What is an extremely wholesome fact that could help brighten someone's day?

Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift away

I came here to share this tidbit. So instead I'll add another: Otters collect rocks
- Is this site legit? I just got a popup telling me I had a virus on my phone and I should click on the button to remove it. With a countdown from 3 minutes.
This is all that's necessary.

There's fewer people in poverty now than at any point in history.

The world has always been getting better in global measures of health, food and education if you consider all of humanity.

I don’t think that’s actually true. Have the metrics for what we consider poverty changed and adapted with inflation and the perfecting of corporate wealth hoarding? “Poverty” is an ambiguous term, and relative poverty is real. That doesn’t show in a standard-line “poverty” metric. What was considered “extreme poverty” is the lowest, but that’s people living on under $1.90/day. I couldn’t even find information on that metric being updated to reflect the current high inflation and profit-explosion landscape.
Also: if you technically pull people out of poverty by outsourcing to the lowest paying, least labor regulated parts of the world, is the fact that extreme poverty went away in those areas even a good thing?
- Check out Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- if you technically pull people out of poverty by outsourcing to the lowest paying, least labor regulated parts of the world, is the fact that extreme poverty went away in those areas even a good thing?
  Yes. Your prospects of a healthy life increase when going from not being able to provide for yourself to being barely able to provide for yourself by working in fantastically poor conditions.
  If a sweatshop didn't provide more worker value than extreme poverty, people just wouldn't work there.
  The bare minimum of improvements is still an improvement, and that we should strive for better than the bare minimum doesn't make the bare minimum worthless to the people who got it.
"Fewer people in poverty" seems unlikely.
Now, a lower percentage of people seems like a given
- Statistically, it's both
Even during the Dark Ages?
- Yup.
  They were geographically limited and not as dark as reported

Porcupines make adorable sounds: https://youtu.be/NMeuwYvlBI0

Kemasabe! I love that channel!
It sounds like he is almost able to talk, such speach-like sounds in there!

Margaret Thatcher is still dead.

So is reagan!
- I read this to my wife & she said, “ when Ronald Reagan died, he created the worlds first gender-neutral bathroom”.
Spooky fact: for now.
- First good argument ever for forbidding necromancy
but her grave is still hidden from the public to prevent people from defiling it; so this is neutral at best. lol
- Ok, so something more local but brightening my days since thursday when it happened: Leszek Moczulski finally croaked, a really ghoulish fascist antisemite that was consistently at the wrong side of history. Also in context of pissing on graves, his name means "of the piss" (core word "mocz" - urine)
- I wonder how Reagan's is doing
- It is fenced off on the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, but some good aim with a small catapult could still get the job done.

That "hoy tu, mañana mi" reddit story.

Edit: hoy por ti, mañana por mi

To save it and save people a click to reddit:
- You'd like this movie called Pay it forward
Pass it forward is a good English phrase we don't have in my language

All our 4 cats always sleep on our bed. When I wake up, the oldest one always comes to my head and starts rubbing her head against my head/beard. Our youngest boy just purs like a freighter and walks from nightstand to nightstand, youngest girl almost always climbs under the covers to snuggle. Last lady just keeps sleeping and snores.

All makes me pretty happy.

There is a very skittish mare that I leave alone because of said skittishness. Today while browsing my phone I was leaning on the stall wall right by her not paying attention when suddenly she came up and put her head next to mine in a "what are we looking at" kind of gesture. She stayed there for a bit while I was trying my best to stay still and not let my excitement show too much. It made me feel special.

Bees engage in play with spheres!

Geese can be trained to be your mates

Just feed them dandelion leaves every day when you're passing them and eventually you can pet them. Takes a month or so

Still cunts though and they peck your shoes sometimes

If you were born near the turn of the century, you will likely see fusion power, peopled-mars missions, an end to colonialism, a shared global peace, and the beginning of a star trek future within your lifetime, thanks to the PRC and many other countries.

- Go back to reddit.
I truly wish I shared your optimism. As it stands, I’d be fine with the US not devolving into fascism.
an end to colonialism, a shared global peace
Just this would be very very wholesome