People will believe a bullshit rumour easily if it conforms to one of their preexisting biases.

Anyone who believes that Haitian immigrants are eating the neighbourhood cats is 90% likely to be straight up racist even if they don’t think they are, or 10% likely that they are just dumb as bricks with no critical thought capabilities.

I imagine they are probably noisy?

I fully support getting rid of the two party system, but at this point in time it’s a fantasy. Maybe next election when Trump isn’t going to be the consequences is where Jill Stein can get her votes.

Unfortunately the Republicans may find someone even worse than trump next time.

after this election where Trump or Harris will be president. Will very likely be too late to do anything for Palestine in 4 years, which will be no guarantee of a third party option either.

All the while Trump may be in office because 5% of the vote went to Stein instead of harris and now not only.palestine suffers but also women, black and Hispanic Americans, the lower to middle class, and the lgbtq+ community.

You vote for Jill Stein and Trump or Kamala will still be president and nothing changes for Israel. But at least you will feel better.

Okay, then if there’s really only a choice between the two and they both support genocide just as much as the other, genocide doesn’t really have any impact on whether you should vote for one or the other and maybe vote for the one who isn’t racist, isn’t a fascist, isn’t an idiot, isn’t going to die of a heart attack in office, and doesn’t have a couchfucker as a VP.

Was there a reason it had to be in Manhattan and not like, fuckin Idaho or something?

I work in mosquito control, it’s been generally fairly well known as far as I know. Light traps use black light bulbs as one of the methods to attract mosquitos because the lack of visible light cuts down on the number of bycatch like moths but the bulb still generates heat to attract the mosquitos, usually paired with dry ice for CO2.

I don’t think we should call these people billionaires if it is all reliant on the value of their stocks. If it ain’t taxable it doesn’t exist.

Avocado toast costs less than a bowl of cheerios where I live 😭

Lf gf

Depending on your garden you sort of do crop rotation anyways in many setups.

Like if you have four quarter plots of a 48ft2 piece of lawn and do a different crop in each quarter, then rotate the next year. Makes it easy for even yourself to harvest. Easier to notice where your ripe beans to harvest are when they aren’t mixed in with your corn plants.

Regular mowers have a person which animal can recognize as a threat and run away. They may not bother running from an automated mower I imagine.

Might sound stupid, but perhaps then they shouldn’t be offering services like Disney Plus and instead simply offer a car that lets you download any streaming app you have your own subscription for.

Why does anyone live there? Is it cheap?

Products that change the service they offer after you purchase it should also be eligible for a full refund (plus a % on top for the hassle). Such as offering a service through the product for free at the time of purchase but then moving it being a monthly subscription paywall later on, or just removing the feature completely.

If the companies try and make the consumer eat the cost, then the companies who sell their products in cardboard packaging instead of plastic will be able to sell it for cheaper and potentially steal business from the others. There are plenty of products sold in plastic which do not need to be.

There should almost be some sort of technological transfer to nearby empires, like cultural influence. If your neighbour is at 10000 tech points or whatever while you are at 1000, you should be able to leech some tech points from your neighbour to develop faster.

Transfer rate increases with the disparity between nations and decreases with distance.

So a super advanced empire on continent A will contribute to nations on continent A and B, but those on continent A get more of a bonus than those on B.

This aligns fairly well with reality as neighbouring countries would transfer students to universities all the time, less so the further the nations are apart.

Depends on the location. Mosquito control is done all over, but I’m only somewhat familiar with north america.

It’s pretty widespread in the United States where it’s done by government employees at the municipal and county level I believe. They do use a fair bit of aerial spraying in certain areas though as I understand since there is a high concern of certain diseases being spread in certain areas.

In Canada it’s mostly done by private companies (ironic I know) with a few areas being done by the government, and it’s mostly done just because of nuisance and negative economic effects from outdoor workers and tourism so aerial spraying of chemicals is pretty much not done at all except for one major city which is phasing it out.

If you live anywhere in north America that’s nearby a river, coast, swampland, or significant snowmelt into he spring, you may have a local mosquito control program.

I never even knew the control programs existed until I came across the job postings and got hired, but they are fairly wide spread.

They’ll also pop holes in your tires in the winter trying to eat the road salt off of them.