I asked a doctor in my family about why doctors often won't give patients probabilities, even when they ask, and the answer was pretty interesting.

All medical insight here from @DoubleDawgMD who is a delightful person and a very good doctor. Thread below:

https://twitter.com/AmandaAskell/status/2073786264059625897

On dealing with a lot of patients, and different types of patients:

"Some doctors struggle with the EQ required to see 20-40 patients a day and correctly read the room with how smart the person is, how detailed an answer they WANT to hear, and how paternalist or partnership-minded they want you to be.

There are probably 12 to 15 different ways I approach explaining heart failure to a patient depending on how the patient and family communicate with me in the preceding days or minutes to that conversation"

A thread of my favorite takes from the No Phones At Concerts discourse:

"Asking people not to be on phones is classist" "In THIS ECONOMY? Have you heard about the COST OF LIVING CRISIS???"

There's something missing from the Hasan Piker discourse. Hasan's fans and critics often overlook the most troubling fact about him.

The core problem with Hasan Piker is that, on a fundamental level, he doesn't believe in liberal democracy.

https://x.com/CNLiberalism/status/2043680327453790524

I don't really want to spend tons of time talking about Hasan. So I'm going to make this one long thread and then, god willing, hopefully not have to talk about it for a while.

But it is plainly obvious to anyone with eyes that Piker is an ideological authoritarian.

I'm in @thedispatch today, with a piece about how Renee Good is not going to be the last person ICE kills, because this wasn't a freak accident - it was the culmination of a persistent, ongoing pattern.

(gift link below) Renee Good's death was a predictable tragedy. ICE routinely escalates to violence at the first excuse. It's an agency filled with substandard officers and given political cover from on high.

Renee Good, or someone like her, was bound to die.

thedispatch.com/article/renee-…

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It's been a long year - but it's finally time. Welcome to the Worst Tweets of 2025 Bracket!

I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of the most deranged posts on this website.

Only 64 were chosen. Now it's time to crown a champion. The field of 64 is divided into four regions:

* The WTF Region
* The Conservative Region
* The Woke Region
* The Grok/AI Region

Voting threads are below! May the worst tweet win!

One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known.

A thread of some examples:

Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:

MGMT playing 'Kids' to a crowd of maybe 25 people on a college quad:

Older books are selling, newer ones aren’t. Old music is all the rage, newer artists can barely get played. Older video games and old movie franchises suck up all the attention.

In almost every field, old art is strangling new art. 🧵 Let's start with music.

In 2010, current music was 57% of sales with 'catalog' (older songs) taking 43%.

In 2024, catalog made up a whopping **73%** of music sales. New music is increasingly irrelevant to the music industry.

I usually try not to post too hysterically because it's not strategically useful, but you really do need to admit that the completely hysterical anti-Trumpers were right about everything.

People are always attempting to sanewash Trump's latest idiocy, and it always fails. He doesn't have complicated geopolitical theories about war and peace. He just likes Russia and likes Putin. That's it. Every idea more complicated than that fails.

It's been a long year - but it's finally time. Announcing the Worst Tweets of 2024 Bracket!

I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of the most deranged posts on this website.

Only the very worst were chosen. Now it's time to crown a champion. The field of 64 is divided into four regions:

* The WTF Region
* The Weird Conservative Region
* The Weird Woke Region
* The Israel/Palestine Region

Voting threads are below! May the worst tweet win!

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Recently Richard Hanania wrote an article about how - despite his belief that the GOP is a party of lazy, conspiratorial, bigoted, anti-democracy morons - he's going to vote for them anyways.

His reasoning? Economic growth.

This is very dumb, and deserves a thorough rebuttal. First: It's kind of insane to *only* care about economic growth. But let's concede the point. Say that literally all you care about is growth - what next?

Even in that case, it's a terrible idea to support Trump. He has terrible ideas and would be a disaster for the economy.

The 'empty quadrant' is one of the most replicated findings in housing research.

There expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs. But that chart's data only goes through 2013, you say! Sure. What if we use a completely different data source and time period?

Top right quadrant is still empty.

Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: "smoking while pregnant"

A thread of DoorDash takes:

"I am entitled to DoorDash and can't eat a frozen dinner, because I am disabled and frozen food has 'histamines' in it." "I am upset that you call hand-delivery of restaurant quality meals to my home a luxury service"

Every piece of info we have suggests that building housing reduces rents

quick thread: The places that build are all cheap

The places that are expensive? None of them build

"The Houthis are allowed to attack Swedish merchant ships until Israel stops bombing Gaza" is just utterly insane logic.

"Let's start fires in Central Park until Dubai has gay marriage. I'm gonna kick puppies until we expand Medicare." What the fuck are you talking about? If you hear anyone say "it's only targeting ships headed for Israel" they are lying to you. They think you're too stupid to google for 10 seconds.

They're attacking ships completely at random - here's a Norweigan ship traveling from Malaysia to Italy.

politico.eu/article/norway…

There's a whole generation whose only foreign policy views are "US invade Iraq! US bad! No forever war!"

Even in a very different scenario, where the Houthis are repeatedly trying to murder civilians, they can still only repeat "No Forever War! US bad!"

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1745661750693781731

Not one of these people has an actual suggestion for what the international reaction should be to the repeated attempted murder of civilian sailors on merchant ships. Silence. Nothing. They don't care.

All they want to do, or even know how to do, is smugly yell America Bad.