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The Danish protest pig is a rare breed of pigs originating in Denmark. In the 19th century, Prussians prohibited the use of the Danish flag so the farmers started to create a new breed that resembles their flag. The red-white pigs quickly became a symbol of Danish cultural independence.
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Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to fight aliens together. Reagan was also a Sci-fi fan and appointed many sci-fi writers to government think-tanks.
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I’d like to believe that people support causes because they believe in helping folks out.
But, as I’m sure you already know, we live in a social-media-obsessed world where image is everything for some people.
And sometimes people latch onto the popular causes of the day because of how they think it will make them look…but how widespread is that phenomenon?
AskReddit users talked about whether or not most people only care about causes when they become trendy.
Let’s see what they had to say.
“Hence why literal g**ocides have been going on in China for years now and yet most people in my day-to-day life have no idea whatsoever.
Even when I tell them, they barely give it more than a seconds thought because IT ISN’T TRENDY and there’s nothing for them to gain socially by pretending to care.
But you better believe they’re radical followers of whatever Tik-Tok and their television screen is pushing at the moment.
Also, where are all of those young people who were suddenly civil-rights revolutionaries last summer? The trend d**d down and I haven’t seen them post anything about any of that ever since… It’s back to non-stop selfies and photos of Starbucks coffee.
What’s up with that?”
“This is why I didn’t do the ‘black out’ social media posting last year. I didn’t want to inauthentically hop on a trend.
I always sign petitions/ signal boost / etc any good cause I see, but I wasn’t going to intensively commit to something I wasn’t prepared to keep up when it comes to social media. It felt fake to do so.
I keep learning and growing as we all do, but that isn’t gonna take the sum of one summer when literally everyone else is talking about it for the same length of time.”
“Part of the issue is that there are so many issues that are important. Enough of us are working most of the time and can barely manage ourselves that even if we care about something, we don’t have time to be active, without potentially putting our own welfare at risk.
When “cause” trends go around, especially if it’s not your primary concern (for example maybe you’re more of an animal rights activists or environmentalist) posting a black square is like the easiest lift for people to say, yeah I’m solidarity.”
“Any form of support is good. Whether monetary or otherwise, just showing solidarity is important.
To me, that’s what the black square thing was about, showing the people on the street and, more importantly the white supremacists that are actively combatting that movement in that specific scenario, that the public is on their side.”
“I don’t care about social issues.
I know, I know. I should care about everyone and everything. I just can’t mentally handle it.
Sorry no matter how manipulative your language is I can only physically care about a certain amount of issues.
I know I am not cool and trendy, but I’m fine with that. Most people who support every social issue going on in the world tend to be miserable.”
“At a certain point, there’s just so much s**t that is and has always been going on in the world so to assert that you have to care about all of it all the time is, I think, pretty naive.
You can’t only care about things that affect you but at the same time those things should be like 90% of your focus. You’re just begging for a poor mental state in exchange for not really being able to change much.
My personal view is that the ones out there railing about X Issue tend to be young people from wealthy families who haven’t had much adversity of their own to deal with but just want some instance of adversity to get emotionally invested in.”
“It is much more effective to just be a better person than yesterday and help everyone around you whenever you can.
No need to find and stay 100% updated on all the highlighted issues of the society on the internet and exhaust your brain and energy on learning manipulative stuff and propagandas of big corporation’s/leaders to make some more bucks or gain some more control/power, while the homeless near you starves for the 2nd day.
The only thing that people should feel the need to change is the man in the mirror.”
“I don’t think it’s fair how we’re expected to care about everything.
I think if every person cared about one cause then that would be enough, instead of expecting people to advocate for every single group.”
“Welcome to the 21st century my friend , where people only care about something when it benefits them in some way or are socially pressured into thinking they need to care about something when they really don’t .
Honestly pretty much everyone ( obviously an exaggeration because there a few who genuinely care about the cause ) only care about something when it’s popular to support it , care or h**e on it for some reason or another .
And they couldn’t care less to get to the root of these issues or why they even exist in the first place , because all they care about is looking morally superior/woke or whatever and riding on their moral high horse while looking down on others , as if they’re so superior.”
“Hashtag activism gives the individual a dopamine rush with minimal effort.
Basically it’s just a drug hit of self-righteous feel good bullc**p.”
“There are many world problems people don’t talk about. I wish caring about all injustice and pain in the world was trendy so more people could be informed.”
“It is called virtue signalling. Celebrities do this all of the time.
Wokeness is also the same thing and hurts certain campaigns rather than helping them.”
What do you think about this?
Talk to us in the comments and let us know.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, ran and won his campaign from prison. Once elected president, he released himself.
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The US provided Laos with funds and concrete to expand an airport which could serve as a base for US fighter jets during the Vietnam War. But as the funds and concrete arrived before any contract was signed, Laos decided instead to build a memorial to soldiers who died in World War II.
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You blink and you’ll miss it.
An older gentleman told me that when I graduated from high school. I kind of shrugged off his words of wisdom but it turns out he was right…
And things are always moving forward, which is good news for all of us here on planet Earth.
In what small ways has society progressed in the last two decades?
AskReddit users shared their thoughts.
“My grandfather has been blind for forty years.
He says people are way more friendly than they used to be, especially younger people are eager to help.”
“I think the majority of the world knows a lot more about other cultures and countries.
Thanks to the internet and learning facilities and the vast possibilities of travelling, people can really get into these topics if they want to.”
“Infant mortality rate in Africa is now the same as it was in Europe in the 1970s.
Absolutely amazing progress.”
“Think about the public’s access to information.
Just Wikipedia is equivalent to thousands of dollars of encyclopedias and almanacs in the 1990s.
And it’s way more valuable than that because it’s constantly being updated.”
“The rapid skill increase across all forms of gaming/sports, art, leisure activities, etc.
The internet really has allowed niche-activity folks to learn the most effective practices collectively, as opposed to independent and un-structured learning.
Hobbyists can (and are) now able to quickly get really good at nearly everything, at a ridiculous rate. Poker, paintball, video editing, computer games, etc…. doesn’t matter what it is, it’s easier now to jump from “beginner” to “pretty good” in nearly anything.”
“The intermet has made it easier to learn almost anything.
When something in my house/car breaks or needs upgraded, I can generally diagnose it with Google and then watch how-to videos on youtube to decide if I should do it myself or just save time and contact a professional to complete the repair.”
“Stressing the importance of seat belts and helmets.
Old TV shows commonly depict no helmets and seatbelts.”
“I took my grandparents to my Grandpa’s sister’s funeral, on the drive back home I had to buy a Pepsi and a coffee because I was tired.
I finished the can of Pepsi, and put the can in the cup holder.
Grandpa said “you know son, 10 years ago that would have went right out the window.””
“Giving more opportunities to people with disabilities.
And this doesn’t mean just work either, but designing more building to universal design so that people with disabilities can access more spaces unassisted.
It’s really great!”
“Way fewer people smoke these days.
Honestly, in my extended family it’s maybe only one of my distant cousins.”
“Wearing glasses has all but lost the negative stereotypes surrounding it.
They often used to make kids suffer through school unable to see.”
“We’re normalizing openly discussing miscarriages. It use to be uncouth to discuss in social settings and was more something that couples had to suffer silently to themselves.
After recently experiencing one, the outpouring of support has been amazing and such a pillar of support for us through this tough time. We were thankful to have others to mourn with us.”
“In my country several efforts have been made to save our only remaining native indigenous language from being extinct.
A decade ago less than 1,000 people could speak it, now I believe the number is closer to 10,000.”
How about you?
What progress do you think we’ve made in the last two decades?
Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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There are a lot of conversations happening in politics these days about how we can better take care of everyone in our society. What can we afford, how can we re-allocate funds, who deserves what, and what history says about supporting people with a safety net when times are hard.
Michael Tubbs, though, the young mayor of Stockton, CA, is done talking – in 2020, he decided to start doing, instead. He and the city council approved a budget measure that would give 125 randomly selected residents with a median household income below $50k a year an extra $500 a month.
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There were no strings attached. No drug tests, no requirements to work or be actively looking for a job. Very little monitoring was done at all.
Tubbs is heavily invested in Stockton, having grown up there below that median income line himself, and was so dismayed in 2012 to hear Forbes call it one of “America’s Most Miserable Cities” that he ran for mayor. He was elected at the age of 26, making him one of the youngest mayors in the country – but also perhaps, one of the most forward-thinking ones in the crowd.
He founded the Stockton Empowerment Distribution (SEED) in 2019. The funding comes from philanthropic donations, and when a team of independent researchers heard about the initiative, they couldn’t get there to conduct a parallel experiment fast enough.
Researchers Stacia West of the University of Tennessee, and Amy Castro Baker of the University of Pennsylvania, worked together to collect data from those who received the money, and also established a control group of people who were not selected.
What they found was that, instead of “squandering” the cash – a worry of some who thought there should be some requirements and stipulations placed on it – what the extra month did was reduce people’s income volatility compared to those in the control group.
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Basically, unexpected expenses up to $400 in a month would be able to be handled instead of causing an issue that could take months to straighten out, which also improved people’s mental health.
One recipient said that she “had regular panic attacks and anxiety. I was at the point where I had to take a pill for it” but after the checks, “I haven’t even touched the pills in a while. I used to carry them on me all the time.”
The study found that families typically spent the money on essential items like food, home goods, utilities, and gas, and that instead of encouraging people to stay home, the extra cash did the opposite – after one year, the percentage of recipients who were employed full time grew from 28% to 40%, more than twice the rate for the control group.
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Baker believes that having something of a safety net makes it easier to not only imagine a different job or future, but also to take the risks that are often associated with interviewing for new jobs.
“People were able to apply for jobs they knew they were eligible for but just literally could not take a shift off work to do so.”
She adds that people who don’t have enough money almost always don’t have enough time, either.
“When you live in constant scarcity your entire day is taken up with battling poverty and trying to make ends meet.
You literally don’t have the capacity, or the time to even breathe and reset and think about what a different goal might be.”
Extra money, according to the study and also this participant, made a huge difference in that area.
“I was able to finally take time off work to study and complete my real estate license and even pursue an associate degree.
I have more time and net worth to study…to achieve my goals.”
This experiment joins many others that are seeking ways to alleviate poverty around the world, and the idea of a universal basic income is gaining some traction. We’re seeing the needle move in the States with the stimulus checks and also the recent changes to the child tax credit, both of which were given to people without any strings attached as to how they would spend it.
The full analysis from this study will be available in 2022, and in the next few years, researchers agree that there will be a good knowledge base across diverse populations that can be used to make an assessment.
We’ll just have to keep our fingers’ crossed that good policy follows.
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The population of Rio de Janeiro was so unsatisfied with its politicians during the election of 1988, that a well-known local monkey from a zoo received over 400,000 votes.
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Gaddafi had a serious obsession with Condoleezza Rice, showering her with over $200,000 in gifts and having a famous local composer write a song for her called “Black Flower in the White House”.
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Gaddafi had a serious obsession with Condoleezza Rice, showering her with over $200,000 in gifts and having a famous local composer write a song for her called “Black Flower in the White House”.
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