the worms are in control
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It's fun to imagine how far north it could survive nowadays compared to last eradication. The climate has only gotten more suitable for it 
Won't somebody please claim the Mandate of Heaven already, the Heavens will just keep sending misfortunes on this highly unwise dynasty.
yeah sure why not
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!”
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
yeah I think the "getting rid of mosquitoes platform" would be overwhelmingly popular.
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
Mao's back baby
Looks like mao is back on the maonu boys
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
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 
)
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.
“continent with the highest average IQ” really showing how it earned that title
IQ is a racist concept anyways.
“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.
It's schtick, btw.
Actually shtick because sch is Anglicized as sh, but anyway thanks! Sometimes I forget to turn off autocorrect and then dont proofread!
In Yiddish it’s שטיק, which transliterated is shtick or shtik. The word came into English, by way of Yiddish, not German.
I never made any claims of that word's origin.
Never said you did; all I did was provide context.
Proud ignorance.
…so I say to him ‘I dunno but it sounds like you’re just feeding people to a flesh eating screw worm' and then his daughter started crying
New World Screwworm is a pretty good name for a band tbh
Get wormed
nice, my dad finally came home
Self inflicted. Those things culled the dear population by 60 percent at one point in several southern states.
Nurgle is winning
Thanks, RFK
those scientists tried to keep our worms out! but we're bringing them back, making them great again. We love our worms dont we folks
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