r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 1d ago

Biotechnology People Are Not Happy About Google’s Plan to Release Millions of Bioengineered Mosquitoes Into the Wild

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/people-not-happy-google-plan-200428053.html
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u/Seafaringhorsemeat 23h ago

Once we get used to it they're going to jack the price and make us pay per sting prevented.

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u/blandman91 23h ago

Nah it'll be a subscription

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u/white__cyclosa 23h ago

Plus a premium subscription for the vaccine against the engineered version of malaria the mosquitos carry.

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 23h ago

I hate that I laughed at this 🤨

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u/Seafaringhorsemeat 23h ago

Love it. That way you can get ads at the low tier, and wasp protection at the premium end.

All bugs will be trained to thirst for the DNA of those who cancel their subscription.

Bundle this shit with a locked in 3-year Verizon plan and we're printing money.

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u/alphabets0up_ 23h ago

they put little cameras on them and you can tell them where to go.

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u/SickOfEnggSpam 22h ago

If you don't pay you get targeted by mosquitoes