Mastodawn

Cory Doctorow

I know it's wrong, but if I could kill all the mosquitoes, I would kill all the mosquitoes.

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manchicken Nov 9

@pluralistic Such power, in the hands of one person?!

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alan

Nov 9

@pluralistic weren't we promised mosquito laser defense systems at one point? whatever happened to those

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Padcrafting Nov 9

@pluralistic there’s a way to do that. Gene drives.

Same.

@pluralistic DDT did nothing wrong! (DDT did so much wrong)

@pluralistic Mood.

@pluralistic same, I'm a mosquito magnet.

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Lisa Nellis Nov 9

@pluralistic I would love you forever.

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Joe Vinegar Nov 9

@pluralistic If I had slightly more precise powers instead of killing them all, I would in order:
- give them a boosted immune system to selectively kill human pathogens
- make them completely silent (or at least strongly repelled from human ears)
- make their bites no more itchy

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LisPi Nov 9

@pluralistic Just need to do something to replace their ecosystem role first.

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Hiker Geek 🌲💻🌲Nov 9

@pluralistic

There are like 3000 species of mosquitoes. Most don't bite if I understand correctly. A lot of the ones that do don't make you itch.

Mosquitoes are important food for other animals so there would be serious downstream effects of killing them all.

Maybe just kill the ones that transmit disease? I could live with an occasional itchy bite if I knew it wouldn't make me sick.

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wolfkin Nov 9

@pluralistic I th ink it'd be fine if we could just remove their wings. It's the buzzing around my head that's the killer. Let them walk upon the ground and they'd be 90% less annoying.

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