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  • 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.


  • 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."








  • If everyone had solar panels and thought like you, we’d still have globe warming

    Energy is heat. There’s no such thing as cold, just lack of heat.

    Trapping sun rays then releasing hot air warms the planet. That’s what your system is doing. Removing heat from your house and putting it outside while your electric motor throws out extra heat.

    It just doesn’t have the air pollution that burning coal or gas does.





  • That’s why death penalty shouldn’t exist for crimes like a wife killing a husband. You might be 99.9% sure she poisoned him, but you cannot know for sure.

    However, a school shooter caught red handed shooting a school?

    Some crimes and scenarios can warrant the death penalty in my mind

    Next argument is “what if the government framed people to execute them?”

    Why in the world would the government point out that they are executing someone?

    If the government (the rich controlled government) wants you dead they would do it quietly.

    Even something as simple as cutting your brake lines. You really think local police are going to figure out that the government had soldier 65478 tamper with your brake lines?



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    6 months ago

    your freezer at -18 °C (0 °F) or lower. This will keep your food out of the temperature danger zone between 4 °C (40 °F) to 60 °C (140 °F) where bacteria can grow quickly.

    According to Canada.ca

    Every 2 F is basically 1 C. You have more whole numbers with F.

    Like -15°C is 5°F

    6°F is -14.4444°C

    -14°C is 6.8°F

    So 5, 6, and 7°F are about equal to -15, -14.5, and -14°C.

    And it’s not just a random number. You know how much more energy would be used if everyone kept their freezer just a couple degrees colder? It’s the optimum recommended temperature.


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    6 months ago

    USA uses US Customary units, not Imperial units.

    Fahrenheit is grouped with US Customary units but is not one.

    I agree metric system is superior and there isn’t a reason to use Inches, Feet, Yards, etc.

    But Fahrenheit is a great system for weather and works great for everything else.

    For science if I have to heat a beaker to 280° it doesn’t matter if it’s C or F. I’m not going to be able to relate to 280° in either system. The instrument is going to have to tell me the exact measurement.

    Same with like a tape measure. I can measure out 3 meters. I don’t need to know how long 3 meters is to do that.

    However, mark two lines on a piece of paper and I will get closer guessing in inches than cm because I know the US customary units better.

    Eventually US will change to metric. But I doubt we will ever not use Fahrenheit for normal day things like weather


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    6 months ago

    When do you use 0° and 100°C?

    This is also at standard pressure and most do not live at sea level.

    I don’t put a thermometer in my water to make sure it is boiling or one in my water to make sure it freezes.

    It can snow and roads can ice before it hits 0°C

    It has no real world applications


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    6 months ago

    90-110 is hand washing temp. 100 average.

    110 is hot

    120 recommend max

    130 very hot

    140 very very hot

    150 burns

    If I said to you. Would you stick your hand in 50°C water for 100 dollars would you do it?

    What about 60°C?

    65°C?

    I bet you don’t know what would happen if you stuck your hand in 65°C water without looking it up. There’s a huge jump from 60° to 65°C. 70°C will instantly scald you.

    Someone out there is stupid enough to think. Water boils at 100°C, 65 should be perfectly fine. Even though water doesn’t boil until 212°, most people would be cautious of sticking their hand in 100°F+ water.

    Yes if you think 40°C+ is hot then you can gather that 65°C would be hotter. But why compare to 40° when you can do 100°.


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    Not sure where you got -4F from.

    USDA, United States Department of Agriculture, recommends 0°F or -17.8°C

    100°F in the shade isn’t extreme, and you’d be able to survive normally (With more water, everyone can use more water)

    100°F is hot tub water

    120°F is recommended hot tap water

    140°F water will pretty much burn you instantly


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    0F is the temperature a freezer needs to be to keep food fresh.

    50F is the point that you can’t survive without clothes, your body will not generate enough heat.

    100F (38C) will not burn you alive. You can survive for a long time in a sauna at 200F.

    100F is perfect hot tub temperature