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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAh, I knew it..
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    1 day ago

    That’s what happens when no one goes into trades and everyone wants to be a manager or “work in IT or with computers.”

    Two of my friends are excellent tradesmen and they make a fabulous living. And they always have work and no student loans. They’re living really great lives and are very content.






  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlSays it all.
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    1 year ago

    This includes deaths from covid-induced pneumonia, and influenza has higher seasonality. Including deaths from influenza-induced pneumonia, not cherry picking a summer month, and using a per capita statistic shows that covid is more deadly than the flu, but only about twice as deadly, not almost 24 times more deadly as your comment implies. Further, if you are under 50, the mortality rates for influenza are roughly equal or lower than covid depending on your age. Flu is much more likely to be disastrous for young children than covid.



  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlNot today, sorry.
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    1 year ago

    Do what you want, but that’s not how that works. Businesses aren’t “using” or “taking” your donation or claiming them as their own. They’re basically just serving as a collection point for whatever charity indicated. If you choose not to claim it yourself, that’s your choice, but the donation is “from” you “to” the charity. The supermarket or whatever just provides visibility for the charity and the collections logistics. It saves those charities having to find people to stand outside and ring a bell and hope you have change in your pocket.

    If you’re not contributing to a charity in lieu of not participating in these “round up donations” programs, then you’re simply choosing to not donate to charity. Which is fine, as far as that goes.