It is cheaper to have manufactured & is very much a “known”, but I’m right there with you. If it’s not USB-C, fuck 'em.

For you, it absolutely seems worth going back. Health benefit plus money. I treat it like a checkup, too, like if my numbers are way off they’ll be among the first to tell me, make suggestions.

Trying something completely new is going to be uncomfortable! I’d give it a few more tries, at least take them for all their new donor money. You get used to it.

I’d recommend drinking tons of water, day before, morning of, just before you get on the floor. Then it doesn’t hurt if you pound some water after. Drinking lots of water can make for a much faster donation (conversely, not drinking enough water before donations can result in a slow draw nightmare).

You’re kind of asking the wrong person because I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but I say push through. Try again. Drink lots of water. If you have any questions or concerns, ask the staff. There’s not a situation you have that they haven’t seen before.

You have observations, I have answers. 🙂 I have donated plasma on & off for idk 12 years or so. I know precisely how the system works.

Donating 2 non-consecutive days is for your own health; your body needs to recover & replenish what has been lost. This isn’t dystopian. They pull up to 880 mL of liquid out of your body, most of that is water btw, but FFS your body needs time to produce more plasma. To heal your skin puncture. They don’t care if you’re upset, they won’t allow you to ruin your health under their care.

I do not know your specific plasma outfit, be it Talecris/Grifols, CSL, or other, but you ought not get charged if you use your card at an ATM in the accepted network of ATMs. You get unlimited free balance checks & 2 free withdrawals of cash money per donation. With most ATMs, you can withdraw $300 max in one go. So here’s what you do…fuck all the small stuff because it’s a waste of time, multiple trips & whatnot. Let your balance build up to over $300. Withdraw $300 in one go. You will never be charged a withdrawal fee.

Additionally, if you have multiple plasma donation clinics in the same area, you can play them against each other for new donor fees. Get $700 in one month donating at one. When the new donor fees dry up, bounce & go to the other clinic & suck up their new donor fees. Stay true to the second one & stay away from the first for 5 more months, guess what, you’re a new donor again at the first clinic. Rinse & repeat.

I feel you on the nickel & diming sentiment, it’s true – it can only, maybe, sometimes be overcome with forethought & investment. See the boots theory. It’s expensive to be poor, some of my poorer friends pay so much more than I do for certain things. The same things. Usually they’re buying out of convenience & not buying on sales, or in bulk. It breaks my heart, really.

Also pro tip, just be really positive & calm when you go in for donations. The staff is dealing with angry people, crazy people, dumb people, very smelly people, drug addicts, the desperate, the destitute…etc etc etc. Every single day. And if you give them any attitude (even if you’ve got a good reason!) & they decide to make it a problem for you, they can defer or ban your ass. It’s solely their discretion. Think twice. Be nice.

It’s not a matter of “fear”, it’s frankly a massive waste of time if you’re seeking an honest & fruitful political discussion. Much like Reddit, Lemmy is one big-ass liberal echo chamber with only a handful of “acceptable” viewpoints, opinions. Anyone else is shouted down, slandered, and of course downvoted to hell. They stuff words in your mouth that you never said, assign beliefs to you that you don’t hold. Arguing with these types is like playing chess with a pigeon; it’ll knock over pieces, shit on the board, and strut all around as though it’s the winner.

At time of writing, your comment stands at -18…and it is 100% true, factually correct. The irony.

The human race does indeed just seem fucked. 🙂🙃🙃🙃🙃

Ehhh I mean I don’t see how. Nestlé is the absolute scum of the fucking earth, but idk what they could do to stop the Mexican government. Nestlé’s a bunch of fuckers, the lot of them, but they’re not going to sell stuff cheaply or at a loss.

Love that dark chocolate 😍

They sneak in just a little of that fentanyl. It’s to die for.

I am aware of, and deeply intrigued by, the three sisters method. It’s just not a commercially viable method of growing those crops; I don’t know what the harvest would look like.

We need to grow a lot more industrial hemp, but I’m afraid that’s a bit of a pipe dream unless we change…literally everything.

The general definition of a weed is “any plant growing where you don’t want it to be”. A corn plant in a bean field is a terrible weed.

That’s fair.

No, I’m just saying. If there was evidence, wouldn’t they have been eager to trot it out in front of everyone? Or leak it? Being honorable & law abiding has nothing to do with it, I’m saying, if it was in there wouldn’t literally all the Democrats love to leak it out there? By any & all means?

It can’t be proven one way or another, but just a little thought exercise – if they had Trump dead to rights, fucking a child, definitive proof like video or something, don’t you think the Biden administration would have whipped that’s out as soon as possible?

That administration hated Trump, and tried everything to silence him, jail him. Some people tried to murder him. Don’t you think we would have seen definitive evidence of Trump having sex with an underage girl, girls?

Lol… highschool…

High. School. High school.

(Criticizing the picture, not you 🙃)

All of these things put together pale in comparison to not reproducing, not having children. Technically, apart from just dying…not having children is by far the greenest thing of all.

Holy, holy, holy…they actually thought 21% of people are transgender? 1 in 5?? The only thing this proves is the polled Americans are stupid AF. 🙄🙄🙄

Prison slavery is technically illegal, but they are paid incredibly meager wages to where it’s essentially legal slavery.

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Stop giving a fuck about that, work hard, eat right & exercise, get some great guy friends, community, get some hobbies you love.

It’s a great part of the human experience, but it’s not worth rushing or forcing a fit. I know a handful of guys that forced the fit, wasn’t worth it when they got run through the divorce courts. 😔

29 year olds aren’t really millennial, they’re borderline I guess, but the main factor in my mind is our general shared experiences. We were walking, talking, and fully aware of the world to actually experience the turn of the millennium. We know exactly where we were and what we were doing when 9/11 occurred (at least American millennials).

Most average American 29 year olds now probably don’t remember a time with a totally shit computer, but it was some of the best on the market at the time & we were really excited. It booted so fast, just a few minutes! 😆 Did they play Reader Rabbit? How about Oregon Trail?

They didn’t really see the debut of purely digital MP3 players, or the Moto RAZR.

I sang the Reading Rainbow song to a Gen Z kid & he had no fucking clue what it was. 😂 Funny, and sad.

But those born in '96 tended to associate with us more than hard Gen Z, so idk. Definitely…borderline…

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