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It’s that time of year again so here is your yearly reminder that the world isn’t ending and people don’t hate you. The sun is just setting at 6 pm.

mrs-delaney

Please take your vitamin D

bundibird

HEY SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE GIRLIES, ITS OUR TURN TO ENDURE THE DARK DAYS NOW, BUT STAY STRONG. THE WORLD IS NOT ENDING; THE SUN IS JUST SETTING AT 5-to-6 PM. BUT SHE WILL COME BACK TO US SOON. TAKE A VITAMIN D AND HANG IN THERE.

anarcho-priapism

youcancallmez0mbie

Just some problems I’ve been having lately haha

cheaphalloweencostume

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

cheaphalloweencostume

i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

cheaphalloweencostume

you are not going to believe what they did with Books

parkchanwoohoo

"A wall of text" baby that's a curb at best

batmanisagatewaydrug

the other day I read a compelling point that many instances described as illiteracy would actually be more aptly described as aliteracy, meaning an individual has the ability to read but simply chooses not to. great example here, awesome work.

rotationalsymmetry

Fwiw, the main issue here is *rudeness*.

If someone genuinely can't read one paragraph of text, but acknowledges the issue is on their end, that's not a problem. If someone isn't willing to read one paragraph of text, that's also normally not a huge deal, but in this context it's the equivalent of walking up to someone, asking a question, visibly getting distracted because the answer was more than ten words long, and then telling the person answering the question that their speaking skills suck.

The point isn't whether a person's writing/speaking skills could use work either. In this case the writing is fine, but even when someone does express themselves poorly, yeah, sometimes people ramble or stutter or forget the right word or otherwise have trouble expressing themselves, the polite thing to do is not call attention to it and do the best you can to create a smooth, mutually enjoyable interaction anyways.

A lot of people have difficulty for whatever reason generalizing the manners they (probably?) use for in-person interactions to online ones, but the underlying principles are still pretty straightforward. Asking a question and refusing to listen to the answer is rude in person, and rude online, because it turns a potentially mutually enjoyable interaction into one that's not enjoyable, in a very predictable way.

Connecting it to an academic skill or lack thereof isn't actually relevant, and it's concerning that a lot of people think accusing a person of illiteracy is a sharper insult than accusing them of being rude. But one of the advantages of recognizing a behavior as rude, is that at least sometimes it's possible to activate the reaction of "oh, this person is being rude, sometimes people do that, I don't have to keep interacting with them I can just disengage/block and move on" and genuinely be less disturbed because of that.

scrupulosity-comics

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

scrupulosity-comics

dailycatsblog

thememedaddy

the-final-sif

So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

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.

So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.

straawberries

can ppl pls reblog this version

obsidian-flame

Serbian here living in Belgrade! This is all true and I've actually seen some of these around the city a few times. They're amazing at what they do and really cool to watch up close because you can see pretty swirling inside them. It's not only functional but aesthetically pretty nice as well!

allthingswhumpyandangsty

if you comment some demanding shit like this on fanfic writers’ works, you don’t deserve the privilege of getting to read fanfiction for free

killergirlfuria

Fun fact! Demanding updates is also likely to make authors delay them, either out of spite, or because you bring their mood too low to effectively write!

For me it causes both <3

cherryhatter-deactivated2015072

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

visibun

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

drtanner

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

hjartasalt

Lately my ocd has barely been bothering me at all and my first instinct was to be like "oh maybe it was never that bad maybe I was just being dramatic" until I realised that I do still have just as many intrusive thoughts as before, it's just that these days I've been really good at actually finishing the thought instead of immediately compulsing

hjartasalt

I get a lot of intrusive thoughts about getting every horrible disease under the sun and my knee jerk response is always to immediately stop thinking about it however I can and avoid any mention of it because the moment I see anything that reminds me of it my brain will take it as a sign that I am going to accidentally manifest it into reality and die instantly. Which. Is insane. And I know this. But better safe than sorry, yknow.

But lately though I get the thought "oh what if I get XYZ disease" at least 20 times per day (which, unfortunately, is normal) and for some reason it's felt really effortless to just be like "well that would suck and I would go see a doctor to get treated for it." like honestly who give a shit. What if the world was made of pudding.

hjartasalt