“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
The public libraries have been shut down for months, and I need reading material
Never before have I been this thankful for the existence of ebooks
Libraries often provide public services (Ones my local library had or was trying to have or had on a wish-list (as in "stuff other libraries do that we ought to"): digitization machines so people can make digital copies of analog media or photographs/film/video/etc, access to legal information and government papers so people can know what their legal rights are, interpreters and other helpers to help people understand what they're trying to read (which often helps a lot with the above), the existence of a wholesome public space for all ages, art displays from local artists, lego clubs, reading-to-dogs-for-an-hour-on-alternating-tuesdays-and-thursdays, e.t.c) which make them not just tax-funded free-book-rental-places (which is, in and of itself, a gigantic public sevice), but a true center of the community, sometimes even the soul of the community.
To, as Jeff Bezos has, say that Libraries are obsolete, or to say, as some have, that communities are better off with Amazon Bookstores and thus not-having-to-pay-that-tax-money-that-funds-libraries, is to fundamentally misunderstand the influence a good library can have on a community (and especially the poorest and most vulnerable within it).
I miss my job working at my local library. I felt like I was doing good work there. Darn Covid-19.
Sadly, my library training never taught me to properly spell etc. instead of e.t.c, nor to properly create sentences that aren't (seriously, what is up with my parenthetical stuff) a headache to read.
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
Libraries often provide public services (Ones my local library had or was trying to have or had on a wish-list (as in "stuff other libraries do that we ought to"): digitization machines so people can make digital copies of analog media or photographs/film/video/etc, access to legal information and government papers so people can know what their legal rights are, interpreters and other helpers to help people understand what they're trying to read (which often helps a lot with the above), the existence of a wholesome public space for all ages, art displays from local artists, lego clubs, reading-to-dogs-for-an-hour-on-alternating-tuesdays-and-thursdays, e.t.c) which make them not just tax-funded free-book-rental-places (which is, in and of itself, a gigantic public sevice), but a true center of the community, sometimes even the soul of the community.
To, as Jeff Bezos has, say that Libraries are obsolete, or to say, as some have, that communities are better off with Amazon Bookstores and thus not-having-to-pay-that-tax-money-that-funds-libraries, is to fundamentally misunderstand the influence a good library can have on a community (and especially the poorest and most vulnerable within it).
I miss my job working at my local library. I felt like I was doing good work there. Darn Covid-19.
I cosign this 100%. Public libraries are a pillar of any community and the idea that they could be replaced by for-profit enterprises is absurd on its face.
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
Also, the ebooks I've been reading since I've been unable to check out dead-tree books? Provided by the public library.
Libraries often provide public services (Ones my local library had or was trying to have or had on a wish-list (as in "stuff other libraries do that we ought to"): digitization machines so people can make digital copies of analog media or photographs/film/video/etc, access to legal information and government papers so people can know what their legal rights are, interpreters and other helpers to help people understand what they're trying to read (which often helps a lot with the above), the existence of a wholesome public space for all ages, art displays from local artists, lego clubs, reading-to-dogs-for-an-hour-on-alternating-tuesdays-and-thursdays, e.t.c) which make them not just tax-funded free-book-rental-places (which is, in and of itself, a gigantic public sevice), but a true center of the community, sometimes even the soul of the community.
To, as Jeff Bezos has, say that Libraries are obsolete, or to say, as some have, that communities are better off with Amazon Bookstores and thus not-having-to-pay-that-tax-money-that-funds-libraries, is to fundamentally misunderstand the influence a good library can have on a community (and especially the poorest and most vulnerable within it).
I miss my job working at my local library. I felt like I was doing good work there. Darn Covid-19.
I cosign this 100%. Public libraries are a pillar of any community and the idea that they could be replaced by for-profit enterprises is absurd on its face.
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
You ever just think about Mr Wormwood committing odometer fraud with a power drill, and how that wouldn't work on modern cars because their odometers are all digital, and how it's debatable whether that would even have worked as described in the book back when it was published in 1988, and how most kids today who read that chapter probably have no idea what it's even talking about?
I caved in and bought the Into the Future expansion for Sims 3 because I am a hoe for time travel stuff.
Right now, my sim:
* Travelled to the future and fell in love with someone there * Travelled back to the present with said person to start a relationship * Travelled back to the future because the game said new descendants have been discovered * Decided to show her pregnancy whilst she is in the future, despite the baby being conceived in the present * Cheated on her boyfriend with a plumbot.
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
So are newborn babies and adult humans, but you must admit there are a lot of differences between the two
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
Presumably if you paid for higher-quality CD-Rs instead of the big pack of unbranded discs they sell at Big Lots, you might have had better results in the long temr
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I caved in and bought the Into the Future expansion for Sims 3 because I am a hoe for time travel stuff.
Right now, my sim:
* Travelled to the future and fell in love with someone there
* Travelled back to the present with said person to start a relationship
* Travelled back to the future because the game said new descendants have been discovered
* Decided to show her pregnancy whilst she is in the future, despite the baby being conceived in the present
* Cheated on her boyfriend with a plumbot.
...
Look, we're gonna pretend it rhymes.