It’s a conservative principle that passing laws and spending money should require more than a majority. If you make it easier to pass laws and spend money, you’ll get more of both. This is why the Senate should not nuke the filibuster. It will come back to bite us.

Short-term, eliminating the filibuster benefits the majority party by enabling swift passage of priorities like tax cuts or border security, avoiding gridlock and delivering quick wins for voters. Long-term, it risks national instability as policy lurches with each election cycle, eroding minority protections and fostering extreme partisanship that undermines compromise. For the nation overall, retaining it preserves deliberative governance and checks impulsive majoritarianism, though reform to curb abuse could balance efficiency without full abolition.

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Terminating the filibuster risks eroding Senate protections against hasty, partisan legislation that lacks broad support. It empowers fleeting majorities to ram through changes, inviting retaliation when power shifts and deepening national divides. While it might speed reforms in theory, history shows supermajority thresholds foster compromise and stability—core to a deliberative republic. Overall, it's a bad idea unless you're confident in perpetual control, which no party enjoys.

The filibuster originated in the Senate's unlimited debate tradition to safeguard minority viewpoints, prevent hasty majority-driven legislation, and compel thorough discussion on bills. It addressed early concerns over regional and ideological imbalances by requiring supermajorities for cloture, evolving from practices in the 1800s. Yes, it remains essential to promote compromise and stability amid polarization, curbing impulsive policy shifts that could erode long-term national cohesion.

To really understand a concept, you have to "invent" it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models.

You rarely solve hard problems in a flash of insight. It's more typically a slow, careful process of exploring a branching tree of possibilities. You must pause, backtrack, and weigh every alternative. You can't fully do this in your head, because your working memory is too limited. Writing is the external medium that affords the time and precision necessary. Serious thinking must be done in writing. And that's why you can't outsource your writing, because then you're outsourcing your thinking.

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The very people who claim the U.S. economy is booming are also demanding that the Fed slash interest rates. But if the U.S. economy really is experiencing a boom, why cut rates, which are still relatively low, when inflation is at least 50% above the Fed's 2% target and rising?

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After the Louvre heist, artworks decided to defend themselves.

Harvard and Stanford students tell me their professors don't understand AI and the courses are outdated. If elite schools can't keep up, the credential arms race is over. Self-learning is the only way now.

The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus. A lot of things are wrong in 🇺🇸, but MIT is not one of them.

Bro read this slowly, It’s easy to resent your father when you’re young because you only see the mistakes. But when you grow, you realize he was fighting battles you never saw, carrying burdens he never spoke about, and learning life the same way you are through trial, pain, and survival. He wasn’t perfect, but he showed up the best he could with the tools he had. Forgiveness isn’t about excusing him, it’s about freeing yourself from the weight of what you didn’t understand. One day, you’ll see he was human and that alone deserves grace.

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The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge cost 2.1 billion RMB (about $295 million USD) and was completed in under 4 years. California's High-Speed Rail has spent ~$14.4 billion as of July 2025, with total estimated costs of $89–135 billion. It's been in development for 17+ years with limited progress.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley in new interview: "The competitive reality is that the Chinese are the 700-pound gorilla in the EV industry. There's no real competition from Tesla, GM, or Ford with what we've seen from China. It is completely dominating the EV landscape globally and more and more outside of China. China's successful for good reason. It has great innovation at a very low cost," Farley said. "There's hundreds of companies, and they're all sponsored by their local governments, so they have huge subsidies. It's new brands. It's BYD and Geely, and companies like Nio and Xiaomi, many of which have never been in the car business before, and that's a big advantage for them," he added. "They have far superior in-vehicle technology. Huawei and Xiaomi are in every car," Farley said. "You get in, you don't have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car. We are in a global competition with China, and it's not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future Ford."