Unfortunately 24 hour libraries, or even late night, are pretty much non-existent now because 1) parents use them as babysitters and 2) nothing against homeless people but librarians aren’t equipped or staffed to take care of them appropriately.

And now with the book bans librarians are in short supply too, which means shorter hours and even fully closing on some weekdays.

Support your local library, everyone! See if there’s a “friends of” group. It’s a great way to connect with your community.

Can you elaborate on this?

I can’t WFH so I haven’t really kept up with the trend

I would love to see statistics on OC by account age before the blackout and now.

Everyone who made reddit what it was is gone. Period.

I credit my 12 years on reddit with my ability to create airtight defenses towards anything in my daily life.

Imagine paying $250k and the pilot pulls out the player 2 controller

Why did they name it Titan??

Removable batteries existed in smart phones before. There are plenty of devices today, walkie talkies for example, that are fully waterproof and are battery swappable.

Manufacturers just want your money.

Wow… I’m new here so I’m still learning how all this works but I tried to apply to beehaw at first and they were having severe issues with their approval system so I either got denied or, most likely, got stuck in application purgatory.

Honestly, with how Lemmy is set up, it seems like it makes more sense to cater your instance to a more niche crowd than “all nice people” like beehaw was attempting to do.