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Zombie survivors won the day. Maybe a little too easily. We were pretty lucky with our supply searches.

Arend Lijphart is a political scientist who has spent much of his career trying to answer the fundamental question, “What works best?” and he thinks he knows the answer. “Democracies work best if they are consensus instead of majoritarian democracies. The most important constitutional provisions that help in this direction is to have a parliamentary system and elections by [proportional representation]. The U.S. is the opposite system, with a presidential system and plurality single-member-district elections,” he said an email, drawing on complex quantitative analysis he’s done to compare economic and political outcomes across dozens of democratic countries with different systems.

The U.S. Needs a New Constitution—Here’s How to Write It

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Had to spend some of this AM at the AppleStore, not booting MacBook Air from work. So I played around with the new devices. iPad Pro 12.9″ is HHUUUGGHH!!! Like feels bigger than a 15″ laptop for some reason. But the iPad Pros are amazing tech. Strangely the iPhone XR feels heaver than the iPad Pro 11″. Not sure why since the XR is 6.84 ouces vs. the iPad Pro 11″ 1.03 pounds. And the 11″ feels almost too light. The rounded corner screen makes it feel much more Macish.