Comment on this is exactly the shit fucking job you'd expect from him to repair a national monument

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reflecting pool between Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in Washington D.C. in the gal’dang U S of A.

  Last month it was drained to be painted with a blue swimming pool liner.

  Because that’s what you do when you’re losing another war in Asia.

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• habitualTartare@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The reflection pool in DC. Image

  npr.org/…/reflecting-pool-resurfacing-blue-trump

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    TY for the article link. Explains it all!

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• its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s the wading pool outside the Lincoln memorial.

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  • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    do people actually wade in it tho

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    • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

      At least once.

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      • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “JENNAY!!”

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    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Apparently it used to be filled with tap water.
      That changed in a 2009 reno to use water from the Tidal Basin(man made resevoir) constantly circulating to avoid stagnation issues.

      However, that itself caused issues. Rampant algae growth immediately became an issue, so they had to improve the ozone disinfectant system in the same year.

      It was drained in 2017 to solve a parasitic snail outbreak which was killing ducks in the pool.

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    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think it’s more a depth thing than a use case name.

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Jenny from Forrest Gump did.

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not generally, but I’ve seen people in it sometimes.

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      • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sometimes kids get in there before their parents tell them to get out

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I never realized it was that big.

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    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s ginormous but only a few inches deep

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