The "Good News" Thread
 

A thread dedicated to some of the good things going on in the world. Keep them truthful, and keep them positive.

800 California inmates gave their prison wages to send a kid they'd never met to college

Huge scientific medical advances were made and largely openly shared during the push for the vaccine.

Some of the applications we're likely to see in our lifetimes are an HIV vaccine, a universal or “pan” flu vaccine (with the potential of eliminating the flu from earth), a pan-vaccine for all coronaviruses present and future, and cancer treatments that will make what we’re doing now seem medieval.

And just that there’s efficacious vaccines in one ****ing year. It’s a goddamn miracle.

Got a link? The cancer treatments I witnessed being used on my friend were just awful.

Sorry it’s not more convenient but

https://www.sciencefriday.com/science-friday-podcasts/

They ran 4 roughly one hour segments on the vaccine and they’re very educational.

I’ll admit timelines and science aren’t always friends but one thing that is indisputable is that they learned all kinds of extremely useful stuff.

And we have a vaccine.

Sorry about your friend.

Cancer treatment advances have to be expressed cautiously not to provide false hope. While trying to stick with your positive guidelines it’s not likely going to be applicable for people who already have cancer as far as I understand it.

I'll have to sift through that when I get a minute.

She pulled through, but her sister didn't. This was a few years back too, so the advances I've been seeing/hearing about since have gotten better, but still very much walk the fine line between eradicating the cancerous cells and destroying the patient. Besides the chemo, my friend was taking some medication that also gave her gout and basically made her immobile. It would take her 20 minutes just to get in the car to go to chemo, and the doctor said she'd be on that for the rest of her life. One day, she decided "**** it", she wasn't gonna take it anymore. That was probably the best decision she ever made. The gout cleared up, she got a clean bill of health, and now that part of her life is just a memory. The claim that these new discoveries will make those treatments seem medieval doesn't exactly seem like it's being expressed cautiously. lol

My bad.

The idea is roughly that what they’ve learned about genetic sequences, mRNA, and how they can manipulate the immune system to use proteins in a certain way will allow them to stop cancerous cells from replicating while leaving healthy cells unaffected.

If they get there my hyperbolic enthusiasm would be fair but you’re right to call me out on it.

I actually felt like I was being cautious by not using the c-word but I’m an excitable boy.

Totally understandable.

Youre more understanding than my high school girlfriend was. Actually getting it in the vagina before ejaculating sounded a lot easier than it was.

lol ok

“The new, upbeat ‘Sleeves Up, NOLA’ campaign deftly uses local personalities and the Carnival dance culture to encourage citizens to get a Covid shot.”

NY Times

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Sure, it's probably hardly news and most of you probably hate them, but give The Eagles credit: after the passing of founder Glenn Frey they continue with the man's son, Deacon, which I think is really pretty cool: continuing the legacy. How many bands do that? Must be tough for the kid though, up there on the stage performing beside the ghost of his father, who surely casts a huge and long shadow.

What kind of fool would hate the Eagles? They have so many great songs. Plus they pulled off so many styles so effectively. They have the perfect definitive seventies sound.

**** the Eagles. I'm a resentful Giants fan.

Try winning more than 6 games next season. And check under the bed for Doug Pederson.

Emphasis on resentful. At least we finally ditched the runt of the Manning litter.

Hey watch your tongue, that "runt" beat Tom Brady twice in the Super Bowl.

he had a good run over half a decade ago. he had nothing else to offer.

Who needs Eli when you've got a QB that's so fast that he trips over himself? Even Sonic would blush at this kind of speed.

I agree. Abba was much better.

Elph is putting on his big boy pants and wants to try to talk **** about music.

Don’t embarrass yourself elphy. You’d have to live to be 1000.

There's nothing wrong with the Eagles. Great band.

I think even Elph would agree that the Eagles were basically the Three Six Mafia of the '70s.

Unassailable

You know who have "standards?" Jazz.

You know who wrote their own material? Eagles.

So I guess you're right in an accidental way. Eagles didn't do "standards," they left that all up to Jazz. You could say the Eagles are in fact the the definition of not having standards.

I bet if I played name that tune with elph with the game about identifying jazz standards I could beat him 1000-0

Both Elph and Trollheart and even with one ear tied behind your back.

Just about everyone here :(
Like this guy
Well he is an elf. They live long lives.
Why would you even include me in that? You know full well I know virtually nothing about jazz, and have as little interest in it. So you might as well say OH could beat me in a quiz about hip-hop or avant-garde. Wozz yer point pal?

The boy done his dad proud.

I’d be more than fine with that if I got to see it live. That was cool. Good for him and whole band.

I once read a YouTube comment saying 'the Eagles are why punk had to happen' and I wholeheartedly agree

maybe I'm missing something but what's so great about them exactly? Every song I click on by then sounds generic classic rock as hell.

Yes and Pink Floyd were bigger reasons but that’s a good thing. One approach plays out and a new one in born. Doesn’t mean one’s bad. For everything there is a season. To listen to punk at the exclusion of yacht rock or prog is very different than playing punk at the inclusion of other genres. As fans we have to luxury to enjoy both. Sonic Youth is basically the Pink Floyd extension of the Ramones and Bikini Kill is to Sonic Youth what the Eagles were to the Beatles.

Dude - they’re right in the same family as no limit.

I don't quite get the comparison and I don't claim to be any sort of expert on rock music I'm just saying... Post any song by them that you think is great and unique cause I'm just not hearing it myself

I watched the whole concert on VOD last night/this afternoon and it was superb. I love the fact they got Vince Gill in, word is they also had Bob Seger (who co-wrote "Heartache Tonight" drop by at one point - though not at that concert - and the touching tribute Deacon made to his dad, plus the way the band all asked everyone to welcome him, was just spot on. They also, at one point, showed a huge photo of Glenn after Deacon had played. Heart strings were throbbing I can tell you.
That, to me, is bull. Prog rock is why punk had to happen. The Eagles and country rock in general is just something some people don't get or like; punk didn't affect them in the least (mostly being a British phenomenon - yeah yeah I know New York Dolls yadda yadda but Sex Pistols) - country rock didn't die at the hands of punk like prog rock, which had grown like a monster on its own excesses and had to be put down. Read any history of either and you'll find the main targets for punk anger are Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP and Genesis.

@jwb - nobody is saying The Eagles wrote unique songs, but at a time when country and rock were pretty much separate they melded the two and crossed the boundary, uniting fans of each genre and also pulling in basic mainstream listeners who had just heard their stuff on the radio. There's a reason why Hotel California went TWENTY-SIX TIMES platinum and has sold over 32 million units worldwide.

Also, shout out to The Outlaws, who don't get near enough praise as they should.

Funny you say that cause every hip hop sound I click on sounds like hip hop and every Punk song I click on sounds Punk. Funny how that happens.

Eagles didn't try to reinvent the wheel, they just made it more fun rolling with it.

absolute ****ing bull****. Bikini Kill didn't have much to do with Sonic Youth anyway; the main riot grrrl band strongly influenced by SY is Sleater-Kinney
sure, I realise how prog led to punk. But if we're not looking at genres, just the particular band, the Eagles stood for a lot of the things punk tried to get rid of; they were watered-down, complacent and overly conventional. I don't know much of their music though, so this is definitely prejudiced

True, as far as it goes, but so did a whole lot of other bands, such as CSNY, Doobies, AWB and The Carpenters. None of these have been linked with the emergence of punk, and let's be fair, one YouTube post holds very little weight in the court of public opinion. You can certainly say a punk might have worn a T-Shirt with "I HATE EAGLES" (hoping that no predatory birds in the area would take offence and attack him!) but I have literally never heard the band mentioned in the same breath as punk.

Anyway, punks can kiss my ass: Eagles rule, says the old balding guy from the unfashionable country with the questionable taste in music and giving not one single flying **** who thinks so. :p:

I don't know those other bands you mention, but the Eagles to me have kind of a proto-buttrock vibe that CSNY has not; they're sublime. That's obvious prejudice though because I happen to love CSNY, but I do think they're much better and more sophisticated. And sure, I'm not taking that one youtube comment very seriously.
Anyway, cheers to not giving a ****, that's the spirit!