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snek , in As Israel expands Gaza offensive, it has lonely critics in Washington
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I saw this today and searched for any other articles where The Times of Israel uses the word “genocide”… This complete lack of self-criticism is what made Israel an apartheid state.

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drmoose , in It’s not just Paris. There’s a "global resurgence" of bedbugs.

What if bedbugs evolve resistance and take over the world eventually. Bet no one had that on their Great Filter bingo card.

holycrapwtfatheism ,

I don't know if they can adapt to resist diatomaceous earth in any way? It's one of the more common treatments and it just slices them up.

stu ,
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The article actually addressed this and apparently they are even developing some resistance to diatomaceous earth. The only sure fire treatments described are extreme heat or cold. It’s a pretty horrifying situation we’ve made for ourselves.

Piecemakers3Dprints ,
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Cedar oil. Fry them before your very eyes.

Also, the fumigation packets for livestock stalls, but you need to duck tape your contractor bags of clothes, etc. closed and leave them outside for 6-10 days.

blackbirdbiryani ,

I once had a pretty bad bed bug infestation and tested DE by putting a bedbug in a cup of it… It lived for weeks before I killed it by hand. DE only hinders their movement in my experience, you need stronger stuff to kill them.

Piecemakers3Dprints ,
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Cedar oil literally melts them. After weeks of trying everything we could get our hands on ($$$ gone), I tried straight up cedar oil in a spray bottle and found immediate delight in watching those mothefuckers writhe in agony as they shriveled and died. The others tried helplessly to flee, but I was undaunted and hunted them down, one by one. None lived to tell the tale, and all were chemically dessicated and vacuumed up.

Maeve ,

I think this isn’t far-fetched with climate wtfery.

theodewere ,
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i think it shows a healthy sense of humility to admit that even the bedbug could unravel this mess at this point

drmoose ,

Man at this point I wouldn’t be that surprised just kinda disappointed really.

theodewere ,
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well, we've got heat on our side in this fight apparently

drmoose ,

They don’t have a chance once we’re all sleeping on sand!

TenderfootGungi ,

They already have evolved resistance to the chemicals we use to kill them, hence the resurgence.

TenderfootGungi ,
Bizarroland ,
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There's also the fact that we quit using DDT in most of our insecticides and DDT was great at killing bed bugs it just was also cancer causing in humans.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

FTA:

But the main reason why it’s boom time for bedbugs, according to the review, is that they’ve evolved resistance to many pesticides, our main line of defense. Indeed, these critters are now resistant to “most of the major classes of insecticides,” the review states, including pyrethroids, which is still one of the most commonly used insecticides. They’ve also developed resistance to DDT, which attacks insects in a similar way to pyrethroids.

Not even that would save us, FWIW.

stinkypoopsalot , in China says Israel acting 'beyond scope of self-defense'

Rich words from a country putting muslims in reducation camps.

BobVersionFour ,

"Forced labor camp"

FlyingSquid , in It’s not just Paris. There’s a "global resurgence" of bedbugs.
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My wife works in a public library and they regularly have a bedbug-sniffing dog come in. She tells me it’s very cute.

ChillPenguin ,

At one point our neighbors self treated their bed bugs and it spread throughout the apartment complex and into our unit. In any case, the dog that came to our unit was a beagle. And it made my day in that shitty situation. It was adorable.

theodewere ,
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the Bed Bug Beagle is your friend.. i can see the subway station posters..

sangriaferret ,
mo_ztt , in The military conducted testing in their neighborhood during the Cold War. Now, these former residents are demanding answers - and restitution
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There are lots of things that glow under ultraviolet light. It’s honestly hard for me to see why they would decide to spray a compound including one of the most toxic heavy metals in the world unless it was deliberately to poison people.

Salamendacious OP ,
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The only thing that could persuade me is if at the time that information wasn’t widely known. Otherwise it looks pretty bad. Especially when you think about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on black folk.

pete_the_cat ,

Or the fact that the military dosed it’s own soldiers with LSD in order to see if it could be used for mind control.

Fredselfish , in The military conducted testing in their neighborhood during the Cold War. Now, these former residents are demanding answers - and restitution
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Nothing be done and no money given out. East Plastine is still fucked and that was unpreventable accident. Government doing on purpose damn sure not going make this right.

Maeve ,

No one cares about leaded water anymore either.

pete_the_cat ,

I was gonna be like “WTF do Israel and Palestine have to do with this?!” and then I remembered the train that derailed.

zepheriths , in Israeli communications minister seeks shutdown of Al Jazeera bureau

That’s not suspicious at all. One of probably the most fair news sites, and Israel wants to remove them… Uh oh.

Stovetop ,

I wouldn’t say fair. They are a state-owned press agency, and accordingly their material should be read in the context of how it aligns with the views of the Qatari government.

But they do have a perspective they report from, and that perspective deserves to be voiced just as much as any of the more western-aligned publications. Like most stories, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, so I see them as a check on otherwise one-sided accounts of the Middle East.

JustZ , in Judge Howell order in Freeman, *et al* v. Giuliani
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Boy, better ask around about Bary Howell. Zero time for bullshit.

Ryan213 , (edited ) in Republican Jeff Landry wins the Louisiana governor’s race, reclaims office for GOP
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Is this a result of gerrymandering or did Louisiana just fuck up as usual?

Edit: I’m not American. I don’t know how your gerrymandering rules work. LOL

gregorum ,

I’d say both of those count as LA fucking up.

Salamendacious OP ,
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To my knowledge gerrymandering only affects district races, e.g. state legislature and congressional house races. I don’t see a way a party can gerrymander a statewide race.

Salamendacious OP ,
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To my knowledge gerrymandering only affects district races, e.g. state legislature and congressional house races. I don’t see a way a party can gerrymander a statewide race.

It looks like what killed this was low turn out among Democrats. You can’t win if you don’t vote.

“Democratic turnout has been weak,” Louisiana-based pollster John Couvillon told The Hill earlier this week.

Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, criticized members of the Democratic Party for not putting more resources into the race.

“There’s really no discussion, and more importantly, very little lack of investment in voter mobilization,” Albright told The Hill. “That includes the party itself not putting a lot into this election, which, unfortunately, is a pattern that we’re seeing in Southern states in general and particularly in states that have Black candidates.”

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Carvex ,

More uneducated morons choosing to get left further behind in the progressive nature of the world.

grayman ,

So after the federal and local democrats destroyed like 90% of their economy several times you expect them to pick someone from the same party to run the state?

ThrowawayInTheYear23 ,
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Why Louisiana Stays Poor www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

Salamendacious OP ,
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To my knowledge gerrymandering only affects district races, e.g. state legislature and congressional house races. I don’t see a way a party can gerrymander a statewide race. It looks like what killed this was low turn out among Democrats.

You can’t win if you don’t vote.

“Democratic turnout has been weak” Louisiana- based pollster John Couvillon told The Hill earlier this week.

Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, criticized members of the Democratic Party for not putting more resources into the race.

“There’s really no discussion, and more importantly, very little lack of investment in voter mobilization”’ Albright told The Hill. “That includes the party itself not putting a lot into this election, which, unfortunately, is a pattern that we’re seeing in Southern states in general and particularly in states that have Black candidates.”

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6daemonbag ,

The previous governor was technically a Dem, but would be unrecognizable in any other state. Edwards won against David Vitter because Vitter was shitty enough that even some repubs couldn’t stomach him. He won as incumbent against Eddie Rispone because Rispone was a crummy snake and everyone saw through him.

All that said, we do have incredible gerrymandering skills.

ThrowawayInTheYear23 ,
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Fucking up as usual.

Cleverdawny ,

You can’t gerrymander a statewide contest.

themeatbridge ,

Louisiana Democrats barely tried. The governor is elected by the entire state, so gerrymandering doesn’t really affect it directly. Indirectly, districts that are safe one way or the other tend to make people feel like they don’t need to vote because they are confident that their candidate will win. It permits and encourages complacency and apathy.

babboa ,

The LA Democrat party has been in disarray for years. The leadership has been ineffective at best and borderline (or in some cases outright) corrupt at worst. They ran an unlikeable candidate with a good bit of baggage as their candidate. Even if he had held Landry enough to force a runoff, he didn’t have enough support from Republican voters for it not to have been a landslide.

lmaydev , in As Israel expands Gaza offensive, it has lonely critics in Washington

I don’t quite see how supporting a defense system to stop incoming missiles is a bad thing though.

fluke ,

Don’t be disengenuous. It’s more than that and you know it.

lmaydev ,

I do indeed and it’s all awful.

But that’s what the text draws on to show American support.

I’m just saying I don’t feel funding a defense weapon is a good example.

BolexForSoup ,
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lmaydev ,

I have been following it and both sides have been awful as usual.

Just pointing out supporting a middle defense system is not a bad thing.

DoomBot5 ,

People are forgetting that this missle defense system has saved tens of thousands of lives from dieing by Hamas hands.

lmaydev ,

Yeah exactly. It’s defending citizens from terrorist attacks.

Regardless of the fact the government pretty much caused these it’s still good for civilians.

BolexForSoup ,
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lmaydev ,

It’s evidenced in the vote in the last U.S. Congress to top up American funding for Israel’s missile-defence system: a lopsided result of 420 to 9.

Was commenting on the text above is all

BolexForSoup ,
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Money dedicated to the iron dome is not magically exempt from the Israeli military action in Gaza/Palestine/etc.

shalafi ,

CITIZEN: Good faith questions (even if brought up by the second sentence in the story) are unwelcome unless they conform to lemmy’s zeitgeist.

(Now say something anti-Ireal and you might get some points back. Of course that might get you called an anti-Semite. Either way, you’re basically a terrorist. 🤷🏻‍♂️ You really can’t win.)

shatal , in As Israel expands Gaza offensive, it has lonely critics in Washington

Unfortunately Hamas’s success was far beyond their expectations. They were left unchecked for hours and during that time chose to commit the worst type of atrocities.

In doing so, they validated Israelis fears that if the “Palestinians” could, they would torture, rape and kill every single Israeli including the elderly and children.

Israel is now a country in trauma and is driven be vengeance and fear.

Sadly, at this point, no amount of world criticism will make any difference.

The only way to prevent massive casualties on both sides is if Hamas releases the civilian hostages.

Mrkawfee ,

Hamas release the hostages won’t help. Israel wants a blood price measured in tens of thousands of bodies.

shatal ,

You’re not wrong, but with the tensions in Israel’s northern border and with Hizbolla signalling that they will launch an assault if Israel moves into Gaza, releasing the hostages might just be the excuse everyone needs to de-escalate.

FrostyTrichs ,

Israel is driven by vengeance and fear.

That’s been the case for decades but a lot of the world won’t hold them accountable for their own actions.

Palestinian lives and civil rights almost always take a backseat to Israeli rhetoric and posturing on the world stage. The loss of any innocent life is tragic whether it be Israeli, Palestinian, or otherwise and should be treated as such.

Unfortunately for everyone Palestine/Gaza has become so desperate to escape their shrinking cage that they seem to have resorted to desperate and despicable tactics, and Israel will gladly commit genocide if the world allows them to. It’s a no win situation that should be defused by world powers, not encouraged and bankrolled by them.

skeezix , in Netflix plans to open brick and mortar locations

Most stores today would be built with steel and aluminium with composite walls. Not sure why they’re going for brick. It’s much more expensive. Even wood framed would be a better option.

andrewta ,

Give you an a for effort on that joke

NAK , in Average American Debt: Household Debt Statistics, Average household debt hits $101,915

The methodology here is suspect at best.

Simply dividing the amount of debt by the number of people does things like decrease the debt per person if there are children in the house.

There are other weird scenarios like non married people who own a house together. When you purchase a house with someone both parties are responsible for the debt, so 100% of the balance shows up on both their credit reports.

There may be some broad trends that can be gathered from this? If anybody has any idea what they are I’d be interested in hearing. Right now I can’t think of any

FlyingSquid , in 'Ring of fire' eclipse brings cheers and shouts of joy as it moves across the Americas
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As usual when anything interesting in the sky happens, it was cloud-covered here.

FlyingSquid , in Law restricting bathroom use for Idaho transgender students to go into effect as challenge continues
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I’m glad I have two bathrooms in my house. That way I can say, “this one for biological females and that one for biological males and no, you can’t use the one in the master bedroom, you have to use the one in the hall.”

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