Art should evoke feelings. Disgust is a feeling. Tell her she's a great artist.

Yep. "Occupied Crimea" and "Occupied West Bank" seem to be the convention. Occupied Palestine would be equivalent to Occupied Ukraine, which they don't say either.

There's plenty to criticise the BBC about in their reporting of the conflict. This doesn't seem to be one of them.

No medical background, but a regular donor here. Plasma donations involve taking your blood out, separating the plasma, and returning everything else in a continuous process.

This other article about one of the victims indicated that the machine issued 5 high-pressure alerts about this return process, all of which were ignored.

It's not unusual to get an alert or two. Sometimes there's a kink in the tubing, or an improperly positioned needle. Sometimes I fall asleep and the pressure drops.

Properly trained staff should know by the nature and frequency of the alerts to terminate the process. In that particular incident, even the machine told them to terminate, but was ignored.

Edit: where I am, for-profit 'donations' isn't a thing. And I've never had anything but the highest standards of care. Other commenters are probably right that capitalism is a contributing factor to these incidents.

There's only one needle. So the machine works in multiple suck-return cycles (separation happens simultaneously during return). Roughly every 5-10 minutes. The final return will include a bag of saline to replace the plasma they took.

Which is why one or two warnings are not usually a major concern, as long as the following cycles are okay. But usually after 3 (in my personal experience), they just say, "not your day, come back in two weeks hey?"

From the receiving end of the needle, having two streams would likely double the chance of errors happening. Even the best phlebotomist has a bad day. Also, veins often move when you try to stab them.

Not to mention any blood-related equipment are single-use. So the needle, tubes, containers, they all go to a special bin (I hope to be recycled). Doubling up would unnecessarily increase the cost/effort.

I would highly recommend going to your nearest centre and learn by donating yourself! 😀

My guess? Data stolen by DOGE 🤷‍♂️

It is one of the ugliest, most complex to configure, pieces of software I've ever used. It's also the best ebook management tool out there. I love Calibre.

100 years ago my grandmother ran a whole train station as 'secretary', while the 'station master' came, smoked, read papers, and pretty much just chilled all day - and getting paid many times her salary.

When they said, "women fought to get paid", they meant, "getting paid commensurate to their work". And in many ways, they are still fighting for it.

I don't see any future for seatbelts, and forcing such an ugly implement in cars might lead to problems.

Seatbelts will kill cars if it persists there long enough.

Ah, you mean the sanctity being championed by their three-times-married dear leader?

Many comic artists have side gigs to actually make a living. I could guess what this person does for their day job.

As a parent, I reckon a voluntary system like this (if I understand correctly) could be very handy. I could create a child account and automatically get age gated content for it.

And when said child is smart enough to circumvent the system, then they deserve whatever content they manage to get their hands on. I'd be so proud.

But I'm sure capitalism would find a way to abuse and misuse the system for gains.

I had to double back to this comic, because I only got the pun two minutes after I scrolled past it...

We had some Hitachi trains here in Australia. "Riding a Hitachi with my friends," was a common weekend activity for me.

Oh and we sometimes catch the train too.

Or just open the thread on an mbin instance. Here's everyone that upvoted this thread.

Edit: Downvotes (reduces) are less exposed, but as you said, someone can just run a fedi instance that exposes them to everyone.

Ireland and the Netherlands are most definitely heavyweights.

But I agree with the sentiment, can we not editorialise headlines, please?

... when charged particles move faster than the speed of light

So that got me curious, and found this

nothing travels faster than light in vacuum, but light can be slowed down and something can travel faster than this "slower" light

Somehow I've gone through decades of life without knowing this..

Wdym? I counted fou... oooh the extra one holding the plug. Yeah definitely slop.