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@JacquesDemyfan @davewingrave I doubt that, and fwiw I really loved his work as a producer by the time he was on to The Future!! I think he was just finding his footing with the new sound for a bit.

@Topsmakingsense @davewingrave The lyrics are far more hallow and uninteresting removed from their production. You’re just boring and want great artists to stay the same for ever.

The surest sign of Leonard Cohen's genius is that his output was all 10's and 1's

@JacquesDemyfan @davewingrave Mmmmmm perfect lyrically!!

@Topsmakingsense @davewingrave Two perfect works

@JacquesDemyfan @davewingrave The production on Various Positions and I'm Your Man?

@davewingrave Name another 1

@flounder2200 @benryanwriter @mattyglesias Listen, I know that we all have our politics and opinions here, but I really do think it is of paramount importance that we get this right, not just make assumptions--because either of us being wrong would do catastrophic harm to young people.

@Topsmakingsense @benryanwriter @mattyglesias If they were counting treatment in the clinics themselves, the numbers would have gone from 10% to 100%, not 10% to 60%.

@flounder2200 @benryanwriter @mattyglesias Are you sure about that? It looks like they may be counting treatment within the clinics themselves--and besides, wouldn't it make sense to get your psych care at the same place that provides your gender care?

@flounder2200 @benryanwriter @mattyglesias Yes, but the gender identity services in Finland are themselves specialist-level psychiatric services, housed in the same university hospital systems...

@Topsmakingsense @benryanwriter @mattyglesias This isn't garden-variety "mildly discomfited teen chatting with their local psychiatrist". This is secondary or tertiary-level care at a hospital by a team of experts because the severity of the patient's psychiatric problems is beyond what a normal psych clinic could offer.

@benryanwriter @mattyglesias This study doesn’t elaborate on what the specialist mental health care provided to this cohort was though, does it? “It’s typically this” is not a strong enough evidence base to make a substantive case for policy changes.

@Topsmakingsense @mattyglesias As I said, specialist care is not typically for garden variety mental health problems, such as the maintenance on an SSRI. It is for more serious mental health issues. The vast majority of the controls never accessed such treatment.

@benryanwriter @mattyglesias Especially somewhere with as little sunlight as Finland, tbh—would make me depressed.

@benryanwriter @mattyglesias Yes, but you know as well as I do that mental health treatment is often ongoing—if a paintint takes an SSRI, and it helps, treatment protocol is to keep that paitient on it indefinitely.

@benryanwriter @mattyglesias It’s still a very imperfect proxy—and given that the Finnish model today all but requires psych referrals now before someone can access this care (at least per my understanding), you’ve introduced too many confounding variables.

@Topsmakingsense @mattyglesias It’s not that simple. The proxy measure is not psych care, but specialist psych care, which in Finland is generally indicative of more severe mental health problems. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/p/…

@divinix_chi @mattyglesias It is both essential that we find ways to do so, and that we refrain from making sweeping policy decisions—like the calls some are making to alter ongoing medical treatment plans.

@Topsmakingsense @mattyglesias Yeah, I'm afraid how hard it is to measure outcomes here is going to something we argue about for a while

Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.

@qualiascript No, I think it has more to do with how you perform with vs. without structure & clear success metrics, and the inevitable growing pains associated with learning how to handle a more ambiguous ruleset. A lot of the people you're describing eventually do well, with time.

"gifted kid burnout syndrome" is just The Sort right? you get used to everything being baseline easy until society correctly places you in the correct comparative advantage class

@LinkofSunshine And also that you have to go outside and walk past the taxis in the freezing cold to get to the subway? Wildly unfriendly design.

@websterkaroon Or that this was something the Saudis wanted leaked—KBS couldn’t have expected a room full of think tankers to keep quiet.

Barak Ravid leaking a story about KBS is curious. It suggests some people in Israel find it prudent to embarrass the Saudis with things they don't want publicized. Probably relating to the growing UAE-Saudi clash. It's also possible this is a little out of context.

@AriDrennen Just as the Republican Party lost control of MAGA and was subsumed by it, as Trump ages MAGA will be increasingly subsumed by his most ‘ambitious’ staffers and appointees. Does not bode well.

Leavitt refuses to say whether President Trump agrees with Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller’s assertion that murdered protester Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist

@instrumenthull The reason “the thought counts” when gifting is that one can and should strive to generate surplus value by gifting people things they wouldn’t have thought of (or be able to acquire) themselves!

Normalize being a normal-ass person who understands why it's nice to receive a gift

@estherzelda0514 Like someone you could have a beer with?

Gen Z wants Chinese algorithm politics. Always exciting, controversies that don't last that long, memes and vibes. Improving people's lives is not as important as entertainment. We live in Brave New World. The soma is podcasts and TikTok. Gen X, you have failed at parenting.

@0xMerridew The real answer is probably—if I had to guess—that Rubio was brought in to the administration in exchange for ensuring the intelligence community would fall in line, and this has been his pet project for a decade.