Group of Doctors say Covid has a definite cure'

Druvius comments on Jul 29, 2020:

It's being pulled because it's dangerous nonsense. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/509321-social-media-giants-pull-viral-video-shared-by-trump-with-false-coronavirus

US coronavirus: Nation could see deaths in the 'multiple hundreds of thousands,' group says - CNN

Druvius comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Pretty much. it's highly unlikely any serious national effort to control it will happen before February at the earliest. So five more months at 25,000 a month minimum.

Trump's new favorite doctor believes in Alien DNA, Demon sperm and hydroxy chloroquine.

Druvius comments on Jul 29, 2020:

It's getting weirder every day.

U.S. to withdraw almost 12,000 troops from Germany in sweeping reorganization

Druvius comments on Jul 29, 2020:

LOL, what does this have to do with Putin? (Hint: Nothing.) Those troops should have been pulled out decades ago, this, if true, is a gift to the American taxpayer. Assuming they come back to the US and aren't stationed somewhere else equally expensive on the globe.

A lot of people have been speculating where President trump was drawing his unmarked, masked Federal...

Druvius comments on Jul 27, 2020:

I almost hope he tries to stay in office after losing the election using "his people" to defend him. The 101st Airborne, Marines, etc will roll over them in minutes.

How the rest of he workd sees the U.S. right now: A cartoon from a British newspaper

Druvius comments on Jul 27, 2020:

This too: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opinion/covid-19-global-response.html?action=click=Opinion=Homepage

Russian teen soccer player struck by lightning during training

Druvius comments on Jul 26, 2020:

Neat footage, glad he's ok.

A chimpanzee's finger and a human finger.

Druvius comments on Jul 26, 2020:

Not arguing the point, go back a few million years and somewhere we all came from the same mom. A chimp is 5-7 times as strong as an adult male human though, don't get into a fight with one. If chased, try to get into a body of water, they can't swim. :)

Donald Trump's America is Unrecognizable

Druvius comments on Jul 26, 2020:

More surreal every day, I often pinch myself, but haven't woken up yet. Latest plan is to say "Arch" at random times and places.

Hallucigenia: The Worm With the Missing Head [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Jul 26, 2020:

Always been one of my favourites. They thought it was an extinct genus for a long time, current thinking, last I heard, velvet worms are its descendants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8TgD6-7kg

10 Journalism Brands Where You Find Real Facts Rather Than Alternative Facts

Druvius comments on Jul 26, 2020:

While I would be in general agreement, I read and link to all of these regularly, depending on the topic they can have a real neocon colonial corporatist slant to them. IE they subtly or not so subtly "normalize" America's foreign wars, American empire, the EU, etc. They are pretty reliable for finding out what is going on, and they're certainly better than Faux News and its ilk, but I still try to see how alternative/citizen/foreign journalists are covering issues. Especially in regards to major events in non-western countries, in cases like this these guys often are just regurgitating Washington/London's preferred narrative. Keeping informed is hard, and one should always keep an open mind and seek alternative viewpoints.

ENGLAND: Teacher Fired For Telling Lesbian Student 'God Loves You' | Daily Wire

Druvius comments on Jul 25, 2020:

She was fired because she caused a big altercation in her class and got into a shouting match with a student which required administrative intervention, among other things. Her religious beliefs played no role in her firing. Another case of "OMG Christians being persecuted!" that actually was nothing of the sort. You won't read that on the Christian apologist "news" sites though.

What Is a Cytokine Storm?

Druvius comments on Jul 25, 2020:

This is how rabies kills too.

Legit question.

Druvius comments on Jul 25, 2020:

"Between organized religion, organized government, and organized crime ... at least organized crime is honest about what they are doing."

Supreme Court Rejects Argument That Nevada Restriction on Church Attendance is Unconstitutional

Druvius comments on Jul 24, 2020:

So tired of this shite, pandemic control measures all passed constitutional muster a hundred years ago, back when epidemics were all too common and we were just learning how to fight them.

Democratic headquarters in Arizona county burns down, arson suspected. [msn.com]

Druvius comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Gee, who would have thought that Trump etc. demonizing the Democrats and spewing paranoid fear mongering nonsense about them might lead to something like this? Shocked, shocked I tell you.

Is this the real virus destroying America and hurting Americans; more importantly, will enough ...

Druvius comments on Jul 24, 2020:

I'd vote for a gerbil over him at this point.

I’m not doing this shit today. Same post about the masks.

Druvius comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Aside: The Supreme Court weighed on masks and other pandemic control measure a hundred years ago, epidemics used to part of normal life. Requiring masks and such are completely constitutional. And yeah, the "Women should be forced by law to follow my patriarchal misogynistic anti-life Biblical idea of morality" crowd are idiots at best.

I just watched Soylent Green on TV last night.

Druvius comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Overpopulation is a symptom of global poverty and war (refugee camps have the world's highest birth rates.) Complicated by the Church's decades long highly successful global war against women's reproductive rights. https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-overpopulation-hubbub/

UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space [bbc.co.uk]

Druvius comments on Jul 23, 2020:

So? Trump decided to spit on our international treaty obligation not to militarize space with his Space Force. Russia and China would be idiots if they didn't follow suit.

The U.S. States Graded on Their Covid-19 Response

Druvius comments on Jul 11, 2020:

Certainly seems consistent in the broad strokes with what was predicted by experts and appears to be happening, a Red State Covid-19 catastrophe. We'll see, the next few months will tell. What a mess.

Coronavirus: Rising cases, hospitalizations herald surge in US deaths - Business Insider

Druvius comments on Jul 11, 2020:

As plenty of people predicted, gonna be a long deadly summer. all preventable, but that would have required a functioning national government. :(

Pat Robertson: If the Equality Act Passes, God Will Destroy America | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

Druvius comments on Jul 11, 2020:

"My invisible superfriend will punish everyone if people do something I don't like" is the logic of a disturbed 4 year old, not a functioning adult.

If BIDEN becomes ill before November, who will be on the Democratic ticket? 🎲

Druvius comments on Jul 9, 2020:

One of the reasons I don't care about the election yet, who the hell knows what the election is going to be like, a lot can happen in 4 months. Just another illustration of how dysfunctional our democracy is, no other nations have this multi year campaign season.

I wonder how many kids and their family members will become infected, and in some cases die, ...

Druvius comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Trump supporters get their "news" from Fox and the like, and in their Universe, everything is under control.

The only religion I’m interested in joining 😂

Druvius comments on Jul 6, 2020:

:)

Trump uses mount Rushmore for divisive speech

Druvius comments on Jul 4, 2020:

It really was, he's defending this "Father Knows Best" fantasy.

New findings offer explanation as to why Mayans abandoned their cities: [sciencealert.com]

Druvius comments on Jul 4, 2020:

I'd have to look it up, but I think Ankor Watt was similar, it relied on a huge artificial watering system, and it broke down and they didn't have the science/engineering to fix it.

Trump Blames Schools for Statue Protesters, Says Children Taught to 'Hate Their Own Country'

Druvius comments on Jul 4, 2020:

He's a little confused, wanting to take down statues commemorating hatred, traitors, and criminals is loving your own country. Trump is on the wrong side of history, as were the Confederates.

Little man picked the wrong time to blame China for the US Covid-19 problem.

Druvius comments on Jun 30, 2020:

Yes, Covid-19 originated in China, so what? Experts have been telling us since the 80s to be prepared for things like Covid-19, since it was inevitable. Trump both undid what preparations we had, and has yet to respond in a rational science based way to Covid-19. Trump shot America in the face, not China.

I keep wondering if we are bound for a future in which some nations of the world simply are awash in...

Druvius comments on Jun 28, 2020:

I've wondered the same thing, does look like we are headed for two worlds in the forseeable future. Nations that have Covid-19 shut down, and nations where it's still circulating. Certainly a huge incentive for the former to limit their relations with the latter. The impacts on the world geo-political system could be gigantic.

Bayer reaches over $10 billion settlement in Roundup cancer lawsuits

Druvius comments on Jun 24, 2020:

Since Roundup doesn't actually cause cancer, just shows how ambulance chasing lawyers have gamed the system.

Environmental racism??? So the environment is racist??? Damn racist trees... [twitter.com]

Druvius comments on Jun 3, 2020:

Yes, the practice of siting pollution causing industries near poor colored communities.

Poll: 22% of Americans Think a Democratic President Would “Ban the Bible”

Druvius comments on Jun 3, 2020:

It's a social belief. A lot of people live in Rush Limbaugh's fantasy world. This is what ending the "Fairness Doctrine" has led too, might be time to bring it back.

A new layer of irony?

Druvius comments on Jun 2, 2020:

I was actually wondering this, where are the crowds of MAGA hat wearing citizens out there trying to support their leader?

Can somebody please explain this to me?

Druvius comments on Jun 2, 2020:

Not sure. I know this incident got body armor bans proposed, even though their armor was mostly home made. Not terribly popular legislation, can't imagine it will go anywhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

Fauci says Trump no longer talks much to him or the rest of the coronavirus task force He just ...

Druvius comments on Jun 1, 2020:

He's losing it. He's finally come up against something he can't BS his way through, Covid-19 doesn't give a shit about what he says. I fear he may get more unstable and do even more damage in the months to come. When Hitler realized the end was coming, he ordered Germany to be burned to the ground. Fortunately by that time many Germans, including high ranking ones, decided that saving what they could of Germany was what was needed despite Hitler's orders.

Conservative Men Are Apparently Pointing Loaded Guns At Their Crotches To 'Own The Libs'

Druvius comments on May 28, 2020:

So we're one drunk idiot away from a truly horrific viral video.

I love how modern science is revealing what we thought was lost, I think there will be a lot more ...

Druvius comments on May 22, 2020:

My hope is someday we will find other carbonized libraries in or near Pompei, and now we should be able to read them.

This is what happens when it's easier to elect idiots than intelligent people, and you have no Civil...

Druvius comments on May 21, 2020:

It's going to be fascinating in a horrible way to see if Trump can flim flam his way into getting re-elected.

The shift begins - [commondreams.org]

Druvius comments on May 19, 2020:

Call me a skeptic, but Biden changing his tune to get elected doesn't fill me with confidence. He's made it perfectly clear over his career that he says whatever needs said and then serves the bankers/rich/pentagon.

[news.

Druvius comments on May 15, 2020:

Because Washington in general and the GOP in particular and Trump especially live in their own fantasy world.

[aol.

Druvius comments on May 11, 2020:

The Democrats don't need to do a damn thing to hurt Trump, he's doing just fine on his own. No, malignant narcissism, nothing slight about it at all.

And the other way around:

Druvius comments on May 10, 2020:

It's all good.

Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans is a film all atheists should see.

Druvius comments on May 7, 2020:

Yeah, not wasting my time watching a movie that so egregiously gets the facts wrong: https://www.thesolarnerd.com/blog/planet-of-the-humans-debunked/

I know I live in a liberal bubble, and I suspect a lot of us here do.

Druvius comments on May 6, 2020:

My theory is 10% of people are good no matter what, 10% are bad, and the rest will go whatever way the wind blows.

Dumb, and Dumber, All Wrapped in One: [rawstory.com]

Druvius comments on May 4, 2020:

The true horror is that he was elected.

Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: These "are the good times — compared to what's coming next" | ...

Druvius comments on May 1, 2020:

Can't argue with the man, been thinking along the same lines myself. It's gonna get ugly, when the Soviet Union collapsed most citizens were already proficient at being self sufficient and bartering. Most Americans are spoilt children compared to them, it's gonna get ugly.

Does anyone here think that a civil war in america isn't inevitable ot this point?

Druvius comments on Apr 30, 2020:

Depends on what one means by a civil war. The only thing we can safely predict about the future now ... it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Is Balkanization a possibility for the USA? Possibly. Inevitable? In the long run, sure. In the near future, no.

One of the few Christians I will hear out - and every word I agree with here. [johnpavlovitz.com]

Druvius comments on Apr 30, 2020:

Pretty much.

North Korea vs South Korea one on one civil war... who wins?

Druvius comments on Apr 30, 2020:

Neither? I can't think of any scenario that would yield a clear cut winner. The north is one of the most heavily defended pieces of real estate on the planet, they have been fortifying it for 70 plus years and they have nuclear weapons to boot. There's no realistic way it could be conquered without terrible casualties. And the North's army isn't capable of invading the south, their troops would be massacred by the South's air force if they left their fortified positions. The best thing would be to reintegrate the North back into the world community, and nature would take its course. South Korea was a military dictatorship too, that's what happened to it. The US needs enemies to justify its empire though, so doubt it will happen any time soon.

FDA tells hand sanitizer producers to make it unpalatable after surge in poison control calls ...

Druvius comments on Apr 30, 2020:

Gotta remember that Fox and Rush are still wildly downplaying the dangers, known and unknown, Covid-19 presents. I think encouraging your viewers to knowingly risk their and their friend and family's lives is a poor long term business strategy, but who knows.

[theweek.

Druvius comments on Apr 28, 2020:

Trump NEVER admits he erred, sharpiegate showed that beyond any doubt. He made a minor and completely understandable mistake, and utterly refused to acknowledge it. Sadly this pandemic series of ongoing mistakes is going to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans. Jesus wept.

I have heard of people toilet training their cat, now I know how they did it.

Druvius comments on Apr 26, 2020:

My orange guy self taught. Nothing like stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night ... and have to wait for the cat to finish.

An interesting look at the Cato Institute's ideas about North Korea and who the possible successor...

Druvius comments on Apr 25, 2020:

Yes, integrating North Korea into the world economy is far more likely to bring down the Kim regime than isolation. But the US doesn't want to end the Kim regime, designated evil enemies are required to justify our mind numbing worldwide military spending. So however realistic the article's ideas are, I don't see Washington's moribund strategy ending until we go the way of the Soviet Empire.

Trump Plans to Limit Daily Coronavirus Briefings

Druvius comments on Apr 25, 2020:

"Trump plans" is an oxymoron. ;)

GOP Lawmaker Who Promotes ‘Biblical Law’ Caught Planning Violent Attacks | Michael Stone

Druvius comments on Apr 23, 2020:

The scariest thing is that this POS was elected.

Random question/thought: Anyone been in/near a convenient store, see a very attractive person.

Druvius comments on Apr 22, 2020:

They could be buying it for a friend, so, no.

Louisiana Pastor 'Challenges' Christians To Donate Their Entire Stimulus Payments To Churches - ...

Druvius comments on Apr 21, 2020:

He's been arrested for assaulting a protestor. he's a real piece of work. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arrest-warrant-out-anti-social-distancing-pastor-after-incident-bus-n1188381

Anyone up with how the commodity stock market works?

Druvius comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Since 1980 when they made it legal for corporations to manipulate stock prices by buying back their own stock, the stock market is basically just a big rigged casino for the rich.

If you're spending the night at a friend's house, hear them loudly "getting it on" in their room at ...

Druvius comments on Apr 17, 2020:

The sound of people having a great time and celebrating their love in their own home is "rude and disrespectful?" If that's how you feel, why did you accept their hospitality?

For those who FB and belive the pandemic is real.

Druvius comments on Apr 17, 2020:

Anyone comparing Covid-19 to the flu is seriously out of touch with reality. https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/not-like-the-flu-not-like-car-crashes-not-like?fbclid=IwAR3qSWKQ7OcGrArsGNh3Q0-eQ6hBWtCgIjb5MF0dmBQ-oaySwf9CZQBInuk

My thought for this morning.

Druvius comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Unfortunately decades of Rush Limbaugh and his ilk have made it the new normal: "If you disagree with me, you're an idiot." Sigh. And not just coming from the right either.

COVID 19 Who wants to live for ever?

Druvius comments on Apr 12, 2020:

On first pass Covid-19 appears to be much worse than the typical cold or flu, we have no vaccines and limited defenses against it, and even our individual immune systems haven't seen anything quite like it. We are still learning scary new things about it: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3079443/coronavirus-could-target-immune-system-targeting-protective?fbclid=IwAR3mmK8ZjE3UhgezSkCjc9NAUOvlMXImQ68EumzCw7I6bGyjy0HWfY7lj58 the idea we should just let it "run its course" is literally advocating surrender. Who cares if granny dies, right, she was old? Way too many young and healthy people are dying as well, and then people dying because the health care system is overwhelmed, I have a friend whose cancer surgery has been "postponed until further notice." The whole point of civilization is to fight for our lives in common defense, not throw granny to the wolves when times get tough. Buck up man.

So happy Easter, y'all.

Druvius comments on Apr 12, 2020:

Or as I call it, Happy Easter Chocolate on Sale Eve!

For months he had been her devoted admirer.

Druvius comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Sick but insightful. My ex-wife worshipped the ground I walked on and admired my every idea. After 5 years of that I was coming up with some amazingly stupid ideas. The marriage ended badly.

Do you think if someone, who has committed a heinous crime, should be given a chance for forgiveness...

Druvius comments on Apr 11, 2020:

It would depend on the person and the crime, in theory why not? I would also value what the victim's family's thought. I mean, is it even the same person anymore? I don't really believe in moral absolutes, that's why we have judges, every situation is different.

BERNIE DROPS OUT, MASS GRAVES, AND SCIENCE DENIAL: [united-cats.com]

Druvius comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Thank you for all the thoughtful comments, a writer does like to be appreciated. Sharing the article on Wordpress is also appreciated, thanks again. :)

COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the United States | Live Science

Druvius comments on Apr 11, 2020:

It's been sickening to watch this unfold, it was going to be ugly, but the shear breathtaking incompetence and magical thinking on Trump's part is making it so much worse than it could have been.

Donald Trump Signs Order Encouraging U.S. To Mine The Moon For Minerals

Druvius comments on Apr 9, 2020:

The Moon appears to have Helium-3 in abundance, which might be very useful for fusion power. We also need to be able to mine water on the Moon at some point, just for use as water, hydrogen, and oxygen for Moon bases and such. Not a crazy idea, other nations like China and India are looking into it. Timing is a bit odd, one would think Trump might have other priorities now.