(Part 2) Best products from r/DepthHub
We found 20 comments on r/DepthHub discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 74 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
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27. The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
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30. What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was
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34. Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
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37. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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> My opinion, and this is a subjective one, is that private enterprise is simply unable to provide them.
I'd like to point you toward The Market for Liberty and Welcome to Free America books that address this very topic. The Tannehills can be a bit inflammatory, but they have some very good insights into how services would be provided sans government. Barker describes a fictional America 26 years after the collapse of government, and also gives great examples of how services would be provided, from the perspective of a guide for new immigrants.
> The complete one is: "the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it".
I disagree that this is a requirement for the definition of theft - that would indicate that as long as I plan on giving your car back, I can joyride in it whenever I want.
> I don't see property as an absolute right, since it relies on the relativity of societal norms.
That's the thing - it doesn't. Property, at it's core, is an absolute requirement for life. Otherwise, it would be perfectly acceptable to take the food out of another person's hands, and prevent them from ever eating. Without the concept of property, there is no such thing as theft.
Cool video! I would also recommend the book The Bible with Sources Revealed as an excellent resource on the origins of the Pentateuch. The different font colorings really highlight the mixing and matching of the multiple sources, and make it quite digestible even for casual readers with a passing interest in the historical origins of Christian/Jewish theology.
I don't know of any great online sources that directly answer "did Jesus exist?", but if you are interested check out The New Testament by Ehrman. It is a great introduction to "historical Jesus" studies and the origins of the New Testament documents. Also check out this Open Yale course. They both explain the historical tools used to answer these kinds of questions.
If people want to learn the same kind of basics regarding photography, but with picture illustrations and diagrams of the concepts discussed, I can highly recommend the book Understanding Exposure. It's very well written, and easy to understand.
Aveeno eczema therapy: https://www.amazon.com/Aveeno-Active-Naturals-Therapy-Moisturizing/dp/B003O7IBZC
It's expensive and probably too greasy for your face, but it does a really good job of moisturizing skin elsewhere I think. And trust me, if I could use a cheaper one, I would.
If you enjoyed that paper, I'd recommend a book called Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life by Martin A. Nowak. It's a little dry, and I haven't finished it yet, but it's well presented and reads like a book rather than a textbook.
thats a good subreddit in general. I agree that some good documentary suggestions would be useful. i picked up up The Wisdom Books awhile back, which is interesting because of how well it's annotated. but its still dense reading. I could totally go for some documentaries
I don't think that the US war planners were really too interested in democracy in any real sense. They wanted democracy only insofar as they equated "democracy" with a government which would act as an "ally" to the United States--or rather one that would completely and utterly subordinate its political and economic interests to the US. The ultimate symbol of this was the absurdly immense US embassy complex planned for the "Emerald City." US interests were always primary during the entire process. They were so bent on making the liberated/conquered Iraq into a business bonanza for the United States, for example, that they opened the doors to legions of corrupt swindlers--criminals who emptied out the Iraqi treasury, leaving very little to show for it, all under US "supervision." Some of the "errors" made by the US--born of imperial hubris, and having little to do with the ability of Iraqis to govern themselves democratically--were detailed in this documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_End_in_Sight
Here's a good book on the subject: "The Checklist Manifesto" by surgeon Atul Gawande (M.D., M.P.H., FACS). He's written a lot on the subject of process and environment and the role they play in medicine and elsewhere.
The long and short of it is that checklists and repetition have huge positive influences on outcomes.
Also read "What's The Matter With White People" by Joan Walsh. She references "Nixonland" often and further analyses how white working-class Americans have come to vote against their own interests. She grew up in the era, and uses her own family as an illustration.
I'm almost done with the book, and it's great. The title also elicits some amusing reactions on the subway.
For a super in-depth look at Japanese behavior I recommend this book. It outlines the concept of "social relativism" (roughly, a combination of valuing "relationships over people" and a "preoccupation with society") and its various consequences towards behavior.
Yeah you're right, .9mm are actually apparently 21c each, not a dollar. Buy the pack and then unless you're breaking like one pencil a day it won't really matter.
Though your solution is probably better for the environment if you break a lot of pencils.
Oh my. I've read about this so many times I don't even know where to start. Perhaps I shall return with a few links or books you can read.
A good section from the Thrive documentary. This really does the best job of explaining things.
The Disclosure Project by Dr. Steven Greer
I'll see what else I can find. I've burned through so much info that I'm trying to remember all the stories and interviews I've read.
Pretty good little book I read a couple of years ago on the topic: Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Stuart Isacoff.
An accessible read, not overly technical, which describes the progression of music "science" within social and scientific historical contexts.
If you liked this, you might like Ways Of Seeing by Berger, a classic art criticism text:
http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Seeing-Based-Television-Series/dp/0140135154/
Pretty eye opening to people like me who had never been exposed to the thought processes that go into making art and the formation of different movements in art.
For an interesting perspective on Africa, starting from the 60's or so, take a look at The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski. His ideas appear similar to the linked post. The book also contains an amazing essay on the history of Uganda and Idi Amin.
This is an intriguing idea, and is a great example of the main thesis of Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge. Of course, that book takes a wide societal look at what designers have known about for a long time - the concepts of affordances and cultural constraints.
Essentially, the possibilities we perceive a situation to offer, and our perception of the degree of effort required to achieve each possibility can impact our decisions. Therefore, situations (such as removing a cigarette from its packaging or choosing lunch from a display) can be designed so that the socially desirable possibility is that which is perceived to require the least amount of effort to achieve.
Ok. I don't have a lot of time. I especially do not have enough time to cover every instance over the decades, so I'm going to go with the most recent event - the current Iran-Israel-US issue. I will use reposts.
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>US strategy in the Middle East (and indeed all over the world) is predicated on establishing security so that other nations do not have to, the idea being that it is better if there is one powerful military guaranteeing everyone's interests rather than several powerful militaries looking to individual state interests. The US plays the role of security guarantor in the Middle East (ensuring the flow of the oil supply, protecting sea lanes, etc.) to prevent European, Indian, and Chinese (areas which all rely heavily on the Middle East for oil, whereas the vast majority of oil used by the US comes from the Western Hemisphere which we can easily secure from others) from having to do so. Preventing Arab nations from uniting (which would not happen regardless of any foreign power's involvement in the region today) is absolutely not on the agenda.
>It's not a narrative; it's established US strategy. That strategy is currently in flux because the transition in the international environment away from unipolarity, but that's what it has been since the Cold War.
To start this informal reply, there is going to be a serious inherent flaw when trying to look at one narrative as a monolithic strategy that spans decades. Theres considerable push and pull within the US government that needs to me accounted for. As promised, this will only focus on the current Iranian issue. I'm low on time, so..
Basically, you have a large fight that occurs between the oil interests you mention and people with ideological leanings with Israel. You simply cannot view even our current issues with Iran simply through your lens as it omits a massive portion of US foreign policy. There are clear breaks with oil interests and changes in US foreign policy. Sanctions are a key point during the change in policy in the mid 1990's to now. American companies were pushed out of Iran from the AIPAC sanctions when they were the biggest customers by far. Cheney, in the 1990's was against the neoconservative plan for invasion in the 1990's, he was fighting to drop the Iranian sanctions, as much of the companies were. Cheney changed his position later. Repost. look for links and a bunch of expanded points. Luckily, I have some important excerpts of Parsis book here that should help start you off. This is another short PDF you should read, as it also covers how oil interests came to dominate US policy, and then lost out to Israeli interests in the mid 1990's. During Clintons second term, Clinton shifted back to oil interests to an extent.
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>“Indecision 2000”had deprived the Bush administration ofmore than six badly needed weeks to organize the administration and fill key posts in the State Department and elsewhere.More than three months into his presidency,Bush still had not found many ofthe people who would head his government agencies, including those who would be responsible for policies on Iran.AIPAC’s machinery, however,was in great shape.The pro-Israel lobby began laying the groundwork for ILSA’s renewal on Capitol Hill,and by mid-March—before Bush had even formulated a position on ILSA—AIPAC had gathered more than three hundred cosponsors in the House (the bill needed only 218 votes to pass).Though the sanctions had failed to change Iran’s foreign policy,AIPAC still hailed ILSA as a great success.AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr urged the House International Relations Committee to renew ILSA because it had “met the test and proven its effectiveness over time”and because “Iranian behavior demands it.” The pro-Israeli Washington Institute for Near East Policy argued that ILSA’s renewal would help Iran’s “real moderates”and hurt the “so-called moderates”around President Mohammad Khatami,who shared the “anti-Israel policies set by Iran’s hard-line clerical leadership.” The Bush administration was quickly outmaneuvered; through its preemptive work on Capitol Hill,AIPAC checkmated Bush and saw the sanctions bill pass with overwhelming numbers in both chambers.Still,cautious optimism characterized Iran’s approach to the United States during the first months of the Bush administration,and a lull reigned in the war ofwords between Tehran and Tel Aviv. All that was to change on the morning of September 11,2001
View the parsi link above for an expansion of what occurred between 2001 and now. If people forget whey the sanctions are relevant today, Remember that the Obama administration just recently, expended a chunk of political capital on releasing oil from the strategic oil reserves to drive down prices to help boost the economy. In come the AIPAC sanctions, and Obama pleads to ease the impact of the penalties to avoid driving up oil prices. He loses. Oil prices go up over the nonsense that occurs afterwards, negatively affecting the US economy. Bonus? China gets cheaper Iranian Oil as the U.S. Pays for the expensive Hormuz patrols. A varied group of other people, with the run up to the Iraq war fresh on their minds, arent too happy with this and with the televison media coverage. For example, check out Robert Baer and Richard Engel on Hardball talking openly about how Israel is escalating hostilities with Iran to provoke an attack that will justify a military response. Baer is figure with some gravitas on this subject, and covering this on Hardball is very significant. Heres more.
More links
The delay and the sensitive negotiations over language may presage tensions with Democrats as AIPAC leads the drive among pro-Israel groups to ratchet up pressure on Iran this year.
As U.S. and Israeli officials talk publicly about the prospect of a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, one fact is often overlooked: U.S. intelligence agencies don't believe Iran is actively trying to build an atomic bomb.
AIPAC and the Push Toward War
Bibi or Barak: Who will plunge us into Mideast war?
I have to wrap this up. Even looking at just the most recent US issue in the middle east highlights how this perspective you bring does not cover decades of US foreign policy because it simply is not monolithic. People could have made this argument during the cold war, but even this was starting to erode by the Early 1990's.
So they're looking for a new explanation in the form of a new common enemy. And so they've invented one, which we're going to hear a great deal more about in the future, and that is Islamic fundamentalism, which they say is the great wave that's threatening the West.
-George Ball 1993
We needed some new glue for the alliance [with America].
And the new glue . . . was radical Islam.And Iran was radical Islam.
-Efraim Inbar, Begin-Sadat Center
It's ironic how we try to limit the offenders to a certain subreddit. The internet creates an anonymity which unconsciously pushes us towards associating/identifying with others like us on the internet. This is what Reddit so popular and at times so formulaic with the: DAE and constant circle jerk of certain ideas.
The crowd creates a togetherness but this togetherness leads to a emotional based decision-making and views of issues , vast simplifications of problems and rash decisions as less people challenge the views of the masses or choose not to go against the grain. Things like KONY 2012, #Occupy, SOPA, few people online truly understand, but many have an emotional response to.
This is not a trait that we can merely throw on a few outcasts and go about our business, a lot of us have to take responsibility for acting in a similar fashion to one degree or another. If we look at Reddit's reaction to: Chris Brown, Woody Harrelson, whichever mod is deemed to be unpopular today, or even the way the majority of the people will react to the member deemed 'responsible' for someone else committing suicide, it is clear that this thought process is something that affects the entire website. The idea of vigilante justice assumes that you have the moral high ground just as much as the culprits at the latest event that has everyone up in arms.
We all have these little cliques that are supposed to do XYZ. r/funny makes a joke out of everything, r/atheism looks down on religion, etc etc ad nausem. Let's not try and blame one subset of individuals for something the whole site is guilty of. They are of the same mindset as everyone else, it is just their mindset and circle-jerk is deemed as less productive from our own 'moral high grounds'.
TL;DR: Read The Crowd by Gustav Le Bon
If you haven't seen the mini documentary about the making of Aja, it's available on Prime and is absolutely fascinating. Worth it for Bernard Purdie explaining the Purdie Shuffle at 38 mins in.