Richard Robertson

If only you’d raked those leaves

Unseen wrote:
Time for a government takeover?

Yes, or something like that. There is a whole lot of angry “discussion” blaming PG&E, which is appropriate to some extent, but I’ve seen very little discussion on how to not expect/trust PG&E to solve this epic crisis. We’re seeing anger on one side suing them for outdated powerline infrastructure…[Read more]

Reg on a related note in case you haven’t seen it:

The Mysterious Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Can you tell me how far north the evac order extends if you get a chance.

Yikes, I’m sorry I missed that question! One way is to google ‘pg&e psps map‘ or similar, partly because the data sources and presentations evolve from year to year (or faster), so don’t expect any link to last longer than one event. (psps =…[Read more]

Caption: This photo of newlyweds Katie and Curtis Ferland at their wedding at Chateau St. Jean in Kenwood went viral when photographer Karna Roa posted it on Facebook. The photo was taken in late afternoon on Saturday, Oct. 26, with smoke from the Kincade wildfire, bearing down on Healdsburg and Windsor, in the background creating an…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Consciousness is one of the inputs used in the preconscious mind. We are conscious of getting on a bike and getting the hang of it, but all the consciousness is there is as an input to the preconscious mind, which is where things are DONE and not just perceived.

Human consciousness in particular is extremely (if not unnaturally)…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Pope, based on feelings?

Unseen was cogent. That was reason, baby. The little unseen man who speaks for him was on his game!

I agree that Unseen makes sense, and I believe he has more expertise in logic, philosophy, and writing than I do, but did you notice that he also used the word feeling? I’m not calling him on that,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
As for consciousness, it happens shorty after all these processes have happened preconsciously.

Here we go again–not just Unseen but all of us, declaring philosophically and (often conversely) declaring based on feelings whether free will exists… and this isn’t special to this thread, but it’s been on people’s minds for thousands…[Read more]

Getting realer now. About 50k people ordered to evacuate: http://nixle.us/BDSNC

_Robert_ wrote:
Good time to buy Generac stock, I am sure they are selling generators as fast as they can make them.

Another company that impressed me a great deal back in 2017 is Purple Air, who makes pro-sumer grade instruments that report realtime air quality measurements via internet. Los Angeles atm looks pretty clean at 12:30pm today, but…[Read more]