{"id":29260,"date":"2020-11-26T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=29260"},"modified":"2020-11-26T23:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:58:54","slug":"what-are-we-thankful-for-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/26\/what-are-we-thankful-for-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What are we thankful for this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are we thankful for this year? Let&#8217;s leave out the obvious &#8220;family and friends being healthy&#8221; (partly because it is obvious and partly because our media assures us that family and friends were mostly killed in 2020 due to a combination of Covid-19 and Donald Trump).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few from me&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the mostly intact general aviation infrastructure in the U.S. We may not have anywhere to go (and various governors&#8217; travel orders may actually make it illegal or impractical to go anywhere), but very likely there will be an awesome airport near our destination with a helpful FBO<\/li><li>the Swedes, for showing the world that a society of humans can have priorities other than avoiding Covid-19 (a bit of credit in this category as well to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kristi_Noem\">Kristi Noem<\/a>, the governor of South Dakota, who also deserves credit for telling people that politicians and bureaucrats cannot protect them from a virus)<\/li><li>service industry workers, coming into work despite coronapanic and for wages that are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/sites\/cato.org\/files\/pubs\/pdf\/the_work_versus_welfare_trade-off_2013_wp.pdf\">often about the same as collecting welfare<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realworlddivorce.com\/ChildSupportLitigationWithoutMarriage\">always lower than collecting child support<\/a>, with proper planning)<\/li><li>dogs, whose value to humanity has gone way up now that humans have given up on most purely human goals and activities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers: Now it is your turn! (via the comments)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/rewirenewsgroup.com\/article\/2020\/11\/23\/is-there-a-terf-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering\/\">&#8220;Is There a TERF at Your Thanksgiving Gathering?&#8221;<\/a>: Toxic relatives come in many forms: the Trump supporter, the devil\u2019s advocate, the COVID-19 denier. There\u2019s also the TERF: the trans-exclusionary radical feminist. TERFs are transphobes who wrongly believe transgender women are not women &#8230; But the reality is that trans women are women&#8230;<\/li><li>Best Facebook sentiment: &#8220;Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family! Fewer people to cook for this year but no fewer to be thankful for!&#8221; (from a Swiss immigrant who now does every American thing better than most Americans)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! What are we thankful for this year? 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