Why not add some secondary side pools joined by underground channels with some very gentle induced flow beneath the surface? Those side pools could act like like living filters and bring some wildlife to boot.
I’m thinking we replace it with a 2,000 foot long AI generated portrait of obama performing lewd acts on trump, and then for the next 100 years we can have a news cycle about democrats wasting money whenever someone suggests restoring it to the original monument
Haha, humanity surviving the next 100 years is a lot to take for granted. Just because the USA is in the lead in the race to the bottom doesn’t mean the rest of the countries in the world aren’t in the race as well.
Actually I give a lot more for humanity's chances than this organization we call the United States of America remaining as a unit for another 100 years.
I'm American, I think billionaires are always fucking everybody, and I think the human race has better odds of surviving another 100 years than the USA as an entity. But I don't feel like debating whatever train of thought you're on.
Not a debate - it’s easy to say the US is fucked (rightfully so, we are fucked). My point was it’s happening to almost every single “first world” country right now. Same billionaires, same fucking playbook. Humanity is in a great filter moment and whatever’s left in 100 years is going to be a wasteland
Trump should be praised for using the reflecting pool to bloom algae. it's forward thinking of him to leverage a biological solution to the carbon greenhouse gas problem and attempt to replenish oxygen in the atmosphere at the same time!
Instead of dumping chemicals in the pool, they should put a couple thousand algae eating fish in there like you put in your fish tank. Maybe a few goldfish cause old drumpf loves gold things.
and like, you can just use 25 cent feeder goldfish. legitimately the local japanese restaurant wanted to buy ours (we were friends with their sushi chef) to use in their koi pond in their restaurant (or just take home) because once they're big, only an expert can tell the difference. a koi is a pretty goldfish basically. ours were named breakfast, lunch, and dinner because our pet oscar refused to eat them and we thought naming them after meals was darkly appropriate and might encourage him to eat them. it worked once., but not twice and then the fish were bigger than him. ours were the size of my foot. or forearm. same size.
There are native reeds in NA: " three separate lineages occur in North America – one endemic and widespread (the native), one from Europe (the introduced invasive), and one whose nativity is currently unclear which occurs across the southern U.S. from California to Florida and into Mexico and Central America (the ‘Gulf Coast’ type)."
https://bugwoodcloud.org/mura/mipn/assets/File/Educational%20Resources/Phragmites%20Field%20Guide.pdf
64 Comments
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 105 pts · 74d
Just accept your inner American and make it a car park.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 74d
No not the mall at DC, one of the only car-free places in the USA along with Disney World
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 16 pts · 74d
Only because the cars at Disney World get their own park
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 73d
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 74d
Cock fighting arena it is then!
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d
How many cocks do I have to fight at once?
logi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 73d
Either one hundred foot one or a hundred one foot ones.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 73d
You could probably do four if you go middle out.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 73d
Toe to toe, tip to tip.
Erusset@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 74d
Jet ski parking
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 73d
Drag strip for jet skis, let's gooooo
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 49 pts · 74d
Rewilding that ugly pool area would be an amazing project.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 74d
While I get what you’re putting down, the reflecting pool is (in the not shitty timeline) actually a beautiful piece of art.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 73d
The idea behind it is beautiful. But it's always been sorta ugly and shitty. Trump just took it from a meh 6/10 to a SOILD 2/10.
But the entire point of monuments is the ideas, concepts and representation. Not the actual piece it self.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 73d
I am just amazed he didn't paint TRUMP on the bottom.
sulgoth@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 72d
I doubt he’d go that far. He’d paint it directly on the spire, much more visible.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
Why not add some secondary side pools joined by underground channels with some very gentle induced flow beneath the surface? Those side pools could act like like living filters and bring some wildlife to boot.
corbindallas@fedinsfw.app · 24 pts · 74d
empty it, pave it over, make a ballroom
another
platinum plated with titanium studs and diamon glass
it's just our childrens futures, who the fuck cares
clearly no fucking body
Carnelian@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 74d
I’m thinking we replace it with a 2,000 foot long AI generated portrait of obama performing lewd acts on trump, and then for the next 100 years we can have a news cycle about democrats wasting money whenever someone suggests restoring it to the original monument
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 74d
The USA still being a thing in 100 years is taking a lot for granted.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 74d
Haha, humanity surviving the next 100 years is a lot to take for granted. Just because the USA is in the lead in the race to the bottom doesn’t mean the rest of the countries in the world aren’t in the race as well.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 74d
Actually I give a lot more for humanity's chances than this organization we call the United States of America remaining as a unit for another 100 years.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
You think the same billionaires that are fucking the US aren’t fucking your country?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 74d
I'm American, I think billionaires are always fucking everybody, and I think the human race has better odds of surviving another 100 years than the USA as an entity. But I don't feel like debating whatever train of thought you're on.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 74d
Not a debate - it’s easy to say the US is fucked (rightfully so, we are fucked). My point was it’s happening to almost every single “first world” country right now. Same billionaires, same fucking playbook. Humanity is in a great filter moment and whatever’s left in 100 years is going to be a wasteland
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
i mean extinction generally takes a long time.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 73d
dont you mean GOLD plated, with diamond/zirconium studded along the walls. like the gaudy trump tower rooms.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d
that's clearly goldeen plated
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 73d
Tun it into a skate park for the kids!
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 73d
Is this trump's the Green New Deal?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 73d
Maintain the Swamp
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 73d
Well his Iran war resulted in more purchases of solar panels globally than anything any other President has ever done.
fireweed@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 73d
Tadpoles.
The ensuing frog plague upon the capital would be a nice little bonus.
cute_noker@feddit.dk · 11 pts · 73d
I will dress up as moses and scare the shit out of hegseth
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 73d
On the plus side, no more mosquitoes!
fireweed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d
Oh no, that's a separate treatment: salamander larvae. Fortunately they cohabitate with tadpoles quite harmoniously.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 73d
Btw, Epstein files.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 74d
Trump should be praised for using the reflecting pool to bloom algae. it's forward thinking of him to leverage a biological solution to the carbon greenhouse gas problem and attempt to replenish oxygen in the atmosphere at the same time!
such a stable genius!
bobo@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 73d
I'm voting for the introduction of shrimp and silver carp!
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
Oyster Farm has my vote
altphoto@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 74d
What about crabs and snails that clean the surface
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
fuck yeah crabs i changed my mind from pampasgrass
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 73d
Real Americans go crabbing. Now it's a national icon.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 73d
It's not the surface that's green, it's all the insides.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
Release mosquitoes to pollinate the reeds.
OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app · 6 pts · 74d
Instead of dumping chemicals in the pool, they should put a couple thousand algae eating fish in there like you put in your fish tank. Maybe a few goldfish cause old drumpf loves gold things.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 73d
Yeah that's honestly a gigantic missed opportunity. Make it into a massive carp or koi pond...
Dumping chemicals in the reflecting pool meant to, you know, reflect who you are as a person and as a nation, is too fitting for this administration.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d
and like, you can just use 25 cent feeder goldfish. legitimately the local japanese restaurant wanted to buy ours (we were friends with their sushi chef) to use in their koi pond in their restaurant (or just take home) because once they're big, only an expert can tell the difference. a koi is a pretty goldfish basically. ours were named breakfast, lunch, and dinner because our pet oscar refused to eat them and we thought naming them after meals was darkly appropriate and might encourage him to eat them. it worked once., but not twice and then the fish were bigger than him. ours were the size of my foot. or forearm. same size.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d
Maybe some gators too
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 74d
Couple of coke hippos,
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 73d
Start aquaculture farm in reflecting pool
Raise the shittiest shrimp in the universe
Brand them Freedom 250 Prawns
Let business partners buy them at huge markup
This is all so easy
littlewonder@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d
At this point I'm surprised Trump isn't proposing that we make our flag colors red, white, and algae green.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 73d
That's Iran's flag 1
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 73d
reeds are invasive though.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d
There are native reeds in NA: " three separate lineages occur in North America – one endemic and widespread (the native), one from Europe (the introduced invasive), and one whose nativity is currently unclear which occurs across the southern U.S. from California to Florida and into Mexico and Central America (the ‘Gulf Coast’ type)." https://bugwoodcloud.org/mura/mipn/assets/File/Educational%20Resources/Phragmites%20Field%20Guide.pdf
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
Fine. Bamboo, then.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
no i insist on pampasgrass
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 73d
They could probably find a native cordgrass and plant a perimeter of it around the pool to pretty decent effect I'd say.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 73d
Why? Water temperature
neuroneiro@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d
Leading to the Duat.
Cattail@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 72d
Nah we need to dump a bunch of salt and put in that red salt loving bacteria.
Get the 10 plagues of trump going
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 73d
amber waves