• slampisko@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    European here, what is this Brawndo?

    EDIT: Briefly forgot I could google it.

    It’s a fictional energy drink from the movie Idiocracy (which has long been on my to-watch list)

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    11 hours ago

    Careful not to meme too much about this they might send a horsey cop to arrest you and give you a ticket

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    14 hours ago

    I hope that those pants are rated for chemicals, they have been dumping shit in that water for days to clear up the bloom.

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      12 hours ago

      That dude in the front is wearing camo overalls. Is he trying to sneak up on the algae? Is he an assassin?

      Dude behind him is wearing dayglow. They are giving mixed signals.

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        12 hours ago

        Haha yeah. Those people(probably) aren’t rich so they don’t matter

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          10 hours ago

          And they don’t know this in the photo but they’re probably not getting their promised pay for doing this

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            10 hours ago

            Pretty much. Meanwhile their bosses get a million dollar payout for a job well done.

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          12 hours ago

          Plebe safety is not highly ranked in the list of priorities. No one is doing that job unless they need to. I hope they at least get health insurance…

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              12 hours ago

              I was being hopeful :). I don’t know if they’re federal park employees maintaining the memorial or how that works. In any case I try to normalize it where I can.

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      10 hours ago

      I assumed it was a generated image.

      At the very least, the water is too green.

      If it happens to be legit, no they’re not scooping algae because they don’t have anything to scoop it into.

      That said, during algal blooms in estuaries et cetera physically removing it is part of the process. If a healthy estuary is free of whatever variety of algae, but it gets infested somehow for example due to fertiliser run off from farms, then stopping the fertiliser may not be enough to solve the problem because the estuary is clogged up with algae.

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      12 hours ago

      If you shock it, that kills the algae, right?

      Then where does it go? There’s physical remnants left behind. That doesn’t just disappear.

      Just like you have to skim a regular pool, I’m sure you want to keep solid waste out of the reflecting pool to keep from overwhelming a filtration system that’s simply not built for the load.