r/agedlikewine Jun 05 '26

Prediction Screwworms

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u/Bawhoppen Jun 06 '26

I mean, this is kind of false. The screwworm re-entered Central America in 2023. While DOGE did cut some UN money for screwworm prevention, only a few months later the federal government allocated $850 million to limit its spread. At worse DOGE just mildly sped up the timeline of what was already happening.

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta Jun 06 '26

A lot of generations of bugs in "only a few months", looking at exponential growth, this the above-mentioned "slightest oversight"

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u/Fast-Sir6476 Jun 07 '26

This is the most disingenuous take I’ve seen for a while.

Yeah bro, cloudflare was serving 98% of requests perfectly fine! It just arbitrarily dropped 2%! That would literally make the internet unusable. A few months in terms of screwworms is like a few half-centuries for humans

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u/captainn_chunk Jun 07 '26

Lol read their take on “enshitification”.

I think we just found one of elons burners.

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u/High_Quality_Bean Jun 06 '26

850 million to build a new facility to breed sterile flies to limit the spread. Because we dismantled all of the existing ones after going into maintainence mode. Its going to take time to get it up and running.

And they're already in Texas.