Source? When they proposed to do this for blood donors, it got shut down in a hurry.
ah, but[^1] if you donate a kidney you go to the top of the queue
you’re losing one when you don’t need one, and receiving one when you do
insurance salesman here[^2], just in case that might have gibt unnoticed
[^1]: to the best of my knowledge
[^2]: obviously not
Halafax@kbin.social 10 months ago
Zeus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
of course they do: they've only got one kidney, so it's more important for them to get a replacement quickly
alright, i was being facetious. a cursory search tells me this, but i have no idea if it’s true or not. i imagine not, but i don’t know
Halafax@kbin.social 10 months ago
If you read the articles you linked, you’ll notice some specifically fishy language. Neither one says that donors are promised first dibs, only that they often get it. If it’s not written down, you have nothing if they decide to do it differently.
Zeus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
i know. like i said, i don’t believe it
^i^ ^was^ ^just^ ^trying^ ^to^ ^be^ ^funny^ ^:^ ^(^
poplargrove@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m guessing you didn’t manually insert those footnotes, how did you?
Zeus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
lemmy supports two footnote formats
the basic type like so:
comment body here[^1] [^1]: and the footnote at the very bottom of the comment
or the easy to write type
comment body here^[and the inline footnote](note the different locations for the caret)
keep in mind that they don’t work on most apps, and some frontends
poplargrove@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
Zeus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
no worries, here’s the actual documentation. apparently there’s a third syntax that i never use as well
Oaksey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But it won’t be your own kidney and you will have to take drugs to try and stop your body rejecting it.