Renting a sewing machine from the library

Post by utopiah » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #207

utopiah wrote: post #160

It's such an absolutely weird tension... The libraries in Belgium at least are absolutely amazing! They are filled with : - books (obviously) beautifully curated - comics - magazines - sometimes even audiobooks in the form of CDs - sometimes also events with authors on absolutely important topics like ... what it means to be human and they are also - basically free (few Euros per year, at most, and if you cannot pay)…

The fact that libraries are not full of people doesn't negate their function. A hard drive doesn't need to be continually read and written to serve its purpose either.

Post by NuclearPM » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

Post by hsuduebc2 » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

TurdF3rguson wrote: post #216

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #166

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There absolutely are people which are fine and there are one's that don't. No need to create these specific scenarios. That's the whole point of that post.

We're not talking about people being fine or not, we're talking about assessing the risk associated with homeless people patronizing libraries (which is effectively zero). You are more likely to be attacked by a shark than a homeless person at a library and that should be obvious to anybody.

Post by trick-or-treat » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 7:21 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #232

trick-or-treat wrote: post #228

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Then just shrug and keep walking like 99% of the rest of humans

Which is what I do.

Post by queenkjuul » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

bzzzt wrote: post #219

queenkjuul wrote: post #206

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There's still a lot of crap cheap guitars out there, and some truly dreadful cheap amps

There will always be crap sold to people who want a cheap gift or decorative item. But once you shop just a bit above the bottom price there are a surprising amount of decent instruments to be found.