Ronnie Heath

Husband, Dad, Grandpa, 🇺🇸, Civil engineer. #MississippiDelta roots. 🖖 (🦋R-Heath) ❤️ & 🔃 ≠ endorsement. All opinions are my own. 🗳️ 💉💉🚀🚀🚀🚀 💉

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

This is a good start to much needed debate on an issue that should have bi-partisan support.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The presidential pardon system has reached a breaking point, which is why I have joined Reps. Cohen, Lieu, and H. Johnson in proposing a Constitutional amendment that finally puts guardrails on abuse. The amendment would explicitly prohibit a self-pardon and would bar pardons for family members, administration officials, and campaign employees. It would also forbid pardons for anyone whose crimes were committed to advance the direct and significant personal interests of a President or those close to a President, or whose crimes were carried out at the direction of a President. It further clarifies that no pardon issued for a corrupt purpose is valid, whether past, present, or future.

The need for reform is clear. A tool meant to correct injustices has instead enabled them. It is time to protect the Constitution and the rule of law with common sense limits that restore public trust.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@JessePeltan How many smart thermostats are capable of responding to real time price signals?

4 decades ago, my utility company was offering discounts to customers willing to let them remotely shut-off the A/C for up to 15 minutes every hour. It was a short lived program.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@davidfrum @Kasparov63 Just periodically check the list of linked devices on your Signal account if you’re worried.
Also, remember that if the bad guys can get you to run their code on your device, nothing on your device is still secret. The platform doesn’t matter once your device is compromised.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@whignewtons The shadow docket is a problem when SCOTUS weighs in on cases where there is no conflict between lower courts on whether an order should be blocked while briefing + arguments take place at the lower levels. Such actions should be rare.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@davepl1968 @aakashgupta Also, training on successful decisions doesn’t mean that another driver didn’t have to brake or evade for the decision to be successful. Survivor bias isn’t just a human condition.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@davepl1968 The flip side is that I replaced the 30+ year old AC compressor that came with the house with a modern heat pump and saved enough electricity during the Mississippi summer to run the heat pump in the winter. My LP gas supplier is 🥺

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@RussLatino @Delta For short business trips, I’m in full agreement plus I don’t have to worry about my bag not arriving on the same flight.

If you observe activity at the gate on crowded flights, it’s clear that some people are on a budget and waiting for that lack of space announcement.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@davepl1968 A substantial part of our food supply is dependent on pollinators. Would humans survive the loss of insects?
Even mosquitoes don’t need us.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@codegirl007 Now all you have to do is trap and fix all the edge cases where the floating point math breaks down. 😞

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@lauriewired On the flip side, once upon a time, I doubled the performance of a numerical model by telling a Cray-1 to hold a scratch file in memory instead of doing the actual I/O.

Of course, the scratch file existing because older systems didn’t have enough RAM.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@TerribleMaps If you don’t have a Waffle House, did a disaster really occur? 😏

https://t.co/oIW3PcIzY9

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@davepl1968 @beha_hun Dental insurance routinely covers maintenance (cleaning and check-ups) because on average that allows them to collect premiums for longer before/if they have cover major expenses.
This logic even works for orthodontics which creates a larger pool of future low expense customers.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@MichaelWatsonMS The very first rule explicitly called out in the video is intended to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and based on the same advice pediatricians are giving to parents.

[IntegralAnswers @IntegralAnswers]

1/ Nearly 160 Air Force recruits at Lackland Air Force Base have reportedly contracted influenza during a localized outbreak, with at least two hospitalizations. The outbreak occurred roughly two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ended the military’s longstanding requirement for annual influenza vaccination and made the vaccine optional for service members. Vaccination uptake among recruits reportedly fell from near-universal levels to approximately 40%. (https://t.co/uNJp3zgkSW)

Some important context:

The U.S. military did not require annual influenza vaccination on a whim. The policy dates back to 1945 and was influenced by lessons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic, which severely affected military operations and killed more than 26,000 American soldiers. The mandate was briefly withdrawn in 1949, then reinstated in the early 1950s as influenza virology became better understood. (The Washington Post)

Military basic training is almost a textbook environment for respiratory disease transmission: shared sleeping quarters, communal dining, intense physical stress, constant close contact, and continual introduction of new recruits. Epidemiologists have recognized for decades that these conditions amplify influenza spread. (The Washington Post)

None of this proves that ending the mandate caused this specific outbreak.

But it is exactly the type of outbreak public health experts would predict becomes more likely when vaccination coverage declines in a high-density training environment.

That distinction matters.

Causation requires evidence.

Expectation comes from epidemiology.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@FrankLuntz Every US Senator elected this year will be in office in 2032. Saving Social Security and Medicare should be high on the list of issues being addressed by their campaigns.

They may not want to talk about it, but the voters and media can and should force them to address the issue.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@carney Episode 7 of The Men Who Built America

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@engineers_feed It looks like I beat the odds. First 2 Subura’s have already passed 250K miles.

[Ronnie Heath @R_Heath]

@Acyn @VetsForRL A good step would be an amendment requiring a 2/3 vote for confirmation.

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelley blocks Interior Sec. Doug Burgum's “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Order as "a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization" and orders DOI to "restore and reinstall" removed materials "forthwith."

ORDER: https://t.co/ja7RG2qP7V