What kind of monster attacks public libraries
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
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People who hated Mr. Rogers for swimming with a black man and Communist Sesame Street.
Conservatives. They're some combination of stupid, ignorant, and evil.
They started it when they refused to show me the genitals of that cute library monster! /j
As a former public librarian and current person who walks their dog, I'm of two minds.
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I've seen less drug use and public sex at local public libraries than at interstate rest areas and on hiking trails.
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If you're going to overdose, I'd rather you do it in public where you can get help. If you're going to engage in public sex please don't do it around people that aren't into that. There are private clubs for that.
Current public librarian.
Almost no one does that stuff inside the library. Maybe they have more instances in places like LA, Chicago, Miami, etc.
Most abusers drink, do drugs, fuck, etc. then come into the library and stumble around. Like OP said, it’s acceptable bc it’s safer. Just as long as they don’t disrupt services or break policies.
Or set off the fire alarm by vaping in the bathroom. I hated when teen boys did that. It was always belligerent teen boys.
Yea, but are you a ….. sexy librarian with the glasses?
Yes, but my local dungeon closed during the pandemic so I don't know where to point folks anymore. I'd check on FetLife if I were you. There's also the Queer Liberation Library if you're in America and looking for "objectionable" reading material online.
And I've never been hip with the drug scene, as I imagine the young'uns say.
I leave now happy sunday
No, if they are going to overdose they should do it at home alone so they fucking die.
The Rhode Island Department of Health was giving away free Narcan at Providence Pride this weekend, so I picked some up. I'll keep it on hand in just in case someone needs it. Go fuck yourself :)
Everyone else: Narcan's readily available in states and there's very little risk to administering it. It's a spray up the nose.
(eta: context. My brother overdosed and you pretty much wished that others experience the same pain.)
As a precaution, you should expect that the person who you give narcan to will become violent for you taking away their high. You should still save their life, but be careful and be prepared.
That's quite fair. People don't tend to react well to becoming suddenly not-high. I don't even react well to becoming suddenly not-asleep.
dont complain to me, I didnt sell drugs to your junkie brother. Maybe you should have taken better care of him
Why the comma? That use of a comma is weird, right? Is it just me? They used one adjective. This wasn't a drug-infested, cum-covered sex den. This was merely a drug-infested sex den.
I think they're presenting it as two separate problems. Drug infested is not describing the sex den. It is drug infested. It is a sex den.
Edit: Here's a good explanation: "A comma performs another kind of abbreviation in a headline, connecting two ideas without a linking word or phrase (often and)
The problem with that interpretation is that you can't have "libraries turning into drug-infested, libraries turning into sex dens." because "drug-infested" is not a noun phrase a library can turn into like "sex dens" is. I also tried misinterpreting this comma as a comma between two adjectives, which doesn't work because "sex" is not an adjective. Maybe "Libraries turning drug-infested, into sex dens" fits your interpretation better. Does it?
I suppose, yes. The library is turning drug infested and into a sex den. The comma is replacing all the words "and into a." Which is essentially what you wrote. I guess i was trying to point out they were two separate situations and that drug infested is not describing the sex den. I was also trying to establish that commas can replace words and phrases. Although the example I gave above only replaced one word, it would make sense they would replace other words, as well, to shorten the headline.
I guess there are actual headline specific grammatical rules that are followed. While not a comprehensive list, some of these rules include leaving out auxiliary and some joining verbs, articles, conjunctions, etc, and replacing some words with various punctuation. Apparently, the list goes on.
wow TIL
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sex is not an adjective
My credibility for Fox has gone even deeper down the shitter after I was at the gym yesterday. They had Fox news playing and they were claiming that people are finding cartoon rat looking men to be attractive. What kind of fucking news story is that?
It's cause of all those STEM additions. 3D printers = Sin
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Uhh, the library?
the comma definitely increases the humour for me
I'm no grammar nerd but I think the comma makes "sex" an adjective, which should make me able to say that the drug-infested dens are "sex". this says a comma only splits coordinate adjectives, ~~which can be swapped and~~ where the latter does not form a common union with the noun, which means that even if "sex" were an adjective, the comma implies it can be swapped to make "sex, drug-infested dens" (single noun phrase), which it can't because sex is not an adjective.
Edit: this proof by contradiction doesn't quite work because adjectives have a preferred order by category of what they mean, and being coordinate doesn't mean they are in the same category.