The US spent millions every year tracking and releasing sterile screwworm flies to keep the population controlled and prevent it spreading north of Central America, then Donald Trump and Elon Musk paid those people to resign under the DOGE efforts.
They did this.
From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.
@SookieWinehouse AI IS THE FUTURE. YOU MUST USE AI. JUST ONE MORE AGENT I SWEAR JUST ONE MORE AGENT AND WELL HAVE GOOD SECURITY PRACTICES THAT SCALE WITH VELOCITITY.
@CrazyWeeMonkey Flashback to the time a friend had issues playing forza with it eventually crashing on him. Turns out the water pump in his cpu cooler had died and was just cooking his cpu until crashing the system.
Kind of impressive how well a dead water pump cooler held on.
@mollywidstrom It explains a sudden severe storm that hit me in Texas last night with nothing in the forecast indicating that potential.
https://t.co/qcs5vJq1FF
The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.
We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.
Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.
This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.