{"id":1721,"date":"2025-04-27T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2025-04-27T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T16:28:40","slug":"note-to-mr-crank-on-complex-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2025\/04\/note-to-mr-crank-on-complex-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Mr Crank on Complex Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mr Crank;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I commend to you Cory Doctorow&#8217;s recent article on complex systems &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2025\/04\/24\/hermit-kingdom\/#simpler-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2025\/04\/24\/hermit-kingdom\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He <a><\/a>makes the point that complex systems, such as Social Security, Immigration, and indeed, the United States, cannot be completely error-free. Errors\/fraud can be minimized, but not eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please consider this as you provide oversight on the Republican Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack Heneghan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Crank; I commend to you Cory Doctorow&#8217;s recent article on complex systems &#8211; https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2025\/04\/24\/hermit-kingdom\/&#8230; He makes the point that complex systems, such as Social Security, Immigration, and indeed, the United States, cannot be completely error-free. Errors\/fraud can be minimized, but not eliminated. Please consider this as you provide oversight on the Republican Administration. Jack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2025\/04\/note-to-mr-crank-on-complex-systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Note to Mr Crank on Complex Systems<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-rL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}