Hildegarde

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Mods, please remove comments like this....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As the winner of Time Magazine's person of the year in 2006, I disagree.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

The US has laws that bans paying for blood, but they can pay for plasma. All healthcare in the US is a for profit venture.

If you donate blood in the US, you are the only one in that process who is making a donation. Every other organization in the chain between your donation and the patient who receives it will add a markup for their own profit.

Organ donations work the same way. If you get killed by a car, and your heart is used to save someone's life, they will be charged nearly two million dollars for the operation. Not only does your next of kin not get a cut of that two million, your estate will still get a bill for whatever treatment failed to save your life.

I can think of little that is more unethical than being the only one donating. Plasma is better because the donors are paid. If healthcare is for profit, at minimum the profits should go both ways. Plasma is the one time it does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To translate further:

BEV - self explanatory never mind

NGDV - Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, The new mail truck that looks like a duck

LLV - The Grumman Long Life Vehicle, the classic mail truck.

and as a bonus

FFV - The Ford-Utilimaster Flexible Fuel Vehicle, the early 2000s mail truck that looks like the LLV that you buy from wish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It is designed to be gas or electric. The few with gas engines will need the ventilation. Also it does have A/C. That is also why it has an engine bay despite being electric.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Hold my wallaby I'm going in

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

Not when the voterbase has common interests.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Healthcare isn't something that only the unfortunate need. Healthcare is something every person needs. If you live long enough, it will be costly. This is why insurance as a concept is fundamentally unable to handle healthcare. It is antithetical to the concept of insurance.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This has been solved by modern technology.

Mirrors in the olden days were made with silver, and because silver is the good pure metal it refuses to reflect the evil vampires, hence the lack of reflection.

Modern mirrors lack silver so they will reflect vampires just like everyone else!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

Two delta planes collided on the tarmac, but they call the smaller plane an endavor plane so they can pay the pilots less.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

So... neither?

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