I think that’s the opposite of what’s needed.

Well said and I agree :)

China isn’t reliant on imported food, from the US or anywhere.

That’s a reasonable reflection. Tensions can be high on Lemmy these days.

If it kills the host, it’s not a very successful parasite, or it’s a parasitoid as only one other commenter has picked up. It’s not in parasites’ interest to kill their hosts, it usually happens when they infect a non-preferred host and the system responds differently, like the pork tapeworm Taenia solium which doesn’t kill pigs but can be lethal in humans.

Tief is German for deep, and -ling is used similarly to English, meaning a creature, often in a diminutive sense but not always. I didn’t know what a tiefling was but maybe this extra info helps.

Don’t worry, they won’t pay out.

calm down

sweet summer child

I know these tactics, they’re designed to goad me into an emotive response so I lose the argument!

They’re not a case in themselves and your smugness is distasteful. Your interlocutor is treating you with more respect than you are showing in return.

Damn I didn’t know Harvard issued medial cruciate ligaments

Those are some mercurial tempera…tures

That will express to your eye your undieing love.

*facet, lol, but I wouldn’t put it past him!

Let that dink in!

Bin morsel.

Born slime.

Dunno if it’s AI generated but the choice of expression sounds like how a lot of porn videos are titled, e.g. “Dangerous intimacy for this peculiar tart”, the kinds of laughable titles a human wouldn’t naturally come up with!

Quick Actions, Quite Cheap

Check the username. Also, Western Europe (excluding Britain) is taking this threat pretty seriously if you follow current affairs.

Or killing OJ

That’s the trouble with words like ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’. They mean nothing. It would be better to call them refined additives, because I expect the “stevia” would be in a refined, extracted form when added - whether substantially changed from the form present in the plant or not, this could be considered artificial, if we insist on using this word.

Magic people, sudo people