Plasma has a longer shelf life than whole. A lot of the blood products extracted in America are sold elsewhere in the world so they prioritise the products that are easier and cheaper to ship around.
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As far as I'm aware it's only been used by anti-communists.
Anecdotally it seems to be used mostly by baby leftists still figuring out their political ideology and ends up being a crossroads where one end leads to anarchism and the other to NATOists depending on whether they actually go outside and do antifascist praxis.
I'm reminded of this map a Blairite drew a couple years back to link Russian interference with "the black community".
I am terrified by the idea of yanks LARPing as Welsh like they do Irish. My countrymen've been through enough shit, we don't need some cracker mangling Welsh as they try to act like they've got some blood quantum right to our culture (and by culture I mean whatever shitty stereotypes about us they gleaned from the TV).
That big red triangle in the background is a section of the world's biggest wheel of Edam cheese. It'd been wrapped in wax and was ready to be presented as gift to a Chinese diplomat arriving in the USSR.
Unfortunately no-one thought to protect the cheese from an enraged goblin who devoured it whole. They didn't have time to replace it and when the CPC guy arrived with a bronze Lenin bust the size of five Lenins, he got angry that he didn't get anything in return and vowed eternal revenge on the USSR.
This is the real inciting incident of the sino-soviet split and also invention of pogo sticks which the USSR believed could be used to better pursue goblins.
I don't know how the person in the foreground is, perhaps a metaphor for the people whose lives were lost to inter-socialist infighting.
I do a little venting
No, fuck you [insert family member] I do not want to hear another unprompted observation that my hair is "too pretty" and "wasted on a boy". Fuck off. Why does my entire extended family have to be like this? Why can't they be chill like my parents?
spoilers for latest Dr Who
"In your dreams, were you an ambulance?"
In the first part of this series finale, the set up from episode 2 and also the Christmas special finally pays off. The Doctor and Ruby return to modern day Britain to seek UNIT's help in finding Ruby's mother and identify a mysterious woman who's always popping up in the background of previous episodes only to accidentally help Sutekh, god of death manifest into reality. Tune in next week to see the Doctor fight a Dark Souls boss.
What I liked:
Sutekh's new design. In classic Dr Who, Sutekh was just a bloke in a big robe with a funny helmet. This many-eyed jackal man thing is kinda rad if also a little generic in its own way.
That scene where the person at that speech turned to dust. Dr Who has been more restrained with on screen deaths for years, so even this was a "let's fucking go!" moment for me.
What I didn't like:
The return of Sutekh. I just don't like Dr Who's constant need to dredge up old villains from its history for the nostalgia factor. This new Sutekh seems completely different in terms of design and MO than Sutekh the destroyer, so just, why bring it back? You could just as easily have given them a different name. Who was eagerly awaiting the return of this long forgotten antagonist? Like, at least Beep the Meep is a popular character amongst the fandom. Who asked for this?
Rant over. I'm going to withhold my overall rating for this episode until next week when we get the finale. I'm cautiously optimistic though.
!!Warning!! Extreme cringe
"I hope this post gets a lot of tankie comments. They’ll be flockin’ to a blockin’
Heh. See, cause. It rhymes. So.
The one yesterday had that commenter who was all “what’s this? Oh it took me a second cause I blocked all the tankies” and that’s when I realized I forgot to block lemmy.ml. Now that that’s done, it’s just onsie-twosies. It’s a bright, bright sunshiney day."
Adults in the room, everyone.
I'm in the Bloody Great Big Swamp.
My job is to figure out if it's a Bloody Great Big Swamp or a Bloody Great Big Swamp.
Gooning is when you go cheer Arsenal on during the footie, right?