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[–] 102 points 5 months ago

Another Trump achievement

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  • [–] 56 points 5 months ago

    Man to bad we don't have a solution to this problem that we already know works.

    That would be so awesome to have right now

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  • [–] 50 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Aren't Orange's borders impenetrable? Where is ICE? 🙃

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago

    With the absolute decimation of our scientific divisions in our government don't expect any help with this.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    How neat is it that the screwworm, which was a plague in the 1930s, is back just in time (well, a little early but when the history books are written they'll zoom out the timeline) for our reenactment of the Great Depression? A little on the nose with history repeating itself, but still interesting. I guess we should be on the lookout for another Dust Bowl too.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Here,

    https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/soil-moisture-next-dust-bowl/

    Take my confirmation bias doomer porn and have a terrifying rest of your day.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    TLDR USAID protection program didn't get canceled but the zone moved to Mexico border (unclear to me why). Relationship with Mexico was strained and Mexico allowed less flights to disperse sterile flies.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    We can all thank the Sig Heiling feckless loser Elon Musk and his illegal DOGE for this. His ego was so massive that he didn't realize why the government was breeding flies to contain this absolute horror of a parasite.

    This will continue to spread, and I hope that Cybertruck shaped moron is personally infected so he can suffer the actual consequences of his bottomless hubris for once in his unfortunately persistent life.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I'm so tired of this shit. People need to hang for these decisions

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    ICE should be sent to get Elon. Let him get disappeared into the system for a long while here, then send him off to some hellhole country we've bargained with to send "illegals" to.

    Haha, who am I kidding? That would never ever happen. Elon is too white, wayyyy too over-moneyed and in bed with the Nazis to ever have that happen.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    You sound vengeful. I just want it to stop. We are not the same

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    In all seriousness, I wish there were a way to properly put someone like Elon through rehabilitation into mainstream society as a well-adjusted adult able to contribute meaningfully to society.

    As things are, I doubt he'll even learn some mild lesson that most kids internalized by the time they were out of kindergarten.

    I realize that he was beaten within an inch of his life in his youth. He should not take that out on the world.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think an example beds to be made. Ideally that's a great result. These are not reaaonal or rational people that sought out Epstein's service to be able to fuck kids and whatever else they got up to. They have caused unfathomable harm in the last few years alone. It's too late.

    It's time for something akin to the Nuremberg trials, only without rampant face saving and blatant opportunism of offering a place for the "useful" monsters that took part in this. There is nothing they can learn if they don't understand by this point. What is there to save? They fucked up waaaay beyond forgiveness and don't deserve any further empathy. It's a weakness to many of them anyway by their own admission if not actions. The weekend will be better off without them and that is justice for those they have killed abused assaulted tortured.

    These are the worst of us. A cancer that should be removed. But we need honest justice and not mob justice. I don't know who that is. The world is cooked

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    It’s time for something akin to the Nuremberg trials, only without rampant face saving and blatant opportunism of offering a place for the “useful” monsters that took part in this. There is nothing they can learn if they don’t understand by this point. What is there to save? They fucked up waaaay beyond forgiveness and don’t deserve any further empathy. It’s a weakness to many of them anyway by their own admission if not actions. The weekend will be better off without them and that is justice for those they have killed abused assaulted tortured.

    Yeah, what I really wish for is probably way off, if indeed even possible. I think I was quite intrigued by the ideas in the book Queen of Angels, most especially the idea of The Country of the Mind, in which they use tech to conduct therapy on people.

    We could use a whole lot of that right now. However, I think even if that tech were to come online, right now it would be in the hands of those that would most need to be therapied...irony of ironies.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Tech is NOT a salvation. We need people who think. Aren't afraid to be challenged. Anf challenge others in turn. Unfortunately we have never figured these things out at scale. It only takes a small group to corrupt anything too large

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    [Sarcasm] Just take some vitamin A and you will be fine

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Humans will be fine beef prices not so much.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I wouldn't doubt that this is going to be blown up by the media so that beef prices can skyrocket and never come back down and that beef companies will suddenly post record breaking profits.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Probably, I'm gonna have to figure out how to replace some of my recipies with impossible/beyond meat since its about the same damn price these days, and this thing is only gonna make beef more expensive.

    I'm so tired of "winning"

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I swap Impossible and Beyond meat in recipes somewhat regularly. Basically, you just cook it the same. It's easiest in a spaghetti sauce, but I did make a recipe that called for tofu and ground turkey with miso and swapped out the turkey with a couple frozen Beyond patties and it was really good (even better as leftovers when the tofu had a bit more time to absorb the miso flavors). Beyond takes to sauces really well.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    since its about the same damn price these days

    Honestly, as a vegetarian I've always been completely baffled by vegetarian options on menus where there is basically something subbed in that should cost substantially less costing me the same amount or, more insultingly, more than the omnivore edition.

    That goes for things like impossible burgers, etc. I realize these two vendors can maybe set prices, but....sheesh. They should be way cheaper, all things being equal, but I think our food supply is all warped by a lot of subsidies.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Time to stock up on more ivermectin 🕺

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    texas is the worst state possible to be on the front lines of this. smh

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Getting what they voted for. Better there than here

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    huh? their response to this outbreak is crucial in whether it stops there or keeps spreading. which do you think will happen?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe they will take it seriously since it will affect cattle.

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    RFK grabs the grandkids and heads to Texas.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Good job Texas and maga, actual brainworm time

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I usually rather like Ars, but there's something very weird and silly about applying the idea of borders, especially non natural ones, to flies.

    "Your puny human constructs are nothing to me, flesh bags."

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Until recently, the screwworm population was kept at bay via a biological barrier along the Darién Gap at the border of Panama and Colombia. The USDA partnered with authorities in Panama to build a sterile fly production facility at the gap to regularly release sterile flies and hold the line. But in 2022, the barrier was breached, and the flies have been relentlessly buzzing northward since.

    it makes more sense with context

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    See!!! If only we would have listened to the magnificent MAGA leader Trump and built the wall that Mexico would have paid for! It would have prevented the Mexican screwworm from illegally crossing the border and hurting REAL Americans^TM^!

    /s because this is probably what MAGA believes.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Protip if you're squeamish absolutely do not look up photos of what this does to cattle and other fauna. Pure nightmare fuel.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    It's like Measles, Ebola, and Hantavirus are all gleefully employing the Epstein strategy on each other.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Man... Sure sucks. Certainly there was some waste, fraud and abuse going on in the gubermint screwworm division, and those people obviously should have been fired because they were doing nothing, and now, completely unrelated, this happens.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    They probably had some DEIWokeCRT in there, and Elon's Doge-boys like BIG BALLS had to get in there and rectify things.

    Surely some dumbass kids that are barely past high school age know just what the fuck they are doing?! And they weren't going to let any smartypants people that were qualified tell them otherwise, hell, those people even might be liberal, and {clutches pearls} maybe didn't even vote for maga.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Aw. And here I thought Donvict's wall - that Mexico was going to pay for, pinky-swear promise - was going to keep out all the invaders!?

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago (2 children)