Trying to maintain some free will against my genes though entropy always wins Most posts at @piraccim.bsky.social. Here to hold Tillis/Budd to account
Orange county, NC, USA
Joined December 2008
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Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
A biologist looks deeper into biology and finds chemistry.
A chemist looks deeper into chemistry and finds physics.
A physicist looks deeper into physics and finds mathematics.
A mathematician looks deeper into mathematics and finds logic.
A logician looks deeper into logic and finds philosophy.
A philosopher looks deeper into philosophy and starts questioning everything.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
A message to all sane Republicans: He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing. He bulldozed the East Wing. You said nothing. He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing. He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing. He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing. He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing. He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing. He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing. His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing. He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing. His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing. He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing. He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing. It's time to start talking!!!
It's long overdue!!!!
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
This story did a good job of showing the contradictions of Senator Tillis.
๐ฎโ๐จHe talks tough, and sometimes acts forcibly and logically, but sadly, when it REALLY matters, he backs down.
And as a good a communicator as he is, he fails to adequately explain why he backs down.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
one of the great front pages of all time.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontariโio, which, appropriately, means โthe lake is beautiful, the lake is bigโ.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario โ then, now and always.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
-It is still Lake Ontario
-It is still the Gulf of Mexico
-It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
-He is still a pedophile.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
Iโm happy to share this because I donโt care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.
Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.
It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.
They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelinesโฆ..will you?
Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
Breaking news: An Iranian assassination threat against President Trump prompted an operation in which he flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, The Post has learned. wapo.st/3RLV6e6
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
In March of 1973, a man wrote to E. B. White, the author of Charlotteโs Web, confessing that he had lost all faith in humanity. Here was E. B. Whiteโs reply
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
10 things most people don't know, that engineers think about constantly:
1. CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION
Two things happening together does not mean one causes the other.
Engineers test this. Most decisions aren't made by people who do.
2. SYSTEMS FAIL AT INTERFACES
The individual components usually work fine.
It's where they connect that disasters happen.
3. MORE SAFETY FEATURES CAN MAKE THINGS LESS SAFE
Adding redundant systems increases complexity.
Complexity increases the number of ways things can go wrong.
This is called the safety paradox, and it's why nuclear plant design is not simply "add more backups."
4. THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE
Something hasn't failed yet.
That doesn't mean it's safe.
It may mean you haven't run it long enough.
5. TOLERANCE STACKING
Each component has a tolerance: ยฑ0.1mm.
Put 20 components together, each at the worst end of their tolerance, and you have a 2mm error.
Many products fail not because any part is bad, but because all the parts are slightly wrong in the same direction.
6. THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY
Every engineering model is wrong.
Some models are useful.
The model that causes disasters is the one someone believed was exact.
7. FEEDBACK LOOPS CHANGE SYSTEMS
Adding a monitoring system changes the behaviour of the system being monitored.
Adding safety incentives changes what engineers report.
Measuring performance changes what people optimise for.
8. ENTROPY IS ALWAYS WINNING
Everything degrades over time.
Maintenance is not optional, it's the only reason anything works.
Every structure, machine, and system is a continuous battle against the second law of thermodynamics.
9. THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP IS BOTH THE STRONGEST AND WEAKEST COMPONENT
Human adaptability is extraordinary, humans solve problems no designer anticipated.
Human error is the root cause of most major failures.
Designing for humans means accounting for both.
10. FIRST-PRINCIPLES THINKING IS RARE
Most decisions are made by analogy: "we did it this way before."
The engineers who change things ask: what does physics actually require here?
The answer is almost always different from what tradition suggests.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
โ George Orwell
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
Enough with the Epstein Files!!!
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
โYour death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue without you.โ
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
I think about this all the time. The weakest people need a strongman. But the strongmen are always weak and broken themselves. They break things because they are broken. They are cruel because they are weak. We are living through an age of weak and broken men.
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
Me: I'm going to eat healthy
Lettuce: I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea
Oreos in the pantry: I would never do that to you
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
I remember when I was young they had these people called โinvestigative journalistsโ who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not
Michael Piracci๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
> Be Richard Feynman
> Teaches himself advanced calculus at age 15
> Fixes neighborhood radios for fun during the Great Depression
> Recruited to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in his 20s
> Gets bored while building the atomic bomb and starts picking locks
> Breaks into his colleagues' top-secret safes just to leave them mocking notes
> Completely breaks down the government's security system for fun
> Loses his wife to tuberculosis and uses the grief to dive deeper into physics
> Reinvents quantum mechanics by drawing simple sketches (Feynman Diagrams)
> Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for his breakthroughs
> Refuses to take himself seriously or act like a stuffy academic
> Spends his free time playing the bongo drums in a Brazilian samba band
> Learns how to paint at age 44 and sells his art under a pseudonym
> Travels to remote regions to decode ancient Mayan hieroglyphics
> Investigates the tragic Challenger Space Shuttle disaster on live TV
> Drops a piece of rubber into a glass of ice water in front of Congress
> Instantly proves the O-rings failed due to the cold, cracking the case single-handedly
> And Richard Feynman is still the most brilliant, chaotic mind to ever live who proved geniuses can have fun.
> Feynman is badass.
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NEW: Ahead of Senate confirmation hearings, Senate Dems demand Todd Blanche answer series of "unanswered Q's"
They seek records on:
1. Decision to block probe into killing of Renee Good
2. Hiring of Jan 6 riot defendant by Dept of Justice
3. Ghislaine Maxwell transfer
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