JesusSon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fafo⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to blame this entirely on DOGE and trump but honestly this was a perfect storm that built up over decades.

  The screwworm was eradicated from the US a long time ago using sterile fly releases that pushed the population progressively southward until the Darién Gap became the permanent chokepoint. They maintained the barrier there with sterile fly releases and ground monitoring and it worked. It worked so well that the Mission, Texas facility closed in 1981 and the Mexico facility closed in 1999 because there was no longer a need for them.

  That success is part of what caused the problem. Complacency set in, and capacity eroded. Then COVID wrecked the monitoring infrastructure. Ground teams couldn’t operate, sterile fly releases got disrupted, and the barrier at the Gap was breached. The flies started moving north again and the program didn’t have the capacity it once did to respond.

  DOGE cuts to USDA APHIS in 2025 hit an already compromised program at the worst possible time reduced staffing and funding when they needed to be scaling up emergency sterile fly production and reestablishing the barrier.

  So yes, the current administration made it worse. The vulnerability was already there before those cuts, and once COVID broke the barrier there was always a real chance they were going to make it back to the US regardless.

  Fuck DOGE and trump though for real, I just cant get on this “its entirely their fault” train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it feel like passing through a wormhole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably pretty cramped, worms are tiny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Brother, have you seen The Source?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not going to lie, the movies and the TV series were my jammalam for a whole minute. Princes of the Universe is a mainstay in my classic rock playlist.

  Also, how can you not love a blind Frenchman playing an immortal Scottish swordsman trained by a Scottish man playing a Spaniard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was watching this real-life documentary called Highlander about this dude Connor McCloud of the Clan McCloud. He is immortal, but he has to sword-fight people because if he gets his head chopped off, he isn’t immortal anymore. Anywho dude changes names every time someone gets too close. There was also a TV documentary by the same name about his cousin Duncan. Duncan is a bit more loose with it but they pack up and move around a lot. You should check it out, not Highlander 2, though; you can skip that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Life sets em up, I knock em down…or they knock me down…or it’s a tie and we just pummel each other for days on end lol