Does the rule preventing homosexuals from donating blood make any sense?

OMG_TRIGGER_WARNING · 2012-02-04T20:36:09.220261+00:00

If by giving up 10% of blood donations you can half your screening costs

How are the screening costs being cut by half? They still have to screen all donations no matter what.

JohnLockeNC · 2012-02-04T20:14:29.417311+00:00

Yes me too but I did find this little gem buried as a link in there from 9 years ago.

andrewsmith1986 · 2012-02-04T19:45:38.885893+00:00

Pretty close. It doesn't mean we all feel a sense of entitlement though.

letitring · 2012-02-04T09:54:45.108004+00:00

It's a bit scary how they open with a scene from The Network. A movie that is nearly 4 decades old and so stunningly accurate in many ways.

jawbreakErica · 2012-02-04T08:41:23.609398+00:00

So much potential waiting to happen.

andrewsmith1986 · 2012-02-04T01:35:21.753154-07:00

Are you in that group?

andrewsmith1986 · 2012-02-04T08:32:42.438229+00:00

| Yes it would have been great for him to do a huge IAmA but it isn't like you paid any money for this service.

And he didn't either. So it's fair treatment.

| I know that some of you see it as using this medium as an advertisement but is that really so bad?

Yes. Reddit is about quality content. There is a lot of shit but buried in it are diamonds. It's why people come here. I understand Conde Naste has to make money and they do off of advertising but when the actual content become monetized I'm no longer interested.

inf4nticide · 2012-02-04T08:26:41.445390+00:00

I wouldn't hire you. Not because of your email address... I probably wouldn't care because so many people have weird ones. I wouldn't hire you because you just admitted that you spent an entire week sending out resumes from an address you didn't want to use. If I knew this my first thought would be "how could a person send out resumes not for just a day or two but all week from an address they didn't mean to?"

presidentender · 2012-02-04T08:22:24.076889+00:00

If they actually did this it could be a PR coup if done properly. Maybe they were trolling the whole time? Perhaps they wanted this for an outcome like that or they were following the whole "all press is good press" thing. If they wanted viral we gave it to them. These Ad Men get more and more clever all the time.

PartyBusGaming · 2012-02-04T08:17:22.843567+00:00

I like the fact that people are upset about it. Maybe some are getting a little too butthurt and maybe we are seeing too many posts but it shows that people care. Virtual or physical Reddit is a community that has created a fairly unique environment. The fact that people want to preserve the core of that is great. I like that people care. If the majority says "we don't want him pandering us all TMZ style with a movie promo under the guise of an AMA" and they let him know it I appreciate that.

Sure... next time this happens whatever PR agent suggests it will have a little guidebook and shit ready but reddit still has a pretty good bullshit meter.

YoureOnABoat · 2012-02-04T07:46:24.614765+00:00

Maybe but it helps maintain a level of standards. For example, It's part of why I like /r/askscience. Those bitches are serious over there. It's about asking scientific questions not a lot of joking around. We need places like that so they keep a level of standards in place.

We are doing the same with /r/AMA. The communities are self policing to the standards people desire.

TheBoredMan · 2012-02-04T07:28:38.327441+00:00

cancel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thwieuiouw8234h23

TheBoredMan · 2012-02-04T07:27:46.633978+00:00

Yes, but don't you love it?

mrlr · 2012-02-04T07:25:55.498890+00:00

Calm down.

Try reading this for another viewpoint.

mrlr · 2012-02-04T06:45:27.768393+00:00

Because it appears to be the exploitation of a child.

I'm not really good at guessing the age of kids but I'd say he is probably between 3 and 5. I doubt he has any deep understanding of what war or death is at this age. Or what it means to put that uniform on and salute. It was clearly posed and thought out picture from an adult. They put the helmet there, they dressed the boy, they bought the flowers and then told him how to stand and what to do while they snapped a bunch of pictures.

The child probably has no understanding of any of this. It's an adult acting out their emotions with, presumably their own child, and it's not like this is pageant moms re-living the feeling of being young and pretty through their kids. This is war, death, no father... very strong emotions.

lol2090 · 2012-02-04T05:34:23.736710+00:00

Did your parents think this was okay?

epic_win_guy · 2012-02-03T19:23:02.013693-07:00

Says the guy who has been here 17 days.

iamwoodyharrelson · 2012-02-04T01:57:16.001558+00:00

You realize you just fucked this whole thing up right? I realize you were probably told to come here by some PR person but you or they or both of you clearly don't understand reddit.

MangledMailMan · 1 day

I understand where you are coming from but I wouldn't bundle together the subreddits. In one you are talking about things like Ancient Aliens and MKULTRA while in the other you are talking about practical ways to purify water, first aid, etc.

LulzAndHappiness · 1 day

I feel like maybe we should put some information in the guide and then point them to Center on Halsted or Howard Brown. It might be an intimidating environment. I don't know. What do others think?

LulzAndHappiness · 3 days

Don't say that. All gaymers are sexy. All humans are. You come by to this and look for me personally and I'll make sure you have fun. I'll introduce you to some new friends and make sure you don't feel alone.

LulzAndHappiness · 3 days

I feel like there's a lot of misconceptions about the shower and basement situation. If you've been to the last meetup, you will know that jasenlee (the host) has a pretty candid and sometimes pervy sense of humor. But it's all in good fun, like the innocent flirting we do on these subreddits all day. He really wants everyone to have fun and is really sensitive of anyone feeling uncomfortable.

Thanks for being nice and reasonable Lulz. I had a long shitty day. I'm going to stop commenting because I'm irritated and I'm just going to piss people off when I don't mean to. That was a good response. I owe you hug later.

LulzAndHappiness · 3 days

I saw your other comment about that earlier. It's something I'd like to consider now. I don't know how to go about doing it though. Are you suggesting HIV testing at one of the events or something else?

LulzAndHappiness · 3 days

I'm not going to get into a point by point bitching match with you.

LulzAndHappiness · 3 days

It's not. It's a lot of carefully planned events all with gayming. You will have gayming at locations across the city each day with other events including Dodgeball, Millennium Park, food outings, etc. If you can find some time to orgy it up between everything on the schedule good for you but I've said from day one this isn't an orgy.

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