Vance suffers an epileptic seizure, shits himself, and bites off Donny Jr.

Trump panics and strokes out; Vance suffocates on the severed pecker.

Johnson goes to call for help, slips on Vance’s shit, and falls face first onto Trump’s stainless steel buttplug.

They need to spread out. LAPD can handle a 10,000 person riot, but they’d be overwhelmed by 20, 100-person protests.

If you’re going to protest, pick 20 possible protest sites in the city, and share your list with everyone. When the riot cops finally show up at your site, move to another; force them to repeatedly redeploy.

IMO, you can’t really cut “sweet”. You can increase the complexity; you can make it “rich”, but the sweetness tends to overpower whatever you might add.

You might have better luck starting with British-style baked beans. My local (US) grocery stores carry Heinz Beanz

Newsom can un-fuck the CA NG troops. He is constitutionally empowered to appoint the officers of the NG units. He can discharge them, effectively disbanding the National Guard units. California has a State Guard as well as National Guard. The State Guard answers solely to the Governor; it cannot be federalized. Newsom can offer the officers and troops commissions in the State Guard or the State Police, while disbanding the National Guard units.

Smaller charities tend to do much better in my experience.

UBI is not charity. UBI is what the nation owes you as a shareholder of USA, Inc.

Giving people money doesn’t teach long term skills that lead to success.

Exactly. Which is why the children of rich people so often become homeless. All that money they had when they were kids kept them from learning long-term skills that lead to success. It stunted their financial growth, rendering them particularly susceptible to poverty.

The children of the impoverished, on the other hand, were forced to learn money management skills for their very survival. The superior money management skills of impoverished kids practically guarantee their future success.

This explains why self-made millionaires are so common, and generational wealth is so difficult to maintain.

Right? That’s how it works in your head, right? The people with easy access to money never learn how to manage it and ultimately squander it, right? The people who have to fight for every dime are the most successful, right?

Right?

I also think it would be better to have private organizations that have less bureaucracy.

Agreed. And an organization doesn’t get smaller or privater than a single individual. We can cut out 100% of the bullshit bureaucracy and give it straight to the individual, directly, or their caregiver if they are not qualified to maintain their own affairs. Remove everyone else, as they don’t add shareholder value.

Indeed.

Each of the issues you described is mitigated - if not cured - by steady income. And each is greatly exacerbated by a lack of such income.

What is really important is that the family and friends of the people struggling with these conditions aren’t also impoverished. The outcomes of each these conditions are vastly improved when the sufferer’s caregivers have the time and resources to attend to them.

UBI benefits everyone involved.

For the cases where the individual is not capable of managing their own money, it is still better for their caregiver to receive and manage their money on their behalf than to periodically send them crates of cauliflower and tomatoes.

I don’t care who I’ll be arguing with, but the disagreement will center on the hour and manner of Trump’s inevitable demise.

I’m thinking a trauma-induced stroke, caused when JD Vance has a sudden epileptic fit and bites off Donny Jr. in the Lincoln bedroom.

For PFAS, yes, definitely. They’ve done studies on this, some are linked elsewhere in the thread. PFAS in the bloodstream is removed through either whole blood or plasma donation.

For microplastics, I can’t say with absolute certainty, as I don’t know the concentration of microplastics in the blood, or if replacement blood/plasma contains microplastics. But, the mechanism is the same: extract polluted fluids; allow body to replace with non-polluted fluids. Concentration of pollution falls.

Turns out that money is one of those things that the less you have of it, the harder it is to manage.

The events you’re talking about occurred from the 1970’s to 1983. They haven’t done prison blood drives or accepted plasma from prisoners in over 40 years.

If you’ve spent more than 72 hours incarcerated, you are ineligible to donate blood products for 12 months.

Yep! US allows plasma donation up to two times per week, with at least 48 hours between donations.

Can’t donate plasma or blood for 8 weeks after donating whole blood, or 16 weeks after donating packed RBCs.

Packed RBCs are basically the reverse of plasma donation. Instead of returning the RBCs and keeping the plasma, they take two units of RBCs and return the plasma.

I mean, if you really want to, you can go to the hospital and pay them to provide the exact same treatment.

They centrifuge your blood and return the RBCs, but the PFAS hangs out in the plasma. Mostly. If there was much in the red blood cells, the liver would be removing it and you’d be pooping it out.

Donating plasma works even better. They extract a larger volume of fluids per session, twice a week instead of once every 8 weeks.

Don’t worry about the recipient: If you are donating plasma regularly, your PFAS levels will be well below average.

It’s called “plasmapheresis”, and they’ll pay you $40 twice a week to sit in a chair for an hour while they do it.

That’s not completely true.

Your employer withholds your federal taxes from your paycheck.

The state of California employs a lot of people. The state can intercept those funds, refusing to send them to the IRS. That obviously only affects state employees, but it is feasible.

The state could go on to act as a staffing agency, “hiring” workers whose labor is then contracted to private businesses. The state would then be doing the withholding for their employees, and the business would be contracting with the state.