MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1天前

Neat

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1天前

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 2天前

except a million more Ukrainians and Russians would still be alive.

Maybe. I don't think you can say that for sure. Meybe in that timeline, that peace would have come and gone by now.

Well yeah, did you expect Russia to disarm?

No. I expect both sides to remain armed to the teeth, perhaps even growing their capabilities for years after a peace-deal.

My country neighbours Russia, and unlike some neughbours, we never disarmed. That doesn't mean we're out to expand our territories. It is just the reality of being neighbours with Russia, even then for a while there our military expenditure felt like a waste even to me.

Not anymore.

The only security you can have with men like Putin, is to make taking something from you as expensive as possible.

America's puppets.

That's a bit of a oversimplification. The only puppet the US could accurately control right now, is a sock pulled onto one of Trumps hands.

Any apprently positive outcome is accidental, and even then half of it is fixing problems they're themselves causing.

Trump himself is so empty, that anything he has to say that isn't coming from his ego, is just him parroting the latest person to gift him an airplane.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 2天前

The 28-point plan was a thinly veiled temporary ceasefire that would have left Ukraine de-armed and Russia free to re-arm and try again in a couple years.

I think agreeing to it would have been like giving the bully your lunch money, then bringing twice the amount the next day thinking you'd then get to keep half.

Reality is more complex than that, of course. Maybe that peace-deal would have been the timeline with less overrall misery. But that is unknowable, and won't become clear even in hindsight.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 2天前

You are saying, given the chance, Ukraine would start a war?

That after this one ends, they'd want to continue so badly they'd become the invading side?

I mean... It's happened before. But my country participating in operation Barbarossa alongside actual fucking nazis probably ranks among the stupidest decisions in all of recorded history.

But hey, if that's your prediction, maybe take it to polymarket.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 2天前

https://youtu.be/EVYO0Ax2lz0

I will not elaborate.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 2天前

"Send them in" where?

Spell it out. Maybe say it out loud. See if it feels like a sane take.

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 2天前

So THAT'S what the indent in the case is for!

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

For real.

The law in a lot of places does not allow police to do anything to help someone, before their life has already been risked.

Unfortunately the first attempt on someone's life can be just as lethal as a hypothetical second.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

That's nice.

Can police start believeing women who tell them they feel they are in danger, and do something about it before someone kills them, now?

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

What do you mean?

Any post, on any service, is technically accessible on any other instance, running any service. Actual implementation, varies.

Unless you run into it in the feed, the way to find a given post is to enter the original instance url for it into search on the instance from which you want to interact with it.

To upvote this post, for example, even from an instance that it hasn't federated to, I can enter the url to this post on its host instance into search, and the other instance will fetch the post, allowing me to vote and/or comment.

Same goes for mastodon toots. Get the url, put into search, upvote, comment, whatever.

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

Depends.

Items get sent around all the time. In-network, copies are interchangeable, and the system balances them out among the libraries. AFAIK there's no particular need for a copy to go back to the same shelf, so it doesn't happen.

If no-one is looking for a certain item, it wont move again unless someone asks, or if the library needs space for something else.

It's kinda nice. Every time I visit a library it can have an entirely new selection. With recent requests to that location which have been returned again, or just returns, appearing on the shelves.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

Damn. Over here we have self-service hours.

Library card holders that sign up for it can get into a library building using their library card, outside normal opening hours, when the staff isn't even there.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

Sure.

Items are grouped by type (games, video, music, tools, devices, fact, fiction, for adults, for kids, comics, audiobooks) etc. Each library may subdivide things in slightly different ways, due to the fact that they vary massively in size. I think some do use DDC for some subset of their inventory. But HelMet has a lot of media and items that do no fit into the DDC system.

You can certainly find something based on how things are sorted, and if you know its there.

But since the collection is region-wide, you don't necessarily know that. Step one to finding a copy of something is to look up what libraries currently have any. When you look that up, the shelf location is right there as well.

Many locations simply number their shelves, and then further subdivide them by a point value, and then sort alphabetically.

A Harry Potter book for example, could be on shelf 86, section 11063, by "HAR".

Each entire shelf is usually in alphabetical order overall, too, but the numbers make it really easy to zero in on exactly where a given item can be found.

But since any book might move to any other library, at any time (due to requests or due to borrowers returning books to a different library to where they picked them up), there is the simple problem that a location can run out of space in a given section. Hence they need to be able to put items on any shelf, and still have it trackable by the system.

Otherwise they can end up having to shift hundreds of books over to make space for just a couple more items to go in the right spot in the order.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

I suspect that depends.

At least at finnish HelMet libraries, you can just walk in and take any book out of any shelf, and sit down to read it. Once you're done, you put it back in the exact same spot.

If you don't remember where that was, then you can hand it to a librarian to re-shelve. They will check the inventory to see where it should go.

You can actually also do that yourself, since the same system is available for finding any given book currently in the library, but it works just as well for putting something back.

All of the above is allowed without signing up for a library card.

If you want to bring a book home, that's when you go to the checkout, scan your library card, and the barcode on the book. This removes it from current inventory and logs you as the current borrower.

When you bring it back, you scan the book again and leave it on the shelf by the returns scanner. Because the book was removed from the inventory, it wont have a place on a shelf yet. Also, because the inventory of any one library here is everchanging, things may have moved around.

This system also allows you return books to a different library from where you borrowed them. Since the HelMet libraries in the capital city region all interoperate, they share collections, and the location and lending of every individual item is tracked across them all. Across four cities and 66 libraries, and even a couple library buses that visit schools and more remote spots on a schedule.

You can even browse the inventory online. See where copies of what are available, what's available but currently lent out, request something be moved to a library close to you so you can read it, or reserve a spot in line to borrow something popular.

Kinda just gushing about our libraries. If they don't have something, HelMet does intralibrary lending. They will get a certain book or item for you from another library network entirely (even from abroad), lend it out to you, and once you're done, return it back to the providing network.

They do their darndest to make physical media as accessible as the internet, and it's freaking free (for the most part, some things have a fee).

That's how it should work everywhere.

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 3天前

Another way of saying fossil is still also growing.