• Mpatch@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    50/50 this has been in the works for a long time by many trust worthy people and companies well before Google. How Google got their dick in this? Who the hell knows. They also wanted to do the same in New Zealand for rats. They are invasive and have decimated the local bird population by eating eggs. It almost went ahead until some dumbfuck indigenous big chief was all like “nature finds a way” well now, birds are dead and rats are everywhere. Guess nature got fucking lost.

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      18 hours ago

      “nature finds a way"

      Yeah, nature’s way is: the rats win. That’s how we’re here and the Neanderthals aren’t.

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        What? The rats fucked the birds until the species merged?

        'Cause that’s what happened between us and the Neanderthals.

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          That’s not the only factor in the die-out of the Neanderthals. Another is thought to be a massive reduction of the population and geographical constriction during the ice age, isolated communities afterwards resulting in little genetic variation, and thereby high susceptibility to disease.