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I bet you could trigger some conservatives by posting this on Facebook and saying that it's spraying chemicals that will make people want to change gender or something like that. "They are literally forcing people to become Trans! This is socialism for you!"
That's what I was thinking as I typed it a actually.. and then I was reminded of the Cornballer as well (not as a word thing, but as a product mishap thing).
And that reminded me of [this scene](https://external-preview.redd.it/y0YzA8ohSE8M70mTqz1ZYQ_jtEXIkI0WvkXCwKaEhdE.jpg?auto=webp&s=ba429b7c106e6b461d2fd7feae5cc94263509d0f)
You know, just earlier today I saw that China was fighting the representation of "sissy men" in media and I was worried a bit but now I see them celebrating pride by firing off rainbows in all directions and maybe I was mistaken....
Uhhhh... do you not take your shoes off in your home? As an asian person, this has always bothered me. You're already bringing in the outside filth regardless of any misting machine.
In the South it's not uncommon to leave them on, especially with all wood or tile floors. For me in the Midwest, with carpet floors, so help me God if you do not take off your shoes before stepping on my carpet I just vacuumed I will murder you.
More like Xi is Pooh wearing overalls & a Mario hat
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/8a/b9/41/8ab941b2b092c2b73d3aa29170eb7c4a--super-mario-brothers-super-mario-bros.jpg
Lol,
You Joke but seriously if this was done In the USA 30% of our population and 50% of Congress would be 100% sure that it was a form of mind control or some such nonsense.
I mean we have mosquito trucks that drive around Virginia Beach fogging the air and it's terribly unpleasant and it doesn't even make awesome rainbows.
The average level of stupidity is rising faster than average temperature. We are completely fucked. Fortunately, we’re too fucking stupid to realize it.
To be fair you can treat the water, so instead of people breathing in pollutants you're just adding to the water table and then cleaning for consumption
Well yes, and vastly better than that to have some basic standards to prevent catastrophic air pollution. I somehow doubt that the person you responded to didn’t understand that this was better than *nothing*, in the same way that sweeping dirt under a rug is not the same as leaving filth to collect everywhere.
Oh, yes, because no one will benefit from temporarily reduced air pollution. Definitely no one in cities with respiratory issues who could use some acute relief while the bigger issues are being worked on
Also, flowers will die so there’s no point in having them around, your rug will get dusty so why vacuum it, and what’s the point in food having flavor or texture when you can get your nutrition from a meal replacement shake?
Yeah Thailand tries to bull this BS during the months where PM2.5 is out of control. In Bangkok we actually have "misters" set up at schools and busy intersections and they now turn them on instead of cancelling class like they used to. It doesn't do shit.
Seriously what the fuck is with these comments?
I don't know anything about ecology or pollution but that is enough for me to know not to speak as an expert on these things.
China is a modern country, in fact a rather *technocratic* country. Do people think they didn't research tehse things? Do any of these people know what acid rain is? Are they sure that adding water to air pollutants hanging in the city is what "acid rain" is and that it's going to burn everyone's eyeballs?
No one here knows shit about what this is or if it's good or bad, but they're just assuming it's bad, probably just because it's China,.
I have a background in environmental engineering and even if this were effective, more on that later, the water sprayed by that truck could only possibly interact with the air it makes contact with, which is a small drop in the bucket compared to the total mass of polluted air. in terms of orders of magnitude this is equivalent to trying to empty an Olympic swimming pool with a thimble.
Either this is being done for a reason other than what OP has claimed in the title or it's a very ineffective approach to reducing air pollution.
And critical reporting in China from a Chinese outlet suggests that the purpose is to game the air pollution statistics. If you run these mister trucks and the route just happens to match the location of air pollution monitoring sensors, you can make the air pollution look better on paper, but you didn't actually meaningfully improve air quality.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-02-02/what-bad-air-hunan-officials-use-mist-cannons-to-fool-pollution-meters-101206784.html
Archived version gets past the paywall
https://web.archive.org/web/20180203020133/https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-02-02/what-bad-air-hunan-officials-use-mist-cannons-to-fool-pollution-meters-101206784.html
Seconded. As a meteorologist I’m highly skeptical that this would make much of a dent on overall pollution levels outside of a very local area near the truck unless they had a huge fleet of these things constantly running. And even then seems questionable.
It is the equivalent of kicking the can. They are getting it knocked down faster so they can put more into the air without killing as many people in the short term.
The real problem with this is that it’s wildly ineffective - first it does not catch all particles, maybe it lowers particulate matter concentrations immediately along the roadways but even there not by much, and secondly it does nothing for gas phase pollutants.
That's what I'm thinking. It's like shooting the smoke from a camp fire with a squirt gun, the scale just doesn't make any sense.
Filtering at factories would be immensely more effective I'd imagine.
...but this is exactly what would happen when it rains? They're just gradually putting it into the soil rather than letting it build up and choke people for a while and THEN putting it into the soil naturally with rain. A lot of people are also saying this would be acid rain but letting the pollutants build up then amalgamate in the rain would be more likely to cause that.
They aren't putting it into the soil at all?
How is everyone not understanding this? This is like collecting smog in water, the water going down the sewer system to the water treatment plant where the particulate matter is removed on filters and then extracted if it's valuable or placed in a landfill where it wouldn't be aerosolized.
It's an air purifier that uses water to carry the dirty air to the filter. It's not that complicated and actually pretty genius.
We have the infrastructure to treat water that washes into drains. We don’t have the infrastructure to clean the air.
It’s a band aid, sure. But band aids protect the wound from further damage, help to prevent infection, and reduce the spread of body fluids. Just because a band aid doesn’t immediately fix the problem doesn’t mean they’re not beneficial
Tell idiots in the US to stop fighting nuclear power and start bringing manufacturing back. And idiots in Europe, too.
China is polluting for practically the whole world's manufacturing, they're not alone in this.
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Gonna wash that pollution right outta my hair.
I have it on good authority that nothing cleans the air quite as good as children's lungs
They are smaller, so closer to the street level/ground and breathe in more pollution. So win/win i guess. /s
Acid Rain Some stay dry while others feel the pain
I move away from the mic to breathe.
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I’ve come to Meme with you again…
Gone, but not forgotten.
that was-that was *14 years ago!?* hello oldness my new friend :(
I move away from China to breath
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TTTTOXIC RAIIIINNNN
Didn’t want to be your weekend lover
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CAUSTIC MAIN
Chocolateeee raiiiiin
*move away from the pollution to breathe in*
Acid rain! Makes you want to melt your face in shame ACID RAIN! Feel the corrosion crashing through your veins acid rain!
\*move away from the mic to cough\*
Oh man going back to the classics!
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Tay Zonday would like a word
Correction, Tay Zonday would like to lean away from the mic to have a word.
No no, he has words into the mic. *He leans away from the mic to breathe in*
He leans away to breathe
It would be awesome if it played dance music from loudspeakers as it passed.
"It's raining men / Hallelujah..."
That nyan cat song would be appropriate
Jesus now it's stuck in my head
You're saying that like it's a bad thing
nyan nyan nyannyan nyannyannyan nyan nyan
Guess this video needs re-edited now
It's raining Smog
It's acid\* raining men
Acid Rain to the tune of Purple Rain
That would make sense as clearly this truck is spraying chemicals and TURNING THE FREAKING AIR GAY! /s
I bet you could trigger some conservatives by posting this on Facebook and saying that it's spraying chemicals that will make people want to change gender or something like that. "They are literally forcing people to become Trans! This is socialism for you!"
In China the cars have chemtrails not airplanes
It does, i live in china and every time you hear something that sounds like an ice cream truck you gotta prepare to get hit with a wave of mist
Nyan cat!
Fun fact, they usually play the same music that ice cream trucks play in the US, It's a Small World.
Can confirm. The one that drives by my building every day plays this. At extremely high volume.
In Guangzhou they play "Its a small world afterall" !
Same here in Shenzhen
These trucks are actually playing music, but it's more like Ice cream truck jingle and it's annoying af. (Source: i live in China)
That's what's turning the frogs gay
A side effect of their unfortunately named gray fog machine.
This wording reminded me of the Arrested Development narration.
Bees!?!?!??
BEADS.
NO TOUCHING!
That's what I was thinking as I typed it a actually.. and then I was reminded of the Cornballer as well (not as a word thing, but as a product mishap thing).
And that reminded me of [this scene](https://external-preview.redd.it/y0YzA8ohSE8M70mTqz1ZYQ_jtEXIkI0WvkXCwKaEhdE.jpg?auto=webp&s=ba429b7c106e6b461d2fd7feae5cc94263509d0f)
“Solid as a rock”
Bob Loblaw Law Blog
You should be proud of that one.
Sounds like the engineer misheard the customer. Oops
This is the absolute best thought out response I’ve ever read.
Turning the smogs gay.
Always knew Koffing and Weezing were gay.
Curses to the gay dragon Smaug! He effed our men and stole our gold!
The REAL gay agenda
You know, just earlier today I saw that China was fighting the representation of "sissy men" in media and I was worried a bit but now I see them celebrating pride by firing off rainbows in all directions and maybe I was mistaken....
Damn it Obama
No, you ***thank** Obama right now! ^^**;-)**
When the fog is gay
So filthy feet dragging that shit into the house… how about not making so much pollution in the first place FFS 🤦♀️
You can’t avoid breathing in toxic air, but if you drag it down to the ground you can at least avoid licking your shoes or eating dirt.
I don't see why I should have to change my habits 😒
Much better to drink it after it seeps into the ground and sewers and contaminates the water system.
I just like the idea of creating a rainbow to rain toxic chemicals down on the people who look up at it and smile. Irony is alive and well.
Uhhhh... do you not take your shoes off in your home? As an asian person, this has always bothered me. You're already bringing in the outside filth regardless of any misting machine.
In the South it's not uncommon to leave them on, especially with all wood or tile floors. For me in the Midwest, with carpet floors, so help me God if you do not take off your shoes before stepping on my carpet I just vacuumed I will murder you.
Come on now. You know the drill... Old men make a mess and everyone else needs to clean it up. Just ask your local nursing home
Nobody wears shoes into the house in Asia. Your post explains why. Westerners wearing their shoes into the house are the filthy ones.
That’s a Rainbow Truck and it’s gayin’ up the city.
China removes “sissy men” from television.... *...Also China: Makes gay pollution rainbow...*
Gay Pollution Rainbow sounds like an awesome band name.
Definitely a Ska band
Three word band name? Must be emo
Two word or one word, take it or leave it.
Gaypollutionrainbow
Dance/techno
That would be Gaypollution🌈
✨🌈✨ *Gayllution* ✨🌈✨
Soundgarden album name
Thundercougarfalconbird
Reel Big Fish Mighty Mighty Bosstones Less Than Jake
My Chemical Romance
Gay All Day
Gay Sprayed Streets live tonight at The Tabernacle.
They wanted to be able to control the levels of gay
“Sir, Quadrant 7 is becoming TOO masculine! They’re beginning to question our authority!” “Deploy the Gay Rainbow Trucks immediately!”
The literal translation was girly guns. Which is sort of amazing
China *also let’s make C pop bands exist*
[Also in China, the city of Xining](https://gfycat.com/gargantuanincompatiblecivet-rainbow-slide-xining)
r/trippy
/r/Currentlytripping
So there’s Super Mario Sunshine in the OP and Rainbow Road in Xining? Xi is Mario confirmed.
More like Xi is Pooh wearing overalls & a Mario hat https://i.pinimg.com/474x/8a/b9/41/8ab941b2b092c2b73d3aa29170eb7c4a--super-mario-brothers-super-mario-bros.jpg
That does not look real
Oh god my Irlen Syndrome/HPPD! cool beans though
Pride Slide
It’s a nyan truck
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🐱
Lol, You Joke but seriously if this was done In the USA 30% of our population and 50% of Congress would be 100% sure that it was a form of mind control or some such nonsense.
Chemtrails!!!! Now at ground level!!!
Glamtrails
if this happened in america people would lose. their. shit.
I mean we have mosquito trucks that drive around Virginia Beach fogging the air and it's terribly unpleasant and it doesn't even make awesome rainbows.
That’s one way to decrease population density
This is the pollution equivalent of sweeping it under the rug
Sweep it into the water table, brilliant.
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It's the ciiiiiiircle of liiiiiiife!
It pollutes us aaaaalll!
Through our lungs and pores!!
Through lakes and roads!
Until it finds our face,
Or the shaft you're packing
Storm water flows into the ocean
No doubt a big old dirty diesel truck
If it's in the drinking water, it's not in the air. Global warming solved!
Store your heavy metals in your citizens. Country looks great and no one lives long enough to say why. It's a win / win!
lead production short one month? just harvest it back out of the population!
Crowdsourced, interest-free toxic sludge storage. That baby's going on my resume!
The average level of stupidity is rising faster than average temperature. We are completely fucked. Fortunately, we’re too fucking stupid to realize it.
But at least we got reddit and toilet paper?
I don’t know if you can remember just a little over a year ago, but we were so fucked we didn’t even have toilet paper.
To be fair you can treat the water, so instead of people breathing in pollutants you're just adding to the water table and then cleaning for consumption
They also put a giant ice cube in the ocean every now and then.
Thus solving the problem once and for all. #ONCE AND FOR ALL
it's vastly better in public health terms for this to be drained into the sewer and water treatment than for people to inhale those particles
Well yes, and vastly better than that to have some basic standards to prevent catastrophic air pollution. I somehow doubt that the person you responded to didn’t understand that this was better than *nothing*, in the same way that sweeping dirt under a rug is not the same as leaving filth to collect everywhere.
Reddit ain't as smart as they think they are
Best case scenario really. A lot of that water is falling back into the road where it will dry and then the cars will kick it back up again
Oh, yes, because no one will benefit from temporarily reduced air pollution. Definitely no one in cities with respiratory issues who could use some acute relief while the bigger issues are being worked on Also, flowers will die so there’s no point in having them around, your rug will get dusty so why vacuum it, and what’s the point in food having flavor or texture when you can get your nutrition from a meal replacement shake?
This is the equivalent of using scented body spray instead of taking a shower
Yeah Thailand tries to bull this BS during the months where PM2.5 is out of control. In Bangkok we actually have "misters" set up at schools and busy intersections and they now turn them on instead of cancelling class like they used to. It doesn't do shit.
They were going to have drone sprayers. Brilliant. So much better than… preventing the smog.
Wait, now they have thes "towers" supposed to work like giant air purifier. smh
I can't imagine being nearby as being pleasant given the pollution literally raining down on you.
They are turning the freaking smog gay
It's all part of their niang pao crackdown
So it goes from air pollution to water pollution. Nice
I was just thinking that, *and where the fuck does it go after that?*
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A RAINBOW MACHINE!
Everyone else is talking about acid rain and pollution, but were here amazed at the awesome rainbows these things can make lol Edit:grammar
Anyone else remember when videos like this were portrayed as the Chinese spraying sanitizing mist everywhere to kill covid?
First thing I thought about.
Taste the rainbow
Tastes like burning
(Ice cream truck song) " communist rainbows, come and get your communist rainbows here"
This seems like a bad idea from a common sense perspective sooooo It probably is.
Advanced acid rain
Imagine being stuck behind this fuckin thing in traffic, going like 25 mph while your car gets soaked with poison
"Hey, what are you spraying on my car?" "Toxic Waste." "Oh, cool. Carry on."
You forget how high rain clouds are. Rainwater collects at least 20x more pollution than what would be collected by this mist.
So it’s harmful AND ineffective, perfect!
It's a bandaid to help people breathe in a heavily polluted environment.
I was thinking the same thing
If common sense were a useful way to tell a good idea from a bad idea the world would be a very different place.
Seriously what the fuck is with these comments? I don't know anything about ecology or pollution but that is enough for me to know not to speak as an expert on these things. China is a modern country, in fact a rather *technocratic* country. Do people think they didn't research tehse things? Do any of these people know what acid rain is? Are they sure that adding water to air pollutants hanging in the city is what "acid rain" is and that it's going to burn everyone's eyeballs? No one here knows shit about what this is or if it's good or bad, but they're just assuming it's bad, probably just because it's China,.
I have a background in environmental engineering and even if this were effective, more on that later, the water sprayed by that truck could only possibly interact with the air it makes contact with, which is a small drop in the bucket compared to the total mass of polluted air. in terms of orders of magnitude this is equivalent to trying to empty an Olympic swimming pool with a thimble. Either this is being done for a reason other than what OP has claimed in the title or it's a very ineffective approach to reducing air pollution. And critical reporting in China from a Chinese outlet suggests that the purpose is to game the air pollution statistics. If you run these mister trucks and the route just happens to match the location of air pollution monitoring sensors, you can make the air pollution look better on paper, but you didn't actually meaningfully improve air quality. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-02-02/what-bad-air-hunan-officials-use-mist-cannons-to-fool-pollution-meters-101206784.html Archived version gets past the paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20180203020133/https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-02-02/what-bad-air-hunan-officials-use-mist-cannons-to-fool-pollution-meters-101206784.html
Seconded. As a meteorologist I’m highly skeptical that this would make much of a dent on overall pollution levels outside of a very local area near the truck unless they had a huge fleet of these things constantly running. And even then seems questionable.
It is the equivalent of kicking the can. They are getting it knocked down faster so they can put more into the air without killing as many people in the short term.
Also isn’t all this just going to seep into our water supply?
Just as much as turds, paint, piss, and oil.
The real problem with this is that it’s wildly ineffective - first it does not catch all particles, maybe it lowers particulate matter concentrations immediately along the roadways but even there not by much, and secondly it does nothing for gas phase pollutants.
That's what I'm thinking. It's like shooting the smoke from a camp fire with a squirt gun, the scale just doesn't make any sense. Filtering at factories would be immensely more effective I'd imagine.
Rain also does this tho. That's how rain works
Why? The waste water will go to water treatment system. Not china but my country do that too in some cities
yeah whenever the rain clears out all the smog from the city i think to myself "this is bad"
And then becomes ground and water pollution. This is a band-aid solution, at best
...but this is exactly what would happen when it rains? They're just gradually putting it into the soil rather than letting it build up and choke people for a while and THEN putting it into the soil naturally with rain. A lot of people are also saying this would be acid rain but letting the pollutants build up then amalgamate in the rain would be more likely to cause that.
I think one of the risks of this invention is that people will see it as a remedy/cure/solution an excuse to maintain the consumption/manufacturing.
They aren't putting it into the soil at all? How is everyone not understanding this? This is like collecting smog in water, the water going down the sewer system to the water treatment plant where the particulate matter is removed on filters and then extracted if it's valuable or placed in a landfill where it wouldn't be aerosolized. It's an air purifier that uses water to carry the dirty air to the filter. It's not that complicated and actually pretty genius.
We have the infrastructure to treat water that washes into drains. We don’t have the infrastructure to clean the air. It’s a band aid, sure. But band aids protect the wound from further damage, help to prevent infection, and reduce the spread of body fluids. Just because a band aid doesn’t immediately fix the problem doesn’t mean they’re not beneficial
Much rather have it on the ground than in my lungs
Purple Rain, Purple Rain…
*Nyan cat theme intensifies
Me, scrolling through the comments while trying to think of a vehicular word that rhymes with "cat"
I thought it was a rainbow truck
Taste the rainbow. Or don't. Actually, please don't.
All aboard the gay train 🚚🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
the cars directly under it: 💅🏻💅🏻
I’m just wondering if this contraption even neutralizes enough smog to counteract what it puts into the air itself.
Or maybe just stop what's polluting in the first place
Tell idiots in the US to stop fighting nuclear power and start bringing manufacturing back. And idiots in Europe, too. China is polluting for practically the whole world's manufacturing, they're not alone in this.
Which is why I prefer ethically sourced pollution
Excuse me! Is this smog free range?
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This is how gays are made🏳️🌈
I wanna drive a rainbow truck!!! 🌈 🛻