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  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldThis post
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    1 month ago

    I lived in Austin, TX and used to know a homeless guy, Walter Dwight Green 1955, back in '98 that spent winters in jail for public intoxication for the same reasons.

    Including name, in case anyone else knew him and wants to chat. He was originally from Kentucky.

    I was a teenager at the time but I tried to help him as much as I could.

    I had to leave town for a year, when I came back, I found out he froze to death in the winter I was gone.


















  • Bad parents are a thing. Children screaming loudly in an indoor environment should be corrected.

    I don’t think your opinion is unpopular. There are lots of people who will agree with you that libraries should be absolutely silent.

    But I don’t agree. There should be space for kids to learn to love books. They might noiser that you would like, but kids who love books are a benefit to our world.

    Libraries are a community meeting place, one of the last good third spaces left. If you want perfect silence go home.

    Libraries are not your unpaid office space.