oh no they found a tick that will single-handedly add 5 years to your life expectancy and save the planet. This is horrible news
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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fuck ticks all my homies hate ticks
ticks are natures capitalist
If you don't have pets, you can put Permethrin on your clothes and let it dry. You will not be fucked with.
It's throwing the kitchen sink at the problem though. I've accidentally caught a wiff once and was lightheaded for a hot minute.
I genuinely hope after we've dealt with capitalism that humanity can come together and use all the science and technology at our disposal to drive ticks and fleas to extinction
I told y'all if y'all elect me president doing that to all the mosquitoes is #2 on the agenda after the Transhattan Project
We’re so good at making species go extinct. Can’t we use that power for good a couple times?
Mosquitos aren’t a large portion of any other animal’s diet due to their small size, they don’t pollinate anything that isn’t pollinated by other things (except like a weird niche species of Arctic orchid), they hold no important place in the ecosystem except for spreading misery and disease
i'll join the coalition if we expand scope to include bedbugs