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On occasion, we here do a thread of random positivity, where we start with a thematic prompt and talk about things that are enjoyable just for the fun of it. Past examples:

We have also had a couple threads of educational-resource recommendations. These are marginally more serious, since they're about gathering actually good explanations of things that sneerable people like to pontificate ignorantly on. But I'll list them here because learning is fun:

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

There's a change.org petition that's getting some decent traction to force the Laurelhurst neighborhood in Seattle to stop blocking the neighboring children's hospital from making full use of their helipads. You know, the ones that are only used to handle medivacs when a kid is facing a life-and-death emergency and minutes could make the difference.

I mean, I don't have high hopes for an online petition but honestly these days I'm just glad to learn about a problem in the context of literally anything being done to solve it.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Update!

The rich fuckers are apparently inclined to acknowledge this as ridiculous, at least in part. Here's hoping that this doesn't stall out and at least some Americans get to report at least one unambiguous public policy win in 2026

[–] Reach_the_man@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

how the fuck is NIMBYing medical helicopters even legal