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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:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

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.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Marian: fuck off

Sal: fuck you, pay me

Kent: fuck me

Glipix: What pollinators are operating on this horrible planet? Did you see one? I need to speak with them if you did.

—Marian is 46 and spent her 20s and early 30s as a mad max style motorcycle gang member. ‘Misery Marian’ was her moniker while she was LEADING one of these gangs.

—Sal and Kent are somehow unaware of this.

—Sal’s apocalypse is capitalism. Also Godzilla.

He’s one of the only main characters who knows Marian from her Misery Marian days, and always gives her vaguely-nervous VIP treatment. He calls her ‘Miss Misery’, and it’s another point of comedy how fast he goes from offering her free drinks to telling Sal that he doesn’t need more sugar in his coffee because he looks sweet enough already with this horrible grin on his face.

—Owen, aka “the Owl” or just “Owl”, a 22 year old voluntary cyborg who was born after the apocalypse(s). He’s the only visible member of a group studying the new plants and animals that have popped up, as he’s basically their overworked errand boy. His nickname comes from the cartoonishly huge lenses in his goggles, which make him look like an owl. He’s bi.

–Gladiator, the byproduct of a super soldier initiative that failed when a malicious AI replaced the artificial memories they were going to have implanted with a bunch of random how-to videos.  Almost seven feet tall and strong enough to crush a car, Gladiator has no idea how to kill someone but DOES know how to make a flawless birdhouse out of household items.  He’s gay.

Kent, nursing a bloody nose: Heyyy Marian! (awkward laugh) You, uh, wanna help me rescue Sal from the fight club we tried to start?

Sunrise: Marian, your brother is selling vials of the chicken pox virus as zombie repellent again.

Owl, visibly panicked: Oh, thank god you’re home, Sal talked Gladiator into helping him build bomb shelters but they’ve all flooded and the shark mutants are there and—

My office computer has automatically updated and the damn company sent out an e-mail telling us about *wonderful new* copilot now installed and UNREMOVABLE. STUPID USELESS PIECE OF SHIT TECH POPPING UP ON EVERY PROGRAM. CAN'T GET RID OF IT.

PISSING ME OFF.

Goblin residents of the city are legal citizens with equal rights just the same as everyone else, but their natural lifestyle differs dramatically from the rest of the peoples living in the city. They are scavengers by nature, having no problems with eating carrion, overripe fruits and plants, and building everything they own from things that other races throw away as junk and trash. As the city produces plenty of waste that goblins would love to take and the city is glad to be rid of, any well-organised city is not just a paradise for goblins, but welcomes them with open arms. They save the city a fortune in waste disposal costs.

Problems mainly arise by differing ideas of what counts as "discarded". Goblins are unfairly labelled as thieves, when they are merely opportunistic and optimistic by nature, and will interpret any unclear situation to their own benefit, and will argue "how was I supposed to know that you still wanted it?" over things that looked lovely and were left unattended. And while yoinked items of clothing and other tools are easily returned or financially reimbursed (paying for what they already took is the only use that goblins have for money, which they do not steal), but foodstuff is gone faster than you can blink.