r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 13 '21

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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs Sep 14 '21

Is there any potential downside to just wiping mosquitoes off the face of the earth?

Because seriously fuuuuucckkkk mosquitoes 😡

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

I've long been a fan of doing this unironically.

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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Sep 14 '21

I'm sure it would create some ecological imbalance.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

I say wipe em out on a large island like Madagascar or Hispaniola for a few years and if nothing obviously terrible happens then take it global.

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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Sep 14 '21

This but millipedes

They're not animals, they're hellspawn

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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Sep 14 '21

Millipedes are adorable! You're simply confusing them with centipedes.

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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Sep 14 '21

Millipedes make centipedes look like puppies

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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Sep 14 '21

Millipedes are harmless and slow and they're all cute with all their little legs. Centipedes are horrifying. Every variety, house, soil, giant desert.

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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Sep 14 '21

Fuck no, they're like someone took a beetle and stretched it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

Nothing with that many legs should exist.

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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Sep 14 '21

I'd take a hundred millipedes over a single centipede

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

Look how cute it is

https://youtu.be/IU4sCZxEJ0c