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Hmm I’ve been in some very small libraries where this would be an issue, but most of the ones I’ve been in have the kids section on a separate floor and the kids head straight there. Perhaps what we really need is more funding for libraries so that more can do this.

I make loose leaf tea in a nespresso, what am I?

Is there an ending that doesn’t involve people starving? Maybe a post-food-scarcity one?

Conquest of bread predates the USSR but I suspect Kropotkin wouldn’t be a fan

okay, this is really cool. Love when people make interactive stuff like this to help us grasp concepts

Those are gorgeous and your colleagues are lucky

Unless you memorized your 14 digit library card number so you could log into the public computers you are off my friends list

I did not so I guess we can’t chill:(

Unless you painstakingly made your own AIM icon gif by slightly editing still images in photoshop that you had to export using imageready and then crush into oblivion to fit the file size limit you are dead to me

Some of the more metro ones often have tool libraries, art you can rent, and other neat misc resources too.

Edit: also free trips to local museums or zoos/aquariums

Here are a couple recent ones:

doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40451-8

doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd0310

Just because I’m interested in archeology I thought I would share that evidence supporting a strong division of labour based on sex in ancient societies is pretty thin. There have been several articles lately arguing against that hypothesis due to finding skeletons of women buried with weapons and weapons that appear to be designed for lighter frames.

My experience was similar, gender felt like an external expectation, mostly a limiting one, growing up as a girl. I didn’t really internalize it besides accepting that it shapes how strangers receive and respond to me just like being short or ugly does.

don’t we want everyone to have access on any platform?

“$1 in 2018 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1.22 today, an increase of $0.22 over 6 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.38% per year between 2018 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 22.10%.”- in2013dollars.com

Most of us didn’t get 22% raises over the pandemic and rent, electricity, and grocery prices went up, Joe

If 2/3 of people can afford to pay the higher prices for basic necessities and 1/3 cannot it’s not difficult to see the direction things will move.

In capitalism agency=price discrimination and when some people are willing to pay 300% for potatoes and milk the people who cannot are SOL, and increasingly so as things progress. Obviously the manufacturers will set the price to wherever they’re profiting the most. This is also why inequality throws a wrench in the myth of well functioning capitalism.

Either governments need to step in or people who can afford to pay 300% need to refrain on principle (the latter seems pretty unlikely on a mass scale).

I had a philosophy prof in college who had a pet peeve about movie buffs who use box office numbers as a metric of success. It makes sense for the people profiting to look at it like that, but it killed him cinephiles would adopt that perspective to quantify success over other more artistic markers of a well-made film.

Based on scanning wiki and a couple articles and seeing nothing about construction quality aside from unfinished projects, definitely not an authority

The only part I feel confident with right now is safely obtaining the media. I’m fine with that step being manual.

I feel like a solid half of the books I was assigned in k-12 had to do with the holocaust, slavery, or the cold war. To kill a mockingbird, number the stars, boy in striped pajamas, Anne Frank, number the stars, night, the hiding place, animal farm, the giver etc. This definitely doesn’t seem out of the ordinary or inappropriate to me. I’m more skeptical of teaching books like Lolita (though I personally feel even young kids can read reasonably critically, especially with the guidance of a teacher).