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Growing up I was under the impression that no one could ban books in the US. Fahrenheit 451 was a book we read and studied in sixth grade. I think that's around 12 years old-ish. That's when we also started learning the constitution and basics of law.
It blows my mind we're going through this nonsense right now
The second I heard Trump got elected, I gave standard ebooks $10 and grabbed their entire library, and did a "shopping spree" on zlibrary.
Grab fiction and nonfiction from their collections page. That covers every book.
History repeats itself. Left, right, left, right. One foot after the other. It'll be here soon. Who knows, you might live to see a bread line four blocks long by age 70.
Perk up!
Might also want to check out https://gutenberg.org, it's got about 70x the books that standard ebooks has, even if its not as well refurbished.
I have a dirty pull of their site from a torrent that I need to clean up. My issue is cross-referencing it with standard to see what I have and don't. I might get Calibre to handle it if it happens to identify them as the same book, I'll just import Gutenberg afterwards and skip the existing.
Just gonna dump what I have saved here
https://www.akpress.org/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index http://www.bannedthought.net/ https://countercurrents.org/ https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en https://www.marxists.org/index-mobiles.htm https://libgen.mx/
Growing up I didn't think abortion was controversial, only very religious conservative people standing outside abortion clinics find it controversial. Wasn't until we overturned roe v wade when I realized there are way more people who disagree with abortion than I initially thought.
interesting perspective. i grew up in a super conservative circle and i was under the impression that most people found it morally wrong. in reality, the vast majority of Americans support access to abortion in some way, regardless if they would personally have one themselves
I remember learning through multiple personal experiences some time during highschool that some adults were vastly less intelligent and wise than some of my fellow 16 yr olds, it was shocking to me. Honestly I think some people hit puberty and just began coasting, ego and entitlement outweighed curiosity, and they began to live with the belief that society's collection of history, science, and reasoning, was worth less than their own personal opinion.
Oh, absolutely. Peaking in highschool is a very real thing.
its a shame those same people are also 90% of the management field.
You're right of course, but your 6th grade teacher should have told you that the subject of the book could happen again. Freedom, eternal vigilance, and so on.
I mean, it was sixth grade. They could have said that. I didn't keep the transcripts.
You don't have a pornographic memory?
I do, and I like what you're not wearing right now. Mmmmmm! Yeahhh!
"If you'll recall, in our last class, you fucked me so good."
No, it's a photogenic memory.
You don't have the study material?