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I have my own tin-foil hat theories about what this is indicative of, but everyone else of course can draw whatever conclusions they choose.

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If you're familiar with Seth Andrews, or The Thinking Atheist, and you aren't already aware, YouTube deleted his page today for "spam, deceptive information, or scams".

There is a campaign to try to get it reinstated by flooding YouTube's feedback feature with requests, and I've done that. I'm not confident it will make any difference. We'll see.

#Atheist #Atheism

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Being a tall, big, bald, CIS, straight, white guy, I'm a far less likely target than most of my co-workers because the offenders are generally insecure cowards. Still, it's a concern.

It's just not a position I ever thought I would find libraries to be in.

I'm not going anywhere in particular with this. It's just something that's on my mind.

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Vandalism isn't new, but it used to be rare, and generally the random act of someone pissed off at the world, taking it out on whatever was easy. Since the run-up to Trump's 1st term, not only has the vandalism increased tremendously, but it's much more severe than it ever was. Noone has been directly assaulted, yet, but there have been threats. I carry pepper spray, a telescoping baton, and brass knuckles on me when walking to and from my vehicle because it's only a matter of time.

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The library I work at is routinely vandalized, inside and out. Furniture is slashed, books containing anything about sexuality or left US politics get the bindings slashed right there on the shelf, the wires to the automatic faucets in the bathrooms get cut, people have defecated in front of the building, and this last Friday night, someone slashed six tires on five of the cars parked here. This is why I park a few blocks away if I can't get a space watched by a camera.

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#Libraries

@tabletopgamingdeals Same. I tried to get them to follow me around the dungeon, hoping to loop back and escape, but then they split up. Dead in one hit.

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@Tim_Eagon Coax. The only fiber here is downtown. TDS has begun laying fiber all over the place, so hopefully soon.

One day I jump on my town's subreddit, and find lots of people complaining of the exact same problem. All of them getting a visit from a tech saying nothing is wrong on Spectrum's end. Then, one day, the problem mysteriously clears up for everyone, all at once.

I still occasionally see it. Two Sundays ago it was happening about every half-hour, for about half the day, but fine since.

Spectrum was obviously lying to its customers about the problem.

I would still really like to know WTF.

Oh, Spectrum. Why the bullshit?

Back in September, my home internet connection went to shit. The connection would randomly die for about 30 seconds, every 10 minutes or so. I spent about a week ruling out my equipment. Upgraded stuff, streamlined the firewall, watched for weird internal anomalies, but could NOT find anything wrong. So I call Spectrum, and they send a tech out, who tests the line and says nothing is wrong.

So I keep looking at my equipment.

#Spectrum #InternetOutage

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So what is the current word that means what "literally" used to mean? I'm just trying to keep up, here. Sometimes I want to convey that a thing is real, but that doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.