I hope I’m not just a friend to you guys, but a cautionary tale of untreated mental illness, unhealthy coping mechanisms, unstable support structures, substance abuse, and positive feedback loops.
The Odyssey really said “You think the Trojan war was the birth of western civilization? Fine, yeah it was, but that means the birth of western civilization was built on deceit, the genocidal sacking of a city, the desecration of the gods, and the end of common hospitality”
First they came for me. Like, right away. I tried saying "Don't you have some trade unionists or gypsies or something to deal with?", I tried giving them names, but they weren't interested.
BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.