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[-] PurrLure@hexbear.net 14 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 48 points 13 hours ago

porky-point "Why are we wasting all this money on Screwworm prevention? There hasn't been a case since 1966!"

[-] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 32 points 13 hours ago

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?

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 30 points 13 hours ago

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

Via CBS news

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 18 points 12 hours ago

Well that is sub-optimal.

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 40 points 14 hours ago

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!

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 31 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 36 points 13 hours ago

The collapse of empire starts off silently.

[-] context@hexbear.net 19 points 11 hours ago

many americans will experience the collapse simply as "one day the mcdonald's ran out of hamburgers and they never got restocked"

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

truly the am*rican 9/11

...wait


[-] The_hypnic_jerk@hexbear.net 29 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)
[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

Not the ones used for dialogue lines I mean.

[-] The_hypnic_jerk@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

That final line is very inhuman

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 30 points 13 hours ago

No money for a proper coms team after Elon and Trump cut 22% of the budget that funded the teams trying to prevent this.

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 26 points 14 hours ago

As if the brainworms weren't enough already.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 17 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 30 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 38 points 14 hours ago

Dread it.

Run from it.

Financially enforced veganism arrives all the same.

[-] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 15 points 14 hours ago

screwworm.gov

he-admit-it

this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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