US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
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Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#2wow, that caused me quite a bit of confusion
> Haskell Free Library
Has zero to do with haskell the language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera...
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#3wow, that caused me quite a bit of confusion > Haskell Free Library Has zero to do with haskell the language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera...
Believe it or not, the library predates the understanding of monads as a mathematical concept! Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries).
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#4Just makes me sad.
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#5It's not an unfair reaction to the main entrance being closed, but it is a little sad.
The northern border used to be so much more flexible and I don't see any real benefits from doing all this.
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#6This idea is adorable, but ultimately untenable if either country drifts in its views on how its citizens should behave.
I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns, and I suspect that the US is not quite on board with blasphemy/hurty-words laws. I suspect the divergence will grow.
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#7This idea is adorable, but ultimately untenable if either country drifts in its views on how its citizens should behave. I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns, and I suspect that the US is not quite on board with blasphemy/hurty-words laws. I suspect the divergence will grow.
Cultural differences are not why this happened. This is explicitly because of the trump administration and its draconian approach to immigration. This is a very symbolic and sad thing to see happen
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#8wow, that caused me quite a bit of confusion > Haskell Free Library Has zero to do with haskell the language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera...
Believe it or not, the library predates the understanding of monads as a mathematical concept! Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries).
> Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries).
Now that's a special kind of joke I can only find on HackerNews
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#9There’s a joke to be made with this headline: is there now an entrance for Canadians, Americans and a new 3rd one for Quebeckers that refuse to use an entrance for Canadians?
Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
#10This idea is adorable, but ultimately untenable if either country drifts in its views on how its citizens should behave. I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns, and I suspect that the US is not quite on board with blasphemy/hurty-words laws. I suspect the divergence will grow.
This... has... nothing to do... with how the 2 countries view guns or blasphemy laws (??).
This library worked well for a hundred of year, and then the US government decided they wanted to invade Canada, wage an economic war, and needed to protect their border at all cost in case an invasion of migrants would come from... that library.