@mcc I'm glad your pain is better today! Also this reminded me that it's time to take my meds ^^;

in conclusion, YAY LIBRARIES AND CINNAMON ROLLS

@htpcnz @mcc
And have libraries become yet another victim in the war on homeless people?

If we all use the library, they are more likely to keep funding libraries, if only those with no other options use them, they will get shut down.

@htpcnz @mcc Ehhh… no.

Fill the library with active users and show that you need to expand it.

If the people in your city have nowhere else to go to exist in a warm space, that’s a serious gap in public services that should also be attended to. Your library shouldn’t be stuck operating as a homeless shelter because the government didn’t want to pay for homeless shelters, just as teachers shouldn’t be stuck working as therapists because the government didn’t want to pay for therapists.

@htpcnz @mcc Yes, let's remove yet another third space where everyone, no matter their class, can meet...

I'd go the other way, please go to the library, especially if you're well off, see how much good a public service can do, enjoy the amenities, and maybe leave with more empathy for people who are less well of than you.

@htpcnz @mcc

It is 7 o'clock in the morning here in Germany and I really hope this is already the worst suggestion I have to read or hear today.

Keep visiting and using one of the most interesting places in your hometown, whoever you are!

@htpcnz That's like a "finish your food, kids in Africa are starving" level nonsense virtue signal

@mcc

@htpcnz @mcc Ever heard the expression, "use it or lose it?"

If it looks busy, sure come back another day… but if there's room, might as well.

@htpcnz @mcc wow, never thought I would read a terrible opinion about libraries on Mastodon.

It is well established that public services that are only seen to be used by the less privileged are the services that tend to be shut down.

There's a quote about transport - a wealthy society is not one where the poor drive cars, it's one where the rich take public transport. This applies equally well to libraries. We live in a working society as long as public services exist to serve everyone.

@htpcnz

"I'd rather be a left wing radical than a right wing nut job or worse be a centrist."

I think you might be a centrist

@mcc

@htpcnz @mcc the lack of libraries is because they are insufficiently utilised and their loss is not mourned enough by voters (usually the wealthy). They don’t get shut and turned in to car parks because they’re too rammed.

It’s also an excellent function of libraries that everyone uses them.

So, this “don’t use it if you can afford not to” take is amazingly terrible, and tremendously harmful.