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Tired_Lambchop111 , MART PRODUCTION/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Griffith University Queensland, Australia are about to start human trails on groundbreaking research into regenerating nerves in spinal cord injuries.

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Huddo's sister 22 hours ago

https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/impact/world-first-restore-spinal-function

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ExpensivePatience348 , AS Photography/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) While we weren’t paying attention, China used stem cells to reverse type 1 diabetes .

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Susie Elle 1 day ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03129-3

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Limp-Boat-6730 , MART PRODUCTION/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The war on the poor! They have nowhere to go, can’t find work, can’t find food, and get kicked out of public places because they don’t have “business” being there. The shelters are over crowded, under funded, and picky about who they let in. Inflation has made it impossible to keep food in the house, and pay for the bills/rent. And the reasons they can’t find work are that they don’t have a stable place to put on their applications, can’t pass an interview( when they get one )because of the condition of their looks, and can’t get a call back because they don’t have a phone (because they chose to eat instead of paying a phone bill). It’s really bad. And it’s all brushed under the carpet because a Cheeto felon is running for president.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

Welcome to the Dickensian era.

25points

milamccormick7 , Binyamin Mellish/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Bill in the US Senate to ban major corporations from buying homes (forgive me if even I missed a detail, hilarious how little coverage it's getting).

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Matt Du 22 hours ago

They should heavily tax anyone with multiple homes, incrementally increasing it the more homes you own. This wont have an enormous impact on the middle class that may of bought a second home but it would shake up the rich from hoovering up property. And why not embrace work from home more, then all those city office blocks, can help alleviate the the lack of available homes

64points

ninja_shadow_rider , Rahul Pandit/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#6

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The amount of energy and emissions that AI is going to require/generate over the next 10 years completely undoes all of the environmental advancements we have made in the past 10 years.

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Chich 1 day ago

Read that some tech companies are buying their own nuclear reactors to power this.

23points

Fresh_Water_95 , Lara Jameson/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) War in Sudan. 50 million people in Sudan before it started, estimated 9 million people have been displaced and today 750 thousand are facing imminent starvation. For context there are about 5 million Palestinians total in West Bank and the Gaza Strip. I'm not trying to diminish what's happening in Palestine, just to point out how little attention Sudan gets relative to the size of the human impact it's having.

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Jrog 14 hours ago (edited)

FYI, this is another Putin-related war. The RSF forces (basically, mercenaries formerly employed by the government) have been bankrolled since the early 2010s until last summer by Russia, with training by the infamous Wagner Group. Their scope was to seize power, in the meantime, they spent their happy time doing war crimes in the Darfur region. Last July, Putin -after previously offing Wagner's leader Prigozhin- negotiated a new agreement with the almost-defeated SAF (the closest thing to a state military remaining), providing military support in exchange for access to infrastructures -ports to resupply the Russian supported militias in central Africa- and a stop of sales of Iranian drones to Ukraine.

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Three_hrs_later , Kaboompics.com/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#8

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) In late 2023, we saw the first-ever approval of CRISPR-based medicine: Casgevy, a cure for sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).

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DowntownStevieB 10 hours ago

THIS is going to be HUGE!!

5points

SouthernCynic , Lucas Barrère/Unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Hurricane Helene flooded a factory that makes over half of the IV fluids we use. There is a terrible shortage that is impacting care.

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Roxy222uk 21 hours ago

Half in the world or half in the US?

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JellyfishQuasar , Pixabay/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#10

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The new Euclid telescope is actively taking pictures of space and piecing them together to make a map of our night sky, it just finished the first set.

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David Paterson 22 hours ago

These are worth looking at. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness

22points

TheRealOcsiban , John Brighenti/Flickr Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The Supreme Court is essentially on the ballot but most people don't think about that. They think they're just voting for president, but balance of power on the court is what's truly at stake. Several justices will likely retire in the next 4 years and the president appoints them.

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Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 1 day ago

whose bright idea for the supreme court judges to be appointed by a selected politician? How does that make sense? Where is the true separation of powers ? If a politician is allowed to assign people FOR LIFE to the highest court in the country that actually decides what is and isn't constitutional how is that unbiased and separate from politics?

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DE Ray 21 hours ago (edited)

The Separation of Powers is in that the President appoints the Supreme Court, but only with the approval of the Senate. Unfortunately, the partisanship we've seen in the last 30 years or so means the Senate has largely given up their oversight and review power over appointments in favor of rubber-stamping any appointment from a president of the same party of the Senate majority or obstructing any appointment by a President of the other party. The presidential election is important for who is appointed to the highest court, but the presidential election shouldn't be focused on so much that Senate races are ignored. It matters who serves in the Senate, and whether they are actually responsive to the public or just partisan hacks.

25points

Nimitz 11 hours ago

Not just the Supreme Court, but all judicial appointments. Last time around Trump appointed dozens of judges that were rated as unqualified by their own BAR organizations. This time he'll be even worse as all he cares about is if they're loyal to him personally. The US will be destroyed at a local level, not just federal

7points

Tommy DePaul 4 hours ago

The concept is checks and balances. The President appoints SC justices. The Senate confirms. The Congress can impeach. They can also amend the Constitution to change a decision.

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Jonas Fisher 18 hours ago

What's the alternative?

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Onan Hag All 20 hours ago

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AnnaB 9 hours ago

And there needs to be term limits put in place. This 'for life' bs is insane.

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Child of the Stars 20 hours ago

Something I've been saying for YEARS is that the importance of voting goes WAAAAAY beyond voting for POTUS. Congress, state, and local government are extremely important-arguably more important. And there's always props and other things on the ballot that will have a direct and immediate impact on you and your neighbors such as tax allocation for things like public schools and public transportation. F*****g vote, people!

5points

Beth D 11 hours ago

If RBG had cared enough for her belief system and the balance of power, she would have resigned when Obama was president so HE could have appointed a conservative! I can’t find it in me to forgive her for that.

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Nikole 8 hours ago

I know what you mean…

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Fred L. 14 hours ago

The whole House of Representatives as well as 1/4 Senators and Governors are up, too. There is always so much at stake, and it is frustratingly easy to prevent any progress.

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Mark Alibozek 10 hours ago

Hypothetically speaking. Let's say a person became president and before that happened they committed high crimes that they were found guilty afterwards. If they appointed judges of any level shouldn't those appointments be nulled and revoked? As a criminal of felony level should not have any say or business influencing the court system?

2points

R.A. Haley 10 hours ago (edited)

Not if this hypothetical president is cleared of all charges, for any reason.

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Mental Liberals 11 hours ago

They're all corrupt as well! They all can and are bought...

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Lame Llama 1 day ago

Yup, most people just think of the presidential electing and not the impact in general.

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Livingwithcfs 7 hours ago

The Electoral system in the USA makes no sense, it's not democracy in any form

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Sand Ers 2 hours ago

It was never intended to be. The founders fundamentally distrusted democracy, and built a system very much designed to suppress it, while still giving the appearance of “legitimate” elections. And that was a system open only to rich white men. They’d be horrified at even the limited degree of self-governance we’ve managed to establish, and the breadth of people allowed to vote.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

Only in America.

1point

Jack Hannon 5 hours ago

Several?

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Shelli Aderman 5 hours ago

Oh, we know.

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iseefractals 9 hours ago

On average, presidential election has a voter turnout of 52-60% of eligible voters, while midterm elections have a turnout of 30-35% (local elections, which are often the most impactful on your daily life are often decided by single digit percentage turnout) U.S elections are depressing by every possible metric....but Supreme court appointments might not be at the forefront of peoples minds, but do you really think they care? They've cast their vote because they like, identify or simply think someone is the least worst choice. They either don't care, or they actively support the person having that power.

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Eduardo 14 hours ago

If dims elected, members of supreme court will be increased allowing a liberal majority no matter what.

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Zoey Bear 6 hours ago

And that's a problem?

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Beautiful_Abroad5630 , Zeyn Afuang/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) There are almost 50 million people in modern slavery worldwide, and 12 million of them are children…….

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Magda Hassouni 10 hours ago

This should be higher

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OpossumLadyGames , Kaique Rocha/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) In like half the US it hasn't rained in a month and mount Fuji has like zero snow on it.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

And all that missing rain has fallen in Spain.

38points

GlueSniffingCat , mali maeder/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Forests have started releasing more C02 than they use, insects are going extinct in the united states, and cyanobacteria and algae populations in the oceans have collapsed.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

We're doomed, all doomed. For those of you out there of a certain age, think Dad's Army.

9points

RussellGrey , Kevin Ku/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) A lot of people know, but I don't think people are aware enough that big tech companies get a pass on privacy invasions because the US government can subpoena information from them that the government itself is not allowed to collect. I truly believe this is why the US government is going after TikTok so hard because they're afraid of China using the data from the app the way the US uses data from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

ETA: Also, if TikTok is forced to be sold to American ownership, then they join the American companies in collecting information from Americans and can be compelled by the government like the others.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

Big brother is watching. Mr Orwell would be proud (and be able to say I told you so).

17points

FluffySoftFox , Chokniti Khongchum/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) We may have basically found a treatment for late stage rabies It has been working pretty well in lab test with rats

Similarly we have found a possible treatment for age-related mental diseases such as Alzheimer's by basically reactivating certain healing factors in the brain of rats and the scientists are pretty confident that this should work in the humans too The era of people living to 120-130 is closer than you think, especially when you look at the fact that especially in healthier countries like Japan there are record high numbers of people living to be over 100.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

Just what we all need - to live to 100 and above.

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earnestweasel22 , Thirdman/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) This one is near and dear to me:

Cabozantinib (Cabometyx) is a chemotherapy d**g that may be a new treatment option for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The FDA accepted a supplemental New D**g Application (sNDA) for cabozantinib in August 2024, with a target action date of April 3, 2025. The d**g is intended to treat adults with well- or moderately differentiated pancreatic or extra-pancreatic NETs that are locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

I assume this is the US. Question - how much will it cost?

8points

graveybrains , cottonbro studio/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Multiple d***s are in/going in to human trials to regrow teeth.

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michael Chock 1 day ago

That's the last part of your body you want to grow teeth

48points

HoneyHaze11 , Tobi/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The 2nd cold war is happening as we speak.

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Owen 1 day ago

I think we all know this.

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BearingGruesomeCargo , Anna Shvets/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) In a handful of highly specific cases, people have actually been fully cured of AIDS.

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Huddo's sister 21 hours ago

Wasn't it HIV not AIDS, or am I misremembering?

14points

perry147 , khaled damlakhi/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Syria
1. We have Turkey actively fighting the Kurds in northern Syria, and actively working closely with Russia to do it.
1A. Turkey js a nato member who helping Russia and Turkey just bought a missile defense system from Russia.

2. The US last week bombed a Syrian airport. This is unusual in that the IS normally only fights ISIS in Syria, this was against a Syrian government controlled airport.

3. Iran is actively funding Hezbollah in their fight against Israel. Hezbollah who also support the Syrian government has fighters in Syria fighting.

4. Israel has bombed multiple targets in Syria including the capital.

5. All of this is like a quagmire of alliances, and it looks like the Middle East is just going to keep burning.

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Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 23 hours ago

Well, to be honest Turkey bought s400s from Russia because the prices of US produced equivalent was way too expensive and came with way too many restrictions. Turkey even warned US that if the prices were not dropped it would have to go for Russian option before actually going and buying those. I thought US was all for free market? :D As for Turkey vs Kurds, well. That's an issue. My old country's approach for that particular problem is as complex as many conflicts in history. And just like many conflicts in history, the government is doing a p**s poor job of handling it. Especially Erdogan government is trying to be a recognized power in the area and ruining long established friendships along the way. A true travesty or previous policies. Did you know for instance until Erdogan's government Turkish army never purchased any offensive only type weapon systems? No long range attack ships, no long range missile systems etc. Just so it would not be seen as a threat. Until Erdogan that is

7points

TheBeardedSoul , Blue Ox Studio/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Not to be the Debbie Downer here, but utter and complete social upheaval brought on by ecological and climate collapse.

We aren’t ready for the complete catastrophe that is just around the corner. News sources are barely reporting on the dangers of cascading systems let alone those that have already collapsed.

- AMOC
- BOE
- Natural Carbon Sink Overload
- Soil Quality
- Methane
- Ocean Acidification
- Wildlife Extinction
- the list goes on and on

We aren’t ready for the hell on earth that awaits us. And it’s going to happen much sooner than later.

Estimates of 2100 or end of century are straight up hopium at this point.

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Dumb teenager 21 hours ago

For those struggling with the acronyms AMOC is an ocean current system at risk of collapse. I still have no idea what BOE stands for unless the Bank of England poses an extinction level threat

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DigitalFStop , Belle Co/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#23

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Taiwanese chip manufacturing plants being rigged with explosives in the event of a Chinese invasion and the increase of US Marines being deployed to Taiwan.

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David Paterson 22 hours ago

Did you know that the largest of Taiwan's chip manufacturing plants were destroyed in their last major earthquake. They've had to rebuild from scratch since then.

7points

barbiedollsxo , Markus Spiske/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Data privacy erosion.. the mass surveillance is growing with companies and governments collecting extensive data on people.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

What a surprise.

13points

Belle0516 , Pixabay/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Just how badly our kids need more support at home so they can do well at school. Just how far behind socially and academically our kids are because they don't get enough help at home!

I'm a 5th grade teacher.

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Child of the Stars 20 hours ago

While I agree that kids need more support at home, I truly hope the OP isn't exclusively laying the onus on parents. The need for two incomes just to keep food on the table and a roof over heads, not to mention the lack of affordable healthcare and childcare is a HUGE problem in the States.

22points

Wooden_Number_6102 , Johannes Plenio/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) There's a mining company preparing to blow a hole in
a pristine piece of desert in Nevada. Right next to that hole is a 10 acre spot where a tiny desert plant called Tiehms Buckwheat is eaking out a living.
There are 50% less Tiehms Buckwheat plants now than there were a decade ago because half the population disappeared virtually overnight.
The Bureau of Land Management, which will ultimately permit the mining company, said the plants likely disappeared because of rodents (although the rodents chose an odd time to decimate a plant they've lived next to for hundreds of years).
This little plant grows nowhere else on Earth. It has evolved to thrive in that soil - heavily laced with lithium.
And because lithium extraction is more important, that little plant will likely become extinct.

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Mental Liberals 10 hours ago

As always, follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

8points

seanofkelley , Padli Pradana/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) We're running out of helium
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775554343/the-world-is-constantly-running-out-of-helium-heres-why-it-matters

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Richard Ross 23 hours ago

And yet this precious gas is still being openly wasted in balloons. 🤔

43points

LimeyLoo , Tom Fisk/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Last night in a hospital somewhere near my city, a man was brought in for a broken spinal cord from jumping off of a 2 story building, to try to k*ll himself. He and his girlfriend had been in an argument and he stood on the balcony, threatening to jump, and then did. Obviously survived, because a 2 story house is not tall enough to do the job. He proceeded to call his girlfriend from the hospital to break up with her. A few hours later, his girlfriend jumped off of a 3 story building, successfully k*lling herself.

The crazy s**t happening in the lives of others is always something baffling to me. It’s happening all the time, everywhere, and we have no idea.

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Matt Du 21 hours ago

A moment to late to change, that still eats at me. Very brief backstory. The father was having an affair, wanted a divorce, moving out. The mother wearing a nightie, wanders out into a very bad winter's night. They found her body huddled in a corner the next day. He stayed for the kids. Fast forward the kids are adults and moving out, the father has asked his mistress to marry him. The youngest venomously opposed it, telling his father he was dead to him if he married her. The father jumped off a multistorey carpark. Ironically I worked with both mistress for about three years and the son for about two years, work friends with both. About 18 months later. I'm waiting for my bus home when I get tapped on the shoulder, it's the son. He'd been in a mental facility for over a year and do I want to go for a pint. I had overtaxed my liver forcing me to stop drinking because of my own declining mental health; didn't feel fair to share that, so went home. He jumped off the viaduct that night.

15points

#29

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The Myanmar/Burma Civil War has been going on since 2021. Some 50,000 k*lled and millions displaced.

Putrid_Rock5526 , Channel 4 News Report

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Sand Ers 1 day ago

It’s been going on a lot longer than that. The country hasn’t had a legitimate government or internal stability since the military seized control in 1962. 2021 is simply when the military once again arrested and imprisoned the legitimate government, and resumed open control after a few years of nominal democracy.

17points

MrAlf0nse , Rahool Jeaker/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#30

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Worst Famine in Sudan in 40 years 25million people without food security as a civil war rages around them.

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Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 23 hours ago

And no one notices or cares or helps :(

6points

Sarah_Message91 , Anurag Jamwal/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#31

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) A surprising number of animals are adapting to urban life in ways we barely notice.

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

I'm looking at you Mr Fox.

9points

NoTransportation1383 , cottonbro studio/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#32

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Children of opiate addicts and overdose victims are growing into adults after a lifetime of being ignored and abandoned. Everyone is wonder why the young people are so sick, we have the stats. Millions of people addicted to substances and extreme substances that obliterate parental engagement is starting to show.

Im one of the flood into foster care in the 2010's, now even more parents are overdosing or have moved to fent from traditional hard substances They give their kid computers and then leave them until they are 18 if they don't abandon them physically.

Those kids are becoming sick adults and think they are flawed when they have been consistently disadvantaged their entire life. That adult who never feeds themselves well, doesn't pursue any of their goals or ideas, never spends on their needs, never plans for the future is a child who was ignored and taught their ideas and health weren't valuable or worth pursuing . They weren't taught how to strategically plan and coordinate a project.

Sick adults are child victims who didn't get help. And we are now seeing their apathy and illness rise in real time .

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Montanavanna 17 hours ago

I am now going into year 7 being sober off opiates. My kids have never met the me that is actively addicted and I am very proud of that. If we didn't break kids we might not have to fix adults.

24points

yarabarry7 , Jonathan Borba/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#33

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) They discovered a new antibiotic that k*lls MRSA.

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Susie Elle 1 day ago

No, they discovered a structural class of compounds that, according to deep-learning AI, can fight off MRSA infections, backed up by very promising experimental results from mice studies. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06887-8

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DIYnivor , Micha Brändli/Unsplash(not the actual photo) Report

#34

“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) I learned today that North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to Russia.

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Owen 1 day ago

Apparently, the Russian troops are dissapointed with them.

18points