Ruminations – 13mar18 (updated 14mar18)

George Rebane

College students can’t write, like in cursive handwriting.  More and more are in dire straits at schools that don’t allow laptops in the lecture halls.  Years ago the loss of that ability was described in sci-fi stories of a future when writing skills had withered and people ‘wrote’ by speaking to computers with speech-to-text capability.  Now that future is here, and we shall see how we do when requirements for making some quiet notes arise.

Dollar General in Alta Sierra, what a kerfuffle.  Residents there protest the advent of a store carrying cheap merchandise that will attract a class of people who benefit from such offerings, and whose obvious presence in that neighborhood may lower real estate values.  Mac Young in the 13mar18 Union calls such voices discriminatory (here).  And, of course, they are in both the politically correct and classical meanings of having the ability to make studied distinctions.  These people of Alta Sierra are exercising their right to voice an opinion about a likely effect that such traffic will have on their heretofore pristine community of well-kept and prim houses which dot the hillsides on the road to the county’s premier country club.

Russian collusion is most evident in the collectivist conclaves of New England – Boston town to be specific.  Here they are welcoming large Russian LNG carriers in their harbors discharging the natural gas required to heat their homes for the remainder of their globally cold winter.  They are financing Putin’s adventures rather that approve the pipeline that would have brought in Canadian and American gas to satisfy the needs of all of New England.  They see no conflict in what passes for their rationale as the region’s liberals join with the usual activist suspects – Greenpeace, Sierra Club, … - to oppose safe, sane, and sustainable native solutions.  (more here)

[update]  Rebane Doctrine dictum – Relinquish to higher government ONLY things that you or the more local government can’t handle – a hierarchical solution for benevolent governance.  (Am reading Taleb’s latest – Skin in the Game (2018) – on which I’ll report later.  I have found Taleb’s ethics and political philosophy to fly in fairly tight formation with my own credo and socio-political doctrine.)

[14mar18 update]  In ‘Why Cities Boom While Towns Struggle’ liberal columnist William Galston cites The New Geography of Jobs (2012) by Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti, who argues that achieving creativity in the workplace still requires face-to-face efforts by people drawn from a critical mass of proximal workers – telecommuting just won’t do.  There’s a lot more to be said about that which also bears on the decades-long, mostly misguided, but still persistent efforts by our own community to attract jobs and workers.  Moretti’s findings support the A21 stack-and-pack objectives of depleting rural populations in favor of dense, highly-regulated city living.  For another view of how and why cities (among other complex systems) evolve and renew themselves, I recommend the important and highly-readable Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (2017) by theoretical physicist Geoffrey West.

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[Teine Rebane Kenney]

Your Book: Quiet Notes (Making Some Quiet Notes Arise) by Dr. George Rebane, PhD

[Scenes]

re: Cursive handwriting.

There's God knows how many articles like this:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/

Given the modern university tendencies towards degrees in:

http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/programs/CHI/CHIfac.html

https://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/graduate/

https://grad.ucla.edu/programs/social-sciences/african-american-studies/

I can't say that it much matters.

[Don Bessee]

Britain's May wins backing of Trump, EU leaders in showdown with Russia
By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden,Reuters 2 hours 9 minutes ago

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Here is one for the rancid Russian dressing set-

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed on Tuesday that Russia must provide "unambiguous answers" after London gave Moscow until midnight to explain how a Soviet-era nerve weapon was used against a former Russian double agent.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-faces-british-deadline-explain-nerve-attack-former-074306851--sow.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

?? Don't know how the header came along with the paragraph?? ;-)

[George Rebane]

DonB 219pm - That stuff comes along when you don't check what you've copied from a web page. It's real easy to pick up all kinds of stuff that's more than you intended. Scroll up and down from your what you thought you selected and see what all is highlighted to tell you what you will really be copying and then pasting.

[Don Bessee]

I know, nothing else highlighted?? It was yahoo so what should I expect! ;-)

[Don Bessee]

https://knco.com/alta-sierra-store-formally-approved-by-supervisors/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

These brainiacs seem to be unaware that Supervisor Schofield was reelected in a landslide after saying he supported the DG Alta Sierra project.

Mike O'Laughlin · Krust Distributor at The Krusty Krab
Is anyone here surprised that they would make a terrible decision in defiance of county staff, the Planning Commission and hundreds of residents? There is a winnable lawsuit here folks. Mr. Scolfield, shame on you. These were your own constituents. If this is your idea of representing your constituents, then sir, you need to step down and get on the board of DG because apparently in some sense, you already are. And your total ignorance that CEQA allows the "property owner" that we all know now is a friend of yours and you were obligated recuse yourself because of it (another reason to sue) could still get his money and save the land by putting the wht trash store in the existing shopping center is and always was an option. You are ignorant of even basic planning concepts, how to respond to your community-- but nobody has ever claimed you're the brightest bulb in the... Disgusting. Nevada County politics at its most disgusting and crooked. The Beverly Hillbillies of Nevada County strike again.

https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/nevada-county-supervisors-give-final-approval-to-alta-sierra-dollar-general/

;-)

[Scenes]

GeorgeR:

I'll read that West book and report back if it smites me in any way.

DonB:

from the quoted letter: "the land by putting the wht trash store"

It's funny how you don't have to dig very deep and out it comes. Letters to the editor (and their more powerful friend, anonymous writers on forums) let people say what they mean and mean what they say.

The Dollar General fuss is something of a mystery to me. It's a small scale Target or K-Mart, no? Is the fear that a successful business will bring traffic to an area? That it will draw working class whites to a place since they want to live near Dollar General and it's wealth of detergent and soft drinks? Is it a place that po' folk hang out at and drink 40's? Heck, you'd think that the 'new' Bonanza Market would have picketing if that were an issue.

[Don Bessee]

Just last year, because the conspiracy theory demanded it, the media told us that then-incoming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was a pro-Vladimir Putin stooge. Basically, the choice of Tillerson was Manchurian President Donald Trump’s way of thanking Putin for his help in defeating Hillary Clinton.
But now that Trump has fired the “pro-Putin” Tillerson, and because the conspiracy theory demands it, this very same media are now telling us that Manchurian President Trump fired him for being too tough on Putin.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/03/15/pro-putin-anti-putin-media-mold-tillerson-fit-russia-conspiracy-theory/

;-)

[George Rebane]

DonB 336pm - Absent scruples along with a basic understanding of logic explains almost everything the lamestream regurgitates for us.