As I said, kinda dumb. There's likely some homophobia that went into the decision.
From a purely economic view, though, there might be some justification? If the blood is batch tested, e.g. 10 samples are mixed and tested, excluding a group more likely to have a disease would mean you'd throw out less blood (or have less testing to do if you then test individual samples). I don't know enough about blood donation testing to say if that's a valid argument or not, though.
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/gay-bisexual-men.html
https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/hiv-risk-in-gay-men#transmission
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_and_men_who_have_sex_with_men
https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/2019-UNAIDS-data_en.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10159196/#pone.0281578.ref001
Consensus is that MSM are somewhere between 20-26 times more likely to contract HIV then other adult men. How much of that is biological and how much is cultural (e.g. in countries where homosexual sex is criminalized, access to healthcare and prophylactic medicines are likely less available) is definitely up for debate, and it of course does not mean that a straight man cannot contract HIV.
Gay men are statistically more likely to contract HIV. Of course, it would be horribly irresponsible and negligent not to test donated blood/plasma for HIV in the first place, so yeah, kinda dumb.
Sorta. Congress has the power to declare war, but the President has the power to direct the military in war and in "peace". The War Powers Act was supposed to constrain that power, which limits military action without Congressional Approval to 60 days (plus 30 for withdrawal). But no President has acknowledged that that law is constitutional. Plus 90 days is a long time in modern warfare.
They're saying the monkey paw interpretation is the wisher want to end the wars. "I wish to [be the one to] end all wars."
Generally, anything from 3 times a day to once every 3 days is considered the range of normal.
No no no, we'll just tow all the polluting thing outside the environment.
They don't have a repo as far as I know. Hence the manual .deb install.
Uh, or you're still cooking after getting back from work?
Conversely, healthy people have (mandated) health insurance at minimal cost to the insurance companies.
Second About Time. One of my favorite movies.