The Feelgood Thread!

[The_Piper]

I only listened with half an ear, so missed the reason it's built on the water. At least it saves some trees that way I guess.
They said it was built using recycled items, which I'm doing my own version of here. I have some places where I pick up pallets and scrapwood. I've used some pallets to make a boardwalk through the woods on my property where the ground is rugged and usually muddy. I built shelving in a box trailer. I plan on having a network of pallet boardwalks around my property, and make some rough-cut sheds that will be for singular purposes, like one for bikes and parts, one for lumber and building supplies, one for lawn and snow machines. Maybe a small greenhouse. If I paint some of the sheds it will be with paint from yard sales, all second hand. They'll be multi-colored.
I'm using scraps to save money. It's a bonus that it'll have a minimal carbon footprint too. I'll also use some trees from my wooded property. Mainly younger trees that are bunched together too closely for them all to grow to maturity as they are.
Hopefully I can make some progress on the sheds after the winter.

[felltoearth]

Cool. I have a friend who raises pigs in the woods behind his house and uses pallets to pen them in.

[The_Piper]

Pallets are great for fences. Often they're made from very hard wood, which theoretically should be good for exterior uses. Some of it I can't even nail through, the nails keep bending instead of going in.

[CdesignProponentsist]

Not to be a downer in a feelgood thread but they aren't "seeing color" for the first time. The glasses work by blocking segments of the spectrum where their existing color perception overlaps making it much easier to differentiate colors previously very difficult for them to perceive. It may feel like they are seeing the colors they lack but that isn't what is happening.

I don't doubt that it is a profound emotional experience for them nonetheless.

[Macdoc]

Sometimes impulse .....

I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband. Was I making a big mistake?

By Nancy French
Dec. 30, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... ource=digg

[Ironclad]

The little one has had her first supper today! She nashed at it as if it was her last lol

[Macdoc]

Look at those eyes !!!

[Macdoc]

It lives !!!!

The version of Hitchbot that went across the U.S. has been reconstructed (with a new head) and now sits in the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn, Germany.
GTA
It’s hitchBOT 2.0. The hitchhiking robot left for dead on a U.S. street in 2015 is back — on stage in France

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/1 ... earend-sub

[Macdoc]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-21/ ... s/11885050

[Animavore]

Guy In Florida Loads Car With Frozen Iguanas, They Warm Up, Come Back To Life, Cause Car Accident

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2018/01/08/ ... ip_5XTcOB0

[Macdoc]

Sounds like a Cuban drink.

[Macdoc]

Manasi Joshi: The accident that created a world champion
By Ayeshea Perera
BBC News, Hyderabad


Manasi Joshi had just begun a career as a software engineer, when what should have been a routine commute to work ended in a tragic accident. But this moment of horror changed her life in a surprisingly positive way.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-51147071

when life serves up a lemon ......

[Macdoc]

9 lives in one go

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/us/flori ... index.html

[Macdoc]

Incredible endurance under insane conditions

Father shot in northern Manitoba 'lucky to be alive' after staggering for 50 hours to find help
Daniel Anowak says he pressed on through the pain and the bitter cold for his 3 daughters

Rachel Bergen · CBC News · Posted: Feb 12, 2020 4:10 PM CT | Last Updated: 11 hours ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.5461540

[Macdoc]

Orangutan granted ‘personhood’ turns 34, makes new friend
By The Associated Press
Sun., Feb. 16, 2020timer2 min. read

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2 ... riend.html

[Macdoc]

Bit of a mixed emotion out of this ....

Brave move by the owner ....not much uptake by other companies ..inequality is being more and more destructive

The boss who put everyone on 70K
By Stephanie Hegarty



In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m. Five years later he's still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-513328 ... ource=digg

[Keep It Real]

From an environmental/sustainability standpoint, if everybody was earning 70k consumption/pollution would bust through the stratosphere. It's better off going unspent in the boss's bank account/investments portfolio than being spunked on transpacific holidays and SUVs by the admin employees. 2c

[Macdoc]

So keeping people poor is your solution ??
On 70k a person can afford an EV car and live closer to work. You really can't get by carbon offsets for travel as a useful approach it seems.
Addional income makes sustainable living easier as some approaches cost more.

[Spearthrower]

So keeping people poor is your solution ??

It's a problem common among environmental activists who forget they need the support of the grubby majority.

[Macdoc]

only in Canada....pity

how times have changed ....the national newspaper and no one bats an eye at being paid in weed

Stellarton man handed cash, coffee, cannabis for filling potholes

John McCue started patching Westville Road after a particularly bumpy drive

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-sco ... -1.5072477

I guess there are a few other places that would not think it out of line....or illegal.