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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I will never understand how Americans salivate over shit like this and think “yes PLEASE! Bring back diseases!”

Do they think Europeans are impressed by their ever so brave masochism, or is there just some fear of “I don’t want to grow decadent!”

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It sounds like it was penny pinching neoliberal austerity that did this as we forced the flies south by flooding the environment with so many sterile flies that they couldn't breed a new population, got to Panama and then just stopped there, and then i guess stopped doing the maintenance they'd been doing continuing to unleash sterile flies in Panama so they've come back

If i were elected president I'd make doing that with mosquitoes and any other human parasite that transmits blood borne disease one of my core policy proposals

That and the Transhattan project would solidify my legacy as best president im pretty sure

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah I think the "getting rid of mosquitoes platform" would be overwhelmingly popular.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i'll do much more than that, though, ticks, chiggers, horseflies, all gone. If you drink blood and you're a bug you're going on the list. I don't care what environment some nerd says you're a cornerstone of, you're gone

[–] booty@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Looks like mao is back on the maonu boys

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

and then i guess stopped doing the maintenance they'd been doing continuing to unleash sterile flies in Panama so they've come back

this was a trump cut. dunno if full eradication was possible with how south america is geographically and politically (caused by amerikkka )

[–] SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Transhattan

I like the sound of the name alone, please do elaborate.

so a few weeks ago someone posted something about doctors making some sort of new findings about the utility of progesterone in aiding breast development in trans femme individuals and as a cis cracker I can't help but stick my nose into everything and, on hearing that, I was aghast at the poor state of medical knowledge, because people should have known that about progesterone YEARS ago

as president I would dedicate billions making a national project of developing the perfect transitioning technology. I think my initial proposal was that we'll develop a pod where you go in and it'll be like you never even heard the word testosterone. And if you're a trans man, good news, you go in the other side, that's where all the testosterone's gonna go, it's win win win

I think I could sell it to the cis people by playing on the steroid meat jockeys who would inevitably come to understand the benefits of perfecting our engineering of the human endocrine system, but really I think the "no more mosquitos" plank of the platform would be what really helps sell my candidacy to the average person

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Anti-vax is very big in europe too. They love homeopathy and "angel energy healing" more than americans love the "I ain't no wuss" shtick.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“continent with the highest average IQ” really showing how it earned that title

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 3 days ago

IQ is a racist concept anyways.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“IQ” is literally the IRL version of “power level” at this point. A meaningless number.

Our so-called “betters” voluntarily want to go extinct by climate change solely because it would make the money sad.

[–] allthetimesivedied2@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually shtick because sch is Anglicized as sh, but anyway thanks! Sometimes I forget to turn off autocorrect and then dont proofread!

[–] Vientanh@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In Yiddish it’s שטיק, which transliterated is shtick or shtik. The word came into English, by way of Yiddish, not German.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I never made any claims of that word's origin.

[–] Vientanh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Never said you did; all I did was provide context.

[–] jared@mander.xyz 14 points 3 days ago

Proud ignorance.