Our Version of Positivity

~ Clarissa

The owner of my YouTube channel says, “We need a positive title for the next show. People want positivity, good news, something upbeat. We need to come up with something like that.”

Two minutes before the taping, he sends me an image for the header. It says, “An illegal brutally murdered a student in Chicago.”

We, Russian-speakers are a grim, grim bunch.

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4 thoughts on “Our Version of Positivity”

  1. There are numerous positive news today:

    Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women’s events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

    “Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females,” the International Olympic Committee said, to be determined by a mandatory gene test once in an athlete’s career.
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    After an executive board meeting, the International Olympic Committee published a 10-page policy document which also restricts female athletes such as two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya with medical conditions known as differences in sex development, or DSD.

    Parents and campaign groups seeking tighter restrictions on social media have welcomed a Los Angeles jury handing down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued Meta and YouTube over her childhood addiction to social media.

    Jurors found that Meta, which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and Google, owner of YouTube, intentionally built addictive social media platforms that harmed the 20-year old’s mental health.
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    The LA verdict came a day after a jury in New Mexico found Meta liable for the way in which its platforms endangered children and exposed them to sexually explicit material and contact with sexual predators.

    Mike Proulx, a research director for advisory firm Forrester, said the back-to-back verdicts underline a “breaking point” between social media companies and the public.

    In recent months, countries such as Australia have imposed restrictions for children to stop or limit their use of social media. The UK is currently running a pilot programme to see how a ban of social media for people aged under 16 may work.

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  2. The most positive news today:

    MOSCOW, March 25 (Reuters) – At least 40% of Russia’s oil export capacity is at a halt following Ukrainian drone attacks, a disputed ​attack on a major pipeline and the seizure of tankers, according to Reuters calculations based ‌on market data.

    The shutdown is the most severe oil supply disruption in the modern history of Russia, the world’s second largest oil exporter, and has hit Moscow just as oil prices exceeded $100 a barrel due to the Iran war.
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    In addition, frequent seizures of Russia-related tankers in Europe have disrupted 300,000 bpd of Arctic oil exports flowing from the port of Murmansk, traders said.

    With its westward ​export routes under fire, Moscow must rely on oil exports to Asian markets, ​but those ⁠routes are limited due to capacity, traders said.

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