Giver of skulls
I first started donating blood when I read about shortages, but it turns out that was mostly other blood types. After the entry testing, they recommended me to switch to plasma donations because my blood type was common enough that they’d probably never need my full blood.
If you have a relatively rare blood type, you may be able to help people even if they have enough blood to help most people.
I think paying for blood or other bodily fluids is bad. It provides incentive for desperate people (addicts etc.) to lie on the safety forms to keep getting paid.
I know a few people who donate blood despite not getting anything in return. I personally stopped donating plasma after a few times for health reasons (nothing dangerous in the plasma itself, luckily). To me, being able to help a hospital or a person by simply sitting back and watching shows on my tablet is probably the easiest, laziest charity you can support. The snacks are nice, too.
Not everyone can donate blood, but everyone who is able to, you should consider it, even if you won’t get paid for it. You can doom scroll and browse Lemmy like normal, except you’re sitting in a weird chair and get free food.
I suppose in the shittier countries, where all blood donation stuff is run for-profit, you should let them pay you if they’re making a profit off of you, but I still think it brings a bad incentive.
You guys get a day off? All we get is time off to donate (also as many cookies and drinks as you want within reason, of course.
Yes. If you want to block this, you either have to edit the source code or, at the load balancer/reverse proxy, block /api/v3/comment/like if the POST body’s JSON content contains like with value -1.
I totally agree, but unless there’s something wrong with their mental faculties, they can choose back pain over TV savings. The downside of freedom of choice is that people make the wrong choices all the time.
Even if you cut 120 dollars a month, a good mattress will still be half a year or longer in the future. And that’s with a normal one, not a medical mattress.
“Best by” often means “will lose taste over time and taste worse by” when it comes to chemical products like these.
If this stuff contains lots of sugar or no natural compounds at all, give it a try, I guess. Especially if they’re sealed in a box. Trust your senses, don’t try too much at once if you don’t know if it’s still good, and don’t swallow until you’ve verified there’s no taste of rot or other grossness. If you want more safety, have a bottle of vodka ready to rinse your mouth with in case you do notice a bad taste.
If these powders are completely dry and stored airtight (and the packaging isn’t damaged), you could probably store them for literal decades without a problem. If there’s stored in uncoated cardboard (no sealing lining), maybe treat them as mold infested, even before their expiration date. The way they’re stored makes all the difference.
I fucking hate apps. Maybe I don’t hate them enough to warrant 120 a month, but I can see why people pay extra not to have to bother with figuring out what show is on what app and how to search and cast and browse the damn things
If they use the TV box all the time, why do they have those apps?
You showed them the price difference. They clearly value the current setup over the savings. Unless they’re using your money to pay for all this, just drop it.
Lifetime issues? Just clone() all your problems away. Everything is Clonable if you try hard enough. Who needs performance anyway?
Bonuses always come with a catch. Stocks are just tricks to make you cover for the company, because if you turn whistleblower you’re going to want to protect your wallet, and selling your stock right before going whistleblower can be seen as market manipulation. That stuff is a nice bonus, but there’s no guarantee you’ll ever receive any value out of them.
As for 401ks, most people are financially illiterate. They either lack the knowledge or lack the time or energy to figure all that shit out.
To anyone with stock market experience, the American 401k system is probably much better than normal pensions because you get to be in control. However, most people are complete idiots when it comes to money, and are easily tricked into dumping their retirement funds into worthless schemes pumped by scammers.
With normal pensions, everything is taken care of and you can’t even touch your money without going through a maze of rules and protections. With 401ks, you’re on your own.
There’s also a responsibility component. Many pension plans have preset rates that the company pays into, while many 401k setups involve voluntary contributions. When you’re earning minimum wage, you can’t afford to put any money into a 401k, or maybe you could but you really want to eat out once a month, so you’re taking the extra money for your retirement and spending it right now.
If bonuses or stock payouts are even an option, a 401k may be the best solution for you. That’s a pretty privileged position to be in, though.
I believe this is because not all videos are 16:9 (or 16:10). Something about different video sizes seems to break youtube thumbnails for some reason.
I don’t really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that.
Andreas Kling wrote a lot of Ladybird himself. It’s not finished yet, and it’s turned into a big community project with full time employees now, but with some experience building browsers, the modern spec evidently makes it quite a reasonable task to build a web engine. There are a lot of IDL files and whatnot to parse and process documents and the rendering algorithms are almost all laid out in the spec these days.
I tried Servo last month and I must say that after what I’ve seen Ladybird do, I was kind of disappointed. I don’t think release is very close based on the problems I’ve encountered.
Plenty of people don’t fall in line, but those aren’t the ones you’ll see on your social media feeds. The perception filter works two ways, only the kids stuck online for too long seriously start using that type of language and shitty social media can trick you into thinking it’s a universal thing.
The point is to hide the swears and controversial topics from the TikTok moderation AI. TikTok deprioritises videos featuring things like swears, ugly people, controversial topics, and certain imagery. If you want to have reach, you need to use shitty codewords that everyone can see through but the algorithm has not been updated to include yet.
What I find much more interesting is the way the broader American(ised) culture(s) treat “the n-word”. It’s the exact same thing the kids do with swears, but across all ages on all media.
If you don’t wake up by noises, you may want to consider an alternative option. Smart watches vibrate, for instance, and there are various alarm clocks you can put under your pillow that’ll also vibrate to wake you up.
Technically, we can.
Practically, it has taken a couple of billion years of evolution for plants to figure all of this out. We can spend a lot of effort replicating that process, or we can just use plants. One of those options is a lot cheaper than the other!
A lot of it comes down to trust. Scan downloads with antivirus. Decide how much you trust everything else. Err on the side of caution if you’re unsure.
In your example, the software you’re using seems fine to me. A simple addon with limited scope that hasn’t been updated in years, but has some good reviews.
That said, you don’t need this addon; go to your favourite Wikipedia front page, right click the search bar, and click “add keyword for this search”. If you enter keyword “wen”, you can search English Wikipedia by typing “wen <something>” in the search bar. Works for other websites too
Github releases can contain completely different code than the source code on there. Don’t trust them blindly like others might suggest. It’d be trivial for someone with bad intent to release FOSS software and include a virus. It happened to an important Linux tool not that long ago. Most code on Github is fine and most software is just out there to help you, but it’s good to he careful.
My personal process involves checking for things like “how many downloads does this have” and in the case of addons and apps “how many permissions does this ask”. Addon with a dozen downloads to change your Facebook theme that wants access to your entire browsing history? No thanks!
The biggest differentiator between virus and safe in my experience is “how legal is the thing I’m downloading”. Viruses, cracks, keygens, pay wall bypasses, that sort of stuff is full of bad shit, because whether or not there’s a virus in there, your antivirus will go off anyway and you’d assume it to be a false positive.
There are steps you can take to protect your computer, but generally “keep antivirus on”, “don’t pirate stuff”, and “when in doubt, click no” are generally good enough.
There’s a cool trick recent pro/education versions of Windows have where you can create an entirely temporary copy of Windows by simply right clicking an executable and clicking “run in sandbox” or something like that. This is great for trying out small programs that you don’t 100% trust but seem fine at a glance. Doesn’t work well for games, isn’t 100% bullet proof, but it’s an easy way to prevent unexpected infections. The only downside is that you need to get a Windows pro/education key somewhere (though those are not hard to come by). Really wish Microsoft would roll that out to home users.
I can’t find that for JSON, only for JSON schema (which is a different spec), is that the one you mean?
It happens rarely, but I felt pretty weird after finding out I needed to reap zombie orphans after the parent has died.
That makes a lot of sense.