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The question was about early voting though? Voting by mail is only a small piece of the early voting total in most states

Early voting in the US as we know it today, meaning going to a polling place to cast your vote in-person prior to election day, started in Texas in 1987 and spread to other states from there. Every state has its own specific rules regarding how long the early voting period lasts, and other aspects like how long polling places are open each day may even be left up to local governments.

Where I'm at in Texas, we have some early voting locations that stay open until 10pm, even on weekends. I've never had to wait more than 20 minutes to vote (and usually less) since I started voting in the 2000 election. We have 12 days to vote before election day, and even a website with real-time updates on wait times at each polling place across the county.

The drawback is there are fewer voting sites open during early voting, so people with transportation barriers will have to expend effort to get there, but you can do so on whatever day works for your schedule. On election day itself, way more polling sites are open, so there's likely to be a site within walking distance or a short drive in denser areas, but lines are much longer than during the early voting period, and many people have to work because it's a Tuesday and not a holiday

Also, Mississippi, Alabama, and New Hampshire have no early voting and pretty much require everyone in the entire state to vote on election day.

Bro the GME short squeeze is going to hit any day now. We're going to be millionaires bro, you just wait

More Japanese-produced Godzilla movies, please! The US-produced ones suck

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In the US you can cash a check at many grocery stores for about $3. Banks have explicit policies in regards to shutting down accounts, have you looked into any of those, or is this all a thought experiment?

I'm sure they'll send you a check for the remainder.

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.