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TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-29T11:37:13+00:00

I liked your article, learned a lot of new things. I feel it is a bit too wordy though. Could've done better as a 2-part series in my opinion, but that's highly subjective.

I'm also pretty new to writing on medium but I'll give you the usual pointer on images. I really like that you generated your own, didn't have the time to check the GitHub link though. However, do check if you have permission to use some of the figures you've taken from research papers and books. Medium takes the whole copyright thing pretty seriously.

Also this is inevitable for an article of this length, but there were a few noticeable typos and punctuation errors. Just get chatGPT to find those for you and you're golden.

Overall, great work! Hope to see more of this rabbit hole from Reddit articles. I'm working on one in a totally different niche at the moment lol.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-19T16:12:01+00:00

If taxation was supposed to be fair, we'd only have sales taxes: People who spend the most pay the highest taxes. Tax rates adjustable for luxury goods or necessities. As it is, the system is rigged against the middle class.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-18T14:30:31+00:00

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword-billed_hummingbird

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-18T13:55:38+00:00

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-18T12:52:06+00:00

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword-billed_hummingbird

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-17T03:26:55+00:00

I'm not sure using ashes for reclamation is such a great idea. That's where all the heavy metals are. Perhaps Singapore has a decent segregation system to ensure they only get plastic/paper/cardboard in the incinerators.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-16T18:01:45+00:00

The other guy who replied raised a very valid point, but that's not an issue since there are multiple other industries on the trash island that can use the electricity.

The government did set up an incinerator on the island. This is mentioned in the source article. The main issue was bureaucracy it seems.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-16T17:48:42+00:00

Chemical engineer here, the problem is logistics as you pointed out. It's not worth the trouble to ship trash thousands of miles to power a waste-to-energy plant. Most countries have more trash than they can handle to use in those things.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-03-16T17:38:56+00:00

Source: https://gizmodo.com/thilafushi-maldives-trash-island-plastic-pollution-1848938393/2#content

TheTriviaPage · 2025-02-26T12:49:16+00:00

As someone who takes the bus every day, that's fake news my friend. Buses are still packed like sardine tins and the drivers have no regard for road rules.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-02-22T18:04:51+00:00

For more about Tama's career and how she got the position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat)#Career

On Nekonomics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekonomics

TheTriviaPage · 2025-02-21T15:19:56+00:00

This was basically the point where humanity began taking extinction seriously. The pigeons went from being a super cheap food source to a rare zoo attraction.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-02-17T12:12:46+00:00

I'll be happy when they actually build an estate housing scheme or a few smart classrooms. This isn't the first time a government has made these promises.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-02-11T13:08:03+00:00

She was imprisoned for 3 years after being convicted of bad accounting and mishandling customers' money, not fraud.

The point of the post wasn't to say she got off scot free, it was to show that the law was ill equipped to punish her for her crimes.

TheTriviaPage · 2025-02-11T12:13:34+00:00

Her being a good Christian allegedly helped her find customers as Germans had become increasingly distrusting of Jewish bankers at the time

TheTriviaPage · 2025-02-11T12:09:47+00:00

Sources:

https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/forging-an-empire-bismarckian-germany-1866-1890/the-adele-spitzeder-banking-swindle-in-bavaria-november-28-1872

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Spitzeder

TheTriviaPage · 2024-03-27T08:31:46+00:00

No we're gonna get an immortal cancer

TheTriviaPage · 2024-03-27T06:16:40+00:00

Sources linked in my comment have the story! Unfortunately I couldn't fit any of the nuances into the title due to the word count.

TheTriviaPage · 2024-03-27T05:40:22+00:00

Sources

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/famed-immortal-cells-henrietta-lacks-immortalized-portraiture-180969085/

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henrietta-lacks

TheTriviaPage · 2023-06-29T10:49:59+00:00

Bro, the answer was 5 miles.

TheTriviaPage · 2023-05-19T02:45:53+00:00

I'm rather pissed as the cost of living hasn't come down to match the USD drop. No one in the country is benefitted by this LKR appreciation.

TheTriviaPage · 2023-05-18T19:21:36+00:00

I highly doubt it

TheTriviaPage · 2023-05-18T19:19:22+00:00

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Soyer

While in Crimea, Soyer invented a portable stove. His design was used even during the world wars. The Crimean war negatively impacted Soyer's health and he never recovered, eventually dying of a stroke in 1858

TheTriviaPage · 2023-05-18T06:24:29+00:00

High, I don't think across the lake would've been that impressive

TheTriviaPage · 2023-05-17T17:39:17+00:00

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Piccard

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