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[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Sorry if i scared you

Mae Murray: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i all this the tale of the girl who gets possessed by her sentient abortion Murray: but don't worry, this abortion just wants to have fun Murray: abortions just wanna Murray: they just wanna Murray: abortions just wanna have fun

Murray: so this story is about odie Dean Koontz: :) Murray: who is NOT the dog from Garfield Koontz: :(

Murray: odie has an abortion but it doesn't really take Murray: instead it possesses her body Murray: and makes her dance Murray: and kill her rapist Mary Shelley: haha yes… YES! Murray: and also some shitty cops George Romero: haha yes… YES! Romero: ACAB, baby!

Murray: as a real southern queer, odie goes to the big queer club in Little Rock Murray: she looks around at all the real southern queers, real salt of the earth folks, not like those fancy pants snob queers you get up in New England King: hey! King: now hold on a gosh darn second here!

Murray: as a southern queer, odie thinks about how much pride she has as a southern queer but also as a member of the southern queer community Murray: as a southern queer, you gotta express your pride

King: gosh mae there's some pretty unbelievable stuff happening in this story! Murray: you don't believe a woman could be possessed by a sentient space abortion that leads her to kill her rapist? King: no i mean King: i didn't know there were queers in the south Murray: Murray: you've never been lower than new Hampshire have you? King: whoa i don't go to new Hampshire! King: i heard there's dragons there

King: but actually i was referring to this bit where armadillos eat a corpse King: i mean, come on, really? King: i just don't buy it

King: I've seen armadillos and, goshdarnit, those little guys are just too cute to be corpse eaters Barker: what about the possum? you don't object to the possum? King: oh a possum would 100% eat a corpse

Barker: but it's equally cute King: it most certainly is not King: have you ever even seen a possum clive? King: awful animals Koontz: i think all animals are good Barker: hey that's real nice dean

Murray: what do any of you even know about armadillos? Murray: you're all a bunch of high falutin' yankees Murray: as a real southern queer of the real south Murray: i know armadillos

Murray: i'm real southern pride! Murray: i eat the cheese dip trail and shit E. Fay Jones's Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs!! My daddy was the deliverance banjo boy and my mama was a big pot of okra!! Barker: how mushy was that okra? Murray: SO MUSHY!

Murray: after having completed everything it needed to do, the sentient abortion says "i have to go now. my planet needs me" Murray: that's right, it was from space the whole time! Poe: that raises a lot of questions Murray: we're not gonna talk about that

Murray: anyway, who's up for a real southern treat? Murray: i brought you all some deep fried chicken innards! Poe: King: Barker: Koontz: Lovecraft:

King: when you say innards, you mean meat right? Murray: um well Murray: it's technically "meat" in that it was part of an animal

Murray: you know those parts that you usually don't eat, on account of them being too disgusting? Murray: you know, the parts generally considered unfit for human consumption? Murray: that you might feed to a dog that you don't particularly like? Poe: King: Barker: Koontz: Lovecraft:

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers? Shelley: i hear you got the forbidden meat? King: mary no! Shelley: i'm not scared of no meat, i'll give it a- Shelley: WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT Murray: deep fried bladder Shelley: ewwwww Shelley: you deep fry it????

Shelley: that's disgusting, that is Shelley: where i come from Shelley: you don't deep fry that shit Shelley: you put it in a pie

Murray: oh i got a pie for you Murray: real heads know

[kiiraes]

“Shaving our head is a painful decision for any woman, but we are forced to do it.” Nisreen, a Palestinian mother of six, had to leave her home in Khan Younis on 13 December, as the Israeli ground invasion of the city intensified. She has since sought refuge at a nearby UN school, and later to a makeshift tent, with little access to drinkable or cleaning water. “I had to shave my head, because I have no water to wash my hair,” the 49-year-old told Middle East Eye from her tent in al-Mawasi area. “I also did the same to my 16-year-old daughter and my 12-year-old son, to protect them from scalp diseases as their friends developed scalp ringworm,” she added. The ferocious Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza, now in its fifth month, has killed at least 27,500 and displaced more than 1.9 million Palestinians, who collectively have no access to clean water and essential hygiene facilities. Even before the war, more than 96% of the water supply in Gaza had been considered “unfit for human consumption”, due to the Israeli blockade on Gaza since 2007. But the situation has been exacerbated after the Israeli government’s decision to cut off the water supply to the Gaza Strip at the orders of Energy Minister Israel Katz on 9 October. Additionally, the Israeli army seized the majority of water desalination plants in the northern part of Gaza by 30 October, and in the southern part of Gaza City by 1 November, according to satellite images from Planet Labs PBC. Zainab al-Shawwaf, a general practitioner based in Rafah, clarified that the lack of hair care and washing may give rise to conditions like alopecia, scalp ringworm, and bacterial infections, ultimately leading to the development of hair abscesses. Juliette Touma, spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), has warned that “water is being used as a weapon of war” during the current conflict. “Many people are resorting to unsafe sources of water... Clean water in Gaza is either unavailable or available in very, very small quantities.”

Source: Middle East Eye

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Start From the Beginning: Invasive Snails and the Reason to Study Gastropods

            To understand the benefits of snails, we must also understand the detrimental effects they can have when mismanaged. Specifically, let’s narrow our search to the dangers of invasive species of snails, who end up in ecosystems not suited for them due to external factors such as human intervention. In order to properly grasp the influence of snails, it is important to recognize the negative impacts an uncontrolled invasive snail population can pose for the environments not meant for them.

            A solid way to analyze the affects a species has on its environment is to simply study the environment deprived of it. Another way is to measure the effects they have on an environment in which they are not typically found; environments where they are, for all intents and purposes, outliers. The ecosystems of these places function independently of any invasive species that may be introduced to them, and thus, we can potentially consider unusual ecological flux as the activity of such invaders, whose presence, made up of their feeding habits, reproductive rates, and prey/predator interactions, may contribute to abnormalities in an unsuited area. If we were to measure the effects invasive snail species have on these places, we may therein consider how they are meant to contribute to their home environs.

            To illustrate, we need to observe actual instances of ecosystems altered by invasive snails. Let’s begin with the New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum), a species of snail native to New Zealand that has quickly spread around the world. These snails are incredibly hardy, being resistance to a solid range of temperatures and variations of local water levels, and quick to reproduce, capable of 2-3 birthing periods per year with an upwards of 60 eggs per clutch. Combined with the rapid sexual maturity rate of the species, allowing around six generations to spawn per year, they are incredibly dangerous to leave alone, as they will rapidly grow in numbers when introduced to unfit environments.

            The hardiness of the mud snail allows it to easily out-complete local species, especially other invertebrates such as snails, allowing it to quickly consume vital producers of food, most of which are plants. In turn, the mud snail provides little toward other predator species due to their hard shells and the inability for most native fish species to break down their bodies effectively. In the event they are consumed, they also have the potential to transmit local parasites, which bank on their lack of resistance to quickly spread through their reproduction.

Continuing, another example is the apple snail (Pomacea maculata), a type of snail that has been inadvertently introduced to various U.S. wetlands. A study performed on the effects these snails have on the areas they invade found that the snails contributed to a large net loss of plant biomass, which is consumed rapidly by apple snails exploiting their rampant growth rates and accessibility. In turn, the nutrient cycle of the given wetland types was sped up considerably because of the rapid nutrient breakdown apple snails perform distributing resources into the soil.

            In both given cases, the detrimental effects are a detriment to the food web and the distribution of resources. Both species have a clear and consistent impact: sapping the overall health of the local ecosystem through the consumption of its greatest benefactors whilst contributing little in return. Such forces are adapted to their own local predators, but not to those that are introduced without warning and with little room for counter. It is without proper understanding and management of snail populations that these environmental detriments are observed.

            However, we can also see, in these cases, the inverse: the benefits given by invasive snails–what values they have that would, in the context of their natural environment, contribute to the ecosystem, with these effects mildly observed through the observed detriments. The negative impacts are not negative because of the mere existence of the snails themselves, but of the misplacement of their positive ones, as they are not simply ecological mistakes but incorrectly relocated environmental players.

Both the apple snail and mud snail possess voracious appetites, contributing to the acceleration of nutrient cycles due to their capability to break down resources into easy-to-access forms. The mud snail’s benefits are lost in the wrong ecosystems because their new competition struggles to break down their bodies and shells, both of which would normally be vital. While the acceleration of the nutrient cycle via apple snails is detrimental, their digestion is designed for the environments to which they belong, wherein local snail populations consume and digest at rates consistent with their own homes.

Building on this, the mud snail can and will siphon mineral resources for their own health and to build their shells, a process which they perform via seeking out those materials in local bodies of water, consuming metal substances suspended inside. This behavior can cause metal poisoning if the snails carrying these materials are consumed by predators, but can purify the waters they reside in of dangerous metals such as copper, which can prevent contamination of local sources of water, so long as it is performed in moderation.

While mud snails can be massive carriers of local parasites, some parasite species struggle to adapt to them, causing them to be largely unable to exploit them adequately. Due to the mud snail being capable of out-competing local invertebrates, these parasites can quickly lose access to the species they commonly prey upon, reducing their chances of reproduction considerably. This could result in the decrease or eradication of certain parasites, preventing damage that those species could cause.

It is also valuable to acknowledge the methods by which invasive species can be combated and potentially suppressed. Another species of apple snail (Pomacea canaliculate) is invasive to regions including East/Southeast Asia, and can reproduce rapidly through rapid sexual maturity and a rate of two-to-three birthings per year. To counter these reproductive rates, a common pet kept in China, the invasive red-eared slider turtle (T. scripta elegans) was tested against the apple snails. The result was that when subject to predation from the turtles, the reproductive rates of the apple snails went down, subject to stress and pressure which reduced chances of egg production and survival. This is directed thusly toward egg populations, with only 20% of eggs laid successfully hatched, and the remaining juveniles were far more vulnerable to predation. The red-eared slider turtle and apple snail both inhabit China, which could potentially reduce the negative impacts these snails have on the environment.

These examples paint a very valuable picture as to the nature of invasive snails: not only do these snails still have benefits, but the local ecosystems they invade can and will resist in any available capacity. It also shows that these snails are still, at their cores, natural and viable parts of the ecosystem, simply misplaced from the environments where they belong.

            How does any of this apply to you, the reader? Well, let us remember our goal: acknowledging and understanding the detriments of invasive snails. With what we have learned, the answer is to apply this information in study and ecological work. To ecologists, this means carefully measuring the impacts invasive species have on pervaded ecosystems and discovering the extent of them. For malacologists, this means using these principles to understand, predict, or influence how an ecosystem interacts with invasive snails. For the rest of us, it typically means volunteer work, assisting in projects countering, studying, or otherwise handling invasive snails, helping others with what we are far less capable of confronting.

            One final question needs to be answered with our conclusion: what does negligence do for invasive snails? Specifically, would simply ignoring snails as a whole in most every ecosystem be an adequate response on our part, so we might not cause damage due to a lack of knowledge? The answer is no. Most every invasive species on the planet, from ants to birds, has been introduced intentionally or unintentionally by humans. The sheer volume of human development and industrialization often guarantees that, regardless of intention, nature will be entangled with our works and oftentimes transmitted between different biomes as we move between them. Common amongst examples of these are epidemics/pandemics, such as the Black Plague, COVID-19, and the Spanish Flu. In each instance, a disease presiding in one region is spread through humans, typically through conflict or commerce. The result was, of course, rampant outbreaks and mass death, an outcome derived from cross-contamination humans propagated. Regardless of our choice, we will, at some point, cause damage if we neglect our surroundings in the wake of progress.

            By starting with a basic question, we worked towards a more critical understanding of a wider issue, going from simply pondering the environmental damages caused by invasive snails to identifying the more complicated aspects of their behaviors and impacts. A clear thought process emerges: by learning about snails, we understand their benefits, their detriments, and the ebb and flow of both in nature. By asking a simple question, we sowed the seeds for the argument for encouraging the study of and interest in snails.

Citations:

Jing Guo. "Predation risk affects growth and reproduction of an invasive snail and its lethal effect depends on prey size.” National Center for Biotechnology Information. Pablo Martin, Chunxia Zhang, Jia-en Zhang, Manabu Sakakibara, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 14 November 2017, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5685626/. 14 February 2024.

            Alonso, Á., Collado, G.A., Gérard, C. “Effects of the invasive aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1853) on ecosystem properties and services.” Springer. Edward P. Levri, Rodrigo B. Salvador & Pilar Castro-Díez, Springer, 17 January 2023, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-022-05116-z#citeas. 14 February 2024.

            Chase M. O’Neil. “Invasive snails alter multiple ecosystem functions in subtropical wetlands.” ScienceDirect. Yuxi Guo, Steffan Pierre, Elizabeth H. Boughton, Jiangxiao Qui, vol. 864, ScienceDirect, 15 March 2023, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722080421?via%3Dihub. 14 February 2024.

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Eglė Rakauskaitė

Okay so upfront my family is very Lithuanian, My mother moved to England in 2004 and then 2 years later I was born (I bet you feel really old reading) Because of my fathers absence in my life (he also was not English I feel the need to say this) I grew up fully immersed in Lithuanian culture so I tend to just say that I'm Lithuanian so as Lithuanian (take a shot every time I say that) I wanted to do some of my research on a contemporary Lithuanian artist! and what I found was very very interesting.

Eglė Rakauskaitė’s journey as an artist reflects a significant evolution in the landscape of contemporary Lithuanian art. Born in 1967 in the capital city of Vilnius during a transformative period in the country’s history, she rose to prominence in the 1990s, a time when Lithuania was redefining its cultural identity after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. This backdrop undoubtedly influenced her artistic mindset, as she explored themes of identity, memory, and the relationship between individuals and society. A graduate of the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1993 Rakauskaitė's work spans various mediums, including performance art, video installations, and the use of unconventional materials.

Early Artistic Endeavors

Initially trained as a painter, Rakauskaitė diverged from traditional mediums, exploring the realms of fashion and object art. Her early works often incorporated perishable and irregular materials, challenging societal norms and artistic conventions. Her engagement with unconventional materials, invites viewers to rethink traditional artistic practices and allows them to contemplate the role of everyday objects in art. This approach not only opens up new dialogues around artistic expression but also reflects a deeper commentary on consumerism and the nature of value in contemporary society. Some examples are listed below:

For Virginia (1994): A T-shirt crafted entirely from dried jasmine petals, exemplifying her interest in ephemeral beauty. The artist herself describing the intention of the work "to age timeless ideas in physical form”

Hairy (1994): A full-body suit knitted from synthetic fabric resembling curly dark hair, leaving only the eyes, nose, mouth, head, and crotch exposed. This piece interrogated societal perceptions of body hair and femininity.

and In 1995, Rakauskaitė participated in the "Mundane Language" exhibition organized by the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts. Her contribution, "For Guilty Without Guilt," featured a net woven from women's natural hair, suspended between two buildings in Vilnius's former Jewish ghetto. This poignant installation addressed themes of memory, identity, and the passage of time.

Body Art and Performance

Rakauskaitė's exploration of the human body as both subject and medium is evident in her notable works:

In Honey (1996): In this video performance, she immersed herself in a hammock filled with honey, breathing through a tube. The dense medium allowed her body to float, creating a visual metaphor for sustenance and entrapment. In Honey her body is not visible the viewer only sees her from below through the sheet.

In Fat (1998): Expanding on the themes of "In Honey," Rakauskaitė submerged herself in melted lard within a glass tank. As the fat cooled and solidified, it encased her body, symbolizing themes of preservation, transformation, and the corporeal experience and also continuing the themes of invisibility present in Honey.

In both of these works, Egle subverts the conventional depiction of the female nude. In "In Honey," while she is immersed in a substance that is sweet and enjoyable, the combination of her body with the honey evokes the idea of a bodily fluid that is unfit for consumption. Similarly, the naked form in solidified fa generates a sense of disgust but at the same time, the unclear and indistinct image is sort of visually appealing.

Transition to Video Art and Social Commentary

Rakauskaitė's performances often challenge both her audience's expectations and their perceptions of art itself. Through embodied experiences, she encourages a more participatory form of engagement, emphasizing the relationship between the artist and the viewer. This participatory element is particularly relevant in today's art world, where interaction and engagement are critical for creating meaningful experiences.

Towards the late 1990s, Rakauskaitė shifted her focus towards video art, delving into social contexts and human experiences:

Sorrowful (1998): An installation featuring a video of a man emulating the contemplative pose of Christ, housed within a structure reminiscent of a Lithuanian wayside shrine. This piece reflects on spirituality and societal introspection.

Faces (1998): A two-channel video installation portraying individuals Rakauskaitė encountered in her daily life. The synchronized videos transition from the subjects' open-eyed gazes to closed eyes, exploring themes of presence, absence, and human connection.

Street Musicians (1998–2003): A compilation of street performers filmed across various countries, presented on multiple monitors. This work celebrates the universality of music and the diverse narratives of street artists.

Another Breathing (2001): Initiated during a residency in Anchorage, Alaska, this project involved interviews with elderly individuals reflecting on life and mortality. The series expanded to include voices from Lithuania, Russia, Austria, and Italy, offering a cross-cultural perspective on aging and existence.

My America (2003): A documentary-style video capturing the daily routines of illegal immigrant care workers in the United States, based on Rakauskaitė's personal experiences. This work sheds light on the challenges and resilience of immigrant communities.

Recent Endeavors

In recent years, Rakauskaitė has undertaken the preservation and organization of her father, photographer Romualdas Rakauskas's, extensive archive. She established the public institution aRRchyvas and acquired properties in Svirnai II and Troškūnai, transforming them into spaces dedicated to artistic activities and cultural preservation.

Eglė Rakauskaitė's multifaceted body of work continues to challenge and inspire standing out not just for her technical skill but her ability to convey complex ideas through her art, bridging personal narratives with universal themes, and solidifying her legacy in both Lithuanian and global contemporary art scenes. Allowing for reflection on cultural identity, societal norms and the roles of the artist in a changing world, making her a vital figure in the contemporary art scene of Lithuania and Internationally.

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Because our Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant is composed or made up of chrome steel & other high-grade strong elements-metals, the water plant system will endure longer (i.e., Lifespan, & Durability).

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Conclusion

Water plays an important role in everyone's life. Not only is it essential for people, but also plants & animals. However, freshwater levels are rapidly decreasing because of excessive water consumption & the release of industrial & domestic garbage.

For human utilities, it is consequently imperative to utilize other water sources, such as river water. The need for Netsol Water's commercial RO plant purifiers arises because different types of water are wholly unfit for human consumption. Netsol Water, a commercial RO plant manufacturer located in Faridabad, assists with large-scale water filtering. It allows many approaches to remove various types of impurities from water.

[georgiancraftsman]

Golf courses usually have ponds they use in addition to using water that is unfit for human consumption to water their courses. They generally do not take water from the same water sources your city uses to give you water for your everyday use. That being said golf courses in deserts are retarded

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

[commercialroplants]

Top Commercial RO Plant Manufacturer In Faridabad

In essence, a Reverse Osmosis (RO) water treatment or filtration plant is a treatment facility that effectively eliminates or get rid of a range of wide spectrum of pollutants or impurities, organic matter, & hazardous heavy (toxic) chemical compounds from raw feed water. The end product is fresh, safe, secure, & purified water that is acceptable & suitable to a desired extent or degree for approx. or nearly all industrial as well as few commercialutilizations or applications.

The leading producer of industrial & commercial reverse osmosis (RO) plants in Faridabad, Netsol Water provides you with the best equipment & an ISO-accredited (approved) RO system or facility.

We have the ability to reasonably modify the water plant systems & facilities we produce in order to meet the specific needs of our customers. We provide completely & semi-automated solutions to satisfy our customers' needs.  Commercial RO Plant is the best commercial ro plant manufacturer in faridabad at best affordable price.

Because our Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant is composed or made up of chrome steel & other high-grade strong elements-metals, the water plant system will endure longer (i.e., Lifespan, & Durability).

Currently, the company is manufacturing equipment for a Reverse Osmosis plant systems that can generate or produce water at a rate of 100 - 500 Litres per Hour (LPH) & is appropriate for utilizing in a range of industrial settings & companies.

In Faridabad, Top leading Manufacturers of commercial Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plants can be listed as:

Following is a collective list of the finest commercial Reverse Osmosis plant manufacturers in our nation, Faridabad, we will be guiding you with them as:

NETSOL WATER: One of the top producers of equipments, apparatuses regarding water & WasteWater Treatment Plant systems or facilities is Netsol Water. With its own production facility or unit located & headquartered based in Greater Noida, it began its journey & started its working operations in the year 2012.

It treats organic green waste, WasteWater, & water for a number of large enterprises, including Vedanta, NTPC, Sleep Well, & several additional business start-ups, hospitals, educational insititutions like universities, & schools.

COMMERCIAL RO PLANT: Due to the firm or company's lacking in providing with much more innovative & pleasing design, the COMMERCIAL RO PLANT’s Reverse Osmosis (RO) water purifier has fallen from in ranking of being the finest water purifying plant facilities integrated with gadget or devices & systems that can recover & recycle water upto 75-80 % percent that are accessible in NCT including Faridabad.

Conclusion

Water plays an important role in everyone's life. Not only is it essential for people, but also plants & animals. However, freshwater levels are rapidly decreasing because of excessive water consumption & the release of industrial & domestic garbage.

For human utilities, it is consequently imperative to utilize other water sources, such as river water. The need for Netsol Water along with Commercial RO Plant's commercial RO plant purifiers arises because different types of water are wholly unfit for human consumption. Netsol Water & Commercial RO Plant are a commercial RO plant manufacturer located in Faridabad, assists with large-scale water filtering. It allows many approaches to remove various types of impurities from water.

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Over 5 Lakh People In War-Torn Gaza “One Step Away” From Famine, Warns UN

Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, where no humanitarian group has been able to provide aid since January 23, the World Food Programme warned Tuesday, as Israel wages war on Palestinian group Hamas.

With a dire humanitarian emergency unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the main UN aid agency there struggling to cope, other bodies have called for help in reaching the thousands of Palestinians in desperate need.

“If nothing changes, a famine is imminent in northern Gaza,” WFP’s deputy executive director Carl Skau told the UN Security Council, while his colleague from the UN humanitarian office OCHA, Ramesh Rajasingham, warned of “almost inevitable” widespread starvation.”Here we are, at the end of February, with at least 576,000 people in Gaza — one-quarter of the population — one step away from famine, with one in six children under two years of age in northern Gaza suffering from acute malnutrition and wasting,” Rajasingham said.

Some 97 percent of groundwater in Gaza is “reportedly unfit for human consumption” and agricultural production is beginning to collapse, warned Maurizio Martina, deputy director general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Aid is ready and waiting at the border, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said Tuesday.

“WFP colleagues also tell us that they have food supplies at the border with Gaza, and with certain conditions they would be able to scale up feeding up to 2.2 million people” across the Strip, Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

“Almost 1,000 trucks carrying 15,000 metric tons of food are in Egypt ready to move,” he said.

But Israeli forces are “systematically” blocking access to Gaza, said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for OCHA, in Geneva earlier Tuesday.

All planned aid convoys into the north have been denied by Israeli authorities in recent weeks.

The last allowed in was on January 23, according to the World Health Organization.

The main UN aid agency in Gaza, UNRWA, meanwhile, is “at breaking point,” its head said last week, as donors freeze funding, Israel exerts pressure to dismantle the body and humanitarian needs soar.

The Security Council must take action, the other agencies told the 15-member body.

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What Are The Uses Of RO Water In Industry?

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a filtration process where pressurized water is passed through a membrane to generate purified water. Desalination and industrial wastewater treatment are only a couple of the many industrial uses for reverse osmosis. Water utilities and asset managers are increasingly evaluating their water treatment systems against both sustainability and cost outcomes, with new insights for RO pump selection, in the context of reducing global energy consumption.

What are the uses of RO Water in Industry?

It eliminates all hazardous chemicals found in the water source:

Toxic compounds present in water can cause a variety of health problems when consumed. An RO plant can purify water from all of these components and convert it to potable water. Industrial premises see more traffic than residential ones, which means that if the water is contaminated, it might affect a greater number of people.

It kills all forms of microbes:

Microbes, like toxic materials, render water unfit for human consumption. The RO system can remove all types of dangerous germs from the water. If this water is consumed or cooked with, it can cause diseases and infections such as toxoplasmosis, amoebiasis, and giardiasis.

Polluted water frequently contains hepatitis A and E viruses, as well as bacteria like as E.coil. When such water is used in cooking, it can cause food poisoning, which can lead to serious diseases such as typhoid fever and cholera.

A Industrial RO plant improves the taste of water in the following ways:

Although water has no odor, it frequently smells foul due to the presence of contaminants or the addition of chlorine by local authorities to the water supply. Installing a RO unit in your office or store allows you to drink water that is free of unpleasant odors.

TDS elimination from water: The RO plant removes TDS from the water. TDS levels in water that reaches our residential and business properties are frequently high. If you use a borewell as your water supply, there is a greater risk that it will have a high amount of TDS. TDS may be maintained with an advanced RO system for business premises to keep it safe to drink.

To install an Industrial unit, hire a reputable RO company!

When it comes to establishing a Industrial RO plant, only professionals should be consulted. There are numerous elements to consider when deciding the size and location of a RO plant. If you need a water purification system for an office with more than a hundred employees, you will need a larger plant than if you need one for a store with a modest number of employees.

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[starryoak]

I know the Pokédex/Professor Laventon hypothesizes that Hisuian Sliggoo and Goodra’s Steel typing is due to the high content of iron in Hisui’s rainwater, but I’ve gotta be honest. I think can’t help but think that there’s even more heavy metals in Hisui’s water supply.

I know Pokémon are basically magic, but my natural instinct to seeing a species of Pokémon that’s highly sensitive to water conditions evolving into a primarily Steel type, supplanting its natural Dragon type, is that there’s something not good in the water making it do that.

As well, Hisuian Sliggoo and Goodra weigh almost twice, or in Sliggo’s case, triple, what they naturally do in other regions. Again, Pokémon are magic, but there’s a reason they’re called heavy metals. It could explain their sickly appearance and behavior noted by Laventon as well, heavy metals are generally speaking, really bad for you, health-wise.

I think Hisui’s water supply is naturally tainted with all sorts of nasty shit unfit for human or Pokémon consumption and it’s only iron that’s detectable with current (1800′s) technology. Even if it’s all just iron, if it’s enough to cause a branching evolution, I’m concerned that it’d be dangerous to people. Iron overload is a thing, after all.

[bloodenjoyer]

tagged by @mircallasgrave thank youu ^____^

1. are you named after anyone? nope!! my deadname took SOME inspiration from a girl in the 60s who had some connection to a band (<thats all ill say) baz is just short for basil which came from nowhere particular...i DO also go by judy though and that definitely is partly inspired by judy from the secret history

2. when was the last time you cried?

maybe a few days ago i kept thinking of doomsday/rose tyler in general and was getting really emotional about it . my actual problems im more inclined to repress though

3. do you have kids?

nope!

4. do you use sarcasm a lot?

yes but also no. the answer is no but yes. I am always being completely honest and completeyl joking. i am never entirely sincere but ever joke i make secretly rings true at its core

5. what is the first thing you notice about people?

man idk

6. what color are your eyes?

green or hazel im not sure

7. scary movies or happy endings?

silly question

8. any special talents?

i dunno i can do this weird thing with my right shoulder that makes it look dislocated

9. where were you born?

california!

10. what are your hobbies?

media consumption LOL movies books music etc...like...idk. sometimes i try to play instruments (i did play flute for years but im a bit rusty now, and i play bad guitar sometimes), same w drawing im j not very good at it. and writing. Whatever. im a bit of a jack of all trades useless creative type tbh

11. do you have any pets?

dogy i love her so much

12. what sports did/have you played?

violently hated sports growing up and im pretty physically ....unfit so i never did sports. i guess i do like swimming though and im decent at it

13. how tall are you?

same height as rod serling

14. favorite subjects in school?

history philosophy literature english. Oh anything humanities i suppose

15. dream job?

actor LOL but genuinely nothing at all

tagging @bivampires @gingersnapsunleashed @frankiecorleone <3

[thelreads]

Horse meat is actually safer for you than most animals as horses have a higher body temperature, so the diseases that survive there aren't well adapted to humans. They aren't optimized for taste or quantity, though. Source: The Elusive Samurai, from the horse man who loves horses, ally of the samurai who decorates his armour with his 2d waifu.

Sure, but still, in the U.S. it is absolutely unfit for human consumption, because of the uncontrolled administration of hundreds of dangerous drugs and other substances to horses before slaughter. A few examples are dewormers, antibiotics, painkillers, steroids, and diuretics, most of which are labeled “Not for use in animals used for food”. Horses that have been put down by a vet are also unfit for human consumption, as the toxin from the lethal injection will still be in the meat, also there's Phenylbutazone, or Bute, which is a common painkiller that most horses will encounter at some point in their lives, and if these horses are slaughtered, their meat has the potential to cause cancer or other fatal diseases in humans.

Outside of the U.S. the situation might be different, but in the end, horse meat is less nutritious than beef, and Horse milk, a common beverage in Central Asian countries like Mongolia, is also less fatty than cow’s milk. More precisely, it has around three times less fat content, which sure, might be desirable for some people, but in general you're paying more for something that will fill you less.

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how did we even got to this topic

[historieofbeafts]

Is there a reason for the persistent association between scorpions, crabs, and basil?

[It's been long enough this probably needs a link to the original scorpion post for context]

As far as I'm aware, the association between scorpions and crabs comes from straightforward physical similarities (pincers, exoskeletons, etc.). Though when Ovid gives a list of animals that grow from decay in Book 15 of the Metamorphoses he says scorpions come specifically from crabs that have been buried without their claws, which is the opposite of what I'd expect.

[from the 1567 Golding translation, which gets overhyped as one of Shakespeare's influences, but was still an important text in the English Renaissance. also cleas=claws & writhen=twisted]

The association with basil is more complicated. The short version is that the first confirmed Greek mention of basil comes from a physician called Chrysippus (~4th c. BCE). His works were lost, but enough survives in later texts to know that he thought basil was extremely dangerous and unfit for human consumption, but doesn't seem to have mentioned scorpions.

Africa and Asia have a much longer history with basil, and when it does start to get linked with scorpions in classical texts there’s often an accompanying reference to “African” practices. Which isn’t enough to establish cross-cultural influence, but for the purposes of this blog I think it’s okay to speculate that a preexisting link between basil and scorpions + the Greek & Roman medical practice of treating scorpion stings with a mixture of basil, wine and vinegar + the fact that scorpions are frequently found in the kinds of places where basil grows +  a cultural belief in the spontaneous generation of small animals made the idea of scorpions growing from basil seem pretty reasonable.

That’s a lot of words without a primary source, so here’s internet favourite Pliny the Elder providing an example of what I’m talking about:

Brief digression, but the highlight of Pliny’s basil facts actually has nothing to do with scorpions. It’s this Totally Normal Gardening Tip:

Obviously it’s fun to imagine a world where this caught on and HGTV stands for Hostile Gardening Television, but it might be even more fun to imagine someone at a fair asking a prizewinning vegetable grower what their secret is and being told “ancient wisdom: swear at yer zucchini.” /end digression

This is already a pretty long post, but while I’m on the subject I can’t not talk about the ‘sniffing too much basil will give you brain scorpions’ urban legend popularized in the 16th-17th centuries. To start with, here are two 17th c. summaries that also give a pretty good idea of the Basil Discourse ™ at the time:

[Culpeper’s The English Physician (1652)]

[Topsell’s History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)]

Point form notes because there’s a lot to unpack:

Billingsgate is a fishmarket famous for vulgar language

 Non nostrum inter nos tantas componere lites is Virgil reference for “above my pay grade”

Dr. Reason is an allegorical figure representing logic/common sense

The link with basilisks comes from dubious folk etymology, but still probably contributed to basil’s bad reputation

Hollerius is the Latin name for the French physician Jacques Houllier, and I went through his De morborum internorum curatione, liber I (1572) & De morbis internis, libri II (1589) in hopes of finding more information about Brain Scorpion Patient Zero

He doesn’t provide any

Seriously

Each volume contains a one (1) sentence summary saying that an Italian man grew a scorpion in his brain and then died as a result of smelling too much basil

That’s it

The Gesner example comes from a treatise on scorpions published posthumously as part of Vol. 5 of his Historiae animalium (1587)

It also doesn’t provide any information beyond “an apothecary told me about a French girl who died after smelling basil and turned out to have a brain full of scorpions”

Obviously the real reason for the vagueness is because these are, at absolute best, examples of the false cause fallacy, but I still have a pressing need to know how patients’ basil-sniffing habits entered the medical record

Like, where would you even get that information?

Catch me learning necromancy so I can ask 16th c. physicians some pointed questions about brain scorpion diagnostic criteria, I guess

After all that, it seems fitting to conclude this post with someone who has no problem describing exact methodology: the scientist and mystic Jan Baptist van Helmont, who provides a recipe for growing scorpions from basil in his Oriatrike, or Physick Refined (1664)

I mean, what can you say to that except

He also has a recipe for growing mice by leaving a dirty shirt in a container of wheat:

[butwhatifidothis]

Except it ISN'T about the war in general. It's described as "a war drama depicting the journey and sacrifice of the emperor and her companions." Dorothea even mentions that it'll be an opera about Edelgard in their support.

It's not as deep as "Edelgard doesn't want information about the war in the form of a musical getting out". It's just her going "Yeah no I don't want a play about me with me as the main character because it's embarrassing."

As I said, Edelgard does plenty of fucked shit, but that isn't an example of one of them. There's no secondary motivation about not wanting the play outside of "I don't WANT a play about me it's embarrassing".

Theres a huge difference in "Rhea censors things and holds back technology" and "Edelgard bans her friend's musical about her because it embarrases her but ultimately relents and lets Dorothea preform the play."

One is serious, the other very much isn't. The ending doesn't even say she banned all plays about the war, just that SPECIFIC play by her friend which was ABOUT her.

I'm sure you could find evidence of Edelgard ACTUALLY censoring shit, but this just isn't it.

(assuming it’s the same anon, if it’s not then sorry!)

Alright. Let’s go with this. It’s not Edelgard hiding information about the war from the public - even though we already know there are some aspects of the war she doesn’t want anyone knowing, let alone the general public, such as Arianrhod, and even though we already know that things such as the war against TWS was explicitly hidden from the public. 

This is still censorship. You even say it’s her banning the play - that’s literally censorship. 

And you’re right - this isn’t the same as Rhea. Rhea hid knowledge from humans that they’ve already shown to use for malicious purposes, up to and including genocide and nearly ruining Fodlan, respectively. Edelgard is throwing around her power as Emperor to ban art because she’s, in your own words, “embarrassed” over it. You are describing her as someone who’s so childish she can’t stand people depicting her in a way she doesn’t like for literally no other reason than she’s embarrassed. This is abuse of power, full stop. 

Because yes, I can point to instances where Edelgard hides things/lies about things to make herself look better than she is or to otherwise benefit herself. I can point to when she takes Byleth’s credit at the Battle of Garreg Mach, to the missiles dropped on Arianrhod, to the shadow war against TWS, to her lying about “allowing” the people of Garreg Mach to escape when she attacks pre ts, so why, then, is it so unacceptable to believe that this is another instance of her doing what she’s already been shown to be capable of doing multiple times?

Or, alternatively, why does that suddenly make it not serious? It’s serious that Seteth is willing to censor anything about romance from the library, because it’s suppression of art. That is Seteth abusing his power as a high-ranking official of the Church to ban things he personally doesn’t like, not because they’re an inherent threat, but because he’s an overprotective father who’s too scared of his daughter getting with anyone and getting any ideas about romance (or is too grossed out by his sister gettin’ funky with Wilheim). He’s letting his own personal feelings get in the way of the spreading of harmless art and that is a bad thing.

If Edelgard didn’t initially allow this play that was (implicitly) written by someone close to her, what would stop her from banning any play about her she doesn’t like? If she already has multiple details about the war she doesn’t want the people knowing, what would stop her from censoring any play about the war? This one only got a pass because a friend of hers wrote it, and it still got banned and it still needed that friend to convince her to unban it - not everyone in the Empire is her friend. And also, this is only after she herself watched the play, so does every play about her need her to personally vet it (or in general vet it) for approval before being allowed to be shown to the public? Is that how art of her is going to be treated in her society? All because she’s too embarrassed?

And I’m sorry!! I don’t want to sound rude, but “I'm sure you could find evidence of Edelgard ACTUALLY censoring shit, but this just isn't it” except it... is? An example of her actually censoring shit? This is an example of her using her position as Emperor to disallow the production of art due to the contents of said art being considered unfit for public consumption as decreed by solely Edelgard? Because she personally doesn’t like what’s in it - by your explanation, not even for objective reasons that could actually disadvantage her? How is this not censorship, and why is this not serious? 

Because, again, this is not her going up to her friend and saying “Hey, I’d really appreciate if you don’t do this” like their supports, which I have literally no issues with. It’s her demanding the entire Mittelfrank Opera Company not produce this play they wanted to perform. There’s a difference between a huge political leader going to their personal friends and asking them as friends to not do a certain thing, and that same leader forbidding the general public from doing that same thing under law. 

So either Edelgard is banning this play because it’s about the war and she doesn’t want the possibility of it revealing any information she doesn’t want the public to know about and is willing to abuse her power to ban it and is only appeased once she knows a close friend of hers wrote it and even then only after she’s seen the performance for herself... or she is banning this play because she’s embarrassed about any possible haha details coming out about her and she’s willing to abuse her power to ban it and is only appeased once she knows a close friend of hers wrote it and even then only after she’s seen the performance for herself. 

Both are bad. They may not be equally bad, but they are both very bad. Censorship is so rarely good that 3H had to come with a literal impossible scenario for it to be even possible to justify (”this nearly genocided race of dragon people with magic blood needed to hide the history of their magic blood from people that wanted to kill them for it”), and it’s definitely not good for as petty a reason as “nooo, don’t talk about me like that //>~<//” 

[whumpurr]

Can I ask how Sawdust got his name?

:3c its spoilers thatll be revealed later but ill put it under the cut since its nothing too major!

'Sawdust' is a the refuse that comes from using an industrial meat saw in a butcher shop, generally considered unfit for human consumption as it's random bits of shredded meat and bone, and some people even say that it's so bad that animals shouldn't have it either. Generally sawdust is purchased for cheap from butcher shops for people to feed their dogs.