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Okay but wouldn’t not returning the cart make you lose a bit of money? Not much, only whatever coin they tell you to put in to unlock it? Usually 2 złoty here.
Or is that a polish thing?
Yes I know I’m ignoring the meaning of the post but I have to know.
It’s a European thing. Not typical in the US. Almost none of our cart returns take money. (Aldi is the one exception I know of here - and that’s a European chain. It takes quarters [25 cents].)
Most of our cart returns look like this:
Wait a minute. There’s a way to monetize something that American Capitalism hasn’t done yet?
Shhhhhhh!
“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year
If this post persuades even one person to get a free library account and use it, my time on this hellsite will not have been spent in vain
When I got laid off from my long time job back in 2020, I had no current resume and no working home computer, just my phone. The library made it possible to write a resume and cover letter, apply for unemployment, apply for jobs and print out any required forms related to the above.
All for free. 100% free. I didn't pay a dime. I also decided that since I usually only read non picture books once, getting them from the library was the best way to do it and I don't have to spend 8$-20$ for a novel or try and find a safe free download of it.
Libraries baby! A public good! The library is fun and educational! Also at my library you can rent a Gieger counter!
Girlfriend and I currently have 33 books checked out from two different libraries (same system). Summer reading, baby!
While we were there, the librarians were telling us about their summer cooking classes - one for 4th-6th graders, one for adults, each of which comes with a free basket full of brand-new cooking utensils!
They have free-popcorn Fridays, where you get a free bag of microwave popcorn if you rent DVDs (also free).
They have shelves of free books (to keep!) and a Little Library to take a book or leave a book - and it's outside, so you can access it even when the library is closed.
They host conventions and book clubs and puzzle nights. They have fun little scavenger hunts and guessing games for kids with cute prizes. They have kid-safe computers with limited internet access for essays and book reports and science projects.
And the libraries here are small. Nonetheless, they offer all these goodies and more.
Use your library. 😁
Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-
Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.
Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.
Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.
app that connects through your library card, so you can check out ebooks and audiobooks without even having to visit your library! and they still record and help the library by using it!!
And some libraries with bigger selections offer access to their Libby/Overdrive for a nominal fee! Not monthly, just once (or once a year). So if your library doesn't have a ton of eBooks (mine doesn't), there are still options that are better (and cheaper) than Amazon.
my mom is helping me job hunt and when i told her my dream job is to sit in one place and sort stuff by color all day she made a really disgusted face and said “you want to work on a fucking assembly line?” like yeah
not to philosophize on your personal post or whatever but this really illustrates the problem with capitalism because there's literally nothing wrong with working in an assembly line—other than, of course, the way the workers are treated.
you (and me, let's be honest, because i would love to have a job like that) not only deserve to sort things by color all day but to also be treated with dignity and get paid a thriving wage for that work, and i am so very confused by why that's a controversial statement.
the best job i ever had was making cushions for packages out of tissue paper. just over and over and over again. i had the best time doing that. it just would have been nice if it wasn't ten hour shifts without air conditioning or seating.
fyi for those in Phoenix Arizona: stay away from Target because the Phoenix Police still won't arrest this dude despite it being illegal to declare intention of violence like this 🙃
HEY GUYS/GALS/THEY'S I literally hate being the person asking people to reblog something and I scroll past posts that do, but I have been crying tonight about this, because I remember the Pulse shooting where LGBTQIA people lost their lives and the idea of another attack like that terrifies me, so please, because Phoenix has over 1 million people, just reblog? sorry.
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also wear lingerie. next question
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