fair point, i seem to have conveniently ignored that i was talking about digital, not physical, archive here…

oh right, i totally ignored the “digital” part, even though i mentioned that in nearby reply. my bad.

Libraries are safe spaces for minorities

this text was primarily about digital archives, so i don’t think this applies much

can also help struggling young people understand that they are not alone.

this does make sense, ok then.

Another concerns equity and accessibility:

removal of more than 500,000 books from public access is a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others.

so low-income people in the argument are pretty obvious

how about people with disabilities or rural communities? why are they there? do they have easier access to libraries than bookstore?

and what the hell are lgbt people doing there? do they read disproportionately more more than average non-lgbt population, or why are they singled out?

seems like this whole paragraph is just “lets throw in some minorities, no one can talk back at that” lame argument

Imagine a restaurant that doesn’t ask you what you want. Instead the chef tells you “This is the best food possible” and just makes what they want.

that is exactly how restaurants work. have you ever been to one? you are offered a choice of meals they designed and if you don’t like it, well, there is about billion other restaurants you may try, they are not going to start crafting custom meal for you.

Love the handle, BTW. :)

thank you

I think downloading is against Google’s TOS

maybe, but you are not going to jail for that. at least not today.

but unless i am missing some edge case, there isn’t really a reason, downloading video from youtube is perfectly legal, it wouldn’t work otherwise after all

he is under no obligation to have a name at hand. that is what primaries are for. not having a name at hand doesn’t make biden best possible candidate, or even passable one.

Ah, there it is.

fuck off (you are on my blocklist now, don’t bother crafting elaborate answer designed to just piss me off)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Now I know one might be inclined to split him top and bottom but I posit we do left and right.

so how about a compromise and splitting him in 8 parts along all three axes?

you mean to start the experiment by cutting him in half? i am in 😆

there is 333 milion people in the us. roughly 1/4 of them is of sufficient age and pro-democracy. one of them has to be able to put together coherent sentence.

because what democrats consider bug, republicans consider feature.

stop with this whataboutism. trump being piece of shit doesn’t make biden good.

don’t click on the post title, but click on the little icon with number of comments… that will always take you to comment section, even when the main link leads outside of lemmy.

There may be several similar communities on different Lemmy instances

and lemmy explorer is great tool to find them

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

yeah, nobody knows. but (un)fortunately “he isn’t able to put together coherent sentence, but maybe he isn’t going to die tomorrow” is not qualification for presidential office.

good for her. i assume she didn’t run for a president.

I saw a person who couldn’t believe the bullshit being said by a narcissistic moron. I would have the same look at my face in disbelief

that’s really not an argument in biden’s favor.

he had known trump for at least 9 years and he had been lying narcissistic moron that whole time. if he didn’t expect the most expectable thing in the world from him, and being surprised threw him off the rails in such manner that he wasn’t able to put together coherent sentence, how is he qualified for a job where there are actual surprises of enormous consequences on a daily basis?

i meant error in facts, not your inability to understand topic of the discussion (this isn’t discussion about policy), or the fact that i am not an american, so i am not voting for anything in us elections.

i am not an american, but i can confirm for you that you seem significantly dumb to me.

if you see an error in any fact i stated, please point it out. i can’t do anything about your emotions…

he may. but the last debate strongly suggested otherwise. someone asked why do people think that biden will be first to die and this is why. because he seem in significantly worse shape.

he looked like he was going to die before the debate ends. i absolutely don’t believe that, if elected, he will survive whole term.

(and that is ignoring the fact that having a pulse is quite low threshold for presidential candidate)