Why it Exists The Filibuster in the US Senate was an accident. In 1806, per Vice President Aaron Burr’s advice, the Senate eliminated the move to the previous question motion from their rule book. This was because Aaron Burr viewed the motion as redundant. With it’s repeal, the filibuster became possible.
Alteration Senators barely used the filibuster until the 1880s. In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson implored the Senate to create the cloture motion, which ended filibusters with a two-thirds majority vote of all Senators present.
The Current State of US Taxes The US tax system is a messy patchwork of taxes that raises revenue inefficiently. This manifests in two ways:
Distortionary taxes that discourage savings and investment IRS regulations that impose high compliance costs In 2016, the center-right Tax Foundation estimated that the total tax compliance costs to the US economy was approximately 2.18% of GDP. Additionally, Americans spent 8.9 billion hours filing their taxes in the same year.
youtube-dl is Dead, Long Live youtube-dl The popular command-line utility for downloading videos from YouTube and over 300 other websites is now abandonware. Because youtube-dl is open source, however, developers and community members made forks. Additionally, there are other projects providing similar functionality to youtube-dl.
yt-dlp yt-dlp is a fork of a fork: it’s based on the defunct youtube-dlc. It has many features, but its most salient are:
Improved format sorting Cookie support SponsorBlock integration YouTube search with ytsearch: and ytsearchdate: Partial mitigation against YouTube throttling Multiple, concurrent video fragment downloads To install it, run: