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This isn't a fact but I have a gut feeling that people will be taking their power back in the near future.

My go to happy thought is this:

Wild dogs, wolves, coyotes, etc... don't have eyebrows. That is to say that they never evolved the muscles necessary to move their eyebrows in an expressive way.

Moveable eyebrows were a trait that domesticated dogs specifically evolved in order to mimic their humans and invoke more empathy (and let's face it...likely manipulate us for more treats)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/domestication-made-dogs-facial-anatomy-more-fetching-to-humans/

Wow you all suck at this. Okay I'm gonna do an actual one. The amount of wars had around the world has SIGNIFICANTLY decreased from just a century ago.

Humans aren't destroying the earth. We may be changing it so it's no longer hospitable to us, but the earth will go on fine even if humans extinct themselves.

In 6 billion years the sun will swole up to engulf the earth and none of this will have ever mattered.

1. The world is αwful.
2. The world is much better thαn it once wαs.
3. The world cαn be much better than it currently is.
   All three stαtements αre true αt the sαme time. It's wrong to think these stαtements contrαdict eαch other.

You sαy there is doom in our current reαlity, and it feels true, but never discount the wonderful things either. While mαny in this threαd have focused on directly αnswering question, I suspect there mαy be αn underlying dissαtisfαction in your mentαlity.

This threαd cαn shαre wonderful things, but without α shift on mentαlity, it mαy be eαsy enough to brush off. I know becαuse I wαs and still αm like this. Prαcticing grαtitude or grαtitude journαling mαy help, it did for me.

• I'm grαteful becαuse vαccines hαve such α powerful αurα of protection, thαt we αs α society have forgotten the nαmes of the diseαses they protect αgαinst. The world can be better, because one day, we may even erαdicαte these diseαses which still plαgue our species.
• I'm grαteful I hαve opposαble thumbs, becαuse it mαkes it eαsy to be α potαto on the couch and doom scroll. The mere αct that I can see informαtion on α powerful device thαt cαn tell me the stories from αround the globe is quite incredible.
• I'm grαteful becαuse I don't comment very often, but I wαnted to this time. I usuαlly lurk quietly, but I too cαn be better thαn I currently αm αnd pαrticipαte sometimes.

Pizza. It's really good and I'm going to eat more of it

When you die there is nothing. You go back to where you were before you were born.

No past, no future, no memory, nothing.

You will cease to be and the memory of you will fade from this universe nearly instantly.

There's a lovely peace to that...

what's "uplifting" depends a lot on what you want to see in the world ...

but i'd say that we live in very exceptional times in history, so what's currently happening is not the norm and will sooner or later pass...

Chat Control just got defeated for the time being.

Renewable energy and battery storage are seeing an absolute collapse in prices such that it is inevitable in the near to mid term future that we will move away from fossil fuel extraction leaving much of it in the ground. This will happen no matter who is in charge politically or who tries to subsidize fossil fuels because money is king and a lot of free energy hits the earth every day.

This, combined with falling birthrates, means we will hit peak carbon emissions and begin to drop back to a new normal, a new economy built around labor rather than capital because of the shift in balance between resources and workers similar to what happened during the black death. It is my opinion that this will begin to happen in my lifetime and will fully come to pass in our children's lifetime.

When I need my fix of good news I go to iea.org and look at some graphs. I'm always thinking it should be faster but then again there's hope for climate change and the world is transitioning despite how entrenched the fossil fuel industry is.

Here's one on the investments being made:

• public libraries are still there.
• Book (physical) can still be purchased and fully owned, without any risk of them being remotely edited or deleted and without nay tracking of our reading habits.
• Walking is still free, without any subscription required.
• It is still legal to turn off one's phone.
• I love my spouse at least as much as I loved her when we first met almost 30 years ago. And, yep, she seems to kinda like me too ;)

I know it's not a big thing, but for everyone who owns Yooka-Laylee on Steam, Yooka-Replaylee just released and is temporarily giving a discount for those who bought the original. Any chance to save money and have fun is a plus. Especially if you need distraction and escapism from the world.

Bonus: the game is NOT following the trendnof being triple AAA slop $60 priced. I'm confused on how much the owner bundle discount thing is, but it's currently 10% off in general until October 16, in which it will go back to being $29.99USD for the game. For a collect-a-thon, I'd say that's a steal.

Every generation in human history has been more intelligent and progressive than the last.

This trend is not slowing in the modern era.

Fascism doesn't actually last that long. At some point, policies have to have some kind of attachment to reality, and fascists are incapable of grappling with reality.

Im going to read through but I can't imagine anything that is uplifiting enough to counter the current weights attached to us.

We're actually doing pretty well, globally, at shifting to renewables. We're making more, more quickly and more cheaply than ever before.

It's my HRT birthday today, two years now and it's really sunny and warm. It's a nice day :3

billionaires are not immortal (yet)

Free Open Source Software is pretty amazing imo