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When they bark, do genetically engineered bees come out?
Man, it’s such a good thing people are going hungry so we can have these things!
/s.
Spend money for gene engineering to cure cancers: ❌
Spend money to genetically engineer dogs to kill people ✅
CRISPR has raised tens of billions in money for cancer gene therapy. 2021 saw private venture investors spending $12.1 Billion, not including public funding which has totaled in the billions.
This still does not cancel out what i said, spending money to make genenetically engineered dogs to kill people is utterly stupid when you could finance more research to actual useful things that gene engineering do: curing genetic illnesses, discover if they can replicate axolotl's regeneration on other animals, see why the heck some animals just have lower chances of gettin cancer, find out if we can speed up wound healing (or prevent scars!) And all this stuff
Well, it does lol. You said they don’t spend money on cancer gene therapy, when the fact is they spend hundreds of times the amount of this headline on it.
I think it’s morally bankrupt to fund genetic research on war dogs in general, but that’s a completely different argument and is irrelevant to the conversation about cancer therapy.
You could literally say the same thing about any money spent. Why spend money on battery research for EVs when you could spend that on cancer research?
The two are not related.
I was talking about this rich idiot not everyone, it also was the first thing that came in mind because you could use genetic engineering to combat some cancers
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Well if you read the community notes on it, this money isn’t even towards the genetic part. It’s to fund armor to protect the dogs in the field lol.
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He got high and played War Dogs and thought "What if we had actual war dogs?" and then decided to raise money to abuse animals. The future is so stupid.
I swear I can smell this guy's photos. 🤢
cant they leave the dogs alone, dont they just want to be loved and get tummy rubs?
The Nazis bred Dobermans and Shepards to be used by military. Coincidence?
Yes. Can confirm. Mine also likes snacks.
I hate Palmer Lucky as much as I hate Stephen Miller.
So much animal abuse
He thinks that life is a video game, that's why his avatar looks like that. Also shitty video game ideas.
But we already have robodogs. Boston Dynamics has been soft-launching them for years, innoculating the masses into adoring them & accepting them before unveiling their full wrathful capabilities. Why breed & abuse living creatures when we already have terrifying robots to do bloodshed for us?
Because billionaires are bored sycophants with zero empathy.
Boston dynamics is thankfully mostly useless bullshit. Dancing robots won't run a factory.
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How do I get money? I got a idea lasers on freaking sharks!!!! I'll take my 200 million in cash please
These fucking techbros are louder and trying to normalize unethical behavior under this regime being asked to remove regulation from all of their activities.
That is what a corporate dystopia really is. Laws for all but not for them.
Palmer Luckey woke up and said:
That's it, I'm inventing bad dogs!
No such thing. All dogs are good boys/girls
Not if they're genetically modified to be war dogs, though it's not something they're responsible for.
Maybe he's just giving dogs testosterone.
Embarrassed to remember liking this guy as early VR adopter. Imagine trading priviledge of pioneering VR to building war machines. What a piece of shit.
if it makes you feel any better, i bet gabe newell and john carmack are feeling much worse 😹
for God sake, facebook advised him to do damage control by donating to someone on the opposite side of the political aisle, and he sued them for it! (according to Wikipedia he got at least 100 million out of that).
This is the same Colossal Biosciences which has been outright lying about recreating extinct species to drum up cash from investors. And when you look at some of the stuff they're pretending to do for this goal, e.g. artificial eggshells for dodos, it is quite obvious they have ulterior intentions.
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investors have a mandate they have to follow. if it says "invest N% into AI" they will throw money at anyone who has "ai" in their mission statement. same for "Defense".
Palmer Luckey is such a loser. He makes absolute bank by selling Oculus to Facebook and then decides with all that money his time is best spent developing weapons to help kill people more efficiently. We need more people like MySpace Tom who, after making a load of money, stepped away and pursued his artistic interests and turns out the guy is a really good photographer.
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The Romans did this already, it's called a "mastiff" and it has been used in war for many centuries
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Dude...sigh... What. Come on.
We already "genetically engineers war dogs". And for police work. And for individual self protection.
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Guy looks like a total fucking tool bag. Looks like the kind of asshole that would come to a meeting in flip flops and pick his fucking toes the whole time. Also, I feel like I can smell his photo.
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This guy looks like the personification of a 4chan message board and needs to be punched in the face. A lot.
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$200,000,000 to get dogs into war who will be killed by some $20 drone with a bomb
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How about instead of war we genetically engineer dogs to live longer? 🥲
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GTA III called, they want their main protagonists shirt back.
I'm gonna say it, and I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks.
This motherfucker, and anyone else with the same idea, needs to fucking die. In the most gruesome, painful way whoever manages it can achieve so that it's a clear fucking warning to the next motherfucker
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Rat thing
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