Well said. Looking down on impressionable men with this sort of smug contempt is how we go further down the path.

Unintentionally hilarious link

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.

Or you could just come up with a coherent argument to persuade them, rather than intimidating them with implied force. You’re not as tough as you think you are, shooter.

Blame Mani

It’s not, and I can’t understand what you’re intending to say. If it’s “extreme-ized” (not “extermized”), then the word you’re looking for is radicalized.

*LeVar

lol you’re just buying shitty belts, try and buy some full grain belts from someone who makes them

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!

The AI face weirdly looks like the face of the security guard who likes big breasts from Nathan for You. Except Randy’s cigar is still hovering there.