Idk what you want me to give up? I’m not a Covid denier or against vaccines. Just stating the facts that new variants don’t give a shit if you’re vaxxed or masked. Do you want me to give up stating facts?

Is it okay for you to transmit government secrets to Russia, Iraq, China or any other country?For YEARS we punished people, and still do, for flying flags for communism. None of those things, in my opinion, are NEARLY as bad as flying a flag for a country that REBELLED against the constitution that gave them that freedom and claims to rebel again.

You don't get to express treason. Thats like wanting ISIS to fly their flags and when you tell them to take it down and not express their ideologies them claiming its their first amendment rights.

You're dying on a hill hiding a septic tank of lies. Give it up.

Hillary Clinton is considered a criminal for disclosing confidential info to the wrong people. Is not an email an expression?

ISIS is an extremist organization we deem as a dangerous ideology that seeks to destroy America. Is this ideology not a form of expression?

CRT Is considered by some an insanely dangerous ideology to spread throughout the country because of its potential to imbalance and overcorrect freedom through restriction. Yet, still, it is an ideology.

You only want to restrict what you believe is bad. I want to restrict a very VERY clear action of treason from a violent and disgusting terrorist organization that sought to enslave and indoctrinate an entire section of the population under false religious pre-tenses and false philosophical pre-tenses.

To be clear I know you'll never change your mind as you are indoctrinated beyond help, but I'm hoping if anyone who CAN change their mind reads this they'll see how ludicrous and illogical your statement is. At the VERY least a hypocritical point many Conservatives/Republicans make about why a symbol of treason is okay to buy and hang.

How about all of the above? That would be typical anyways. Thanks though this brought me a decent chuckle:)

10 acres is enough to start that pig farm you’ve always wanted. Pigs shit 10X as much as humans do and if you raise them organically you could actually make money

Thank you for educating us on the nuance of libraries. I love libraries and librarians. I would not have made it out of undergrad or grad school if not for the library and those who ran it. And my use of the library was just the tip of the iceberg of what a library does. This action by the president is appalling.

Go to Snell Library some time. There are half a million print volumes there. Northeastern also benefits from being part of the Boston Library Consortium and sharing print collections with a number of other high-profile libraries.

If you don’t know that your university library has print books, you’re not doing a great job at college. Or your college is failing you and you’re paying way too much.

Given your ignorance of this very basic fact, why would I take anything else you say seriously?

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Libraries are always easy targets to administration in k-12 and higher Ed because they have high cost for materials. Let's say I am a librarian at a small private school and my materials budget is 100k and my new president thinks that no one uses physical books anymore so I am mandated to reduce costs by 50%? Well there goes JSTOR, ProQuest, LexisNexis, and an EBSCO subscription that gave students access to more than 2 million journal articles because the easiest thing to cut is database subscriptions that are paid yearly. Libraries also pay for copyright licenses that cover the school so that you and your professor don't get slammed with fines and charges for sharing a PDF of a textbook chapter. These fees are all based on school size so the higher the FTE the higher the cost. A major school will have a library budget in the millions. We are a profession that is always on the front lines of budget cuts and public apathy and/or misinformation that fuels more cuts. My first gig as a librarian involved making substantial budget cuts due to a president like this and the students and school suffered for it. And while these are all generalities, if the school has an a program with secondary accreditation in education, nursing, law, etc. Those accreditation bodies have their separate guidelines for libraries. Nursing accreditation requirements for one call for materials to be published within 10yrs, so library staff are constantly having to weed and replenish a collection. Imagine doing that with digital books? Separately not all publishers have forever licenses. Penguin previously would make public libraries buy a new license after x-number of checkouts. The rationale being that a physical copy of a popular fiction book can only survive 30 or so circulations. That's the type of greed you're dealing with.

So you're sticking by your bad analogy?

Sorry forgot where I was for a minute. You can pick from the following:

I can insult you with made up facts then block you so you can't respond.

I can put words in your mouth and then respond to that.

I can infer your politics and make a direct comparison between you a Hitler or Putin.

I can make a joke about your sexual preference and then insist it's not really homophobic and it's about "power"

Just let me know, I'll try to do better next time.

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Childhood germ factory combined with years of mask use, sanitization and remote learning limiting overall exposure to germs playing a role, possibly? Not saying remote should not have happened, just that this shit is a possible consequence.

Yep, test again and get well!

Using the google and doing scholarly research withing an internal system are also like completely different skillsets. Something tells me that since op doesn't understand the importance of a librarian in even an online database. That he isn't really that good at doing scholarly research. In another comment he claims his school uses "AI" instead of librarians

Enjoy your alternative

Back in the fall they were predicting a trifecta - a combination of Covid, flu, and RSV. People have been saying for years that "Covid is just like the flu", which it isn't, but there are similarities in the symptoms. Maybe this time it's the flu instead of Covid. Which reminds me, my wife and I were visiting the grandkids and got sick after we got back. We tested negative Tuesday morning and should probably test again. I don't think it's anything significant, just part of the childhood germ factory cycle.

You do know that the organizing structure of a library is a science and people go to school for it right? They spend countless hours categorizing and sorting through internal materials so they have a library that makes sense. Even digitally.

I work with graduate students regularly that have no idea how to search online let alone navigate a database or use boolean operators. Don't assume everyone has your skills.

They don't need to be taught how to use computers. But when it comes to navigating an institutions internal library, yeah people need help with that. Its not always easy.

Good luck finding embargoed articles or dissertations without using a librarian or interlibrary loan. Sci-hub, LibGen, etc. don't contain everything. School accreditation in the area places a heavy emphasis on information literacy and the primary conduit for information literacy learning assessment is via libraries.

Im sure the librarians still spearheaded this. Since like you know. They are professionally trained in doing it.

Would you want 18 year old work study students uploading and categorizating rare priceless documents without any sort of oversight?

Also asking college students to pirate for their research? Thats not a good idea. You can usually get the needed materials through the library

On the counterpoint even like 5 years ago I had some professors require bringing physical books to class. Guess where I got the books from when I needed them.

> I just disagree.

Wow without name calling. A first for Reddit:)

This is my moral hangup when it comes to the death penalty. We all or we should all know by now how much police lie and coverup their shit. With all the exonerations there has to be some who were not guilty. Hard to imagine executing an innocent man or woman but I would bet it has happened. Off topic kinda but still.

This isn't a great take because keep in mind college libraries also give you access to digital books paid paywalled research materials that are necessary for for coursework

Also like I too never bought all the books that were required and preferred digital. But even like 5 years ago when I was in college some professors required physical books. Guess where I got the books when I was required to show up in class with them?

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Capitalism hurts sometime doesn’t it