Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/08/crawfish-crisis-leads-to-disaster-declaration-by-louisiana-governor.html
…
7 Likes
According to Landry, climate change is a hoax, but unprecedented drought and resulting lack of crawfish is real, I guess.
31 Likes
Hey climate deniers: FAFO. Unfortunately, the rest of us suffer from your stupidity.
23 Likes
“We can’t do anything about climate change because it’ll ruin the economy.”
(Economy gets ruined by climate change.)
31 Likes
Federal disaster relief? Why that’s socialism! I thought y’all was againnit? Just pull on yer own bootstraps and privatize and deregulate and get a rich businessman to solve it!
26 Likes
or just buy shrimp instead…
7 Likes
23 Likes
No problem. We’ll pay for it with taxes collected from the Louisiana petrochemical companies!
24 Likes
Who would have thought natural resource extraction at the mercy of climate and climate change are in the same universe? /S
“Again, climate change is not real, NOT REAL, FAKE NEWS. It’s only real when it happens to me and me alone, screw everyone else. Where is that government bail… I mean federal aids to help the affected”, said by every denier.
Please welcome the “I got mine, fuck you” crowd into the reality where thought and prayer will do nothing.
9 Likes
First, there’s hardly any crawfish this year, and the price for a sack is absurd. It’s crazy
Secondly, whatever people might think or say about Governor Landry,
it is not nearly negative enough.
14 Likes
I have a high school friend who’s as Trumpy as it comes. We’ve argued politics since the 8th grade decades ago. We met for dinner after the funeral of a mutual friend last year. He and his wife have a condo in Florida that got hit by a hurricane and needed extensive work. My friend is the association president. His wife told us, without irony, how he secured FEMA money to rehabilitate the building. I looked my friend in the eye and we exchanged meaningful glances. Nothing needed to be said.
15 Likes
no sir. not a valid comensurate substitution. shrimp tastes clean, as they are a saltwater bug. crawdads - mudbugs - are dirty shrimp and that taste is not replicable.
BTW; what is that Copilot AI illustration? who is depicted and did you use the post’s headline for prompt? some of those flying (falling) crawfish are creepy AF.
also, they’re not red 'til ya boil 'em, js.
6 Likes
FMJ,
Point taken on the Crawfish to Shrimp substitution, once again in my attempt make everyone happy, makes no one happy…
As for the illustration, if I see a colorful headline on BB, I like to plug it into the ole’ AI generator and see what pops out. (I might add the word “Surreal” a couple of times) I then post the best image (weird and trippy) to the BB forum, so all can be entertained.
The person depicted I assumed was the governor of Louisiana… But turns out the governor of Louisiana is a dude… Well maybe the AI knows something about the governor that we didn’t, maybe the governor has some explaining to do.
As for the flying red mudbugs, a disaster is being declared, maybe the seas are boiling down in the delta, so hot that maybe the mudbugs are popping out of the water fully cooked and giving them the appearance of flying.
The all knowing AI is making all the decisions, I find it best to not question, I just enjoy!
4 Likes
all in good fun, comrade!
i found the illo entertaining, but as with almost all machine-defined text-to-image illustration, a bit disturbing (perhaps the inclusion of “surreal” in the text prompt)?
2 Likes
Ontario waves its hand. “Yo, let’s talk!”
8 Likes
ok, but can you get Zatarain’s crab and crawfish boil in Ontario? 
add some sausages (preferably anduoille), potatoes, corn on the cob, onions, peppers in that boiling seasoned water and drop dem bugs in an’ give 'em a good hot bath for 15 minutes or so.
spread out some newspapers on the table and scoop that boilt goodness out and errbody pile in! pinch dem tails, suck dey heads. y’all gon love dem mudbugs, sho nuf!
5 Likes
No, but that’s the point.
We have crawfish; don’t want them.
LA doesn’t have crawfish; wants them.
That’s half a trade deal. Figure out the other half, and the Minderbinder Syndicate will take care of it.
The best part? Wait until Governor Jeff is chowing on a big plateful, and whisper “mutant hermaphrodite crawfish, only females, they don’t need males.” (Stand out of line of the spray.)
5 Likes
…Parthenogenetic? Hermaphrodites aren’t females with no males, they’re both.
2 Likes
D’oh! Yes.
1 Like
