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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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Marxist Feminism
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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React Practice
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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Alcohol Didn’t Fix the Mold
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Machine Learning Notes 2
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Dodging
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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China and Least Developed Countries Free Trade; Cal Gig Worker Law; Running Down the Walls
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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The Return of Public Housing
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts