Yeah, IIRC the main "breach" happened during Covid as a result of the disruption caused by the pandemic, it's not something whose root cause can be blamed so easily on Trump. There was a program operating down in Panama to prevent the fly from spreading up through the narrow isthmus there by releasing sterile males and the supply chain disruptions broke it for a year or two, resulting in the flies getting through to Mexico where it's a lot harder to eradicate them.

Trump's cuts and chaos sure haven't helped the situation, though, and with dedicated effort it might have been possible to turn back the tide before now.

Like an automated version of the Be My Eyes app.

The upvote/downvote thing mostly indicates whether a comment or post agrees with the current popular opinion of the social bubble it's found inside. I've said the same thing in different places and see quite different ratios. It's not very useful for analyzing the content itself, it just tells you what the room thinks of it.

Interesting, it's used for launch. I would have assumed it would be for the final "sprint" to hit the target. If it's used for launch then I would think that having it be a jettisonable first stage would be an advantage rather than a detriment.

How would bots be kept out of it?

Tomorrow: "President Trump accuses the Democratic Party of being in support of illegal immigration, attempts to shut down the bank accounts of all members."

The best part of DS9's Section 31 was that Section 31 knew they were the bad guys too.

They might be surprised to learn that Ukraine has to agree to end the war before it'll actually end.