९ नोव्हेंबर, २०२३

"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.

२१ टिप्पण्या:

Enigma म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

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

Kevin म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

Hmmmm. Sounds like a reverse Frank Herbert novel.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

Lesbians of the world rejoice!

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

Insects only. For now!

fleg9bo म्हणाले...

The teachers unions must be salivating over this.

Howard म्हणाले...

Oh to be the male selected for immunity.

Ten to One Female to Male post apocalyptic paradise

Howard म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Josephbleau म्हणाले...

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

mikee म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

Herbert's "The White Plague", flipped.

David53 म्हणाले...

I’m not getting the vax.

n.n म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

Don't tell Gloria Steinem...

Misinforminimalism म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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