(Part 3) Top products from r/bestoflegaladvice

I'll take this opportunity to plug their book: The Law of Superheroes. It's a pretty interesting read, I recommend it for anyone who's interested in law and comic books.

Recommendation here for Stephanie Calmenson's excellent book May I Pet Your Dog?:The How-to Guide for Kids Meeting Dogs (and Dogs Meeting Kids). It's a great little picture-book style book by an established author that really lays out the protocol in a way kids and dog-naive parents can understand.

There’s The Politics of Black Women’s Hair,

Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America,

and, bonus politics & social conformity, Plucked: A History of Hair Removal.

You may also like the anthology Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession

> I learned that the original "patient zero" (the origin of the term!) was exonerated of the label when we found out that HIV had been active in the US since at least the 1960's, and it's estimated that the disease jumped from chimps to humans as early as the 1910's.

You should read The Origins of AIDS, by Dr. Jacques Pepin. It is generally believed that there may have been instances of HIV/AIDS in the US in the mid 1960's, but the vast majority of (and only traceable) infections are likely the result of one individual who got HIV in Haiti and brought it to the US around 1969. There is a case from Norway from 1966, and some well documented cases in the Congo as early as 1959. Genetic studies seem to indicate that the "ancestor" of HIV could date as far back as 1910 though, as you said.

I thought of similar ideas. Then I got recommended this youtube channel (see about 4:55 in the linked video) where a doctor who is a Vice Chair for Health Policy and Outcomes Research and writes for the New York Times talked about how the "state lines" thing is more of a myth. He's generally quite balanced when it comes to either side's ideas for healthcare reform (each has its own tradeoffs). https://youtu.be/6tlMALdsZ28?t=4m55s

Unfortunately, insurance companies already can sell across state lines. It just doesn't work out very well. With no regulatory boundaries, insurance sets up shop in the state with the fewest regulations and sells nationally with no real competition that would make things less crap (this happened with the credit card industry).

Networks are also setup locally due to time/money of making new ones far away, so having insurance in a different state is basically useless (which may happen to me if I stop being unemployed by getting a job in another state soon). [A couple of states tried to do this. NOT A SINGLE out of state insurer took their offer] (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/upshot/the-problem-with-gop-plans-to-sell-health-insurance-across-state-lines.html?_r=0).

Regarding rawrbunny, a large part of the problems seen in states like Texas (where I grew up) are caused by not accepting the medicaid expansion. By having Republicans reject the funding, they can then create their proof that Obamacare is more crap than it is (thanks Lieberman, for not letting us get a public option in exchange for your last crucial vote).

A side note - there's also a weird system in the US that ties healthcare to employment (not self-employment though), since healthcare benefits aren't taxed. It encourages rates to go up because no one is really paying for them. [For more info, check out Planet Money's podcast on it here. The section starts about 9 minutes in. It's fascinating stuff.] (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/26/499490275/episode-387-the-no-brainer-economic-platform)

If you want to read more on how things got so bad, I'd highly recommend [An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business.] (https://www.amazon.com/American-Sickness-Healthcare-Became-Business/dp/1594206759/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496388629&sr=1-1&keywords=an+american+sickness) It's also SUPER interesting, and even includes ways for people to save money through resources that try and make things more transparent.

As you may notice, I've been doing a decent amount of reading/research since the healthcare debate started up again. That, and the price of a fucking 15-minute CT scan (with insurance) varied MORE THAN $700 depending on which place I got it from when I was sick a while back. A good wake up call.

There's actually a very interesting book that was recently published about this, if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/1522609555

(Disclaimer: I'm not, like, the author or anything. I just read the book and thought it was neat.)

Nah I could see you just needing to set up like five to ten of those bear spray ones, then have those tiny little black hose ones that spray a super fine mist about to water your garden. You could then have it set to go off by a trigger, motion censor (I think this one could prove problematic for local wildlife), or maybe even have an app for it.

When I read the bit about the pepper spray rigged to the sprinklers, it really got me thinking on how you would do it effectively. Where you would position them and if you could set them off in relay.

That's why I think the multiple big can of bear spray like this or this but they only seem to have a 5 second blast. So having a bank of about 20 or 30, with 3 on each sprinkler system, meaning you can send more 5 second bursts through it.

As I'm in Australia and pepper spray and most definitely bear spray is illegal (without a licence I think) I'd have to find some of that fart spray instead. I could get some Raspeberry Pi's, servo motors and with my 3D printer could cobble something together.

Realistically if he had access to a 3D printer (even without you could managed with duct-tape), and could learn how to do some basic programming, you could knock something up in a month or two of weekends and some after work time.

EDIT: Just found this awesomely perfect for the purpose sprinkler.

And this one for those neighborhood kids who you don't like. Or this, or maybe if you have some Bronies this.

Kindle store - I'm on UK but it looks like they're on the US version too.

https://www.amazon.com/Unwind-Dystology-Neal-Shusterman/dp/1416912053

In that case, get Martin Ehrengraf, the only defense lawyer that works on commission.

(He's the original "dirty lawyer" fiction that I'm aware of. He proves his clients' innocence by framing someone else for the crimes.)

There was I book I read as a child called "if everybody did." Made a huge impact on my world view even when I was young. Should be required reading IMO.

https://www.amazon.com/If-Everybody-Did-Ann-Stover/dp/0890844879/ref=asc_df_0890844879/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312087669297&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11627249860805060059&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9002292&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-597819650524&psc=1

Those two OPs should join this dude

1 minutes guys lemme grab my copy of 50 ways to eat Cock

I'm reading this right now and it deals with a lot of that, it's great

https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-Executives/dp/1501121367/ref=nodl_

Not always.

https://www.amazon.com/Mastermind-Drugs-Empire-Murder-Betrayal/dp/0399590412

Unless it's a zombie Harry Potter, not interested.

Hey, did anybody do "Harry Potter with Zombies"?

You know, like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Women who are choked by their domestic partners run a high risk of being murdered by those partners:

• Strangulation is a significant predictor for future lethal violence
  
• If your partner has strangled you in the past, your risk of being killed by them is 10 times higher
  
• Strangulation is one of the most lethal forms of domestic violence: unconsciousness may occur within seconds and death within minutes.
  
  Even if you don't die you can suffer brain damage, that may not be apparent for days or weeks.
  
  Source: http://www.thehotline.org/2016/03/15/the-dangers-of-strangulation/
  
  An excellent book about domestic abuse is Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-That-Controlling/dp/0425191656. My only knock on the book is that he feels that only males abuse (or women in lesbian relationships). I have known battered men. It happens. You can find online copies too if you know someone who needs one.
  
  We see shit like this over and over in /r/relationships. Women who are so brainwashed and gaslighted by the abuser into thinking that they did something to deserve the abuse. The only thing they've done wrong is stay in the relationship. But the abuser has systematically isolated them from friends, family, finances and any social support networks. The more dependent the abuser can make the victim the more they abuse them.