Not currently, though the Red Cross/Lifeblood are not responsible for this, the Therapeutic Goods Administration's regulations are. A change to the rule is being worked on.
To put it in perspective, it was only in 2022 that we started allowing donations from people from the UK thanks to their mad cow outbreak they had in the '80s.
O-type is O- and O+. That's a hyphen, not a negative sign.
O- is definitely the most valuable, since it can be given to anyone. But O+ isn't far behind, since it can give to all the positive types, which is 86% of people, according to your source.
The other solution is to have an alternative 'out'. Like if the overpowered enemy doesn't actually want to kill the players, but knock them out and capture them. Or if there's an established (non–deus ex) rescuer who can come in and save them...preferably in a way that forces them to escape without removing the threat from being there in the future.
I just signed up to donate tomorrow. It'll be my first donation in like 2 years, after being diagnosed with low iron. I did get give the ok from my doctor to go back to donating much longer ago, but I was a little suspicious about the circumstances, so I decided to put it on hold longer-term.
If you don't already know your blood type, go ahead and sign up anyway. There's no lack of use even for other blood types...and O-type is the most common in Australia anyway. Donating whole blood is super easy. The worst part IMO is actually the tiny pinprick they take before the donation to determine your haemoglobin level. The needle used for the actual donation is a complete doddle. You may get a little light-headed afterwards and it's probably not a good idea to do heavy exercise, but that's a very short-term effect.
As a bonus, they tell you your ferritin level every 10 donations (including first) and haemoglobin every time. And they'll tell you what your blood type is.
Oh, and you get free snacks afterwards.
My ferritin levels were only just inside the normal range, after a few weeks taking supplements bringing it up from levels that had my sister (who is a doctor, though not my doctor obviously) saying "YOU ARE SO UNWELL HOW" and "Your bloods are like an 80 year old lady's". And I was told to stop taking the supplements at that point, despite not much being done to fundamentally change anything.
Both. I'm not super familiar with it because by the time they got around to releasing an artificer I was already waning in my 5e interest, so I'm going largely on memory of early drafts (Unearthed Arcanas) and general cultural osmosis.
Different subclasses or builds have different focuses. There's an alchemist subclass, a gunner subclass (like 2e's gunslinger), and one more like the inventor.
Yeah I don't have much of an intuition of how accidental poisoning would change between those ages, but 17–25 is famously the most dangerous age on the road, so I wasn't surprised to see it higher.
Yeah, I'm always rather sceptical and have my guard way up when I come across a creator talking about religion. If it hadn't been for the greater trust I automatically have in a creator being added to Nebula (which is where I first came across this channel), I don't know if I would have started watching it. But I certainly don't regret it.
Ok thanks for clarifying what you meant in that edit. But I don't really understand what you mean by toxic. Could you point to a handful of examples of the toxicity from within the last month or so?
I agree. It's rarely going to turn something abjectly terrible into a masterpiece, but it's much easier for it to ruin something. Watch the clips of Darth Vader with David Prowse's voice and ask yourself if that version of Star Wars would have been as iconic.
Historia Civilis—excellent history videos. Primarily their story of the fall of the Roman Republic, which does a shockingly good job of making you feel emotions for a little coloured square with the channel's iconic simple animation style. Good if you're interested in the intricacies of the politics and culture of the time.
Extra History—shorter historical overviews of a much wider range of topics than the above. Quite transparent about their process with their "Lies" episodes at the end of each series, where they explain any errors that slipped through, as well as aspects they left out for the sake of keeping the story focused within the time they had.
ReligionForBreakfast—a scholarly, secular take on religion and religious practice. I think the first thing I saw was their series on American Civil Religion, which is the idea that Americans' attitude towards their country and its processes is similar to religion belief and practice.
UsefulCharts—history and religion, told through charts. The ones that interest me the most are the ones that touch on the creator's PhD in religious studies, such as about the historicity of various aspects of the bible, and on his actual thesis topic on the Psychology of Atheism.
And since you said "informative", I'll add some that I probably wouldn't have included solely under the "educational" category. Not Just Bikes, CityNerd, Radical Planning, Oh the Urbanity!, among others. Urbanist channels across a range of the political spectrum (from Oh the Urbanity which are relatively libertarian, to Radical Planning which is quite marxist). But all of them deal with the problems inherent to the way cities are designed especially in the anglosphere (and among that, especially in America) and how car-centric design creates miserable places while also being economically ruinous.
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Yes, but people can no longer engage with that content. It creates the appearance of relatively dead communities.