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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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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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The Independent Progressive Party
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Pattern? List of IDs/SKUs on STDIN
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Mass Narcolepsy
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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The Return of Public Housing
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About This Blog
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Columbusing: Eastside
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
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Beach Cities IMC
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)