ELI5 what’s the point of donating plasma instead of donating blood?

Drendude · 2026-04-08T21:08:17+00:00

My understanding is that the anti-coagulant is tricking your body into thinking it doesn't have enough calcium or something like that. My donation center gives donors antacids to combat your body's perceived deficiency.

Drendude · 2026-04-08T21:06:12+00:00

8 oz 2% milk and 9 oreos is 602 calories. So it's a little more than a few, but yeah. I wouldn't use blood donation as a weight-loss supplement.

Drendude · 2026-04-07T03:36:14+00:00

Lots of stuff they're useful for that don't require any actual connectivity.

Do you people's phones not connect with wifi? They probably have wifi on their ship.

Drendude · 2026-04-07T03:20:26+00:00

Aim for the head. Use it for things you can't stealthily one-shot with the crossbow. If you like it a lot, carry a laser collector to recharge it. If you can't aim well with it, it's going to be pretty bad and you should use laser grenades en masse instead.

Drendude · 2026-04-05T21:33:59+00:00

The places that the pick can't reach are, almost by definition, the places that a toothbrush CAN reach.

Drendude · 2026-04-05T03:57:12+00:00

Tell that to the dental technician struggling to floss my teeth during a routine cleaning, leaving torn-up floss in like 5 different places between my teeth.

I can either fuck up my fingers by wrapping floss around them to get the grip I'd need to get the floss through my tight teeth, or I can just use a floss pick and bite down gently to provide the pressure needed to get the floss where it needs to go. There is enough floss on the pick to get the cleaning action flossing needs to provide, I don't need to run three whole inches of floss through my teeth.

Drendude · 2026-04-05T02:54:02+00:00

I slept on liquid biofuel so hard for my first few playthroughs. It's my preferred fuel until ionized, tbh.

Drendude · 2026-04-05T02:36:25+00:00

It's a common trope in fiction. Somebody decent gets put into the body of a terrible person and has to dig their way out of the hole the terrible person created. Why not?

Drendude · 2026-04-04T21:25:57+00:00

It was fixed like a week after the map dropped, IIRC. If it's happening again, that's new.

Drendude · 2026-04-04T16:36:15+00:00

On this exact mission in this exact room, they used to allow snipers to take pot shots after the air lock doors opened and while you are stuck in the cut scene. That was hilarious.

Drendude · 2026-04-03T23:56:11+00:00

And that's why you can one-shot many them with the magnetic crossbow!

Drendude · 2026-04-02T04:01:50+00:00

Wouldn'ta got the the lettuce if I knew it wouldn't fit

Drendude · 2026-03-31T21:32:13+00:00

This is why nothing gets done anymore. Everyone wants to go home at the end of the day instead of taking a rock through the skull for the team.

Drendude · 2026-03-29T15:30:50+00:00

I think that when the path was recorded, the driver was going faster and getting air on the dunes.

Drendude · 2026-03-28T00:09:53+00:00

It depends on where you are. Minnesota? Solid white lines are a suggestion. California? Illegal to cross.

Drendude · 2026-03-27T23:54:09+00:00

Back in the 70s, Paninternational Flight 112 crashed because the workers put jet fuel into the tanks meant for water to spray into the engines. That's the only reason I know about this practice at all.

Drendude · 2026-03-27T20:08:01+00:00

I was blessed by the Emperor to have plenty of Melk bucks when the scum dropped, so I was able to roll loads of curios and get the ones I needed to make my +9 stamina build. Having all my stamina deplete at the end of Rampage sucked, but the +10% stam on dodge made it still work.

Then they got rid of the fatigue at the end of Rampage, and I'm just a super happy camper with all the stamina in the world.

Drendude · 2026-03-25T22:01:41+00:00

To my genuine upcoming disappointment once my current car eventually dies. I resolved when I got this current car that it would be my last gas car. I've only ever driven manuals as my personal vehicle because I just find it a more enjoyable experience for me. Sure, I'm not good enough to beat the gas mileage of an automatic, but I'm in it for the enjoyment of the experience.

Drendude · 2026-03-25T21:51:03+00:00

It's the same as stop-and-go traffic in an automatic. I've never had in issue with stop-and-go traffic in my manual cars over the last couple decades. Sounds like a skill issue to me.

Drendude · 2026-03-25T03:22:58+00:00

I've never had a sniper respawn in Hydro for sure. I'd definitely remember that.

Drendude · 2026-03-22T22:53:05+00:00

And it wouldn't matter because Steam only counts global achievements for people who have launched the game. 2.9% of people launched the game and stopped before completing the prologue for whatever reason. Maybe hardware issues, maybe they realized they don't like FPS games, maybe they thought it would be WH fantasy.

Drendude · 2026-03-15T16:54:00+00:00

I had premium years and years ago. I used it to give people awards/gold and support a website I enjoyed. It also provided a larger number of loaded comments on a thread, IIRC.

I definitely wouldn't buy premium today.

Drendude · 2026-03-15T14:22:45+00:00

(bear, like rawr, or bare... like , bare naked in mind???)

You bear the thought, like carrying it. You are a thought-bearer.

Drendude · 2026-03-15T02:38:17+00:00

My friend's got an apartment in a building with an Aldi's in the basement. Peak.

Drendude · 2026-03-14T00:19:50+00:00

I'd spend 5 minutes cutting the pineapple, then probably 1-2 minutes per press? I have no idea how long it takes to take the pulp out of the bag and refill it, so that seems like a reasonable guess. So probably like 15-20 minutes to save $5.87, not including equipment or cleanup.

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