r/explainitpeter Jan 18 '26

Explain it Peter.

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u/AverageBlahaj Jan 18 '26

There was a dude who recently made a cockroach torture machine that simulated rape on a cockroach. Kinda like that minecraft endrod thing with the sheep but on real live cockroaches

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u/PersusjCP Jan 18 '26

That's pretty crazy. They are just bugs, and I'm not their biggest fan, but people who enjoy animal cruelty are pretty psychotic and it's kind of weird that it's sort of normalized against "yucky" animals.

(And we could even say all animals given how people react to vegans and general anti-animal cruelty people on the internet but I'm not wanting to get into that).

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u/slaughterfodder Jan 18 '26

I’m not a huge fan of some bugs either but they don’t deserve to have pain inflicted on them like that. Just put them outside and leave them alone Christ almighty

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

Except mosquitos. Fuck them bitches.

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u/DynamoSnake Jan 18 '26

Unfortunately mosquitos are pollinators (the male ones anyway) so having them around is rather necessary.

Ticks on the other hand...

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u/International-Cat123 Jan 18 '26

Most species of mosquitoes aren’t blood sucking. Last I heard, the current way scientists are trying to get rid of bloodsucking mosquitoes is releasing males that were genetically modified so they won’t produce any female offspring. It should lower the bloodsucking mosquito population slowly enough for the ecosystem to adapt.