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i learned very quickly that if i said "im tired all the time and cant find the motivation to do schoolwork" theyd say "no ur just lazy, stop making excuses" and if i said "my ritalin makes me feel uncomfortable and itchy all day" theyd say "stop being difficult and just take the pills" and theyre the adults and im just a lying lazy kid so what they say goes

so since correctly identifying and expressing my feelings was punished i focused instead on making excuses that adults would accept. "i cant bear to spend another day doing busywork in that awful windowless building where all the students and faculty hate me" turned into "i just threw up". until i learned to skip the step where i ask myself why i feel so awful, bc that information sure isnt going to help me

I also remember being told about the boy who cried wolf, so I would understand that my adults didnt know when there really was a wolf and when there wasnt. Id like to know why they couldnt imagine there was a wolf every time.

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.

I found photos of the same bag as the one I had:

Also!!! dead serious: red solo cups are an iconic design

Top iconic American cup designs imo:

1. NYC coffee cup "the anthora" designed by Czech Holocaust survivor Leslie Buck:

2. 90's paper Jazz cup (designed by Gina Ekiss) [side note: I incorrectly sometimes call these Dixie cups, but Dixie is a different brand, lol. There are lots of memorable Dixie cup designs, but none as enduring of visually memorable as the 90's Jazz.)

3. Red Solo Cup designed by Robert Leo Hulseman

I think runners up would be a coke cup (the red & white logo paper cup aka a "movie theater cup"), the red clear plastic cup, or the bottle green coke fountain glass) or perhaps a Starbucks or Dunkin design.

However, I would say they're runners up because:

A) they're drink brand specific

and b) the issue with the Starbucks cup is that it has had a lot of small redesigns, and it's almost more iconic as a generic green & white circle to avoid copyright as opposed to the actual cup itself.

Like yes, there are design variants/copies of the genuine anthora cup, and the red solo cup has had some shape updates, but the designs themselves have been very stable and are more iconic as a result.

It took several parental additions until the rules became clear to my wife and I. In theory it seemed like the game was designed to help hone her math skills but it was far more elaborate than the run of the mill hand game kids play.

I asked North where she’d picked up the game. She told me it was a variation on something she’d played when she was little.

“I did add to it because we wanted the rounds to last longer.”

I nodded with narrowed eyes and told her, “I thought so. This reeks of your influence.”

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

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