End is another one. End Wokeness, End Trumpism, End , foreign bots.

Occupy

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-17 05:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

If it's social media that starts with Occupy, Being, or anything like that, it's usually a foreign bot account as a misinfo channel. Even though it seems very likely, I'll wait for a slightly better source.

Especially when the reflecting pool just proved it.
#58 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-17 04:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

Another tell me you don't own a pool, without telling me you don't own a pool.

It's 94F in DC.

Nothings handed to anybody yet. Israel has to withdraw from Lebanon for their to be a deal.

Oh so they're Evangelical White Christian Republicans.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-17 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

2 of 4 confirmed so far. We'll see how the rest goes. Vanguard of the Old Republic, besides sounding like star wars cosplay, typically Vanguard is a leftwing naming convention.

but it's also Ohio.

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If there was a significant cooling advantage my pool would be white. Keep chasing outliers though, never stop swinging for the fences, I hope you own a pool one day.

and why would they? They're on the cusp of get massively paid for doing it in the first place.

Everything affects everything.
Someone up the line nailed it.
It's just chemistry.
#52 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-17 02:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

That was me. The same person saying the pool color doesn't matter. That's just a meme distracting you from the actual gross negligence and corrupt contracting process. Probably circulated by Republican bots.

The deal is contingent on Israel withdrawing from Eretz Yisrael?
No. Deal.

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-17 02:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

I guess the don't believe Iran's pinky promise they'll stop arming Hezbollah, the Houthis, PIJ, Hamas, Badr, Kata'ib Hezbollah, Harakat al-Nujaba, Fatemiyoun brigades, Zainabiyoun brigades, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, Kat'ib al-Imam Ali (better known as the Mahdi Army), Sabireen Movement, Quwat al-Ridha, Liwa al-Baqir, Saraya al-Ashtar, Saraya al-Mukhtar.. this could take awhile I've only done 5 countries so far.

More like high APR debt on a 144 month car loan.

Well, it turns out there is no deal.

The deal is contingent on Israel withdrawing from Lebanon.

All live maps currently show the opposite is happening.

It very, very slightly increases the warming effect of the sun everywhere.

It's completely irrelevant compared to chlorine load and ambient temperature.

and they did do a decent resurfacing job, and it does make it easier to clean algae stains that form under debris. Everything else about that pool, all of the massive underlying issues, lot of can kicking.

"Let NPS deal with it. It's their pool, we're just here to do the resurfacing."

The second they saw the environmental paperwork they probably said F that. Fill it, take the check, run.

I watched it slowly bloom out on the live cam. It looked like every pool ever. Starts to glow grey, then green in the deeper end, and the rest quickly catches up within a few days, then you may get pea soup to neon green with a gradient across the whole pool depending on the sunlight.

Give me 2 day laborers, a $500 pvc pipe budget, some pantyhose, and none of that algae backwash happens.

We don't need DOGE. We need a McGuyer Department.

A symphony of mistakes.

Looks like it. If you wait a week to dose it, after you fill it AND wash your pipes back into the pool itself, you ------ up.

If that maintenance is deferred for more than a week for any reason whatsoever, and it's anywhere above 85F, you get fast algae blooming regardless of the bottom finish.

I was there most recently summer of 2024 when it was in the 90's. No algae.

#32 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-06-17 01:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

Apparently I'm the only person in the world that has seen algae in the reflecting pool. It's never happened before this.

This is intro to chemistry stuff. Chlorine demand function: L(T)=(L_0)*e^k(T'T0)

If you have the budget allocated for the chemicals it will stay clear.

28 | Posted by sitzkrieg
The NPS must have been doing something to prevent algae the dozens of times I've been in DC since the early 80's, including summer.
I've never seen it green with algae. Well, I hope they can fix the problems ...

#29 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-06-17 12:32 PM | Reply

Adjust for it being hotter in DC summers now than it was 40 yeara ago.

Switching to municipal supply, you still have to flood it with heavy amounts of chlorine or you've got algae soup in 2 weeks from fresh.

What a terrible band aid for glamour.

Was there some kind of crazy Trump promise it would be algae free from now on? If so... lol, no, that's not how pools work.