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Erik Richardson

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Erik Richardson

@erikadastra

Writer & Consultant focused on Finance/Econ | Former educator in STEM. psych. phil. | Space is the path to truth.

Missouri

Joined November 2011

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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Jun 9
The Missing "Step X" in the SpaceX/Tesla Engineering Process @elonmusk, your famous 5-step algorithm is highly effective for optimization, but it contains a fundamental execution bottleneck. (Verified by two different LLMs, including Grok.) Step 1 says "Make requirements less
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
May 17, 2023
These girls are petitioning to wear sports bras for track practice. They were suspended because male coaches found it "distracting." Sounds to me like we need a petition for firing those pig coaches who are not mature enough to handle the role. (1/2) bleacherbreaker.com/trending/new-y…
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Jan 4, 2023
Killing off public schools & privatizing them is already estimated to be $47.9 billion industry. Bigger than online sports betting. The cannabis industry won’t hit that til 2030. It’s already 3x the size of check cashing / payday loan industry – and just as predatory. (1/4)
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Apr 16, 2023
Growing up in an era when it was socially and physically dangerous to come out is still deeply ingrained in many of the older generations.
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Aug 19, 2024
Someone just shared that @MarkHamill is at the DNC. Wow! I don't recall ever seeing another celeb pour this much into a campaign—all up and down the ballot.
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Dec 22, 2023
Anti-CRT people claim that what they oppose is "white students feeling guilt," but killing electives like these shows they also oppose "black students feeling pride." - That's a world of difference.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
@stltoday
Dec 22, 2023
The all-white Francis Howell School Board voted Thursday to eliminate the elective courses Black History and Black Literature from the district’s three high schools. The vote was 5-2. buff.ly/487JcOy
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
May 17, 2023
Replying to @erikadastra
These coaches are exactly the people we need to switch into roles that do not have contact and responsibility for young women, instead of making the world work around them. (2/2)
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Jun 4, 2023
"To succeed, we all need to avoid treating the corruption of people like Clarence Thomas or Ken Paxton as a problem of a few "bad apples" and see it as symptomatic of oligarchs' efforts to subvert democracy and equal opportunity."
Clarence Thomas and Ken Paxton: The corrupting influence of oligarchy
From salon.com
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Apr 24, 2024
Can teachers sell their state-issued guns and use the money for classroom supplies and snacks for undernourished kids? Asking for a few thousand friends in TN.
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Sep 7, 2024
Mark your calendars: the incredible @MarkHamill will be doing an online fundraiser for my campaign on the evening of Wednesday 9/18. (Details TBA) Help us show voters and candidates everywhere that moving the needle in red, rural districts is possible!
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Apr 26, 2024
"If you don't allow us to kill more of your wives, sisters, & daughters, then we will kill all the grandparents and cancer patients." — MO Republicans
Senate Democrats
@MoSenDems
Apr 26, 2024
Republicans in the Senate are blocking passage of nursing home & hospital funding until a bill banning women on Medicaid from getting Birth Control, cancer screenings, and STI testing at Planned Parenthood is signed by Gov. Mike Parson. #moleg
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Jan 4, 2023
Replying to @erikadastra
Think downstream. They are. What happens when K-12 students/parents need student loans to afford the charter schools because private charter industry has price-setting power. Think of the propaganda power of corporations controlling our students’ minds all day every day. (3/4)
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Jan 4, 2023
Replying to @erikadastra
In 10 years it’ll be worse than the altered reality that was generated by the tobacco industry w/ its army of lobbyists + legislators. Look how well & long they screwed us over and covered it up. Now imagine if they had also been in control of all our school curriculum! (4/4)
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Erik Richardson
@erikadastra
Aug 28, 2024
The law doesn't say, "unless the family agrees." That whole line of bullsh*t they're shoveling is a red herring. If a family gives me permission to cook meth in their basement, does it suddenly become legal?
Emily A. The Spirit of Jezebel
@emzorbit
Aug 28, 2024
I don’t care if this family did sign a letter giving him permission. You can see the names on the graves of others whose families did not.
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