This is a crime against nature and god and decency, and mosquitos are probably the only place I’d be absolutely, completely for it.
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jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
There are probably a few handfuls of other parasites that would count too.
Hule@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, do ticks next!
Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Fucking bedbugs!
amzd@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Animal farming is a crime against nature, god and decency and we’re completely for that too, don’t forget
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I would not want to see things like this done to the overwhelming majority of living things. But mosquitoes, I say let them starve.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
- ticks, too
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Most dangerous animal in our forests
Hule@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Isn’t the blood only needed for procreation?
cuck4mai@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
I mean, I hate mosquitoes as much as the next guy, but that sounds like a great way to destroy whole ecosystems that rely on mosquitoes as a food source.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Of all the creatures big and small we’ve driven extinct, mosquitoes will not likely be the one that breaks the camel’s back.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ok but mosquitoes historically are the #1 killers of humans, by an order of magnitude. This could be argued as a form of evolution. We simply engineered them out as a threat. GG get gud scrub, see you in 3 million years when you have your own AI generated bioengineering.
exasperation@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Ok but mosquitoes historically are the #1 killers of humans, by an order of magnitude
Homo sapien: am I a joke to you?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Up next on Info Wars: “They’re turning the mosquitoes gay!”
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sounds more like they are turning them trans than gay. So like a test run of the leftist plan for Republicans. Oh wait, are we allowed to talk about this outside of the secret meetings yet?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I think you’re asking for a kind of nuance that most Info Warriors are unable to provide.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
The gay frogs wereore trans than gay too, so the impersonation is spot on.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Tbh I wouldn’t be sad if we genetically modified mosquitoes to breed them out of existence like we’ve done with screw worm.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My only problem with it is the fact that you’re taking a major insect class out of the ecosystem and later on down the line it might have serious implications. There will never be enough research on the effects of it until it’s too late to reverse. I hate mosquitoes (I live in Southern L.A.) but I don’t think this is the answer.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 5 weeks ago
I think there was a campaign in china in the mid 20th century that tried to exterminate a bunch of pests like this and it lead to catastrophic famines or something.
“The Four Evils Campaign” I think it was called.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I think it’s a genius solution to the explicity problem, but a terrible solution in a larger scope. There are many animals that feed on mosquitos, and they would suffer from massive decreases in mosquito population. This includes birds, frogs, bats, fish, and other insects (many aquatic animals eat mosquito larvae). I would hate to see a cascading reduction in animal populations as a result of these tactics.
mihor@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
- What screw worm??
- Exactly.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
what frost giants?
Vote odin
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Right, but consider:
Fuck them bugs
loutr@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
Hey, most bugs are cool and an important part of their ecosystem.
Mosquitoes tho ? Yeah, fuck them.
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
as much as i’d love to agree with that-
mosquitos are pollinators and an important food source for quite a few animals. Our eco system would not be fine if we got rid of them
prex@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
foiledAgain@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ironclad reasoning. Flawless execution. Give this person a doctorate
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I am a hippy nature person who tries to be merciful and kind to plants or insects. The sole exception is mosquitoes. Those fuckers want to take my blood and dont settle for one serving if they get the chance. Were in a biological armrace and so far we’ve been loosing. Let’s see how they like being fucked with.
untorquer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Also ticks.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I would take 100 mosquito bites over one tick. One of the only creatures in nature to scare the hell out of me. And I own snakes.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
VEM
Vegan
Except Mosquitosthesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I know what you meant but I just imagined someone grimly eating mosquitoes out of pure spite
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I saw a video of Africans scooping up pounds of them with nets, mashing 'em up and frying bug patties.
FMT99@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah agreed, all life is sacred except the ones we don’t like.
normalexit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I find the compromise acceptable. Please roll out the mosquito killing technology asap.
glitch1985@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Harbor freight sells an electric flyswatter. The time is now!
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I actually love seeing mosquitoes struggle to survive. I don’t care if they’re incapable of morality, they’re evil and I hate them.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I hate them too but they are just trying to eat and breed, just like us. So kill them with mercy.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
No to that entire comment.
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah they’re not like wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets, who know nothing but hate and malice in their yellow and black striped hearts.
dumbass@leminal.space 5 weeks ago
If they weren’t one of the biggest apreaders of viruses you’d be right, but, that’s my god damn blood, I made it, it’s mine to keep, inside of me preferably.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Maybe to that entire comment
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yes to that entire comment.
bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
We have suffered for millions of years under mosquitos are they are likely the biggest killer of humans in history. Maybe us evolving big brains and developing genetic engineering is an evolutionary necessity?
Or as Harbinger said: “We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”
P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I mean, have you ever seen a pug? They’re fighting for air their entire life. Or chihuahua’s? Awful personality and bred out of usefulness.
cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Chihuahuas can have a not completely closed cranial bone (is this the right word?), which means if you pet them at the wrong place you literally can touch the brain and potentially kill them. My mood would be bad, too, if this was the case for my body.
Pugs also can have their eyes popping out if you handle them wrong (e.g. gripping them at their neck).
The head of King Charles Spaniels are to small, meaning their brain does not have enough room. This can lead to brain fluids getting stuck in the head, which increases pressure on the brain, leading to infathomable headaches, hallucinations, motor deficits, etc, pp.
Breeding some dog breeds should really be prohibited.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
. This can lead to brain fluids getting stuck in the head, which increases pressure on the brain, leading to infathomable headaches, hallucinations, motor deficits, etc, pp.
Oh man I can never enjoy their derpy look again, knowing it’s because their brain doesn’t have room.
Breeding some dog breeds should really be prohibited.
Strong agree. Although there are also breeders doing “healthy” versions of pugs, German sheperds (their hips are awful for them, but the back “sliding down” to low hips was considered an essential characteristic for the race), French bulldogs, etc.
For pugs they’re calling it “retro pug” and essentially theyre trying to get to what the breeds was before fancy European dog breeders started valuing aesthetics more than say, the dog being able to breathe.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“You see what we do to the things we love??? What the fuck do you think we’re going to do to you?!”
amzd@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Or the chickens you eat? They can’t even stand up out of their own feces
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah they’re my soul animals
yamanii@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As a Brazilian, I won’t feel sorry for these fuckers.
Klear@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all!
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The only good bug is a dead bug.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
In pretty much every other context, yeah. But for real, fuck mosquitoes.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Genetically engineer them to grow to the size of Cessna. Ride them to battle
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That seems mild.
Could we try to convince the males that they are the ugliest things on earth so they find large animals that can step on them?
Maybe come up with a liquid that you put in standing water that makes the mosquitoes grow very tiny legs and a very large left wing? You know, so they have to fly to move and they can only fly spinning like crazy.
I got a better one! Make them neon bright and glow in the dark. Make those fuckers be the center of attention. I’m talking kids with nets and old guys with cameras and microscopes with single mosquito flashes (like 1 mosquitoes per photo). And of course sugar sweet flavor? Everything under the sun trying to find them and eat them as snacks. I kinda like this one the best.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
And this is it. This is how we arrive were we are now.
Nature? KILL IT! EXTERMINATE IT!
We’ve spend 2000 years slowly being nature to our wims. It has destroyed the planets ecosystem on a scale only seen by planet wide desasters in the past. We have driven countless species into extinction, and still counting. We take without any regard or resecpt for anything then our own needs.
That is exactly the mindset the comment I am replying to has to me.
weker01@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yes!
Total mutual destruction is the only way™
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Neon bright mosquitoes that glow in the dark? Heck yeah! I’ll keep some in a jar for Halloween 🎃😄!
discusseded@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
This is amazing. Far better than killing them off.
anknown@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Shouldn’t you include /s tag here
yrmp@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not a biologist, but it actually is better on paper. They can still pierce other animals. Just not humans. They stay part of the food chain for amphibians and birds or what not, we don’t get malaria. Seems like a win-win.
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Why not just eradicate them? Genuine question. I don’t think they serve any purpose in nature and are just pissing off every living being.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They absolutely serve purpose in nature, they are a significant food source for bats and many other insects and males are pollinators.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
On the one hand this is creepy as hell
On the other fuck mosquitoes
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
I get the caution about unintended consequences but damnit of all the crazy planetary issues we’re dealing with right now, I’d rank
“oops, got rid of West Nile and Malaria as well as annoying little red bumps from wandering too far from big cities”
As a win, the consequences of which we can probably figure out how to deal with when we come to it.
I know it doesn’t work that way but I’d trade all the world’s mosquitoes to keep the polar bears or pangolins or something any day.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
DIE, DIE, DIE
Zip2@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It’s a bit like trying to watch a pug dog breath.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We genetically engineered mosquitoes to have gender dysmorphia - weird times.
sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I’d like to see any scientific study that reassures at least a little that this won’t have terrible ramifications for ecosystems and the food chain.
We know too little, we are shortsighted and we have a bad record of intervening with nature.
sirico@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Cleanse the followers of Nurgle!
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We gave a mosquito gender dysphoria?
andshit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
LOL FUCK EM
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As long as they can still get blood from other creatures too, I’m okay with it. If not, than that could have wild implications to the food chain assuming it leads to massive population degradation.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
This will probably work for 20 years, due to evolution they’ll just re-evolve that thing hard
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
Mosquitoes have killed more humans than every disease ever along with every war ever, combined
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But what will happen when the humans lose their natural predators, we might destroy our habita- ah, right. Nevermind
Assman@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Mosquitos are just trying to save the planet by murdering as many people as possible
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Here’s a Venn diagram:
Humans getting killed by mosquitos O
OHumans at fault for habitat destruction
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If those creatures that also eat mosquitoes cannot eat them anymore, that means they would have to eat other bugs, possibly fucking up all the ecosystem.
That said, fuck mosquitoes, they can take blood from other places
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
All of our best data on the impact says that it really wouldn’t matter. Sometimes a species is a linchpin for the ecosystem, and sometimes it isn’t.
Sucks for mosquitoes, but there’s a very real chance that we’ll smallpox them, and the biggest concern will be our confidence that the virus we use doesn’t impact other species unintentionally.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
They also eat nectar and are pollinators of various plants.
There’s no way we could simply remove a creature as numerous and widespread as mosquitoes without any consequences.
Dabundis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly
mihor@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Found the mosquito.
Dabundis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I understand what you’re saying here, but the set of people killed by “every disease ever” includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can’t have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes’ kill count is part of every disease ever.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
Edit: when excluding malaria.
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How do they kill us outside of spreading disease?
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
They manipulate the weather using space lasers from their fake hollow moon above our flat earth.
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
By distracting drivers into causing accidents? Statistically speaking… probably.