New topic needed: Why aren't we here?

Fangin' for a Fosters froth dog

The Enz are from across the ditch. — Banno

Surprised they aren't from across the billabong

Johnathan is spelt Jonathan

Looks like fertile crescent poetry

tast — tim wood

tast???

Not that I think it that important, but for your information, 'Yahweh' is an English pronunciation of an affectionate Hebrew abbreviation of 'Jehovah,' the Jewish name for the 'One God,' mostly popularized in the English speaking world due an unusual decision by the Catholic church to use the affectionate version, rather than the formal version, in its beautifully paraphrased rewrite of the bible for easy reading called the 'The New Jerusalem Bible,' which is also noted by its unusual inclusion of the entire apocrypha without making a big deal of it. — ernestm

That is one hell of a run-on sentence.

Didn't know it is the English pronunciation of Jehovah, doesn't sound like any English pronunciation I've ever heard...

What is Yahweh?

I can only imagine what the music's like. — csalisbury

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been justifiably criticised for its indulgence of China, refusing to condemn its cover-up of the initial Covid-19 outbreak and obsequiously congratulating the People’s Republic on a belated lockdown.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1520/news?fbclid=IwAR1ZiXl6hlgUMcZgq-9aWhFytGwSpHhmdij8mMCGMjks7FKGBQqQGltWh00

More condemnation of the CCP is needed in this thread (but not from Fox News).

Fox News propagandize to maintain Trump's/Republican's power in the US and CCP propagandize to maintain their power in China

I'm saying I don't know what's false or what's true about it.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/new-dossier-condemns-china-for-destroying-evidence-of-covid-19-outbreak — NOS4A2

I don't trust Fox News or the CCP so this story is moot to me

Praise from Caesar

The doctor problem has been cured!

Right now I'm here more often because of the lockdown

You cannot tell the truth yourself, but recite this trope about Russians on autopilot. — unenlightened

Maybe I can't, but I also don't want tyrants and kleptocrats taking over the world

So there has to be more trust than distrust in the world or society would collapse. I think society is close to collapse right now. — unenlightened

I blame the russian government. They've been systematically trying to turn us against each other for years

A terrifying read.

But there are also certain unknowns which are more upbeat e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52435463
... and apparently this is also the case in Cambodia where I used to live

obscure shit is right.

Do you guys not walk down streets or buy stuff in shops? — unenlightened

I do but I also have to be aware that someone could rip me off or make a mistake on the total purchase amount so I might check the receipt or whatever. Healthy paranoia.

I can trust them and suffer pain if they do a shoddy job

I don't trust completely in anything, because in doing so I lose my freedom.

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can’t trust people.

coronavirus-specific — StreetlightX

That's a compound adjective, right?

New Zealand, the land (paradise) of rich white retired bastards:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52436658

they've got a good list of abstract nouns, I'll give 'em that.

Wise men labour
Good men grieve
Knaves plot
Fools believe

Thank you

To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. To quarantine is to keep yourself, and lose the rest.

it also depends on viral load

Violating human rights/being Orwellian as fuck while nobody's looking...

There's going too far and then there's this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/g3hu2r/at_least_14_prodemocratic_politicians_arrested_in/

Unless it's hell. Hell probably has shit loads of viruses