• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      11 个月前

      I find when I’m stoned it’ll take me half an hour to read a single paragraph because I either get distracted and start thinking about something else mid sentence, or I’ll read the same paragraph several times because I forgot what I just read. The ADD is real lol

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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        11 个月前

        What happens if you also take some ADHD medication at the same time? Will your head implode into a black hole or something?

        • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
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          11 个月前

          For me, if I’m only a little high while on my meds then I am able to read way faster. It’s like the calming effects of weed + focus from my meds lets me just fly through books. If I get actually high, then my meds don’t seem to have any affect anymore, and I just stare at one paragraph forever.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 个月前

    For a time, while I was in court trying to get custody of my son, I was only given like 2 hours of parental time with him, once a week. Drop-off point was an hour from my home, so there wasn’t really much I could do with him apart from go to parks (in the summer) and the library. It was a life saver for just giving me time to be a Dad. Public libraries are one of the greatest things in human society, just a place you can go to exist as a person. Almost nothing is expected of you apart from wearing clothes, shoes, don’t masturbate where people can see you, and respect the books.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    11 个月前

    Society doesn’t exist for the sole benefit of the upstanding and idealized. I want libraries to exist for those striving to gain education for self betterment yes, I want them to exist as places of entertainment and existence for those down on their luck as well, but also a place where a person who is intoxicated in a way where they aren’t causing a disturbance can embrace the beauty of the world is also a valuable function.

    And shit, I wish there could be weed and acid/shrooms days at zoos. I’d love to trip at a zoo

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
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    11 个月前

    I saw recently my local library has started to prohibit kids from simply hanging out at the library. Not all are the same.

    Edit: context.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      11 个月前

      That is super fucked. Going to the library, grabbing a stack of comics, and then settling down in a quiet corner to read them was one of my happy places as a kid.

      I had a library card, but I didn’t bother checking out stuff I could just read during the hours I hung out at the library. And the place was comfy, quiet heaven.

      • Zink@programming.dev
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        11 个月前

        That letter makes it sound like sitting in the corner and reading stuff in the library is fine.

        It seems to suggest that there are some shitty parents trying to use it as a free day care and letting their shitty kids trash the place, which only makes things more difficult for the kids trying to use it like a library.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    11 个月前

    Lmao I’ve done this same thing at my old uni. I went to the second floor and asked to look at the language-learning books. Sat down, browsed a few, and tried the learning method on one for a bit to see if I’d like it for an hour, then got up and left. The girl at the reception was so confused and told her coworker in complete surprise as I left.

    I think I’ll go find that book online now that I think about it.

    • GoosLife@lemmy.world
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      11 个月前

      … Is it not normal where you guys are to go to the library to read or study? Don’t they have like reading corners there?

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        11 个月前

        It really depends on what kind of library you’re at. University libraries: you may not find a spot to sit if you’re at the wrong time, hell I know a professor who hangs out at a different university’s library reading and writing; major city public libraries: there’s probably a few people doing so and it isn’t weird; small town/suburb/small urban branch public libraries: it’s very local culture dependent, but you’ll definitely find a decent chunk of them seeing it as strange

  • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 个月前

    This only works depending on how baked you are though. I worked for a major metropolitan public library system a long time ago, and one time a dude wandered in smelling heavily of weed, and wearing only one shoe. He came up to the circulation desk and asked to order a pizza. When informed that it was a library and didn’t have pizza, he blinked and looked around, and upon seeing all the shelves of books, he said “Oh.”, and then turned around and left. To this day I never know if he ever found some pizza or his other shoe.