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Literally 1984.

I remember people saying that libraries in the US can't ban people watching porn on the library computers because freedom of speech or something and that homeless people deserve to watch porn too. I want to believe they were yanking my chain but it just sounds very American hah
- They're yanking more than just a chain.
  
  What else? Are they yanking the levers at the chain-making factory?
- They should add a little beaded curtain that gives access to PCs that are designated crank stations.
  
  designated crank stations
  lol
  beaded
  Someone needs to be hired to wash ‘em in between uses (could stink up the whole library)
- If you’re homeless in a Republican state, jerking off in the library, you get a free bus ride to a democrat state. Then everyone from the Republican state criticizes the state you were sent to for allowing homeless people to jerk off in the library.
  
  The only reason this is easily verified to be false, is that the word "bus" was included in a statement regarding the USA
  
  i want to disagree with you but i've worked in homelessness before.

Pussy eating only !!!

Great, what is the point of having a library then???
- it's a good place to put spices?

Every sign has a story
- It does indeed 😁

My classical studies minor (and Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast) make me want to say:
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.) Which, Tacticus wrote. Cicero lived during the fall of rome
I think he would've said "O tempora, o mores!" (Oh the times! Oh the customs!... ish) that lament he used often when describing the state's decline.
I love this meme on every level. I'm going back to my corner
- Fuck you for triggering that hell of a trauma Latin cause me.
  
  Consider me fucked
- Cicero lived during the fall of rome
  he fall of the Republic. The Imperial era (Principate + Dominate, if you distinguish) in the west lasted another five centuries and its successors took a while to fully fragment. The eastern empire is a whole different chapter.
  My own amateur attempts at understanding sources (and Bret Devereaux's blog) make me want to point out that Rome's decline wasnt such a clearly defined moment as the ascent of Caesar.
  Tacitus was another century and change later. He will have grown up in the tail end of Nero's reign end, witnessed the Year of Four Emperors and spent most of his early adulthood during the reign of Domitian, whose authoritarian style further curtailed the Senate's powers.
  Before that background, it's not hard to see why he'd believe the fall of Rome to be imminent, depending on when exactly he wrote that sentiment. I don't know what it's from (but maybe someone else here does?), but I'll place it shortly after the end of Domitian's reign, about 100AD.
  By the assassination of Domitian, Tacitus was 40. The city had (supposedly) been founded ~850 years ago, the Republic had been formed ~600 years ago, survived for ~450 years, and the Imperial era was ~150 years old. It would go on for another ~380 years. If we calculate from the legendary founding 753 BC to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD, Rome lasted just about 1200 years.
  He obviously couldn't have predicted any of that, but writers predicting the impending doom is such a common phenomenon, you could make a drinking game out of it: Go through the list of famous Roman authors and drink every time you find one bemoaning how far they've fallen from the glorious past. For the sake of your liver, you probably should limit it to Rome, because that trend is still going strong.

What if dick sucks me?
- I thought it said duck sicking.
  
  Too much bread.
- no sounding in the library. thought that was implied with the "shut your gob you tit" rule

Disappointing.
I would expect a sign in a library to say, "No fellatio in the library."

Stupid rules exist because of stupid people.

I mean to be fair their used to be a lot of cam girls/porn made in the library. Not sure if it is still a thing.
- I need to read more
- Kendra Sunderland.

I copy pasted this comment from that post with the elephant sucking his own dick:
"Joke's on you. That looks like a lot of fun"

Its so joever 😔

Why do we even have libraries than?!

So, no libraries for Trump, I guess?

This is fucking communism.

Cicero lived in the Roman Republic
I'm beginning to think memes aren't real?
- He also didn't speak English IIRC.
  
  Sounds don't fossilise so we can't be sure

Don't fuck in the stacks is pretty standard really. People still do it but its annoying mostly

I think this is quite a sensible rule that is just not stated explicitly very often

is sex even that common libraries, its mostly homeless people, and only one instance a patron was "researching" on PH on thier public computers like 10 years ago, he was legit jotting down PH material on a notebook.
- he was legit jotting down PH material on a notebook.
  Somewhere a professor is getting an APA citation that's like
  Lustful, Lucy. (2023, April 15). Sexy Coed Horny Cheerleader Stepsis with Big Titties Can't Get Enough!. PHub. (www dot phub dot com)

Unless it's after hours. That's when they start shooting porn.

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