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In theory, a lot of what he would collect goes back as federal income taxes. In practice, ? Of course, he doesn’t have to sign up for either Social Security or Medicare.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 4h

Social Security is an insurance program, not simply a defined benefits pension system. The closer free market equivalent is whole life insurance with a beefy disability policy. Inflation plays havoc with even that comparison.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 4h

You are of course pursuing tax optimization strategies to convert exactly the right amount of traditional TSP holdings into Roth accounts each year before RMD’s kick in. (From experience, worthwhile but a PITA.)

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

More inflation in the pipeline 🤕🤕

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Does 9/11 happen if Gore had won? Richard Clarke’s book suggests that the war on terror would have started a year earlier. The plans were in place and waiting for Clinton’s approval, possibly before Gore would have taken office. Of course, that timeline will never be more than speculation.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hopefully the local school board employs an army of education experts, i.e., teachers.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings? Listen to Pink Floyd’s Final Cut album if you don’t recognize the reference.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Integral Answers on the former bird app has good coverage of this outbreak. We need to encourage his return to this site.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no cure for measles, just supportive care until it runs course. Plague can be treated if identified in time.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve had the same reaction to all 3 formulations. My plan is just to schedule an afternoon nap the day after. I’m fine after the nap.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In college, I could get into concerts in the campus coliseum just by showing my student ID. There were some acts that were just too expensive for the student association to book, but overall it was a great experience.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They let employees work 40 hours/week? I thought the goal was to limit everyone to 32 hours/week to avoid paying benefits.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Income taxes on Social Security and other phase-in/out’s make the actual marginal tax rate extremely complex. The highest marginal rate may actually be hitting middle class dual income families and retired widows.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Agreed. By the time I saw the learn German recommendation, English was already dominant. My engineering curriculum didn’t require a foreign language, so I never learned German. Much later, I did start looking into pre-war German, hydraulic engineering literature referenced in our guidance docs.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

50+ years ago, if you wanted to study physics or chemistry in the USA, you might have been encouraged to learn German, the language of published scientific knowledge. We had good reasons to assume WW II Germany was capable of developing an atomic bomb.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 11/09/2026

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson reflects on the mistakes Congress made when first creating the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 and why it is time to fundamentally rethink the department’s structure on the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

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Homeland Security 25 Years Later: Time to Rethink and Rebuild?

The DHS constructed by Congress in 2002 is now outdated, reviled by many, and was flawed from the start. Time to rethink and rebuild.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remember the Arab oil embargo when gas prices first went over $1 and the mechanical meters on the pumps couldn’t register prices that high. Stations set the pumps at half the gas price and you paid twice whatever was shown on the pump.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 was traumatic for all Americans. But the U.S. and other governments panicked, and took their eyes off a lot of other threats for a while. We’re still living with the consequences of that panic. My look back at that day and what it brought: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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A Quarter Century of Panic

After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Most FEHB plans are managed care plans. If the plan gets into a contract dispute with your doctor or hospital, then your doctor/hospital suddenly becomes an out-of-network provider. So, the plan for all practical purposes can force you to change doctors to able to afford care.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think it was the other way around. Many of the ACA minimums were modeled after features of the FEHB. For example, FEHB already covered pre-existing conditions (which is workable for very large group coverage but not for small groups).

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Summer precipitation ranks and percent of normal. Overall, 88% of normal.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Summer 2026 (Jun-Aug) tied for the warmest summer on record according to PRISM climate data. The average temperature of 74.2F tied with 1936. 🔥🔥🔥

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

August 2026 was the warmest (hottest!) August on record for the Contiguous U.S. The average temperature of 75.5F was 0.35F warmer than August 1983. 🔥🔥🔥

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Old school approach: The federal fiscal year ends on September 30. Put a rider in the CR or appropriations bill barring any expediters of federal funds to implement the order.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You do realize that every time you quote someone saying his name, algorithms notice and boost him. BlueSky’s non-algorithmic approach doesn’t prevent other sites from seeing what is posted here.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In lieu of flowers they are asking for donations to Dolly’s Imagination Library, which she founded in honor of her illiterate parents. Every enrolled child gets a free book once a month addressed to them, regardless of need. Some 325 million books so far. donate.imaginationlibrary.com

donate.imaginationlibrary.com

Home

Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don’t remember the name, but once there was a source code optimization tool that was also used to obfuscate source code. The variable naming rendered the optimized code nearly unreadable by humans.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I believe to this day that you can eliminate smoking by having a urologist show junior high students the tools and procedures used to treat bladder cancer (which is very rare in non-smokers). Of course, school boards would never approve such a traumatic experience.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

… or Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. Does anyone know if his was the first description of falling space elevators?

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Many of the Russian characters in The Americans seem haunted by the horrors of WW II and its aftermath coupled with an inferiority complex when it comes to US power. @radiofreetom.bsky.social Was that as an realistic depiction of the Russian psyche? Yes, Russel’s character was terrifying.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Back in our time, the older dorms in state schools were a step up from Army barracks and a step below a boarding house (and co-ed dorms were still a novelty). A modern residence hall is literally a high-density, apartment complex (sometimes with a cafeteria and other amenities).

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No way. It was a well paying construction job the summer before college (just as a recession was starting). The kind folks at the cafe where I ate most evenings referred me to a lady who rented rooms. That solved the housing problem for the rest of the summer and saved some $ as well.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Corporate housing? Try no per diem or expense reimbursements. We got to the only motel in town on Monday evening after work to find our standing reservations had been canceled 😡

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

With investors snapping up single family homes and converting them to rental properties, the challenge for recent hires is “How long is my commute?” At some SEC schools, sporting event only rentals are a viable business model.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

FEHB is possibly the most consumer friendly insurance system in the US with multiple insurers competing for customers within the group. But, you don’t want to find out what isn’t covered by the out-of-pocket maximum.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Long ago, the governor was in a wreak in the middle of nowhere. Mississippi established a multi-tiered trauma care system. Today, the rural hospitals supporting the bottom tier are closing. Just 1 of many access to care issues in our state.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Get a USB mouse or trackball and deactivate the touchpad when it is plugged in. Problem solved. A laptop with the trackpoint button in the center of the keyboard also works.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's going to be a close call, but it now appears more likely than not that July 2026 will be the warmest month on record in the Contiguous U.S. As of today, we are essentially tied with July 1936 and July 2012. 🔥

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Once there was a small town grocery store (only 1) that was the subject of many complaints about high prices. It turns out that the owner was selling staple items at cost and jacking up the cost of “convenience” foods to cover operating costs. How many grocery chains operate that way?

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A little warmer and the high temperatures will match the dew point in Mississippi.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Welcome to the Dog Days of Summer. (Mississippi wants to know if that was the dew point instead of the high temperature.)

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

July 25th is the climatological midpoint of summer based on NCEI 1991-2020 climate normals.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Peak flight simulator was Dogfight mode on the Silicon Graphics workstations. You learned to take off from the taxi-way to avoid dying before you could get in the air. Also, a few players could bring a LAN to its knees.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As long as investors are willing to convert single family homes to rental properties, prices will continue to rise. Do a segregation study to accelerate depreciation and avoid paying taxes on the rental income.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

For the first half of 2026, the Contiguous U.S. is in 2nd place for warmest year-to-date (2012). Large swaths of the southwestern U.S. are in 1st place. 🔥🔥🔥

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Term limits (staggered, renewable 18 year terms) with confirmation requiring a 2/3 vote of the entire Senate would be a good starting point. Vacancies filled only for the remainder of the term.

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Ronnie Heath @r-heath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not a bad day for yard work in the Mississippi Delta today. High in the low 90’s with heat index in the low 100’s. Hopefully, the dog days will hold off until at least the end of July.

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