The reason we have these eradication programs is actually predominantly because the flies are harmful to farmed animals. However, they have little or no negative impact on the environment when eradicated. This not only affects wildlife (whose suffering I think should absolutely be considered if we can determine it won’t have knock-on effects), but it also affects humans in impoverished areas. While animals eating other animals is almost always excruciating and fucked up, a screwworm infestation means you get eaten alive over days in basically constant pain, at which point the wound is now susceptible to secondary bacterial infection and death. The world currently spends a bunch of money keeping them contained (and trying to push them further south), and getting rid of them altogether would mean not needing to spend in perpetuity.

Lost in New Vegas.

CosmicRaySort.

Hence “4+”, because I agree with you wholeheartedly.

When I told people that literally every aspect of life will be worse under Trump, I absolutely meant it. Republican poison will seep into literally every aspect of our lives. And this is exactly what I mean when I say “everything is political” to those who only single out a handful of hot-button issues as “political”.

With the rise of fascism in the US, just keep “everything is political” in the back of your mind for the next 4+ years, and if you don’t believe it by then, I don’t know what to tell you.

There literally is, though. Trump got nearly the same level of votes as in 2020, but Harris got over 10 million fewer votes than Biden. That’s objectively decreased turnout.

Oh man, I loved this part of Hengsha in DX:HR. Such an exaggerated and creative depiction of a hypercapitalist, dystopian hellhole.

And be sure not to take them to the polls with you. The stakes have genuinely never been higher, and “they go low, we go high” doesn’t work on fascists.

You can leave your friends behind

Hey, you shouldn’t presume to know what other people do with their free time.

It’s funny you should ask that; I was just about to reach out to ruud over Matrix and have been thinking about it for a couple weeks. I’d love to if that’s alright with the admin team.

>Not a country

>Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken badly about and deliberately mistreated Puerto Rico

>Donald Trump also routinely speaks extremely badly about the country Puerto Rico is in

I’m glad he’s changed his mind at the literal last minute, but it baffles me every day how ignorant people can be.

Petition to restart !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, by the way.

I know this story didn’t happen because there’s no such thing as “too many tamales”.

I was trying to be very generous by interpreting that as FtL travel beyond the ovservable universe instead of, like you said, “super-universe-crossing-over ability?”, but yeah, it’s bizarre. Like you said, nothing seemingly precluding abiogenesis a second time.

Okay, so not only can Superman’s sneeze destroy several planets at once, but it’s specifically so powerful that in the near-vacuum of space, it imparts enough energy to do that. Also, couldn’t he have traveled to a supervoid like the Boötes instead of directly into a relatively crowded solar system beyond the observable universe?

>Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.

>No indication of authorship

>Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into “applicable regulations” and privacy policies/data handling

>When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital ‘C’]

Yup, this was written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about the platform.

Ngl, this article feels bloviating bordering on AI-generated and/or a padded high school essay. Here’s the relevant Wikipedia article. For instance, by the way:

This event underscores the complex relationship between catastrophic environmental changes and evolutionary processes, offering valuable insights into the resilience and adaptability of life on Earth. [thank you, obligatory ‘Conclusion’ paragraph from all my phoned-in high school essays.]

The Carnian Pluvial Event, also known as the Carnian crisis, has left its mark in geological records across the globe, suggesting a widespread environmental impact. [no shit it had a widespread environmental impact??]

Oh, do tell.

Waiting for the article from the NYT about how this is bad for Harris’ polling with police officers.