- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
All this devastation so some fuckbag could light a car on fire and roll it into a gully.
I’d say we need a new plague, but hell, the last one didn’t work. I welcome the asteroids. I beseech the gamma ray burst. Come on, vacuum decay.
(I don’t actually, I just don’t know what to do, think, or say at this point that can accurately convey my level of disappointment with the average state of humanity)
On a more positive note, one party is having a great time:
https://baynature.org/article/fire-chasing-beetles-make-appearance/
Charcoal beetles behave at fires the way locusts behave in cornfields, or like humans at a football game: they congregate en masse, they eat a lot, and they find mates. The beetles enter a fire to mate while it’s still burning and once the flames have subsided, females lay eggs under the bark of burned trees. The larvae depend on the woods of freshly-killed trees because they cannot cope with the living tree’s chemical defenses. This after-fire niche provides a no-pressure environment nearly free of predators and defenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanophila_consputa
Wildfires are part of California’s ecosystem, and some critters need 'em to survive.
Damn this is metal!
Tool, aenema comes to mind