9 નવેમ્બર, 2023

"Scientists in Japan have identified a virus that selectively kills males — and it happens to be inheritable, creating generation upon generation of all females."

Don't worry (yet). It's happening at the insect level.

21 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Enigma કહ્યું...

I said the human variant of genetically selective viruses likely entered the political imagination in 2021. Some people in the Greta Von Blue Octopus crowd really, really, really want to reduce the world's population. COVID + selective deaths = A dream fulfilled.

mezzrow કહ્યું...

I can be kind of a pest from time to time. Ask my wife.

boatbuilder કહ્યું...

I don't think the AI jokes about this are going to be as good as the real ones.

Kevin કહ્યું...

If this only killed females this would drive the news cycle for a week and kick off Congressional hearings.

But men are the disposable sex.

Oso Negro કહ્યું...

Don't worry (yet). It's happening at the insect level.

Did you experience a frisson when you saw the headline? Goodness. Someone wake up Shouting Thomas.

Joe Bar કહ્યું...

Hmmmm. Sounds like a reverse Frank Herbert novel.

RideSpaceMountain કહ્યું...

They're calling it EnKarensia Formosa. Quite virulent. Instead of killing males quietly, it loudly demands to see the males manager. Even when wrong it will nag the drones to death until naught but more EnKarensia infected females are left.

The colony collapses shortly thereafter from depletion of its chardonnay reserves.

Dave Begley કહ્યું...

Lesbians of the world rejoice!

Dave Begley કહ્યું...

Insects only. For now!

fleg9bo કહ્યું...

The teachers unions must be salivating over this.

Howard કહ્યું...

Oh to be the male selected for immunity.

Ten to One Female to Male post apocalyptic paradise

Howard કહ્યું...
આ ટિપ્પણી લેખક દ્વારા દૂર કરવામાં આવી છે.
Josephbleau કહ્યું...

Now all the smart male insects will identify as female. Then of course, they will become immune to the virus.

mikee કહ્યું...

Howard, likely to be more like the way Don Johnson is treated in that classic, A Boy and His Dog, when he is forced to "donate" sperm for many women, using electrodes. By the way, that movie was set in 2024, so we have that to look forward to next year.

Fred Drinkwater કહ્યું...

Herbert's "The White Plague", flipped.

David53 કહ્યું...

I’m not getting the vax.

n.n કહ્યું...

There was a female-selective choice in China. With social progress, it is now equitable and inclusive of both sexes, and the structurally infertile transgender spectrum.

Dude1394 કહ્યું...

Yea, just what we need a bunch of "true-believer" scientists concocting viruses that they have no clue what will happen. Sort like the covid thing they created in their lab.

Joe Smith કહ્યું...

Don't tell Gloria Steinem...

Misinforminimalism કહ્યું...

Reminds me of The White Plague, Frank Herbert's novel about a (man-made) virus that kills only women, but men are the carriers. Brilliant stuff.

Lem Vibe Bandit કહ્યું...

If killing the males came as a development, what could possibly count as a drawback, for the insects I mean.

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