What if this turned out to be how evil plant alien people made themselves known. By mind controlling algea in a big pool.

That's what the Algae Mother wants us to think. Those of us who know the truth wait in both reverie and terror for the day her bloom smothers us all.

The president of Algae:

There's a short story by Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris ) about scientists who train a slime mold to be intelligent by forcing it to grow only in the shape of letters, then forcing the letters to be real words, ... and so on, until they able to have full (if slow) conversations with humans.

I just realized, it's kind of presciently like training an LLM. Story is at least 40 years old, so...

Antifa algae lead by the notorious hacker Four-chan

God I hope not. I'm already paying exorbitant prices for algae.

THe CHeMICALs are tuRniNg tHE alGAE GaY

Al Gore Al Qaeda Algae

Republican's weakness is "al"

unless you're a leading figure or part of a belligerent group involved in the conflict, I doubt Wikipedia will include you

it isn't ? 😭

Even better: It'll return to the wetland that was there before it was developed. i find the idea that this prominent spot will likely be the first such pond in the district to sprout cattails and the like, somewhat poetic.

Edit: I also just realized that the "drain the swamp" crowd is now in a losing battle with said swamp.

are they Eukaryotic? so they have nuclei. close enough

Trump has been a politician since the 1980s. He ran in the 2000 US presidential election.

And before Trump gave his pool guy 14 million dollars to fix it.

I never knew they used municipal water in the past, I always thought it was always the Victorian style of tapping natural sources.

The reflecting pool is supplied with water from the Tidal Basin. It’s not really possible to chlorinate it.

My guess is that then someone could do a real funny by dumpimg some bleach in afterwards.

For as fucking miserable as it is on a nearly daily basis, I’m okay with actually having a laugh about something so beyond stupid.