This is a great way to frame this. To put this thinking into an example, most people who are abusive toward others have themselves been victims of abuse earlier in their lives and are reenacting patterns they were taught. I think those people deserve compassion and understanding

Not only diseases and predators keep them in check, there are also other plants that can effectively compete with them in their native range too

Yeah but have you tried eating a lot of cheese and drinking nothing but Red Bull?

17 is the age of consent in 39 of 50 states. And this doesn’t make a relationship illegal, it would make sex illegal, which OP doesn’t say anything about

A 3 year age gap isn’t creepy at all. He’s not “grooming” her at all either, you sound like a homophobic MAGA with that flippant, derisive use of that term.

We’d all be hard pressed to find anything you feel is acceptable. It seems your favorite hobby is shitting on everyone and everything on Lemmy.

Shade is everything. Tree shade is the best, because trees transpire, cooling the ground beneath them even more than shade would alone.

Inside your house (depending on what kind of home you have), you can also take a look at your overall energy efficiency, including windows, doors, insulation in walls and attic, and weather stripping to seal all gaps

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since they’re billed as ‘acrobats’, I assumed skill was involved

How do you think they got up there?

Pretty sure in atleast a couple of the games, he says “I’m good now!” And everyone believes him until the double cross

Astrophysicist?

Atheist. Religion is an explanation of the world that’s made the fuck up. I think people make shit up to explain reality because accepting uncertainty is difficult, but that doesn’t make it ok. The world around you exists, just like it is. There is no special place you get to go if you follow the right set of rules .

Without suffering, there is no enjoyment. What do you enjoy? What are you grateful for? “Nothing” is a cynical and avoidant answer here, because every person has legitimate answers to these two questions. What are yours?

To your point, I think the political will to defend Greenland will definitely be there from the overwhelming majority of other NATO states.

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.