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Pee Commerce
This is based on a blog post from March 3, 2009. I got into a discussion about fertilizing with human manure, and defended the practice, mainly because my grandmother did it.
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January 2018 Links
I’ve been using a tool to delete most of my past history on Facebook, and it’s working well. The problem is that the links to interesting articles are lost. So, I’m going to archive some of the links I like before I delete them. http://www.rafu.com/2017/12/supporters-of-800-traction-artists-discuss-next-steps/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/suburban-poverty-and-recession/549350/ https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7o41rf/the_fcc_is_preparing_to_weaken_the_definition_of/ds6w3aw/ Text on the plaque about the Chinese Massacre…
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The Commodity Fetish
I’ve been thinking about an explanation of the Commodity Fetish, an idea Marx often used, on Wikipedia, and not finding it.
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Everyone Hates ICE
A part of ICE wants to leave ICE behind and get a new agency with a different three-letter-acroynm, because everyone hates ICE. People in Huntington Park called the cops on ICE. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-conflict-20180630-story.html
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
Trump has indicated that he will be signing an Executive Order today to stop separating families when they initially cross the border. While this is movement in the right direction, DO NOT BE FOOLED by what this Order does. Here are the facts thus far:
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Taking Over “Public School”
As public schools are being decimated through corporate takeovers by charters, the idea of “public schools” seems to have become a new hipster relic.
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
I’m glad that Alice Johnson is out of prison. I don’t like the way the press are saying she’s a “first time nonviolent drug offender”. Please. She was operating up a the executive level. She wasn’t some lady selling small bags of coke to friends.
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
This article starts out about Dianne Feinstein, but gets into California economic demographics and history. Source: Why California Hasn’t Moved On From Dianne Feinstein
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
I didn’t know about this law, but I think Los Angeles folks should learn about it. It’s called Proposition Q, and it was passed in 2016. The law prohibits tents on public property.
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Ethnic and Unhoused
I’m not sure if people still believe this, but there used to be a bit of “common wisdom” or racial stereotyping that said there aren’t Asian or Latino homeless.
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Pee Commerce
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Everyone Hates ICE
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The End of Facebook
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Some Yelp Reviews
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1959
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Libertarians on Immigration
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Changing Emails is Hard
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DALL-E and NSFW Content, How to Make Your Own
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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February Links
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Watching COVID-19: The OC
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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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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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric