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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
If you have hard water, your toilet bowl will develop ugly mineral scale deposits. When these are brown, they’re called “rust” stains, but it’s not rust. These three techniques to clean out the bowl are easy, and two of them are pretty safe. The last is dangerous, but fast. For all these methods, you need…
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
This ongoing story of the patients of Sakura Gardens ICF, formerly Keiro, is looking bad, with a looming threat that residents will be transferred to the Kei-Ai nursing home facility, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in California. Ongoing information is published at the group fighting these transfers, Save Our Seniors. For a comprehensive…
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
These are a few stories about how vaccination efforts to focus on the groups facing the most infection were undermined, and led to privileged people getting vaccinated. Los Angeles TL;DR: California and Los Angeles need to focus on getting vaccinations to working class Latino communities, which are extremely under-vaccinated. Los Angeles Times: Work-at-Homers Got Appointment…
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
I was forwarded a paper that was published in a journal. I wondered what the journal was about, and found that they were looking to preserve the intellectual lineage of Henry George, a late 19th century philosopher and early Progressive reformer of capitalism. He wanted land to be held in common, and was known for…
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
The management of this pandemic is racist as hell. I looked back over my emails and some posts, and I was going off on the issue of essential workers and crowded housing back in April of 2020. This barely ever came up in the media as an important factor in the spread of COVID-19, until…
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
Go to the Dashboard. This article shows you how to click on the map and compare the COVID-19 stats for different communities. We’ll see the large disparities between communities in Los Angeles County.
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
This person may have been a relative. It’s hard to know. My father had a letter sent to some government agency looking for him. Recent internet searches turned up photos, and this document, which is a record of the 1940 census. He boarded at a house at 305 E. 2nd St. in Los Angeles. This…
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
I got blocked from posting reviews, so I decided to start a review blog. I just like writing reviews. The blog is called product8reviews. After writing a few articles, it dawned on me that I had some Amazon reviews that I could copy over. It turns out I had around 120 reviews, and over 100,000…
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
I got a notification that someone on Twitter liked a statement by a rival in a troll-flame war. So I reviewed my tweets from mid-July, 2020. As I write this, in mid-September, 2020, I feel like saying “told you so.”
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
This first paper is exciting, because it’s about people working on a fishing boat, and being exposed to COVID-19. No, they were not forced onto a boat and exposed to it. They are just testing people going onto these boats, and when they all test negative, they embark. If an unfortunate person was incubating the…
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Lifehacks Here
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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The Mirror
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Fruit Updates
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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Beach Cities IMC
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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1959
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January 2018 Links
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After do-release-upgrade Name Resolver Stops Working
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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Prompt Collection
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun