• 2001zhaozhao@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Ngl, trying to crack down on this seems like a hopeless battle without authoritarian controls on chemistry lab equipment. This general problem is going to be much bigger in the future as well. Today it’s fentanyl and in the future it will be synthetic pathogens

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      5 months ago

      I was about to say wait until you find out how easy it is to mess with viruses and shit at home on your own. I remember watching a kurzgesagt video explaining how trivial it is.

      Edit: it may have been cas 9 editing I can’t remember