There are no words on how stupid and corrupt this administration is.

  • Keilik@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Wait… they’ve been dumping bleach and hydrogen peroxide and who knows what in the pool, did they actually fuck it up from sheer incompetence?

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      did they actually fuck it up from sheer incompetence?

      Fucking things up with sheer incompetence has been a hallmark of this entire administration. At this point, I’d be astonished if it was just a run-of-the-mill accident.

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        7 hours ago

        Just drain it and then clean the paint off and sand it down to smooth out the stone again.

        Then you can fill the pool with water that has been treated properly.

        It’s not hard, it just takes competent people being in charge of it. Not someone’s “pool guy”

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          I see your problem right there

          You said “competent people”, and this is not only the US government, this is the US Trump government.

          Competency has gone long, long ago

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          6 hours ago

          I’m reading Maintenance of Everything: Part One by Stewart Brand (of Whole Earth Catalog and the WELL fame) and it makes a great companion piece to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

          Anyway, reading this book at the same time as watching this colossal fuckup by know-nothing blowhards like Donvict is quite interesting. For instance, I just read the part about the reconstruction of the Statue of Liberty and what was involved, and the discussion on the war on rust.

          I’m sure a thoughtful writeup on the problems here and the attempts on fixing it would be a great thing for other parts in the series. I might even reach out to him to suggest it…

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      I just realized my first reaction to this was “SURELY it can’t be this shady contractor that fucked up, it had to have been the US government” and the fact there’s a decent chance that this is correct is somehow still amazing to me.

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      5 hours ago

      According to the article

      No complaints have been reported, however, from the local ducks, who have been conducting business as usual.

      Apparently, they don’t mind the hydrogen peroxide. But maybe that’s just the article trying to be funny.