Debugging: Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and Florida
www.theguardian.com
Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs
  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t trust any of them. I’m familiar with their test projects they’ve done, one in Florida. And I know they’ve done something successful with that weird screw fly thing down south of the border.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Did. Trump killed that program, and now they have found screwworm flies as close as 30 miles from the border of California and Arizona.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        It will devastate some of his biggest supporters if it makes it across the border, ranchers are total of dicks.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Ok now you’re venturing into conspiracy theory territory. Nobody wants a screwworm outbreak anywhere. They’re a categorical pestilence.

      Edit: I misread your comment - apologies.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        What did I just say? That they successfully controlled the screw worm with it. Jesus Christ read it before you trash it.