The photos are gorgeous, but the lifestyle isn't. Remember you're only seeing the most cherry-picked and heavily-edited results, not even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to whats involved in capturing them. Not shown are hours of hiking, numerous blisters and bug bites, wild goose chases based on wrong directions, cloudy days, car troubles, hunger, fatigue, illness, gear problems, deadlines, etc, etc.

I'm glad you don't have any deadbeat drug addicts in your life. Keep on dreaming.

You should try volunteering at a shelter or soup kitchen sometime. Even one day would probably be enough to learn that funding someone's drug addiction is actually quite cruel. It's not about what it costs us, it's about what it costs them.

You seem to be suggesting that the root problem is people feeling uncomfortable seeing homeless. As if that's the only issue? If these Karens could just get over the sight of poverty and despair, it'd all be OK?

You can't help people who don't want to be helped, no matter how much money you have.

Their visibility isn't what's making others uncomfortable. It's more the poop on the sidewalks, the public drug use, the theft, the littering, etc, etc.

How naive can you be? It sounds like youve never met a homeless person in your life.

For all I can tell, this is just a macro shot of gravel from the parking lot.

Unless you tend to get carsick, and then--I can't stress this enough--stay on the ground and save your money.

Forget trying to improve it, modify it, deal with it, or understand it better, just cut out everything and everyone that's even midly inconvenient and your resulting life will be so much better.

ISO 800 on a sunny day? At first I thought maybe you were concerned about motion blur, but hard to imagine that being an issue with a 20mm lens.

What a naive concept.

People see "Rocky Mountain National Park" and upvote an objectively bad photo of it simply because they know it's a beautiful place? Yeah, that tracks actually.

Flat lighting, no distinct subject matter, poor framing...how the heck does this medicore snapshot have thousands of upvotes?

Then it's perfect for this sub, because nothing they upvote is ever actually uplifting.

Putting religious symbols in government buildings is the very definition of erosion of the separation of church and state. How long the tradition goes back is utterly irrelevant.

Because of a little concept called separation of church and state. It's never a good thing to see it eroded.

Overt religious symbols in public government buildings will never be uplifting.

I'm pretty sure 100% of people have experienced physical pain, did an AI write this title?

Except Croatia and Morocco, two of the most prominent

Why is every post on this sub the opposite of uplifting news?

No problem, they'll just start charging for room and board and take it out of your increased pay

This isn't really uplifting news, because domestic US sugar production is an unmitigated environmental disaster that is currently devastating Florida, including the Everglades. Reducing imports is just what they want, since it'll make us even more dependent on their product. We'd be far better off supporting slavery than contaminating water that ~20 million people rely on.

I'm late to the party, but I do have a partial answer for you. Here is a coin from my personal collection that was minted in 1719 in South America, and was still in circulation in the Central American Republic ~150 years later (as evidenced by the countermark in the upper left). Hell, you can still find Indian Head pennies in circulation here, and they stopped in 1909. A couple hundred years of use isn't at all out of the question

I thought you meant the East Coast. Apparently nobody goes there