Spyke

"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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lemmy.world

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

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

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lemmy.world

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

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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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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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lemm.ee

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

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

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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.

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

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We're worse than the Mechanicus tech priests.

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what a dredful life, being controlled like a robot

proceeds to check bank account

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You reached the end

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