Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

So apparently the only thing people talk about on this sight is leaving twitter. #TwitterMigration. Look folks, if this is going to be an alternative to that bird app you got to bring some content.

@Placholdr If you have gotten to the point where you have this level of math problem in front of you, and feel like you have learned enough that you ought to be able to figure it out, you do NOT suck at math. Perhaps you struggle with it more than some of your peers, but in the general population you are actually incredibly mathematically adept. I'm still having to explain to my co-workers how to calculate 30% off a bill when the cash register wont do it for them.

@kate They need to play the Reds (who are 3 and 22.)

Waiting on #Kershaw to break the #Dodgers all time strike out record.

While we watch and wait let us remember with pride Don Sutton who in a land of all stars was the quiet consistent working man who went out ever 5th day and did his job for 23 seasons.

Looking at the amazing images from #JWST. It is an amazing instrument that will expand our understanding of the universe.

Because of cost and complexity it will be a singular unique resource to the scientific community. I wonder if #Astronomy could also benefit from a constellation of less ambitious but more numerous space-born instruments that could vastly expand the non-terrestrial telescope time available.

What science could be done with 20, 30 or more telescopes sized to be placed into orbit on a Falcon 9? #SpaceX could be asked to fund the launches as an offset for the light pollution caused by #Starlink, perhaps? What would it look like if most major Universities could afford to run their own space telescope, even if a more limited instrument than JWST? we've seen what a 10-fold reduction in access to LEO has done for terrestrial observation, what can be done with space observation if it doesn't take years of government funding to make it happen?

There is a similar issue with track classes (placing students in learning setting with those of similar skill levels). When done with care and equity it helps both high and low achieving students learn and stay engaged, but in practice it is never done right.

Engaged parents push their children into advanced classes they are not actually suited for, while otherwise gifted students are held back not because they lack skill or learning, but because they lacked opportunity or were actively discriminated against.

In actual practice, tracking does more harm than good, and I can see an argument that using medication to try to solve behavioral issues that have their roots in social and cultural factors can be just as harmful.

There are real people who have real medical issues who are helped by drugs like #Welbutrin and #Adderall. There are also people who have a completely normal problem with sitting in a classroom for 6 hours that is not a medical problem. Our issue is that our society dose a piss poor job distinguishing the two.

This is the summation par excellence of my social media experience.

Observation from my 30 years of Lay church leadership: We have gone through repeated cycles of discovering that not everyone in our congregations agrees on an issue, choosing the "right" side on that issue, and watching the rest leave, then asking why we are so few.

The "right" response to COVID is just the most recent iteration of that cycle. People apparently cannot pray with others who have a different take on mask mandates and vaccinations now.

@justinkownacki I must be the only person left viewing twitter on "Latest Tweets" I've set it back to that setting so many times the algorithm finally gave up and let me keep it there.

@kate As a Californian, Honestly don't understand how anything in the Eastern time zone can be Midwest. Geographically ID, NV,UT, and AZ are the middle of the western half of the continental United States.

# [New EV vs. old beater: Which is better for the environment?](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/04/new-ev-vs-old-beater-which-is-better-for-the-environment/)

TL;DR:

* If you are buying a new car anyway the EV will be better than an ICE car in about a year.

* If you have an ICE car now, buying a new EV will save on carbon output after about 2 years

So, your next car should be an EV, and if you want to get a new EV to replace your old ICE car you will not be adding carbon because of the manufacturing assuming you keep a car for 3+ years. (And of course if you are a new-car-every-3-years person then make your next car and EV)

#Dodgers lost on a lot of offensive failure. 😥 #CT# has some 'splaning to do.

Well that was short lived.