Human kindness thread

Os Trigonum · Jul 8, 2021

Nook said: ↑

I was being sarcastic.
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and sarcasm makes the world a better place, so there you go

Roc Paint · Jul 8, 2021

Just checking in to see how all of my beautiful innocent humans are doing this afternoon

HTM · Jul 8, 2021

Nook said: ↑

I was being sarcastic.
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It's not so easy to tell. A lot of Plaintiff's attorney's advertise their sanctimony. I think they may really believe it too. It's repulsive.

Nook · Jul 8, 2021

HTM said: ↑

It's not so easy to tell. A lot of Plaintiff's attorney's advertise their sanctimony. I think they may really believe it too. It's repulsive.
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Oh course they believe it and many of them are scumbags.

90% of plaintiff attorney's are just about the money and don't care about their clients.

Nook · Jul 8, 2021

Roc Paint said: ↑

Just checking in to see how all of my beautiful innocent humans are doing this afternoon
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Doing well, looking for someone to kick.

You?

Roc Paint · Jul 8, 2021

Nook said: ↑

Doing well, looking for someone to kick.

You?
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You just need to keep kicking your can, and you’ll be OK

Roc Paint · Jul 8, 2021

I see stumbling bumbling Biden is not being very humanitarian against the Afghanistan’s

Andre0087 · Jul 8, 2021

Roc Paint said: ↑

I see stumbling bumbling Biden is not being very humanitarian against the Afghanistan’s
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Afghan (Pashto/Persian: افغان) refers to someone or something from Afghanistan, in particular a citizen of that country.

Roc Paint · Jul 8, 2021

Andre0087 said: ↑

Afghan (Pashto/Persian: افغان) refers to someone or something from Afghanistan, in particular a citizen of that country.
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The middle east spelling police

lol

Roc Paint · Jul 8, 2021

Here’s a good one for all of you. I just bought a scratch ticket they paid me $200. The lady behind the counter gave me $210. So I took it upon myself to go back and pay back the $10
Humanity

Buck Turgidson · Jul 9, 2021

Andre0087 said: ↑

Afghan (Pashto/Persian: افغان) refers to someone or something from Afghanistan, in particular a citizen of that country.
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Nook · Jul 9, 2021

Roc Paint said: ↑

Here’s a good one for all of you. I just bought a scratch ticket they paid me $200. The lady behind the counter gave me $210. So I took it upon myself to go back and pay back the $10
Humanity
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Did you get her number?

Roc Paint · Jul 9, 2021

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Did you get her number?
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No I tipped her an extra 10 to show me her boobs

Os Trigonum · Jul 10, 2021

the sheer heroism of fat guys

daywalker02 · Jul 10, 2021

Os Trigonum said: ↑

"A mechanic opened a restaurant. On his days off, he fixes junk cars and gives them to people in need":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/07/07/car-repair-restaurant-eliot-middleton/

A mechanic opened a restaurant. On his days off, he fixes junk cars and gives them to people in need.

By Sydney Page
July 7, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

On Christmas Day last year, Eliot Middleton showed up unannounced at Melanie Lee’s home in Andrews, S.C., with a white 1993 Oldsmobile.

What happened next shocked her: Middleton, who she had never met before, put the key to the Oldsmobile in her hand. He didn’t charge her a dime. He just gave her the car, no strings attached.

“I had no idea what was going on,” said Lee, 59. “He handed me the keys and didn’t ask for anything.”

She is one of 33 people Middleton has gifted with a car in the last nine months. Middleton, 38, is a restaurant owner and former auto mechanic who spends his spare time repairing used cars and giving them to people in need in rural South Carolina.

“There’s a lack of transportation in the rural areas, and I knew I could use my previous experience in mechanics to help,” Middleton said.

Only a few weeks before Middleton dropped off the car, Lee’s 33-year-old son, who was ill for several years, passed away. After driving daily for two hours to and from the hospital in Charleston to visit him, her 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe broke down.

She took the car to a shop to replace the transmission, but “I had no means of paying for it,” she said.

She needed a car to help with child care for her two granddaughters, who are 12 and 6 and rely on her to pick them up from school every day and drive them to dance rehearsal.

“This car meant everything to me,” said Lee about her refurbished Oldsmobile. “It was so needed.”

The idea to fix and donate old vehicles came spontaneously to Middleton in early 2020, after he hosted a food drive and several local families showed up with no transportation. They walked more than four miles to get a hot meal.

In a Facebook post, he made a call out to the local community in search of junk cars. He later pledged to trade slabs of his specialty, barbequed ribs, in exchange for broken-down vehicles.

Since transportation is a big issue in the area, he said, in many cases, cars are the only reliable way to get to work, shopping centers and doctors’ appointments.

“There’s no public transportation in the area whatsoever,” explained Middleton, who lives in McClellanville, a small fishing town on the Atlantic coast with a population of about 600 people. “We don’t have taxis and Ubers. Without a car, people don’t have a way to get around.”

So, Middleton — who co-owns Middleton & Maker Village BBQ, a restaurant in the neighboring town of Awendaw, S.C. — decided to put his auto mechanic skills to use the two days a week he’s not at the restaurant.

So far, nearly 100 vehicles have been donated for him to fix up.

On any given day, there are at least 20 clunkers in Middleton’s yard — which he has transformed into a makeshift auto shop. At one point “we had 57 cars at my house,” he said.

While some cars only need simple fixes like new tires or an oil change, others require a complete overhaul. If a vehicle is in really bad shape, Middleton harvests it for parts to repurpose.

Prior to jumping into the restaurant industry, Middleton worked as an auto mechanic for 15 years. As a young boy in McClellanville, his plan was to follow in his father’s footsteps.

“My dad was a mechanic, and I would hang out around his shop since I was 4 years old,” Middleton said. “I’ve always been fascinated by cars.”

After he graduated high school, Middleton trained to become an auto mechanic, and in 2004, he and his father opened up their own auto service together. In was then, he said, that he first realized the dire need for transportation support in rural communities.

“We had a lot of single moms as customers, and we always ran into problems with them not having enough funds,” Middleton recalled. “We spoke about trying to find a way to help them, but we never had the chance to sit down and figure something out.”

Whenever they started to brainstorm ideas, something got in the way. Middleton’s father’s health began to decline, and in 2014, they closed the shop. Barbecuing has always been a side passion for Middleton, he said, so he decided to change course and pursue it professionally.

Still, despite leaving the auto industry, the notion of repairing used vehicles for people in need remained a shared goal for Middleton and his father.

But after receiving the first donated car in January 2020, several things in their lives took priority, including Middleton’s father’s failing health — he died in March 2020. Around the same time, Middleton opened a new restaurant, just as the coronavirus pandemic was taking hold.

“Things started changing in my life, and I couldn’t focus on the car program the way I wanted to,” said Middleton, who has two daughters, ages 14 and 8.

By September 2020, though, Middleton felt ready, with fresh motivation to honor his father’s legacy. He repaired the first car — a 1997 navy Toyota Camry — and gave it to an unemployed single mother of two children, one of whom is disabled and requires regular medical appointments.

“She was astonished about the car being hers and she was crying,” said Middleton, adding that he heard about the woman’s financial challenges through a mutual friend on Facebook, and offered to surprise her with the car. “That felt great. I could feel my dad’s presence around me, and I could hear him saying ‘this is exactly what we always wanted to do.’”

Within two months, the same woman was able to land a stable job, and she recently contacted Middleton to say she bought herself a new car and is donating the one he gave her back to him.

“That blew me away,” Middleton said.

The car program continued to gain momentum, and Middleton, who was initially funding the repairs out of pocket, decided to start a nonprofit called Middleton’s Village to Village to bolster the effort.

Through word of mouth, requests to donate used cars started pouring in, including from Alice Blake, who offered up her red 2002 Oldsmobile Bravada.

“I know how well the car served me, and I’m hoping it can do the same for someone else,” said Blake, 57.

She considered restoring the vehicle and keeping it for herself, but when she heard about Middleton’s initiative, she decided to donate it and buy a new car.

“I don’t even have words to express how happy it made me feel,” she said.

Middleton’s waitlist of people needing cars grows by the day. While some people contact him directly explaining their need for a vehicle, others ask to surprise friends or family members with a car.

“It’s moving so fast it’s just incredible,” Middleton said. “There is no free time between the restaurant and the program, but I don’t get tired. Something just keeps pushing me to do more.”

The generosity of donors coupled with the elated reaction from recipients, he said, energizes him to keep going.

Mike Jennings, 31, was completely floored when Middleton showed up at his home in Hanahan, S.C., with a refurbished 2000 Subaru Forester.

“I knew he did it for people, but I never thought I’d be getting one,” said Jennings, who is also an auto mechanic and regularly volunteers to fix cars with Middleton. “It’s awesome to be able to help out and see other people receive cars also.”

Jennings’s own car died, and his fiancé was furloughed during the pandemic. Thanks to Middleton, “I was able to keep paying the bills and keep a roof over my family’s head,” he said.

Local officials say the car program has had an effect on their small towns, and in October, Middleton won a Jefferson Award, a national honor that recognizes Americans who exhibit exceptional public service.

“People think Eliot is an angel, and I do, too,” said Frank McClary, the mayor of Andrews S.C. “You’d think he has a team behind him, but it’s just him and it blows me away.”

“Somehow, someway, he is finding the energy to be a great father and a great community leader, and it’s absolutely mind boggling to see what he can do,” McClary continued.

Middleton said the support from the rural South Carolina community has made the program possible.

“It’s been a real team effort,” he said, adding that in conjunction with donating cars and parts, people have dropped off food and volunteered their time to assist with repairs. “I can’t express how much the support means to me.”

The car program, Middleton said, has changed the lives of many people — including his own.

“It has been a wonderful, life-altering experience, and we’re just getting started,” he said. “My dad might not be here, but I feel him right here with me. He would be very proud.”

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Buck Turgidson · Jul 10, 2021

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the sheer heroism of fat guys

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London'sBurning · Jul 10, 2021

https://www.insider.com/south-korean-ulsan-university-toilet-turns-poop-power-digital-money-2021-7

Sounds shitty to me article said:

Using a special toilet in South Korea can get you books, fruit, and even freshly brewed coffee.

Professors at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, near the southeastern coast of the country, have designed a toilet that converts methane from one's faeces into an energy source.

Students who use the toilet are rewarded with 10 units of digital currency called Ggool per day. Ggool, which means honey in Korean, can be used at a market on campus to buy items like bananas, stationery, and instant cup noodles, reported Reuters.

The toilet has been coined the "BeeVi", a shortened version of "Toilet, like a Bee with a Vision," and is meant to be an eco-friendly and sustainable device.

BeeVi uses a vacuum and a small amount of water to send poop from the toilet into an underground tank and bioreactor, prompting its creators to call it a "super water-saving vacuum toilet."

Methane from the faeces is turned into a power source for the appliances in the building, including a gas stove, a hot-water boiler, and a fuel cell that produces electricity, said Reuters.

One of the toilet's designers, urban and environmental engineering professor Cho Jae-weon, told the wire agency that the average person's poop for one day can power a car for three-quarters of a mile.

"If we think out of the box, faeces has precious value to make energy and manure," said Cho.

A postgraduate student purchasing items at the Ggool market told Reuters that he now sees poop as a "treasure" because of the new toilet.

"I even talk about faeces during mealtimes to think about buying any book I want," he said.
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Buck Turgidson · Jul 10, 2021

London'sBurning said: ↑

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Invisible Fan · Jul 10, 2021

London'sBurning said: ↑

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I heard about something like this a decade ago but made for third world countries. It was the Segway inventor who wanted to give back but haven't heard any new news about making cheap enough for everyone.

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