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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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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Fruit Updates
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Pee Commerce
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Beach Cities IMC
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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About This Blog
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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ChatGPT on Nationalism
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Workstyles and Productivity
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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The Western Gender Binary
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent