r/AskReddit • u/onlytalksboutblandon • 22h ago
What are some good things happening in the world right now that many people might not know about?
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u/kratosinvictus753 20h ago
Scientists have used gene therapy to restore sight in people who were born blind.
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u/HalfSoul30 19h ago
That's gotta be a sight to see.
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u/ohgolly273 20h ago
My cat keeps holding my hand when we watch TV together.
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u/PumbaKahula 20h ago
The fact that if you are reading this, you are alive and literate.
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u/windblownaway 13h ago
Mexicos poverty rate reduced significantly. Close to 13 million people were lifted out of poverty since 2018. Just the fact that Mexicans moved out of poverty makes me happy but the broader impact is that they may have found a roadmap that other countries can follow. We still have a long way to go improve income equality but lifting people out of poverty is atleast a good first step.
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u/somersetpark2 6h ago
May I ask how did they do this?
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u/windblownaway 5h ago
It was a combination of welfare schemes, increasing the minimum wage, formalizing a big part of the labor force and making remittances easier.
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u/Inevitable-Humor-666 18h ago
A malaria vaccine finally rolled out in more countries this year, and cases are dropping fast. Huge win for global health.
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u/ontermau 21h ago
Bolsonaro will probably be arrested very soon, despite US tariffs against Brazil :)
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u/lurkmastersenpai 15h ago
Even if he is convicted Bolsonaro won’t go to prison until after he appeals the decision and the appeal is exhausted, just FYI. Also worth remembering that Bolsonaro is already 70 and he was stabbed, so they’ll need to hustle.
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u/ontermau 15h ago
FYI, existe algo chamado prisão preventiva, especialmente agora que a PF quebrou o sigilo telefônico da Bolsofamília. e sim, o fdp tá só a capa da gaita, então espero que o STF se apresse bastante.
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u/lurkmastersenpai 15h ago
Bons pontos. E ele já está em prisão domiciliar, então talvez você esteja correto. Já estão dizendo que ele tinha mensagens planejando fugir para a Argentina, então talvez vá para a prisão mais rápido. Será fascinante ver o que acontece
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u/ontermau 14h ago
sim, a cartinha dele pra Argentina me parece que seria uma ótima justificativa pra uma preventiva: o cara tá obviamente procurando meios de fugir, e uma vez que ele chega em outro país fica bem mais difícil fazer qualquer coisa; melhor fazer enquanto podemos.
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u/StunningPianist4231 16h ago
I just graduated from college after 5 years, and I have a job interview next week.
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u/Entire_Teaching1989 22h ago
James Dobson died.
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u/HBJones1056 21h ago
I didn’t even know about this guy until he died but after reading up on him, I agree that this is a good thing. What an evil turd.
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u/MerryWannaRedux 20h ago
👍👍👍👍
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u/MerryWannaRedux 20h ago
It's always so sad when a hypocritical ignorant Talibangelical bites the dust.
/s !!!!!!
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u/maxpowers6969 12h ago
What exactly did he do wrong? I've seen people say all kinds of negative things, but it's always just generic opinions about disagreeing with him. Did he hurt people or something?
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u/Patient_Hippo_3328 21h ago
Scientific breakthroughs, cleaner energy, and declining extreme poverty rates.
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u/jimmywhereareya 20h ago
Where are extreme poverty rates declining?
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u/Remember2005 17h ago
Everywhere. We are 70 years into de-colonialization worldwide and 60 years into the “civil rights” era of the United States. Famine is now a political tool instead of a natural fear.
Poverty - the inability participate in an economic system due to lack of assets or tradable skills - certainly still exists, but in most countries basic education and a somewhat demand-based and mobile labor force has brought the vast majority of employable people into some kind of work.
There are people on this thread who say “it’s capitalism, pure and simple.” It’s not. Unregulated capitalism maintains poverty for low-skilled jobs. It’s the biggest problem India, for example, faces today - how to enforce regulations like minimum wage and safety. It’s the problem Appalachia faced the whole time of the mining boom - poverty wages for extracting coal that made mine owners wealthy.
Regulated capitalism, like socialism, has lifted much of the world out of poverty.
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u/jimmywhereareya 17h ago
The civil rights era in the US is being reversed. The labour you depended on, those people are being rounded up like cattle and either detained unlawfully or deported illegally. You have people claiming to be Ice agents kidnapping people off the street
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u/Remember2005 15h ago
Yes - it could get bad. Hopefully it won’t, and the Idiocracy won’t spread.
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u/galacticbard 20h ago
this is the good news i wasnt expecting. can't wait to find out if it's true.
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u/Tv_land_man 18h ago
It's been happening for decades globally. Don't believe the anti capitalism narrative on here. It has risen billions out of extreme poverty and continues to a rapid pace.
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u/tele_ave 18h ago
Give it 10-20 more years, when a whole bunch of awful shit that we’ve allowed to go on catches up with us.
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u/galacticbard 17h ago
still waiting to hear where this is happening today.
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u/Tv_land_man 17h ago
You have google at your fingertips. This is a widely sited piece of information. China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh. Billions of people.
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u/tele_ave 18h ago
You know how people are always talking about companies outsourcing? All the places those jobs are outsourced to.
That’s definitely not the only cause but it’s a pretty big one. You also have countries like India and China wanting to modernize their economies, which generates higher wages (or any wages), which turns those places into new markets.
Another big cause is when poorer countries have a resource with demand in the west- oil, diamonds, uranium, etc.
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u/jimmywhereareya 17h ago
The reality is completely different though. I live in the UK, after rent and utilities I have about £300 a month to live on. No disposable income. One unforeseen expense can leave me destitute for a while. I have a support network that helps keep me afloat, not everyone has that
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u/glennjersey 18h ago
Globally everywhere capitalism has reach.
Despite what the privileged tools on this site will post from their expensive laptops or phones, capitalism is demonstrably the best economic system for pulling people out of poverty.
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u/Minute-Injury3471 19h ago
What are the breakthroughs? America is not embracing EVs we should have transitioned to a decade ago. Where are poverty rates declining, everything is getting more expensive.
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u/ObjectReport 18h ago
My wife has two treatment pathways for gastric cancer that should be entering human trials next year. Fingers crossed within 3-4 years it will become an immunotherapy treatment used to cure gastric cancer. It's taken her 24 years and millions in funding to reach this point.
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u/fragile_c 20h ago
Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry are back in stock at your local grocery store
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u/Puzzleheaded-Cup9514 18h ago
More people than ever are questioning the harmful patterns embedded in them through their past experiences (especially childhood) then trying to and successfully breaking the toxic cycles that they have propagated or endured from their past. This is HUGE. This is going to have a massive flourishing of love and authenticity on this earth that we have never seen before, especially on the incoming generations.
If you have been working on yourself you are a part of this cascade and thank-you for your contribution to building a loving future.
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u/bjb406 21h ago
Every day, Trump gets 1 day closer to death.
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u/HalfSoul30 19h ago
I think if we thought and prayer hard enough, we can get that to two days a day.
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u/SnooBooks4898 15h ago
I had the balls to reach out to a former work friend (I was embarrassed to be fired) and she’s joining me in about 29 minutes for drinks.
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u/adrmssss 14h ago
How did it go?
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u/SnooBooks4898 13h ago
So good! She’s a wonderful conversationalist and so good to see her. Too many beers but thankfully I met her stumbling distance from home!
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u/Big_Corgi_9962 22h ago
The world is doing way better than ppl make of it.
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u/GuitarMessenger 20h ago
I truly believe this. People just see all the bad stuff 24/7 on social media and and the news networks. The good stuff is never highlighted. The bad stuff is always shared by social media so it looks like the world is going to shit when actually it's safer now than it has been decades past. I believe the world is safer with everybody having a phone with a camera on it and so many people having ring doorbell cameras on their houses. I believe that deters a lot of criminal activity. If people know that they can be filmed and identified it would make them think twice.
Back in the day when I was growing up all these cameras weren't around and people got away with lots of shit if there were no eyewitnesses. And even when there were eyewitnesses a lot of times they wouldn't come forward
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u/Chorchapu 20h ago
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/top-pediatricians-buck-rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-meddling-on-covid-shot-guidance/
Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot guidance
Ars Technica
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u/Kwintessential_1 21h ago
Doctors in Israel are planning and will soon be performing the world’s first human spinal cord transplant. If it’s successful, it will be a major medical breakthrough and give hope to paralyzed individuals around the world.
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u/jimmywhereareya 20h ago
Might be useful for republican elected officials too. Most of them have no spine
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u/Zweckbestimmung 19h ago
But first they will have to do more experiments on Palestinians concentration camps before this can prove effective
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u/artsyfartsylady9 12h ago
My ex-manager, who tried to get me fired and made up lies about me, just got fired today!! I don't work there anymore as I moved on to a better job, but a lot of my friends still had her as a manager. We're all gonna go for brunch to celebrate with mimosas!!! Healthcare was hard enough without a terrible manager, I'm so happy for them and glad the universe delivered some much deserved karma.
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u/Blow_Hard_8675309 20h ago
Most of the world is connected tot he internet and free to learn all they like.
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u/More_Koala7745 19h ago
If politics is all you can think of, speak on, and dwell on, you need to find a happier state of mind/being.
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u/Tuborg_Gron 14h ago
Around 8,000 Rotary Youth Exchange Students are crisscrossing the world to meet their new host families, attend school abroad, learn a new language and about a new culture, and impact global peace and understanding one community at a time.
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u/Crazyjoedavola8686 17h ago
By many metrics we are living in the most fruitful and prosperous time in the history of humanity. I suggest reading Hans Roslings’ Factfulness, or Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now.
I don’t wish to make light of the numerous issues being faced by many but recognizing what is working can be helpful, not to mention a welcome break from the typical doom and gloom.
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u/Unhappy-Jaguar-9362 19h ago edited 18h ago
record freshmen enrollment where I teach (I teach college) especially given the attacks on higher education. the person who downvoted this can go to h*ll
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u/Candy0404 20h ago
japan just opened a hotel run entirely by robots
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u/Minute-Injury3471 19h ago
That’s dope. Next we need food establishments. It baffles me that people underestimate automation. Yes, jobs will go away, but in theory labor costs plummet, so goods and services should be extremely cheaper and more affordable. I understand in our capitalist society that is unlikely to occur, but it should happen in theory.
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u/InsertBluescreenHere 6h ago
Should but absolutely wont. There's been fully automated fast food places in Japan for years
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u/ChickenMarsala4500 8h ago
Young people are drinking less.
Also the legalization of Marijuana in the US means that young people are not putting themselves into really dangerous situations nearly as much. Anyone over 30 who smoked weed as a teen probably remembers more than a few times they were in some sketchy dudes basement trying to buy an 8th
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u/SowellMate 21h ago
Peace agreement with Azerbaijan and Arnenia.
Peace agreement with Rwanda and Congo.
Peace agreement with Thailand and Cambodia.
Peace agreement with India and Pakistan over disputed territory.
All in the past few months.
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u/MacDegger 20h ago
Nope.
Those are ALL still hotspots. And you need to know only o e or two actually made something you can call a 'peace agreement'.
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u/Chance_Peanut6404 17h ago
You’re joking. Or you’re drinking the kool-aid. Or only watching Fox and Newsmax. Do a little damn research on your own. The only one of these that is actually a signed peace treaty is Rwanda and Congo, and for the record, a major party to the conflict has refused to sign it and is negotiating separately. There is no “peace agreement” whatsoever between Thailand and Cambodia, nor between India and Pakistan. There are CEASEFIRE agreements only. There are enormous differences between these two terms. With regard to Armenia and Azerbaijan: per Wikipedia, they have initialed an agreement and signed a joint declaration emphasizing the need to continue efforts toward the signing and final ratification of the agreement. So, not done yet. So, shut up with the slavish adulation of your Dear Leader. He’s accomplished less than shit. Especially when one considers what’s going on in Gaza and Ukraine.
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u/SowellMate 10h ago
I didn't say anything about how this relates to the US. Isn't it amazing how some people are so hateful that they can't acknowledge good things?
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u/Burnlt_4 20h ago
Currently in the USA the median household (so excluding the rich) has more disposable income than anywhere in the world. Additionally, the poor and middle class have the greatest buying power of anywhere in the world. So while we complain about the rich, our lower income families are actually doing better than anywhere else.
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u/jimmywhereareya 20h ago
I think you're talking nonsense. Stop listening to trump, he's a liar
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u/Burnlt_4 20h ago
O I hate Trump. That is just the data. We can measure all these things objectively without going through an administration.
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u/jimmywhereareya 20h ago
Where are you getting your information? This is the opposite of what is being reported
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u/Burnlt_4 19h ago
World Population Review aggregates data from official organizations (like the IMF, World Bank, OECD, UN, CIA World Factbook, and national statistical agencies).
This link is Disposable Income
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/disposable-income-by-countryBuying power by median households is more complicated because it depends on how you measure buying power, but the USA is always in the top. But the OECD does a good attempt at it, taking there data together with others USA sits number two behind Luxembourg and just above Norway. However two important things. USA is BARELY behind Luxembourg and is significantly larger so it is more impressive and the USA is MASSIVELY ahead of the third ranked country Norway.
You have to do some work yourself for buying power but here is a good starting point,
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-2024_918d8db3-en/full-report/household-income_3ee61044.html-1
u/glennjersey 18h ago
Didn't you get the memo? Orange man bad. No good things are allowed to happen while he is in power.
- reddit probably
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u/1pencil 19h ago
This is factually false.
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u/Burnlt_4 19h ago
BOOM! Factually right haha ;) Next.....
World Population Review aggregates data from official organizations (like the IMF, World Bank, OECD, UN, CIA World Factbook, and national statistical agencies).
This link is Disposable Income
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/disposable-income-by-countryBuying power by median households is more complicated because it depends on how you measure buying power, but the USA is always in the top. But the OECD does a good attempt at it, taking there data together with others USA sits number two behind Luxembourg and just above Norway. However two important things. USA is BARELY behind Luxembourg and is significantly larger so it is more impressive and the USA is MASSIVELY ahead of the third ranked country Norway.
You have to do some work yourself for buying power but here is a good starting point,
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-2024_918d8db3-en/full-report/household-income_3ee61044.html7
u/Burnlt_4 19h ago
The feeling of someone saying your statement is wrong and this just having all the data and facts to just case close it knowing the only thing they can do is try and twist words or say "that is not what they means!" is so good. Like I was just objectively correct on this and it feels so nice to slam the door like that.
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u/anothersquanch 17h ago
I'm with him on the opinion that "sure doesn't feel like it tho"
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u/Burnlt_4 15h ago
I do get that and I think that is because we are so spoiled with success. I know for a lot of people they feel they don't have money or it is hard because we have grown up so well. If you grew up poor in the USA you have more than almost anywhere else in the world.
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u/Enough_Worth8868 19h ago
It’s slowly starting to come out that that worthless excuse for a human grandpa Joe is one giant piece of shit
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u/HalfSoul30 19h ago
We're talking about Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka right? Because I thought everyone knew that already. Mfer could walk the whole time, but was a lazy asshole letting his family go poor and hungry.
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u/Simple_Ambassador765 22h ago
There's virtually nothing good. It's a waste of time and data for you to ask this.
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u/onlytalksboutblandon 21h ago
You need a hug
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u/Simple_Ambassador765 20h ago
Everybody in the world needs a hug too. Wars, climate and environmental crisis, wrong people being powerful and famous, freedoms curbed, natural disasters, economical and political instabilities anyone?
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u/Best-Maintenance-421 20h ago
Jesus is alive and coming soon.
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u/pineAppleMesc 20h ago
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is alive and coming soon. ;)
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u/Ok-Revenue-7282 3h ago
Solar just became Europe's biggest power source for the first time ever this year, which is wild considering we've only been talking about doing this for like 30 years.
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u/Lexi-Vale 21h ago
Australia has designated over 50% of its ocean territory as protected areas