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This makes me think of my late grandfather. He had been a civil engineer for the US Navy who spent several years working in the Panama Canal Zone. He told me this story of a senator showing up one day with cost-cutting on his mind. He focused on one line in the budget: mosquito control. “Mosquitoes? There are no mosquitoes here! What a colossal waste of money!” The whole area became pretty much unliveable within a year of his returning to Washington.

He seems to have manufactured quite the crisis. Is this what he meant by bringing manufacturing back to America?

Oof.

Or oeuf, as we sometimes say in Canada.

Well the gist of the interview was that American intelligence services are in chaos right now after their top-level management got expelled and their “eye is no longer on the ball” in terms of threats from Russia, China, etc. with new personnel being brought in who have no clue what’s going on.

Correct me if I’m wrong but as an outside observer, it seems to me you have your big oil Republicans and your fuck the government solar off grid types. When they clash, I just sit back with some popcorn.

So from what lemmy is reporting, we know West Texas has a measles outbreak and some giant fracking earthquake to contend with. Maybe toss in some radioactive exposure from a now-unmonitored nuclear facility and we’ve got the makings of a superhero origin story.

I have no first-hand experience with it either, but understand that in addition to its direct shitty flu-like symptoms and the telltale rash, it has this strange ability to factory reset your immune system so you get to go through all those other diseases your body fought off in the past again.

Oh man, a showdown at the border: Tesla-Bot vs Mecha-Gosling!

My daughter is a vet tech and says it’s brutal right now. Cats brought in with H5N1 are immediately quarantined and many are fighting for their lives. She’s pleading with owners to keep their cats indoors. She’s a proponent of this in general but especially now.

I have boomer friends with 2 outdoor cats who live next to a swamp. They refuse to keep them in. We have an immunocompromised rescue at our place and I have to shower and wash my clothes every time after I visit them. It’s aggravating.

$3.93 at the nearby No Frills. That converts to about $2.75 USD I think?

I just got back from a trip to California and the first thing I did was order a fried egg sandwich at the Sunset Grill. Oh man, that was sweet bliss! It’s good to be home.

This made me literally lol and I needed that today. Thanks!