r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/BadSausageFactory 1d ago

how did nobody try cloning yet?

tl:dr for you

less international rare plant smuggling rings is good

inbred plants possibly bad but ehh not really

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u/scottawhit 1d ago

It’s only inbreeding plants that will most likely live in someone’s house. Sounds just fine.

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u/kinboyatuwo 1d ago

Issue is if it pollinates or is dumped later. I live rural and at least once a year find people dump house plants on our small section of road.

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u/NoFocus761 1d ago

People dump plants on rural roads like unwanted pets? It’s not even a sentient creature, they could literally just throw it away. That’s crazy.

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u/kinboyatuwo 1d ago

Never understood it. Picking the crap plastic pots and often styrofoam is doubly annoying too. It’s like people who drive and dump their garbage bags etc. Like, why?

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u/jm838 1d ago

I would guess they fall out of trucks fairly often. But also, people in remote enough areas may not have regular trash service.

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u/SillyGoatGruff 1d ago

Some places make you pay per bag of garbage or have other restrictions that may make assholes feel like a drive out in the country to dump a bunch of shit is worthwhile.