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intheflow's JournalThese people are nuts.
It's okay for a 12-year-old to carry her rapist's child to term but lord forbid that same child have access to books about safe sex. And also, what makes them think it's acceptable for them to impose their Puritan "ideals" on everyone? No one is forcing their child to read GenderQueer. Meanwhile, there are plenty of Puritanical and racist books - referred to as "classics" - still available in school libraries everywhere. My question for these folks is, "So you admit you can't control your own children so you need to control everyone else's?"
So.... My only complaint about DU4:
The header/navigation bar is pinned to the top of the page so the logo never disappears. This means I can no longer use DU as a news agragate at work. 😞 I’m a librarian and can read news while on the public desk because it’s easy to be interrupted while doing, and all news informs collection development. But I can’t have overtly politically biased images on the screen at all times. The name of the site pinned at the top of the page as I scroll down to read the story means I’ll never be able to read DU at work again.
Exactly!
The slave patrols is the basis of where we are today AND it’s the 2nd A, crafted for and by white men, who wrote the right into the Constitution.
To sum up:
Constitution written by white men to preserve wealthy white male privilege.
Slave patrols formed by white men to preserve their human property.
Proud Boys and Kyle Rittenhouse worship guns because they’re scared of becoming a minority, so, to preserve whatever privilege they currently have over POC.
I have a question: how come posts in this forum end up on the Greatest Page?
This forum is a safe space. The Greatest Page is not. I was kind of upset when a post of mine in here ended up in the GP. Everyone who responded was kind, but there’s a reason I posted here instead of in the Lounge (for example). I know mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of AND some people may weaponize the knowledge to the detriment of the poster. Anyway, mental illness - and all medical stuff - is personal and posters may not want their struggles bandied about to a wider audience. Since my post went up in the GP, I’ve been hesitant to post my struggles here. What do you all think?
This!
The algorithms were trained by what the household was reading/streaming online and gave the questioner the answer that confirmed the media skew they had been ingesting.
Good lord.
Maybe they rent a room with no space to hang drying clothes. Maybe they don’t have a w/d at home and don’t want to and/or are physically unable to haul baskets of wet clothes home. No one can lead a pure life in the modern world, and I’ll bet there are many places in your own life where you are a “hypocrite” to your own ideals. Do you drive a car or take a bus to work? Contributing to emissions. Do you eat prepared food, or for that matter, buy anything from a grocery store? Even fresh produce comes in plastic these days. Etc.
Good lord, another post with "back in my day..." replies.
Back in my day…
“I went into the military and they treated me like shit.”
Translation: I was paid to be treated like shit but college students should suck it up and pay for the privilege.
“I didn’t have a/c in my dorm room.”
Translation: I went to college at a time when global climate change wasn’t killing millions in heat waves every year. Kids today are spoiled!
Seriously. I’m pushing 60 and feel like DU is getting too old for me when I read these old codger replies.
Agree with all this, & also this is disastrous for the local environment.
These minks will be competing with native species such as river otter, beavers, raccoons, fox, etc. for food and habitat. It’s going to decimate local rodent and amphibian populations which were mostly balanced systems before this.
EIGHT THOUSAND MINK!
For comparison, when they were reintroducing river otter to parts of Pennsylvania where they’d been hunted to near extinction, they only introduced 153 otter between 1982-2004 throughout the whole state. In 2016, the population had recovered enough for a limited number of hunting licenses to start being issued for river otter.
I second rounding up as many as possible and putting them in a preserve or sanctuary. That would be the most humane response for both mink and the local ecosystem.
Ya know, I thought TFG was guilty, but now that Putin's
said this, I really have to rethink my stance.
If you are really on top of when new titles are published,
the wait times aren’t bad for digital items. You just gotta get your holds in early! Also, most public libraries are in consortium arrangements with other libraries. For instance, my library can borrow digital materials from just about every other public library, and some universities, in the state. Many of these initiatives are coordinated via the State Library so even small towns can participate. Some large cities offer free digital cards to anyone in state. We also offer two digital book portals, Libby (formerly Overdrive) and Hoopla. Hoopla has arrangements with publishers to offer some best sellers on demand. So really, it’s totally worth your while to poke around you local library’s web site to see what they offer.
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