Hospitals won’t accept paid blood transfusions, but there are two paid markets for what they CALL donations but are sales.

If this person was talking about paid transfusions there’s a subset of parasite that literally just pays young people for elective red cell transfusions. This was actually a plot point in Silicon Valley and it wasn’t a bad depiction of the relationship. Basically, it makes the recipient feel a little more energetic because that’s literally how blood transfusions work, but these old leeches think there’s something special about it

The other is just paid plasma. It’s got a lot of use in industry but regular apheresis is both time consuming and much more risky than they pretend, so they have to offer financial incentives. This blood (plasma) is NOT transfused directly, it is used in various industries for anything from hemophilia treatments to makeup.

Direct transfusions have a higher risk to the recipient so accepting paid transfusions is just not worth it if you have any choice at all, and the nature of paid plasma products demonstrates quite readily why it’s an unacceptable risk, even with improved testing. Hemophiliacs were actually the highest risk group during the AIDs crisis by 3x the rate of gay men. You simply cannot trust people to be safe with other people’s health when money is involved.

Don’t think too much about the implications for for-profit healthcare as a whole.

She’s mad that Papa is violating the social rules about giving his children any hint of physical affection.

People didn’t forget. They never cared. Biden didn’t win by 5 million votes (and that’s not actually a significant percentage), he won by 50k votes in a few counties that flipped their states.

What if that was the max?

You’re right, we won’t KNOW, it might be the single exception from the past two hundred years.

Shockingly accurate

Uh, if there’s a “rest of the world” why haven’t I seen it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TransyTalk/comments/121tiz2/that_it_crowd_episode/

I just sent a reply to an email I forwarded instead of the original email and it’s entirely the fault of how Gmail orders emails on Android. Unironically.

No further questions!

Hey

Don’t kink shame

When it’s to attack a foreign nation that’s not even threatening you, for sure. Definitely a weapon of the capitalist class against both their own people and other capitalists.

But when you’re being attacked?

I don’t have a problem with, for random example, the Soviet Union drafting millions of people to beat the Nazis. Or America. Or Britain. Just the aggressors in a war are committing enslavement, the defenders can at least be argued to being entitled to a collectivised defense.

I’d say even Mao drafting people for the Civil War didn’t count (all people living under capitalism being understood to be being attacked and the KMT being genocidal corrupt warlords regardless who started the first period of the war in the first place)

Specifies strength training

It will never stop being absurd to me that so called “fiscal conservatives” can’t seem to understand what a limited resource is. Or pollution.

Even if global warming was a complete hoax we should still be transitioning. Every nation that doesn’t have immense oil reserves should be transitioning! It’s literally in your national interests you nationalist fuckwits!

It’s only polite to assume strangers matter until proven otherwise /s

That or you’re ignoring that they absolutely are establishing a death sentence for it. Will they apply it to everyone?

No, probably not. But who could stop them if they did decide that all Taiwanese advocates are extreme cases? Keeping in mind that their definition of extreme seems to be “leader.”

Personally I find your casual acceptance of the right of the state to execute anyone short of a brownshirt contemptible enough by itself, but go on about how they’re only going to put the non-leadership people in prison for 3 years.

I don’t know that they’re eating well, but the famines haven’t been a thing since the 90’s.

The parasites are what happens when you spend all your trade income on guns instead of medicine.

Me too!

My college roommate hard carried me.

A vote for Biden was a vote to return to the status quo, which is appealing when the country is slipping into fascism but doesn’t actually solve the root problems.

They will be greeted as liberators, solving the problems we made

This fuckin guy