Matt Roberts

Grains Economist, Business Advisor, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Miata owner, Swiftie.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

@HarvestTrader @UCBearcat92 I’m an AAU to be in the BIG fan, but the only reason that Nebraska wasn’t in the AAU is that different types of government research funding are treated differently. USDA/NIFA/Hatch $$ don’t count toward AAU membership.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

@benjaminaustic I think that a lot of these projects will end up like the abandoned oil wells in PA/OH--solar panel ownership and cleanup will be passed from LLC to LLC until eventually being bankrupted and the property owner is left holding the bag.

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

buddy, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

@nicekate8888 What are the specs on your Mac?

[Caffeine Powered @Caffeindated]

@bscholl @mattyglesias Any spending cuts should be paired with tax increases.

We need less debt. We can’t tax our way out of it. We can’t cut our way out.

But we can pull both levers and make a significant change.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

#Enshittification comes for everything eventually.

[adam baldwin @iamyourfarmer]

As a guy who is a long ways from buying new or a couple of yr old equipment, it appears to me from watching Twitter all brands more or less suck anymore.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

@_SilverThunder @Repbobhagan Are we talking about the Ohio in the US of A? Because, well, simply, no.

[Bob Hagan @Repbobhagan]

The per capita death rate in Ohio from covid was LOWER than all neighboring states. Lower than Michigan. Lower than Indiana. Lower than Kentucky. Lower than West Virginia. Lower than Pennsylvania. Amy Acton SAVED thousands of lives. But go ahead and deny facts.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

@vmiss33 Do you have different channels for each agent, or does the main agent route to the sub-agents?

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

I'd also in all of this love to hear what models & usages ppl trying, because I'm sure that matters.
I migrated from OC to Hermes, and wasn't as impressed with big upgrade as was hoping for. I'm still having to remind it where to look all the time (I have a ~/workspace directory that goes to gh and then my desktop) for my travel files and client files.
For me, personal assistant as someone w/ three businesses. I've tried Sonnet & Haiku as models. Sonnet doesn't seem to be better, so Haiku is my daily.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

This is a practice that rhymes with Bocialism

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

@ivanfioravanti How much memory on those machines?

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

In fact, its that mentality that has kept many politicians in DC away from means testing Social Security. By convincing everyone that it was 'theirs' everyone would support it. If some sort of means testing were added to, you know, keep it solvent, then it would be perceived as welfare and eventually be dismantled.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

@ReeseClarett13 Hang on...you aren't messing with Helen's are you? ARE YOU? 'Cause there is no better Chinese served in a former strip club in the entire country, man.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

Coming next week:
🚨Why so many Americans are done with the British Royal Family.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨 Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy

I respect Catholicism deeply, but this is exactly why so many Protestants have major issues with the current direction of the Vatican.

The Pope’s clear liberal political bent is impossible to defend.

He was personally invited to join President Trump’s “Board of Peace” — and he refused.

Yet he’s been noticeably silent on the real wickedness and aggression driving the ongoing Ukraine war.

Why no strong, direct call-out of Putin? Fear? Politics? Selective outrage?

Whatever the reason, it reveals a troubling pattern: quick criticism of this American administration, but a pass for evils elsewhere in Europe.

I respect true Christian leadership. What I can’t respect is liberal activism dressed up as moral authority.

Catholics and Protestants alike deserve better from the Chair of Peter.

This isn’t about hating the Pope — it’s about expecting the Vicar of Christ to stand for peace and truth without political favoritism.

What do you think? Has the papacy become too political? Drop your thoughts below 👇

#Pope #Trump #Ukraine #ChristianUnity #FaithOverPolitics

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

My conviction remains:

God did not ordain Donald Trump to rescue the American church, or revive the American church, or redeem the American church.

God ordained Donald Trump to test the American church. And the American church has failed.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

Yet one more territory getting f*cked by the Jones Act.

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Florida to California via the Moon is a domestic flight until another country proves otherwise

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

And if you think Lyme is bad, check out alpha-gal. Tick bite -> possibly deadly allergy to red meat developed as an adult, even. One day bit by a tick. A few weeks later anaphylaxis from a cheeseburger.

[Jonah Maps @JonahA59]

Apparently ticks are not a food chain keystone species, we have successfully eradicated a tick before (the Cattle Fever Tick), in 2023 the USDA started gene-editing ticks for future eradication efforts. The issue is just a slow lifecycle and money. Absolutely worth my taxes.

[Matt Roberts @YourEconProf]

Disagree. I didn't watch it live (I was in HomeEc during that period) but science classes were. The whole point of putting MacAuliffe on the flight was to reinvigorate interest; similar to the first Shuttle launch, when our whole school watched it.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

99.9% of people who "experienced" the Challenger disaster saw it on replay and now remember it as live.

Almost NO ONE was watching. Everyone thinks they were. It's a fascinating collective false memory.