Amezarak

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by Amezarak 4y ago
I would strongly recommend reading The Third Reich trilogy by Richard J. Evans. Most people have a rather propagandistic view of the war and this series is easily accessible for the layman and does a really good job at laying out what happe
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by Amezarak 4y ago
This post really illustrates the expansion of terms into meaninglessness. One presumes they're referring to the Allies (who themselves would now be considered extremely racist) stopping the Nazis, who allied with the Japanese and wer
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How many 4chan memes would it take to turn you into a racist murderer? I don’t know about you but for me the number is NaN. All the memes in the world cannot do it. People seek out ideological justifications for acting out their violent des
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Do you have a specific definition of "nazi" in mind we can apply in a reasonable way? The usual problem I see is anti-"nazi" rhetoric quickly descends into dehumanization rhetoric about how such people don't deserve
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Once again nobody is complaining they can’t get every edition of Shakespeare. The issue is they can’t get any copy of say, Plutarch outside of ILL, and complete copies of such things as the Golden Bough are unavailable even there, and the s
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Some things really were better. Some things were not. I’m not sure why you would throw all such complaints into the BS category. Why is that? The mass destruction of older books and classics is easy to observe by searching your own library
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I am citing the actual history of the US public library system, which ironically can probably now be found only with difficulty in actual public libraries. But Wikipedia has a decent overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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Several other links I posted in this thread, and based on personal experience, suggest that generally much less thought goes into discarding books than that. Nevertheless I don’t think your link helps your case. For example, it suggests boo
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It’s fine if you believe this, but this was not the reason the US public library system was created, and it seems wrong to me to have co-opted it and destroyed the original purpose in so doing without having a wider conscious public discuss
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Not only did I spend a lot of time in the library, and have been deeply involved in the library system, I have children of my own (which bizarrely is the only category of child you left out) I take there, and that is why I am keenly aware o
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These books are being wiped out from the entire ILL system, not just your local library.
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We're not talking about old Boy's Life magazines, we're talking about works on local history or niche scientific or technical subjects that were never widely published, where a few public libraries hold what may be the last r
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The longer a book has been around, the longer you should probably keep it. Maybe your one copy Thucydides has been checked out 1 time in the past 20 years, and your five copies of $SLIGHTLY_OUTDATED_POP_LIT have been checked out 200 times i
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Libraries aren't hurting for donations of classics, they are destroying the ones they already have. I've seen for myself what happens to donations of classics: they go to the book sale and then get pulped or trashed. https:/
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Librarians deliberately keep book-destruction quiet, because they know the public would be outraged. Most people do not want to write about it because especially once you're "inside", you're the sort of person that holds
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People have always loved pulp fiction. I love pulp fiction. Reading pulp fiction has always been popular. That doesn't mean it belongs in libraries. Librarians made a conscious decision to shift their focus into providing public entert
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Modern public libraries are mostly just public entertainment centers for the latest movies, video games, and ghostwritten novels. In many library systems, the books that were the whole foundational reason for their existence have been pul
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> Human societies never destabilized the entire global ecosystem before, either. Viewing it as "progress" to be able to cause climate change, mass extinction and pollution is a bias that we should check. Aside from the fact thi
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Even “poor” schools in the US are generally receiving more funding per student than the average school in other countries. The “bad” public schools are a result of increasing and spreading social dysfunction (see the other comment in this t
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Poor and middle class people probably really do cheat on their taxes a lot more. I used to wait tables. Not reporting most of your cash tips was absolutely standard - you reported the minimum amount necessary to equal minimum wage, so your
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Benzos like Xanax are extremely addictive and popular party drugs.
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The best insurance I've seen in the US is Medicaid. It's people in the middle who are getting squeezed by HDHPs, mostly not the poor, who have access to Medicaid (exact qualifications vary by state) or Medicare (everyone 65+).
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I read the primary sources from the trial. Burroughs was notorious in the community as a serious wifebeater. People testified that he told them not to tell anyone if he accidentally killed his wife. His first wife did end up dying, although
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I don't have strong feelings on the subject, but I find it bizarre that you'd find what most people traditionally did for almost all of human history up to a little more than the last century a "weird, American idea."
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It takes very little water, especially at night, to totally obscure road markings. If we took that advice, then you couldn't drive on rainy nights at all. Just like the GP said, lighting can make the situation worse by reflecting off t
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I'm sure the issue there is designers believing they know better than power users how things should work, leading to the gradual evolution of software that is usable only by the lowest common denominator. This happens to a lot of proje
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He’s not saying the markings wash away in rain, he’s saying 3” of water on the ground at night make the paint invisible.
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Sorry, your first link is profoundly unpersuasive. I don’t see anything wrong with killing animals for a purpose, nor anything inherently evil in suffering. I appreciate that you have a different value system, but I don’t share it. I do hav
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Nearly 100% of my meat comes from locally raised grass-fed-and-finished cows. They are rotationally grazed and live their whole lives in the outdoors. It is actually much, much cheaper than buying meat from a supermarket - ground beef is ha
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Dairy cows do scale. Stop ethanol production and drop soybeans (not part of US diet until recently) and fill the plains with cows. Note they do need to be managed carefully - keep tightly packed herds and don’t allow free range grazing. Bon

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