This is just another example of how little we understand about fungi as an entire kingdom

Will they get "pissed off" by this though? Reality has demonstrated time and again that the people actually being wronged don't particularly care about being wronged, as long as it's part of their leader's "strategy."

I'll bite...what is on that plate

Is this showing changes in arable land or changes in land dedicated to agriculture? Those are different things

Let me reiterate that Allen Frances is in no way "the guy who invented the diagnostic criteria for NPD." He lead a team that synthesized decades of research into the diagnostic criteria for NPD.

Allen Frances is a brilliant physician, and he's also only one man airing an opinion about whether or not he believes Donald Trump meets the DSM-IV criterion of experiencing clinically-significant distress across multiple areas of functioning. People should absolutely consider Allen Frances' opinion, but just because he's Allen Francis doesn't make it automatically right.

For example, what happens when someone denies up and down ever having any problems despite blatant evidence to the contrary? Or does having so much money that you never experience social or occupational consequences exempt one from having a personality disorder?

Donald Trump has left a wake of destroyed social and occupational relationships everywhere he has gone his entire life. He has faced continual legal ramifications for his actions for decades, but has always been in such a position of power as to avoid real consequences. Donald Trump, who, Allen Francis notes, "demonstrates in pure form every single symptom described in the DSM for Narcissistic Personality Disorder," clearly experiences clinically significant distress related to NPD mitigated by wealth and power.

I respect Allen Frances' work and his opinion. I respect his perspective that psychiatric diagnoses should not be thrown around as political weapons and his distress that they are being used as such. I disagree in this instance, where Allen Francis himself describes Donald Trump as demonstrating in pure form every single symptom, that this is not relevant to discuss, because it literally affects the course of this country and the well-being of people I love. Donald Trump has clinically-diagnosable Narcissistic Personality Disorder. That needs to be part of the conversation when considering whether we should put him back in the White House.

This is a joke, right? That diagnosis was built on the work of hundreds of people over many decades

Learn how to turn that water shutoff knob. Don't get caught with a poopy floor

Literally textbook NPD. He doesn't just think highly of himself, he's fundamentally incapable of considering how anything happening around him affects anyone else besides him. If he didn't have money, he'd be sad and alone by this point in his life

Growth doesn't matter as long as people still treat the currency like it has value. Most of that debt is owed the the people of the United States, and as long as the US govt continues to pay interest on T bonds and make Social Security payments people will continue to have confidence in the system.

Take a look at Japan as a more advanced example of this, with a larger debt as a percentage of GDP than the US and still maintainjng a sustainable economy despite population shrinkage

What happens to this company when the venture capital funding dried up? How do they make money?

The Department of Homeless Services says it’s cut ties with three nonprofits cited in the report and were seeking corrective measures from at least two others.

Right there below the headline it mentions how the city has already taken corrective action on this. The headline in particular doesn't play well to a national audience, given that it's an article only about NYC and whose target audience is NYC

Lead exposure doesn't make you weird, it makes you dumber and increases your risk of cardiovascular problems and dementia later in life.

Air lead exposure in the US dropped off a cliff in the late 70s, people born after 1980 had very little lead exposure from the air on a population level

Dobsonflies don't even eat Dobson!

What a world

After the end of the Cold War, there's a clear trend in US spending where it ratchets down every year during Democratic administrations and up again during Republican administrations. The only exceptions are the first two years of the Obama admin, after he inherited Bush's wars, and 2023, after Russia invaded Ukraine

A bunch had already gotten their discharge statuses upgraded, the Biden Admin just proactively went back to identify everyone affected and upgrade their discharge status without them requesting an upgrade.

I'd like to see the list of movies with the smallest difference

The people that need to be reached with a "cognitive decline" message are low information voters who don't know that superficial, rapid-fire lies like this are normal for Trump and just see this screenshot with words written down that make very little sense

“Since DADT repeal [in 2010], many veterans who sought to upgrade their less than honorable discharges reported a prolonged and burdensome process, often requiring the use of a lawyer, to seek the respect and benefits they rightfully earned,” the letter stated. “And far too many veterans discharged under DADT had no idea they could seek an upgrade or where to start the process.”

Austin said today that 96% of the service members who were separated under DADT now have an honorable discharge.

“We will continue to strive to do right by every American patriot who has honorably served their country,” he said.

Glad the Biden Admin proactively upgraded their discharge statuses so no more veterans have to fight to change theirs

Mullis acquired a reputation for erratic behavior at Cetus, once threatening to bring a gun to work; he also engaged in "public lovers' quarrels" with his then-girlfriend (a fellow chemist at the company) and "nearly came to blows with another scientist" at a staff party, according to California Magazine. White recalled: "It definitely put me in a tough spot. His behavior was so outrageous that the other scientists thought that the only reason I didn't fire him outright was that he was a friend of mine."

After resigning from Cetus in 1986, Mullis served as director of molecular biology for Xytronyx, Inc. in San Diego for two years. While inventing a UV-sensitive ink at Xytronyx, he became skeptical of the existence of the ozone hole.

And he only goes downhill from there...

"Con Te Partiró" was not what I was expecting lmao

Great song. Andrea Boccelli should sue Trump to stop him from using it.