"You're just as sane as I am"

Closest match: Psylliodes chrysocephala genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle

been rewatching atla to ease my mind of the ceaseless suffering and torment (lsat prep)

It's the same beef I have with Fallout. I know they excuse humans being so slow to redevelop society with all "knowledge being lost in the war" but that's just...not how things work. Humans figured out construction and farming very early. There's no way for humans to truly forget how to do this stuff, especially since people survived and could preserve and share what they know. But I just cannot fathom how in 300 years no one's figured out construction or fiber arts or soap making or anything humans have historically figured out super early in the process of being human.

And the only way I can see someone write a world like that is if they either didn't care (fine, it's not real and I get digging the apocalypse vibe) or were so divorced from the process of labor and creation that they actually think those things are way too hard for someone to figure out on their own.

If you think humans couldn't do these things without being taught or helped you have a very warped idea of technological progress and human ingenuity. No one taught humans how to build and create, we figured it out on our own, and it was not just smacking rocks together until something clicked either, ancient humans were just as intelligent as modern ones, they could use logic and reasoning to figure out how to do something new based on what they already know.

Archeology educator Milo Rossi in his Ancient Aliens debunked video (link under the cut)

video inspired this

post lmao

she spoke almost no English and I spoke absolutely zero German so for three weeks we walked laps through the cemetery near my house and listened to music on my ipod in my room and we used a German-English dictionary to parse out sentences as best we could but mostly we just pointed at things and played charades to communicate. all said we had a good time and laughed a lot. i don’t think of her often because it’s a hazy summer memory from my youth, but i do think of her fondly.

so today i got home and my mom’s best friend was having coffee in the living room with another woman—her sister. and I said “oh! you’re the sister from Germany!” and she said yes. I said it was nice to finally meet her and I asked after her daughter, by name, and she said “oh? she’s fine! ……you know her?”

I said yes, of course, after she visited in 2010.

An extremely confused conversation followed in which she and my mom’s friend insisted that her daughter hasn’t been to the u.s. since the early 1990s and it was virtually impossible for us to ever have met.

i was completely mystified. we ultimately decided that i just happened to spend 3 weeks hanging out with a different girl from Germany and perhaps I crossed wires in my memory in the last 15 years & somehow erroneously believed she was my mom’s best friend’s German niece. The fact that they have the same name? We have to assume it’s a complete coincidence.

what’s driving me to madness is that i didn’t exactly grow up in a culturally diverse town and you don’t often run into people visiting internationally.

and i KNOW she wasn’t an exchange student at any local school and I know she was a friend’s visiting family member. not to mention i wouldn’t have just run into her, and I know our hangouts were arranged by our parents. But my mom can’t think of a single other person we know with daughters in Germany.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

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.