• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    They can just engineer a virus to interfere with this creature’s metabolism or reproduction, right?

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      3 hours ago

      That’s more or less what we’ve been doing for decades - breeding, sterilizing and releasing screwworms by the million to curb the population. It works too - but Trump & Friends axed the program, and so now it’ll cost $1bil (more than was spent over the entire lifetime of the program previously) to start it back up again (to make the subtext clear it’s because that money will be stolen)

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        3 hours ago

        To make the subtext even clearer, it shouldn’t cost that much, but will end up costing even more than the number they say today as they find new opportunities to line their friend’s pockets with your money.