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  • You can donate blood in 20 minutes. It takes an hour plus to donate plasma

    Am I going to sit in a chair for an hour plus without any compensation? Maybe once or twice here and there. But you can donate plasma at least twice a week.

    It requires two donations for a single unit. If you donate once and don’t donate the second, then your first donation is unusable. You have to get them to donate twice.

    When I was donating plasma, it paid about $75 for each donation. 50 first, 100 for second. The money is pretty good. $300 a month is a lot for a lot of people.

    If you didn’t compensate people for plasma donations, a lot wouldn’t do it. They currently need more people to donate.

    Plasma “donation” is a good thing.



  • How is it “taking their meastaking their measurement system and fucking it up”?

    USA uses inch, feet, yard. There is small, medium, large.

    Metric has centimeters, decimeters, meters. There is small, medium, large.

    Everyone knows a yard and a meter are about the same. Everyone also knows centimeters are tiny.

    When someone who doesn’t use the metric system thinks of how tall they are, they use feet. Medium.

    I’m 2 yards tall. Someone that’s 5 feet tall is 1 2/3 yards. 5 1/2 feet is 1.83 yards.

    You wouldn’t use yards to measure a person. You’d use feet.

    When you ask someone that doesn’t use metric how tall someone is they have to pick between cm or m. Most people couldn’t tell you in yards so how do you expect them to do it in meters?

    If they just had to think in feet and then ×3 to get decimeters, it would be easy to convert. Maybe even have a decimeter ruler.

    5.5 feet is 16.5 dm with quick math. Or 1.65m. Truly, it is 1.68m.



  • 3 decimeters is equal to 1 foot.

    1 yard is equal to 9 decimeters.

    Just multiply by 3

    I’m 6 ft tall. If someone asks me how tall I am in metric, I just say 18 decimeters.

    An American football field is 100 yards, or 300 feet. 900 decimeters.

    An 8ft board is 24 decimeters

    Really not that hard to convert. Sadly no one that uses the metric system uses decimeters for some reason.

    A standard doorway in US is 3 ft. Has to be that for code. 91.4 cm or .91 meters. If you used 9 decimeters it would only be .5 inch off.

    You round to 90 cm you’d be .5 inch off. If you round to .9 meters you’d be almost .5 inch off.

    If the metic system was shown to the US as decimeters, they would be on board more.







  • Imagine being so incapable of washing your penis that you need a bunch of it removed.

    They should have said “Imagine being so incapable of washing your child’s penis that you need a bunch of it removed.”

    A child’s penis in a dirty diaper could get quite nasty with foreskin if the parents don’t wash and change the diaper regularly.

    The cleanliness thing is for the lack of parenting. And the parents make that choice.


  • Genital mutilation is a big deal

    People get angry at piercing infant ears, but somehow cutting off foreskin is normal.

    What if we were ripping off infant fingernails?

    Studies have shown that a lot of bacteria collect under them, and if we removed the fingernails, kids would get sick less.

    Why don’t you get your appendix removed as an infant?

    You wouldn’t want to risk it rupturing as an adult

    Foreskin is natural. The likelihood of you needing it removed is slim to none.

    Just look at all the other countries that don’t circumcise. Are all the adults getting circumcised later in life? No.

    The problem is you don’t know how good it is to have foreskin. It’s like you growing up with no fingernails. You wouldn’t know how good fingernails were.




  • No, because knowing the first child is a boy doesn’t tell you any information about the second child.

    Three doors, Girl Girl Boy

    You select a door and Monty opens a door to show a Girl. You had higher odds of picking a girl door to start (2/3). So switching gives you better odds at changing to the door with the Boy because you probably picked a Girl door.

    Here the child being a boy doesn’t matter and the other child can be either.

    It’s 50/50 assuming genders are 50/50.



  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe panzer has spoken
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    11 months ago

    Easy way to do %

    Say you want 6% of 45

    Seems hard right?

    1% of 45 is .45

    .45 × 6 =

    .4 × 6 = 2.4

    .05 × 6 = .3

    2.4 + .3 = 2.7

    So 6% of 45 is 2.7

    Extra:

    Say you want an item that is 40 dollars and it is 20% off.

    10% is 4 dollars.

    20% is 8 dollars.

    So item would be 32 dollars.