Hildegarde

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[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

The US has laws that bans paying for blood, but they can pay for plasma. All healthcare in the US is a for profit venture.

If you donate blood in the US, you are the only one in that process who is making a donation. Every other organization in the chain between your donation and the patient who receives it will add a markup for their own profit.

Organ donations work the same way. If you get killed by a car, and your heart is used to save someone's life, they will be charged nearly two million dollars for the operation. Not only does your next of kin not get a cut of that two million, your estate will still get a bill for whatever treatment failed to save your life.

I can think of little that is more unethical than being the only one donating. Plasma is better because the donors are paid. If healthcare is for profit, at minimum the profits should go both ways. Plasma is the one time it does.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To translate further:

BEV - self explanatory never mind

NGDV - Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, The new mail truck that looks like a duck

LLV - The Grumman Long Life Vehicle, the classic mail truck.

and as a bonus

FFV - The Ford-Utilimaster Flexible Fuel Vehicle, the early 2000s mail truck that looks like the LLV that you buy from wish.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It is designed to be gas or electric. The few with gas engines will need the ventilation. Also it does have A/C. That is also why it has an engine bay despite being electric.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Hold my wallaby I'm going in

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

Two delta planes collided on the tarmac, but they call the smaller plane an endavor plane so they can pay the pilots less.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like you want trademark reform.

There are basically no requirements for maintaining trademarks. If a company owns a name they can use that name and branding forever, no matter how false it becomes, no matter how much the business or product changes, they can keep the name. This shouldn't be the case.

If an ice cream company is named after their two founders, the company shouldn't be able to keep using their names after they're no longer involved. But under current laws they can.

A glass company can build its reputation on making heatproof glass, then change the glass so its no longer heatproof, while still selling it under the same name. This is unjust.

Companies should be forced to rebrand upon major changes. Current trade mark laws are fundamentally misleading.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Did they charge any of them with a crime for not paying taxes, or did they just let them pay without penalty?

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How does public facing statements make trans people vulnerable? Legislation is the power of legislators.

Being quiet about an issue during the campaign makes little difference if they are supportive in office.

Being strategically quiet during a campaign is a good strategy, if only they were smart enough to use it on even more divisive issues, like the genocide.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Pride month. It should be a federal holiday.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Annoy your congressmembers until they write a law. Its the only way. Car companies won't stop, touchscreens are cheaper to install than buttons.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Election related crimes should result in disenfranchisement. People who gerrymander districts shoujd be barred from voting or holding public office.

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