somename [she/her]

It was pushed out of North America by releasing large amounts of sterile flies, so that they’d mate and die without producing new generations. They pushed the range of the fly down slowly, until they hit Panama.

That is a very narrow strip of land connecting North and South America, allowing for a ‘wall’ of sorts to be made, by continually releasing batches of the sterile flies from sites in the area. That kept the flies contained to South America.

With Covid disruptions, and progressive cuts to the department, they’ve been creeping past the barrier, and there wasn’t a funding increase to push them back down. DOGE accelerated this by firing a bunch of the people involved and slashing budgets further.

P-zombies always seemed like anti-materialist navel gazing to me. I don’t think they’re meaningfully possible.

Classy.

Why would they not?

The more opinions you have the more biased you are, thus sitting on your ass and accepting the status quo is the purest form of thinking possible.