<story><title>Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful</title><url>https://dynomight.net/thanks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>butwhywhyoh</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m thankful for oxygen because we can breathe it! And it can be found pretty much everywhere in the atmosphere of planet Earth. And I&amp;#x27;m thankful for all the other elements that I&amp;#x27;m composed of. They can even be used to do other miraculous things. Wonderful!</text></comment>
<story><title>Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful</title><url>https://dynomight.net/thanks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfdietz</author><text>Yeast are not bacteria.  They are eukaryotes.</text></comment>