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  • Second About Time. One of my favorite movies.

  • Australia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world first

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  • As I said, kinda dumb. There's likely some homophobia that went into the decision.

    From a purely economic view, though, there might be some justification? If the blood is batch tested, e.g. 10 samples are mixed and tested, excluding a group more likely to have a disease would mean you'd throw out less blood (or have less testing to do if you then test individual samples). I don't know enough about blood donation testing to say if that's a valid argument or not, though.

  • Australia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world first

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  • https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/gay-bisexual-men.html

    https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/hiv-risk-in-gay-men#transmission

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_and_men_who_have_sex_with_men

    https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/2019-UNAIDS-data_en.pdf

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10159196/#pone.0281578.ref001

    Consensus is that MSM are somewhere between 20-26 times more likely to contract HIV then other adult men. How much of that is biological and how much is cultural (e.g. in countries where homosexual sex is criminalized, access to healthcare and prophylactic medicines are likely less available) is definitely up for debate, and it of course does not mean that a straight man cannot contract HIV.

  • Australia lifts plasma donation ban for gay, bisexual men in world first

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  • Gay men are statistically more likely to contract HIV. Of course, it would be horribly irresponsible and negligent not to test donated blood/plasma for HIV in the first place, so yeah, kinda dumb.

  • Democrat Seeks to Limit Trump’s War Powers Amid Middle East Escalation

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  • Sorta. Congress has the power to declare war, but the President has the power to direct the military in war and in "peace". The War Powers Act was supposed to constrain that power, which limits military action without Congressional Approval to 60 days (plus 30 for withdrawal). But no President has acknowledged that that law is constitutional. Plus 90 days is a long time in modern warfare.

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  • They're saying the monkey paw interpretation is the wisher want to end the wars. "I wish to [be the one to] end all wars."

  • What operating system and app store do you use to browser Lemmy

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    10000 hours to become an expert, avg person poops for ~12 minutes a day. It would take 137 years to master.

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  • Generally, anything from 3 times a day to once every 3 days is considered the range of normal.

  • Transportation chief seeks to weaken fuel economy standards, calls Biden-era rule 'illegal'

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  • No no no, we'll just tow all the polluting thing outside the environment.

  • My experience with Discord on Linux

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  • They don't have a repo as far as I know. Hence the manual .deb install.

  • Getting in pj's now...

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  • Uh, or you're still cooking after getting back from work?

  • Kennedy says COVID vaccines no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

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  • Conversely, healthy people have (mandated) health insurance at minimal cost to the insurance companies.

  • Just got charged for reading it

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  • Not sure your location, but in the us at least most banks have a bill pay service where they will send a paper check for you at no cost.

  • I'm baffled

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  • I know a lot of it is nostalgia speaking but I still hold that Jeff Buckley's version is the best. I think he captures the emotion I feel perfectly in his voice.

  • My password is not accepted because it is too long

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  • Sure but that doesn't change the lack of competition. For my address, I have two non wireless providers, and one of them is copper only and capped at 50 down. So not a lot of choice if an ISP is screwing you.

  • My password is not accepted because it is too long

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  • Ah yes, I will just go to another ISP. Wait, there's only one.

  • Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model

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  • What's challenging about paywalls and not wanting to spend money is not necessarily not wanting to spend, but convenience and cost. If it costs me 10 cents for each blog or tutorial or github page I look at while working on a project, or 1 cent for every funny video, that adds up. And do I have to put my credit card in for every site? Hope that every site has good enough security to prevent payment information leaks?

    And I don't think anyone is interested in a Netflix-style internet that fractures into 6 different subscriptions to get every site you need on the web.

  • Radar screens at Newark airport went black again overnight

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  • Yeah but night time and IMC (clouds) is when ATC is needed the most.

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    Haitian woman dies while in ICE custody at Pompano Beach detention center | Marie Ange Blaise, 44, passed away April 25 at Broward Transitional Center; federal authorities investigating cause of death

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  • We've investigated ourselves and concluded there was no wrong doing.