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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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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Protected: Who Killed Vincent Chin, Blaming Gascon or any District Attorney, and Lame Politics
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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1959
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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The End of Facebook
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)