KIKI'S PEACH DELIVERY

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.

For those who don’t know, the “Cold Equation” (named after the short story) is a trope where people do bad things for good reasons. In the original short story, the crew find a stowaway on board a spaceship that simply doesn’t have the resources to support one extra person, so the stowaway spaces herself to save everyone. It’s the trolley problem, the ends justify the means, many names for the same idea: yes, I did this evil thing, but only because I have to. And as you might guess, a whole lot of evil and utterly unnecessary things in the past and present have been justified by the Cold Equation. There’s only two choices and I picked the less bad one.

And yet from the very first episode, the Cold Equation fails. Viserys kills his wife to save his son, only to lose both. Alicent betrays her best friend to save her children, and ignites a civil war that’ll kill them all anyway. Alicent agrees to have her son killed to end the civil war, and he’s gone in another plot. And as for Rhaenyra sacrificing all those dragonseeds for riders….well, we’ll have to see how that ends in the show, but we already know it won’t end well. There’s a recurring refrain of characters compromising their morality in the name of “the greater good”, only for those decisions to come to nothing anyway. Because these equations aren’t one plus one equals two, they’re vast, sprawling webs of a thousand factors all playing into and around each other.

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

@scp-1296 you understand me

"Beneath The Golden Willow"

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

Oh yeah, I'm always down for headcanon asks, just beware that due to work constraints, I only reply to messages on the weekend, so if you ask more and it takes some days, that's why 😅

It's been a hot minute since I dabbled in omegaverse, but I'll let you in on a lil' secret: I usually don't like omegaverse. Like the whole idea and premise of it just... no 😂 But some of the aspects of it can be hot, like the intense sex drive and such and tbh, the assurance that if a character is an omega they're gonna bottom, for people very picky about it like I am it's such a good thing.

The mating bites being akin to insta-marriage was a big offender tho! It makes absolutely no sense and seems so coercive, in a way? So a change I made is that the bites just prolong the heat. Kina like a biological fail-safe to keep fucking and ensure conception. And ofc the heats are much shorter generally, cause I've seen other fics when it's like a week of it? Bruh, no way they survive that. Or that society can function, sorry 😂 So yep, bites release a lot of hormones that make the horny keep going and the participants feel more connected while it lasts. Not maigcal tho, can't give you the feels for someone you hate, just sorta amplifies whatever is already there.

Idk how well it translated on paper, but the whole "one mate only" thing was intended to be bs and just a societal construct. I tried to reflect that with Kapkan's thoughts and how he muses about the negative stereotypes associated with omegas, but alas, that one was mostly a pwp and that's not the place for extended lore I didn't know how to shoehorn in there without derailing the pace of the smut 😅