A combination of factors. Lower funding, suburbanization, growing means for home entertainment, growing wages sending people to more expensive options, etc.

I read something about the Carnegie libraries in Pittsburgh basically doing this way back when. Apparently it was popular for people to get off work, go home, clean up, eat, then head out to the library. There was stuff there for kids like story tellers, tutors, art workshops, and more. For adults, quiet places for people who just wanted to read, places for study, areas for people to discuss various subjects, classes on various skills (painting, pottery, carpentry, etc) and the ground floor main area had a general social space. They served coffee, food trucks set up outside, and some inside. It was a popular place for people who didn’t want to go to the bar.

Listen, all I am saying is that if all the billionaires disappeared over night, if you avoided mass communication media you would probably not know. If you took that same amount of collective wealth from the bottom up human society would collapse.

This is just what goes on in medicine science when things are operating properly. Test, collect data, run experiments, do it again, do it again, then, after the short term use has been proven safe 30 different times, by 100’s of research groups, you start researching the long term affects of it.

That or the far right has gotten to a point where they will openly condemn anyone who isn’t racist regardless of their other political stances.

If we know that the material can go 10k years without degradation, which is something we can know, then it can last that long. Will it be practically possible to store it in a way that will allow for the maximum amount of time before the material begins to degrade? That’s a whole other thing.

Now I am going to have to make these

Yeah, it was great. When the kid proved he was sober he requested to speak to the arresting cop and called him out on it to his face while the cop gave some stupid excuses and and got away from the kid as fast as he could.

This is a new tactic the police are trying out. They have recognized that people recording them, and people releaseing police recordings via FOIA, are making them look bad and resulting a lot of public outcry and pressure. So what’s the solution? Institute better transparency regulations and work on creating more accountability for bad actors? No, of course not.

Along with these invasion of privacy claims the police are also fielding charging people with organized crime for recording them on live stream and/or for a youtube channel. Claiming that recording their activities is actually a physical form of interference because “I had to physically leave the scene to address you”. Claiming that showing up to more than one scene run by the same cops qualifies as stalking. Claiming that posting videos and pictures of them going about their duties is doxxing them. We will see more and more tenuous attempts to use the legal system against anyone who would expose their own actions. They want to find a wedge the court will allow them to use to arrest anyone who records them or releases information they gathered from FOIA. Many jurisdictions are also pushing a variety of bullshit in order to not comply to FOIA at all.

I mean, this is straight out of the Maccarthyist play book, so it would feel at home in mid last century.

Yeah, this is extortion and a protection racket.

That I apparently do not exist on steam

I have seen this type of behavior in a number of places I have lived. It was being done to white owned businesses, by white cops, so not really racism behind this, just greed. They would also not show up to calls from businesses that did not give them their orders for free. A small store, near where I used to live in Florida, had the police stop showing up to calls after they refused to put up a sign promoting the current sheriff for re-election. They were told “maybe if you show more support for your local sheriff’s office you will get get more support from your local sheriff.”

I used to get these all the time. Haven’t seen one in almost a year now. I wonder what happened for them to so strongly disassociate something with me? I wish I knew so that I could weaponize it.

I have never gotten an ad for a game I was currently playing. For me it’s always these mobile games, namely ones that use hentai art to sell the game, I have found out some of these are not actually porn games, or the most recent offering from the biggest studios.

Oh you reminded me, hygiene products, all sorts of hygiene products that have been branded to assure me I am not gay, or a woman, for wanting bathe and groom myself. There is also the one where some douche tells me I am not a dish.

I never get fashion ones, however my feed is periodically bombarded with videos to people who make subculture fashion for women. like lolita dresses. I have no idea why. The only thing I can think of is that I show an interest in music with associated subcultures and they just do not know how to get them right. Hey, this guy listened to Lingua Ignota, let’s send him 20 channels discussing pastel colored lolita clothes and kawaii culture.

Yeah, my experience with youtube ads

Buy a Chromebook

PragerU

Right wing Youtubers

Don’t vote to make abortion a protected right by the state constitution

Buy a ford

Here’s a pornographic/semi pornographic anime game we are paid to show you

BUY A CHROME BOOK!

Hey, check out this person’s scam! They paid us to force this scam on you!

Look at these cable news channels’ youtube channels

Listen to this mom who is totally concerned about some bill that will kill or save all the children

BUY

A

CHROMEBOOK!

buy a jeep

Listen to this prepper try to hock you “survival” gear and shelf stable food

Don’t you remember when families did things? wasn’t that fun? Families, doing things?

Soon it will also be flooded with THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!

I am interested in none of these things