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Noblesse oblige is just  insurance, but the Scaife/Koch/Murdoch approach is just to make the poors fight each other instead
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t think that’s his point Sorry, I can't read your bourgeoisie post.  OwlFancier posted:Technically yes, if everyone were incapable of performing the labour it requires it would collapse. Being stupid and/or lazy, is thus, praxis. I was born for this.
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Pththya-lyi posted:he's accidentally right about public libraries not being socialist. The major driving force behind the American public library was Andrew Carnegie, a steel baron, proponent of laissez-faire economics, and dude who let Henry Clay Frick go ham on the Homestead strikers. Carnegie funded free libraries out of a kind of noblesse oblige, not out of any belief in socialism. My library has two Nintendo Switch systems. Sure those you can check out for in library use and not take home, but they also have Switch games. I got a Cricut Easy Press for my partner a few weeks ago. Just this $100+ tool and they handed to me for no money or form of payment needing to be on record. They also keep a running total of how much you've save in the last year/lifetime and in the two years I've had a card I'm at like $3000 saved
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Len posted:My library has two Nintendo Switch systems. Sure those you can check out for in library use and not take home, but they also have Switch games. My local library has Switch, PS4, PS5, and XBone games, many of which are very much the type you would rent back in the old days and play over a weekend rather than bothering to buy. They also have museum passes, wifi hotspots with unlimited data, some even have loving cookware and appliances you can borrow. My only complaint about my library is that it closes too early because we don't fund it enough.
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My library is rad and among its services offers a Maker's Space with about any equipment you could need. Some computers capable of video editing, laser cutter, 3d printers, sewing machines, etc. I don't trust a motherfucker that dislikes a library.
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Neito posted:My local library has Switch, PS4, PS5, and XBone games, many of which are very much the type you would rent back in the old days and play over a weekend rather than bothering to buy. I got the new Kirby from my a week or two back. I once got some book from them and it was just book 1 of a trilogy. Not only did they buy 2 and 3 after I requested them they also put them on hold so I got the books first. I really need to become a friend of the library because I want to give them money for the service they provide
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One thing I don't think gets emphasized enough about libraries is how they can function as community centers or meeting places. Not to get pretentious about it, but I think if you're just thinking of a library as a places that stores information that you go to borrow you're only seeing a very small part of the role it can and should play in a healthy community.
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christmas boots posted:One thing I don't think gets emphasized enough about libraries is how they can function as community centers or meeting places. Not to get pretentious about it, but I think if you're just thinking of a library as a places that stores information that you go to borrow you're only seeing a very small part of the role it can and should play in a healthy community. "Oh you mean all those homeless people laying about in there likely doing drugs?"
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Americans are so weirdly against having any sort of public or semipublic hangout space that isn't just a straight up restaurant.
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christmas boots posted:One thing I don't think gets emphasized enough about libraries is how they can function as community centers or meeting places. Not to get pretentious about it, but I think if you're just thinking of a library as a places that stores information that you go to borrow you're only seeing a very small part of the role it can and should play in a healthy community. The town I grew up in had a bunch of small libraries all over the place, mostly in strip malls, that worked that way. There were meeting rooms that Cub Scouts did stuff in, after-school programs, adult literacy classes, etc. Then they got some grant money and built one huge library in the old industrial part of downtown, nowhere near any residential areas or bus stops or restaurants or consumer-facing businesses of any type. All of the small libraries closed one by one. Within two years it was this: McCracAttack posted:"Oh you mean all those homeless people laying about in there likely doing drugs?"
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Neito posted:Americans are so weirdly against having any sort of public or semipublic hangout space that isn't just a straight up restaurant. It's literally just fear of homeless people. You'll never get any real support for tackling that problem the correct way (housing and whatever other services they need) but you will get support for stupid poo poo like removing all the benches in a subway station to discourage "vagrancy".
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McCracAttack posted:It's literally just fear of homeless people. You'll never get any real support for tackling that problem the correct way (housing and whatever other services they need) but you will get support for stupid poo poo like removing all the benches in a subway station to discourage "vagrancy". Anything but causing property prices to take a hit. People would rather round up those they deem lesser and gas them than have their house drop in value.
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American suburb brain is just constant 24/7 siege mentality.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:American suburb brain is just constant 24/7 siege mentality. If my life is going to be mindless routine, then I want nothing to interrupt it whatsoever. I have my fast food week mapped out and my Walmart run planned down to the red-light sequence. If a homeless person accosts me at the offramp stop sign and makes me uncomfortably improvise my comportment for thirty seconds, or worse, admit that there are imperfections in what I have convinced myself is my immaculate life, there will be hell to pay
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Surely this got posted in here, right? https://twitter.com/river_is_nice/status/1530182991766507520 https://twitter.com/river_is_nice/status/1530293789226573826
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Ghost Leviathan posted:American suburb brain is just constant 24/7 siege mentality. Hey, you'd feel that way too if you were just the absolute worst people who are factually and morally wrong about everything.
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McCracAttack posted:Surely this got posted in here, right? Reading the replies and some people think that being able to walk to the store innately generates crime and drug addiction.
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I keep thinking back to that time I tried to buy a house. Met the realtor in the driveway and they opened with, "Isn't this a nice neighborhood? Nobody walking around!"
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thinking about the park with the sick playground setup just a few blocks from my childhood apartment, and how I'd have to either drive for about five minutes or walk along a road with blind curves and no sidewalk to access anything comparable where I live nowMcCracAttack posted:Surely this got posted in here, right? gently caress this bullshit E: Skwirl posted:That's cumface isn't it? yeah Pththya-lyi has a new favorite as of 02:43 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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That's cumface isn't it?
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McCracAttack posted:Surely this got posted in here, right? Hey everybody, this guy's giving out free blowjobs!
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Skwirl posted:That's cumface isn't it? For those who aren't up on the lore. Possibly  for  https://twitter.com/TallBart/status/1530614809661583361 https://i.imgur.com/0CwO8oU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gMczIG5.jpg
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why would anyone ever click those links??
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I clicked on the links. It's the same guy sliding into someone's DMs saying they made him so horny he came on his own face and then a photo of him with ejaculate sprayed across his face. Do not click the links.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I clicked on the links. It's the same guy sliding into someone's DMs saying they made him so horny he came on his face and then a photo of him with ejaculate sprayed across his face. Do not click the links. It's a super obvious fake/photoshop though it's like none of yall have ever gotten cum in your moustaches before.
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Oh that would explain it, I'm clean shaven
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:It's a super obvious fake/photoshop though Yeah, isn't it just his normal profile picture but with cum edited on?
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I clicked on the links. It's the same guy sliding into someone's DMs saying they made him so horny he came on his own face and then a photo of him with ejaculate sprayed across his face. Do not click the links. Also the person that made them so horny is a picture of tall bart simpson. Also they show up like 7 times in the comments going "no I didn't send that, this isn't real, I promise."
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It will never end. Good. 
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EL BROMANCE posted:It will never end. Good. Did she say something else? I feel bad that the last thing I saw I agreed with, since it was pointing out how gross the astroturfed Amber Heard hate is.
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Coolness Averted posted:Did she say something else? I feel bad that the last thing I saw I agreed with, since it was pointing out how gross the astroturfed Amber Heard hate is. Even the stopped clock is right twice a day.
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So I see the below and am curious about the context, so I click and find this in the comments: https://twitter.com/Dear_Lonely1/status/1531399511062347776 https://twitter.com/thirtysilver/status/1531661540272660480  (Also I forgot that Eastwood is like 6'4") Coolness Averted posted:Did she say something else? I feel bad that the last thing I saw I agreed with, since it was pointing out how gross the astroturfed Amber Heard hate is. It seems she was asked to leave the courtroom at one point, due to constantly being on her phone during the trial. Speaking of Depp v Heard, I saw this scroll by in the livechat and thought it was dumb (but light-hearted enough) for a chuckle: quote:LETS GET SOME HACKERS TO HACK THE COURT LAPTOP AND SHOW THEM THE TRUTH!!! "The court laptop"... 
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Read After Burning posted:
I mean, when I was a juror there was a court laptop in the well hooked up to the big projector. It was offline though, whoever was presenting would just plug their usb drive into it to show photos or whatever. That might be giving things too much thought though. 
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https://twitter.com/SethGreen/status/1529278652420018178
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Shes still at it https://twitter.com/adamtotscomix/status/1531413931104866304     
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also the person that made them so horny is a picture of tall bart simpson. Exactly what a face cummer would say.
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Here is an Amazon review of the Animal Crossing manga:quote:This is NOT appropriate for kids. I was looking for a sweet manga for my 8 year old niece, who loves Animal Crossing, and this came up when I searched for “manga for kids”. Luckily I knew that with manga you just never know what they mean by “for kids”, so I read it before giving it as a gift. Good thing I did! There’s a picture of a statue that imitates”The Birth of Venus”, but using one of the characters, mostly naked except for a sheet. Another character runs around completely naked with only a tiny fig leaf covering his privates. There are statues of used swim clothes, dirty and buzzing with flies. The rest of the manga is full of gags and slapstick humor, somewhat structured around a group of friends arriving at the deserted island at the start of Animal Crossing. I should also note that 3/4 of the book is about this loose story, and the rest is a list of characters and one page gags. If that’s your thing, fine. But as an adult I didn’t find it interesting or even humorous, and I certainly won’t be giving this to a child. (If you want a cute manga for kids, try Chi’s Sweet Home.)  
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