In 1993 the Superconducting Supercollider was cancelled. Estimated cost: $8 billion. An exodus of physicists left to Wall Street, bringing fancy maths and dubious risk management. 15 years later the global financial crisis cost ~$20 trillion. This is why you don't defund physics!.

RT @linamkhan: To recap:. Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription, trapping Americans in nee….

RT @janecoaston: It's so weird that the graph for fertility v. female education and the graph for fertility v. male education look basicall….

The natural way to do this is through the budget process, which is how it happened from 1979 to 1995. But then, during the famously spendthrift Clinton admin, Republicans decided it would be more fun to play brinksmanship with the global economy and decoupled the two 4/4.

The debt ceiling (I got there finally!) exists because it got too annoying for congress to authorise every Treasury debt issue. Instead Congress would authorise a big chunk of debt (up to a cap) all in one go. 3/.

Aaron Burr thought the previous question motion (which ended up being used to abolish the filibuster in the house) and by the time cloture became obviously necessary a supermajority requirement became a compromise needed to get the vote passed. 2/.

As usual with the US political system, this tweet imagines intent behind processes that actually arose basically by accident. The senate requires 60 vote not because it’s “the cooling sauce of democracy” but because the founders didn’t anticipate the talking filibuster, 1/.

RT @buccocapital: Wait why does this have 32k likes lol of course he called the bottom he caused the bottom and then he decided to end it.

You can disagree about what should count as a fair baseline but it is nonsense to say that he wants to tax people more because they are white.

Personally I would have just said “richer” rather than “richer and whiter” but saying Zohran wants to tax people based on race is just a complete lie. He is arguing that the current system unfairly taxes nonwhite more compared to a progressive baseline and he wants to fix that.

RT @ModeledBehavior: @jfischoff If the mandates don't matter don't include them! Tracking costs time, reduces the number of bidders, raises….

RT @kendrictonn: Man, I find the "feel unsafe" language so frigging contemptible in cases like this.

RT @hecubian_devil: I think one thing that unions can adopt from an abundance-style politics is a focus on growth rather than incumbency-pr….

GOAT physics notes writer. Will probably be the GOAT physics textbook writer before he’s done.

Update: I’ve just received some very bad news.

I want to be clear that my policy is only to use nuclear weapons in self defense and never as a preemptive first strike.*. *Unless someone is particularly annoying and I’m having a bad day. And even then I’d almost certainly only use battlefield tactical nukes.

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RT @stringking42069: @quantum_geoff @Kaju_Nut @karch_andreas Lol. Whatever bro. You have so clearly never done a proper string comp in your….

RT @RoKhanna: If Biden had a big supporter criticize him, Trump would have hugged him the next day. When we refused to meet with @RobertKen….

RT @George_A_Callas: Russ isn’t using current policy as he claims. He’s using “current policy for provisions enacted in 2017 but current la….