Let’s take Trumpresistance native
After the outcomes of this election, a lot of my friends and I needed to take a protracted take a look at our establishments and within the mirror. Upon studying this text, nevertheless, I’ve gained extra data and confidence in our native methods.
Donald Trump threatens California’s protections of a girl’s selection, immigration, the unhoused and LGBT+ rights.
Nevertheless, evidently a lot of my friends have no idea that California suing the federal authorities has resulted in success in defending these rights.
It’s my perception that we have to educate those that that is the case. We could then have a technology much less pessimistic in regards to the future — a future the place everybody acts extra domestically to guard our rights irrespective of the federal election outcomes.
I recommend selling extra experiences, research and training so the general public and college students are educated on how native and state politics can shield our rights.
Joshua NisperosNewark
Younger children prepared forgender identification speak
Re: “District teacher on leave after lessons on gender identity” (Web page A1, Oct. 17).
Cupertino Union Faculty District father or mother Qina Sa stated that as a result of youngsters beneath 5 are nonetheless growing elementary language abilities and cognitive talents, educating about gender identification may create confusion. But analysis means that youngsters as much as age 5 can be taught and course of as much as 5 languages. They’re little sponges, prepared to soak up many extra ideas than adults would possibly suppose.
And kids in households with same-sex dad and mom or dad and mom in biracial marriages, or with siblings with varied challenges and sexual orientations, or of varied races, settle for range. For a extra tolerant society, the time to introduce variations of every kind, together with sexuality, is the early years.
Karen Lee CohenWalnut Creek
Colleges ought to focuson important considering
Re: “Schools to integrate AI into curriculum” (Web page B1, Oct. 4).
Seeing college students utilizing AI shocks me.
Forbes experiences that ChatGPT’s water utilization for cooling down servers is is sufficient to provide hundreds of U.S. farms and households. College students already use AI to jot down their essays, so educating college students to make use of it could encourage them to be lazier and turn out to be depending on it, hindering their capability to suppose freely.
As an alternative, college students ought to use AI in additional productive and restricted methods or abandon it altogether. When a pupil depends solely on AI, they begin to neglect find out how to write, not to mention type coherent sentences. Is that this the long run we would like, college students not in a position to write with out laptop help? Will our kids get by faculty with out AI to information them?
This merely can’t be. We should train our kids to look previous AI and suppose with their brains extra successfully, not find out how to use a pc’s mind.
Josh BuenaflorBrentwood
California, nation aren’tready for EVs solely
Re: “It’s time for Californians to go all in on fully electric vehicles” (Web page A6, Oct. 15).
Jane Gould and Sue Saunders say California ought to go all in on absolutely electrical automobiles. I feel it is a laudable objective however the charging situation looms giant.
Final yr, Honda and Toyota, who make extra automobiles than every other carmaker in the USA, testified in Congress that their analysis and sellers say shoppers should not prepared but.
So, the authors ought to think about plug-in hybrids as an affordable interim step, whereas chargers transfer shoppers to adapt to all-electric automobiles when extra charging options can be found. House dwellers can’t readily cost their automobiles when dwelling. It’s not sensible for them to get their automobiles charged elsewhere whereas they work.
We might have to maneuver quicker, however wishing and laws gained’t make that occur.
Dev MahadevanCastro Valley
It’s time to curb extra,energy of personal fairness
The time has come for personal fairness’s reckoning. It has penetrated each side of our lives — from housing to groceries, from hospitals to care properties, from preschools to funeral properties, from pet care to copper mines. Initially, it had some legit use, however now it’s the unapologetic heart of blatant greed, awful service and lame excuses.
Its higher reaches are the playground for obscene shows of wealth. Working example, Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire impresario of Blackstone, the world’s largest personal fairness agency, simply hosted a 200-person housewarming celebration at his $27 million mansion in Newport. Earlier than that, there was his seventieth birthday in Palm Seashore, and earlier than that, his sixtieth which value a reported $3 million-$5 million and featured Venetian gondolas, Arabian camels, Mongolian acrobats and an enormous cake within the form of a Chinese language temple.
Sufficient is sufficient.
Jim WolpmanWalnut Creek
Poultry, meat recalla testomony to waste
Re: “Poultry, meat are subjected to recall” (Web page A2, Oct. 11).
I ponder what number of animals led a tortured life after which have been needlessly killed to whole 10 million kilos of meat? How a lot land was wasted rising their thousands and thousands of kilos of feed? How a lot water and gasoline was wasted, and air and water air pollution created —- needlessly?
A slap on the wrist for BrucePac doesn’t serve justice for the four-month “lapse” that allowed such waste and disrespect for public well being and security. Maybe the one saving grace is that the announcement to the general public was so delayed that a lot of these animals have been really eaten earlier than shoppers knew there was an issue and there have been no experiences of sickness.
Elizabeth FisherPleasant Hill
