(Part 2) Best products from r/news

Yeah sorry about the vomit thing, long day.

Try this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritans-Secret-History-Capitalism/dp/1596913991

There are a few things the author says that kind of annoy me, but overall it's pretty good. America made itself on lax patent laws, because it stole technology from other countries. S Korea did the same thing, so did China. The author is from S Korea, and said that kids were beign taught in schools there a few decades ago using pirated text books. Today, economists there are arguing for tougher patent laws... and they probably learned economics on a pirated text book.

He doesn't advocate just removing patent laws or copyright laws, but says there is a tricky balance. The US is pushing extreeemely hard on patent and copyright laws, because now taht we own most of the intellectual property, we want to strengthen IP laws. This keeps other countries down, and really keeps people down. Patents spur innovation, but they also increase the cost of the item. Without copyright laws, music would be free, and people would have more music (read: be wealthier) than they are today with copyright laws in place. Does this mean to scrap copyright? I really don't know. Personally I think copyright should only apply if you make money off of it. So just to listen to a copy of a song should be legal, but don't try to make money off of it, kind of like photos. I can 'own' a copy of a photo by downloading it from any website, as long as I don't try to make money using it, then I need to pay royalties or whatever.

The thing about disney and mickey mouse is that people are profiting - and have a monopoly on the product - from something that was created decades ago. Copyright laws have actaully been extended because of disney, apparently. They scream that mickey will hit the public domain, and lobby to get laws changed so that now iirc, it's 99 years for a copyright, before it hits the public domain. So a book written today can't be freely spread around the internet for a century. Is this helping people other than those who own the copyright?

It also means that our society gets more centralized with respect to wealth. Now Michael Jackson can just purchase the rights to the Beatles songs, and make money by not doing anything at all. If copyright laws only lasted 20 years, the beatles songs would be free everywhere. Instead, whoever own them now (?) continues to get richer, and people still have to pay for beatles songs. It's been 50 years, I think enough money has been made from them, don't you? Why not enrich society a bit too?

That book I linked to, he points out that a patent is a double edged sword. It helps by spuring innovation, but hurts because it means people pay more for goods that are patented or copyrighted. We need a balance to those laws, right now the US is moving much too far into the restrictive side of things. Checkout techdirt.com for a lot of interesting stuff on patents too. They talk about how patents have gotten so bad, innovators have to hire patent lawyers and pay a list of people to use technology to make a new technology. This hurts innovation. By patenting one product, it means a business that wants to use that to make another product has to pay more for it.

sorry for the long post, and again my apologies for being a dickhead.

If all you want is a hand crank radio, there are much cheaper models.

If you want a way to charge your phone when the power goes out, this won't do that very well with the cranking or the solar. Both produce such a small amount of power that you would be cranking for hours for a few percent of charge. The only way this charges a cell phone is if you pre charge it, and then it's just acting as a battery bank, but even then it doesn't hold much energy compared to other battery banks that are much cheaper and hold much more power. This thing holds about 2600mah, which is about enough to charge one cellphone once.

There are many battery banks out there that hold 10 times that (close to 30k mAh) for about $50, so if all you want is reserve power, thats your best bet.

Here is one for $50, decent brand, holds 26,800 mAh, enough to charge most smartphones several times over. There are lots of different sizes and prices, many which can power other things too like a laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012NIQG5E

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If you want to be able to recharge a battery bank, you don't want to crank it, you want decent solar power. There are lots of larger panels that will charge your phone at full speed. (the one on the red cross one looks like half the size of a smartphone, just enough to run the radio probably).

Here is a 16w panel that folds up, can charge 2 devices at once, and pretty quickly with good sun. The review says it charges their iphone6 plus in 2 hours near noon, and similar time even in a window (still full sun though). Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HJKJVG2

Keep in mind again, there are tons of different models and brands. You can probably find a cheaper one with less wattage if you don't want to charge so quick, or more wattage if you want to fill up your power banks.

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I recommend buying a power bank, and a separate solar panel. You could hook up your solar panel to the power bank and fill it up for most of the day as long as there is light, and then you have a (mostly) full power bank to use to charge the various devices when it's dark or raining out.

If you think you could survive overnight with just one phone full of juice, maybe you could skip the battery, but when you have no power you get bored and probably would want to spend more time than normal on the phone, and probably want to charge other devices and family members devices too, so the battery bank makes sense.

If you want a radio, most phones probably do am/fm, if you want a weather radio, get one separate for a few bucks, it will probably include a flashlight and maybe even a crank for emergencies, but shouldn't cost anywhere near what this red cross one does.

You are correct regarding the "start up" costs of cord cutting, but in the long run you save quite a bit of money. Currently I pay $35.99 a month for 15/1 internet. Cable is an additional $80 for just a single digital set top box and no DVR. New customers do get deals for 12 months so your mileage may vary. I am in the process of cord cutting myself and I am looking forward to saving $900 a year on cable.

I use to have a full size wireless keyboard and mouse, but I recently purchased a Bluetooth mini-keyboard and touchpad and it works great. It has good range, has a back lite keyboard, and is fairly responsive. The one I linked also comes with the Bluetooth receiver so you won't have to purchase one.

There are also remotes you can purchase to use with a PC that look just like a regular TV remote, but I think those are mainly for use with Windows Media Center. Roku comes with a remote that is used to navigate the menus as well.

Trigger locks are quite affordable.

Also, most handguns come with a safety cable lock that can make the gun unfuntional. And if not, they are only ~$10.

Obviously a full size safe is best, but many people truly can't afford something like that.

I would say that trigger locks are an acceptable alternative for people with one or two long guns (let's say one rifle and one shotgun) who truly can't otherwise afford a safe.

On the other hand, if you have thousands of dollars in firearms and no safe, I feel no sympathy for you because you could clearly afford it at that point.

I hope I'm not intruding with this comment, but I would like to suggest the following. These breech safety issues and handling, great reference and general knowledge on calibers and types of firearms, considerations of using a firearm for defense of person, and the political spectrum of defense of your rights. Your local library should have access to most of these, if not all.


https://www.amazon.com/NRA-Step-Step-Guide-Safety/dp/1510714057/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=gun+safety+books&qid=1565731130&s=gateway&sr=8-3


https://www.amazon.com/Shooters-Bible-Guide-Cartridges-Woodard/dp/1616082224/ref=sr_1_11_sspa?keywords=gun+safety+books&qid=1565731182&s=gateway&sr=8-11-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzSEtXQzU1MEVFTVdIJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMDU0OTI1MVhMRzU0OFhHU1ZUTCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUExMDExMTk4Mjk4NTBaQjU0NUhYMyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX210ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=


https://www.amazon.com/Straight-Talk-Armed-Defense-Experts/dp/1440247544/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ER5SYVCWNABB&keywords=massad+ayoob+straight+talk&qid=1565731210&s=gateway&sprefix=Massad+A%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1


https://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/0226493660/ref=sr_1_2?crid=41NV0B82VUEQ&keywords=more+guns%2C+less+crime&qid=1565731229&s=gateway&sprefix=more+guns%2C+less%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-2

He went way expensive and turned it into a hobby (nothing wrong with that).


I started with a $10 razor handle and started with a $15 mug/soap/brush from Amazon and that worked just fine for about a year. Then, the cheap razor broke and I bought one for $30 and the brush started losing hair, so I bought a replacement for $7 [it was on sale]. Shave soap is like $3 a puck and lasts a year or more.


I've been using the new razor and brush for about 2 years now. The mug I got in the cheap set I still use as well.


I pay ~$10 for 100 blades and change it every week on average (which is actually probably wasteful of me). From November until ~March or April, I let the beard grow. Those 100 blades last me around a year and a half (give or take a few weeks).


So, if you went for better equipment from the start, it'd be something like:

$30 razor ... not the one I use, but nice ... you can go a lot cheaper than this for a quality one as well.

$15 brush [like I said, mine was way cheaper, currently $15 on amazon

$15 blades [this is middle of the ground, some people spend as little as little as $8 for 100 blades, the brand I like is ~$10]

$10 mug/soap/cheap brush combo

= $70 for the first year and you've got an extra brush.


Realistically, that's around what some would spend for a year of shaving with a normal razor from Gillette. For some, it would be a bit more and for some it would be less. For me, I think it was around $40 worth of cartridges a year when I used the Gillette 5-blade.

But, the second year of shaving, would only cost around ... well, nothing since you'll likely have right around a years worth of blades left and won't actually need to buy anything at all other than maybe some shave soap.

Read this [factual book] (http://www.amazon.com/Oligarchy-Jeffrey-A-Winters/dp/0521182980) and you'll see the research shows that the break down isn't until you get to the very top. The top 400 wealthiest Americans pay a much, much smaller percent in taxes then the bracket immediately below them.

This is the biggest issues with the "99%", the top 1% still includes lots of people that still are nowhere near 'oligarch' status: doctors, small business owners, CEOs of small-midsized companies, etc. People at this level certainly life more comfortably then most, but they don't have the capital to bend legal and political apparatuses to their will when necessary. They don't have dramatically more say in how the country is run, or how other live their lives. And most important people at this level do pay a fair amount of taxes.

The problem is at the very, very top there are people who have absurd capital even if you assume wealth should be distributed according to a power law. The issue is that a.) people don't really understand enough math to realize how screwed up the system is and b.) our oligarchs are the most PR savvy the world has seen. Russian oligarchs tend to not fear being perceived as ruthless, power hungry, owners of Russian. American oligarchs are much more clever. If you claim that perhaps Gates, Musk, Buffet, and even Soros might be oligarchs you are immediately dismissed as being jealous of such wonderful people!

> Lol that's more than i paid for either of my long guns, its more than double what i paid for my mossberg 500 and literally exactly what i paid for my hand gun. My point stands.

Used? Yeah, you're going to get cheaper than that. MSRP on most guns I've looked at is around $400-500 so my point still stands.

> Are they? got a source? We broke the trigger lock that came with my glock by using a bike lock. To this day i haven't met a cheap gun safe that a pen knife or a crowbar doesn't defeat in under 5 minutes.

I'm glad that you as a toddler had access to a pen knife, crow bar, or a bike lock to wail on this for 5 minutes without anyone noticing you. I'm doubly glad you survived childhood... but taking you at the point you meant to make, that's like saying "Unless you plan on spending $2k on a safe-door style gun safe you shouldn't own guns" or "since a good gun safe is so darned expensive, might as well not try what IS in my price range and just leave my gun out." Neither are good options. Having only a trigger lock isn't a good option either, but it's better than either of those extremes.

> Which so far is you, you're trusting junk to protect your guns and thinking that makes you safe...Not someone who lives alone owning guns without a safe.

I'm cutting out the middle of your statement because it's unimportant. This isn't about you being a hermit, this is about accidents in households with children. People who make 0 attempt to secure their firearm are the problem. If you can't admit this, then you're just trolling.

Go on amazon and look up safety razors. Buy one for $7 bucks and get something called "derby blades" https://www.amazon.com/Derby-Extra-Double-Razor-Blades/dp/B0032Q41LS/ref=sr_1_6_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1469041255&sr=1-6&keywords=derby+safety+razor#customerReviews

You'll get 200 razors that last 4-5 shaves each. Very easy to use, very easy to clean, and you'll shave for YEARS on a 7 dollar safety razor and $17 blades.

Good read Christina Hoff Sommers the War on Boys:

https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427

I understand not wanting to buy a book just to read it's content particularly when it's of a disagreeing political nature (I'm not made of money either) but I'd gladly buy you a copy if you're interested.

Another good read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-day/why-boys-are-failing-in-a_b_884262.html

Lack of role models, male teachers go where the pay is and many fear claims of being a pedophile (It's a pretty widespread and harmful narrative and one that is openly voiced see: https://www.veooz.com/news/ALDvUG4.html)

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/letters/story/2012-08-19/male-teachers-elementary-school/57145422/1

The educational system used to use Phonics based learning but Whole-language learning replaced it during the Feminization of education. (i.e. In order for girls to learn better it was acceptable for boys to learn less and the method by which girls better learned was brought in)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/boys-do-better-than-girls-when-taught-under-traditional-reading-methods-7184547.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHe9UJTte-M

We've also stepped away from physical (recess anyone?) and competitive learning which boys tend to very well at.

There's more that goes into this (i.e. Loss of fathers in the home, lack of default parenting, etc.) but it's undoubtedly not as efficient for boys as it used to be leading many to argue that sex-separated class rooms should be considered.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cha.asp

Women continue to receive affirmative action and gendered scholarships despite this fact.

Let's take a look at shoe prices. I'll take the top hit in each category, and use the default By Relevance sort. I prevent Amazon from keeping any state, so aside from geo-locating my IP (which would likely drive up pricing, not down), so any purchase history should not bias price.

• Women, Flats: Madden Girl Women's Shopperr Ballet Flat: $39.95-$49.99
  
  
• Women, Sandals: Madden Girl Women's Kain Wedge Sandal: $38.05-$49.95
  
  
• Women, Pumps: Betsey Johnson Women's Leela Platform Pump: $89.95 - $89.99 (almost into your range!)
  
  
• Women, Fashion Sneakers: Steve Madden Women's The Blonde Salad Tnyc Fashion Sneaker: $139.95: over your range, fair enough.
  
  
• Women, Loafers & Slip-Ons TOMS Women's Canvas Slip-On: $22.54 - $999.0 (the high price is an error)
  
  
• Women, Athletic: ASICS Men's Gel-Contend D Running Shoe: $28.98 - $64.35 (I assume that this shoe is listed as unigender for it to show up in the women's section as well).
  
  
• Women's, Work & Safety: Skechers for Work Women's Stedman Slip-Resistant Work Shoe: $64.95
  
  
• Women's, Boots: Nature Breeze Women's Vickie Hi Faux Suede Boot: $12.53 - $59.99
  
  
• Women's, Outdoor: New Balance Women's WT510 Trail Running Shoe: $42.99 - $64.99
  
  
• Women's, Mules & Clogs: Crocs Unisex Classic Clog: $15.25 - $49.95
  
  
• Women's, Oxfords: Ollio Women's Shoe Classics Lace Up Dress Low Flat Heel Multi Colored Oxford: $16.99
  
  
• Women's, Slippers: Bobs from Skechers Women's Keepsakes - Puffers Slipper: $31.89 - $73.53
  
  
• Men's, Loafers & Slip-Ons: Skechers for Work Men's Cottonwood Fribble Slip-Resistant Work Shoe: $69.95
  
  
• Men's, Work & Safety: Skechers for Work Men's Cottonwood Fribble Slip-Resistant Work Shoe: $69.95 (same item as above; might be popular and show up in two categories...)
  
  
• Men's, Fashion Sneakers: Levi's Men's Jordy Energy Fashion Sneaker: $37.95 - $39.99
  
  
• Men's, Atheletic: HUF Men's Sutter Skate Shoe: $59.99-$60.00
  
  
• Men's, Oxford: Levis Men's Mitch Oxford: $44.99-$50.00
  
  
• Men's, Sandals: John Varvatos Men's Tobago Stitched Thong Flip-Flop: $148.00 (all right, another one not only in but above the price range)
  
  
• Men's Boots: Clarks Originals Men's Desert Boot: $54.50-$148.50 (the options seem to mostly yield $79, but I'll grant that there's a combination of size and style that could get it up into and above your range.
  
  
• Men's, Outdoor: Polo Ralph Lauren Men's Faxon Low Sneaker: $30.68-$79.95
  
  
• Men's, Mules & Clogs: crocs Men's Santa Cruz Slip-On $30.91-$99.99. While these mostly seem to be ~$53, there is a combination of size and style somewhere that would boost this into the low end of your range.
  
  
• Men's, Slippers: Mens Fleece Lined Slippers: $5.99
  
  You can draw brackets where you want, but unless you're simply defining what most people wear to be low-end and hence not "normal", I don't think that $90-$120 provides a very good picture.

> There's actually a really interesting book that dedicates a lot of pages to this: Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes by Joyce Benenson. The first half is about male behavior from an anthropological viewpoint; the latter is about women. It's one of the most interesting books I've ever read.

What a cool recommendation. I'm definitely checking it out. Thanks :)

I have a female friend who is definitely "short," and it's one of the things we like about her. She's direct and to the point, and often very funny as she does it. But it really hurt her at her last office. Her female bosses constantly referred to her as "abrasive." If you don't know, that's a sexist term. Have you ever heard a guy called "abrasive" at work?

It pissed me and the rest of our group of friends off, because, yes, she can be "abrasive" when she doesn't have time to deal with something, but that's because it's efficient. In the line of work she's in, you can't fuck around. Things have to be done now. I have never heard her raise her voice or say anything to hurt someone; she's just very, very direct.

That would be accepted if she were a male, I think; it wasn't because she was a female... And... I think it especially wasn't because she was in a female-led office.

Most of her friends are guys. She's a buddy's wife, and she always hangs with the husbands. She's not a tomboy or anything like that; but her communication style does get her in trouble with women more than with men.

This is a part of sexism that people don't pay enough attention to, IMO: The way women hold each other back for not being "nice."

There's actually a really interesting book that dedicates a lot of pages to this: Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes by Joyce Benenson. The first half is about male behavior from an anthropological viewpoint; the latter is about women. It's one of the most interesting books I've ever read.

At the height of the subprime boom Fannie and Freddie's business was actually shrinking, while the large private lenders (Countrywide most notably) were expanding. It wasn't uncommon for them to push borrowers who could qualify for conforming 30s into the exotic types of mortgages. The selling, packaging, slicing, insuring and purchasing of loans was an enormously profitable engagement for everyone every step of the way.

Mortgage lenders won every time they handed out a nonconforming loan, which was a lot more valuable than a vanilla 30 year fixed. They did't care about quality because the banks were all but telling them straight out 'we'll buy anything'.

Banks profited on creation and sale of the collateral debt obligations and because the CDOs allowed them to hold less money in reserve to guard against borrower default. They didn't care about quality because they'd turn right around and package the loan into a CDO.

The insurance company AIG was winning on collecting premiums on AAA-rated securities that they thought had no chance in failing. Oh, and they got to be rated AAA because the agencies handing out the grades were paid by the banks. So if Moody's won't give Countrywide the needed grade, then Standard and Poor's across the street surely will.

Hell, even the man on the street profited by using the house's rising value as a piggy bank. Or they just speculated by buying investment property, waiting not too long of a time, and flipping it for a good profit.


If anyone wants to really understand the full extent of the crisis, pick up All the Devils are Here or Michael Lewis's The Big Short. For the tl;dr version you can read this

You should read the reviews on this one

https://www.amazon.com/Allwood-Arlanda-180-Garden-House/dp/B017X5FTYG/ref=pd_day0_hl_86_4/137-3184077-4907950?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B017X5FTYG&pd_rd_r=39799fb6-9dc9-11e9-8dbd-19aa8162f8e0&pd_rd_w=MJ3bY&pd_rd_wg=kukaG&pf_rd_p=ad07871c-e646-4161-82c7-5ed0d4c85b07&pf_rd_r=JQZVGN5485BC8JB29BXK&psc=1&refRID=JQZVGN5485BC8JB29BXK

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" Got this for my inlaws, we toss them both in here when they decide to come visit, takes our made about 10 minutes to clean up after they leave, if someone needs to use the restroom at same time they can just open the door and go outside in beautiful mother nature. If they make us made we just pull the extension cord out of the side of our house and leave them in the dark for a couple hours until the apologize. Its great, we may buy another for our kids. "

Dude, read [this one] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393338827?keywords=the%20big%20short&qid=1450542815&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1) and [this one.] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393351599?keywords=the%20big%20short&qid=1450542815&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3) [The first one they already made a movie.] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/?ref_=nv_sr_1) The second one I'm only starting but people say it's brilliant.

Edit: forgot to say that I really liked the first one, The Big Short.

You seem utterly convinced of your own bullshit, so I'm going to explain a little about science and critical thinking, before somebody else reads your comments and becomes dumber for doing so.

First, the source you link to isn't credible. It's a company trying to sell GPS trackers. Basically, you're saying that if a company produces a product and sells it on the internet, it must work. Going by that logic, it must really possible to speak with the dead, because they sell this on Amazon, therefore it must work, right? I mean, just read the reviews!

https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Box-P-SB7-Ghost-Hunting/dp/B0036F9LUQ/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1550068721&sr=8-7&keywords=spirit+box

In all seriousness though, even tin foil can block GPS signals, there's no way for them to penetrate a metal safe.

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

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-block-a-cell-phone-gps-signal-with-foil

https://www.quora.com/Which-materials-can-be-used-to-block-GPS-signals

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/331273/can-gps-signals-penetrate-steel-in-the-thickness-of-few-centimeters

Even the metal case on newer smartphones will block radio waves and GPS signals, which is why they have external antennas, or they wouldn't function.

That said, I suppose you could create safes that have an external antenna embedded in the structure like on a smartphone casing, but the safe would have to be special made for this purpose. You wouldn't be able to simply "stick a GPS in the safe" like you're saying.

> It's a view defended by Princeton political scientists

It is not.

/u/LouDorchen should listen to this too because I'll cover both of your points.

"US is an oligarchy, not a democracy" is the title given to it by the BBC blog section, "Echo Chambers" (subtitled, "Blogging global opinion, clearly"). The actual title of the study is "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens", and "oligarchy" is only mentioned three times in the entire text, and only as a comparison made by Jeffrey Winters in his book, Oligarchy:

> Most recently, Jeffrey Winters has posited a comparative theory of “Oligarchy,” in which the wealthiest citizens—even in a “civil oligarchy” like the United States—dominate policy concerning crucial issues of wealth and income protection.^1

As I replied here, a bad system is not an "oligarchy", and calling it an "oligarchy", as in, "we're screwed because the rich rule" is what's being edgy.

Source:

Cambridge link cited by the BBC article

Full study text

"Oligarchy" by Jeffrey Winters on Amazon

I switched to a safety-razor and I'm much, much happier with the results.

You want blades?
Personna Double Edge Razor Blades, 100 Count: $12.08 / 12¢ per blade
Astra Platinum Double Edge Safety Razor Blades ,100 Blades: $11.09 / 11¢ per blade
Feather Hi-Stainless Platimum Double Edge Razor Blades 50 Ct: $12.70 / 25¢ per blade
Gillette Fusion Manual Men's Razor Blade Refills 12 Count: $37.99 / $3 per cartridge
Gillette Fusion Proglide Manual Men's Razor Blade Refills 6 Count: $25.58 / $4.75 per cartridge

I mentioned what I would recommend, i was just vague with 2 of them.

it's more expensive, but it actually works, and can be used for other things.
(i have an all-in-one unit like you listed, its better with a lithium battery, but useless for anything but a low powered radio).

https://www.amazon.com/SOKOO-Portable-Efficiency-Reinforced-Waterproof/dp/B01HJKJVG2/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1505954608&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=solar+charger+usb&psc=1

this charges anything usb....

its better to charge a battery so you're not tethered to it.
any powerbank will work; https://www.amazon.com/Bonai-Portable-External-Flashlight-Smartphones/dp/B06Y58CXFZ/ref=sr_1_9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1505954885&sr=1-9&keywords=usb+battery

This is the only one I specifically recommend, the rest "any" will do.
https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Solutions-T480-Rechargeable-Preparedness/dp/B00W75BLTU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1505954944&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=moto+480+talkabout

this is a bit pricey.. buts its a 2 way radio, plus FM, weatherband, flashlight, water-resistant. lacks AM though.

but these are very nice, and can use rechargable batteries,, which could be charged with a USB AA battery charger. https://www.amazon.com/Sony-ICFP26-Portable-Radio-Black/dp/B012F0DGYE/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1505955010&sr=1-3&keywords=sony+am%2Ffm+radio

if you want to argue price... actually charge your phone with that Eton product, and then if you still want to depend upon it, ill concede.

Also, Ronson's short piece "Elephant in the Room."


https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Room-Journey-Campaign-Alt-Right-ebook/dp/B01LXOO7UQ

I think Ronson is the perfect person to do a long expose on Jones. Him and Jones have a long relationship and Jones seems to trust Ronson.

Its not flawed. It's true. And the further we get from being an actual democracy, the truer it gets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

From an actual power standpoint, lobbyists and major donors have way more influence than a vote does. Read more of the dynamics of why that is:

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845

Razor blades are dirt cheap too, though. Unless you're buying Mach 4's or whatever, which I think is silly. You can avoid razor burn and get a safety razor for pretty cheap, then a box of like a hundred blades for something like 12 bucks.

If anyone would like to learn about Alex Jones I recommend a book by a guy who actually knows the guy. Jon Ronson actually happens to know Alex Jones. He worked with him for a while and they diverged. One went into conspiracy theories and the other into journalism. The book goes into a lot of it. He also spends a lot of time talking about Roger Stone and more. I... I just really like the book.

> The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right

It's free to read (in the US) if you have Amazon Prime.

The reason for this is all very simple. The Bridge people did not sufficiently pay off the right people in Uganda's government. It is very common tactic in these autocratic countries to demand payment in exchange for allowing the organization to provide aid. The reason is that the dictator has to pay off key people under him. It happens in cases like this especially, where the aid is not a physical thing like money or food, etc., that can itself be easily siphoned off by those in control. In this case, the schools probably compete with other profitable ventures controlled by key people in the government, and the loss of revenues has to be made up somehow.

Zuckerberg and Gates refused to pay up, so now they are shut down. Whatever reasons the government has come up with for the shutdown are just cover for the real reason.

The Dictator's Handbook explains in more detail the dynamics of how this works. https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845

If you're trying to be fancy about it you do it like this:
The Dictators Handbook


Put the words you want to be a link in between brackets [example] and then put the URL in parenthesis directly after [example](example url)

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845

(I hope that's how you post links in Reddit)

Anyways, really good book, similar to Machiavelli, but with enough contemporary examples, and explanations to feel unique. Can't recommend it enough.