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    4 days ago

    Hot take: parasites are particularly insidious when they’re stationary. Mosquitoes are the worst, but they’re more analogous to pirates: hit & run buggers. Sessile boys like hydatid cysts, ticks, mites, lice, and fleas learn to subvert the local order and just cheat the system like a macroscopic disease.