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as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

forcekenobi

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

hyperchaotix

icarus-suraki

multitrackdrifting

“W pervert women” is legitimately the funniest shit i’ve ever read

animentality

cis men need to realize the power of the phrase "not cool dude" when one of their buddies is being disgusting.

seriously.

you can shut him down so hard.

misanthropemom

Saw this on one of my rare visits to Facebook hell. Thought y'all would want to know

cacodaemonia

I just checked this info and the US FDA's (food and drug administration) website is the first thing that comes up, so it's legit. This page has more details, including what food products commonly have xylitol in them, and it states:

XYLITOL is a sweetener that is found in a wide range of products. It might also go by other names, including wood sugar, birch sugar, and birch bark extract.

wetleavesandfeathers

It also has a laxative effect in humans. If you are already prone to gas, intestinal cramping or diarrhea, xylitol can make it worse.

memeuplift

teaboot

Nah man that's a northern bobwhite

robinparravel

I love Bruce

molabuddy

freedominthedarkmp3

I miss when library books used to have little paper pockets inside with a list of all the people who borrowed it and when... I hate that this is now exclusive knowledge of librarians. I do care that a miss Mariana borrowed this book in 1985 and then Dario in 1997. They're my brothers and sisters

elasticitymudflap

but really, there's a million reasons why it's an issue for users and staff of the public library to have immediate access to a record of who has borrowed a specific item and when.

and that's not even about keeping the information "privileged" to the library staff, these days they don't even keep a digital record of an item's history of borrowers; once you return a book, there isn't a list of everyone thats ever taken that book out that your name gets added to (though they probably take a tally of how many times it is checked out for circulation statistics).

i think the card system is a remnant of a culture that could only exist in the world before the internet as it exists today, where this identifying kind of information wasn't always readily at your fingertips, even for those at the "information professional" level.

don't get me wrong here, i do understand the nostalgia factor to it as being part of a different time, but i think it's always important to understand why this kind of system has its flaws and has been (at least in north america) taken out of practice

umjammertammy

bear in mind that US public libraries spent most of the past twenty years fighting off lawsuits that they were prohibited from disclosing to the public because when 9/11 happened the federal government wanted a list of every person who read certain books and the librarians had a really bad feeling about where that kind of policy would end up going, for some reason.

not keeping the records in the first place is a way for the libraries to protect themselves when they stand up for your privacy.

hsavinien

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_FBI_has_not_been_here.jpg

This was a thing in multiple libraries. We really want to protect your freedom to access information.

rosebramblewolf

they were prohibited from telling us when the fbi had been through to check who was reading what. so they told us when they hadn't been. anyway librarians are heroes for privacy and freedom of information

willgrahamscock

groundbreaking study: people want to die when they get stripped of their human rights

kaban-bang

bemusedlybespectacled

“supports transgender ideology” motherfucker THEY’RE NONBINARY

zvaigzdelasas

wrenwilm

please, this is so fucking funny, you can’t keep that in the tags

manlet-rights-activist-deactiva

shorturlisouttahere-deactivated

in 2020

it’s going to be 420

for a whole month

the-rivulet

*touches the ground*

this…. a relic…

….a relic of a more hopeful time

dzamie

Date of Origin: circa May 9, 2015

hotvampireadjacent

bitingyougently

i hate people who know chess. “i’m moving my rook to c2” okay man. i’m driving down I-65

kyatra

i made a punnett square of the traits our offspring would possess assuming knowledge is a dominant trait and lack of knowledge is a recessive trait. pro choice btw