CoffeeJunkie
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- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 days ago:
It is cheaper to have manufactured & is very much a “known”, but I’m right there with you. If it’s not USB-C, fuck 'em.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 5 days ago:
For you, it absolutely seems worth going back. Health benefit plus money. I treat it like a checkup, too, like if my numbers are way off they’ll be among the first to tell me, make suggestions.
Trying something completely new is going to be uncomfortable! I’d give it a few more tries, at least take them for all their new donor money. You get used to it.
I’d recommend drinking tons of water, day before, morning of, just before you get on the floor. Then it doesn’t hurt if you pound some water after. Drinking lots of water can make for a much faster donation (conversely, not drinking enough water before donations can result in a slow draw nightmare).
You’re kind of asking the wrong person because I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but I say push through. Try again. Drink lots of water. If you have any questions or concerns, ask the staff. There’s not a situation you have that they haven’t seen before.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 5 days ago:
You have observations, I have answers. 🙂 I have donated plasma on & off for idk 12 years or so. I know precisely how the system works.
Donating 2 non-consecutive days is for your own health; your body needs to recover & replenish what has been lost. This isn’t dystopian. They pull up to 880 mL of liquid out of your body, most of that is water btw, but FFS your body needs time to produce more plasma. To heal your skin puncture. They don’t care if you’re upset, they won’t allow you to ruin your health under their care.
I do not know your specific plasma outfit, be it Talecris/Grifols, CSL, or other, but you ought not get charged if you use your card at an ATM in the accepted network of ATMs. You get unlimited free balance checks & 2 free withdrawals of cash money per donation. With most ATMs, you can withdraw $300 max in one go. So here’s what you do…fuck all the small stuff because it’s a waste of time, multiple trips & whatnot. Let your balance build up to over $300. Withdraw $300 in one go. You will never be charged a withdrawal fee.
Additionally, if you have multiple plasma donation clinics in the same area, you can play them against each other for new donor fees. Get $700 in one month donating at one. When the new donor fees dry up, bounce & go to the other clinic & suck up their new donor fees. Stay true to the second one & stay away from the first for 5 more months, guess what, you’re a new donor again at the first clinic. Rinse & repeat.
I feel you on the nickel & diming sentiment, it’s true – it can only, maybe, sometimes be overcome with forethought & investment. See the boots theory. It’s expensive to be poor, some of my poorer friends pay so much more than I do for certain things. The same things. Usually they’re buying out of convenience & not buying on sales, or in bulk. It breaks my heart, really.
Also pro tip, just be really positive & calm when you go in for donations. The staff is dealing with angry people, crazy people, dumb people, very smelly people, drug addicts, the desperate, the destitute…etc etc etc. Every single day. And if you give them any attitude (even if you’ve got a good reason!) & they decide to make it a problem for you, they can defer or ban your ass. It’s solely their discretion. Think twice. Be nice.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 6 days ago:
I am aware of, and deeply intrigued by, the three sisters method. It’s just not a commercially viable method of growing those crops; I don’t know what the harvest would look like.
We need to grow a lot more industrial hemp, but I’m afraid that’s a bit of a pipe dream unless we change…literally everything.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 6 days ago:
The general definition of a weed is “any plant growing where you don’t want it to be”. A corn plant in a bean field is a terrible weed.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
All of these things put together pale in comparison to not reproducing, not having children. Technically, apart from just dying…not having children is by far the greenest thing of all.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 weeks ago:
I drive more than you, and I see the point you’re trying to make but it doesn’t work in my state.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 3 weeks ago:
Well, it would be incredibly naive to omit or not factor in all the tax-raping. You make $150K, good for you, but you don’t get to keep that. Using my state, I Googled how much money is stolen when you earn $150K…they steal $45,442. Leaving you with $104,558. How generous of them. 🙄
So the average person wants to make $150K annually SO THEY CAN KEEP just slightly over $100K. Then yes, the health care & the bills & the savings & the spending. It can chew through $100K quickly enough.
- Comment on Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1% 3 weeks ago:
I guess you might have a point with rich people & their…ugly, inhuman body modification. But I have a solidly middle, middle-upper class friend that spent $8K+ on hair plugs. Just because his hair was thinning. That was the discounted rate. And it looks good tbh, but now he looks just like any other schmuck with hair & he’s out $8K+ for that.
(I told him to get really cool tattoos instead)
- Comment on Sheeple 5 weeks ago:
The pain is passing, but suicide often sends shockwaves through your family, friends, local community. The family members of a person who commits suicide are 2.58x more likely to commit suicide, themselves.
I’m not saying it’s “never justified”, but I’d think long & hard about it. Extremely old age, geriatric issues can really suck. But so does causing pain, suffering to others.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
“OUCH”
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 1 month ago:
Okay, yes, this is older technology & cars don’t have infinite, universal backwards compatibility. Cars have Bluetooth & they think that just fixes everything…well…not quite.
Maybe there are other fixes & other workarounds, but you need to employ old(er) technology solutions to fix this old(er) technology problem. You need a (QUALITY) FM transmitter that will plug into your aux, blast the signal as an FM radio station, and you tune your radio to that station & listen. Notice I said QUALITY…most of them are kinda crap & you have to deal with static. I have no specific brand, model suggestions. Good luck.
A better but more expensive solution: upgrade your car’s head unit. Stock head units are shit, anyway. 🙂 Get yourself a nice head unit with 3.5mm aux connection & aux in that iPod, if your budget allows. THEN, you’ll have the best sound quality and also Bluetooth connection, etc.
I wish you well, music makes the driving experience, I hope you get EVERYTHING you need. 🙏
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 1 month ago:
…fuck…that is very hard. This is not your relationship, nor did you cheat, and their problems have now been made yours(ish). I’m sorry you’re caught up in this.
That said, your mom raises some excellent points & personally I’d be inclined to live with her. She is correct. But we must also acknowledge that she is way too close to this situation & is blinded by hurt, rage; women are prone to making decisions based on emotion & not logic, reason. How much more when she is cheated on.
The fact remains, this man is your biological father. Personally, I think it is time to reassess the depth of your relationship due to his adultery. But to cut him out entirely, forever is kind of stupid, too. That is your father. You only get one father. Your relationship to him is different than your mother’s relationship to him. You can distance yourself & react appropriately to his impropriety without…completely destroying the ties of family. It will hurt your father’s feelings, and you know what? I think he should have his feelings hurt. A little. Understand, he threw your mother away, treated her very badly.
But what’s done is done. This is the family you have now, and you have to decide what is right for you. If you don’t leave your father & distance yourself at least a little, she’s right, you do condone his actions & you’re hurting your relationship with your mother. If you care about that. But I would keep those lines open, and your mother will fuss, but explain to her that is your biological father & you have made the decision to keep in contact with him. That is your right, as his child.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 month ago:
I love Key & Peele
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 month ago:
I think the weird-ass names are an attempt not for the parents to be different, but a generally severely misguided desire for their kids to appear different in a “Wowee, that’s special” kinda way. Everyone else has a ‘normal’ name. But not my kid; my child is so different and special and s/he’s going places, s/he’s gonna get out of here & do important things or be a famous athlete.
As we know, oftentimes that’s simply not the case…and it’s just a nightmare for the rest of us (and that child) to spell, say, etc. I find it incredibly frustrating, even though I know this wasn’t their choice, but their parents’. If their last name is weird shit, I politely ask for the first name. If the first name is also weird shit, I politely make a best guess phonetic whatever & move on.
Fun fact, it’s not exactly ghetto made-up name territory, but Oprah Winfrey…isn’t Oprah. Her given name is Orpah, named after a biblical figure in the book of Ruth. Very obscure, ancient name! Nobody knew how to spell or pronounce it properly, and they started calling her Oprah instead. 🙂 Now…we’ve got Oprah.
- Comment on When did I get so old 2 months ago:
I remember early 2010s, people were making funny videos yelling “YEET” & throwing things super far.
- Comment on When did I get so old 2 months ago:
Then there’s 26, when in the US you get kicked off your parents’ insurance & you can go fuck yourself! 🤗
- Comment on Generational differences 2 months ago:
Fuck I’d love that
- Comment on Generational differences 2 months ago:
Respect, and idk what your pipe is, but I want to take this moment to spread the good word of DynaVap. Seems like a receptive audience.
DynaVap is a maker of small metal pipes that bakes the weed via convection, instead of destroying it via combustion. It’s gentler on your lungs, no smoke. It allows for a fuller extraction, more high. You can even use it inside & the vape dissipates relatively quickly, even still your gf could use a boof tube. You’ll spend $40 to $240 on a piece, but let’s be real, it’s more like at least $75-125 minimum because you don’t want the $39 B model. On sales they sometimes throw those in for free. Have some respect, don’t buy it.
The best part of all, besides being healthier for you, more discreet, better flavor, and gets you more high times – you can blow $230+ on the all-titanium HyperDyn & if you’re a heavy user, I can personally guarantee you will save $400+ buying flower. Once you stop burning that shit like a caveman & switch to convection bake, the flower lasts so much longer. To buy a legit ounce from dispensary where I live, that’s $280-300. It’ll last quite a while if vaping with a Dyna.
Any convection method will do, but if we’re talking Apocalypse/off-grid options, consider the Dyna – small, all metal, battery-free. Got an o-ring in there. Provided you don’t just lose it, you will die & your great-grandchildren could pick up your used Dyna & vape weed with it.
- Comment on Resistance is futile 2 months ago:
Louis Rossmann is correct: there is no reason to let your printer connect to the internet. They’re never going to release an update that makes the printer insanely better or more efficient. It might improve the program & functionality, just slightly? But every time it connects there is a very real possibility they push an update on your purchased goods to fuck you over. It’s not worth it.
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 2 months ago:
Yes, Feelzgoodman420, you may indeed smoke the grass.
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 2 months ago:
Tbh I think most people on Lemmy need to touch grass more often ¯\(°_o)/¯ Your friend sounds alright, for someone who pulls “facts” out of his ass. 😂
- Comment on Lemmy horsepost 2 months ago:
Horse-fucking jokes aside, gonna be real here: actual horse girls are fucking crazy. I’ve known a few of them over the years, and all of them care more about horses than hours of their free time, space, money…
One guy had an unemployed wife with a horse. 🙄🙄🙄 Got their horse when he was 9, IIRC. So she’s not bringing in any money, this very normal & unimpressive horse is just eating through his finances & stealing an inordinate amount of attention of his wife from him. I think that fucker lived until he was 26 or 27, so do the math, he was financing that horse for 17 or 18 years. DDG’s AI assist says: “The annual cost of owning a horse can range from about $8,600 to $26,000”. Eh. Just assume the cheaper end of like $5-6K and still…$85K+, wth, right?
It should come as no surprise this regular-ass man seemed to be financially poor, despite working two jobs.
Another fun little anecdote, though, that may or may not be true -I’m inclined to think it is true- I hear horse girls that ride a lot naturally leads to very very very good sex, because frequent horse riding develops very strong core & pelvic floor muscles. Balance. Organic movements, rocking back & forth for hours on end. Basically they ride a horse & you can bet they can ride the shit out of you while fucking; the position is called cowgirl, after all. You just have to decide between a few hours of happy-happy fun times & having any serious amounts of disposable income, financial security.
I’ve come to the conclusion that you don’t marry a horse girl, but perhaps if you’ve got a girl you like you take her to ride horses sometimes. As a treat. Hell searching prices, assuming high end $80/session, you could do that twice monthly 24x80=$1920 annually. Or she could get herself involved in equestrian care & shovel the shit or whatever, and probably ride for free/cheaper. Idk this is just a mental exercise for me at this point, but personally I haven’t found a horse girl attractive enough, worth pursuing. Just some things for you to think about, good luck to you & your girlfriend, never ever ever let her talk you into buying a horse. That’s dumb AF. Rent instead!! 🙂
- Comment on Lemmy horsepost 2 months ago:
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 2 months ago:
Joke, it’s not real
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 2 months ago:
…sure. Then try this one.
“While the city continues to dispute the claims of a gang takeover, Jurinsky has released a series of photos, videos and email exchanges she says prove the problem is worse than city officials have let on.”
…and you guys also forgot to mention the border state of New York.
This border state problem is a national problem.
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 2 months ago:
It depends on the media you consume. This is no doubt a blind spot to most liberal media consumers, but conservative media has covered MS-13, sometimes extensively, especially in the months leading up to the 2024 POTUS election. We also heard about TdA, Tren de Aragua, in no small part because of Jose Ibarra, who raped & murdered Laken Riley.
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 2 months ago:
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 months ago:
People have been pro-asbestos dating back to Roman times, and even back then it is said they knew it was harmful as well. But used it anyway. 😆
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 3 months ago:
Yeah, that was poor wording on my part, probably just because that’s the terminology I hear all the time. I should probably amend that.
It’s true, due to the nature of the ear being really close to the head, the bullet didn’t pierce a hole through his ear. I don’t accept the bullet fragment theory, idk, I don’t see very-very accurate bullet fragments mid-flight. The bullets themselves can tumble or do crazy patterns, depending on weight & caliber, etc. I think the most logical working theory is the fully intact bullet grazing his ear mid-flight. Ears really can bleed heavily even from small cuts/pimples, at least mine do.
On a semi-related note, you all can watch regular, interesting, and/or terrifying custom rounds traveling in HD slow-mo on this YouTube channel. I believe their slogan is, “You make it…we mach it.” 😂😬
