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You know what comment I get on every single one of these Roundups? Every week, someone will come into the comments and say that the news I shared is all well and good, but no one should get complacent.
“Don’t get complacent!”
Of course, the goal of these posts is to do the opposite of complacency. People cannot and will not act without hope. Without hope we stay home. Without hope we hide under our beds.
So I share reasons to be hopeful with the goal of INCREASING activity.
However, week after week people post “lets not get complacent” in the comments because the assumption is that people will see that there are reasons to be hopeful about the election and will decide not to work hard.
I get the concern. A lot of people WERE complacent in 2016 when the polls had Hillary so far ahead and it hurt us badly. Secretary Clinton says people come up to her all the time and tell her how they didn’t bother to vote because they thought it was in the bag and how regretful they are.
So yes, we were once complacent.
But in addition to strongly believing that hope motivates us more than it makes us lazy, I also think that complacency is just not something most of us even have in us anymore.
Honestly, can you even imagine being complacent? With Trump running for President? Can you even imagine thinking “yah this will be fine. I don’t need to do anything” Seriously, try for a minute to even think about the LUXURY of being complacent. The luxury of holding that childlike innocence that everything will just turn out.
Trump took that from us. Complacency is the last thing I worry about. And its the last thing you should worry about too.
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Poll #1: Who Won the Week?
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Bill lets me repeat the results of his research. He arrayed the following items in his popular Who Won the Week? poll in Friday’s Cheers and Jeers. Many people already voted in that poll. Please enjoy Bill’s on-point analysis and wit, vote in his poll, Rec his diaries, get on his bandwagon, send him a donation, and earn his blessing.
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The Five R’s of the Resistance:
- Resist: Protest on the streets, call senators and representatives, etc.
- Rebel: Run for office, GOTV (Get Out The Vote), support a progressive.
- Revolt: Change the laws, change the culture, build your communities.
- Rely: Trust that millions of others are fighting the good fight.
- Rest: Take care of yourself, we are in this for the long term.
WineRev’s Good and Goofy Notes
Watch for WineRev’s G&G notes in the comments to see what others went through, struggled with, and surmounted in the past. His G&G comments are mini Good News Roundups. You can find all his comments here, even today’s, once he posts it. Tech Tip: You can search for >>> in Roundups to quickly find his comments.
WineRev, yesterday:
GoodNewsRoundup has the Saturday Roundup, and would you look at that? She went out there in the opening paragraphs, looked Complacency square in the eye, gave that Clint Eastwood squint and muttered in a close-up-on-the-lips clip: “Get out of town.”
That’s us, here at the Good News Round Up! The Gnuville Breakfast Brunch and Non-Complacent (and sometimes Non-Compliant) Lounge is purposefully open this morning for your reading and pleasure. The No Nonsense/Straight Ahead Morning Beverage station is featuring Four Square Coffee, Beaten Down/Not Around the Bush Tea, Grab Ya by the Shirt Mocha-Cocoa, and/or Drain it to the Bottom to Start the 2nd One Mimosas to launch your Saturday.
You can get your food in the fried, zapped, baked or poured-in-a-bowl-with-milk order put in and have it delivered in the Non-Complacent Lounge. The Wi-Fi there is humming, the pixels are flying, and that long table even features a set of polished steel chairs hard by the metal table-top for those who want to read, rec, comment, reply, add to, refine or digress on their screens while publicly showing off by their choice of furniture just how Non-Complacent they can be. But every one of you tuning in is issued an Activist Pass to attest to your Non-Complacency, so in the Lounge we all know you’re good for it----so go ahead and pick out a recliner, a wingback, a sofa, a side table, several pillows and make use of those “coffee” tables that are great foot rests.
The Round Up is Non-Complacently open and we thank GoodNewsRoundup for getting us going here on the Eve of Trial Eve coming monday, Monday, MONDAY!!
Science
Rise above the swamp:
Scientists develop method to transform plastic waste into a powerful climate solution: 'It's a game-changer'
by Wes Stenzel, The Cool Down: Scientists have developed a method that will allow plastic waste to be used in chemical reactions that make toxic compounds safer — and the process involves smashing plastic bags with a metal ball.
Plastic bags — like the kind you find in grocery stores — have long been detrimental to human, animal, and environmental health because of choking hazards and the fact that they take hundreds of years to break down.
Now, researchers at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD) at Hokkaido University have discovered that when plastic bags are thrown into a ball mill (which rapidly mixes solids using a steel ball), their chemical bonds break apart, creating radicals, which are agents that set off chemical reactions that lead to dehalogenation, according to Interesting Engineering.
Please share good science news with us! (Especially JSWT, health, environment.)
A good place to look for science news if you are waiting for the Sunday Roundup is the archive of Overnight News Digest. On Saturdays, the OND always focuses on science, though not all of it is devoted to what I would call Good Science News.
Need more good news?
… arhpdx posted a list of good news sites toward the top of a recent Roundup, or you can find that same list in my comment: Good News Sources. Thank you, arhpdx and Mokurai!
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