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I’m a Trollaholic
I sometimes get onto these threads with a few comments, and end up writing a screed. This was with this person, Ras Lyon, who I suppose is a rasta-capitalist. @Mr. Ras Lyon Here’s what you said: “Investors and owners don’t live off of the employees, they live off of the return on the investment they…
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
I wrote this for Quora: There’s two separate groups here. You can even say three groups. International students aren’t all good at college, but the ones from poorer countries are likely to be excellent. The reason is simple: nobody who sucks at school would go overseas to a far more expensive place to attend school.…
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
I was reading Quora and it showed me an awesome article about the history of money, or more correctly, the development of debt, and the ideology of private property, and how “barter” is an ideological myth promoted by capitalists. How did the concept of money actually emerge from the “barter system”? TL;DR: the original “money”…
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
A mega-thread on City Data about the issue. Some people are arguing that these policies weren’t racist. Let’s just say there’s some denial going on. http://www.city-data.com/forum/urban-planning/2123740-racist-housing-policy-made-your-neighborhood.html
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
Art Spiegelman in The Guardian: Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviours who could combat the Nazi threat. They speak to the dark politics of our times Source: Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Changing Emails is Hard
I’ve had my old address, johnk@riceball.com, for more than 20 years. I think. I don’t remember when I first established email for my own domain. I remember picking the domain out around 1998, when the first domain land rush happened. I probably set up the email on the Cyberjava servers. I don’t remember anymore. Later,…
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
This is shocking to me: Why Ditching Processed Foods Won’t Be Easy — Barriers To Cooking From Scratch The worst part is at the end. During the survey, one of the participants became homeless. Back when I was a child, the processed foods cost more, and the fresh foods cost less. That’s because we had a…
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
A work in progress – how to reupholster a chair seat for cheap or free, with scrap fabric and recycled stuffing. These pictures show some of the progress. This chair’s seat had torn, and the foam was coming out. I wanted to reupholster it, but for as little money as possible. I watched a few…
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
I stumbled across and ad for an old Japanese doll, and wanted to get an idea of what’s out there, so I went to eBay and found out. On there, I saw listings for “Ichimatsu” dolls, which I’d never heard of before. A little research turned up some info, but the most interesting story was…
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Marxist Feminism
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Update for April 29, 2019
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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PHP Attributes Overview, plus Symfony, Doctrine ORM, laravel-php-attributes
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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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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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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After do-release-upgrade Name Resolver Stops Working
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP