r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 23h ago

Biotechnology Burkina Faso says no to Bill Gates’ plan of creating modified species of mosquitoes

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/burkina-faso-says-no-to-bill-gates-plan-of-creating-modified-species-of-mosquitoes/xyk7xm8
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u/InThreeWordsTheySaid 21h ago

The egg people got to you, too?

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u/AnonymousThrowaway2k 21h ago

You got it all wrong Homer, it's not like that...

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u/Beidah 20h ago

YOU BETTER RUN, EGG!

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u/LackSchoolwalker 13h ago edited 13h ago

It’s funny how time proved the egg council correct. Dietary cholesterol does not appear to raise blood cholesterol, though saturated and trans fats do.

Edit: my favorite joke that the Simpsons got “wrong” was the USSR rising from the grave once the US let its guard down. I say they got it wrong because the writers did not expect it to actually happen, it’s a parody of right wing fantasies about the eternal threat of authoritarian communism. Lots of people on the left, myself included, kind of assumed that if the US stopped all our imperialism, there’d be peace. But it turns out other people can be bad too. Obama tried a reset with Russia, even as late as 2012 downplaying the threat of Russian aggression in Georgia, and the whole while they were working to destroy us and him specifically. And we were in such denial that we joked about it.