Gallium Spoon Enthusiast

Does anyone else ever have a sort of phantom physical sense when there's something ready to paste in the clipboard. It feels like I've got something in my right hand and when I click ctrl-v I put it down.

Screwworms were once endemic to the US, but were eradicated in the 1960s amid a concerted effort to annihilate their population. This is done with aerial bombings of sterile male flies, which is the most effective weapon against the parasites. The mass release of dud studs elbows out fertile males, preventing them from mating with females, which generally only mate once. With this method, called Sterile Insect Technique, the flies were eradicated not just from the US, but from all of Central America. They were declared eradicated from Panama in 2006. Until recently, the screwworm population was kept at bay via a biological barrier along the Darién Gap at the border of Panama and Colombia. The USDA partnered with authorities in Panama to build a sterile fly production facility at the gap to regularly release sterile flies and hold the line. But in 2022, the barrier was breached, and the flies have been relentlessly buzzing northward since.

The American habit of sucking off the American military in WWII is embarrassing. But doing the same for another country is more embarrassing tbh. At least the locals have the excuse of ra-ra patriotism, you just have contrariness and you're still wrong!

they're selling anti-ai slogans on sweatshop-produced t-shirts. i don't need to write the poem for you to get it do i

Example of Tumblr's aging userbase: people complain about prices rising and how things were better in the past and are getting worse all the time (often in spite of contrary evidence!), have often developed a sharp technophobia based on misunderstandings of how technologies work and moral panics about dangers that are not supported by research, and hold strong opinions about the problem being due to moral failings that can be fixed by simply destroying the unvirtuous and showing personal virtue, and also are convinced that the past was both better and also harder, and that kids these days have it too easy (but they feel sorry for them because everything sucks now)

training your dog is not optional or a bonus. training your dog is an absolute necessity. training your dog is the rock bottom floor of responsible dog ownership just as much as feeding it is. if your dog is untrained it is unhappy, neglected, and a danger to you, itself, and everyone else. wake the fuck up. and i don’t mean teaching it a couple tricks and calling it a day, it’s the entire structure and nature of your relationship with the animal. it MUST do what you tell it to do, when you tell it to. its not a toy, it’s an animal with jaws that can crush bone.

thinking that "applied ontology" is something you need sounds like the kind of thing wittgenstein was trying to cure people of

It's becoming very clear that a lot of peoples' conception of "materialism" is a rocket sled into fascist logic where the productive and consumptive balance of individual human beings is a quick formula to calculate their worth.

i feel like "open borders will make your job's labor market similar to the one for tenure-track academics" is not exactly a selling point for open borders!

Charitably, the problem with lesbian sex and "bed death" may be that all sexual activity you can do with another person is either penetration or mutual masturbation, and most women from an early age are actively discouraged from masturbation, don't know how, or refuse to do it.