All that money won’t mean shit if the economy collapses.

Money is temporary, daddy’s blood diamonds are forever. 💎

Ah yes, that’s also a thing here in the Netherlands. If you’ve lived in the UK for 6 months or longer between Jan 1980 and Dec 1996 you cannot donate.

You cannot throw that as a blanket statement. Rules vary by country and medication. Judging by their profile the person you are responding to lives in Denmark, which actually seems to have fairly strict rules in this regard. Some of the ADHD medications I’ve been on in the past would have actually have disqualified me as a full blood donor there, had I still used them. Although the rules for plasma donation are less strict, so that might still be an option.

Unfortunately I was rejected as a donor, the nurse had too much trouble hitting a vein (mine are difficult to spot and tend to roll when sticking a needle in them) for drawing blood for the pre-donation bloodwork. So that meant an automatic rejection as they prefer not turning the donors into living pincushions. ☹️

And the meme in The Netherlands is that you do it for the “pink cookie”, which is a small cake-like cookie with pink icing on top. We don’t get any financial benefits

Ah yes, the infamous and delicious ‘roze koek’. 😄

To put the latter part a bit more strongly: it is legally not allowed to pay for blood donations in the Netherlands.

Careful, that might net you a Masquerade violation.

Looks like he set off the drone a bit early? He would have been better off just taking it to the face, at least that’s instant lights out.

I once called a friend at home, back before mobile phones were common, only to have some older man answer. Shit, did I call the wrong number? My mind started racing: his mom is divorced and doesn’t have a boyfriend from what my friend told. It’s unlikely my friend’s voice dropped 3 octaves overnight… Fuck, did somebody murder them and picked up the phone? Am I ne… Oh wait, his mom is a living chimney, ah… ‘Hi *friend’s mom*’.

And we need to take ivermectin

Wait, so now supporting Big Farma is actually OK? Shit, this stuff is confusing.

Her worldview is shattered.

Exact same feeling I had when watching that breakdown. I sincerely hope she learns from this and escapes the SovCit bubble.

She obviously had to look up the script on her phone, thereby signalling she in fact does not truly know her stuff. That’s a ticket to county jail right there, nobody is going to take you seriously if you cannot repeat the magic incantations by heart.

But on a serious note: The amount of patience that officer had with here was more than she deserved. She had every opportunity to just leave, but instead she choose to double down. Feels like there is an thin line between simply being misinformed and mental health issues.

Actually they started out with building reed organs. Pianos came after that.

I think it is wild that there are countries that allow this distopian shit at all. Sure, if you’re a pilot or something random tests are fine, lives depend on you being fit to fly. But for most jobs having used drugs the evening before wouldn’t affect the job, so it should not be the employers business what you do in your own time.

Proof to me that evolution has never been about ‘survival of the fittest’, just ‘survival of the good-enough to reach breeding age’.

Dipping into dad’s yumyum blood diamond money certainly helps to compensate other deficits.

Looks more like what remains of the valley of Helm’s Deep and the Hornburg to me.

And although it isn’t LGBTQ+, it definitely looks mentally ill. Hopefully it will shed and slither back to whatever hole it came from.

He’s welcome to try, that’s not going to fly where I’m from.

Nah, it’s just hit or miss wether the freeze strikes or not. Can’t get closer to the thrill of real Russian roulette than this.