Bicameralism is pointless, unless you want gridlock. A toothless, ceremonial upper chamber is far preferable to a democratically legitimate upper chamber with real power. Best option is to delete the upper chamber entirely.
I suspect he is still easily wounded, even if no longer 28.
"Catholics want to kill people and heat up Gods creation by burning more fossil fuels".
There, fixed the title.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2026-02/south-korea-masses-denuclearization-appeal-fukushima-anniversary.html
When Democrats next control the White House, they should extradite all the architects of this illegal war to The Hague.
When the war criminals sue to be repatriated, on the grounds that US law forbids cooperation with the ICC, the DOJ should give the same defense as in the case of K. Abrego Garcia.
No war with Iran. Impeach, remove, and prosecute President Trump.
hey, Democratic campaigns, do you have any idea how broken your SMS campaigns are?
do you know that they outnumber normal messages in my inbox by almost 5-to-1? that most are deleted and reported as junk?
is there a plan for when you're forced to realize their failure, and have to abandon them?
I can't recall the exact wording but there was a great tweet a few years back along the lines of "Children love a diverse selection of snacks from which to refuse."
Free sample addict? Or just loves all the sights & sounds of a Costco?
I dated a gay, committed Catholic for a month (look I was trying to be open-minded). I swear I'm not making this up:
He had Transfiguration & Transubstantiation mixed up. He was convinced that the doctrine about blessing the Eucharist turns it into Jesus's body and blood was called Transfiguration.
I'm not a lawyer, the logical conclusion of the Supreme Court's ruling that "California may ban nuclear in the course of regulating utilities with captive ratepayers" is that the law should have no force on merchant nuclear.
It's even more wild to me that the publicly stated legislative intent for the ban ("We don't want ratepayers to incur indefinite liability for nuclear waste") was a lie concocted for the purpose of winning a court fight over federal preemption. Crazy that it worked.
books.google.com/books?id=4zi...
This is the first I've heard of it so I share your surprise / skepticism. But if your local utility is on this list, it would be easy enough to call and verify, which makes me think they probably are legit. A scam artist wouldn't limit himself to a random patchwork of service territories.
For example, the price a battery is willing to sell at in hour T is going to reflect its opportunity cost of not discharging later. Well, what's the price going to be in T+1? The opportunity cost in T+1? It's turtles all the way down unless you have a fundamental shaping the price.
I strongly agree with the thrust of your thread. A point I would emphasize is that the rise of negligible marginal cost resources means that demand needs to a larger role in the formation of prices. Demand response can't just be a small program that utilities run because PUCs make them do it.
I'm feeling liberated already [liberated from tariffs]
"You can't spell Earth without art!"
Well, the earliest debatable traces of art date back ~100k years, whereas the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, so for a very, very long time, the Earth existed without art. This suggests to me it's sort of irrelevant how we spell our planet's name in English.
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
There's the postcolonial legacy and its impact on race relations, of course, but we also share a presidential (as contrasted with parliamentary) system of government, which has been a disaster for Latin America and is in the process of breaking down in the USA, too.
www.ir101.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Well I can say for absolutely certain that I was not logged into any account at SSRN when I tested this on two separate machines.
Something I just tried now was downloading it on a different browser and I replicated your issue, specifically on Edge. It worked fine for me on Firefox and Chrome.
if you are frustrated that you as a voter have to choose between expressing your individual preferences and maximizing your utility, your issue is with first-past-the-post elections, not the Democratic Party
I did not encounter a paywall when I downloaded the paper from SSRN, using the link OP provided in her 2nd tweet in this thread: bsky.app/profile/mega...
But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.
(If you're wondering why I fed business sensitive information to ChatGPT, it was on my company's private GPT instance, and even then, I kept it relatively vague.)
I could share the Claude transcript, if you like.
Oh yeah the initial conversation with ChatGPT started extremely Rubber Duck style. I wish I could share the transcript, but regrettably, the big picture idea is founded on the combination two concepts I originated (no AI help) in the course of my day job, & they're both rather business sensitive...
Hilariously, it was a conversation with ChatGPT that made me realize my idea could be enhanced by incorporating auctions. ChatGPT only briefly mentioned the notion, and I developed it further, but honestly... what value is my PhD in economics if I needed a chatbot to think of auctions. 🤦🏼♂️
I've been bouncing an idea for a paper off ChatGPT & Claude for the past month. (I don't work an academic job so this is in my spare time.) I have found both particularly helpful for guiding my search of prior literature, raising critiques of the idea, and assisting with the tedium of LaTeX and Git.
breweries >>>>> bars, for this very reason
the parties need to get together to push the button that gives me cheap health insurance and medical care without raising anyone's taxes
They are already trying (www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...) but they will need several more years of stacking the judiciary with MAGA-loyalist judges to reliably pull it off.
