Oh shit, Godzilla vs. Biollante got a Criterion release. Badass movie

Evolution as a theory predates our understanding of genetics by many decades. Even before we were able to sequence genes, we were using morphology and a variety of other factors to determine relationships between living organisms.

Well, along came genetics. We discovered that neutral mutations in DNA tend to happen at consistent rates, which meant we could compare DNA of two organism to see how similar they were, and could even use their differences to estimate how long ago they had a common ancestor.

How can you “confirm evolution is real?” Sequence the genes of many organisms and compare them. Build your very own tree of life.

You just want to log in to your 401k account and take control of where your investments go. You always want to be invested in funds with low expense ratios, like index funds, but you can also pick funds that are invested outside the US. Most of my 403b now is in index funds or low expense ratio funds invested in Europe, Asia, and emerging markets. I just have a bad feeling about the US market for the foreseeable future for some reason

If you remove and repour just the center slab, you’re going to change the pressure against the ground which is likely to cause some shifting among all the surrounding tiles. You’re definitely going to find someone willing to replace just the center tile, but if you do that you’ll almost certainly be in a position in a couple years where you’re looking to replace the whole thing.

I’d save up to remove it all, and think creatively about what an entirely new patio could look like. You don’t have to replace it on its current footprint, but I can’t see enough of your space in this picture to give you any layout recommendations.

Why’d you respond to this guy and not me, who posted a long, professional response ten hours before him? Btw, I agree your take is sexist, because you’re basing your view on stereotypes of men and not on any evidence.

A lot of detailed information on the Wikipedia page. There are a ton of different ways people can come into contact with mercury, and a ton of different formulations of mercury with varying effects. For what symptoms adults may exhibit from the most common form of organic exposure, look no further than RFK Jr., who himself has stated he has mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna:

Due to the body’s inability to degrade catecholamines (e.g. adrenaline), a person with mercury poisoning may experience profuse sweating, tachycardia (persistently faster-than-normal heart beat), increased salivation, and hypertension (high blood pressure).

It also causes memory impairment and reduced IQ. RFK Jr. seems to really fit the bill here.

But for something truly terrifying, try dimethylmercury. People can get one drop on their skin, then several months later start developing symptoms, and die within a year. It even soaks right through rubber and latex gloves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury

For full symptom progression, check out Minimata Disease.

After reading this article (without reading the actual study), this is not surprising. It seems like their measure of what constitutes treatment-resistant depression is a failure of two or more antidepressant trials, but it’s widely known that depression has multiple etiologies, only one of which is possibly addressed by an SSRI.

For example, they cite right here in the article the comorbidity between personality disorders and treatment-resistant depression. People who have personality characteristics that include e.g. difficulty with emotional regulation, a proclivity for tumultuous relationships, or self-injurious behaviors frequently find themselves struggling with employment, relationships, and more. This makes people feel depressed, and there is no pill that’s going to help.

I’d be interested to know the level of comorbidity with trauma history, as well.

Study participants and clinicians offered valuable suggestions for improvement. These included…offering more diverse psychological treatments beyond cognitive-behavioral therapy…

This is clutch. CBT is not going to work for the group described above. People need competently delivered Dialectical Behavior Therapy to learn adaptive skills around emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal communication, and Cognitive Processing Therapy for those with trauma-related anxiety symptoms and who are ready for it.

This is a quote from Tom Sawyer, by Rush, one of the greatest rock bands of all time and Canada’s finest

https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk

As a (male) psychotherapist, I really have to disagree with you on all counts. A common goal in psychotherapy is to learn how to recognize and describe your internal experience. Lots of people struggle with this, men and women. Every single person walks into therapy with a different set of circumstances and a different set of objectives, and I’ve never once heard a single psychotherapist say “therapy is not suitable for all men.” That doesn’t make sense.

Anecdotally, it is true that men seem less likely to approach therapy with willingness. This is a trend I’ve noticed, and is by no means a rule. What this demonstrates is a difference in socialization and acculturation between genders, so that men and women tend to “start” psychotherapy in different places in regards to social/emotional development. But psychotherapy as a discipline is absolutely not geared toward women over men.

“Changes aren’t permanent, but change is!”

-Rush

Therapy takes work, my friend. Professionals can’t help you unless you want help and are willing to work toward change. If you’re expecting some external factor to “fix it for you,” you’re going to be disappointed

The best treatment for anxiety is to just confront it, feel anxious, and then realize on the other side it was actually fine. Won’t make it go away immediately, but it’ll decrease over time. Anxiety is a normal human emotion, it just gets a little to intense for some people sometimes

In the US, we call the thin, rollable ones you’ve got there crepes. Crepes aren’t as common as “American pancakes,” but you can still find them at many restaurants

In Texas, we play a delicate game between last frost date and sear-your-eyebrows-off heat. Growing here from June-August can be difficult without the proper balance of shade and sun and consistent irrigation. We have a ton of natives that love this weather, but not many are good to eat. All this to say, I’m jealous of people who can have a simple veggie garden all summer!

While I’ve largely given up on the invasive species fight, I still think it’s important to not plant virulently invasive plants. Jerusalem artichoke is one of those plants that’ll take over your whole garden and beyond, and you probably shouldn’t plant it in-ground in an area where it’s invasive. Even native plants can sometimes be the wrong thing to plant if they’re not in the right place. I’m dealive with some willow-leaf aster that’s native to my area that I just can’t eliminate from a raised bed. I thought it’d look pretty in there, but turns out it sends up shoots everywhere and the tiniest bit of root creates a new plant

All that said, I’ve been planting things native to hotter and dryer areas to the south and west of where I live. I also look around at invasive species and realize the fight is hopeless. Chinabarry, ligustrum, and paper mulberry are everywhere, crowding out our native oaks. I did a volunteer project where we cleared ligustrum from a creek bed, and two years later it’s all back, new growth from seed. The manpower required to stop it is not realistic for most places.

I’ve had onion starts in the ground about two weeks, growing yellow and Texas sweets this year. About to transplant cantaloupe, watermelon, and eggplants outside!

Edit cause all y’all are talking about perennials, my Fuyu persimmon is leafing out and my Mexican plum is covered in white flowers and buzzing with native insects!

He joined in June '23 after the reddit API debacle, along with many of us. 4610 posts + 67178 comments over 20 months comes out to 120 posts and comments per day, every day, for over a year and a half. A true addict, one that puts the rest of us addicts to shame.

Way to make someone expressing concern about someone else instead about your politics

He shared a lot about his life on here and I worry he set himself up for failure moving to the UK. Based on what he’s said, he had a condition where he no longer wanted to eat, and then stopped working for a long time because of that. He seemed to expect that finding a job was going to be easy moving to a new country, but that’s not typically the case, especially after having not worked in years.

After moving, he talked a lot about finding a job, which had me wondering what changed. While he wasn’t working, he was spending 12+ hours on Lemmy every day, with like well over a hundred posts/comments per day, and constantly talking about not being able to work. Going from that mindset to desperately trying to find a job in a foreign country seems like a mindfuck.

Yeah I honestly hadn’t even heard of this movie before today. Maybe there’s also a marketing issue