the image appears for me :chin: :chin: :chin:

and "grape" in Spanish is "UVA" - similar to USA... :chin:

it will be donald trump Jr, the worm-looking guy with the fake stick-on beard, snorter of iron filings

I'm not sure tbh, I don't even live in the UK. @Punshhh seems to know what's happening, but he appears to have gone AWOL...

There's always the next variant, though. :sad: — frank

What's happening with new variants? Haven't heard news of any for a while. The last VoC was Mu, but that one seems to have faded away (at least from the media).

@Punshhh agree?

The first 3 mins or so of this: :ok:



And all of these, why not:






@Baden agree?

And wait beside me 'till the next star rises. — TheMadFool

Interesting. I guess this is talking about our Sun, it's also a changeling - a new star every day.

@TheMadFool @Jack Cummins agree?

Ways to ensure TPF immortality:
1. Change your thumbnail to an image of a bird.
2. ??????????

Scratch is alive!!

No — 180 Proof

K.

Yes
Don't know
For

Do the vaccines prevent new variants emerging? Any research into this?

Death, the insolvable mortal mystery.

It bothers me when members ridicule people who have been banned, which is a common blood sport here on the Bannings thread. — T Clark

Yeah I agree - that shit annoys me, but I was just informing you that @hope most probably wasn't a young lady in a schoolgirl outfit.

Too bad. I kind of liked her. — T Clark

entirely agree.

ya boy Philly G from NYC

@Noble Dust agree?

of what?

Here's a particularly deep song

Here's another bird song that's appropriate for this thread

@Noble Dust agree?

is it true that influenza is no longer mutating? When will the new coronavirus stop mutating?

Also, what is your profile picture?

"A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research.

The National Ignition Facility uses a powerful laser to heat and compress hydrogen fuel, initiating fusion.

An experiment suggests the goal of "ignition", where the energy released by fusion exceeds that delivered by the laser, is now within touching distance.

Harnessing fusion, the process that powers the Sun, could provide a limitless, clean energy source."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58252784

Maybe fusion is almost here...

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." — Bitter Crank

What does that quote mean?

the challenge of mobility of the young — ArguingWAristotleTiff

What's that?

Do not make a fuss about it, he might like the attention and keep on doing it. — Sir2u

That makes sense.

So, have we explained the mystery of it yet?

Hurry up and pull your fingers out!!

Thus I do not recommend philosophy to anyone who is not already mired in these things. — unenlightened

Everyone's born in the mire

are you saying the practise of philosophy is an escape? Or the opposite?

in that he similarly partakes in morally-dubious activities - yes.

dude, assange is just another dodgy Aussie like murdoch or @Banno

He's being used by shit-tin and his apologists for propaganda purposes (the Spanish version of this 'documentary' has nearly a million views, so god knows about other language versions):

the cruelty imposed on Assange — StreetlightX

I thought Assange has just become another useful idiot of putin (AKA @jamalrob), no?

A trapped bird's (philosopher's) fever dream of liberation (wisdom)