But Japanese won ' t get their amphibious tank . what do you base that on ? <| sep |> The fungus is being carried by several wood boring beetles now . It probably doesn ' t matter what type of wood boring beetle , even the wood eating bees , are going to be carriers of the fungus . No way to go after the carriers now . Been kind of bizarre to watch this unfold for 3 years now , and know it was probably due to deliberately smuggled vegetation in Puna , down on Pohoiki Road . Imagined GMO poisoning was enough for mass hysteria , the iconic Hawaiian tree is threatened and nobody bats an eyelash . Very bizarre . <| sep |> I never thought I ' d see the day they ' d show a replay purely for its fantasy implications . <| sep |> Yeah , a useful display of closemindedness , almost textbook . I ' ve literally never had that happen . Other people are different , so that might be a problem for them , but it ' s not a problem for me and people like me . And not just as a stand alone statement either , but as a repudiation of someone else ' s concern about that very thing .