Holy shit. You're still going 60 mph out of your ass.

>Wealth is not a resource and cannot be scarce. There is no limit to wealth. Wealth is directly tied to how productive a country is. And there is no limit to productivity. Beyond what is possible within the laws of physics.

Wealth as measured by what? Wealth is not some abstract or undefined variable. Wealth is typically measured by money among other factors. Money is not infinite otherwise we could print more whenever we wanted. You're conflating ideas as to obscure your point. This isn't good debate, it's obfuscation and charlatanism.

>Capitalism PREVENTS scarcity automatically. Prices go up when a resource is scarce. And down when a resource is abundant.

Ok what does price going up have to do with making something less scarce? Once again, you're obfuscating without a point. Price reflects scarcity (as you point out), but it does not control scarcity. Literally quite the opposite. Diamonds are a great example of how capitalism creates artificial scarcity and flies in the face of your point. Diamonds are expensive but are not in fact scarce. The perceived scarcity of diamonds is quite literally an invention of a capitalist market.

https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit

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>Scarcity happens in socialist countries FAR more often. For one reason. Price controls.

Haha, ok buddy. You're just swinging in the dark now. You're going to need to start defining your terms.

1. How are you defining scarcity in "socialist countries"? What measures or quantification of scarcity are you applying to your argument? Money is no longer an adequate measure of wealth in socialist countries, what other parameters are you considering? Cubans, for example, have less money than any other Caribbean nation, but better education, health care, and infrastructure than any of those as well.
   
2. How are you defining "socialist" countries? There's actually a world of difference between say Cuba and the USSR for example but neither of them follow a traditional or Marxist interpretation of socialism. Which one are you going by? Furthermore, how does your idea of socialism reflect on the economy beyond "workers" having the means of production or unions (apparently existing)?
   
   >Socialists love price controls. Free college! Free healthcare! Free this. Free that.
   
   Ok, once again, give me examples cause this is literally all hot air. You seem to wander between democratic socialism and authoritarian socialism indiscriminately and without pretext.
   
   >Many socialist countries collapse because they solved problems of things being too expensive by simply making them not expensive anymore. Then of course, demand was artificially propped up by cheap goods and that resource became scarce and eventually the whole thing fell apart. It's disastrous when that resource is actually a necessity.
   
   Which ones? Actually, it doesn't really matter. Pretty much every example you're going to try and cite fell for the same reason: an inability to be better at capitalism than capitalists. The USSR fell to the economic demands created by (surprise) an artificial scarcity of nuclear arsenals and flooding the demand by threat of not being able to defend soviet sovereignty. Cuba and Venezuela have been economically strangled by removing the possibility of exchange with other Latin American nations by the USA. The book below is a good background on the unclassified information concerning the relationship between Cuba and America and how the latter, through almost a century of financial and military intervention throughout the continent, forced every nation to refuse any form of economic exchange or assistance.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Back-Channel-Cuba-Negotiations-Washington/dp/1469626608/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541552580&sr=8-1&keywords=backchannel+to+cuba
   
   Now, before you say "aha! if capitalism beat socialism, it's the superior economic form!" Just because one economic form is more is more suited to beating another doesn't necessarily mean it's better for us. You've already committed enough logical fallacies as is.
   
   

   If I could give you any advice, it would be to pick up a book and do some reading on subjects before you pretend to know them well.

The best of the best are the PAPR systems with inter grated helmets. PAPR

It’s super expensive $1,500, but it actively pumps air to the helmet from a filtration system on the back of a belt.

It keeps your mask from fogging, it’s head and face impact resistant. It’s not like traditional respirator where you suck air. The air is positive pressure and showers over your head.

As for something reasonable:

I would just go with a regular 3M full face respirator mask. This will protect the eyes and lungs. Gives you a full field of view. It’s easy to take on or off. Then cartridges are easy to replace and find on amazon.

These should be about $50-$60 on amazon with the first set of organic/acid cartridges. Remember to replace the cartridges after a days use. Don’t put on new cartridges until you’re actually needing them as the activated carbon reacts with pollutants in ambient air and can deactivate if opened for days or weeks.

The military ones are good. They are just hot and take training to put on/off. The replacement cartridges are probably harder to come by.

The only sure way of breaking them off each other is with a breaking stick. The finger in the butt is a myth that was told as a joke to see if people would try it. Contrary to popular belief pit bulls can’t “lock” their jaws with some special mechanisms that they have.
A breaking stick is a hard plastic polymer stick about 12 inches long very thin but about 2 1/2 inches wide. The tip is inserted into the dogs mouth where there’s a natural gap between their molars and then twisted which opens their mouth enough to put the other dog loose. Always straddle the dog and lock your legs around where their belly ends and hips begin to help immobilize them hold the collar with one hand and breaking stick with your other hand then break them apart.
It takes two people to break up two dogs that are determined to get each other. If you only break one loose the other is gonna hold on for dear life and probably start pulling and shaking too.

Source: I own game bred pit bulls for catch dogs on wild boar and occasionally they’ll lock up with each other.

Here is a wooden breaking stick from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/The-K-9-Center-Break-Stick/dp/B004RU81VY
I prefer the plastic. They’re much tougher and don’t splinter.

Hey, since I admitted you were right, and we're on good terms now.

I started using my own words, and it lead me to agree with you on many issues. Since you enjoy reading, and I enjoy reading, I thought I'd share a good book for you:

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Critical-Thinking-Fundamental-Intelligent-ebook/dp/B07JWBKNVG/

Not necessarily. I have carried in my pocket but I still use a holster [(like this one)] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026634BI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_mzHrzbY7MC2Q3) it blends the shape of the gun into more of a wallet or phone shape, it helps to keep things from getting into the trigger guard (which could be bad), and it helps with a smooth draw. But if you are comfortable caring that way and you practice your draw I see no reason (besides those I've outlined) to not carry in your pocket. Porter Rockwell often carried in and shot from his pockets. It's just not something I want our like to do.

Hah, I did buy a pooter from him online. I ended up giving it away to my manager's (from work) kids.

I'm not Jack Vale but in some of his other videos he seems like a funny guy and doesn't come across like as much of a dick.

It's funny the love-hate relationship that reddit can seem to have for Jack -- there have been other reddit submissions over the years for his videos where reddit seems to love him; however that doesn't seem to be the case today.

This isn't 1640. Communities aren't as small or tight knit as they were. People don't just commit crimes against their community or the the people in them.

I read Vitale's book - The End of Policing and he does a great job of explaining how terrible polices forces are, how they are used I correctly, and their history of being used incorrectly. What he does not explain very well is how to actually end policing, and what that looks like in a modern society. A society with multiple communities whose problems spill over to the next.

The whole time a read that book, I found myself agreeing with him until getting to the end of his point and thinking about how we could legitimately apply that in real life. The answer is not very well, if at all.

The whole time, repeating in my head: "That's a great point, but I'm not sure his suggested solution would work because reasons. How could we make it work... Oh yeah we solved that problem already... That's how we got here."

I did like spending a portion of the money you would have used to incarcerate a population back into the community they come from. I am eager, though skeptical, to see that happen more often.

I would like to see a reduction in "active policing" where police are looking for people to arrest. I would rather move to more if not exclusively reactive - It's not a problem until someone else has a problem. Let the community attempt to handle it if they can.

The overriding theme is that we should have the police force we want. Unfortunately we get what we deserve. We deserve it because we do get to determine policing policy by the politicians we elect (and sheriffs are directly elected). People don't though. They start change.org petitions and at best get out and protest. I would bet my last dollar that half the people protesting don't vote even if they could.

As a snarky aside - I do not trust a community of any sort to truly police itself. We could go through the ages finding hundreds of instances where this did not go well. Just ask Salem how it worked out.

>The most bilingual place in Canada and maybe one or the most in NA is the Montréal region.

I love Quebec, but there are millions more bilingual Spanish-English speakers in California than there are bilingual French-English people in Montreal.

There are more bilingual people in California than the entire population of Quebec, bilingual or otherwise.

>The United States has a strange relationship to language rights. Although the federal government has no official language, in recent decades individual states—California included—have adopted English as an official language, largely in response to a puzzling English-only movement. But, of course, English is not the only significant American language. One-third of California’s residents speak Spanish at home.

https://www.thenation.com/article/california-needs-take-bilingualism-seriously/

There are some interesting shared history between California and Quebec:

>Prudent Beaudry served as the 13th mayor of Los Angeles, California, from 1874 to 1876. A native of Quebec, he was the second French Canadian and third French American mayor of Los Angeles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudent_Beaudry

>Today, Los Angeles is the undisputed megacity of California, but in 1852 L.A. had a population of only about five thousand people, way fewer than San Francisco’s 36,151. And at least some of L.A.’s growth into what it is today is credited to a former French Canadian mayor.
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>Prudent Beaudry was mayor of Los Angeles from 1876-1878. I learned about him and his brothers from Gaétan Frigon’s chapter in Legacy: How French Canadians Shaped North America. The Beaudry bros were born outside Montreal. When Prudent Beaudry was 32, he decided to follow his brother Victor to San Francisco, where, Frigon writes, the two Canadian business men set up a business selling — and this is not a joke — syrup and ice.
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>Two years later in 1852, Beaudry moved to the small town of Los Angeles which counted six hundred French speakers among its population of around five thousand. He began to build his fortune in real estate, buying up and developing “barren” land just north of downtown L.A., including what today are the neighbourhoods of Bunker Hill and Angelino Heights.
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>“The subdivisions would be worthless, though,” explains Frigon, “unless water could be conveyed to them.” So next he needed to create the Los Angeles City Water Company, which pumped water to his new “upscale residential neighbourhoods.” To design the villas, he turned to “an engineer from the first graduating class of Montreal’s École Polytechnique.”
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>Twenty four years after he first moved to L.A., in 1876, Beaudry was elected mayor. By at least one account, he was a pivotal one:

https://acresofsnow.ca/the-french-canadian-mayor-of-los-angeles/

Okay, good luck with that. I’d be amazed if you read them.

Mondo Lucha A Go Go

Lion’s Pride

Those will give you some history of Lucha and Puroresu respectively.

You're very welcome. I'm not able to work or go to school, so time isn't an issue for me lol. If you're interested in reading more about living with Bipolar Disorder, I recommend a book called Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michaelangelo, and Me. It's a graphic novel that really captures the day to day experience of the illness, while showing at the same time that improvement is possible with the right combination of medication, therapy, and a good support system.

This is coming from historical reference from the period. If you like history read WWII: Through These Eyes. It gives an outstanding glimpse into GI life at the time- what went on and why. Really great read if you are into history

Wow. The system is the problem, not officers working within the system.

If you are passionate about this and have time, please read "rise of the warrior cop" by balko. Very interesting read on how as a society we've come to allow and expect this of our police.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577

If you're interested, there's a great book about how the Chinese people in San Francisco during the Bubonic Plague. It was eye opening and beautifully written.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Barbary-Plague-Victorian-Francisco/dp/0375757082

The best books on the history of science are mostly topic specific. Like Chaos: Making a New Science.

For philosophy of science, Thomas Kuhn is excellent. He's problematic in some ways, but he's very provocative. He actually goes into some detail about the staying power of Newtonian Gravity and the logical hoops that people would go through before GR. Also Karl Popper is great.

Comment was meant for the person above you, just a misclick on my part. But [here] (https://www.amazon.com/Slaves-Without-Masters-Negro-Antebellum/dp/1565840283) is one for you.


> Slaves Without Masters is a vivid and moving history of the quarter of a million free blacks who lived in the South before the Civil War. First published to great acclaim in 1974, Slaves Without Masters established Ira Berlin as one of the outstanding historians of African American life in slavery and freedom. It traces the lives of free black men and women, portraying their struggle for community, liberty, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society.


edit: added a quick synopses from the amazon page for others.

It’s been 8 hours and no one answered. So in the event you haven’t googled it yourself, I did. here is the amazon link. Idk if that’s the only one or the best one or anything. It’s just the first one on a google search, hope it helps!

Super easy to do, just need a flathead screwdriver to run the wire behind your plastic. The Rexxing on amazon works wonders. https://www.amazon.com/V1-Dashboard-Recorder-G-Sensor-Recording/dp/B00X528FNE

3M makes all kinds of good masks, but in general they come with 'attachments'. So you buy the filters and screw them on both sides.

I have both particulate filters (non gas) and gas filters (that also do particulates) but there's a huge range of different ones for different purposes.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MCUT86

This is a very common model and works well.

https://smile.amazon.com/3M-Cartridge-60926-Respiratory-Protection/dp/B009POHLRC

Here's an example of filter 60926 which does gas & vapor, organic, acid gas, ammonia, methylamine, and formaldehyde. Would most likely cover pepper spray too.

This mask combined with these cartridges will let you walk through tear gas like you're invincible.

I've got an even better book for her...

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https://www.amazon.com/Negroes-Guns-Robert-F-Williams/dp/1773230522