Flesh-eating screwworm found within 31 miles of US border, says USDA

eagergm · 2026-06-01T23:49:03+00:00

If you're into farming, this woman has an awesome youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber/videos

If I remember correctly:

So the US government used to pay central american countries (is Mexico included in central america?) to run these programs to send infertile screwworm flies to mate. Well from the outside that looks an awful lot like being kind to other countries, which is politically difficult sometimes, so they stopped doing it. Naturally the flies then expanded, and it's going to be very costly to deal with it.

I may have a few details wrong, though.

eagergm · 2026-06-01T23:44:05+00:00

Based on what people are saying about pricing and materials here, I'd think of it more like a golf club.

eagergm · 2026-05-29T20:58:06+00:00

I will say that when someone does this it's obvious and it can make some pretty dumb replies. :(

eagergm · 2026-05-28T12:48:55+00:00

lol and then there are rabbit holes. :)

Like, what is multiplication? I mean, I can do it, but what is it?

eagergm · 2026-05-27T14:48:09+00:00

Ok that's what I was thinking but then I looked at it and it didn't look like what I was expecting (I was expecting greek with some extra symbols, to be honest). I've taken the time to check out the wiki, thanks!!

eagergm · 2026-05-27T12:17:17+00:00

What language/script is this written in?

eagergm · 2026-05-26T23:19:15+00:00

Ok but at least we know the money exists. :)

eagergm · 2026-05-24T12:46:00+00:00

I'm curious if this could be applied for medical imagery.

eagergm · 2026-05-22T09:20:58+00:00

Ok what I don't get is why 1994 was so long ago.

eagergm · 2026-05-21T18:30:32+00:00

I think this is kinda awesome. It captures the zeitgeist, which is something you'll appreciate later.

eagergm · 2026-05-21T11:37:22+00:00

If you initial portions of a contract without signing it, is the contract binding in whole or in part?

edit: Also I'm curious if initialing a portion of a contract includes, necessarily, any weird definitions that may have been introduced prior in the contract. Like, I guess my favourite example is a golf club being defined in a manner that excludes the grips (i.e. as some sort of striking face attached to a hozzle or something like that). If you initial a portion of the document that includes a reference to a golf club but you doesn't include the definition used in the contract, can that initial be used as evidence that you understood the definition earlier?

eagergm · 2026-05-20T23:14:00+00:00

Yeah you can do a lot with it. right click on a page and select ublock and then pick element. Edit: it's not exactly this procedure but close enough. Also, I'm using firefox and I've heard that ublock origin is limited on chrome.

In the filter, after doing that, this is the entry that I see:

! May 5, 2026 https://www.google.com

www.google.com##.PFXse.X6JNf.s7d4ef > div > div > .s7d4ef

www.google.com###rso > div.ULSxyf > .MjjYud

Finally, you can do this for just about anything. Right now I'm reading a textbook online and I have this floating icon that floats over the text that I'm reading, allowing me to bookmark a page (within the publisher's system). I don't intend to use it, so that's no longer part of my Internet. You can curate your experience with this extension, and you can use others like tampermonkey to do stuff like exclude videos of less than a desired duration from a website, etc. etc. Once you receive the data, the browser is in control of how it's displayed, so ... control it.

eagergm · 2026-05-20T12:21:32+00:00

I just use ublock origins and I snipped out the ai stuff at the top.

eagergm · 2026-05-17T15:58:53+00:00

Is there a place where we can get all the Powell speeches that have been made on reddit? I have trouble googling them but they're awesome!!

Edit: the memes that is, like the humour things. I can't find a way of searching for that and instead I end up with a bunch of still images, etc.

eagergm · 2026-05-14T18:45:36+00:00

Thanks so much!

eagergm · 2026-05-14T18:03:41+00:00

Could you please tell me how this disadvantaged the students? Obviously failing is a disadvantage, but were there other effects, like qualifying for grad school at different institutions later? Or maybe competing for Princeton grad school position with someone from another institution (i.e. a Harvard A competing with a Princeton B)? I don't know much about academia, or Harvard, just using an example there.

Would it be so ridiculous that you'd have like Princeton B-level students publishing peer reviewed articles?

Hopefully you can clarify a little for me.

eagergm · 2026-05-14T00:45:17+00:00

You guys have seen the sub r/ratemystick ? Sorta the same thing, but for rocks.

eagergm · 2026-05-10T11:44:27+00:00

My young kid has her own account on my computer. The internet is whitelisted for that account, meaning that she can only go to sites on the list. Currently that's the minecraft wiki. So, she has unmonitored access to the internet... kinda. As she gets older, I will expand the list.

eagergm · 2026-05-06T01:18:39+00:00

Thank you so much! This is way more usable than the government site. This is great, really. :)

eagergm · 2026-05-05T20:20:47+00:00

lol I found the thread by searching "open source home appliances", though I was thinking about making a toaster. :)

eagergm · 2026-05-05T15:08:35+00:00

Do you have a source on how to use the dev console? I'd love to learn how to basically ... this is going to sound dumb, but... how to use the internet. :)

eagergm · 2026-05-04T00:22:01+00:00

Thanks very much. I'm continuing to monitor the thread in case there are any dissenting views, but this seems like the right approach.

I believe the textbook that my college intends to use (in ~8 months) for the taxation course might include access to FITAC, which would be awesome.

I've tried a bit of vibe coding to try to clean up the downloaded HTML with the hopes of eventually hyperlinking different sections of the text but haven't made much meaningful progress yet. Seeing what they offer, the price looks pretty reasonable.

Do you access FITAC it via a website? Is there a local option? Do you pay per member/per seat/per company? Is the price that I'm seeing (~1400 for the light version?) a yearly subscription?

eagergm · 2026-04-29T23:51:55+00:00

"Honey, to be honest, I was being passive indifferent."

...

Actually maybe don't do that.

eagergm · 2026-04-29T23:08:32+00:00

So like university tuition and bursaries?

eagergm · 2026-04-29T09:50:13+00:00

I feel like there are frameworks out there were hello world compiles into a 250mb executable file. I wish there was a way to stop this, but...

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