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I'm Joe/21/bi/welsh I make costumes, draw fanart and give my unsolicited opinions on movies and books. twitter: @GlitchedEyes Instagram: @glitchedeyes_art
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"The Stoppables"

50% of this collage is due to one man

Water. ๐Ÿ›ฅ

Earth. ๐Ÿš™

Fire. ๐Ÿš€

Air. โœˆ๏ธ

Long ago, the four transportation methods lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Shitty CEO Nation attacked. Only government safety regulations could stop them, but when the world needed them most, they vanished.

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eurovision is going down in my city and the amount of cops theyโ€™re bringing out for this is crazy. the municipality has also been ripping down stickers/posters that are anti eurovision/pro palestine. theyโ€™ve even gone as far as to paint over graffiti that was painted on a LEGAL WALL!!! all of this so a genocidal state can perform mediocre music at an even more mediocre event. this shit is beyond parody!

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I think while Eurovision is airing everyone should flood the Eurovision hashtags with Gaza news, images and fundraisers

The folks who refuse to boycott because they think they can do more good watching and promoting the show...they especially ought to do this, I think.

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For this job I applied for, they asked us candidates to do a presentation about something we were interested in. I decided to do mine on Lisa Frankenstein and why I think it will be a future cult classic. And I aced it! I had a ton of fun hust going on about how good the movir is and two of the five I presented it to said they were going to go watch it afterwards.

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So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

  1. Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
  2. Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.