Horrors We've Unleashed

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• Swallowtail@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m having a hard time actually finding a source for this. Just a few poorly written articles that basically cite this video as a source. Something this potentially impactful seems like it would make the rounds more, so I’m very skeptical.

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  • Arfman@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I saw this posted on Twitter and the community notes said the person’s skin was too thick and it’s a normal mosquito.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.synthego.com/blog/gene-drive-crispr

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had a fruit fly problem over the summer and felt guilty about the cruelty of the glue traps. But when it comes to mosquitos, roaches, and wasps, I’m Hitler. I would favor genetic alterations that expanded their capacity for suffering.

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• SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “sir, there’s been a complication…it seems the mosquitoes with our gene are dying off in water ways and directly polluting the waters…humans may never be erect again.”

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why making them flacid instead of just killing them?

  Most species are invasive and not part of the natursl ecosystem of most places anyway.

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The idea is to introduce this genetic expression into wild mosquito populations. That way, the inevitable act of mosquito reproduction lowers the next generation’s population size.

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• Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a bit like trying to watch a pug dog breath.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • amzd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Animal farming is a crime against nature, god and decency and we’re completely for that too, don’t forget

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are probably a few handfuls of other parasites that would count too.

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    • Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fucking bedbugs!

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    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, do ticks next!

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• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Up next on Info Wars: “They’re turning the mosquitoes gay!”

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you’re asking for a kind of nuance that most Info Warriors are unable to provide.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The gay frogs wereore trans than gay too, so the impersonation is spot on.

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• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • mihor@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • What screw worm??
    • Exactly.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      what frost giants?

      Vote odin

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• BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This will probably work for 20 years, due to evolution they’ll just re-evolve that thing hard

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If your proboscis stays engorged for more than 4 hours, contact a geneticist

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cleanse the followers of Nurgle!

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  VEM

  Vegan
  Except Mosquitos

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  • FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah agreed, all life is sacred except the ones we don’t like.

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know what you meant but I just imagined someone grimly eating mosquitoes out of pure spite

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I saw a video of Africans scooping up pounds of them with nets, mashing 'em up and frying bug patties.

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• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Surely this won’t have any knock on effects with the food chain…

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• BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not all species of mosquitos feed on blood, like how only some bats feed on blood. As long as we only mess with the ones that feed on blood, it is a lot more likely that species that feed on mosquitos will have time to adapt to population changes.

    Even the ones that do feed on mosquitos don’t feed exclusively on mosquitoes.

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have a suspicion this gene would not be selected for when the mosquitos proceeded.

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• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mosquitoes have killed more humans than every disease ever along with every war ever, combined

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But what will happen when the humans lose their natural predators, we might destroy our habita- ah, right. Nevermind

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here’s a Venn diagram:

      Humans getting killed by mosquitos O

        O
      

      Humans at fault for habitat destruction

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    • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mosquitos are just trying to save the planet by murdering as many people as possible

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  • Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • mihor@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Found the mosquito.

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly

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  • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mosquitoes have killed more humans than every disease ever

    How do they kill us outside of spreading disease?

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      By distracting drivers into causing accidents? Statistically speaking… probably.

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    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They manipulate the weather using space lasers from their fake hollow moon above our flat earth.

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  • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Edit: when excluding malaria.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In pretty much every other context, yeah. But for real, fuck mosquitoes.

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • cuck4mai@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Lev_Astov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • ticks, too

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most dangerous animal in our forests

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  • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Isn’t the blood only needed for procreation?

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