Yeah, I understood. My reply wasn’t actually directed at you; sorry for not being clear. I just wanted to add that bit in case other readers didn’t know that this was more forceful than a request.

They weren’t asked, they were mandated to do so directly by executive order. I get the desire to not comply, here, but if I’m NIH, I’m probably thinking that complying to keep the doors open for four years will do a hell of a lot more for the country than if they refuse and Trump totally dismantles their entire architecture with enough time that it’s difficult to reinstitute when he’s gone.

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Their wording is confusing, but I think what you first understood is correct. Over 30 million Americans don’t even live within an hour of a trauma care department (and an hour is further away): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28069138/

The mayor says that it’s because the nearest hospital is 45 km away, but a full 16% of the US population, or roughly 55 million people, live further than that from a hospital (https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index.html).

US healthcare really needs to stop looking like a third-world country.

Well it is a behavior disorder. If you don’t have disruptive behavior, plenty of other psychiatric conditions cause the same or worse executive dysfunction (e.g., bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder) and the same or worse social anxiety and rejection sensitivity (e.g., social anxiety disorder). Let’s not pretend like ADHD isn’t difficult for others around the individual to deal with; it is, by definition, if someone has it.

Ask me if you’d like sources for any of the above.

That’s actually a fairly common misconception. Professors get fired for cause all the time with tenure. People can also be let go even without cause if the college’s board of directors votes to approve. Usually the board of directors won’t give individual professors any thought, but if the professor is acting in ways they believe go against the best interests of the school–even if it doesn’t strictly violate to the professor’s contract–boards can and do vote to let professors go in those cases.

Tenure exists to protect a professor’s freedom to research what they’re interested in, even if it’s not immediately fundable or a “hot topic.” It allows for faculty to stand up to deans when deans taking the college in a bad direction. It also allows professors to have the ability to require a constant level academic rigor to pass their class (e.g., even if a cohort of students is less prepared out of high school, they need to achieve the same level of mastery) since their contracts aren’t dependent on teaching evaluations–provided that the professors are teaching their classes as expected. Its only actual reason for existing is research freedom, though, and firing happens all the time for reasons unrelated to research.

Source: am professor

Just as an aside, I hadn’t heard of that cursor feature before, and this is wonderful. Thanks for drawing my attention to it. I have to keep my work phone loaded with all the Google/MS spyware, so I still use Gboard on that phone. This will make typing work emails a lot easier.

I’ve heard that most, if not all, of their stations outside of NY are essentially for training other police departments. Is that not true?

I’d like to know as well

I use Linux. I’m a researcher, not IT. Many of my colleagues use Linux.

Deflecting blame by subtle ethnic discrimination. Nice.

Yeah, people here clearly do not understand that this is the most benign investment strategy that could exist.

This is literally the entire stock market, excluding US. All publicly traded companies worldwide. It’s the epitomy of the “set it and forget it” investment strategy. If you don’t know how to invest, this, coupled with VTI and a bond ETF or two, would be exactly what you would own, and nothing more.

A bit of an exaggeration, sure. But only a bit. The lay summary of the article I referenced states the following:

Venkataraman et al. find that the paper commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper: leaving out important papers, including irrelevant papers, using duplicate papers, mis-coding their societies, getting the wrong values for “big” versus “small” game, and many others.

“commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper,” and, “completely incorrect,” aren’t very different.

This study this meme is based on is completely incorrect and should be retracted. Here’s a lay summary of its issues:

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/04/new-paper-debunks-the-prevalence-of-women-hunting-in-early-societies/

And the published article detailing the problems with that study’s issues:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513824000497

When have we been talking about anyone’s diagnosis? We’ve been talking about the common misperception that depressive episodes caused by environmental triggers are not a result of treatable neurochemical dysfunction. MDD can certainly be a result of environmental triggers, and there are a wide variety of neurochemical bases of it. I distinctly said in my first comment that I was referencing a small part of your reply. I’m not trying to have a needless fight, I’m trying to correct a common public misperception that you reiterated. I do that whenever I see a misunderstanding of science; I care about public science education, especially on topics important enough as psychiatric conditions that are often fatal without treatment. If you feel like this is a pointless fight, sorry. I only commented because I understood your comment to mean something that, no matter my read of your wording, you clearly say you weren’t meaning.

MDD is a real disability. It can and often is precipitated by environmental triggers, and episodes can resolve once the environment is changed. Just because someone experiences remission in such a case doesn’t mean they don’t have a disorder that should be treated prior to another episode. Dichotomizing chemical and psychological/environmental is harmful.

My point is that such a lay interpretation isn’t helpful, and it may be harmful. Plenty of people with MDD have an environmental trigger prior to their first episode, and have their episode remit after that precipitating factor is managed. Convincing someone that their experience isn’t chemical suggests against treatment seeking during remission, such as seeking therapy, which could help prevent another episode (and one that may not have an environmental trigger). A depressive episode can be fatal. Telling someone that because their prior episode remitted spontaneously or after the environmental trigger changed might prevent them from getting the proactive and preventative treatment that they need to keep them from experiencing another episode and thus keep them alive. Don’t gatekeep depression.

And how do you think addressing stressors works? Some non-chemical means?