obsessed with florida’s invasive species crisis. let’s start with burmese pythons, which have obliterated the everglades: 99 percent of raccoons, 99 percent of opossums, 88 percent of bobcats gone. local rabbits and foxes apparently extinct. it’s time to introduce a gene drive.
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yes. great opportunity to guide them larger faster smarter. Our next bio-weapon.
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how does this make them larger, faster, or smarter? seems like the most prolific breeders (the most fit) would die out first???
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And accidentally triggered the mutation that allows them to grow legs become super giant and take over Florida We erect a giant wall on the Florida border And everyone pretends the state never existed
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i actually love florida

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Aren't there quicker and cheaper methods? Like a snake rodeo or snake whacking day?
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we already do a lot of this. everglades are like 1.5 million miles, and we literally can’t hunt the pythons faster than they breed
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Can we do this to communists, too?
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the overlap of “openly communist” and “believes humans should stop breeding” is close to 100 percent in the west, so actually think we’re fine here
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On top of that, we could impose a bounty on them and ship some cajuns over to Florida with air boats. Discover Channel could even make another show. Added benefit? A surge in python apparel
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there already is a bounty!
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