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You’ve got 2 kidneys. You generously give one to someone in need.
You have 1 kidney. You now have a single point of failure, where you had redundancy before.
IT guy here, just in case that might have gibt unnoticed.
If I ever end up in a coma with little hope of recovery, I want them to unplug me. And then plug me back again.
I I was in that position, I'd rather be retired.
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
But it won’t be your own kidney and you will have to take drugs to try and stop your body rejecting it.
Source? When they proposed to do this for blood donors, it got shut down in a hurry.
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 [says(https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/news/organ-donors-who-need-kidneys-go-to-top-of-transplant-list) this, but it's the states only, and i have no idea if it's true or not. i imagine not, but i don't know
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.
i know. like i said, i don't believe it
^i^ ^was^ ^just^ ^trying^ ^to^ ^be^ ^funny^ ^:^ ^(^
I'm guessing you didn't manually insert those footnotes, how did you?
lemmy supports two footnote formats
the basic type like so:
or the easy to write type
(note the different locations for the caret)
keep in mind that they don't work on most apps, and some frontends
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
no worries, here's the actual documentation. apparently there's a third syntax that i never use as well
On the plus side, someone else gets to continue existing.
Or from the IT perspective: I have two important servers, one has a single drive, the other has RAID mirroring. The drive in the first server fails. I could take a drive out of the server with RAID and have two functional servers or I could keep the second one running on its RAID and have a server with redundancy (that hopefully/might not be needed).
(I'm not going out and donating a kidney though, guess we can say it's because I'm selfish.)
But as OP points out, someone will get that kidney eventually anyway. So the difference is that a different someone else gets to continue existing.
OP erroneously thought that but it's not actually correct. The conditions where someone dies but their kidney is viable for a transplant are rare.
Counterpoint: If you're an IT guy, you're probably making enough money that you can donate mosquito nets and save tons of lives, and it's not worth risking all that to save one more.
Unless you're running RAID 0 (stripe), then you'd lose everything by pulling one of the drives.
I don't recommend using RAID 0 for kidneys.