Regular blood donation goes through the Red Cross, which is a nonprofit. This plasma donation happens through private companies though.
Liana
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Possibly “donation” because the payment isn’t guaranteed? I mean this in a way that the company is using to protect itself.
It’s quite thin for aluminum, and the downside with glass is the high energy cost of melting it. I’d like if we went back to washing and reusing bottles, but I suppose that’s a big shift in processing capabilities.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull
2·3 months agoSweet, thanks for the info!
I was unsure of the effect of the dead-blow, since “minimizing damage” and “same driving force” sound contradictory to me. The latter makes it sound as if both would drive a nail to the same depth, and I was thinking the beak is effectively a nail. I’m glad the paper mentions concussions, and I’ll give em that bird and primate brains are probably similar enough in that respect.
Odd that the tongue wraps around though. I’d figure it would just slide down the neck, since that seems closer to what we have.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull
1·3 months agoYour link says the page does not exist.
By my thinking, the damage to the brain could outweigh the better foraging. Then I thought that the brain mooshing into the front of the skull later in the peck would turn the head into a dead-blow hammer, which are still quite effective hammers.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first placeEnglish
21·3 months agoYou either die a Netscape Navigator, or you live long enough to become a… any of em, really.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first placeEnglish
19·3 months agoThey’ll probably hold to it for that exact product. If they rebrand it and add it back, that’s no longer the same thing you paid for ;)
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Technology@lemmy.world•'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next yearEnglish
2·3 months agoThank ya. I remember my favorite times with the internet being those when I had a list of small sites I’d check each day. I’d like to rebuild that :)
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Technology@lemmy.world•'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next yearEnglish
7·3 months agoHow, uh… how do we find them? I’m presuming Google isn’t really an option, since they drive traffic in the opposite way. Got a link to a list of them or something?
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Technology@lemmy.world•California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and HobbyistsEnglish
1·3 months agoSpeaking as someone that knows basically nothing about 3d printing (though has done similar with CNC), do you think it’d be possible to reverse-engineer the code in some way? I’m thinking something like a simulated 3d printer 🤷♀️
If she farted, would it make a ringing sound?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The UrbanistEnglish
2·1 year agoI got a speeding ticket a year ago, and they included a link to a video of me going too fast through an intersection. In my case, I was between two other cars, and because I was unfamiliar with the camera, I was the only one that didn’t tap on their brakes while going through. Regardless, the video was clear evidence against me, so I paid it.
In short, I think they’ve gotten much better since your experience. It at least felt fair.
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Technology@lemmy.world•China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.English
4·1 year agoEven if the tech was perfect, they’d be far too loud. Drones are already pretty loud, but you wanna make em huge and everywhere? Ugh.
Duuuude, it’s like… they saw… all