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I was a little confused by the smile too, assuming she was no older than 30. Losing 6 years of your youth seems harder than 6 years in your 50s. Although it depends on the conditions she’s kept in.

I could have sworn his injuries weren’t deemed life threatening when this was first reported. Doubly heartbreaking for his family.

Wtf? That’s an insane amount of money!!

If ever there was a good a reason 🫥

That’s a really good point. Thanks for the answer!

Good for you! My grandad had some rare blood type that was good for newborn babies (I’m a bit hazy on the details, he’s long dead now) and he gave blood as often as he could as soon as he found out. My mum told me he was a superhero who saved poorly babies when I was a kid and I believed her wholeheartedly!

If someone donates a kidney to a stranger and later on something happens and they need a kidney transplant themselves, do they get a bump up the waiting list? I can see an argument for either side.

Not a direct answer, but if you’d like to do something now to help someone while you’re still alive (and you’re under 30) you could sign up for bone marrow donation. And of course, give blood as often as you can. Regular blood donors are straight up angels.

I could pay for my prescription, that would make my life immediately better. Pretty depressing state of affairs tbh!

You’re welcome! I accidentally killed more than a few plants when I first got into them. Now my house is a legit jungle - there’s well over 100 plants in here! Happy growing!

That might be the worse website I’ve ever tried to open. Even in reader mode it was impossible!

That’s the price for the US I think. It doesn’t give a price for the UK. Google tells me that flu jabs in the US cost around $70 without insurance. Like you said, flu jabs here are £10-15 for those not eligible for free ones. If the covid jabs follow the same pattern they shouldn’t be more than £20. At least I really hope that’s the case, £100 a shot will surely out-price 50%+ of people that pay for flu jabs.

I just finished the Eddie Flynn series by Steve Cavanagh and would highly recommend it for anyone looking for an easy but captivating read. It’s kinda like watching a decent Hollywood action thriller. You have to suspend belief for a large part but it’s kinda fun and the characters are likeable.

This isn’t a spoiler, it’s on the blurb, but Eddie Flynn is a con man turned lawyer and I really enjoy antihero protagonists, particularly in the crime/thriller genre. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know!

Thank you, I appreciate that!

It really depends on the type of community. I created a few a missed from Reddit and honestly the screenshot/photo based communities are piss easy to start. !badrealestate for example is 3 weeks old with 48 posts and 3.6k subscribers. I just posted every day for a few weeks, now other people are posting and I contribute a couple of times a week.

On the other hand !tennis_fans and !downtherabbithole are much harder to get going because they require very regular or in depth text posts. Those two have less than 200 subscribers between them.

What I find really annoying is when people criticise posts on the communities I’ve created, when they haven’t contributed at all. People want more communities, people want more content. Don’t be a dick and then criticise the content that someone has put their time and effort into sharing with you for your enjoyment! Anyway, rant over.

If anyone’s browsing this thread and looking for more (active) communities to join, there’s also !DontYouKnowWhoIAm !clevercombacks !murderedbywords and !confidently_incorrect

It’s really hard for some disabled/chronically ill people to join a protest or a rally/march too. There were a small group of protesters outside Downing Street here in the UK a while back, calling for changes in how disabled people applying for benefits are assessed. I would have loved to join them but it’s so far beyond my capabilities the idea is almost laughable. Creating public awareness or demonstrating your discontent with the status quo is really hard when your practically housebound.

I’m really late to this because I’m going through the community posts in order, but I wouldn’t be pessimistic just yet. I’ve created a number of communities I missed from Reddit and they grew really well - they’re photo/screenshot communities though.

Confidently_incorrect is 3 weeks old, has 27 posts and 2.3k subs.

Terrible estate agent photos is 3 weeks old. 46 posts, 3.5k subs.

Don't you know who I am? is 2 months old, 35 posts and 2.5k subs.

Clever comebacks is only a week old; 7 posts and 108 subs. I haven’t even listed that on this community yet and that where a lot of my subscribers came from for the others.

!badrealestate is the only community that anyone other than me has made a post in. I was just really diligent with posting - maybe twice a day for the first few days, then once everyday, slowing down to every other day. The only communities I’ve created that haven’t grown are the ones I haven’t posted in daily. You should keep at it - the people will come eventually!