doingmaths

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by doingmaths 3y ago
> None of these laws punishes possession ... > which are directed to not stock these books You see how these are opposites, right? Stocking a book in a library is possessing it. The laws punish libraries for having a book in their col
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by doingmaths 3y ago
> No they don't. Stop lying. I'm sorry you don't believe me, but librarians are facing jail time in Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Librarians (typically school librarians, but in at least one state
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by doingmaths 3y ago
Yeah, I would argue #1 has been commonly involved in genocides in the past, where works of a particular culture are removed from curricula to prevent children from learning about their cultures.
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by doingmaths 3y ago
> Why are you posting google doc links? Because that's the way the organization makes the information available. Is Google docs on topic? > In any case, when was the last time a book printer faced criminal charges for printing a
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by doingmaths 3y ago
I don't think that's the case. Where is "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein banned in the US by a state, local, or federal government?
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by doingmaths 3y ago
"Books banned in the US" has two correct readings (regarding banned books by governments): 1) "Books that were banned, somewhere within the US" 2) "Books that were banned, across the US" In this case, at the be
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by doingmaths 3y ago
> Certainly there is no government which punishes distribution, printing or reading of those books. Yes, state and municipal level governments have banned books in the US? Here's a list of some example laws in, e.g., education: htt
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by doingmaths 3y ago
Not sure why virtue signal is being used ironically? Every political and social group is capable of virtue signaling. Plenty of folks left, right, and center who Virtue Signal their beliefs. IMO, it's a useless term, since it's es
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by doingmaths 3y ago
Mondragon is. You might not be familiar with them, but they are a federation of co-ops in Europe that are a billion dollar business and are the 10th largest industrial group in Spain. They do R&D, Finance, Manufacturing, and a bunch of
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by doingmaths 3y ago
> But I sure couldn't produce the tools I want without making use of the work of profit driven people, simply because advanced tech is a lot of work, takes hundreds of people, is too big for anyone to understand and thus is almost n
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by doingmaths 3y ago
I'm an anarchist --- wait hold on! --- not like "The Purge" kind, but the "mutual aid and share what you can" kind. I genuinely believe that if we operated more on a "people will produce the tools, food, and ar
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by doingmaths 3y ago
I'm definitely guilty of not finishing projects, but I don't know that the "Just do the thing and don't NOT do the thing" is a particularly useful piece of advice. I know I should "fight for the time on the pro