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Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day ago

What a lovely day. I sure do hope no parasitic maggots that burrow into and feed on living tissue or flesh enter the United States after decades of successful containment in Central America.

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What a lovely day. I sure do hope no parasitic maggots that burrow into and feed on living tissue or flesh enter the United States after decades of successful containment in Central America.

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Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day ago
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  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    porky-point “Why are we wasting all this money on Screwworm prevention? There hasn’t been a case since 1966!”

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    Doesn’t the fact that this was detected “one mile from the Texas border” imply that this is already a problem in Mexico? How big of a problem is it there?

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      At least 26,216 screwworm cases have been identified across Mexico, and upward of 2,700 remain active, the USDA said.

      Via CBS news

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        Well that is sub-optimal.

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    Have they tried calling the screw worm woke? We could have contained it in Panama with a minimal push of resources to recover the post-COVID loss of containment, but that would have required cooperating with those people. Oh well, enjoy cattle ranchers!

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    Not taking action to contain this was a massive blunder by the Biden admin. (Also trump 1 I guess?)

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      The collapse of empire starts off silently.

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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        many americans will experience the collapse simply as “one day the mcdonald’s ran out of hamburgers and they never got restocked”

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    AI generated text

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      No money for a proper coms team after Elon and Trump cut 22% of the budget that funded the teams trying to prevent this.

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      I have never read em dashes in english texts before 2024.

      Not the ones used for dialogue lines I mean.

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        It’s not the em dashes entirely but definitely the odd use of them

        That final line is very inhuman

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    As if the brainworms weren’t enough already.

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      The brain and screw worms have always maintained a close partnership. One in the brain two in your leg we like to say.

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      What happens when a Mommy brainstorm and a Daddy screw screwworm love each other very much?

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    There’s never been a better time to eat beans. beanis

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    For no reason in particular I feel this is a great time to start “prepping” a bunch of TVP every week to be used as a meat substitute in my cooking.

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      Dread it.

      Run from it.

      Financially enforced veganism arrives all the same.

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    screwworm.gov

    he-admit-it

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    https://screwworm.gov/ doesnt load anything for me. I assume it’ll be something along the lines of covid.gov once it’s up and running.

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