Feel-good stories spotted in the news

[Norgarth]

30 Taliban Militants Killed In Own Explosion During Bomb-Making Class
https://9gag.com/gag/a4EZxe1
Karma strikes again

[Star Ranger4]

*looks closely at the url* Sounds too good to be true Norgarth.

[classicdrogn]

... and to think, Rajvik decided we were all too squishy-soft bleeding heart liberal hippy-dippy-doo to get along with.

[Norgarth]

*looks closely at the url*  Sounds too good to be true Norgarth.

A reasonable concern, here's their source, an Afgani newspaper
https://www.khaama.com/30-taliban-killed...on-332233/

[DHBirr]

Turtlepocalypse ... not if the US military has anything to say about it.
Headline:  Hundreds of helpless cold-stunned sea turtles rescued by Navy pilots and pickup trucks

What the headline itself doesn't make clear, by the way, is that this wasn't an assigned military mission, but volunteers, many of whom happened to be military members or trainees, performing animal rescue after their normal duty hours.
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Up, lad, up!  We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!

[classicdrogn]

(looks down at .sig) Do turtles count as dragons, then?

[DHBirr]

(looks down at .sig) Do turtles count as dragons, then?

Check out m'main reptile Gamera, the original mutant turtle.  Flies and breathes fire ... he's dragon enough for me!

Edit:  And here is another morsel of "feel-good."  All is not cold and selfishness in Texas at present....

Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is known for his showmanship, even airing television commercials in which he’s actually wearing a mattress to draw attention to his stores.

But McIngvale is becoming more famous for something else: turning his expansive showrooms into lifesaving shelters.

He opened his Gallery Furniture stores to people who fled Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019.

Now he’s doing it for those who have been hit hard by a deadly winter storm that has left more than 3 million Texans without power and running water in record-setting freezing temperatures.

“The logistics are a little hard, but we’re making it work,” said McIngvale. “The main thing is to get people out of the cold.”
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Anyone is welcome to use the beds and sofas in his showrooms, take in a movie or basketball game on his big screen televisions and sit down to a hot meal, said McIngvale, 70.

[robkelk]

Why this homeowner accepted the lowest bid in London's hottest market

London, Ontario, that is.

[Dartz]

That's not really a feel good story.

It's an abherration in a broken system that is creating an artifical social strata.

Or maybe I'm just becoming a misereable bastard these days

[robkelk]

They called him 'Bruce'.

[Bob Schroeck]

This should count as "feel-good" to a large number of board members:

Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series Wraps Production!

I hadn't even heard it had restarted, although it had certainly been long enough for John Cho's leg to heal.

Interestingly, there's still no word about the casting of Ed. Given we've even seen Ein's "performer", this is very odd indeed. Could it be Ed's a CG character, just to handle some of her eccentricities?

[classicdrogn]

If she can't stick a toe in her ear, it's not really Ed!

[robkelk]

Yo-Yo Ma celebrates his second COVID-19 shot by giving an impromptu performance to everyone who was still waiting in line

[Bob Schroeck]

Dolphins spotted swimming in Venice's Grand Canal

[robkelk]

The most Canadian story you'll read all day:

Beaver spotted in Toronto subway station

[Bob Schroeck]

Centuries-old French oaks selected and harvested for new spire for Notre Dame

[robkelk]

Olympic athlete Maria Andrejczyk auctions off silver medal to pay for an infant's heart surgery

That isn't the only heartwarming part.

Spoiler

The auction winner paid for the medal, then gave it back to Ms. Andrejczyk.

[Norgarth]

Olympic Gold Medalist tracks down stranger who payed for his cab


EDIT:
Oklahoma mom flies to Afganistan to rescue members of all-girl Afgan robotics team (stub)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/oklahoma-m...m=facebook

[robkelk]

At the world's oldest social housing, rent hasn't changed since 1521

[robkelk]

A simple little memorial to one person, located in the middle of a major government-funded reconstruction project, is still worth protecting.

[robkelk]

Hurricane Larry kept these newlyweds from seeing Alan Doyle live. So he played at their wedding

[Labster]

Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

Prices unheard of since… July last year. Another clickbait headline by the sensationalist CBC, but normally priced lumber still makes me feel good.

[robkelk]

I don't know which is worse - the fact that there have been so few feel-good stories lately that we let this thread slip down to page 4 of the thread listings, the fact that this is a feel-good story, or the fact that it's so rare as to be newsworthy.

B.C. coffee shop owner starts paying his staff a living wage

[robkelk]

Fairy tale partially defictionalized

[Norgarth]

Fairy tale partially defictionalized

so? You're acting like you've never seen a kid riding a horse before.