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The latest drought has coincided with an industrial boom that is sucking up the shrinking reserves.

Tom Hibbert advises us to "be good to ladybirds as they are both beautiful and the gardeners' friend, keeping numbers of plant sucking bugs like aphids in check as they are voracious carnivores."

Another said: "It's theatre. It's all show. It's not like we are going to do deep substance. We are sucking up to the most powerful guy in the world for good reason."

Following that bit, “South Park” jogs through the land of everything that’s sucking right now: Zoom calls.

The EPA also argues that electric vehicles are sucking up energy that could be better used elsewhere — “from factories to data-center servers to air-conditioning.”