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TWeaK, in Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers)

Women, no. Gingers, yes. Jews, no.

Being ginger is not a protected class, so there is no legal restriction on descriminating (so long as you don’t successfully argue that gingers are a race, eg Scottish, but that’s a stretch).

However morally no, you shouldn’t have a say in it. Either way, usually you’ll be dead when the decision is made. Maybe not with kidneys, although with kidneys you tend to know who you’re giving it to - I don’t think anyone just randomly donates a kidney, like you would give blood.

TechDiver,

What about a living donor who decides to give a kidney or part of the liver?

night_of_knee,

I don’t think anyone just randomly donates a kidney, like you would give blood

You would be wrong about that, in 2021 more than 450 people in the US anonymously donated a kidney to a non-familiy member (source). This is the scenario I’m asking about. One of the arguments given is that just as we allow monetary donations to specific groups of people, why not organs.

TWeaK,

I think the conditions of anonymously giving it away would preclude the ability to discriminate. You’ll likely have to sign something saying as much.

NeoLikesLemmy,

This is the scenario I’m asking about.

Nobody knew your scenario before you explained it in detail. It is simply not happening.

Organisations don’t want to be bothered with such restrictions from a donor. Their principles are: fair and anonymous. It is hard enough already this way.

night_of_knee,

Nobody knew your scenario before you explained it in detail.

I thought that “altruistic organ donor” was a well understood concept, I was wrong.

It is simply not happening.

You’re factually wrong on that aspect.

NeoLikesLemmy,

I was wrong

So, what does it tell you?

You’re factually wrong on that aspect.

Because of 450 cases in some foreign country? Don’t be ridiculous.

MedicPigBabySaver, in What series did you rewatch most often?

MAS*H or Seinfeld.

hsl, in What are some useful or just cool stuff to memorize?
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Thirty days has September, April, June, and November.

frogfruit,

My school taught it as “30 days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31, except the second month alone.”

Notyou,

I always just used the knuckle trick for counting. The ones that have 31 days are at the top of the knuckle and the 30 (or 28/9) day months are in between the knuckles.

Deelala0516,

This is definitely the way.

penguin_in_suit,

With 28 there is only one All the other are thirty one

My mom taught me this limerick when I was little.

syklone, in People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?

Air conditioner… After moving to Europe I’m amazed by how people are so miserable and complaining every day for 1 to 2 months, then just repeat it over and over every year.

ArtificialLink, in People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?

Lots of fans.

greendakota99,

So many solutions and yours is Onlyfans?

ArtificialLink,

Its effective and relatively cheap.

30isthenew29,

Only fans.

user1919, in People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?

fan and cooler during dry heat, onlyfans during humid heat after rain, get cotton vest for upper body and cotton bermuda shorts, get external keyboard and a laptop stand with fans for laptop.

WhyIDie,

ah, that was my problem, I was using onlyfans regardless of the weather

playxdestroy,
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honestly i wouldn’t masturbate during humid heat after rain

30isthenew29,

Before it I would say, so you can wash all the cum away.

hglman,

Don’t wear pants! It amazes me how people from colder climates don’t dress for the heat.

You must wear loose-fitting closes that allow breezes to pass through the material. In the sun, you must cover your skin and keep your clothes open.

CADmonkey, in What do you use Vaseline for?

I had an old Japanese truck, and when I replaced the oil pump you were supposed to pack the spaces around the gears of the new pump so it would pump oil. It was how you “primed” the oil pump.

newpuritan, in What do you use Vaseline for?
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Lubricating the O ring that sits inside the watch case of vintage divers watches to keep them waterproof.

makanimike,

isn’t that not good, because it is petroleum based and will cause the rubber seal to disintegrate faster?

honkeymorpheus,

Most O-rings are made with a material called “Buna-N” (Nitrile), which is not degraded by oils, greases, or common fuels

makanimike,

like the gloves?
cool! TIL!

LrdThndr, in How fluent do you think one have to be to be considered "bilingual"?

Judging by the text of your post alone, you’re bilingual.

Had you not said that English wasn’t your first language, I, a native English speaker, would never have know.

meiti,

Fun observation: as a native, just like many natives, you have made a grammer mistake. “have known” and not “have know”. Might be a typo though.

My fun theory is that grammer is just a form of heuristic made up by humans to simplify understanding languages.

I’m not a native.

LrdThndr,

Ah, dammit. Yeah, that was a typo :).

Zagorath,
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you have made a grammer mistake

I love a good case of Muphry’s Law.

*grammar

meiti,

Haha good catch!

Interesting_Test_814,

Muphry’s Law.

Was this one intentional ?

*Murphy’s Law

Zagorath,
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Interesting_Test_814,

TIL

InEnduringGrowStrong,
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I think there are even a few grammatical errors that native english speaking people are more likely to be doing that us folks who learned it as a second language.
When I see things like “should of”, “would of”, “for all intensive purposes” it’s usually coming from a native speaker.
I think someone who learned speaking the language before first and writing it second is more likely to make these.
I assimilated “should”, “have” and “of” before I really used contractions, so I never make that mistake.
It’s even somewhat jarring to read.
should of… of what?

bumblebrainbee, in People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?

I live with no AC. First thing, all windows get blocked with blackout curtains or whatever you can find. Wear loose cool clothes. I like to wear linen. At night and early morning/dusk, open the windows and doors (if applicable) to get the cool air flowing through your place. If you can, keep them open all night and seal them up once the sun comes up. Use a fan to blow directly on you. Even when it’s hot, that air flow is a life saver. Misting yourself and standing in a fan is a very effective way of keeping yourself cool. All your physical labor chores you’re going to want completed early in the day or after the sun goes down.

As for your laptop, maybe pointing a desk fan at the keyboard may help?

bogo, in What's a good router for a home VPN?

Take a look at Tailscale. You can probably do what you want using that and basically any router out there since it’s zero-config in the router, you’re hardware independent.

eazel7,

I use tailscale currently. It’s amazing, but I need just a little bit more

HobbitFoot, in People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?

One thing not mentioned, ice.

Drink water with ice to physically reduce your body temperature. Wipe yourself with ice packs. Eat ice cream and frozen popsicles.

starlinguk,
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Don't. Please don't. Cool. Not ice.

HobbitFoot,

What’s cooler that being cool? Ice cold.

Bldck, in What's a good router for a home VPN?

Why do you need a VPN and not a reverse proxy and dyndns?

My setup uses some docker containers to:

  1. Update my WAN IP with cloudflare every 60s
  2. Nginx proxy manager to map URLs to services running on my host server
  3. Port forwarding to route traffic to the correct container
  4. Cloudflare zero trust or baked in app authentication
eazel7,

Looking forward to use some services that cannot be routed through nginx

HikerAdam, in What series did you rewatch most often?

King of the Hill.

I’ve watched is from premiere to finale atleast 5 times now.

Even after that I still pick up on small little jokes. It’s a wonderful show.

SeeJayEmm, in People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?
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This stuff is unbearable, I can’t even play video games on my laptop, because it warms up very fast and the keyboard becomes uncomfortable for me to use.

There’s a lot of good advice in here but I haven’t seen anyone tell you to just reduce the amount of heat being generated in your home. Almost every plugged in electrical device in your home is generating some amount of heat. Esp. if they’re in use.

So my suggestion to you is to flip off the power-strip or unplug unnecessary devices, and find something else to occupy your time. The consoles, PCs, the tv itself, they’re all hungry devices that generate a lot of heat. Those fans people are telling you to use? They generate heat too… so while I’m not saying, “don’t use a fan to stay cool”, I am saying, “don’t fill your home with running fans in rooms you aren’t in”.

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