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Feb 24 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
During my convalescence this evening,

I decided to go back & rewatch the @DouglasKMurray @mtaibbi debate against @Gladwell & @michelleinbklyn on the subject of trust in the mainstream media.

& DANG!🎤🤯
#mediabias #journalism #news #newsroom #politics… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The most persuasive & impactful debate performance I've ever seen for these Roberts-rules type single subject debates.

With @DouglasKMurray in particular,

This is how you use persuasion & facts to take out an opponent, to brutal effect🪓🪵
I like @Gladwell a lot, but this debate was not his best moment; his attacks came off as very personal & rarely engaged with what the other speakers were saying.

Goldberg did fine but she was nowhere as pointed to the topic as her opponents.
@DouglasKMurray I don't think I've ever wanted to switch my brain for someone else's more than I do for Douglass atm

His performance is incredible, just absolutely took the cons to the woodshed

love @DouglasKMurray closing statement

"When the facts go wrong, we become glib about them or decide it's just the facts that will suit your side or pretend to play a game of honesty, & it's not actually about honesty. Everything else about a … twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Feb 25
n the upper midwest, theres a pain clinic shortage, as in no one wants to work at a pain clinic,

Sanford just killed all their pain clinics in my home state of South Dakota; this is not a glorious or unrisky profession.

DEA & Biden just tied a cement block to a drowning man
One of the few positives from Covid is that telehealth was allowed to expand; the tech had been there for over a decade, but big-med prevented it.

But Covid pushed legislators & the President to finally allow this change in American medicine.

We should not go back.
If I have to meet in person every time w/ my provider to fill my meds that means instead of having a routine short appt to fit my work schedule

I have to spend a whole day for a doctor's appointment & enlist a family member to drive me & help me get the prescription picked up
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Feb 25
ooh boy,
we are going to see a lot of pain specialists consider leaving the practice after this change 😖

apnews.com/article/prescr…
problem w/ this requirement,

pain specialists already have to see patients, but they do not have to see them in person for every single visit

patients are visiting weekly or monthly,

so it makes 0 sense to require them to come in person for every appt to get their meds
In some states, it's impossible to get a 30-day prescription, so you are telling patients they have to meet with a pain doc in person once a week to get their basic pain meds?

Who is paying for that? Who has the time?
Has anyone thought this through?
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Feb 25
Beyond crazy interview goal:
@jk_rowling

nypost.com/2023/02/21/the…
@jk_rowling 👋

Hey Joanne, if by some miracle you see this, I'd be honored to interview you for our podcast CultureScape to talk about your literary work & your hard-fought efforts to defend classical liberal values like the freedom of speech & conscience.

I think it would be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I have goals,

mostly I try to be realistic, but I find it helps to have bigger ones as well, things to work towards or hope you can one day rise to that level where it can be made a reality

Interviewing someone as cool & influential as @jk_rowling is a great one.
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Feb 25
frustrating 24 hours,

last night I left my grandma & then at 8 am, we checked on her. She was barely conscious.

called 911 & got her to the ER;
she developed an infection overnight

now she's feeling much better but will be in the hospital again for the next 3 days
It's crazy how fast those infections can jump on a person with a weakened immune system.

Yesterday we were in pretty good spirits about her recovery potential & today depressed & humbled.
While she's there, I'm trying to keep an eye on grandpa,

it's funny cuz a nice lady from church left some dinner for them& it was a salad which he wasn't that excited for

so I splurged & got him a smoothie from juice stop (which, tbh is basically a milkshake)
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Feb 24
Since my interest in Harry Potter is higher than usual right now, I've been watching the films with my Grandma,

& if I'm being totally honest,
most of these are pretty meh
Best film so far: Prisoner of Azkaban cuz it's actually a movie; it has things to say with its setting & camera angles & everything

Worst film so far: is Goblet of Fire; it's got the amazing end scene with Voldemort & a few bits with David Tennant & that's about it.
Tomorrow I will work through the other half;

keep in mind I'm looking at these as films & not as Harry Potter Book Advertisements, which is how I thought of them when I saw these in theaters

btw I love all these movies, but I'm trying to evaluate if they are any good as films
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Feb 22
what's the return time on recovery from a high dosage but short prednisone prescription??

I finished a prednisone prescription for a respiratory virus on Sunday & I still feel like crap
Mostly I feel like I'm getting over Prednisone brain,
but the constantly tired & lethargic feeling is a tad overwhelming

so at this point, i'm wondering if I'm still fighting something or I'm just bouncing back from the prednisone
Prednisone is an incredible medication, about as important a discovery as Penicillin;

revolutionized treatment for Arthritis, Asthma, Auto-immune, inflammation in general & so much more

Saved millions, it's just hardcore in terms of mental side-effects

drugs.com/slideshow/pred…
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