Something like $100/week for two draws. But it was like 6 years ago in Kentucky

Honolulu

I donated blood for many years, starting the first day I was allowed (mom took me). I’ve been an organ donor from the day I was able and am loud about that. And for a few months after college I sold plasma for money. It definitely felt scummy, but I think it’s ultimately a good thing, though it is selling part of your body to a for profit company at a rate that’s pretty bad. So the cons are really that it definitely feels seedier than whole blood donation and that the phlebotomists are worse. I can’t donate blood anymore because they gave me a track mark and I can’t risk my other elbow’s veinous access.

But it got me through a rough time

The long nights demand the holy light of TempleOS

Chinese communism seems very much to be born of a fusion of USSR and Chinese imperial styles. But one important thing to remember about communist revolutions between 1918 and the 1990s is that the USSR played a major role in a lot of them. This is where you see such things as the betrayal in Catalonia and massive splits in western leftism as Marxist-Leninists and Maoists had backing and anarchists didn’t.

It’s an authoritarian thing. A lot of the rebels against the USSR were communists (most notably the red navy’s rebellion at Kronstadt). It’s a shame that communism has become synonymous to much of the world with the authoritarianism of some of its’ factions.

Because we’re a social species that often checks ourselves off of those around us. Sometimes it’s unhealthy, but often it’s an attempt to maintain tribe status and to safeguard against misperception.

First aid specifically aimed at the sorts of injuries that one risks by protesting.

Not exactly but my wife’s background in protest medicine is one of the first things that drew me to her

King James. His persecution of women caused centuries of problems

It’s literally any alternative lifestyle community. I’ve never lived somewhere that didn’t have board game nights for the bdsm community. Lots of polyamory and nerdiness there

There’s only one Catholic approved birth control method according to my Catholic education and it surprisingly isn’t not having sex (yeah not fucking your spouse from time to time is a sin, pressuring sex is a sin, but part of mutual marital duty is to have loving sex). It’s swimming in the Red Sea. Period sex is the official birth control method of the Catholic Church and the only one they approve of. Don’t want to do that or have kids, better hope you were called to a celibate order or the single laity.

What? Nah I was just thinking because most of the nerds I know have multiple partners.

Their religion prohibits condoms too

Also lol at nerds automatically not cheating

Some grow wiser, but one of the lessons of my 20s has been you have to do it on purpose. I’m not wiser than I was 5 years ago on accident.

That’s very true. I routinely change the parts of me I love. I try to make them better. I’m a kind and loving person, but I’m trying to change that from a selfless form to a self preserving form. To know my limits and stop pouring from an empty cup.

I’ve never seen someone come out of the closet at 50 and remark that they’re glad they took their time

Get out and make friends. Yes I know it gets harder as you get older, but it’s often the difference between dying alone and demented young and sticking around and finding happiness until your body gives out.

Also, remember your grandparents and parents from time to time after they’re gone. It hurts but it’s good for you.

sighs and speeds it up sure whatever vp,