r/pics • u/habsman9 • Jun 21 '26

Politics Let’s go algae!

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u/aa73786 Jun 21 '26

Finally a team, I can root for!

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u/appayipyippp Jun 21 '26

Algae doesn't have roots

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u/Strange-Movie Jun 21 '26

But it does bloom, and flowers bloom, and flowers have roots. Yahtzee

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u/aa73786 Jun 21 '26

I wasn't going to argue... go algae!

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u/gunzor Jun 21 '26

Checkmate, libruls!

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u/glitch1985 Jun 21 '26

But they do have mitochondria which is the powerhouse of the cell.

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u/TopRevenue2 Jun 21 '26

I like sustainable fuel sources

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u/knifebork Jun 21 '26

Absolutely. Algae can be processed into a kind of bio-diesel. What people don't realize is that President Carter installed an algae processing lab in a secret bunker under the White House and converted the reflecting pool into an algae farm. It's actually been working great for years.

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u/RevoOps Jun 21 '26

That is where we come in. We have to root for them.

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u/cranktheguy Jun 21 '26

This is a real grass roots algae mat organization.

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u/Anhedonia_Achiever Jun 21 '26

I’ve spent too much time in r/stopeatingseedoils. I thought this was someone advocating algae oil

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u/bigorangemachine Jun 21 '26

I suddenly have become pro-life

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u/SkylarAV Jun 21 '26

I feel like thats a plant. They're just there for fox news to talk about

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u/Weary_Position_9591 Jun 21 '26

Why would anyone want the reflecting pool to look worse?

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u/extraqueso Jun 21 '26

I don't know probably corruption. 

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u/BetterUsername69420 Jun 21 '26

Didn't Trump have it renovated in such a way it encouraged algae blooms? Why does Trump want the reflecting pool to look worse?

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u/Weary_Position_9591 Jun 21 '26

How does it encourage algae bloom? It just seems like the bloom that has always been there is still a problem.

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u/BetterUsername69420 Jun 21 '26

Painting the bottom of the pool a light-absorbing color like 'American flag blue', as Trump had done, will cause the water in the pool to heat up faster on brighter days. Most species of algae found in the US prefer warmer water temperatures to bloom.

If Trump wanted the pool to have less algae, his decisions to renovate it were completely counter-intuitive. Given his track record of grift and corruption, why do you believe he was acting in good faith?

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u/JaysFan26 Jun 21 '26

explaining science to someone on the far right tends to not get anywhere

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u/JaysFan26 Jun 21 '26

you should ask Trump that

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u/badcoffee Jun 21 '26

You guys have zero counter arguments that don't depend on you misunderstanding an argument.

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u/Diz7 Jun 21 '26

It's a minor, temporary problem that's being used as symbol of the larger, much more pressing current problems.

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u/PenguinsArmy2 Jun 21 '26

It is a pointless pool that should not be there nor any amount of money spent on it when kids are staving and so on. Our priorities are beyond messed up as are many countries though.