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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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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
This is going to sound crazy, but I think there’s a conspiracy by plumbers to frustrate DIY plumbing repair efforts. My mom had a hose bibb that was leaking, so I went to fix it. What a nightmare.
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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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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Some Yelp Reviews
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Get in Touch
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Rabbit Hole – the Western Fascination with Asian Fascism – Trans and STR8 WMAF Fetish – Racist Mass Murder – and the Rosemead movie
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Everyone Hates ICE
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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About This Blog
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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React Practice
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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Pee Commerce
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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WordPress Admin Emails Not Getting Through to Gmail addresses, Docker Container Based WordPress with BusyBox
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Medium Paywall Blocking Posts
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ACP and MAGA Communism