Dave Eaton

I hope everyone is having a good day in spite of everything. That’s my approach. I’m not going to be quiet, and not going to go along. But I’m not going to let them disturb my chi.

Nuh uh

Tariffs on our allied trading partners seems unwise. The stock market seems to concur 📉

I’m slowly coming back to social media life here. X is a portal to look into hell, and Facebook is a constant reminder that people I grew up with don’t understand how anything works. Not politics, not science, not arithmetic, not economics. But I’ll keep an account there to see family pics.

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Lots to do…

I’m just tired of being rage-mined elsewhere, but I agree.

The narrative shifts are whipsawing Maga. The NOLA attack was Biden immigrant mayhem, then the driver was discovered to be a vet and an American born citizen. Then it became Biden’s fault because Islam, or something.

The Big List of Elon Musk's Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies Elon Musk, owner of Twitter (now X) has a long history of misrepresentations, evasions, and lies — from company policy to fighting Mark Zuckerberg.

Occasionally I look in at the bird bin to see what idiocy is circulating. It’s depressing, usually. One of the constants is Musk worship. How much is sincere and how much is manipulation, I don’t know or care to discern. But it inspired me to haul out this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I have a burner account to look in at the carnage now and then. But other than one friend I don’t engage.

I respect your choice, of course.

I kind of see this as a growing pain. Some of it is the desire to build up quickly after having the rug pulled out at the bird bin. And I suspect that leads to perverse incentives ie popularity contests. That said, I’m still hopeful.

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I’d second that. Using other platforms we get used to what the algorithms do without us knowing. I sense that the norms and practices here are still developing. There was a time years back when the bird site seemed like a barren whistling wasteland, and then it didn’t.

Lexington,Ky
I’d have to ask my kids; Charmander?
The weird salted Chinese eggs
Linear Algebra, superfluids, organic chemistry
Strong and plain.

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Following back, good morning!

It is indeed, may it be so for all.

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YouTube video by UK Center for Applied Energy Research Eaton Time - Dave and the Popper

I’m a fool for the kiddos. And generally.
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the anger in the country is as palpable as I ever remember it being.

I think I’d recover from disapproval from Joe Manchin.

Well, I know that I’ll never be Dean…

I have! Of Unseen University, right?

Gotta go slow with me. I’m a chemist to begin with and have been mostly a manager for a while. But I’ll make sure the dean hears about your concerns.

Is this some filtering thing done for planetary science reasons, or has my life been more misspent than I knew?

I get that, to be honest.