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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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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
Bernie got into a bit of controversy over his position, that prisoners should have the vote. He called it a fundamental aspect of democracy. It’s also the policy in two states, Vermont and Maine. Personally, I’m not 100% comfortable with having prisoners vote, but so many arguments come out about how prisoners lose their rights,…
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
I enjoy reading about alternative currencies (and laughing at them, for the most part) so Yang’s “Human Centered Capitalism” was an eye opener – a presidential candidate pushing an alternative digital currency for social good works. Well, here’s a rebuttal from the Wrench in the Gears blog, “Social capital” scrip? Fin-tech experiments with new forms…
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
Recently, I got asked a few things about copyright, by a friend, and I guess copyright was a bone of contention. Others in an organization with her had been trying to post a book written by her. The impression I got was that people don’t know what copyright is. This article tries to address this.…
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
I haven’t paid attention to the Medium paywall, but I was deleting some stories and comments, and the site told me a comment wasn’t visible. I don’t know how this works, but they probably have a pay-to-comment scheme. I guess I’ll need to either pay up, or move some articles out to this blog. Oh…
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
Bought at a local estate sale, this yearbook is a look into history, into the East Los Angeles community. East Los Angeles was an unincorporated area east of the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Many of the residents there came from Boyle Heights, which was a “melting pot” of different cultures. According to the…
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Marxist Feminism
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January 2018 Links
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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AB715
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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NSFW Perplexity AI
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Libertarians on Immigration
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA