You can donate blood in 20 minutes. It takes an hour plus to donate plasma

Am I going to sit in a chair for an hour plus without any compensation? Maybe once or twice here and there. But you can donate plasma at least twice a week.

It requires two donations for a single unit. If you donate once and don’t donate the second, then your first donation is unusable. You have to get them to donate twice.

When I was donating plasma, it paid about $75 for each donation. 50 first, 100 for second. The money is pretty good. $300 a month is a lot for a lot of people.

If you didn’t compensate people for plasma donations, a lot wouldn’t do it. They currently need more people to donate.

Plasma “donation” is a good thing.

Criminal Minds

Dead fish 🐟

Good take

I wouldn’t even be against sharing some information so they could give me better ads

I’m not in the market for a new car. I don’t need car ads.

But knowing I shop at Something Hardware a lot and they are having a spring black friday sale on the tool I’ve been eyeing would be nice.

Even still Something Hardware just slapping their logo in an ad is not helpful at all.

If ads were helpful they wouldn’t be annoying

Ability to act on freewill

You ask Chat GPT a question it is going to answer it becomes that’s what it has been programed to do. Input question, output answer.

Now if Chat GPT could be like “Nah I’m not going to answer that because I don’t feel like it”

Yes “AI” can be programed to not answer certain things. E.g porn stuff. But it does not make the conscious choice to do so it is following programming.

Yeah the official term genocide was specifically crafted to avoid including Joseph Stalin. Sure.

https://news.stanford.edu/2010/09/23/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310/

Athiest Joseph Stalin performed mass killing of his own people

No Stalin was an athiest and he caused mass genocide.

Google says it could be 20+ million. Anyways, how many he killed isn’t the point.

He killed people because they were in opposition

Yeah he killed them for non-religious reasons. Religion didn’t play a part in the mass genocide.

Stalin wasn’t religious and actively tried to stamp out religion.

He killed what, 6+ million people?

It’s a suicide cord. Works great for generators

1% of 33 is .33

.33 × 7 =

.3 x 7 = 2.1

.03 x 7 = .21

21 + 2.1 = 2.31

So

7% of 33 = 2.31

You could also do

33% of 7

10% of 7 is .7

1% of 7 is .07

So 11% is .77

.77 × 3 =

.7 × 3 = 2.1

.07 × 3 = .21

2.1 + .21 = 2.31

Easy way to do %

Say you want 6% of 45

Seems hard right?

1% of 45 is .45

.45 × 6 =

.4 × 6 = 2.4

.05 × 6 = .3

2.4 + .3 = 2.7

So 6% of 45 is 2.7

Extra:

Say you want an item that is 40 dollars and it is 20% off.

10% is 4 dollars.

20% is 8 dollars.

So item would be 32 dollars.

A choosey nose indeed

Say I invented the cure for cancer today and started the business Cancer Cure Inc. tomorrow.

I own 100% of the shares of the company. Say there are 100 shares.

Each share of Cancer Cure Inc. would be valued at X/100 amount of money because Cancer Cure Inc. would be valued at X.

If Cancer Cure Inc. company was valued at a billion dollars. Each share would be worth 10 million dollars.

I would be seen as a billionaire because I own the 100 shares. Yet I haven’t sold a single share. No money has exchanged hands for the shares.

A billion dollars doesn’t just magically enter the economy because Cancer Cure Inc. exists. It would take an existing billion dollars to buy my shares.

Now, if people wanted to give me a billion dollars in cash for my 100 shares, and I sold them. I’d have a billion dollars in cash, and the people would have a billion dollars in Cancer Cure Inc. stock.

Now, if the government takes my billion dollars in cash and hand that to the people, they now have a billion dollars in stock and a billion dollars in cash.

It doesn’t matter if I own 100 stocks of Cancer Cure Inc. or if 100 different wealthy people own 1 stock each. What changed is that there is now 1 billion more cash floating in the economy.

That’s what causes inflation

I’m not saying it’s right. Capitalism has winners and losers, rich and poor. It’s just how the capitalism system has to work.

I didn’t say you needed to make them dump it all at once, but no matter how you do it, you’re introducing more money into the economy.

Make an investment plan so that sum of money doesn’t disturb the market

Again, great the market isn’t disturbed and stocks are still worth a billion total. You’re still going to introduce another billion into the economy in “two-three” years by giving it to the poor.

The whole point of taking money from billionaires is to affect the economy. There’s no point in doing it if it’s not going to affect anything.

Can billionaires liquidate their assets? Yes, it is theoretically possible

The real question is, who is going to buy the assets?

Let’s say we have a billionaire that owns a billion dollar company.

Could that billionaire sell all their shares, get a billion dollars in cash, and then give it away. Yes, it is possible.

But that billion dollars in cash has to come from somewhere. Either the citizens have to come with a billion dollars in cash or the government.

If the citizens spend a billion to buy the shares, then the government takes the billion in cash from the billionaire, then the government gives a billion back to the citizens. You just basically printed an extra billion dollars for the economy, which causes inflation. Because the citizens now have two billion in stocks and cash, compared to just one billion in cash.

Our fiat money system has flaws, one day it is going to crash.

But Besos’ 100+ billion in Amazon stock is money tied up outside of the economy until he sells.

Forcing him to sell and introduce that money into the economy has repercussions.

I hate the stock market as much as the next guy. Glorified gambling.

But, the stock market is tied directly to the economy

What do you think most people’s retirement accounts are tied to?

According to a quick Google, 61% of adults in US own stock. Which means more than half the population has an interest in the stock market not crashing.

Yes the 1% probably owns the majority of stocks. Quick Google says 54% of all stocks.

US Dollar is a fiat currency. It’s only backed by the faith of the people behind it.

It can absolutely crash and while the 1% will suffer, we will all suffer at least a little bit.

Idaho must be an awful name to live with

Condolences

If this was alway true UPS and FedEx wouldn’t exist

On my s22+ you can double tap the power button to open up the camera or any app that you’d like automatically.

Motorola shake flashlight was the best. Just a quick chop chop and you’d have a light

I now have a little flashlight button on my lock screen I can slide to turn on the flashlight. Not as convenient but way better than not having it there.

Best feature in a phone is the Motorola shake flashlight