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A combination of factors. Lower funding, suburbanization, growing means for home entertainment, growing wages sending people to more expensive options, etc.

I read something about the Carnegie libraries in Pittsburgh basically doing this way back when. Apparently it was popular for people to get off work, go home, clean up, eat, then head out to the library. There was stuff there for kids like story tellers, tutors, art workshops, and more. For adults, quiet places for people who just wanted to read, places for study, areas for people to discuss various subjects, classes on various skills (painting, pottery, carpentry, etc) and the ground floor main area had a general social space. They served coffee, food trucks set up outside, and some inside. It was a popular place for people who didn't want to go to the bar.

I don't feel the need to convert them, to get them to back off their bullshit. There are ways to move forward without them, we need to focus on working on that.

The only ways to force someone out of a cult is through forced deprogramming and by attrition, as you break the cult apart, or it naturally breaks down. So what do we do when the cult members you want to do this number in the millions, many of which are willing to resist violently?

Listen, all I am saying is that if all the billionaires disappeared over night, if you avoided mass communication media you would probably not know. If you took that same amount of collective wealth from the bottom up human society would collapse.

This is just what goes on in medicine science when things are operating properly. Test, collect data, run experiments, do it again, do it again, then, after the short term use has been proven safe 30 different times, by 100's of research groups, you start researching the long term affects of it.

That or the far right has gotten to a point where they will openly condemn anyone who isn't racist regardless of their other political stances.

If we know that the material can go 10k years without degradation, which is something we can know, then it can last that long. Will it be practically possible to store it in a way that will allow for the maximum amount of time before the material begins to degrade? That's a whole other thing.

At this moment? No. However things were not always like this and won't always be like this. If someone like Schwarzenegger was around in the 70s or 80s I could definitely see it, as the idea was popular then as well.

As of now, yes. However, there are a lot of people in the US who would like to change the stipulation that naturalized citizens can not be president. So a push for this could pass, especially for someone like Schwarzenegger who is a republican and the right kind of immigrant.

While I like Arny a lot more than anyone else I have seen looking for the position please, no more celebrity politicians.

Yeah if only they stopped with demanding a solid yes or no on detainment and keeping their mouths shut. Instead they rant about how they don't need licensing, registration, etc. because they aren't using their vehicle for commercial purposes. It gets more unhinged from there.

Yes, if the cops stop you, get a firm yes or no on being detained, as they will try to make a voluntary contact situation seem like something you are obligated to cooperate with. Yes, you should not answer any questions with few exceptions: if you are the driver of a car that has been pulled over for an infraction or you have been arrested. Yes, you should insist that they tell you what they are bothering for and you should never respond to questions that fish for you to give answers that may fill in the blanks for them. Keep in min though, they are not obligated to tell you until they cite, charge, or arrest you. (eg. for things they ask so you fill in the blanks: "do you know how fast you are going?" answer "how fast did you clock me at?" do not say no, do not give a number) If you are at your home when the police arrive, unless they have a warrant that specifically allows them to enter your house, do not open the door. Speak to them through the door or a window close to the door. If they actually have a warrant 99.9% of the time they will show it to you in hopes of gaining compliance because almost every does at that point. The rare times they do not do that? Well there is a very good chance you, or someone in your house, is considered a dangerous criminal who is wanted for a serious crime.

Give the cops as little access to you and your information as possible. DO NOT claim you have the right to drive on public roads without documentation while you have a gun on your hip and you are berating those police.