Yeah spot on. ‘Granite’ is a wide category of rock. The Vietnam memorial is also apparently granite, I just learned that today. It looks nothing like the reflecting pool, it’s much darker, almost black. The specific types of granite, maybe even the specific quarries, was chosen by each architect for it’s texture and color. Congress paid extra to keep the original granite floor while replacing everything else about it in 2009.

It will never be restored, I don’t think it’s possible. Our generation will have been the last to be able to see the original intended art piece.

The floor of the pool is the original granite from the 1920s, but most of the structure is new concrete from 2009.

I’m even more glad that the Democrats are moving quickly to the left and not openly attacking their own progressive party members and mayors. If they didn’t do that, it would undermine the only strategic justification we have for not voting. That would mean our inaction did nothing at all except help fascism spread across the entire political spectrum.

Sure glad that’s not the case; I’m going to sleep well tonight.

At least we don’t have Harris in office, we dodged a bullet there. /s

No bid contract to a friend of Trump’s in the hotel pool industry. The idea stemmed from Trump seeing the park service scrape algae off the top because of ongoing filtration issues. That’s it. He just wants to hide the algae. It’s so dumb, and as far as I understand it, pool paint is nearly impossible to remove.

Hey did you know that darker colors reflect less sunlight? They turn a substantial portion of light into heat; I wonder if that will affect the algae. I also wonder how he ever thought something on the bottom of the pool was supposed to hide the surface. That’s not how occlusion works.

Stockpiling memes, just in case

He’s not a bystander though, he is encouraging racist ideas and thoughts. I see spreading hate as a bad thing, and the fact that Alex Jones or this guy got rich off it makes me actually more angry, not impressed by his hustle.

Pounds is force, newtons is also force. You even converted it correctly; you wouldn’t be able to do that with like grams or any other mass unit. The only reason we use pounds and mass interchangeably is that we all experience pretty similar gravity all over the world, so a certain mass will generally exert the same amount of force regardless where it is on the Earth’s surface or what it’s made of.

Fuck Bubbles, he’s a creep. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-charge-bubbles-9.6972349

The article says that is the intended use, I agree this is just bad implementation, but it’s bad because it not only allows control one way, from the app to the browser, it also allows it the other way: browser extensions with an ID that matches one of the allowed ones can access userspace, without asking. That is a huge attack surface that is installed without any consent.

Well, don’t be. It’s fake. Please return to your previous level of anxiety.