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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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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
The Civilian Space Program and NASA were Fronts for the Nuclear Missile Program. The NSA is Spying On Us, Scanning Our Public Posts for Keywords. The Real Estate Agent is Telling You Not to Move to Some Neighborhood Because they Want to Keep the Area White. The Cops are in the KKK. Drug Laws about…
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
I tried to get a racist meme removed from Instagram, but they said it didn’t violate community standards. Here’s the meme: The poster agreed, it’s racist. It’s a racist meme that’s been tagged to help it get some views. Instagram didn’t seem to be able to figure this out.
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1959
Hello, neighbor to my dead family. A photo on a headstone, a teenage boy, his hair in a pompadour, collar rumpled, smiling, facing the sun, one of the neighborhood guys. Dead at age 18, in the 1950s, buried in the neighborhood. Tono, the only name on the grave. Japanese headstones stand at attention, waiting for…
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Docker Container to Develop a WordPress Plugin
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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Directory Structure Checking Script
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Hikes, Walks, and Bookstores
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF
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Python Data Science Study
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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The Commodity Fetish
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Marxist Feminism
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Pee Commerce
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux