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Happy New Year, y'all! 2020 has been a challenging year in many ways. But many good things happened too! Here's a few tidings that I'm joyful about. Feel free to add your own! (Inspired by @[94804075:2048:Minda Myers]' list)
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of personal use amounts of drugs. New Jersey, Arizona, Montana, and South Dakota decriminalized weed. DC decriminalized mushrooms and mescaline.
The FDA approved Phase III trails for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
DeepMind's "AlphaFold" solved a 50-year-old 'grand challenge' for predicting protein folding.
GPT-3 AI was released and produces text that is difficult to distinguish from human text.
Two of Boston Dynamics tetherless Atlas robots danced together for the first time.
The Librem 5 phone was released, with many new features that protect user privacy and security.
Bitcoin reached a new high. MobileCoin, a new private coin with much better scaling properties than most private coins, was released.
Tiger King, The Queens Gambit, and Ted Lasso were released.
Drive-in movie theaters, street dining, and home gardening/canning made a comeback.
Working from home, and remote working became much more socially acceptable.
Children were liberated from compulsory government schools, and many parents learned the virtues of home schooling.
Three pro-2nd amendment, pro-market Supreme Court justices were appointed, along with hundreds of similarly sympathetic lower court justices.
The world's largest community fireworks display in history was launched in cities across the US on the Fourth of July.
Hiking, biking, boating, and RVing enjoyed a resurgence of popularity.
The world's largest seaplane, the AG600, took off successfully from the water for the first ime.
China successfully went to the moon and back.
Trump is leaving office without having started any wars.
Starlink launched the private beta for its global satellite internet service.
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of personal use amounts of drugs. New Jersey, Arizona, Montana, and South Dakota decriminalized weed. DC decriminalized mushrooms and mescaline.
The FDA approved Phase III trails for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
DeepMind's "AlphaFold" solved a 50-year-old 'grand challenge' for predicting protein folding.
GPT-3 AI was released and produces text that is difficult to distinguish from human text.
Two of Boston Dynamics tetherless Atlas robots danced together for the first time.
The Librem 5 phone was released, with many new features that protect user privacy and security.
Bitcoin reached a new high. MobileCoin, a new private coin with much better scaling properties than most private coins, was released.
Tiger King, The Queens Gambit, and Ted Lasso were released.
Drive-in movie theaters, street dining, and home gardening/canning made a comeback.
Working from home, and remote working became much more socially acceptable.
Children were liberated from compulsory government schools, and many parents learned the virtues of home schooling.
Three pro-2nd amendment, pro-market Supreme Court justices were appointed, along with hundreds of similarly sympathetic lower court justices.
The world's largest community fireworks display in history was launched in cities across the US on the Fourth of July.
Hiking, biking, boating, and RVing enjoyed a resurgence of popularity.
The world's largest seaplane, the AG600, took off successfully from the water for the first ime.
China successfully went to the moon and back.
Trump is leaving office without having started any wars.
Starlink launched the private beta for its global satellite internet service.
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