like 70% of the pictures i post are just ones i have in my camera roll from years ago so for those i have no doubt they arent ai generated. images from before ~2021 are kind of like pre-war steel
The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.
As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.
Texan here
A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!
Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.
Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.
This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.
How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.
In less than 18 months, MAGA has managed to bring back measles. They defunded the Ebola monitoring program that likely resulted in an what is an emergent pandemic. Now, they’ve allowed the food supply to be contaminated by a deadly parasite not seen in the U.S. since 1966.
@allowableman2 The way Han Solo talks about the Force, implies the Jedi were wiped out decades before he was born. He calls it an ancient religion.
But according to the established lore, he was 14 when it happened.
"Star Wars' primary influence is no longer Flash Gordon- it is now Star Wars. Dungeons & Dragons' primary influence is no longer Jaco Vance or Michael Moorcock- it is now Dungeons & Dragons."
- A tweet I have now lost
Modern SpongeBob and Star Wars make for really good case studies of the downsides of "hiring fans" that grew up with the source material
The og creators often had many different influences that went into the work but now the new guys only take from the work itself and thats it