>Mosquitoes also carry diseases. Correct, birds and other animals too, but they aren't parasites, in fact only the female Mosquitoe actually sting.
>I'm pretty sure malaria kills more people each year than any other infectious disease Hasn't covid19 surpassed that now ? it hasn't been a year yet so idk.
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Sep-2020 14:04:30 EDT
mangeurdenuage>be me >buy new chicken broth >mother uses them >she says that they have no taste >tell her that it's the same recipe but without E623 <what's E623? >it's calcium glutamate <what's that ? >it's a flavor-enhancer <it tasted better with it >no it didn't taste better it actually influenced your sense of taste to give you the impression that it tasted better <it tasted better with it ffs
>There are probably others as well. Imo, Mosquitoes play an important role in feeding birds, same for Flies as they feed birds and eat waste. But ticks bring no benefit to any species, that's why I think they are classed as parasites. I do not know any species that can eat ticks.
Having politics using events to impose bullshit laws doens't mean that the events aren't real. It just means that the politicians have no moral. Same goes when the event is fake, it just means that the politicians have no moral.
>Scanners using advanced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology become the norm at airports and other public areas to detect abnormal behavior that may indicate “antisocial intent.”
>Driven by protectionism and national security concerns, nations create their own independent, regionally defined IT networks, mimicking China’s firewalls. Governments have varying degrees of success in policing internet traffic, but these efforts nevertheless fracture the “World Wide” Web. Well this is actually happening with the EU firewall https://mastodon.social/users/gasull/statuses/104512178025963175