thebestaquaman @ thebestaquaman @lemmy.world

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Ok, so systems for donating blood are different in different places, I get that. Where I'm from, the only benefit you get from donating blood is a thumbs up, pat on the back, and a popsicle or a coffee cup or some other small gift.

Some people just say to lie for every question.

People say this? I've never heard anyone donating blood say this, and I personally would say that all precautions taken by the professionals that collect blood donations should be taken very seriously. It's not, at the end of the day, up to me to be the judge of what is or isn't a condition serious enough that my blood shouldn't be accepted. I'll give the professionals as much information as possible, and then let them judge whether or not it is safe to give my blood to someone else.

I would never even dream of lying in order to donate blood, when that could end up actively harming someone, and I honestly cannot see the argument in favour of doing that. The whole point of donating blood is helping people.

I kind of feel like people are neglecting some of this here. Like, yes, any pro tennis player would absolutely crush me. I would never get close to taking a game. However, even pro players lose points because they make mistakes. I don't need to claim that I'm any match for a pro in order to claim that there's a non-zero chance that they could blunder a single point.

Saying that it's absolutely absurd that I could take a single point against someone like Serena is essentially saying that it's absurd to suggest that there's a decent chance Serena could make a mistake once in 48 points.

I honestly don't know how good those odds would be, but it doesn't seem crazy to me to suggest it could happen in around 1/10 matches.

Exactly! It's choosing not to do so which makes some companies special!

Not a guitar player, but I've done my fair share of climbing, which is quite punishing to the skin on your fingertips.

My immediate answer is a clear no. The skin on your fingertips adapts very quickly, and hardens within a week or two of being worn down regularly. If anything, you want to make sure that you keep your skin well cleaned (helps it heal faster). Some people have good experience using moisturiser, and say that helps their skin recover more quickly. I've also known people who will carefully sand down the skin on their fingertips if it starts getting too hard, or if they haven't climbed for a while and it starts peeling (usually starts happening after 1-2 weeks of low/no exposure).

Regardless, the rawness of the fingertips is a quickly passing issue for people who have not worn down their fingertips sufficiently in recent time.

You can check out some of these skin products which are designed for climbers. Some are meant to improve skin healing time, and some are supposed to help harden your skin. If you want to use anything, I suggest something like that instead of glue.

I see where you're coming from, but would like to add some nuance (not everywhere is like the US).

As a general rule, I think penalising malicious fraud (i.e. fraud not committed out of dire necessity, but in order to scrape an extra buck) is worth it on a societal level, even if the economic benefits aren't a net positive. It's about sending the message that we live in a society where people need to treat each other fairly, and where we can trust the system to protect us. Even if society as a whole loses money going after some of this fraud, it can mean an enormous amount to the individuals that have been exposed to fraud to know that society has their back.

On the second level, there's welfare fraud. First of all, we definitely have a more generous welfare system where I'm from than what's found in the US, and I think that's a good thing. We also have some issues with people that are capable of working, or who do work under the table, who still claim benefits they aren't qualified for. The major issue I see with it is this: By gaming the system, these people in the long term threaten to make the system unsustainable, thus stealing resources and putting pressure on the people the system is actually designed to help.

In a way I see actual welfare fraud (i.e. people with more than enough resources gaming the system to pull government money they don't need) as worse, because they're violating the trust of a system society has put in place to help the most exposed among us. This kind of fraud indirectly impacts the least resourceful (possibly a poor translation) people in our society.

In either case, I think the social element of fighting fraud is worth it, even if it is a net negative economically. Fraud in general is a severe violation of the social contract we live under, and "letting it slide" contributes to eroding peoples trust in both each other, and the social system as a whole. It's worth spending some money to prevent that.

hundred thousand

There's plenty of archeological evidence that the populations of Scandinavia are more or less those that followed the ice and were the first to populate the region after the ice age. That is: They are the native or "original" inhabitants of the land.

Sir, this is a shitpost community.

I answered you because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, assuming that you had genuinely misunderstood the OP, and that you weren't trolling. I'm telling you that what you misunderstood was so clear to everyone else that a lot of people here seem to think you're trolling rather than genuinely misunderstanding.

With your latest response I'm not too sure anymore.

Ok, I'll put it clearly: You're wrongly interpreting the person you're arguing with as saying something you disagree with. They never meant what you're claiming they meant, and they've said as much.

When you keep trying to nail them to the wall, it comes off as being disingenuous, and just looking for a fight, even though you don't really disagree with the OP on anything related to what they've posted in this thread.

You're being downvoted because everyone else can see this, and think you're trolling because you don't seem to see it, even though it's obvious to everyone else. In fact, it's so obvious that people probably think it's more likely that you're trolling than that you genuinely don't understand that you have no disagreement with the OP here.

In case you're not trolling, I would like to point something out to you:

The up-/downvote ratio here probably reflects the fact that onlookers don't believe you are arguing in good faith. It should act as a wake-up call to you, an indicator that you should re-consider what the other person is saying and ask yourself "Am I misunderstanding their point? Could this be interpreted differently?".

You may find that you are disagreeing with them over something they never said or intended to say.

If I was religious, I probably wouldn't be too far from thinking that a biblical plague hitting the country every time The Führer was elected was some kind of sign...

I never said "our" Government wouldn't lie to us (unless you're Chinese, in which case they definitely will). I just said that the Chinese government constantly lies, which is easily seen by anyone with eyes.

I'm going to be honest here: I approve of your proposal. At the same time, I live in a European country with conscription that borders russia. I don't think you understand how reliant Europe has become on the US MIC. Even in Norway, where we have Nammo and Kongsberg, we are nowhere near being able to supply a significant force with arms.

In the 90's, Norway could mobilise and arm ≈500 000 soldiers within a couple of days. Today that number is probably < 50 000. Building production lines takes time.

In the next election (this autumn) my vote is going to the party that takes up-arming the most seriously.

China would have to do a whole lot more than just "not support russia". As a starter, they'd need to start being transparent, honest, and not censor the ever loving shit out of all information from their country. Then they could stop genociding minorities.

China: Spews blatant and obvious lies about everything that does or does not cast a shadow. Heavily censors any source.

Some guy: I don't trust information coming from China.

China (and shills): That's sinophobic!!

I can see the first 8 being counted as just "letter with an accent", but what about the last one? How can that not be its own letter? It's a whole new symbol not found in the "base" alphabet ffs. You should definitely count at least that one - because size matters

We all agree regarding where Danish sits: https://youtu.be/ykj3Kpm3O0g

All my guys love the Ø! We Even have the Ååhh. Jut let me know if that makes you Æææh!

Relevant: https://youtu.be/f488uJAQgmw

Would have been much better if they just pasted the (probably quite short) script into the readme so that I can just paste it into my terminal. I have no issue running commands I can have a quick look at.

I would never blindly pipe a script to be executed on my machine though. That's just next level "asking to get pwned".