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Any good ideas on how you'd implement a rat extermination strategy?
by yehudalouis 4y ago
Any good ideas on how you'd implement a rat extermination strategy?
- skizm 4y agoRelease a bunch of snakes?
- djmips 4y agoThat always goes well.
- teeray 4y agoAfter retiring from the FBI, Neville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) takes a job as a motorman on an NYC subway. Meanwhile, the city hires the top rat exterminator in the country (Christopher Walken) who uses the unconventional technique of releasing thousands of vipers into the city’s sewers. Coming this summer… Snakes on a Train
- insane_dreamer 4y agoGood job security thinking. You can claim success and then get re-hired for a job posting to "exterminate an infestation of snakes in the city"
- aliqot 4y agothis guy https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnWoodsprimitive-archer https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnWoodsprimitive-archer
- FinalDestiny 4y agoWe call Charlie Kelly
- ogoparootbbo 4y agoonly caveat is the troll's toll
- reducesuffering 4y agoKing of the Rats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2MvHuflizQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2MvHuflizQ
- notatoad 4y agoa few tips here: https://www.alberta.ca/rat-control-methods.aspx https://www.alberta.ca/rat-control-methods.aspx
- bberenberg 4y agoIf you like cats and the general population are willing to feed and take care of them. Istanbul has proven this approach to be a fairly effective.
- freyes 4y agoand if you play this card correctly can become yet another tourists attraction for NYC
- HeavenFox 4y agoBirds aren't gonna like this plan though
- Msw242 4y agoBut the birds don't run this city. We do.
- SoftTalker 4y agoThe birds are pests too. Well at least the pigeons are.
- lukas099 4y agoI think I've seen NYC rats bigger than most cats.
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoReimaging a system generally eliminates any remote access tools, but if the ACPI Windows Platform Binary Table (an executable that lives in PC firmware by design that recent versions of Windows loads and runs automatically without ability to disable) has been compromised through a malicious firmware update to automatically install a RAT on power on, you may need to go so far as to manually flash the chip holding the firmware to a known non-compromised version. This is a highly technical operation and not for everyone. Not using ACPI-based Windows-intended hardware, which will unfortunately consist of most of the PC-based motherboards you can purchase on the market today, can help avoid this situation in the first place.
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- swinnipeg 4y agoUnleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes
- Victerius 4y agoHow do we get the Chinese needle snakes under control once they're done with the rats though?
- Bouncingsoul1 4y agoWe've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
- ars 4y agoFood. It's all about food. You basically need to clean the city. I've been there in the summer - the place stinks to high heaven from uncollected rotting food, I don't know how the locals handle it. You'll never be able to trap or kill your way out of this, rats are too smart, and breed too quickly.
- bagels 4y agoThere are mountains of garbage on the New York sidewalks all the time. It should surprise nobody that rats love this.
- paxys 4y agoClean up the city and rats will disappear by themselves. At the moment you can't walk through NYC without running into large piles of garbage on every sidewalk. No shit there's a rodent problem.
- raddan 4y agoThe garbage situation in Manhattan is ridiculous. Mountains of garbage appear every night. It’s not surprising that they have a rat problem. Plenty of other cities have addressed this problem directly. As far as I can tell, NYC simply does not have the political will. It’s frankly an embarrassment. We advertise to the world the idea that NYC is one of America’s best cities, and the first thing that people see upon arriving is mountains of trash.
- autotune 4y agoAnd then New Yorkers have the gall to constantly make fun of Staten Island (disclaimer: I do not nor have I ever lived in SI).
- Spooky23 4y agoI did live there and on a single family block in queens. Typically there was two pickups a week with people using metal cans in those days. There were plenty of rats. Where people go, rats follow. If you think that your town/city/building doesn’t have rats, you are wrong. HN commenters don’t have all of the answers. Garbage bags on the street are a nuisance, but not the problem.
- vagabund 4y agosome version of releasing CRISPR-edited rats that sexually outcompete in the first generation but produce infertile offspring
- christopherwxyz 4y agoBasically Robert Patrick’s T-1000 from Terminator 2, but instead of hunting humans it will optimize for rats.
- gs17 4y agoThe optimal way to get rid of the rats is to eliminate the humans first so the rats do not have as much available food.
- droopyEyelids 4y agoThere are three elements to reducing rat populations: Removing access to food, destruction of their warrens, and killing the rats themselves. New York City can not hope to begin on this while garbage disposal involves piling bags of trash on the sidewalk. Other cities address this by improving their dumpsters and garbage cans, and while that doesn't eliminate rats, it drastically reduces their population, and limits their ability to spread as quickly. After that it becomes possible to populations further by filling warrens and killing the actual rats.
- acomjean 4y agoSomerville Ma is starting to use electric traps. It was pretty effective, but as long as there are meals the problem doesn't stop. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/11/15/somerville-rats-brookline-anticimex-smart-boxes/ https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/11/15/somerville...
- konfusinomicon 4y agoarm the homeless with blowguns and pay a per pelt bounty. then gamify it and display the leader board in time square.
- FeistySkink 4y agoDo we then track the confirmed kills with a blackchain? Perhaps we can have some kind of an exchange for pelts. Maybe even have a pelt token. I'll see myself out.
- konfusinomicon 4y agorat coin, ticker symbol RAT. backed by real world artisan rat pelts. each coin is actually an NFT representing the actual rat, in a goofy outfit of course. too bad blow guns are powered by the carbon dioxide emissions of people's lungs or we would have had the greatest stable coin the world has ever known
- FeistySkink 4y agoI think we have a pitch for Sequoia ready. Perchance you play League of Legend?
- floxy 4y agoWhere can one find the GPT-3 PowerPoint pitch generator? https://thiselevatorpitchdoesnotexist.com https://thiselevatorpitchdoesnotexist.com seems available.
- batmansmom1 4y agoEnter: Homeless rat breeders, farming baby rat pelts for the reward
- kristopolous 4y agoSimilar systems have been tried in other places for rodents. You end up getting breeding farms and then when the project is inevitably canceled, all the farmed rodents are set free as the rodent producing factories are abandoned. Here's the famous textbook example usually given: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre It's been tried many times, the results are effectively the same and the programs end up getting canceled (such as Chicago's 1977 program) Almost like marketplaces of individualistic privatized incentives are a really terrible bad fit for collective societal problems. This won't stop people from doing it though. If you've got municipal authority and don't know this history, you're probably the type that considers themselves brilliant for coming up with such a creative market-driven solution and don't anticipate the eventual consequences which have repeated themselves quite a number of times.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoYou start by taking recordings of their ultra sonic squeaks, in particular the mating calls. Then you play these recordings back over loud speaker. As the conga line of horny rats waltzes in, BAM! Guillotine.
- Euphorbium 4y agoRelease a bunch of cats.
- motohagiography 4y agoRats can find food anywhere in many forms, so instead of poisoning them (which just removes competition for food from the rest of them), addict them to a substance you can control, distribute it everywhere freely and accessibly for a while - and then once a large enough population of them are addicted, you create scarcity in the substance, and they will starve themselves and fight each other and breed less frequently in pursuit of it. If the population starts rising again, release more of the drug to get more of them addicted to it and repeat the cycle. Spray the sewers and garbage bins with nicotine or seized cocaine or some addictive equivalent. Killing them just kills off the weak ones and polarizes the population, whereas a method like this using managed addiction will keep their numbers down and actively managed.
- lukas099 4y agoWow, that is sinister. I feel like there is a commentary in here about modern human life, but I'm not smart enough to find it.
- screye 4y agoStart with sensible trash disposal ? The city literally lacks alleyways which leads to uncollectable trash on the main streets. 15th century London had better trash disposal, and those people threw their poop out of their windows. (or so I am told)
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