“What Are The Most Positive Things You See About The Modern World?”: 35 Replies By The Bored Panda Community

This is how I met my first customer for my artwork and my current boyfriend. I may have never drummed up the courage to take an international trip if I hadn't met him, and I'm glad I got over that fear and went to see him, while giving myself a much needed vacation. I got family all over, but with social media and email I can show them my artwork and family photos, and keep in touch. I got to meet a long lost cousin, and chat with another long lost cousin. As much as people bash social media, when used right it can be blessing.

I have an author friend in Australia who sends me jokes in emails almost every day...now for over a year!!! Read his book several times (that he sent to me)...never met him in person. Wonderful chap.

I remember meeting up with a group of online friends for the first time in Philadelphia back in 1991, to see a Yes concert. It was really, really cool to meet all these folks that had previously been just email addresses. And that was 30 years ago (wow), so the technology was a lot more...primitive. No pictures, no videos, no nothing. We described our appearances and one guy who was skilled at drawing attempted to draw us from our descriptions. He did a really good job. Had a blast. Will remember that day forever.

Awesome!

I had this happen in 1995 with a listserv.

Lovely idea but even in supposedly national health care countries, there is never equality to access, never.

For everyone who can afford it. Sadly...

I agree

Yes, half the people on this planet have no access to basic healthcare, and the other half have some very vocal people refusing to use it. My mom for example took some convincing from my doctor cousin to get vaccinated, and just last week told me she “doesn’t believe in antibiotics”, instead treating her bacterial infection with herbs.

We are the first humans EVER to have stopped a pandemic

Definitely. I I wanna slap people sometimes when they go "I wish I lived in this era." Really? You'd be executed or invaded. Stop being ridiculous

I am a leftie and proud. Your leftie discrimination cannot stop me.

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People should be free to do what they like, I just dislike the over-the-top crap from constant drag queen stuff on TV and massive "pride" events to over the top PDA (any gender and sexuality), why do people's private lives needs to be made so public these days??

Dogs and cats are the best argument that maybe god exists

Just took in a young stray cat, she does this every morning, meows and kews like a baby , who just deserts her in the street

This is something that never changes, something steady and constant in this fast moving world of which I am grateful.

So did the boomers, back when they were the hippies. People grow up, settle down, plant roots and want STUFF.

It's because the current generation are so down trodden they can't afford anything material!!

There always was, always will be some of each, the concious, the unconcious, the collectors, the unburdeners and all everchanging as we go along.

Fake news

Electricity is nice there some things that make a better way of life for some people they rely on it.

I agree. This pandemic whatsapp, skype and other platforms have been incredible for people to keep in touch with loved ones. Also for all the people who live far from friends and family. Tha my to my phone I can chat anytime I want with my loved ones or even see their faces.

And tech has allowed me to avoid everyone and everything. Getting everything ordered on-line and delivered to my back door. Seeing who's calling and ignoring that call. Working from home. On-line doctor visits. I also avoid all social media - I get notifications, but it's to satisfying to ignore them.

I rebuke most of your comments thusly: People can now be harassed by their boss 24/7. Cheap crap that is made by kids/slave labour and then gets shipped around the world at huge environmental cost just to break quickly. People still die all the time, and more things are mutating or becoming resistant. Cooking is convenient, but plastic waste is ridiculous, and again, shipping of even native food items around the world. In the first world, kids are great, but in many other countries they're still slave labour to make cheap junk for the rich countries. Constantly light is NOT a good thing, wasteful of resources and bad for sleep patterns of humans and animals alike. Poo in the street when floods happen because every city is becoming a concrete spillway and our water management sucks. Tap water isn't safe to drink in several countries, and then there's all the countries without even taps. I've apparently hit the character limit...

"No poo in the streets..." <-- some parts of Brazil, India and USA beg to differ

Hi Kika, being that you are an anti-vaxxer, if you do not go out or interact with society in any way whatsoever, then your personal choice would not affect anyone else. However since you refused to get vaccinated from contagious diseases, please understand that if you do go out anywhere, shopping, the gym, a restaurant, a nightclub, a movie theater, a library, the hospital, etc etc etc, then you increase the risk of picking up a disease and passing it to someone else, possibly causing severe injury and even death to them. So do not think for 1 second that your personal choice on this matter will not affect anyone in that way.

The American Medical Association's lobbyists and the politicians they bought started screwing up US Healthcare decades ago. The anti-tax agenda promoted by some politicians in exchange for money from lobbyists and donations of the very wealthy has made the system dramatically worse. Despite all that, medicine continues to advance because there is so much monetary incentive. Unfortunately, it would require a dramatic adjustment to the current political system before everyone has access to the advancements.

70% are either not vaccinated or out of date on boosters. If you are vaccinated and you got all your boosters, you are in the minority.

I would like to tell what I (and many non-corrupted scientists) think about t.ex. covid "vaccine", but of course I would be banned from the forum. It is called freedom of speech.