Tourists and locals were converging on the site where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke and where protesters denounced the Vietnam War, just to catch a glimpse of the wayward sealant—or perhaps even a souvenir.
“Taking a piece of paint is like taking a piece of the Berlin Wall,” one cyclist passing by told me. “It’s a piece of history.”
36 Comments
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 85 pts · 72d
Too bad science no longer plays a part in political decision-making.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 72d
What I was thinking too. I've thought before that we should only be electing scientists to office, but that's about as opposite to American reality as can be imagined.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 72d
Even that's not a garuntee because there are dipshits who happen to be scientists, like James Tour. Honestly the best people would be folks who have a broad understanding of a lot of subjects but with a general focus on the humanities, if only because a strong understanding of history will probably keep people from being to prideful. Nothing breaks ones ego quite like even the mildest grasp of just how long humanity has been around and how little of that even contained civilization let alone us.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 72d
Sure it's not a guarantee, but it does imo seem that scientists on the whole would make far more informed decisions than most. Not to disagree with what you wrote because yes a long view of history would probably be even better.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 72d
My point was that scientists aren't infallible and frankly in my experience with various STEM folks they tend to run into what I would call specialization focus mixed with a bit of Nobel syndrome. Though there's generally less of that in fields with a lot of discipline crossover, for example someone who studies man made stratigraphy for say urban development is probably going to have to have some amount of historical knowledge if only to know who they may need to call if they find something of note.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 72d
Yeah, I get that.
Almacca@aussie.zone · -3 pts · 72d
Did it ever?
Rusticus@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 72d
George Washington insisted on the troops having smallpox vaccination during the Revolutionary War.
modus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 72d
And now they're all dead. See where that got them?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 72d
So a poorly-planned and sloppily-executed intervention leaves us with an unsightly, expensive mess that's worse than it was before. This administration really likes to stick to a theme.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 72d
What are you talking about? It was massive success. Trump took a 1.7 million dollar project, and ballooned it into a $14 million boondoggle that made him about $10 million, and his contractor buddy about $3 million, so he'll definitely be on board for the next scheme. It achieved ALL its objectives.
Like his casino bankruptcies. Those weren't incompetence, it was a business model. Buy a casino, rape it for every penny of profit, get as much public money for grants and renovations as possible, cheat all the contractors, and eventually file for bankruptcy, and stiff all the creditors.
Then do it again, and again, until the legal system won't allow it anymore. Then figure out the next grift.
VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 72d
Turns out the next grift was become the legal system
Archer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 72d
That’s giving them too much credit, they certainly didn’t plan
Joeffect@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 72d
The thing that professionals said would take years to complete took a couple of months instead...
Who could of saw this coming?
tempest@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 72d
I mean I'm sure it's just embezzlement.
14 million to the pool guy who half asses it did a couple million takes a couple million himself and kicks the rest back to Trump.
doctordevice@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 72d
"Drain the swamp" just got even funnier
Snapz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 72d
Next up, they are going to try to shoot the algae.
Ultimately, trump will surrender to the algae and part of the deal will be that the fountain in front of the white house now gets infested with algae as well.
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 72d
I heard the algae illegally migrated from the plumb, so the USA is probably going to abduct it's children as retribution
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 72d
Where does green fall in on the skin color-terrorism sheet?
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 72d
Near green
Snapz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 72d
Like SOO close to green.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 72d
Nuke the algae
frongt@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 72d
Radiation sterilization would probably be effective
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
Call in ICE to tackle and disappear the illegal algae.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 72d
Science's word: "Corruption"
huquad@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 72d
Science you say? She's a witch! Burn her!
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d
Well how do you know she is a witch?
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 72d
she looks like one!!!
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 72d
Well they did this to me...
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 72d
That science name? Puddin’headedness
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
Don't you insult pudding like that! It can be a great source of protein and amino acids essential for brain function!
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 71d
I guess that mfer is a few amino acids short of a polypeptide
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 72d
Maybe if they gave the reflecting pool 300 Billion dollars then this would all just go away. /s
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d
Has Trump thought of getting the National Guard to pick up the algae?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
"No. It's antifa"
-- conservative idiots
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
If this doesn't perfectly symbolize the incompetence of American politics now, I don̈́t know what else can. 🤡🤡🤡
The American empire is falling apart, because of political incompetence, just like this pool did.
The pool may get fixed, USA as a whole is another story.