I-Opener and PeoplePC again.
Good luck with that.
LK

" fines disproportionately affect the poor and disadvantaged in our society..." ...and people who are lazy and people who are irresponsible.", let's not forget them. The idea that "victims" are always the downtrodden pious is crap.

What happens when people don't return library resources? They are stealing opportunity from other people.

Let's see...public libraries are usually funded by taxes which is money forcibly taken from people who produce so...the "wealthy and advantaged" have already paid for the resource which the "poor and disadvantaged" get without cost.

What incentive is there for anyone to produce if they are "given" everything by forcibly taking it from someone else? None.

In the United States, public libraries are descended from Andrew Carnegie's investments to educate the populace. One of the fundamental differences of the United States was the intentional weakness of copyright law to create an educated populace. Public libraries = good.

STATIC math, not dynamic math. Removing fines changes the environment.

To illustrate: The "math" of the cost of prosecuting minor crimes was considered negative in San Francisco.

Removing penalty rewards undesired activity. Always has, always will.

The Boomers in middle to upper management want to go back to having affairs and they can only do that if they force everyone back into the office.

LK

I'm a 5-15 minute drive from 95% of the things I want and/or need. It's ridiculous how much more affordable housing is, away from the city. Houses like mine, on as much land as I have go for over a million dollars in the city. I'd never be able to afford one.

If I was 22, childless, newly graduated from college and making the kind of money that I make now, I would almost certainly have different priorities but as things stand, I like where I am.

I don't do it often, maybe 2-3 times per year but sometimes, I just want to drink some bourbon and listen to loud music. If I was closer to my neighbors, it would make me an asshole to do it.

I can't afford to live in the fucking city in a house as big as the one I have in the suburbs 14 miles away. I'm not renting a cracker jack box apartment just to have a chance to vote in a new zoning commission in a city where I don't want to live in the first place.

LK

Same here.

I have to get up earlier, so I have to go to sleep earlier and I spend an hour traveling to the office. When I'm done, I spend an hour traveling home.

It's really like dedicating 6 days a week to the job when I'm only being paid for 5.

My company is forcing limited return to the office but if they try to bring us back full-time, I'm looking for a new job.

LK

In theory it sounds like an absolute nightmare. In practice, will it be any worse than FB and old Twitter's "Fact Checking"?

I doubt it.

LK

Only the uninformed users. Most companies big enough to use Teams disclose that all company communications can be monitored.

LK

Teams conversations are subject to inspection. I have a coworker that I call her personal cell phone when I have something to say that I don't want to say over Teams.

LK

I'm still convinced that the reason for this push to "Return To The Office" is fueled by boomers in middle to upper management who want to be able to go back to having affairs with the cover of "I had to work late".

LK

I haven't gotten a DMCA nasty gram since I started running all of my torrents over a VPN...

LK

The current court seems poised to revisit that logic.

They can't simultaneously claim the right to censor content and also take no responsibility for the content that they refuse to censor.

LK

This is the way.