• 0 Posts
  • 13 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: August 14th, 2023
  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?
    131·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•"Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"English
    1·
    23 days ago

    I had to look up what the summoner’s tale was. I can say this from memory.

    "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,

    The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

    And bathed every veyne in swich licóur

    Of which vertú engendred is the flour;

    Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth

    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

    The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,

    And smale foweles maken melodye,

    That slepen al the nyght with open ye,

    So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,

    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

    And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,

    To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

    And specially, from every shires ende

    Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,

    The hooly blisful martir for to seke,

    That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke."

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Shart milk rule
    2·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Shart milk rule
    2·
    2 months ago

    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.