I can’t imagine that’s the main reason. You can buy a 3.5" floppy reader with a usb connection for like 20 bucks on amazon and anyone who wanted to get their hands on government secrets would not be deterred by that.

I think the simplest and most likely reason is that updating things and making changes in bureaucracies is hard on its own, and any time you start dealing with tech it’s all a house of cards where one system depends on another and so changing any one thing will either make it all fall down or bring along with it massive sweeping changes.

Education is investment in our species future… teachers aren’t billionaires, they’re not overpaid.

I don’t think you know what “meme” means… it doesn’t mean “thing that gets posted once and never again” actually it means the exact opposite

That doesn’t mean they taste the same. Do you even have taste buds?

Ah, the Neil Peart drum kit solution

It’s about a 13% cut in funding. Between the aprox. 207 libraries it cuts almost 300k from each leaving about 1.9 million per branch. These numbers are inflated in straight division like that because some of the libraries are not normal libraries, but research libraries which would have higher budgets so maybe around 1 - 1.2 million per regular branch. If you think that sounds like a lot because 1.2 million sounds like a big number, you’ve obviously never run a business.

That’s what they said… they said they had bad feet from years of wearing those shitty shoes.

The fact that you don’t understand that you’re NOT saying the same thing… is pretty sad. Not sure if it’s because you have poor reading comprehension or that you’re just so clearly emotionally invested in this that you can’t see it clearly, but either way, it’s pretty sad.

fly

to move through the air using wings.
to be carried through the air by the wind or any other force or agency:

“Any other force or agency” such as a car’s momentum

jump

to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap:

“muscular effort” cars don’t make muscular effort.

Looks like flew was technically more accurate

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Wow what kind of rookie kids were they surveying?

Where did they say the government handed out credit scores? The meme was pointing out a double standard, not saying the government hands out credit scores.

This entire comment is just you admitting you have below average reading comprehension.

But without evolution we wouldn’t have bears!

Your comment is about looking down on people… tongue in cheek or not, this is always the kind of stuff people post before complaining that the big mean vegans are alienating them… victim complex much?

“They have to suffer or else they would be extinct” is a very easy argument to make about other beings when you’re not the one doing the suffering. Personally, I would rather not exist than have a few short years of abysmal suffering and no chance to have a meaningful life.

I consider pain to be of negative utility

maybe try getting a professional to look into that psychopathy of yours

I’m in the same boat with a lot of commenters here, of trying to reduce my consumption for ethical reasons. Throughout my life I’ve tried being vegan and I’ve tried being vegetarian and always failed and now am just minimizing and it’s working very well for me.

Nonetheless, that picture gave me a chuckle. Life’s a ride, might as well have as good a time as possible and that usually coincides with being uptight as little as possible.

Down with specificity! We want the confusion that arises from ambiguity! Things were confusing in my day and I will not put up with people being able to understand each other! Harrumph to you good sir! A harrumph and another harrumph for good measure!

I used to play a high level monk and had, I don’t even remember now, but something like 20-30 attacks per turn. Rolling for all that was bad enough. If you were playing with actual dice rolling 120d4 would give everyone else a chance to go to the store every time you took a turn.

At least they get invited to them. You have to be real sad and lonely to act like you do.