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Criminals with drones infecting pig farms to manipulate pork commodity prices
- trianglem 7y agoThat’s a chilling title. How long before we have terrorists doing something similar over a crowd of people? It’s also very hard to track down the perpetrator.
- ta999999171 7y agoAs soon as everyone's submitted their bio-profiles to 23andMe DNA collection.....
- SQueeeeeL 7y agoThey said the gangs buy the pork, not buying and selling futures...
- mschuster91 7y agoJeez, that's dystopian. Bioterrorism for profit.
- sequoia 7y agoThis is the plot of an episode of Billions https://ew.com/recap/billions-season-4-episode-3/ https://ew.com/recap/billions-season-4-episode-3/ > That is, he doesn’t lose until the chicken report is suddenly delayed after Axe Capital has already confirmed its massive position. > So, he goes completely off the rails. “I have a solution,” he tells Axe over the phone, “a…final solution.” He grabs a diseased chicken from a separate quarantine farm and heads back to infect all the other chickens.
- mrtweetyhack 7y agoChina is more worried about Hong Kong
- superkuh 7y agoI don't doubt farmers believed it and implemented jamming. But this story about drones spraying viruses is just propaganda to deflect negative attention away from the authorities and farmers themselves during this crisis. It's a nice catchy headline with absolutely no support.
- dang 7y agoRecent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21932842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21932842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21891495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21891495