• @[email protected]
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    78 months ago

    Yah, Plenty of liberals shit them selves when you suggest giving an unalloyed good away for free.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      38 months ago

      Conservatives wouldn’t create libraries at all.

      Liberals will create libraries by contracting it to private companies who mismanage and embezzle.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Might be a fun social experiment to propose a public gun lending armory. Like a library, you can walk in and check-out an AK-47 for a day or week for free. But just like the library charges for printed pages, you would have to pay for the ammo.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        78 months ago

        I think there should be libraries for all sorts of things. For example, everyone on my street has their own lawnmower, trimmer, etc. And very rarely do people mow their lawns at the exact same time. It would be a lot more efficient if there was a place to check out the lawnmower to mow your lawn and put it away for someone else to use.

        • @iggames
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          28 months ago

          My city has a tool library program that sounds exactly like this (I haven’t tried it yet, not sure how well it works in practice). Would be especially nice for one-off sorts of tools you don’t expect to use often.

          The downside is you’d need to line up your project with their hours, and hope no one else is using it when you need it. But if you have the flexibility to plan ahead, could be a nifty resource.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          That’s a neat idea.

          Of course, conservatives would oppose it. They’d probably say that it’s socialism and thus axiomatically bad.

          And that it’s simply impossible to keep those shared tools in good repair while actively sabotaging the program.

          Some people are just anti social.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        That would be pretty cool actually. Some gun ranges already do this kind of thing but only on the premises.