Recent content by tstorm823

I want to argue about how your link doesn't at all say what you claim it does, but it doesn't matter, you're in a catch-22. You're trying to prove that they made meaningful direct contributions by linking pages you think claim they still are, which undoes the claim that they cancelled the...

It's the same source you're looking at, EMPRES-i lists a whole bunch of data from all over the world, but generates almost none of it. For most of the world, the data is from exclusively existing laboratories that FAO is just referencing data from. The only actual direct activity they have a...

What if I told you that their facilities to actually help people with animal diseases were all in Asia and Africa? What if I told you that FAO presence in the US is exclusively to help other countries on the opposite side of the planet? What if I told you that their list of methods for...

And where do you think those 22 countries and 180 outbreaks of animal-born diseases and parasites are?

What precisely do you think they stopped doing?

If they close one hospital and built 1000 new ones for the same population, calling that scaling back is wrong. Yes, the USAID grant to FAO was removed. You have no actual evidence that FAO stopped its screwworm related operations. It was likely one person in Rome coordinating through email...

I can only conclude you've read literally none of the exchange between me and Silvanus. There is an international organization (COPEG) dedicated to this specific thing. The US part of combatting screwworms comes mostly through the USDA, not USAID. There are other agencies involved as well...

An incredibly small percentage of the total funds dedicated to an issue was removed from a particular agency for reasons totally unrelated to that particular issue... it's quite precise. It's a shame you're carrying all that embarrassment yourself though. Just let it go, you were objectively...

What part of that article makes you think Carville opposes spending? He's expressing disconnect between himself and a candidate that has previously called for "the eradication of western civilization", as well as describing minorities with white women as "fetishizing ugly colonizer women", who...

And if there are hundreds of hospitals, and just that one is getting closed down by the government because of a child molestation scandal, are you going to blame the government for influenza? I don't think you want to go into analogy here...

I would caveat that the car's owner, should the feature do something seriously wrong in a way that was predictable and preventable by the manufacturer, I could see the car owner than pursuing claim against the car company in a separate case. Just like you would for any other sort of car failure.

I understand that. DOGE did not cause issues with new world screwworms. The trajectory of the issue is unchanged since before DOGE existed. You came in here to imply DOGE caused the issue, you have been corrected, your stubborn argument has barely a vapor remaining, whatever.

Right, the efforts go through COPEG, the Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Screwworm, an international organization headed by the US and Panama to combat specifically this pest in specifically this region. The FAO does many things, mostly not in the Americas; we have a commission...

I'm not attempting to "make the narrative self-contradictory", I'm trying to make you understand that your stances are contradictory, not mine. I understand there are separate bodies, you are the one ignoring that. Your logic is "less money to FAO > cut efforts to combat screwworm > screwworm...

I would never, the former actually does things about this, the latter is only just now putting together a $1 million program for central American screwworms. There are lists of what was cut. I'm certain you have a dozen reasons to disregard those lists, because you want to believe the...