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Simon (2.₿y.2) Kofah · 42w
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 · 42w
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 · 42w
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 · 42w
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 · 42w
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 · 42w
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 · 66w
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 · 66w
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 📲🍄🌐 · 66w
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 · 66w
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 - Not Your Entropy, Not Your Coins · 66w
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 real. But peace out.
Matt - Not Your Entropy, Not Your Coins · 66w
Because they are two completely different contexts lol You're comparing domestic property damage of a private party to damage of weapons factories during a war where the affected country was destroying other people's property. A war and conflict they started. I'm talking about a domestic issue where...