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Humanity making progress like it always does (mbin.grits.dev)

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[-] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 121 points 2 years ago

Oh, my. I hadn't even noticed how much less I've had to clean my Windshield lately. That is a very bad sign...

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 51 points 2 years ago

It’s been a couple years since I’ve had to scrape the bugs from my windows.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago

I had to last week. It was the first time in years.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

In Sacramento I clean mine almost daily. Just depends where you are really. Lots of farm land will always have lots of bugs.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Let me give another example:

Traveling from Central Europe to Southern Europe to spend your holiday. In 1980/1990 you had to clean your windshield a couple of times when driving there.

Not any more.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Unless they use shit-tons of insecticide. The farms around my home-town did, or started too a bit before I left.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

Waaiiittt.. How fast you need to go to get flies on your windows? I think my place has much more flies but i never saw this thing

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago

Couldn't that also be new improvements in car aerodynamics where bugs simply glide off instead of getting squished?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 years ago

Apparently, it's the other way around, presumably because unaerodynamic cars pushed around a big air cone, which deflected the insects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I was thinking the other day that we no longer see bugs around the house I grew up in. When I was a kid my house was always full of bugs, we live next to a protected natural area, so it was impossible to keep them out. Anyways, I've always loved bugs so they were welcome. I moved out and whenever I go there are no animals to be seen. I can't even hear birds or see iguanas walking around. It's so disturbing.

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