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Much better than my local council who won’t let you plant a single thing on the verge or median strips despite touting themselves as “green” which they use to go on “study trips” to Europe.Ethiopia May Have Just Shattered World Record By Planting 350 Million Tree Saplings in One Day
As a means of combatting national deforestation, Ethiopian officials say that they may have just broken the world record for most trees planted in one day.
Science. Again.
Read link:
Physicists Just Captured The First-Ever Footage of a Molecule's Spectacular Rotation
Physics, Astronomy, Space news,Nasa news ,Quantum Physics and Technology,www.physics-astronomy.org
You wouldn't know it watching social media or tv though. That's why I think this sort of thread is important.
Somebody needs to bring that screwdriver, bro. Also, if someone is proficient in using a screwdriver, they will perform their work far more efficiently than one who isn't proficient, saving the time and resources of others.
It's a failure of our media combined with the fact people inherantly always think they are hard done by. Relative to their neighbors and those from earlier times.
That's a beautiful thing for people to do for someone.Neighbors raise more than $60,000 so beloved disabled resident can keep his home after mounting debt meant he could lose it to foreclosure
By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
Published: 07:36 AEST, 6 August 2019
When residents of a tight-knit community in New Jersey learned that a beloved special-needs neighbor was on the verge of losing his home to foreclosure, they banded together to help.
Lamar Harris, 39, has been a fixture of Gloucester Township, Camden County, his entire life, and he still lives in the home where he had grown up.
Neighbors in town say Harris, who suffers from severe mental disabilities caused by an injury he sustained at birth, is always willing to go out of his way to help others.
Lamar Harris, 39, is a beloved resident of Gloucester Township, New Jersey, who has severe mental disabilities and was on the verge of losing his home
Harris' family home was about to go into foreclosure after he had fallen behind on property taxes, racking up more than $50,000 in debt
He has been known to pick up trash in the neighborhood, walk his neighbors' dogs and collect their mail, leading many to treat him as part of their extended family.
So when Harris' financial woes came to light last month, his neighbors launched a GoFundMe campaign to try and save him home from going into foreclosure.
According to the fundraiser’s description, Harris has the mental abilities of a pre-teen and has lived a life 'full of tragedy.'
His mother died when he was just eight years old, followed by his grandmother four years later.
Harris lived with his father and brother until both passed away suddenly within a year of one another.
Neighbors joined forces to raise money for Harris and help save his home.
In order to make ends meet, Harris has worked part-time at a grocery store for the past 19 years, and he also cuts lawns for his neighbors of the side, reported NJ.com.
‘He cannot drive,’ the GoFundMe page states. ‘He does not understand finances and has a very limited reading ability. As a result of the death of his family members, his reading deficits, and his inability to understand finances, he has fallen behind in his property taxes.’
Harris has not paid taxes on the house since his father’s death in 2015, prompting Gloucester Township to file a lien for more than $50,000 in back property taxes, and putting him in ‘imminent danger’ of losing his childhood home.
Harris was given an August 5 deadline to pay off his debts.
More than 1,000 people answered the neighbors' plea and donated just under $65,000 to the cause as of Monday afternoon.
Neighbors raise $60,000 so beloved disabled resident can keep his home
Residents of Gloucester Township, New Jersey, last month launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for mentally disabled resident Lamar Harris, 39, who had fallen behind on his taxes.www.dailymail.co.uk
Stop reading the Guardian!
We are all doomed!
Yep, the good news is, it cant get much shittier.
Even the most basic knowledge of societal development and history would make a rational person aware of how good the world is today relative to any period in the past.
Half of those thing you listed are patently bullshit and the other half is bullshit relative to historical levels.
Relatively small peaks and troughs over a short time frame are not evidence that everything is suddenly going backwards. And yes, you can objectively assess a huge number of specific aspects of quality of life through statistics. It's not a subjective personal view. On the whole, we are lucky to be alive in this time period. Arguing anything different would be an uphill battle to say the least.I'm not necessarily in agreeance with either concept but your statement of "how good the world is" relative to any other period of history could be very easily argued in reality. I'm pretty sure the environment alone may beg to differ. It's very much a personal judgement regardless of how many times people like yourself like to throw in statistics regarding lifespans and economics or by cherry picking the worst times as comparisons etc. Even lifespans and personal economics are now arguably in negative territory compared to only a few decades ago and that is according to well accepted economists and scientists of today.
I'd suggest you don't see millions of people all around the world deciding to take actions like "Brexit" and "Trump" without there being some genuine ability to argue things are not necessarily as "sweet" as you yourself may internally project.
People were happier in 1957 than today, according t... | MHT
People living in 1957 were happier than people are today – and happiness levels have not reached those levels in the intervening 60 years, according to reswww.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk
I recall seeing the first post in this thread and wondering how long it would take to get to the point of arguing over just how "good" things are in the "Good News" thread. It's pretty much a small window into humanity itself. Threads in the forum need narrative and opposing arguments to survive. It's the same reason news organisations can't survive just running all positive pieces. People want a hero, which requires an anti-hero, even in the "Good News" thread.
It's a small reflection on existence itself in reality. Even at the smallest atomic level of all "creation" there exists the positive and opposing negative charge. The yin/yang, hot/cold, North/South, male/female (oops hang on minute we're redefining that one nowadays) of all creation was always gong to make an appearance.
C"est La Vie
I'm not necessarily in agreeance with either concept but your statement of "how good the world is" relative to any other period of history could be very easily argued in reality. I'm pretty sure the environment alone may beg to differ. It's very much a personal judgement regardless of how many times people like yourself like to throw in statistics regarding lifespans and economics or by cherry picking the worst times as comparisons etc. Even lifespans and personal economics are now arguably in negative territory compared to only a few decades ago and that is according to well accepted economists and scientists of today.
I'd suggest you don't see millions of people all around the world deciding to take actions like "Brexit" and "Trump" without there being some genuine ability to argue things are not necessarily as "sweet" as you yourself may internally project.
People were happier in 1957 than today, according t... | MHT
People living in 1957 were happier than people are today – and happiness levels have not reached those levels in the intervening 60 years, according to res
I recall seeing the first post in this thread and wondering how long it would take to get to the point of arguing over just how "good" things are in the "Good News" thread. It's pretty much a small window into humanity itself. Threads in the forum need narrative and opposing arguments to survive. It's the same reason news organisations can't survive just running all positive pieces. People want a hero, which requires an anti-hero, even in the "Good News" thread.
It's a small reflection on existence itself in reality. Even at the smallest atomic level of all "creation" there exists the positive and opposing negative charge. The yin/yang, hot/cold, North/South, male/female (oops hang on minute we're redefining that one nowadays) of all creation was always gong to make an appearance.
C'est La Vie
Could still be true as the the paper is framed by a question about the perception of hostility levels. When I get a chance to read it all, I'll be able to give a better answer, but I suspect that those who would talk a big game online and not IRL would still do so IRL but only in settings of their choice.
