Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Public Libraries were the original Freemium model. (lemmy.ca)

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Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card.

Fortunately the card was usually cheap.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I've never heard of a library card costing anything. But I guess I'm not really surprised if that happens somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's always America... :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I have had like 6 or 7 library cards and they have never cost money

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