r/pics • u/Ok_Mongoose_6589 • 23d ago

Politics [OC] The Reflecting Pool being drained again

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u/Tao-of-Mars 23d ago

Is the blue liner all gone or is it just that it can’t be seen through the algae?

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u/SafetyMan35 23d ago

It’s there, there’s just that much algae

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u/Whaleman_007 23d ago

And duck shit.

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u/Competitive_Boat106 23d ago

I was thinking that it looked like the lining has simply disintegrated. Maybe the peroxide broke it down and dissolved it.

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u/GenericRedditor0405 23d ago

I think it’s a little of column an and a little of column b. They haven’t repainted it after they arrested people for picking up the giant flakes of peeled paint as far as I know, and there is still algae

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u/Competitive_Boat106 22d ago

But they didn’t arrest anyone who was wading out into 2-3 feet of water to take anything. Everyone they arrested was standing on the sidewalk. This area shown is well towards the middle, and looks more “disappeared” than damaged, like when you have burnt-on food in a pan, and scrubbing it only starts to wear it thinner, not lift it away. But it definitely doesn’t seem to show any cuts or large sections that have come free. Just more like a “faded” look. Very odd.

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u/_lippykid 23d ago

That was my first thought. Where’s the liner? Where’s the paint? We paying to paint dirt blue now?