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Every mosquito you kill with your hands makes them evolve to be better at avoiding you.

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Deceptichum@quokk.au⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every one of them that doesn’t successfully kill me is breeding a super mosquito killer.

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  • OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How exactly are they evolving if you kill them? Surely the ones you don’t kill evolve 🤔

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly, I kill the slowest, leaving the fastest to breed.

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      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Counter: you’re killing the ones that like the taste of a human and thus they’ll evolve to avoid humans.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We need this system institutionalized for humans. Except instead of slowest, we just kill the assholes.

        reads news about UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson

        Oh, I see we’ve already started! Pardon me! I was a tad behind the news.

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  • br0da@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why I stay liquored up. One of these mosquitoes bites me, they take back that elixir to their family. Dad mosquito shows up hammered. Turns out he missed their kids soccer game (again) Wife is taking the kids to stay with her sister in Albuquerque. Kids only see the dad on the weekends where they have built up an immense disdain for him. This lends to their emotional trauma where they spend the next several years acting out their pain…wait

    I need to rethink this

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your patriarchy is showing. It’s only the female mosquitos that bite.

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      • br0da@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure blame the female

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      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Since with is Daddy a sex? It’s clearly a gender that is not exclusive to males.

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  • Rokin@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every mosquito you don’t* kill

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  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every spider you kill that you see makes them better at hiding in your house

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I noticed that about the lantern flies this year. The past couple of years every time you saw a lantern fly anywhere you could just squish it without any serious effort. This year you had to be really fast or chased them for five times.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the ideal outcome: mosquitoes avoid me.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I made a pact with mosquitos; they can bite me when I sleep as long as they don’t annoy me with buzzing.

    It’s extremely effective and both parties have been very happy.

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