• vidi_vici_veni@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    I fully agree with this comment. It is not only libraries, but the entire publishing ecosystem that needs to change:

    1. Governments could host public servers for books, allowing everyone to download and read them freely.
    2. Authors should also be free to upload their own books and be compensated through tax funding, based on actual downloads or verified readership.
    3. Ideally, this would be supported by dedicated software—or even specialized reading devices—that can measure readership more accurately.
    4. For scientific and technical books, some form of professional review or certification could be used to increase their weight in the system, while purely entertainment content could be weighted less.
    5. Countries that share the same language could collaborate by pooling their book servers, creating shared linguistic knowledge spaces and reducing duplication of infrastructure.
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    7 days ago

    Oh wow, I’m so used to reading MAGA comments I had to re-read it to notice all the errors.

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      8 days ago

      They really made every possible error with there vs they’re and all those common things as well. Gotta be satire/rage bait. 😄

        • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          A lot fucking less than the internet would have you believe. Take a second and examine all your evidence for believing “there are people who actually hold this opinion”. Does it all come from the internet? Almost entirely from no-context screenshots or clips that seem suspiciously scripted? Do you think maybe those aren’t the best sources?

          That’s the problem every time these fake as shit posts are created. There are always folks in the comments that rush to defend it by going “well it might be fake THIS time, but it sounds like something that COULD happen, so I’m gonna still file it away as evidence that it does.”

          Like, I’m sure SOME people exist like that. There are 8.3 billion people in this world, that’s enough that you can always find a handful that believe anything. There is a non-zero number of people that enjoy eating literal shit, but that doesn’t mean they are everywhere.

          And before you say it (because this is always the reply), if your evidence for their existence is the results of elections or the abundance of stupid people, that is faulty logic. There is an ocean of separation between people who are simply idiots, and those that actually hold opinions like “Libraries are a waste cuz they’re full of books. Why book when internet?”

      • Rusty@lemmy.ca
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        7 days ago

        Are you trying to tell us that there are a lot of neurodivergent people on lemmy?