Giver of skulls
They can triangulate you to within a building, maybe even a specific room, but they won’t unless you’re with the authorities and have a warrant. There’s a small exception to that, some American carriers are known to sell live location data to bounty hunters, but you’d have to pay more than the price of a new phone to get access to that.
Still won’t help you find your phone if it’s slid under a cupboard, though. But if you can reach your carrier, you can call your phone.
That makes a lot of sense.
I first started donating blood when I read about shortages, but it turns out that was mostly other blood types. After the entry testing, they recommended me to switch to plasma donations because my blood type was common enough that they’d probably never need my full blood.
If you have a relatively rare blood type, you may be able to help people even if they have enough blood to help most people.
I think paying for blood or other bodily fluids is bad. It provides incentive for desperate people (addicts etc.) to lie on the safety forms to keep getting paid.
I know a few people who donate blood despite not getting anything in return. I personally stopped donating plasma after a few times for health reasons (nothing dangerous in the plasma itself, luckily). To me, being able to help a hospital or a person by simply sitting back and watching shows on my tablet is probably the easiest, laziest charity you can support. The snacks are nice, too.
Not everyone can donate blood, but everyone who is able to, you should consider it, even if you won’t get paid for it. You can doom scroll and browse Lemmy like normal, except you’re sitting in a weird chair and get free food.
I suppose in the shittier countries, where all blood donation stuff is run for-profit, you should let them pay you if they’re making a profit off of you, but I still think it brings a bad incentive.
You guys get a day off? All we get is time off to donate (also as many cookies and drinks as you want within reason, of course.
I totally agree, but unless there’s something wrong with their mental faculties, they can choose back pain over TV savings. The downside of freedom of choice is that people make the wrong choices all the time.
Even if you cut 120 dollars a month, a good mattress will still be half a year or longer in the future. And that’s with a normal one, not a medical mattress.
“Best by” often means “will lose taste over time and taste worse by” when it comes to chemical products like these.
If this stuff contains lots of sugar or no natural compounds at all, give it a try, I guess. Especially if they’re sealed in a box. Trust your senses, don’t try too much at once if you don’t know if it’s still good, and don’t swallow until you’ve verified there’s no taste of rot or other grossness. If you want more safety, have a bottle of vodka ready to rinse your mouth with in case you do notice a bad taste.
If these powders are completely dry and stored airtight (and the packaging isn’t damaged), you could probably store them for literal decades without a problem. If there’s stored in uncoated cardboard (no sealing lining), maybe treat them as mold infested, even before their expiration date. The way they’re stored makes all the difference.
I fucking hate apps. Maybe I don’t hate them enough to warrant 120 a month, but I can see why people pay extra not to have to bother with figuring out what show is on what app and how to search and cast and browse the damn things
If they use the TV box all the time, why do they have those apps?
You showed them the price difference. They clearly value the current setup over the savings. Unless they’re using your money to pay for all this, just drop it.
Bonuses always come with a catch. Stocks are just tricks to make you cover for the company, because if you turn whistleblower you’re going to want to protect your wallet, and selling your stock right before going whistleblower can be seen as market manipulation. That stuff is a nice bonus, but there’s no guarantee you’ll ever receive any value out of them.
As for 401ks, most people are financially illiterate. They either lack the knowledge or lack the time or energy to figure all that shit out.
To anyone with stock market experience, the American 401k system is probably much better than normal pensions because you get to be in control. However, most people are complete idiots when it comes to money, and are easily tricked into dumping their retirement funds into worthless schemes pumped by scammers.
With normal pensions, everything is taken care of and you can’t even touch your money without going through a maze of rules and protections. With 401ks, you’re on your own.
There’s also a responsibility component. Many pension plans have preset rates that the company pays into, while many 401k setups involve voluntary contributions. When you’re earning minimum wage, you can’t afford to put any money into a 401k, or maybe you could but you really want to eat out once a month, so you’re taking the extra money for your retirement and spending it right now.
If bonuses or stock payouts are even an option, a 401k may be the best solution for you. That’s a pretty privileged position to be in, though.
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If you bought a pager or walkie talkie that was part of a batch of pagers ordered specifically by Hezbollah through a Mossad front, then yes. Be careful if you bought a second device of that kind from Lebanon recently.
Otherwise, probably not.
As for phones, the whole reason the Mossad bugged pagers was because Hezbollah told their members to get rid of their phones because they believed Israel could track them (which, given the many espionage and offensive hacking companies in Israel, is probably true). Unless the terrorists also ordered phones through this Mossad front, I don’t expect any phones to explode.