I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, some McDonald’s had a yellow phone which you could pick up and “talk to Ronald.” I was terrified of the idea.

With what he knows? They would interrogate the fuck out of him and keep him under constant surveillance.

Well at least the others aren’t having any of that shit. Good for them.

How do you guarantee you’re picking the lock of an empty apartment or house? Who gets to decide who gets to occupy which home? What if three families all want to live in the same empty house? Do they fight it out? It’s really not that simple.

Nice! Having the free 3D printer access has been really useful for us on more than one occasion. We have no need to purchase one, but maybe once every six months, we might need to replace a part to something we can just 3D print and it’s been great.

Most people are honest people. Especially people who use libraries. It’s just not a big problem as far as I know.

Also, if you’re going to a library to get a book, you probably don’t want to keep the book.

Which Middle Eastern ethnostate?

(Yes, I know you mean Israel, but people like you don’t even consider the fact that literally every state in the Middle East is an ethnostate because you have to be a Jew to run Israel and a Muslim to run all the others.)

If Europe participates in American politics, they sure have done a shitass job of it. I wish America was more like Europe.

They do. But basically it triggers a series of nagging emails which eventually result in a final one saying that you either return the book or pay for the book if you wish to continue using library services. If I remember correctly, that takes about nine months. And they don’t charge some outrageous price for the book either, they just charge what it would cost to replace it. They might not even do that because they might not actually want to replace it, but my wife has never actually told me that. I imagine that’s the case though because they’re constantly weeding out books that no one has taken a look at in 20 years in order to make room for new books.

200 fewer perpetrators of genocide is still a good thing. One less IDF soldier willing to kill lowers the potential number of people killed significantly, because one man with an automatic weapon can kill a lot of people with no weapons at all.

Not recording history risks repeating previous mistakes a lot more than recording it. And you record as much as possible because you have no idea what might be important in the future or why. Even something as trivial as this.

Such a baby.

So then Zuckerberg?

I am not a coder myself, but based on what I know, I assume it would be trivial code the drones so that when they went into the exact same areas where they used to be restricted, the video from the camera gets flagged and sent back to China in real time for analysis.

They’ll be drafted into the new citizen’s militia to round up all the undesirables.

You’re not going to allow states that don’t border you but you’re okay with Montana? And I wouldn’t say North Dakota is a bastion of progressivism either.

You can’t walk right into a residence with a lock on the door and good luck smashing and climbing through the window of a 12th story apartment.

And libraries are not just about books. This is a thread I made about the new library branch my wife oversaw the design of opening:

https://lemmy.world/post/21386043

The reason conservatives hate libraries is because everything in them is free. Many (like my wife’s library system) do not even charge late fees anymore.

Many modern libraries also offer a ton of digital lending including ebooks, audiobooks and even streaming movies and TV.

The Village People? All of them agreed to this? Like not one of them was like, “guys, you might all need the money, but these people literally hate us for existing?”