Anti-immigrant group blames California’s drought on immigrants

[bhavv]

Today I drank 750 ml grape juice and 500 ml Dihydromonoxide.

I cause global water shortage

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What are mosquitoes?

Insect vampires.

Honestly, how can you not know what mosquitoes are?

 

[warpus]

LA has a LOT more traffic, because almost everyone drives, but it also has a lot more road so the problem isn't really any worse, based on experience with Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Seattle and Honolulu.

Rush hour in Los Angeles seemed insane, it was not only slow moving with every single lane packed, but everyone was also honking. All the time. It was kind of insane, really. I don't seem to remember that in Chicago, but granted I haven't been to any large American cities recently. Everyone in Los Angeles also just seems to pile forwards without paying attention to who they're blocking, so everyone ends getting even more stuck, and more annoyed, and so they honk even more. If I had to sit through that crazy nonsense twice a day, I would probably snap sooner rather than later.

 

[aelf]

Why is everyone here hating on the crazy fattos who just want to not have their water soiled and consumed (and their farm jobs taken away) by brown people? That's racist against white people, man.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Insect vampires.

Honestly, how can you not know what mosquitoes are?

Well, I did live in Louisiana and in Florida, so I do know that they are medium sized birds that drink blood.

I only asked that question because California with its ten month summer doesn't have any to speak of...this is a desert. No noticeable sweating because it evaps instantly, no bugs, none of the things that make summer miserable other places.

 

[JollyRoger]

Why is everyone here hating on the crazy fattos who just want to not have their water soiled and consumed (and their farm jobs taken away) by brown people? That's racist against white people, man.

We've already conceded pizza and wedding cakes to the stinky fatties. Why do they need moar?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Well, I did live in Louisiana and in Florida, so I do know that they are medium sized birds that drink blood.

I only asked that question because California with its ten month summer doesn't have any to speak of...this is a desert. No noticeable sweating because it evaps instantly, no bugs, none of the things that make summer miserable other places.

The key to having a low mosquito population is not having standing, stagnant water around, and places that collect rainwater that are then left unattended after the hot weather comes back. Things like small ponds, bird baths, old tires lying around... all these are breeding grounds for mosquito larvae. We're told quite regularly here not to leave water standing around in bird baths, pots, tires, pails, etc. and it's a catch-22 for the people who prefer to use rainwater to water their gardens, since rain barrels are also breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

Other advice for avoiding mosquito bites is to wear light-colored clothing (they're attracted to dark colors), long-sleeved tops, not being too active in the early morning/dusk because mosquitoes are more active during those times, and to avoid long grass. I remember trying to catch a bus one time, and taking a shortcut through some knee-high quackgrass. I just barely made the bus... me, and a whole cloud of mosquitoes. The driver had to stop the bus a little way on to try to get rid of as many mosquitoes as he could.

My city has a spraying program that goes around to the known breeding grounds around the city, and the object is to kill the larvae instead of the ones that are already adult. Of course there do need to be some mosquitoes, for the birds and bats who eat them, but I can remember some pretty miserable summers when it's been scorching hot but I have to stay covered up from head to toe if I don't want to be bitten. I don't want to douse myself with bug spray for several reasons, including the fact that I have allergies, and my cats do have a habit of licking me (usually on the face and hands, but sometimes on the arms). I don't want to poison them.

And then there's West Nile Virus. It took awhile to get this far, but it arrived a couple or three years back. There haven't been many cases so far, but I don't want to be among the new ones.

 

[Borachio]

The Prius annoys me... I find criticisms of the looks and performance dumb - people aren't cross-shopping between a Prius and an Audi, they're cross-shopping between a Prius and a Corolla, which is also boring and not performant.

The problem is that you save a ton of both money and carbon emissions over a new Prius by buying pretty much any used car instead of a new Prius.

I like the idea of a Prius, though. Gliding silently away from the scene of a robbery is a very elegant thing to do, imo.

And why not buy a used Prius, eh?

Of course, there's the matter of replacing an expensive battery every three years or so, but apart from that...?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The key to having a low mosquito population is not having standing, stagnant water around, and places that collect rainwater that are then left unattended after the hot weather comes back. Things like small ponds, bird baths, old tires lying around... all these are breeding grounds for mosquito larvae. We're told quite regularly here not to leave water standing around in bird baths, pots, tires, pails, etc. and it's a catch-22 for the people who prefer to use rainwater to water their gardens, since rain barrels are also breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

Other advice for avoiding mosquito bites is to wear light-colored clothing (they're attracted to dark colors), long-sleeved tops, not being too active in the early morning/dusk because mosquitoes are more active during those times, and to avoid long grass. I remember trying to catch a bus one time, and taking a shortcut through some knee-high quackgrass. I just barely made the bus... me, and a whole cloud of mosquitoes. The driver had to stop the bus a little way on to try to get rid of as many mosquitoes as he could.

My city has a spraying program that goes around to the known breeding grounds around the city, and the object is to kill the larvae instead of the ones that are already adult. Of course there do need to be some mosquitoes, for the birds and bats who eat them, but I can remember some pretty miserable summers when it's been scorching hot but I have to stay covered up from head to toe if I don't want to be bitten. I don't want to douse myself with bug spray for several reasons, including the fact that I have allergies, and my cats do have a habit of licking me (usually on the face and hands, but sometimes on the arms). I don't want to poison them.

And then there's West Nile Virus. It took awhile to get this far, but it arrived a couple or three years back. There haven't been many cases so far, but I don't want to be among the new ones.

Yeah. "Standing water" is not something we worry about here. Toss an ice cube on the sidewalk it will disappear without making a wet spot, because the water will evaporate faster than the ice will melt.

 

[Leonel]

Well I suppose if it weren't for illegal immigrants flooding the market, farmers wouldn't have come up with the hair-brained idea of building farms in the desert.

 

[Farm Boy]

You just get larger corporate farms that automate harder, silly goose.

 

[Tahuti]

Immigrants blame anti-immigrant group on drought.

 

[IglooDame]

I like the idea of a Prius, though. Gliding silently away from the scene of a robbery is a very elegant thing to do, imo.

And why not buy a used Prius, eh?

Of course, there's the matter of replacing an expensive battery every three years or so, but apart from that...?

Gliding silently away from a robbery in a Prius is a lot less elegant than it is in a Tesla. Teslas - and Mustang GTs - come it at 5sec or less 0-60mph, and Prii about double that.

 

[El_Machinae]

Used Yaris FTW. Though I still want my 2020s car to be electric

 

[Flying Pig]

The key to having a low mosquito population is not having standing, stagnant water around, and places that collect rainwater that are then left unattended after the hot weather comes back. Things like small ponds, bird baths, old tires lying around... all these are breeding grounds for mosquito larvae. We're told quite regularly here not to leave water standing around in bird baths, pots, tires, pails, etc. and it's a catch-22 for the people who prefer to use rainwater to water their gardens, since rain barrels are also breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

Other advice for avoiding mosquito bites is to wear light-colored clothing (they're attracted to dark colors), long-sleeved tops, not being too active in the early morning/dusk because mosquitoes are more active during those times, and to avoid long grass. I remember trying to catch a bus one time, and taking a shortcut through some knee-high quackgrass. I just barely made the bus... me, and a whole cloud of mosquitoes. The driver had to stop the bus a little way on to try to get rid of as many mosquitoes as he could.

My city has a spraying program that goes around to the known breeding grounds around the city, and the object is to kill the larvae instead of the ones that are already adult. Of course there do need to be some mosquitoes, for the birds and bats who eat them, but I can remember some pretty miserable summers when it's been scorching hot but I have to stay covered up from head to toe if I don't want to be bitten. I don't want to douse myself with bug spray for several reasons, including the fact that I have allergies, and my cats do have a habit of licking me (usually on the face and hands, but sometimes on the arms). I don't want to poison them.

And then there's West Nile Virus. It took awhile to get this far, but it arrived a couple or three years back. There haven't been many cases so far, but I don't want to be among the new ones.

I remember Canadian mosquitoes - absolutely horrible things, and they seem to have an acute sense of when you're unable to swat them off and to aim for you right at that moment. We probably sprayed enough poisonous stuff to count as an NBC hazard, and the magical cream that stopped the itching became like liquid gold.

 

[Borachio]

Gliding silently away from a robbery in a Prius is a lot less elegant than it is in a Tesla. Teslas - and Mustang GTs - come it at 5sec or less 0-60mph, and Prii about double that.

I'll bear this in mind. But I fancy the Tesla is out of my reach. Still, maybe I could steal one, or hijack one, complete with a driver?

edit: Oh I don't know, they start around $70,000. I thought they were a lot more than that.