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upvoteby LorenPechtel4 hours ago|
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Disagree: Most people live in areas dependent on the supply chain. And when the supply chain gets disrupted they aren't going to go peacefully. And there will be enough mobility that areas that could be self-sufficient get hordes descending on them.
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upvoteby lukan1 hours ago|
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"Whereas a year into a major war a kid in his/her basement can release something that is functionally the end of the human species."

How?

If a a virus is so deadly, everything it touches dies soon, it would not spread quickly but die out. If it is very contagious .. but very, very slow incubation time, so it infects the whole world, before becoming a deadly disease ... then I would say it is far beyond the possibility of a basement workshop to remotely design anything like this. I doubt the professional state labs can create something to wipe out humanity. Dramatically disturb? For sure. Covid was not really deadly in comparison, but already problematic.

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upvoteby NetMageSCW5 hours ago|
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There’s no chance a kit in a basement can produce a biological weapon that will be successful.
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upvoteby LorenPechtel4 hours ago|
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Oh? A lot of the old-style genetic coders got dumped on the market cheap. The sort of stuff a microbiologist could use to synthesize smallpox. The technique has been demonstrated, although on a harmless virus. The market has shifted to outsourcing to big companies (who carefully check every order against known dangers) that have much higher capital costs but much lower per-letter costs, but that didn't invalidate the old lab bench techniques.
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upvoteby denkmoon4 hours ago|
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Seeing what people can do with a home made wet lab on youtube, I’m not so sure
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upvoteby runjake3 hours ago|
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You’ve got me curious. Examples?
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upvoteby denkmoon59 minutes ago|
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Thought Emporium is basically wizardry to me, https://youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium
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upvoteby subscribed15 minutes ago|
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OMG, thank you so much. I watch Nile's wizardry with awe and joy, and this will be another level.

Thank you

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upvoteby M95D4 hours ago|
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> a biological weapon that will be successful

I think he meant one of these:

1) Biological agent, but not meant to be a weapon.

2) A biological weapon, but one that fails catastrophically.

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upvoteby jjtheblunt5 hours ago|
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> It's quite hard to destroy the human world with nukes

what about bio weapons? smallpox in the americas, for an example of many at the page below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi...

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upvoteby kgermino5 hours ago|
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Isn’t that their entire point?
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upvoteby smegger0014 hours ago|
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Smallpox, which the only remaining samples exists in a couple of secure facilities controled by superpowers for use making vaccinations in case they are wrong about their only being a few samples controled by superpowers. Everyone with an ounce of sense knows bioweapons infect both sides and nuetral parties who are no longer neutral once you infect them. It like mustard gas but worse no one other than suicidal terror groups want them and they dont have the facilities equipment samples or knowhow.
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