If anything, this new decision now makes it *harder* for real libraries to leverage any power to bring down ebook prices. It makes it harder to negotiate contracts for elending with publishers. IA could've done this right, but they didn't and now we're all screwed.
There is a particular type of guy who thinks his Spock-like rationalism makes it so he can answer any question without first opening a book, because he's so good at reasoning from first principles. This belief will inevitably lead him to saying the dumbest shit you've ever heard.
OK so literally nothing has changed, Joe has benched himself, discussion is over, fantasy footballers can stfu, put in Kamala let's end this fuckfest and dogwalk those project 2025 bitches
Joe Bidenās empathy for his fuckup son is one of the single most humanizing things about him and this is incredibly confusing to people who became fascists because their blue-haired enby grandchild told them no one says āOrientalā anymore
Gonna be a lot of really weepy phone vids recorded in he car tonight huh
A society ought to earn the right to an April Foolsā Day by generally being able to sort fact from fiction given a bit of time, and American society has not been meeting the requirements since 2015 or so.
This is gleichschaltung in action.
I just skimmed through this policy book and it is full of the exact kinds of things boards SHOULD NOT BE DOING. It is an insult to the library staff. And to the communities the library serves. bookriot.com/librarians-l...
Library workers locked the public library in protest of the director being fired, and they have been fired as well.
āNow, instead of paying authors, artists, designers, and actors, we can sell you the stuff you already bought once before by putting it in a robot blender and putting a price tag on the mush that comes out! Are you as excited as I am? Get hype!!!!!ā
The amount of blocking Iāve had to do has already risen exponentially.