No no, Big Library just isn’t Big enough to stick it to Big IP, so that’s why it seems like it even though I know librarians are still much the same.

I’m not saying they’re not, or that the librarians are any more capitalist than they were in the 90’s. I’m just saying it feels like they are.

I mean, yeah, sure, I guess that’s a decent solutions in terms of modern IP shit.

But like, we all know you’re not returning anything and if you wanted, you could also copy it for yourself.

I just dislike how it feels like when it was actually books, they had actual reasons to everything. There’s a queue because there’s limited copies. You need to return it and if you’re late there’s a fee, because it’s from other people’s time, etc. Nowadays that all feels like larping just to protect large companies IP’s essentially. Because digital copies don’t actually get returned.

Like when I was a kid I would’ve never thought a librarian would say “you’re not allowed to read that anymore”. Or that I couldn’t copy a thing down at home from one of their books. But now as your tokens to ebooks expire, it kinda does feel like that.

How do you return a borrowed ebook…?

Huh. I, on the other hand, have weirdly intrusive thoughts with smaller blades, like a kitchen blender or an uncovered fan, but a helicopter doesn’t faze me. Although can’t say I’ve ever been in one, but I’ve been very close by.

Anyway when blending shit I sometimes have intrusive thoughts. I don’t think I’d have a garbage disposal like I see in the movies. They’re probably not even allowed here in Finland, and my laziness would want one, but my accident-prone-ass knows I probably shouldn’t get one even if I could.

I once bought a mandolin for my kitchen. Here’s Jeremy Clarkson demonstrating what happens to everyone who buys their first mandolin without having read the stories.

How are you with kitchen blenders?

I can help with that.

On a related note, may I suggest “No such thing as fish” as a podcast? From QI-producers been going on since the episode with “no such thing as fish” thing

https://youtube.com/@nstaaf

I was in three separate supermarkets at least. Easter here as well, obvs, but most stores are open. I tried looking for easter candies, as I wanted specific choccie eggs, and despite Easter not even being technically over yet, no-one had any.

They come to the stores like 2 months before Easter and the day of Easter they vanish like Jesus from the cave.

Pic related it’s the type of egg I was looking for. They’re solid chocolatenougat in real eggshell. Handmade. Recipe is from like the 1800’s.

Tailgaters. Rich kids in their daddie’s cars, not knowing how to drive responsibly or even properly.

Oh yeah, I should’ve said “the disease” but I was already talking about flu epidemics in my head.

Good note, thanks, but for other people, as I understand the difference very well and would never suggest antibiotics as a treatment to virus-borne disease. And the evolution of bacteria is very different from viruses. Hell, we haven’t even decided if viruses are technically living or not. Anyway, good point

And the virus evolved to be less deadly and people evolved to have better immune responses to it.

The “Spanish Flu” still exists, and is all around us. Endemic to humanity. Meaning the H1N1-subtype of the influenza virus. Which killed 50-100 million people in 1918-1920. (Nowadays it’s called the seasonal flu)

I’d like to find an image of anti-antivaxxers, from around that time. They had some good burns against the silly antivaxxers and I just can’t remember what they were.

No bills in the Nordics, also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package

The maternity package (Finnish: äitiyspakkaus, Swedish: moderskapsförpackning), known internationally as the Finnish “baby box,” is a kit first granted by the Finnish social security institution Kela, to all expectant or adoptive parents who live in Finland or are covered by the Finnish social security system. The package contained children’s clothes and other necessary items, such as nappies, bedding, cloth, gauze towels and child-care products.[1] It was first issued in 1938[2] to parents with a low income, and contained a blanket, crib sheets, diapers, and fabric which parents could use to make clothing for the baby.[3]

Terraforming.

He did write “the” correctly. He didn’t write “are” correctly.

You however wrote “how much of a cringe child your made yourself look like by writing it”.

Which is… sort of ironic.

Username checks out.