I’m not arguing that any of your complaints are invalid. I just want to say that I use jellyfin to organize my movies and TV shows and access them from other computers on my home network. It works, is easy, was free. I like it.

Snowflake’s chance is a more fun analogy. Don’t get offended, it’s a joke.

I agree with everything you said. The path to a brighter future is not more humans, its fewer. The idea that thoughtful, intelligent people should feel obligated to reproduce for the benefit of humanity is ridiculous.

It’s just frustrating that companies make these nice and helpful apps, and then they pretty much always try to invade your privacy if you use them.

Yikes. I hadn’t realized. I had a great neato robot that was totally offline. The new version wants to be controlled through your phone. F that.

Bruh, just don’t give it your WiFi password.

They don’t have their own cell phone plans or satellite uplinks.

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and ideas. I hope progress can be made (with minimal unintended consequence), controlling diseases and disease vectors.

So, the males don’t bite humans (so they arent a vector for malaria). If we assume, for arguments sake, that some outrageous number of them (like half of them) actually did end up being fertile, what would the impact of that be? That would still mean that 375 million of the sterile offspring producing mosquitoes were still released. Wouldnt that still be a benefit? Sure, we would have temporarily increased the male mosquito population, but is the availability of males the limiting factor in the ability of female mosquitoes to reproduce? The sterile offspring producing males should have still reduced the total number of female mosquitoes who were able to have fertile children.

You can clearly see my bias here. I think this mosquito experiment was probably a good thing but I’m interested in understanding the mechanism by which you think the release of these mosquitoes may have led to these malaria cases.

That is fun to think about! How many of the 750 million would need to have mutated enough to become fertile again, to negate the population decreasing effects of the sterile ones, and how likely is it that this happened?

I’m a little dumb. Can you help me explain what’s going on here?

They released a bunch of genetically modified mosquitoes, that sabotage reproduction and decrease the mosquito population.

About 3 years later, malaria was found in the same area as the decreased mosquito population.

Are you suggesting that they genetically modified the mosquitoes to have malaria?That’s not how malaria works. Are you suggesting that they were just releasing malaria mosquitoes? Then why would they draw so much attention to themselves?

Now that we’re finding malaria in that area, shouldn’t we be trying to control the mosquito population and be glad that they have been suppressing it?

What am I missing here?