what the fuck is a plasma company
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
They take people's blood plasma and use it to make various pharmaceuticals
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Replying to @arthur_affect
oh, as an AB+ blood type human this makes them my apex predator then
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
They're a classic way to make money in a pinch, although they're less good for that than they used to be (they've mostly outsourced the compensation to those stupid companies that issue cards with "points" instead of cash)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Depressingly, I have at least one friend who has relied on this regularly. which seems kind of, idk, really fucked up that we have the poor selling their blood plasma and we don't even have sexy vampires. feels like a ripoff?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy
Always figured vampires need to drink the red blood cells, it's the part of blood that's actually the "lifeblood" with the oxygen in it By the same token that's why plasma donation isn't really risky the way whole blood donation is, it just dehydrates you a bit
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The main thing about it is that it's a much more involved process -- they're pulling the blood out, filtering out the plasma, then pumping it back into you The blood inevitably cools off a bit in the process and this feels like having bad chills
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I used to regularly donate platelets, and they'd give you an electric blanket to make the process more comfortable
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