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This community is intended to diffuse the good things that happening in the news. Since we value social justice and environement, some contents are prohibited:

-Gratuitous aggressivity.

-Off-topic.

-Good news from a capitalistic or reactionary viewpoint (no "anti-woke", AI or crypto BS).

-News that are too anecdotical, like everyday kindness or common positive events.

-News which goodness depends of your personal tastes, like the victory of your favorite soccer team or the release of a movie you were waiting for.

-Disguised bad news.

-Fake news.

-Orphan crushing machines.

-Good news not yet concretized, like political promises, petitions, protests, denounciations (though some exceptions are tolerated, like political defeat of an explicitely shady politician or a protest carrying a particularly large amount of people).

-Scientific discoveries that does not improve health, social justice or environment.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I do agree with you. But your sentiment applies to primary school teachers across the globe too. Children at that level are not typically taught by science teachers who are passionately against these kinds of simplifications. Those people end up teaching older children/teenages/adults who are more able to discern these differences.

My parenting style would be much more scientific than this. Though pushing it further, you could argue that it does disappear, it's no longer visible. Though I doubt the authors of the article made that distinction