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5 days agoThere has been some serious leaps in terms of quality. It couldn’t read human writing or half the fonts for that matter like 5 years ago, let alone 20.
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72·6 days agoEither you think the situation is okay or you don’t and shouldn’t enable it through your behavior. Simple as. That being said, I usually tip (and well) from shear pressure. I think the whole vibe is gross though.
If the job didn’t come with the tip, they wouldn’t be able to hire. Not tipping is the actual solution.
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President Donald Trump has self-soothed from his growing algae problem by posting a deranged AI-generated meme to Truth Social.
Trump, who turned 80 on Sunday, posted a six-second video of himself filling up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with the tears of a woman who went viral for yelling in protest of his 2017 inauguration.
The Friday morning post came just as new aerial photos emerged showing how big a bust his $14 million repainting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool really is, with copious green sludge already returning amid an algae bloom.
The pool holds about 6.5 million gallons of water across upward of 300,000 square feet. By Thursday, around half of the surface water remained green—not the “American flag blue” Trump has promised for months. A combination of pictures of the renovations of the Reflecting Pool taken May 2, May 28, June 7, June 12, June 16 and June 18, 2026, which was painted blue at the directive of U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, in Washington, D.C. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/ Kylie Cooper/Annabelle Gordon/Eric Lee/Evan Vucci/Annabelle Gordon TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as photographed on May 2, May 28, June 7, June 12, June 16, and June 18. Reuters Photographer/REUTERS
Trump’s pricey remodel of the historic D.C. site ballooned nearly tenfold from its original estimated cost of $1.8 million.
The project also took longer than expected, blowing past the one-week deadline and taking a total of two months, further calling into question whether the president’s increasingly more expensive White House ballroom project will actually be completed on time and within budget. Algae floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Algae floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Tuesday. Eric Lee/Reuters
Adding to the controversy surrounding the reflecting pool is the fact that the company awarded a no-bid contract to complete water purification for the project, Greenwater Services, is owned by a trust led by John J. Cafaro, a two-time felon and Trump donor, reports The New York Times.
Cafaro, who has a mansion in Palm Beach near Mar-a-Lago, has donated more than $300,000 to political committees backing the president since 2016. Trump has previously called Cafaro a “fantastic” man, according to the Times. Algae in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool The “American flag blue” reflecting pool turned green within days of the president’s $14 million project being completed. Eric Lee/Reuters
Trump’s reflecting pool headache is sure to be a topic of discussion as Americans flock to Washington to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday early next month, where the green pool may well be visible for all to see.
The Washington Post reports that satellite imagery shows algae levels are higher this month than in any other June in the past five years. A U.S. National Park Service worker dumps bottles of hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as part of their effort to mitigate an algae bloom which followed the completion of recent renovations in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 16, 2026. A U.S. National Park Service worker dumps bottles of hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
National Park Service employees have spent the last week vacuuming the slime out of the pool and even pouring hydrogen peroxide into the basin in hopes of killing the bloom—something that does not appear to be working as effectively or quickly as they may have hoped.
An Interior Department spokesperson defended ongoing efforts to clean the pool—using something it described as nanobubble technology—in a statement to the Daily Beast. Perhaps predictably, that statement showered praise on Trump and took a shot at former President Barack Obama. U.S. President Donald Trump holds a reflecting pool image at the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2026. The president’s hopes of an “American flag blue” reflecting pool have quickly been dashed by an algae bloom. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
“The nanobubbler technology has successfully destroyed the algae bloom that has plagued every pool reopening since 1922, most infamously, the Obama pool reopening that resulted in massive algae clumps taking over the pool’s surface following years of construction that cost taxpayers millions upon millions, only to be broken and disgusting days later,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson continued, “Now, due to deploying the advanced nanobubbler technology, the algae is dead and being vacuumed up as we speak.”
I only use Lemmy if I’m on the clock. Im probably one of the few who’s comments are high enough quality to justify paying for them. Granted, he doesn’t know he is paying for it but my boss might join Lemmy one day and get to see the fruits of my labor/his money.
Yes it is, and that’s a step to take if you can, but no one is saying you are a bad guy if you don’t.
It’s being an oil industry mouthpieces that is the problem.
That’s new, there is also used. But the fact is you can’t compare it to your junker since, like I said, no one is asking you to switch right away.
The 7k seems like a lot but it isn’t since you get it back quickly with the savings on maintenance and gas.
Literally no one expects that of you. We just want the bootlickers to stfu and stop being part of the problem.
The difference between the cheapest EV and cheapest ICE is 7k currently, the savings on gas cover it.
Oh wow, another EV thread with a bunch of oil industry mouthpieces telling us how the studies are wrong and what we didn’t think of. Thank you Mr. Shell, I almost forgot not everyone has a charging point at their house and it takes time to charge an EV.
Color me surprised.
Why are they destroying them tho, I’ll pay for the shipping.
41·7 days agoThe comments under the post is content that other users contribute to. It’s very frustrating to be having what amounts to a conversation in the comments just for OP to thrash the whole thing. There’s also the problem that a lot of deleted posts are bots probably building a “unique” dataset to sell after (just a hypothesis).
No reason why we can’t just have the body and the username removed from the post while keeping the comment section imo.
111·7 days agoSo is there a way to bypass this or is basically everyone using a phone that isn’t graphene essentially fucked?
We need to make aggressive nationalization cool again. A thank you card, a pizza party and a “you won at capitalism” medal. Throw them in prison if they complain, China does it with their CEOs.
Yes, well that’s a fantasy when it comes to AR. It’s augmented reality, it needs to see the reality to augment it, else it’s just a static screen in front of your face. It isn’t anything new or interesting if you don’t have the camera in the front.
It’s an earogenous zone. Feels quite nice.
There was barely a legitimate use for smart phones at the time either. Times are changing and they are betting on smart glasses being the next big thing. I tend to agree with them to an extent but the current implementation leaves to be desired. There are still clearly some large hurdles.
31·8 days agoJust because we are on the subject, I’m guessing they sell tools to quickly puncture tires which can fit in a police man’s belt. It would be insanely safer and more effecient.
The horror. It can generate stuff I can find through a simple Google search. I personally don’t like censorship, especially since it constantly bleeds into the simpler stuff.
That or he let Hamas attack. They knew about the plans more than a year before it happened.
Maybe we are the equivalent of an aquarium screensaver.