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Simon (2.₿y.2) Kofah · 15w
Familiar with Roundup? It's a highly toxic chemical that kills nearly anything it touches. Crops were "bioengineered" to be tolerant to roundup. Farmland was then saturated with Roundup, killing only ...
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Interesting case, but this is unrelated to the gene editing itself. The problem is Roundup. This is a problem of capitalist system which does not really care who gets cancer, or in the case of private, for profit healthcare, even incentivizes more cancer - because a looooot of profit can be made curing it.
Simon (2.₿y.2) Kofah · 15w
Sure. In this case. I'm just pointing out the problem with unforeseen consequences. You are implying these ppl are good at anticipating consequences. I am suggesting they are abysmal at it. Therefore there should be no tinkering with the source code Nature is the only proofreader I even marginally ...
Simon (2.₿y.2) Kofah · 15w
Familiar with Roundup? It's a highly toxic chemical that kills nearly anything it touches. Crops were "bioengineered" to be tolerant to roundup. Farmland was then saturated with Roundup, killing only the undesirable plants (weeds). "Testing" the bioengineered crops would have revealed no problemati...
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how do you know which genes to replace and with what?
how do you make sure the result does not negativelly affect the ecosystem?
how do you produce huge amounts of the genetically modified seeds?

I bet you can't do all these in your garage.
Simon (2.₿y.2) Kofah · 15w
If we assume gene X only controls one trait, but it turns out to control a lot of functions, we could introduce weird diseases or mutations by accident. When you selectively breed, you let evolved biological control mechanisms filter out potentially dangerous mututions I don't trust profit-motivate...
snackblando · 16w
In many ways genetic engineering is superior technology and perhaps crucial for mankind to survive as the environment changes and the crops need to be adapted so we have food. The problem, as always, is WHO OWNS this technology. For WHOSE BENEFIT and HOW is it used?
Simon (2.₿y.2) Kofah · 16w
The nuanced distinction between the two approaches is in fact the very critical detail... every single thing humans do HAS to factor in the probability of human error...... Human error in the context of selective breeding has a much lower probability of catastrophic fallout than does human error in...
makeheroism · 39w
https://x.com/arnemx/status/1931721420343492959?s=46 This is what I found after a minute of searching. I saw other things say she was calling for illegal immigrants in the United States to “mobiliz...
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Thanks but we need the whole clip to know what she means.

Notwithstanding, it definitely is not an act of war, but looking at your other engagements here, you seem to be seeing existential threats everywhere.

If anything, it's not the immigrants making your life worse - it's your government.
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makeheroism · 39w
Eh our government needs to completely stop all immigration for a period of time and yes that is a part of the issue that it’s creating for average citizens of the country. Allowing dual citizens to be part of the government is another issue. Immigrants legal or not drive down wages for America...
Tekkadan 📲🍄🌐 · 39w
I didn't exactly! I just packaged the gifs from rotatingsandwiches.com using Emojito! You bookmark the set here: I use #amethyst to quickly recall them. nostr:nevent1qqsgac7tq04efdkfw6055mcmnus77myzcwkwzjrdfkwlhnzxf6kyp4cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7q3q2zqf55l7l9vsg5f6ssx5pq4f9dzu6hcmnep...
makeheroism · 39w
https://x.com/arnemx/status/1931721420343492959?s=46 This is what I found after a minute of searching. I saw other things say she was calling for illegal immigrants in the United States to “mobilize” This is an act of war.
Matt 🛸 · 39w
In a completely different context that has nothing to do with this one. I already admitted that you're putting forward a dishonest and fallacious argument. You've proven nothing else. Again, it's been...
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So you are saying it's okay to destroy corporate property in certain context, in a context where the corporation is involved in some nefarious activity.

Now, US corporations are involved in many nefarious/immoral activities and specifically in this instance, in supplying government information on who to "Gestapo-away", or surveiling neighbourhoods with those cars.

People who are targeted by this have every right to destroy such corporation's property, I am sure you agree.

Now that you learned something, maybe go read more about who Winston Churchill really was, so you can avoid the embarrassment stemming from admiring this man...

Peace out.