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Brainwashing and Abuse
I’m watching this video. It’s interesting. The video is about Pavlov and coercive persuasion, in prisoner of war camps, and in cults. I wonder how much brainwashing happens to American people who somehow get associated with a wartime enemy. I’m thinking about the Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2, Muslim Americans and Arab Americans…
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
Copied from The Print India: Citizens of Russia, friends, I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia. I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries,…
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
Safety Walks wrote an opinion piece about a recent killing, where an unhoused person with mental illness pushed a woman, Michell Go, in front of a subway train, killing her. He turned himself in. The news stories noted, repeatedly, that he was mentally ill. SW says: 61-year-old homeless attacker, Martial Simon is identified as a…
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
These are videos from April 2020. I’m writing this in January 2022. We’re still in this pandemic. That dude had diabetes and a load of snacks. That’s going to make his blood thicker, which impedes the ability of blood to deliver oxygen to the fingertips and toes. That’s why diabetics lose their toes. He thinks…
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Beach Cities IMC
I was in a South Bay group and got a message about a cop there who painted swastikas on cars, and it reminded me of “Beach Cities IMC”. This was a fake Indymedia site that posted a lot of right wing crap. (For that matter, the current IMC is being spammed by crap posts… so…
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
This mural no longer exists. I thought it was one of the best ones in Los Angeles, because it was so postmodern, but also specific to its location and time. I didn’t realize, until I did research, that it was created in 1993, a long time ago. It was created not long after the term…
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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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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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Pee Commerce
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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Changing Emails is Hard
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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The End of Facebook
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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First COVID-19 Post
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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The Western Gender Binary
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Update for June 18, 2019
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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January 5, 2019 Update
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism