@mint @bonifartius @david @ffaw @graf @ins0mniak @phnt Bill Gates funded these things and now Google is funding them.
We had the worst fruit flies I've ever seen in my life a few years back. I'd feed the cats and there would be maggots within an hour. What had happened was they were dropping planeloads of genetically modified fruit flies on Los Angeles for the summer. The idea--at least as stated--was that these fruit flies were sterile but also more aggressive, so they'd mate with the females and the females would not lay eggs. This didn't work, and if you think for a minute, it should be easy to tell why.
What regulates aggression is fear. The hyperaggressive sterile fruit flies were not afraid. This meant that the birds and lizards and frogs and whatnot ate them, while leaving the regular fruit flies to mate while all of their natural predators sat around with full stomachs. Of course, they just do this shit without a "Please do not run your shit-ass psychopath experiments on my goddamn city" is not ever on the ballot and all the Whole Foods-ass "we can't have GMOs in school lunches" Karens voted in the people that did it.
This is the same thing they did for mosquitoes in Brazil and it increased the mosquito population twice. "Oops." Then, despite it failing every time it was tried and for completely goddamn obvious reasons, they got CDC approval to do it in Florida.
Bill Gates did a TED talk in 2009 where he released a jar of mosquitoes on the audience and he's had a fixation on that shit since forever. (I think it's this one:
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_mosquitos_malaria_and_education ) Why he is doing it is obvious; if I had to guess why Google's doing it too, I'd suspect the same reason.
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