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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months ago

Existential dread

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Existential dread

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months ago
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    • LongLive@lemmy.world
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      You don’t need much c4 to render an individual sterile.

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    "We have learned to steer humans! All it was needed was a sharp pain from a bright light directly into their eyeballs (below the eyelids), and since humans tend to avoid pain, they try to move away from the spots where we press the pain button.

    Well, except Jimmy12, he has been gooning all experiment long, so the controls need to be reversed."

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    Poor little things :(

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      This. Did not expect to feel bad for cockroaches today…

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    I love how this is borderline torture. Next we’ll be steering animals by tugging on their balls

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      I have bad news about rodeos

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      …there’s a fetish in there somewhere!

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      A little at a time. We need to get comfortable doing this to cockroaches before we can start large scale testing on humans

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    deleted by creator

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      I actually browse it in a private window when I’m curious about a topic I don’t want to be associated with. It’s not unexpected we reached that level of enshittification given that direction where things are going this decade and the last though.

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      Relevant username detected and appreciated

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    I guess this is slightly less disturbing than the previous approach to cyborg cockroaches where their antennae were snipped and enamelled wire was inserted into the stubs to directly stimulate their nerves.

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    They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could control the cyborg cockroaches, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

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    I do not want to be reincarnated as a cyborg cockroach.

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      We will turn you into the 6 million dollar cockroach

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        We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster!

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      There must be an anime about this

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        Love death and robots will have one sooner or later.

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    We do what we must because we can

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    Ah sweet man-made horrors well within my comprehension!

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    So, we can make cockroach cyborgs, probably torturing them along the way, but not fix our messed up society. Fun.

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      To be fair making cyborg cockroaches is way easier.

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        Maybe the cyborg roaches will gain sapience, rebel, and take over. One can only hope. It can’t be worse than what we have now.

        Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new electronic/insectoid overlords.

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    Cyborg cockroaches were used to find survivors in the recent Myanmar earthquake

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/spores-cyborg-cockroaches-helping-with-search-and-rescue-efforts-in-myanmar-quake

    I say we see what other insects and small animals we can turn into cyborgs

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      Roaches need like to recharging. All is fun until you tame a cockroach to drop cyanide into somebodies coffee or 1 gram of shaped explosive charge on somebodies jugular when they sleep. Now imagine thousands of them swarming an entrenched position or building, or crawling in a bunker

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      The most concise summary I could think of too 😂

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    why not just control cockroaches with food

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      Why not just control cockroaches with artificial scarcity?

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        Why not control the cockroaches with puppet leaders?

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    Nietzsche’s tits would fall off

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