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U.S. plans to combat spread of "man-eater" screwworms with $8.5M facility of flies in Texas
  • I wasn't alive for the screw worms but I heard a lot of stories from my Grandmother who was a Texas cattle ranchers wife in the thick of it.

    The objective is to overwhelm the population with sterile males. The female only mates once, so if you drop 50 sterile males to every 1 fertile male, the female will pick a sterile male.

    They started dropping them in Florida in 1951 and were eradicated from the US by 1966. They had them pushed to the Darién Gap by the late 90s, and from 2000 until COVID, they were dropping 20 million sterile males a week, keeping them there.

  • David Hogg will not run for DNC post again after party orders redo of vice chair elections
  • Same old, same old. The DNC lost the most important election and ended democracy. Had a chance to change but couldn't see past the pile of cash in front of 'em.

  • Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees
  • I have a buddy who told me this was awesome. This same buddy dog walked Clinton's crime bill from sea to shining sea back in the 90s. Are they stupid or is it me? Anyway I pointed out the similarities and he got mad at me.

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  • And out come the wolves

  • It's missing the troll fat and empty petty soul gem, but they've got the spirit.
  • Man, a while back I was cleaning some pistols after a range day. I was walking down the hall from my gun room/laundry room with the last one, a little woodsman .22, to the kitchen when someone rang the doorbell. I set the pistol on the bookshelf before I answered the door. 20 minutes later, the neighbor was gone, and I cleaned the guns in the kitchen, put them back in the vault, and went about my day.

    Fast forward to the next week and a buddy asked if he could borrow a pistol to teach his kid. I thought I had the perfect one and went to the vault and it wasn't there. I distinctly remembered taking it to the last range day but didn't remember cleaning it. I started to get concerned because it wasn't in the range bag or my pistol case. I searched everywhere and even called the range and asked them if anyone had turned it in. After about a week of searching, I resigned myself to the fact that I had lost it. This little woodsman had some problems, and I figured if someone picked it up, they would probably take it to a gunsmith, so I called around and asked if anyone had dropped it off and, if not, to keep an eye out and gave them the serial number. I live in a small town so it was only a couple of calls.

    Almost a year later I am looking for a book. I get to the bookshelf in the hall, reach up, put my hand in a clear space on an upper shelf, and there is the pistol.

    The pistol on the shelf reminded me of that story, idk why I am telling it here other than I am bored. Anywho, yall have a good one.

  • The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
  • If these cock knuckles ruin my country I am going to be mad, if they ruin doge I am going to be really mad.

    Edit: I made a bad joke about what makes the grass growing greener and decided it was irresponsible so I changed it.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know
  • My Wrapped was way different this year from last year. I listen to music all day every day. I have a 24-hour playlist for every day of the week, Spotify says I listened to 326,614 minutes this year. These playlists are all different. Monday is 70s R&B Motown, Tuesday is Rock/Punk/Grunge, Wednesday is Rocksteady/Two Tone/3rd wave Ska, Thursday is Classical, Friday is Hip Hop, Saturday is Country, and Sunday is Jazz.

    Last year my Wrapped had a wide range of artists and genres that represented the wide range of music I listen to. This year it was just Reggae and Ska. I had only two top artists that were not, the Rolling Stones and Glenn Miller. The Rolling Stones I can see but Glenn Miller is not even that prevalent in my Jazz playlist.

    I don't know if it's all fucked up but I do know it's miles different than what it gave me for the same playlists and similar listening time last year.

    Edit: I fucked up Monday.

  • Farmworkers Are Organizing to Resist Trump’s Attacks on Immigrant Workers
  • Don't worry, in 18 months you will be able to rent them back from the Federal Immigrant Labor Force for just $15 an hours.

  • Rumors, conspiracy theories, and disinformation about "millions of missing votes" and voting machine fraud
  • How so?

    I'm not picking I fight, I just want to know your thoughts on it.

  • What would it feel like passing through a wormhole?
  • Probably pretty cramped, worms are tiny.

  • What's the weirdest word or turn of phrase you've used recently?
  • Are you the raw sugar cane, nutrasweet, never equal? If you were in Binzito or your mother's Buick Regal would you get up like Chino shouting power to the people?

  • China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours
  • I am sure it is just as safe as it sounds lol

  • Trump threatens to “get the news shaped up”
  • Another day another insane comment that would have tanked any other candidate...yall remember when that dude yelled funny and it tanked his whole political career? I am starting to miss those days.

  • What's the weirdest word or turn of phrase you've used recently?
  • Ha, isn't that how it always goes? Like dope, if my dad called me a dope it was because I was being stupid. If I called you dope it was because you were cool.

  • What's the weirdest word or turn of phrase you've used recently?
  • Nothing good happens after 8pm anyways

  • What's the weirdest word or turn of phrase you've used recently?
  • So back in the 90s "steez" was your overall style. Like "this dude's steez is off the chain." But it's not just style but also hutzpha, so "check this steez yo, fresh shells smoking a blunt on the street"

    Idk what it means today but this old head used to have steez but then I got old and now I just sneeze rimshot I'll be here all night folks.

    Long post just to ask, is that still what it means?

    Edit: forgot a part

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