I've been a blood donor for most of my adult life, and have donated about 30 liters. Where I'm at you get a token donation and a thanks for donating, but someone mentioned that in the US you get paid quite a lot depending on the quality and the blood type....
Like the others I've only seen pay for blood plasma, not whole blood. Whole blood gets you a cookie, sometimes a sticker or a T-shirt, or once I got a $15 gift card but I'm pretty sure that was from the company sponsoring the charity blood drive and not the Red Cross who was collecting the blood.
And pay for plasma isn't a lot, like $30 a donation, 1-2 donations per week. You get more working a single shift at a fast food restaurant. Plasma also takes longer to donate than whole blood because you have to sit there while the plasma is separated out and the remainder pumped back into you.
I listened to piano music from the Suzuki method. The Suzuki thing is to treat music like a language, so immerse young kids in it when their brains are young and mushy.
Now I fall asleep to nothing most often, sometimes to a podcast or to an episode of a show I don't really care about; something old and formulaic like Columbo.
Check out ingredients too. Like kveik yeast that ferments at 90-100 F, allowing people to brew without electrical chillers. Still to be found for use today, NB calls their strain "Lutra".
Or alternates to hops and how they tied to the Catholic Church and the Protestant Reformation.
We're last minute people, maybe a week in advance without air travel, a month with. A family friend just invited us to join them on a vacation NOVEMBER 2025. That seems bonkers to me!...
Rough plans at the beginning of the year, like "1 week to go to this place in July-August timeframe" so I can plan time away from work accordingly.
6+ months out for international travel for best deals on airfare.
Day of for weekend trips sometimes. Or tacking on a day or two to the end of a work trip.
Years out for sporting events. Like the 2031 rugby world cup will be hosted by the US and I plan to go to quite a few games, plans will develop as cities are picked and pool play schedules made.
I never want to go back to not having a standing desk. Next purchase was a mat bc my feet did bark a bit after a full day standing but my hips and back feel so much better.
I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...
Every time I see millennials exposed to zoomer fashion they instantly start seething. it's always some 20 year old celebrity who goes outside wearing baggy clothes with a graphic tee and millennials online start screeching shit like...
My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....
Oh, gross. I didn't know about that. "Didn't know her age" initially, then found out, then had sex again anyways, then wrote a song about it that the RHCP played for decades.
Any "separate the art from the artist" argument falls apart when the pedo artist's art is about the crime.
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
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No, mostly because I don't want to waste things in general. I don't drive an EV, I fly for work and vacation, I eat meat. But I still won't waste things just for... revenge?
I will take my sweet time in the bathroom, and I will order slightly nicer food while traveling on a work account versus traveling on my own dime.
Yeah, I like to eat them occasionally. I recently bought a little snack pack of them to eat on a plane trip. I ended up not eating them bc the lady next to me politely asked me not to due to her sensitivity to the smell and already growing motion sickness.
So curious about the olive-dislikers in this thread:
The main drag didn't grow with the population, so traffic to get across the city is 10x worse.
A gay bar shut down for normal, boring business reasons and not because it was hate-crimed like the gay bar that closed when I was a child.
An attempt was made to make a pedestrian-friendly Entertainment District downtown. They forgot to make any changes to actually encourage and protect pedestrians though. Lots of cute little shops and restaurants packed in an area no one wants to walk through.
Fiber! And laid by the city so no one company can claim it to form a new monopoly. We have not one but competing fiber providers!
The football team is still massively popular, despite the golden years being 20+ years ago. So the change is maybe increased desperation intertwined with the neverending optimism that a new golden area is just a season or two out.
Treat other women / talk about other women like you want her to be treated / talked about by men.
Respecting and partnering with your spouse teaches your daughter a model of respectful partner she can look for as an adult.
Seeing how you treat other women, friends, strangers, service workers, teaches her how she should expect to be treated by men.
Seeing how you treat other boys and men also teaches her a model to set her expectations around. If you treat boys and men similar to how you treat girls and women, she sees that and grows up knowing she deserves equal respect. If you treat boys/men differently, specially, with more respect, your daughter will grow up and expect to be treated as secondary by other men.
If you see men mistreating women, you don't have to confront them necessarily, but make sure your daughter knows what they are doing is not ok. Sometimes the world isn't fair, but it's still wrong and we want to be people who make the world a better place.
The company I work for installed a gender-neutral bathroom, but in a weird location, down a long hall no one really has any reason to go down other than to get to this bathroom. There were initially grumblings from certain men on the shop floor about "wokeness". Then they discovered that the privacy offered by this gender-neutral bathroom was available to them too. Now it is the go-to spot for dudes to take the foulest of dumps discreetly.
Everyone deserves a quiet bathroom and a shit so thorough it drains all tension from one's body. I'm sure this is what MLK really had in mind when he talked about his dream.
First let me be clear: I'm not a crazy conspiracy person (...on this) I just don't rely on a municipal well. As far as I know adding fluoride to the private well at my houses is not a thing, good or bad. I did drink municipal water for two years when I lived on campus in college....
In addition to calcifying your third eye, also be wary of those darn women trying to steal your fluoridated, erm, essence.
Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love... Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I - I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence.
Price of blood?
I've been a blood donor for most of my adult life, and have donated about 30 liters. Where I'm at you get a token donation and a thanks for donating, but someone mentioned that in the US you get paid quite a lot depending on the quality and the blood type....
Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web ( www.theverge.com )
What did you routinely fall asleep listening to as a kid and what does it for you now?
This Tiny Robotic Pill Eliminates The Need For Hospital Visits In Stomach Cancer Detection ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
PillBot, a tiny ingestible robot, could revolutionize gut health exams with AI-powered cameras, making early detection easier from home.
Do you check historic brewerys?
So I recently visited brewery with 100yo technology and what struck me most was how little has changed....
How far in advance do you usually plan vacations?
We're last minute people, maybe a week in advance without air travel, a month with. A family friend just invited us to join them on a vacation NOVEMBER 2025. That seems bonkers to me!...
My workplace has a budget for office ergonomic upgrades, what should I ask for?
Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?
I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...
What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?
Why do Millennials hate Gen Z fashion so much?
Every time I see millennials exposed to zoomer fashion they instantly start seething. it's always some 20 year old celebrity who goes outside wearing baggy clothes with a graphic tee and millennials online start screeching shit like...
What band or music group would you not have minded if they didn't have a certain band member? ( kbin.social )
My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....
Chip Enjoyers - What's your favourite brand/type of chip?
Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately?
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
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Do you like olives?
I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross....
In what subtle (or significant) ways has your hometown changed since your childhood?
Daughters and Fathers
This is a serious question, mostly addressed to the adult women among us but also to anyone else who has a stake in the matter....
What is freedom?
What would you ask to a potential partner in a partner compatibility survey?
Do adults benefit from flouride?
First let me be clear: I'm not a crazy conspiracy person (...on this) I just don't rely on a municipal well. As far as I know adding fluoride to the private well at my houses is not a thing, good or bad. I did drink municipal water for two years when I lived on campus in college....
Signs you're getting old?
My knee still doesn't feel right after that hiking trip two weeks ago....