Recent comments in /f/UpliftingNews

AutoModerator t1_j61be82 wrote

Reply to Cincinnati Zoo's beloved hippo Fiona celebrates 6th birthday with cake by citytiger

Reminder: this subreddit is meant to be a place free of excessive cynicism, negativity and bitterness. Toxic attitudes are not welcome here.

All Negative comments will be removed and will possibly result in a ban.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

neuronexmachina t1_j6189hm wrote

Reply to comment by pab_guy in U.S. GDP rose 2.9% in the fourth quarter, more than expected even as recession fears loom by Intrepid-Astronaut41

It's real GDP, which adjusts for inflation. Without factoring inflation the growth would be 6.5%: https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/gross-domestic-product-fourth-quarter-and-year-2022-advance-estimate

> (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022 (table 1), according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 3.2 percent.

> ... Current‑dollar GDP increased 6.5 percent at an annual rate, or $408.6 billion, in the fourth quarter to a level of $26.13 trillion. In the third quarter, GDP increased 7.7 percent, or $475.4 billion (tables 1 and 3).

15

UnicornOnTheJayneCob t1_j615bi0 wrote

Reply to comment by ThereRNoFkingNmsleft in First Navajo woman becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council by AudibleNod

Ah, called out! Confession: I actually don’t think it really is a true matriarchy, or ever has been. In reality, it is matrilineal, Matrilocal, and matrifocal but not actually matriarchal. The clan chiefs have always been men, though the clan system itself and inheritance is all matrilineal, which made it the social system somewhat balanced. But when Europeans came, they were subject to their own biases about gender roles, and therefore dealt solely with the chiefs, reinforcing their leadership. In my opinion, it stuck even as other traditions faded.

Also, the council in anything approaching this form has only existed for 100 years. Women first stated joining it, though not as speaker, within the first 20 years of its inception. The tribal presidency has only existed since the 1980s, and the current Vice President is a woman. I think that between those things, it really makes sense that these are new things.

If you asked my grandmother though, she would laugh at you and ask why women would need to have roles like that when they are so busy running everything anyway?

1

2dozen22s t1_j60yllo wrote

Reply to comment by hearnia_2k in Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. by heavy-metal-goth-gal

Drying the ground bamboo in a high temp greenhouse would reduce the weight substantially. You'd basically be shipping fuel around. Bamboo is already 50% carbon.

Then mixing can be done on-site and gathered locally to reduce carried weight further.

Grinding can be solar powered, green house is sunlight, cutting can be electric powertools, etc.

Emission wise its probably very sound, but maintaining and replanting bamboo which can grow like, 1m a day, might be the hard part in terms of scaling things up.

(Edit: a 100m2 area with 25% area utilization should yield 8750kg of bamboo a day. Or 4.375 tons of carbon.

Idk how accurate those numbers are, and that's a best guess using online resources)

2

thenewyorktimes OP t1_j60x4ha wrote

Reply to A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years by thenewyorktimes

Hody Childress grew up poor, surviving with his family on sustenance farming and by hunting small game. In 2010, he walked into Geraldine Drugs and pulled the pharmacist aside. “‘I have a question,’” she recalled him saying, “‘Do you ever have anyone who can’t pay for their medication?’”
“‘Well, yeah, that happens a good bit,’” she told him. He handed her a folded hundred-dollar bill and said, “‘The next time that happens, I want you to use this,’” she recalled. “‘I want it to be anonymous. I don’t want to know any details on who you use it on, just tell them this is a blessing from the Lord,’” he told her.
Read the full story without a subscription here.

−3

AutoModerator t1_j60wzb4 wrote

Reply to A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years by thenewyorktimes

Reminder: this subreddit is meant to be a place free of excessive cynicism, negativity and bitterness. Toxic attitudes are not welcome here.

All Negative comments will be removed and will possibly result in a ban.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1