(Part 3) Top products from r/BlackPeopleTwitter

To anyone wanting to learn more about it, The Food Lab by J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt is an awesome book to have around. It doesn't just list off recipes, but discusses different types of foods and breaks down the different techniques most used in cooking them. So you don't just learn how to cook certain specific recipes, but how to cook things in general. I love it.

For example, there's a section about steak where he discusses all the different cuts, how they're flavored, and the pros and cons of the methods used in cooking each type. He even explains how you can rig up a ghetto sous-vide setup in a beer cooler.

A good read on the topic

Why it's relevant

One of the most interesting point of the book: if you won't do anything with it, a piece of news isn't as important as what you think it is. If it is really important, then you'll end up learning it through some other channel anyway.

It's a complicated issue for sure. Here's a good read on the topic if you're still looking up more info about it. Link

Late, but I recommend Traffic , from Tom Vanderbilt.

Or compassion (cf. "Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion").

You either should have read this book or most definitely should have not.

College textbook for anyone who is interested. I took a class taught by the author.

http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Human-Sexuality-Janet-Hyde/dp/0078035392

He wrote a book if you're interested.
https://www.amazon.com/Law-Man-Robbing-Winning-Redemption/dp/0307887839

That’s not really backed up by the evidence though. The study I linked (which is actually a study of studies) shows that zoning and land use regulations have a negative impact on economic development, housing, and rent prices.

It’s not really a free for all because developers still have to attract customers: if their offerings aren’t appealing to people willing to pay for them they will go out of business. Honestly they will likely not ever leave the planning phase because they will be unable to get investors who are keep to see a return and unlikely to risk their money on a project that can’t sustain itself.

In addition to that link here is a great book on the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Order-without-Design-Markets-Cities/dp/0262038765/ref=nodl_

> morality isn’t real


Morality is very real in the sense that it is a defining part of how we structure our society and decide how to interact with others. For a review of the moral psychology research and a fantastic summary of the implications of morality on our social interactions and institutional configurations, check out the book The Righteous Mind.

More to the point, if this is the stance that you choose to take, then expect to never have this conversation end. You’re having a different discussion than the people with whom I assume you disagree.

In case you were wondering. This is from a real book called "Fireflies for Nathan".

http://www.amazon.com/Fireflies-Picture-Puffins-Shulamith-Oppenheim/dp/0140557822

Doing Harm by Dusenbery is a book that catalogues these issues.

/u/Freckled_daywalker posted a link to a study above.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0813JRWTN

A Generation of Sociopaths: How Baby Boomers Betrayed America

By 'crazy shit' you mean testing infectious diseases with ticks.

You also mean its research was partly headed up by ex-Nazi Scientist Erich Traub brought over by Operation Paperclip

And by 'fringe conspiracy' you mean - House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them

I don't think it was intentional, personally. I think it was migratory birds and shit laboratory conditions, which is well documented.

Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory

There's actually a great book I read recently called Underground Airlines that deals with this sort of alternate history. In short, the Civil War never happened, as a compromise was struck in order to preserve the Union. A bunch of constitutional amendments were struck outlawing the federal government from banning slavery, but states were free to ban slavery. In the present day, four states still allow slavery, and the USA as a whole is a shunned, backwater country because of it.

The hard part for majority of people is that Historically events and the motives of individual's actions in those events are never "Black&White". Take the Civil War since that is the crux of this issue. In the book What They Fought For, 1861–1865 by James McPherson reported on his reading of hundreds of letters and diaries written by soldiers on both sides of the war on the question of what they believed they were fighting for. Not all Northerns cared for blacks in fact many were super racist they just didn't like slavery and in every major battle there were slave owning union soldiers fighting for the north, and non slave owning southern soldiers fighting for the south. On the other hand 80% of the Southern soldiers didn't own slaves and many felt that if slavery was to be ended it should like everyone born after 1/1/1861 are set free but given and education before hand.

“I was fighting for my home, and he had no business being there”
-Virginia confederate Solider Frank Potts

“We are fighting for the Union . . . a high and noble sentiment, but after all a sentiment. They are fighting for independence, and are animated by passion and hatred against invaders” - A Illinois officer.

“Believe me no solider on either side gave a **** about slaves, they were fighting for other reasons entirely in their minds. Southerns thought they were fighting the second American revolution norther's thought they were fighting to hold the union together [With a few abolitionist and fire eaters on both sides].”

• Shelby Foote
  
  Robert E. Lee is the biggest and the greatest paradox. He was against Virginia leaving the Union but felt his loyalty and duty, like many, was to his home state above the country: “If Virginia stands by the old Union,” Lee told a friend, “so will I. But if she secedes (though I do not believe in secession as a constitutional right, nor that there is sufficient cause for revolution), then I will follow my native State with my sword, and, if need be, with my life.” While Lee never publicly came out on one side or the other of Slavery. In a letter to his Wife in 1856 he said “In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it however a greater evil to the white than to the black race, & while my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more strong for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence.” But Lee's wife and daughters taught the slaves to read and write which was against Virginia law and Lee officially freed his inherited slaves, he had no other slaves, on December 29, 1862 five years after his father-in-law Georgie Washington Custis' death as stated in his will. And yes Georgie Washington Custis is a descendant of President Georgie Washington.
  
  Besides once universal conscription was instituted by the Confederacy in 1862, it didn't matter what they fought for, whether they wanted to fight, or even if they supported the Confederacy they fought or become deserters and risk execution. The Union started conscription in 1863. One could argue those who were conscripted didn't care about slavery since if they did they would've volunteered earlier. Many were concerned more about their farms and family. One Confederate officer at the time noted, "The deserters belong almost entirely to the poorest class of non slave-holders whose labor is indispensable to the daily support of their families" and that "When the father, husband or son is forced into the service, the suffering at home with them is inevitable. It is not in the nature of these men to remain quiet in the ranks under such circumstances." Which was used by both sides trying to get them on their side the Union offered pardons and the Confederacy offered jobs or land in some cases.
  
  Now those caught deserted in the Union 147 were executed for desertion out of 200,000 deserters. In the Confederacy 229 were executed out of the 100,000 deserters. But since you can't kill off all the 300,000 men that deserted from both sides many were branded with a "D" on their hip. Many were just purely tortured:
  
  "One punishment much affected in the light artillery was called 'tying on the spare wheel.' Springing upward and rearward from the center rail of every cassion was a fifth axel and on it was a spare wheel. A soldier who had been insubordinate was taken to the spare wheel and made to step upon it. His legs were drawn apart until they spanned three spokes. His arms were stretched until there were three or four spokes between his hands. Then the feet and hands were firmly bound to the felloes of the wheel. If the soldier was to be punished moderately then he was left, bound in an upright position on the wheel for five or six hours. If the punishment was to be severe, the ponderous wheel was given a quarter turn after the soldier had been lashed to it, which changed the position of the man from upright to horizontal. Then the prisoner had to exert all his strength to keep his weight from pulling heavily and cuttingly on the cords that bound his upper arm and leg to the wheel." -- Frank Wilkeson, Army of the Potomac in the Union Army.
  
  In the end it is just easier for people paint with broad strokes the "good people"/The Union as saints and "bad guys"/The Confederacy as sinners. It is the same with all of those leaders/people we have had in History. In reality the Slavery had many shades of blue and grey and should be treated as such. There was good and bad in both the Union and the Confederacy.
  
  Sources and other reading material:
  
  http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a25915/punishment-and-torture-in-the-civil-war-111413/
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20170422015315/http://www.americanheritage.com/content/south%E2%80%99s-inner-civil-war-0
  
  http://uncw.edu/csurf/explorations/documents/volume%209%202014/franch.pdf
  
  https://www.nps.gov/arho/learn/historyculture/slavery.htm
  
  https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/David%20Carr_0.pdf
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-Much-About-Civil/dp/0380719088/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493924562&sr=8-1&keywords=Don%27t+Know+much+about+the+Civil+War
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Cry-Freedom-Civil-War/dp/019516895X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493924743&sr=1-1&keywords=Battle+Cry+of+Freedom
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Volumes-1-3-Box/dp/0394749138/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493924920&sr=1-1&keywords=Shelby+Foote