• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      What I mean is that we would never hear the end of it and years later people would still be saying of anywhere in China that it’s crawling with these pests.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      the article would imbue it with sentiments about government confidence and legitimacy. since it’s France (ignore the enormous popular uprisings against this government in recent years) it’s simple a ‘political row’ unrelated to the things people have been violently complaining about for years

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Probably if they decided to assertively solve the matter they’d provide free extermination services and temporary clean housing (for the day or two it takes to do a clean extermination) for affected households and use the data of which addresses have used the service to map out infestation sources and clear them.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        (for the day or two it takes to do a clean extermination)

        A thorough extermination actually takes months between two extensive treatments to make sure all the eggs (which are staggeringly resilient) were caught between both treatments.

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        Either that, or they would weld the people inside of their own apartments while they raise the temperature to 118° for 90 minutes.

        Problem solved! Congratulations citizen, plus five to your social media score. You’re now allowed to buy hot dogs from 7-Eleven.