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Humanity making progress like it always does (mbin.grits.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When I was a kid, there used to be hundreds of fireflies in my backyard in the summer. Now, I get excited to see even two or three.

I blame the anti-mosquito pesticide services half my neighbors seem to hire.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Where I grew up, the city wanted to hire a bunch of trucks to drive around spraying malathion into the air. They had a vote, and the town voted overwhelmingly that, fuck no they did not want that, please don't do that, that sounds awful. Then they did it anyway.

Same thing; now there are pretty much 0 fireflies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why did they even have a vote then? They just hoped everyone would say yes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Who the fuck knows

(Not me 😕)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Governing bodies regularly consist of bored narcissists who only act in their own self-interests.

They wanted less mosquitoes and held a mock election to confirm their interests and did what they wanted even though the people disagreed because they knew better, as they were the ruling class elected to carry out the piblic good aa they understand it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blame the raking of the leaves. No leaves in fall means no place for the eggs to be laid and no place for the larvae to grow. It's another casualty to grass lawns. A "clean" nature is a place where nothing has room to thrive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I try to help what little I can there by not raking (or if I do, I collect and move into our fenced in section so insects can still make use of them). It does also help my laziness that I have a legitimate reason to not rake.
Not sure if it helps or not since I do mow the leaves with the grass at the start of the summer.