This is really bad. The US should have put in the funds to exterminate this thing while we still had a functioning government. I dislike the article’s focus on prices as the main consequence here. Screwworms are fucking horrifying, and they can affect humans, too.
Sorry, Harvard is a stronghold of the left now? What do words even mean?
“You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride.” This has been a police intimidation and harassment tool for a long time, now being openly deployed by the US president against his political opponents.
This is something that will probably be lost in the churn of the news cycle because most people don’t understand it, but it’s actually really bad for the US government. The reason this country has been able to get by with such a large debt until now was that the interest was kept low by the fact that lending money to the US was seen as very safe. A change in that status quo could bring the whole house of cards crashing down with calamitous results.
Watch Trump give lucrative disaster response contracts to private companies owned by his biggest donors. Maybe Musk will dump a bunch of cybertrucks on the government somehow.
Wait, has Ben & Jerry’s always been this based?
Shocked Pikachu face
Yeah, that’s all true, but on the other hand there’ll probably be a lot of money to be made for a while there, so who’s to say whether it’s bad or good overall.
Socialism is when the government helps people with a different skin color than me.
The bar is on the absolute floor, but I’ll take it. Better than that one guy who said he didn’t regret his vote after ICE got his wife.
Eradication =/= extermination. The latter means zero left alive on the whole planet. The fact that the US stopped at clearing screworms from only North America while leaving them alive in the south (and Cuba) always left the possibility of this happening.