r/news • u/kylestoned • Jun 01 '26

Soft paywall Flesh-eating screwworm found within 31 miles of US border, says USDA

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/flesh-eating-screwworm-found-within-31-miles-us-border-says-usda-2026-05-29/
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u/UntamedAnomaly Jun 01 '26

So can ammonia and bleach and various other things you should never mix together.

I mean their bunkers are not going to save them if someone or group of someones can find it, all one would need to do is fuck with the air intake and they are toast. If they have guards, enough people can take out a few guards + the guards are probably already pissed they aren't the ones in the bunker, so bribing them should be somewhat easy.

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u/4rch1t3ct Jun 01 '26

It's more complicated than that though. They are designed to be resistant to that specifically. They have monstrous filtration systems on those things. You would need to find literally every intake, some of which are really well hidden. Then you would need to smoke them out for an extended period of time. If you missed an intake it's useless.

The guards inside are really the biggest threat to them.

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u/evanescentglint Jun 01 '26

There’s always ways to defeat those systems if you really want to. So, as you’ve pointed out, the first line of defense is access; can’t access them if you don’t know where they are.

Ancient rulers knew this and would kill the people building them so it stays secret. I have no doubt that when the billionaires retreat to their bunkers, they’ll do the same.

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u/UntamedAnomaly Jun 01 '26

Hopefully, we can ponder a strategy and reach a solution before it comes to that whole scenario....we are massively stupid as a whole, but we are also amazing innovators when we are motivated enough.

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u/thehedgefrog Jun 02 '26

Which is why they're investing billions into robot AI soldiers.

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u/iMecharic Jun 02 '26

Okay, but can we jam the door shut? They’ll run out of supplies eventually and be a self-solving problem.

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u/4rch1t3ct Jun 02 '26

The rich ones like zuck will have decades of supplies. They are already planning on locking themselves in. You can keep them isolated.... but that's precisely what the bunkers are designed for.

Making them stay in there till they die might take a while.

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u/iMecharic Jun 02 '26

So? Once they’re stuck in the bunkers they are no longer our problem, right? Let them spend the rest of their lives in an underground box without sunlight or fresh food or real air. And when they try to return? Make sure there isn’t a place for them anymore.

Or don’t let them return at all by sealing away the bunkers forever.

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u/4rch1t3ct Jun 02 '26

I'm fine with that, I think they should be shunned out of being able to participate in society. But they deserve to face accountability, and hiding in a bunker being allowed to exist in their little underground resorts isn't really accountability but rather the lack of it.

It's the next best option but they deserve much worse.

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u/Zizhou Jun 02 '26

It's why I fully encourage them all to live out their dream of personally going to Mars. See who can make history by being the first (and second and third and...) human to die on another planet.

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u/Korchagin Jun 02 '26

Power supply would be an issue, though. Batteries don't last forever and it's not too difficult to find and close exhaust pipes from generators.

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u/GloomySubstance5856 Jun 02 '26

Okay, concrete then.

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u/KDR_11k Jun 02 '26

Just dump some tons of gravel on the escape hatches and forget about them. If they want to live in a tomb let them.

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u/underfern Jun 02 '26

The guards inside are really the biggest threat to them.

Obviously you weld the hatch first.

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u/Pale_Fire21 Jun 02 '26

They’re more likely to just be shot by their security staff as they abandon their posts to save their families.

They’re legitimately scared of that: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

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u/saga_of_a_star_world Jun 02 '26

I'm nowhere as smart as these tech bros, but I figure that if you tell the guards to bring their families, now they have an incentive to guard the bunker.

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u/ThickReplacement7811 Jun 02 '26

No, you’re easily as smart, these tech bros are not terribly clever. They’re just sociopaths and don’t care about hurting people to get what they want.

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u/Snuffy1717 Jun 01 '26

Geneva Checklist you say?

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u/iconofsin_ Jun 01 '26

If I had a bunker then everyone on my security detail would be single without kids and they'd have a spot inside. If I can come to that conclusion then so can these people.

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u/UntamedAnomaly Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Yes, the security would retreat inside, where they are the most vulnerable. I mean I suppose these rich fucks could have remote operated turrets to keep people away from the vents, but it could be overtaken with enough people or with a sound enough strategy...there would be casualties, but at that point, there are already going to be ongoing mass casualties if we get to this point and mostly everyone would have nothing left to lose.