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I don't know of any, but another good option is a night walk kit!

Hurtta vest

Safety light

Headlamp

Good luck!!

Hello! Nice to meet a fellow art deco enthusiast. As far as books I have this one which is general Oakland https://www.amazon.com/Oakland-Postcard-History-Annalee-Allen/dp/073853014X/ and Theaters of Oakland - https://www.amazon.com/Theatres-Oakland-Jack-Tillmany-ebook/dp/B0099EAJFO/ They have pictures and a lot of interesting facts and descriptions on the buildings. I found them cheaper on booksprice btw. There is also the Art Deco Society which I have not participated in yet but heard good things http://artdecosociety.squarespace.com/ Welcome :D

This is a decent site for Lake Merritt. Most of the parks have a page on iNaturalist (like this); they're not super accurate, but make an okay entry point to identification.

For ID'ing individual birds in the field, the Sibley app is popular with birders.

For more in-depth info, Birds of the Sierra Nevada is very good--there is a ton of overlap between our local birds and birds in the mountains and foothills, so most of the birds you'd see around town are addressed in great detail.

This is exciting. I'm glad to hear Oakland is finally implementing Operation Ceasefire, having recently read David Kennedy's book Don't Shoot. I hope it can work. Nabbing these 8 will hopefully have a ripple effect.

I HIGHLY recommend reading his book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1608194140#

It's much, much more complicated than that. If you would like to learn more, this is a very comprehensive and academic, but still readable study:
http://www.amazon.com/Los-Angeles-Automobile-Making-Modern/dp/0520073959

It focuses on LA, but many of the same dynamics hold true for Oakland.

I actually just got one the other day for my pup, but they're out of stock now. Who knows how well they work, but it's gotta be better than nothing!

Too Beautiful for Words by Monique W. Morris, and the song it is based on, Me and Jesus the Pimp in a 79 Granada by The Coup.

Thanks for this. Definitely putting this in my queue.

The kindle edition is free on Amazon!

I just want him and everyone who takes advantage of musicians/artists to go away.

Or be a human being and take some of the money you are collecting/stealing and buy $200 worth of fire prevention equipment from Amazon. A fire extinguisher is $20. A fire blanket is $12. Our safety is a collective effort. Nobody has any excuses especially those who are profiting from this community.

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Stairs-Historic-Staircases-Berkeley/dp/1595800638/186-3974677-1858161?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 Get this, go walk around some neighborhoods and admire some architecture and/or history.

Living for the city does a good job of filling in these blanks

Edit: For grammar

> That's why I say understand how the system works and, yes, resign yourself to it

My guess is that you would not be saying this if you were the one getting the short end of the capitalist stick. It's very easy to say "that's just how it is people" when you are not the one suffering. To say "well then just get a better job, what's the problem?" is the thinking of a child; it shows you have very little understanding of the local economy and historical political and social forces that keep poor people poor.

My guess is that you are not super rich or even "rich" by any stretch of the imagination, which is why you feel justified in writing the things you do. Even so, surely you have eyes to see that your neighbors are not less intelligent, resourceful, or hard-working than you. The economic system that is in place is one that is unjust and unhealthy. Accommodating yourself to such a system is not a sign of intelligence.

If you're interested in learning more, I highly recommend this book by Cornel West and Tavis Smiley: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1401940633 - apologies for formatting, I'm on mobile.

Well, it may sound tidy but the basic laws of nature are often tidy in that way. But at a more fundamental level it's not that people bring some expectation that things should precisely cancel, (obviously it shouldn't!) but rather that's the answer you get when you run the calculations (as I understand it, that's waaaaay above my pay grade).

The expectation isn't exactly that things work in reverse, some laws do work that way (Newton's laws, most basic quantum mechanics, a bunch of others) but some don't. Entropy (the 2nd law of thermodynamics) is a great example. But we do expect CPT to be a true symmetry, although I forget the exact reason why (it may have something to do with Noether's theorem).

Does that make sense? You can find some people who will argue that physicists have certain weird blind spots (Lost in Math is a recent book that makes that argument), but generally speaking the big questions in our current theories are guided by the theories themselves. Baryogenesis is a big one, merging QM and Relativity is another, the nature of dark matter/energy yet another. The main thing these have in common is that our current theories/models can't explain them, so the question is what direction to go in.

Amongst White Clouds. Are you a bot or something?

Found it on Amazon. Not much to lose at $3 for the Kindle version. If it sucks, the author owes me a taco.

there's a comic book of missed connections by Julia Wertz called I Saw You and a lot of them happen on bart. It reminds me soo much of this

You can see the list here in the book's table of contents: https://www.amazon.com/100-Things-Oakland-Before-You/dp/1681060973

Maybe I'm missing a few, but ignoring the hills (Redwood Regional, Chabot, etc.) the only things east of 5th Avenue I see on the list are the Coliseum and Oracle Arena.

I personally, don't. And don't have much for you, I'm not deep into it.

But I asked a lawyer friend of mine who teaches a course on this subject and she came back with a couple items. She teaches with these texts:

https://www.amazon.com/American-Corrections-Todd-R-Clear/dp/133755765X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow

And referred me to this syllabus:
https://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-syllabus-2-0/

I'm sure you and I both were hoping for something more succinct.

I was reading the New Jim Crow wikipedia page and among its critics is this guy, Plaff, who while contending TNJC's focus on the drug war makes a point you've brought up before: That non-violent drug offenders are not the majority of prisoners. His book https://www.amazon.com/Locked-Causes-Incarceration-Achieve-Reform/dp/0465096913 focuses on the shift in the 80's towards mandatory minimums and prosecutor behavior. The ever ratcheting prison term lengths since that time have left American prisoners with long sentences compared to other countries and I doubt that acts as a deterrent. I've heard the argument made that violence towards arresting police may be increased in the USA because the arrestee has so much to lose compared to other systems.

I am not your friend, nor am I full of shit. I don't need your approval to satisfy my definition of a protest. I will agree to disagree with you, but you should really re-read what I wrote, and what you wrote. Because your paraphrasing of my writing is incorrect. This is an example that is irrelevant to the point I am making, and is just a generalized point you made to position your argument to "work" against mine:
>they're examples that run counter to your retarded idea that dogs should NEVER be around people in groups. That's what you were saying, correct? If it's not a "dog park" then you shouldn't bring a dog to it? Fuck that. You were bit as a child, weren't you?

Not only did I not say that, it bastardized my argument to support the point you wanted to argue instead. You have yet to counter my argument that dogs shouldn't be at human-only events, though you make an excellent argument against whoever said "parks in general" or "people in groups."

Another example:
>So don't act like you OWN the definition and anyone who doesn't adhere to it is diminishing the point.

I don't think I own the definition, we are offering up our opinions and you seem quick to forget that. I am entitled to a difference in opinion with you but I ask that you refrain from putting words in my mouth... it makes it difficult to stay the course if I have to constantly correct you.

Like I said, you may disagree with me, but you will not win this argument because you are to focused on arguing points that don't exist. On top of that you seem to think that I don't know what i'm talking about, when you are the one running off on tangents that you created. If you would like to continue our discussion, please quote me instead of paraphrasing.

Edit: Also, I suggest reading this http://www.amazon.com/Everythings-Argument-Andrea-A-Lunsford/dp/1457606062