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Existential dread

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Submitted ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *“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.”*

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  • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair making cyborg cockroaches is way easier.

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      • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • LongLive@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • TessierAshpool@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

    straitstimes.com/…/spores-cyborg-cockroaches-help…

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

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  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • musubibreakfast@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We will turn you into the 6 million dollar cockroach

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      • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There must be an anime about this

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      • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Love death and robots will have one sooner or later.

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  • Zoop@beehaw.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Poor little things :(

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    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have bad news about rodeos

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    • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …there’s a fetish in there somewhere!

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This actually brings back memories, lol.

    So I’m a surgical tech- I set the OR up for surgery before a case with all the supplies and instruments that specific case calls for; am the surgeon’s bitch during the operation; and tear down once it’s all done. When I first started this job, I had to write up a case report on every new surgery I did to show familiarity with the anatomy we were working around and be able to anticipate the types of instrumentation we needed, and getting info for those case reports was kind of a pain in the ass. Everything is either directed at patients (lots of detail on preop, “and then you’ll be asleep for the surgery” and lots of details on postop), or to the surgeon, which goes into WAY more detail than I needed using terminology I didn’t understand.

    Enter YouTube. One of the best ways to get that data was to just look up a recording of the surgery on YouTube and just write down what I saw.

    I’m also a nerd, so when I wasn’t looking up videos on surgery, I was looking up videos on things like physics or sci-fi.

    Turns out that did some weird things to YouTube’s algorithm… it basically poured ‘surgery’ and ‘weird nerdy shit’ into the same cup, and started making some of the most fucked up video recommendations I’ve ever seen… one of which was a video of a guy giving anesthesia to a cockroach with ice water, and then sticking a diode or something into its little roach brain that connected to a circuit board backpack like the one shown in the OP. He could then use a remote to stimulate two different parts of its brain or something, and if he did this while it was running, it would reliably turn left or right, so… remote control cockroach.

    Tbh, the pic on the OP might actually be from that same video.

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    • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Relevant username detected and appreciated

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    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • genuineparts@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah sweet man-made horrors well within my comprehension!

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  • Shanedino@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Wofls@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We do what we must because we can

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  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The final boss from the new DOOM game: The Cyberroach

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  • andybytes@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is fucking stupid

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    • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The most concise summary I could think of too 😂

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One step closer to The Fifth Element every day.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’re worse than the Mechanicus tech priests.

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  • Snowcano@startrek.website ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    youtu.be/DrHMBletjXg

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    • theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Came here looking for this.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also in the Fifth Element

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  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Niche’s tits would fall off

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  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Me, haunting those responsible for the wording:

    The Spirit of the Harvest Moon is a spirit and the main antagonist from “The House of Discontent” S2E12p1 of Courage The Cowardly Dog Show. It is a giant floating bald head of a moon-esque man: with glowing white skin, scowling black lips, and pure black eye sockets. not a cyborg.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    why not just control cockroaches with food

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    • renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why not just control cockroaches with artificial scarcity?

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why not control the cockroaches with puppet leaders?

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 Twitter are only parcial satisfactory.

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  • loomy@lemy.lol ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    perfect title

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  • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks a lot Osama!

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  • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Finally!

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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