Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Malachor Again

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.

As any regular readers would have probably already surmised, I'm not a fan. With the latest revelations regarding his violent idealizations and conduct toward women, I am confident that my prior suspicion toward him has been vindicated. His boosters have been trying to sell his past comments on Reddit as something from the past, that he has become a better person. I was skeptical of that, mostly because I saw little in the way of remorse. Now it seems that yeah, he's just a shitty person.

His whole brand of a combat vet and humble oysterman is a fraud. Born wealthy, flunking out of two elite prep schools, upkeep paid for by his wealthy mother, he's a nepo-baby failson instead of a hard-scrabble working stiff - his schtick is about as genuine as Trump's photo-op slinging fries at the drive-thru made him working class. On it's own, I don't much care about political branding, every politican tries to sell themselves as the little guy. But when you sell a lie like that, it makes the explanations for the other things less credible. They become weights in the pan that tip the scale when enough of them are added.

His Reddit comments don't paint a flattering picture. Putting my vehement anti-communism aside, you can explain someone identifying as a communist on Reddit as a combination of internet edge-lordism and Reddit being a highly left-leaning platform, but his comments painted a pretty regular pattern of bigotry and condescension. Was this because of PTSD and alcohol abuse or was he just expressing his contempt at those he sees as his moral and intellectual inferiors? More weights get put in the pan.

His conduct towards women is certainly personally reprehensible. He even admits to serial adultery which is definitely not a showcase of sound judgment. Defenders say that's a private matter, but it's a security concern, as adultery is classic blackmail material, not to mention just very irresponsible. Lindsey Fifield's allegations are more damning. In isolation, it's a he-said, she-said. Could she be lying for a political hit job? Quite possibly. But Platner's pattern of toxic behavior, his volatility that even other partner have stated, his alcohol abuse, and his statements regarding violent ideation toward potential home invaders mean that we need to examine this seriously. A conservative might have challenged him on his political beliefs, and he might have escalated physically, particulatly if he was abusing alcohol at the time. He may have wanted to pin her down to dominate her, to show his strength. Again, weights in the pan. Accepting Platner's defense in one affair becomes harder the more weights get added to the pan.

The Totenkopf tattoo is a classic example. He says he had no idea of the connotations which is hard to swallow. The Totenkopf was not some obscure symbol, it was the cap insignia of the SS, it's one of the most recognizable symbols of the Third Reich after the swastika and the Reichsadler. Do I believe that a bunch of drunk jarheads would get a regrettable tattoo? Absolutely. Do I believe that he carried it around for decades with no knowledge of what it meant? That's a whopper, and he'd have to earn a lot of good faith for me to take his word on it. But when I look at the weights in the pan, I really don't think he's earned it.

This points to another troubling development in politics. Our hyper-partisanship is bad enough, where you have to support "our guy" no matter what. Now we're fetishizing outsider status to the point where we're taking shitty behavior as a badge of honor. Bigotry becomes honesty, toxic behavior and shitty judgment means they're normal like the rest of us - as long as you're a populist of course. I guess trash politics means you get to be a trash person. And since we keep rewarding this shittiness by pushing you to the heights of power, I don't see this changing.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

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