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Do 20% of Trump’s supporters oppose the freeing of slaves after the civil war?
2/25 Update: The NY Times has improved, but not completely fixed, its erroneous claims. This post is updated. Those Trump supporters. It’s not bad enough they support The Donald, but 20% of them are...
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No, 71% of Doctors are not concerned about Hillary Clinton’s health
It’s a shocker of a headline: And it’s a lie. First, it’s conducted by a group known as “American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)”. Here’s part of their Wikipedia entry: The association is generally...
View ArticleUpdated List of Senatorial Twitter Accounts for 115th Senate
I’ve updated the list of Twitter accounts for the 115th Senate, which starts tomorrow, 1/3/2017. As the new senators get settled in, they will probably shift their Twitter usage from campaign to...
View ArticleInadvertent Great Books: Introduction to a Series
There’s a kind of book that I call an inadvertent great book: a book that had modest or narrow goals, and yet ends up teaching us something profound about the human experience. Somehow, inadvertently,...
View ArticleUpgrading WordPress to PHP 7 and broken permalinks
I recently upgraded this server from PHP 5 and Debian 7 “Wheezy” to PHP 7 and Debian 9″Stretch”, and everything seemed fine. Except that all my permalinks stopped working. I’m running Apache (2) as...
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Fixing Chrome Crashes, Glitches, and Lockups in High Sierra
I recently upgraded my iMac to High Sierra, and all of a sudden once or twice a day it would lock up. The mouse would work, and if I had audio playing it kept working. But no matter what I clicked or...
View ArticleUpdate to List of Senators
I’ve just updated the list of senator twitter accounts to reflect the swearing in of Tina Smith and Doug Jones, and also cleaned up other senator accounts.
View ArticleEpson’s evil firmware upgrade for the XP-430 printer to break 3rd party ink...
I was having some issues with my Epson XP-430’s scanner and thought I’d try upgrading to the latest firmware. Very. Bad. Idea. After the upgrade, it identified that I had installed 3rd party ink...
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Disney World Hotels react to Covid-19 … slowly
As the Covid-19 ravaged other countries, it was very clear that the United States was on the same path as other countries, just delayed. Yet our federal government was in denial for a long time, and...
View ArticleCovid-19 Resources
This page is mostly for my benefit, a place to bookmark interesting Covid-19 resources that I come across. Basic Stats (Averages, mostly) Time from Infection to symptoms 5 Days (1) Time from Symptoms...
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