Existential dread

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Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 1y (1 reply)

LongLive@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

You don't need much c4 to render an individual sterile.

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 46 pts · 1y

"We have learned to steer humans! All it was needed was a sharp pain from a bright light directly into their eyeballs (below the eyelids), and since humans tend to avoid pain, they try to move away from the spots where we press the pain button.

Well, except Jimmy12, he has been gooning all experiment long, so the controls need to be reversed."

Zoop@beehaw.org · 44 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Poor little things :(

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1y

This. Did not expect to feel bad for cockroaches today...

tdawg@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I love how this is borderline torture. Next we'll be steering animals by tugging on their balls

skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 1y

I have bad news about rodeos

flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

...there's a fetish in there somewhere!

bampop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

A little at a time. We need to get comfortable doing this to cockroaches before we can start large scale testing on humans

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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voodooattack@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

I actually browse it in a private window when I’m curious about a topic I don’t want to be associated with. It’s not unexpected we reached that level of enshittification given that direction where things are going this decade and the last though.

felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Relevant username detected and appreciated

AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y

I guess this is slightly less disturbing than the previous approach to cyborg cockroaches where their antennae were snipped and enamelled wire was inserted into the stubs to directly stimulate their nerves.

Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could control the cyborg cockroaches, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Wofls@feddit.org · 16 pts · 1y

We do what we must because we can

JacksonLamb@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I do not want to be reincarnated as a cyborg cockroach.

musubibreakfast@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

We will turn you into the 6 million dollar cockroach

slingstone@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster!

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

There must be an anime about this

JacksonLamb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Love death and robots will have one sooner or later.

genuineparts@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 1y

Ah sweet man-made horrors well within my comprehension!

slingstone@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

So, we can make cockroach cyborgs, probably torturing them along the way, but not fix our messed up society. Fun.

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

To be fair making cyborg cockroaches is way easier.

slingstone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Maybe the cyborg roaches will gain sapience, rebel, and take over. One can only hope. It can't be worse than what we have now.

Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new electronic/insectoid overlords.

TessierAshpool@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y

Cyborg cockroaches were used to find survivors in the recent Myanmar earthquake

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/spores-cyborg-cockroaches-helping-with-search-and-rescue-efforts-in-myanmar-quake

I say we see what other insects and small animals we can turn into cyborgs

andybytes@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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jnod4@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

Roaches need like to recharging. All is fun until you tame a cockroach to drop cyanide into somebodies coffee or 1 gram of shaped explosive charge on somebodies jugular when they sleep. Now imagine thousands of them swarming an entrenched position or building, or crawling in a bunker

FelixCress@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

The most concise summary I could think of too 😂

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

why not just control cockroaches with food

renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why not just control cockroaches with artificial scarcity?

ICastFist@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y

Why not control the cockroaches with puppet leaders?

Snowcano@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)
theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Came here looking for this.

TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Nietzsche's tits would fall off

yogurtwrong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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BmeBenji@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

The final boss from the new DOOM game: The Cyberroach

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

this was one of the xfiles episodes, where the aliens were controlling the roaches, to send a singal.

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Also in the Fifth Element

insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 1y

Me, haunting those responsible for the wording:

not a cyborg.

Zerush@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

Before using in humans, they need to test it first in animals. Neurochips and VR glasses are already on the way, until now FOX News and X are only partial satisfactory.

Shanedino@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

The lab I worked in during college had a project that was very similar but used the antennae.

Dadifer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Finally!

Rooskie91@discuss.online · 3 pts · 1y

Death may be a preferable alternative to being found in rubble by a swarm of cyborg cockroaches.

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y

One step closer to The Fifth Element every day.

HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today · 3 pts · 1y

Thanks a lot Osama!

loomy@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 1y
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Fizz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 1y

We're worse than the Mechanicus tech priests.

imgcat@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

what a dredful life, being controlled like a robot

proceeds to check bank account