One of the last third spaces. I wish I enjoyed books more. My wife goes all the time
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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and the only place where they dont ask for exorbitant amounts of money in exchange for self improvement.
Parks, too - which is why it's OK that Republicans are trying to turn libraries into parks.
/s just in case.
Only if you don't pay taxes. Nothing is free.
Yes, if you torture the definition of "free" enough, then nothing is free.
There's no need to torture the definition. You are paying taxes, thus the services you're getting are not free.
Typically it is the city taxes that pay for libraries, sometimes state. therefore just purchases goods in a different city and live where the state doesn't charge income tax and you avoid paying for the library, happy?
Wut? It doesn't matter what you do - you still pay taxes (unless you're Bezos). Thus everything is paid by you in advance. Also, which shithole has different taxes between cities?
city's have different sales tax in America, I wouldn't be surprised if one or two states force them to have the same, but most states allow cities to do whatever they want with sales tax.
Lol, that's insanity. No wonder you chose Trump to lead you, lol.
don't worry, it can get more complicated, there are cities with different summer and winter taxes, different sales tax rates on different items, and sales tax limits per purchase.
That's why they kick out homeless people every hour on the hour
Here in Vancouver, Washington, the city shuts down nearly all public park restrooms and water fountains for 6 months each winter. Ostensibly it is for avoiding freezing water pipes, but I'm fairly sure it's to increase land values of old single family housing that tend to be where parks are located by giving police an excuse to kick out homeless.
I used to renovate houses for an organization in Atlanta similar to Habitat for Humanity. We would buy derelict houses and renovate them to provide housing for homeless people. Unfortunately these houses always had people squatting in them already, so the first stage of any project was us going in with various threatening hand tools and rousting out the current occupants. We appreciated the irony of this but I doubt they did.
I saw a librarian kick out a homeless guy for sleeping in the library because "we have a rule that you can't be unconscious in the library. It's for your own safety."
WTF? What kind of danger are you in when you're sleeping? What made this even stupider is he didn't need to cite some bullshit rule to kick the guy out, because he was snoring! He could've just said "Your snoring is too loud, and you have to be quiet in the library."
The bigger question we as a society need to be asking is why does anyone needs to sleep in the library in the first place?
From my experience, politicians talk a lot about fixing that problem in order to get elected but actually do very little about it once they get in office.
Relevant Sarah Andersen:
Nintendo: "That'll be $80."
"We're not raising the price on Switch 2, just the accessories."
Two hundred and forty five percent, vastly above the amount it was when Nintendo made their announcement.
Wait until retailers get their hands on it.
Sorry we have a copyright on blankets
That's not quite true. You can opt for adds instead.
Usually you pay and still get ads. Even if you pay for an ad free tier they show ads for their own stuff.
Well, yeah. But you don't get ads in your dreams. No sirry!
That's why conservatives hate it
Well that and a few of the books are supportive
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