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• match@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  white people slowly reinventing aquaculture

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    kagis

    liquidtrees.org/team

    Nine Indians, four Spaniards, and a German, apparently.

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    • jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How much better are Kagi search results? Would you say it is worth using over something like searx?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only liquid trees I approve of are the kinds that come in a 510 threaded cart and you smoke.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can bioengineer algae to do pretty much anything.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good post.

  Wrong community.

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  • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe, I’m self hosting several trees, so… 🤷‍♂️

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• kooks_only@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pm2 restart liquidtrees

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• Lightsong@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like the innovation this, it could lead to another and better idea.

  Also what are the chance that once they’re deployed, somebody run into one on the first day? Pretty good I bet.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like how everyone is acting like it is normal to have this in self hosted

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love this about lemmy.
    Like someone stumbling into the wing house and still being welcomed.
    It’s a lot more informal and relaxed than on the piss page of the Internet.

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• Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @ECEC Good lord the number of replies here from people whose brains have been destroyed by "planners"...

  1) Trees lower the urban heat island effect.
  2) There's plenty of room for trees in dense places, so long as "density" means efficient housing and efficient transportation rather than parking lots and stroads and single-family homes.
  3) Someone said "trees require maintenance", as if asphalt and pretty much everything else requires maintenance.
  4) Trees harm cars. But cars harm cars too!

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  • eowyn@pouet.chapril.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @Andres4NY @ECEC trees harm car is actually a feature, the drivers will slow down in roads with trees borders

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  • svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s plenty of room for trees in new dense places, sure. But if you’re in the parts of London with old ass-narrow ass-streets, this may be less true.

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    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      London is the perfect place for some futuristic cyberpunk distopia !

      The rest of the world (except some highly polluting countries who anyway doesn’t give a shit about the environment…) can keep the trees&bees and build arround it ! :)

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    trees are great, this algae tank is just likely more efficient at producing oxygen

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trees are also essential for insects, bird and animal life in cities. They are also psychologically calming for people as well.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are psychologically calming for people as well.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

      Dendrocnide moroides, commonly known in Australia as the stinging tree, stinging bush, or gympie-gympie, is a plant in the nettle family Urticaceae found in rainforest areas of Malesia and Australia.[3] It is notorious for its extremely painful and long-lasting sting.

      Depends on the tree.

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pro que no los dos?

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• teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enjoy the mosquitos

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• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, they left a bucket of water to stagnate next to a bus stop?

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My neighbor’s pool is looking like a liquid tree, nobody’s writing articles about him.

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• bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So I appreciate some outside the box thinking. But this just reeks of techbros invent trees but worse. Most of the considerations below seem to think trees and cars are natural enemies, I would argue we reduce cars instead.

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• don@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m only conjecturing, but there may be cities where planting trees isn’t feasible due to density of the city and the surrounding infrastructure. It may be cheaper to use these in place of trees, though I admit I know nothing about what’s pictured.

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• claralistensprechen5th@friendica.rogueproject.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @ECEC
  Any city manager could tell you everything wrong with having trees downtown.
  * Birds get into them and when they're nesting, they attack anybody walking by
  *Birds also shit on the cars parked under them, and most drivers look for shade to park under
  *Bugs get into them and attract birds when birds aren't nesting
  *Trees drop sap, which also ruins a car's finish
  *city workers have to spend time on the clock keeping the leaves picked up off the ground

  Yeah, the drawback is that the algae don't provide shade.

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  • Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @claralistensprechen5th @ECEC Sounds like the problem is cars, not trees.

    #FuckCars

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    • claralistensprechen5th@friendica.rogueproject.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @Andres4NY @ECEC
      Cars and trees in the inner city are a combination of problems.
      I did leave one tree problem out: they grow.
      When their roots are surrounded and covered by concrete, the concrete buckles. So do the streets. Unfortunately, city streets are specifically for cars.

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• RelativeArea0@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this

  youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_T4zMBx6E

  ik its youtube, calm your pitchforks

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• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Devil’s advocate:

  These cost far less to maintain than having a team or two dedicated to upkeep for the trees.

  That said, I also think trees are the better option. These are an eyesore.

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  • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These probably require more maintenance and not less, glass needs to be regularly cleaned and water changed and fertilized, what will happen when company stops supporting this proprietary algae aquariums?

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All valid points.

      I was going off the assumption that these are a sort of self-sustaining terrarium.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “cost” of maintaining trees is paid by the city to people living, buying things and paying taxes in the city.
    People who don’t have a college education and get to make a living working outside, improving their neighborhood.

    The fake trees are likely put up and maintained by a tech corporation.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, yes, and yes.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t agree that these are an eyesore, they are not as pretty as a tree, no, but disgustingly ugly? Nah.

    Seems like a decent idea if you have an over developed location where you can’t plant a tree.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someones gunna break it too.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh absolutely.

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• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because there’s no serious answers being given even though there are at least 2:

  • trees have roots, roots ruin any nearby human infrastructure. You’ll note this says “in urban environments” and that there are trees nearby, so this is probably the big reason
  • trees need maintenance, which costs money. this is a stupid reason imo, but it’s one nonetheless
  • algae is cool, ok?

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The roots are something I had not considered

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bet that algae box will need maintenance too :-)

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Every 6 months half of it gets removed, to use as fertiliser, and it is refilled with tap water and some feed.

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  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “let’s uproot all these trees and invade this space. and when the roots of the few remaining trees do what they are supposed to do, let’s blame them for ‘ruining’ human infrastructure!”

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On the other hand, algae do not produce shade, not sure if it filters atmospheric pollutants, and trees provide all sort of other services to the local ecosystem.

    Maybe this invention can be used on places where trees cannot lives, but I’d still take a city with trees over a city full of green tanks.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe this invention can be used on places where trees cannot lives, but I’d still take a city with trees over a city full of green tanks.

      These in the spots where trees once stood but were too destructive & trees everywhere else imo. Cool tech future AND trees, plus these are benches too it looks like

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  • zeca@lemmy.eco.br ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    trees dont ruin ANY human infrastructure. But the usual urban infrastructure isnt well thought out enough exist around trees. But smarter urbanism is possible and in fact does exist.

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    • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People ruin nature’s infrastructure

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      trees dont ruin ANY human infrastructure

      I think you mean all, as this reads more like “nuh uh, trees don’t ruin anything”

      But smarter urbanism is possible and in fact does exist.

      And those are not the norm, so for places that don’t plan to just destroy what’s already there and start anew, this is an option

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget pollen and seeds.

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    • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bees need pollen. We need bees and you can self host them.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yeah

      I’m one of those elites who don’t have allergies so I tend to forget 😎😎😎

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Algae is also more efficient per cubic meter, if I understand correctly.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not just more efficient, vastly more efficient. Algae is 10-50 times faster at processing CO² than trees are. Some algae can be up to 400x as efficient.

      It’s just not as “nice” to look at, we usually associate algae with growth in unsafe bodies of water like bogs, etc. versus a nice clean pool or even a maintained pond.

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A big problem with trees is roots, especially in cities. If there’s an actual way to produce the same amount of oxygen as a tree in a smaller space, I’m all for it. I’m honestly okay with how these look, assuming low maintenance.

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• cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do I self host these? I tried docker run liquidtrees it didn’t work

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re not stupid; its not in docker. Check apt.

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  • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    git clone aur.archlinux.org/liquidtrees.git && cd liquidtrees && makepkg
    or
    add repo.30p87.de/private/archlinux as a repo, and sudo pacman -Sy liquidtrees

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    • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just tried this and my DE got replaced with Sway and now there’s algae oozing out of my keyboard

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  • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try

    docker run liquidtrees:micro-algae

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    • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Instructions unclear, installed Liquid Swords.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Trees don’t make number go up.

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  • filister@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t you want to subscribe to our Tree Ultimate program, that will give you a limited access to a living tree for 199.99 a month or 1999 a year?

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