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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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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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January 2018 Links
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Treasure Chest, Robert Louis Stevenson Jr. High School Yearbook, 1939
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Chili History
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The Commodity Fetish
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The End of Facebook
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Dodging
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Changing Emails is Hard
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Prompt Collection
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Brainwashing and Abuse
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Civil Rights Unionism
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us