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u/ControlSysEngi · 2 pointsr/blog

You can get this on Amazon for around $55 (large) and $68 (small).

I would, however, recommend this instead:

PETKIT Cat Water Fountain 2.0, 2L Automatic Pet Fountain for Dog and Cat with Filter, Super Quiet, Water-Shortage Alert, Filter-Change Reminder, Auto Power-Off Smart Cat Water Dispenser Bowl Fountain https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H7J4PBQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Be43CbGFPCCCT

u/bitcrunch · 6 pointsr/blog

The second time I met Victoria (/u/chooter), she recommended Ready Player One and The Room to me. I'm not sure exactly what that says about her, but it's something good, I think :)

u/tattertech · 4 pointsr/blog

I suggested it elsewhere on here, but if you're interested in the history this is a good primer.

u/x0diak · 1 pointr/blog

WOW! I am sending a postcard to you tomorrow. From this book i own:

http://www.amazon.com/Grandmas-Dead-Breaking-News-Animals/dp/0061673765

u/ryancarnated · 11 pointsr/blog

Yep! People who've never researched bitcoin don't realize how far-reaching the implications of this technology are. Bitcoin makes things possible that just aren't possible without it. It will change reddit, and the entire world. We are building a better economy.

Read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418255980&sr=8-1&keywords=the+sovereign+individual

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/blog

Chomsky has two books on education. Both are collections of articles and interviews. They are Chomsky on Democracy & Education and Chomsky on Miseducation. The former is much better than the latter, IMO.

I posted a PDF of a very important essay (again, IMO) by Chomsky on education a few days ago to the anarchist and education subreddits. In case you're interested.

u/catjuggler · 1 pointr/blog

That's a great idea. I would send this. Link is more or less SFW

u/bluecalx2 · 2 pointsr/blog

If you're asking what are Chomsky's thoughts on the history of Israel in regards to Palestine, the Middle East and the United States, you might want to read his book on the subject.

u/Argarck · 2 pointsr/blog

Alright, you win.

I would give you gold, but instead im gonna buy your book.

u/jordanlund · 3 pointsr/blog

You know what, let me re-phrase this a different way... I gave you two colossal examples of how deregulation was a disaster.

So prove to me it's not. Show me some examples where deregulation has been just peachy keen for industry.

Airlines? Not hardly:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-morris/airline-deregulation-ideology-over-evidence_b_4399150.html

"Thirty years later all but a handful of new competitors have disappeared. In that time more than 150 airlines have sought bankruptcy protection or gone out of business. Before deregulation 10 major airlines controlled 90 percent of the market. Today, as noted, four control 85 percent."

Trucking? Maybe we should ask Tracy Morgan how he feels about that. Good book here:

http://www.amazon.com/Sweatshops-Wheels-Winners-Trucking-Deregulation/dp/0195128869

"In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades."

But hey, as long as WalMart keeps dropping prices, right?

u/bigjince · 19 pointsr/blog

You should check out this book: How Nonviolence Protects the State

it's a polarizing book, but an insightful and thought-provoking one at that.

u/mushpuppy · 0 pointsr/blog

I can tell you why I don't want a spore: the likelihood that although it will start as a harmless prank modeling contagion, it will morph into a cortex-devouring, prion-spewing, ebola-like hemorrhagic fever whose pandemic leads to the zombification of the world.

It'll be like in 12 Monkeys, only whatever survivors remain won't see messages saying "we did it!", but instead arcane references to "orangered". And they'll probably still get trolled. Only by the zombies.

u/formode · 2 pointsr/blog

Orwell's 1984

Actually, use qgyh2's affiliate link: 1984

u/FrostedBits · 3 pointsr/blog

Although, I'm not sure why foul language would stop a book from being published.

Amazon sells Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach (note the back cover image: the fucks aren't censored).

u/work_acct12345 · 1 pointr/blog

> I wouldn't want them using my google history from today against me...though I'm not sure we'd have to worry about something like that, but who knows.

This article from the Salt Lake Tribune list some figures on the NSA data center in Utah. The quote that jumps at me follows

> "That is far more storage than you would need to store what’s on every hard drive owned by every American, much less any database anywhere,’’ said Allan Friedman, a technology-policy specialist and fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

If the feds have the ability to store every datapoint they ever collect, why wouldn't they? They already have enough storage for everything today, and physical storage will only get cheaper moving forward. On to the crux or your argument.

> Maybe not surveillance on a single place or individual person, but we have constant police surveillance throughout our towns. 99% of the population will never commit a serious crime, yet they're constantly observing the actions of all of the public just in case that one "boogeyman" happens to show up. You may not be the one dealing drugs, but the policeman is still driving down the street you're walking on and sees what stores you go into. Thats the way I see this, your actions may be noticed, but if you've got nothing to hide then the information they gather on you will be completely irrelevant and useless to their cause.

I respectfully disagree with these points. It is impossible for a police force to have constant surveillance everywhere in meatspace, the logistics of that would be ridiculous. With regards to the second point, there are so many laws on the books that it is impossible to not break them, as Harvey Silverglate details in his book. In the real world, this is no big deal, precisely due to the lack of constant surveillance by the authorities. In the digital world, however, the authorities have enough data to reconstruct every move you make, and keep this data forever. Further, this data is much more precise than what a police officer would see driving down the street, more like what a detective assigned to follow 3 feet behind you at all times would see. And now we know that this huge network of "3 foot behind detectives" (PRISM) has, for all intents and purposes, infinite notebook space (data centers) to write record your actions. Practically, this means that the executive branch can arrest whoever they want by selectively enforcing some laws and not others.

This story from Wired summarizes many of these points more eloquently than I just did.

u/Grounded-coffee · 1 pointr/blog

My grandmother came here as a refugee from Greece in the 40s during the Greek Civil War. For smuggling her children out of her village, my great-grandmother was executed and one of my great aunts was 'conscripted' (ie kidnapped) by local guerillas. She refused to hold a rifle or to kill, so she was given radio equipment. She escaped during a battle by hiding under the bodies of those killed in the battle until she found officers of the nationalist (not in the way the racists are nationalists - these were the non-communist belligerents) forces to surrender to, where she was sent to a POW camp and then reunited with her young siblings in the refugee camp.

They went to America to meet a father they barely knew, separated from them because of the war, never knowing the fate of their mother for sure until much later, and didn't know who killed her and why for decades. My grandmother and my grandfather (who himself was a refugee into Greece from Albania when Hoxha took over) were successful business owners in America, one of my great aunts and her husband were real estate investors (and their children were lawyers and doctors), another one was another small business owner, and my great uncle became a movie producer, investigative journalist (one of the first reporters to hear the Watergate tapes), and writer. His book Eleni - about him finding out who murdered his mother - was cited by Ronald Reagan as his inspiration for pursuing the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

u/mister_geaux · 0 pointsr/blog

> If you are indeed an American citizen you are just as free as I am.

Let's put any acrimony aside and actually address this point, because this is really where our disagreement lies; not how much we donate or how much time we spend volunteering. You think we're free. I think we're not as free as you think we are. So let's look at this.

Let me define freedom in a very simple way that anyone should be able to agree with: You are not free if you are in jail. Are we still together on that?

And if so, let me add a corollary: Your freedom is not secure if you are in DANGER of going to jail, not by some mistaken identity but for actual things you did that people can PROVE you did.

So, for example, a murderer is not secure in his freedom, because if word of his crimes comes to light, he will go to jail and not be free.

So the question is two-fold: 1) Who decides if we are "criminals" and 2) Who has the power to bring our "crimes" to light.

I don't think of myself as a criminal. I certainly don't plan and execute crimes. I'm sure you don't, either. But, I assure you, we have both broken the law.

Have you ever violated the terms of service of a website, for example, signing up for email under a false name? You could be prosecuted under CFAA, as Aaron Swartz was. Have you ever posted a silly threat on Facebook, followed by "lol jk"? You could be sitting in jail right now with a $500,000 bond, for "making terrorist threats", as Justin Carter has been. Has anyone you know ever done drugs? Did you report them? If not, you could be guilty of misprision of a felony, depending on your jurisdiction. Even if you never touched a drug yourself.

The fact is, there are no non-criminals in the United States. There are too many rules for that, and prosecutors have too much latitude to define whether a broadly-written crime or regulation has been violated.

There are only criminals who have not yet discovered what crime they committed.

Whether you know about it or not, it is a serious problem, and one I am trying hard to remedy. But it's an entrenched problem.

You can pretend it's not happening because nothing has happened to you YET. One day, though, someone may take notice of some minor thing you did, and decide it rises to the point of a felony. You actually have no control over this. If this line of thinking has moved you at all, I highly urge you to read this short article on the topic.

Now let's talk about the second point: Who can reveal evidence of your crimes?

We are moving into an era in which everything we do, everything we write in a moment of anger, everything we look at, every suspicious or innocent pattern, is being recorded. Couple that with a law that can be twisted to make a wide variety of behaviors into crimes, and you have a recipe for MASSIVE incarceration. That means you are NOT free, because your freedom could be threatened at any moment by someone with authority who doesn't like you. Our only protection against this is the Fourth Amendment, which explicitly forces the police to have probable cause before they can troll your documents for evidence of some crime, any crime.

And so I am protesting.

So, let's see. If I'm right, you'd have to see people being thrown in jail left and right. If I'm wrong, nothing like what I described would ever happen (or at least, it would be vanishingly rare).

Let's look at the statistics. America is the world's number one jailer. We imprison more of our people, for longer, for smaller offenses, than any other country on EARTH. We imprison more juveniles. We are one of a small number of industrialized nations that practices the death penalty. We even execute people for non-murder offenses. Also, people paroled from prison lose many of their constitutional rights for the rest of their lives. Even people who take felony plea bargains that totally avoid prison will often lose the right to vote or bear arms. People who insist on a trial face decades of prison if they lose, because of increased sentencing laws from the 1990s--their lawyers urge them to accept felony pleas, even when they believe they are innocent. Most prosecutions never go to trial; people are just declared felons and released back into the wild.

And still the prisons fill.

So I have to wonder: Are you just ignorant of all this? Do you just not care? Is it not your problem? Do you think this is just going to fix itself in a few more years?

You bluster a lot about how free and unaffected you are, but I don't really see where your confidence is coming from. We're in trouble as a country. We're not particularly free, as the statistics prove, and we're getting less free all the time.

I'm going to do something about it. You're going to go have a beer and watch fireworks and brag about how nothing ever changes for you.

Maybe neither of us will change anything, but we're not alike.