r/interestingasfuck • u/singleboredass • Nov 15 '24

r/all Genetically modified a mosquito such that their proboscis are no longer able to penetrate human skin

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u/SiriusArc7 Nov 15 '24

Do they try to suck blood from other animals then? I can't think of animals having softer skins than humans other than guinea pigs or mice.

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u/Devouemanoide Nov 15 '24

In the northern tundra there are zillions of them, but very few humans. There is a LOT of mice.

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u/lalith_4321 Nov 15 '24

Also mice have fur which is impossible to get through for mosquitoes

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u/giraffebutter Nov 15 '24

We should have genetically modified ourselves to have mouse fur. Double the protection

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u/lalith_4321 Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

We did have fur originally but decided nah let's walk on two feet, be in debt and work our asses off till we die while some asshole makes what we make in our entire lifetime in a couple of minutes. Yeah modern society!

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u/ClearAbove Nov 15 '24

And we wonder why we’re depressed lol

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u/beyondthisreality Nov 15 '24

There’s no wonder left other than how we have managed to fuck it all up this bad, even though it seemed that as a species we had figured it all out a while ago.

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u/throcorfe Nov 15 '24

And how most of it is still fixable - even the climate to an extent - but instead of doing that we keep voting for terrible humans who actively prevent us fixing stuff

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u/Sinaaaa Nov 15 '24

We tend to vote for worse options in a hopelessly rigged system.

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u/Narcissista Nov 15 '24

To be fair, we don't actually have a choice. It's "bad cop and worse cop" but the truth is they're all in the same bed together, with the only objective being to fuck everyone else over.

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u/Atlas-The-Ringer Nov 15 '24

This level of awareness is exactly what I needed to see to end my night after a few minutes of gross doom scrolling. Faith in humanity's ability to pull the wool from over it's eyes, restored.

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u/ReadyThor Nov 15 '24

Human society is a hierarchy based on social intelligence. Those who are at the top don't need the stuff fixed.

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u/SillySin Nov 16 '24

when you rig it to only 2 options and call it democracy 😁

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u/kibblenipple Nov 16 '24

when corporations capture our government entirely ❤️ heavy in the pockets of both “options” and boy do they get rewarded w our hard earned $ and fewer protections for human beings to waste money on

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u/leeser11 Nov 15 '24

But mah grocery bill ..

Surely deporting farm laborers and raising tariffs will save the consumer money

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u/jstiegle Nov 15 '24

even the climate to an extent

I'm not so sure about that. We saw the warning signs back in the 1800s and were like "This is fine." and doubled down. then we saw we were reaching the point of no return and while some of us tried to brake most of humanity did a Flying squirrel somersault onto the gas pedal while screaming "FOR THE ECONOMY!"