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https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ - For the UK.

From left to right:

• Computer Science: Wunderkind who went into CS hoping to be the next Steve Jobs but ended up at Academia after figuring out how to get broadband speed data connections over shortwave radio. May be in the throws of a gender crisis, but who knows.
• Archeology and/or History: This man is an expert in Minoan history. He originally planned to go into Egyptology until he attended a lecture on the Thera Eruption and got hyper obsessed. Known for his eccentric dress sense, unless he's on an archeological dig (in which case he dresses in overalls, doesn't want to get his suits dirty). Openly gay. Believed Linear A might be a abugida.
• Economics and Gender Studies: You may think economics and gender studies are odd bedfellows, but this professor wrote a paper on the economics of transgender women in which she argued, with receipts, that transgender women effectively fall a whole class category when they transition and are where ciswomen were societally in the 1950s and is falling quickly. Her mail, both personal and professional, has to go through the mailroom of the medical department, because their mailroom is bombproofed due to pro-lifers sending them pipebombs, because she keeps getting death threats and even a pipebomb from anti-trans groups. Judith Butler and Abigail Thorne both cite her works on the regular. Her book on non-monitery economics is required reading.
• Mycology: Got into Mycology because of Terrance McKenna, stayed in Mycology because of Paul Stamets. Despite not working with psychedelic mushrooms, he is on several watchlists and has to add an extra three hours every time he goes international or flies. He managed to send a message from one end of a forest to the other, not only proving that fungi "talk" to each other but also how fast a message takes. Believes that studying Mycology also has engineering and political applications too. The latter is the reason why he keeps getting stopped at airport security. His essay on "Anarcho-Mycologism", despite not advocating violence, is seen as threatening by most governments.

Ok but those weren't academics though.

You're right and you should say it.

Soon it will be easier to visit North Korea than the USA, which I suspect is the plan.

OH WOODROW WILSON.

I thought you meant Harold.

Wilson and Reagan left office before the dementia really took hold at 60 and 78 respectively, Trump on the other hand is 79, one year older than when Reagan left office and has four years left to go, when he'll be 83, and dementia doesn't stop for anyone.

Wilson threw in the towel when he realized he was getting too long in the tooth admitting that he was not up to the job. Reagan left office because he legally had to (two terms) which is something Trump is openly saying he will not do.

So one admissions of poor health, one case of being legally required to. Not exactly good arguments against a man who openly is saying he will flout the constitution for a third term.

Oh I don't think he's on death's door, I think however he's got a condition that makes him unable to be president.

Anyone surprised?

And in another five years, I’m sure he’ll look even worse.

First off, have you ever had relatives with dementia? When you have a relative, especially a close relative, you can see the signs. A drop in the face is one of the most noticeable, often it's one of the first things you notice, alongside other things like trouble walking, coordination issues, and often Erratic, Hostile behavior. The last one of course is one that Trump has always had, but the other ones can be seen very clearly in most news footage of him. Man's got issues.

Second off, I don't know what things are like over there, but here we have public information films that are broadcast on TV to teach people how to spot a stroke, because it's imperative that you get someone help when you suspect a stroke. The signs are:

• A droop in one side of the face.
• Trouble lifting their arms.
• Slurred speech.

The Acronym "FAST" is used here: Face, Arms, Speech, Time. A droop in the face is something that remains for a while after a stroke. Donald Trump very likely has either had a stroke or a severe brain injury on the level of being shot through the head and surviving. If I saw a man who looked like Donald Trump in that picture in the Supermarket, I would stop and ask if they were OK, because I might need to call a fucking Ambulance!

And I'm not saying that for partisan reasons, even with Biden's senior moments I thought that (as did he) that he was getting too long in the tooth, but it's very clear this man has dementia and it is developing quickly. His father had dementia and people who have had family members with the condition are at a higher risk of having it.

All of this is an issue because this man is in charge of Nuclear Weapons and is also the head of a personality cult that the ruling party want to maintain no matter what and thus is reluctant to officially at least trigger the Twenty-fifth Amendment. Donald Trump is becoming incapacitated and the Administration is reluctant to accept that.

Despite not being American, the fact that America has nukes, one of most powerful armed forces in the world and are in a Cold War with two others nuclear armed nations with one of them at war with a European country and the other threatening to Invade an ally and the source of the world's Microprocessors, and has a President who's very clearly had a stroke and is developing dementia, it is kinda my problem because I don't particularly want to be vaporized when the Russians slam nukes into Edinburgh City Center and Edinburgh Airport, because I just happen to be in the blast radius of both of those places, ken?

Trump appears healthier than Cheney and Cheney lasted five years longer than Trump is right now. So don’t hold your breath.

My sibling in sin, half his face is drooping.

F...for a while yes.