(Part 4) 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.

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

Restraints in nearly all cases are inhumane and unnecessary with proper precautions. A sealed room without a balcony for an unrestrained patient is perfectly safe for everyone involved. If you’re curious about this issue, there’s been an entire book written about the issue of restraints and forced treatment.

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.

If I was the wife I would be strongly against that kind of division. Cashing out cryptocurrencies for real US dollars in your pocket can be incredibly difficult or impossible. I say "real dollars" as opposed to "numbers on some shady unregulated exchange's database", where the exchange says withdrawals are currently disabled due to a software bug but we'll totally have them working again next month. Because that kind of thing has happened multiple times in the past, with exchanges who ended up either running away with all their customers' money or losing the money in a hack and trying to cover it up. See (1) (2)

Read this guy's book, it's pretty good. He describes bitcoin exchanges as "keep[ing] your money in a sock under someone else's bed".

Well, this instructional game will help you never forget your chutes or ladders ever again!

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.)

The high seas? Are you one of those deviants that are into sea law?


If so...I've got just the thing for you: [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: and Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI] (https://www.amazon.com/United-Nations-Convention-Implementation-International/dp/1795567104/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sea+law&qid=1550764444&s=gateway&sr=8-1)

This. Teaches children how to clean their teeth properly.

> people get thrown in jail for unpaid fines/fees and other minor violations in 13 states,

So is this a space where we can discuss the excellent book The New Jim Crow because it seems highly relevant.

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

Try this, it'll last forever!

https://www.amazon.com/Popcorn-Haikus-Rachael-Schmitt/dp/1979799601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519330877&sr=8-1&keywords=popcorn+haikus

For the rest of you:

It’s innate.

You underestimate hipsters. https://www.amazon.com/Mason-Jar-Lunches-Including-Delicious/dp/1612437591

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

i can buy that the right people knew and others went along with it out of ignorance or fear of reprisal. The Getty has a long history of fraud, theft, and other deceptive activities - this book is a good read about some of it, if you're into that sort of thing!