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SoCal finally feels the effects of Climate Change
The L.A. region is experiencing uncontrollable wildfires which are affecting people’s homes. People are quoting Octavia Butler and losing their minds as neighborhoods burn to the ground and poor people have nowhere to evacuate to – all while insurance companies have quietly been removing wildfires as covered incidents for which homeowners and renters can submit Continue reading
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U.S. Immigration “the right way”
Step 1: “escape” an oppressive land where some higher power or entity is supposedly oppressing you, your family, and those who are like yourself Step 2: arrive in “the new world” and seek assistance from the inhabitants who already live here Step 3: kill and steal resources from the former inhabitants so you become the Continue reading
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Corporate Fast Food Franchising deserves to die
Yet another Yahoo Finance article bashing any notion of workers rights or economic gains fails (yet again) to uncover exactly how much profit corporate management pilfers from local “entrepreneurs” and communities. Each time I see any headlines on Yahoo Finance railing against wins for hardworking people, my eyes can’t roll hard enough at the failure Continue reading
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Military Recruitment
If we do the math using the figures in the email from a US Marines recruiter, $3500 for 6 weeks of training equates to $14.58 per hour and $5500 for 10 weeks of training equates to $13.75 per hour. How is it that the Department of the Navy can receive $212 billion in the 2022 Continue reading
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Linguistic Diversity
Take a look at the below maps of Europe and North America side by side: Each share the same scale, yet Europe has a lot more linguistic diversity than the North American continent. This was intentional on the part of Western European colonizers. California itself used to be home to over 300 indigenous languages with Continue reading