>

"Like, it's fine if library air just, you know, gives you a little pep-up, but man, this one was turning people into full-on tweakers!"
"I don't know Mom - I feel good studying in the library!" >

Fine! But Public nudity and sex is not okay in the library! >

Tell that to Oregon State students >

Story? I’m an (old) Duck but my bff is a Beav. I’d like to share the story with him. >

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it was a bit more than flashing her boobs >

Honestly, I'll take it as a win if people go to the library just to see topless girls, but happen to pick up a book once the post-nut clarity sets in. >

"My god, this Schopenhauer guy was right, we're just slaves to biological imperatives that are uncaring of our happiness."
(Next person to thumb through that book: "Why the fuck are these pages stuck together") >

“Chandler!!!” >

Puts a whole new meaning to 'speed reading '. >

It explains why Timmy spends so much time at the library... >

That box on your head!! Stylish, yet understated. >

Well, thank you Brilliant. Yours is quite the compliment as well. >

Aww shucks. Thanks. Brotherhood of the Box!! >

I guess I fit in here too >

Yes. Of course. And might I add that you look quite dapper yourself. >

I’m here for the boxhead meeting >

Welcome welcome. Can I get you a coffee? >

No thank you an upvote will suffice. Can’t wait til we have to defend against the anti-boxheads on here 😂 >

People going through withdrawal from the library being closed >

Withdrawal from that shit must be horrible. I am on a mild stimulant and if I don't take it for a while nothing will stimulate my brain. I'll stop enjoying food, video games, work, everything. Anxiety then comes back and my memory gets bad, then I just feel tired all the time. That's not withdrawals, that's just cause I have ADHD and it turned into depression as an adult so when I stop the medicine it all comes back, but I know that methamphetamines are marginally stronger and will probably be like that and worse. When the drug wears off. >

Do you take weekends off? I recently received the advice to do so, and it has worked wonders for my tolerance. >

Yeah I've been told, and I sometimes take 1 or two days off, but I'm kind of a weeny now when the depression symptoms come back. I have difficulty dealing with it even though before I spent long periods in that state and learned to live that way. >

At first, day 2 is really brutal. I slept through Sundays for a couple of months, but my brain figured out how to cope. 
I'd highly recomend it. I actually take less now than I did a year ago. >

I want to add to this that while taking a day off is good after being "well adjusted" with meds and routine, but I'd advise against it for the first months / year of treatment, especially if ADHD is comorbid with depression or anxiety. Tolerance is a bitch, but so is having to deal with a heavy and sudden dose of depression / anxiety that lasts a couple of days after the "pause". >

Good input. I was on medication for 5+ years before switching to weekends off. I had a solid foundation. 
That first couple of years, I took small amounts often and would have given that method as advice. 
That just goes to show that it's nice to swap tips, but talk to your physician before trying anything you read online. >

Is the "acceptable level" not zero? >

Honestly, I can't say I've ever even considered the thought of the ambient levels of methamphetamines in the air.
Until now. >

my old apartment complex had a major problem with people on meth - both those who lived there and those who would come by to buy from the people who had it. the amount of ambient meth-air i must have breathed in while coming up the stairwell or from the vents in my bathroom that were connected to the unit across the hall, i can't even fathom. but it's definitely a thing and it's awful. >

I’m ignorant about this. Does it have a smell? >

The chemicals used to make it certainly do.  In its crystal form not so much but if that’s smoked, certainly.  Oddly, if snorted, not really…. But god the throat drain was awful.  I always said I would try anything once, just not crack and I don’t like using needles, so I am no expert on all things drug related.  After that I stuck to cocaine, I’d pay the extra $ because the crowd associated with it was better and I didn’t like the high from meth (my baseboards were fucking sparkling though!) >

Oh great we got a drug snob don't like us tweakers do you? Why don't you get back to having the sniffles hope your throats numb enough. /s >

Yeah, and I got a great business plan, too.  You’re gonna love my ideas! >

I bet especially since us metheads are smarter then you coke bois we don't do "business" cus that's "work" we do "robberies" cus that's "real". >

Give me back my catalytic converter. >

Sorry it's in police evidence now I was otw to sell them all but I was at a red light right? And it turned green right?  Well anyways the work truck next to me went and a fucking shovel fell out and I was like "praise Jesus, IMMA BE RICH!!!!" So I got out to get it and then a cop pulled up like "WTF are you doing getting out a green light holding up traffic for a shove?".....So he saw to he stuff in the be truck bed but I'm okay cus tweakers snitch so I'm out. >

This reminds me of a CSI episode where a motel owner laced a bathroom dioderiser with meth or some shit to make people aggressive and paranoid, and recorded it on a hidden camera.
Looking back on it, it's a stupid plot, but that's CSI for ya. >

okay so you've explained step 1, and clearly step 3 must be profit, but what exactly is step 2? >

Nah, dude just wanted his own ultraviolent reality show, because he claimed that violence is entertainment because of the 24 hour news cycle. >

That plot sounds straight out of a cartoon lol >

It was funny, because the CSI people were like "Wow, somebody gets their face chewed off in this exact room every couple of months!" >

What the fuck have you done Jessie? >

Jesse! We have to get to a library! >

In related news reading is up 75,000% along with discovery of conspiracy theories and secret messages encoded in the card catalog. >

Is that what's up with /r/conspiracy? >

What a cesspit. From calling the leader of Ukraine “the greatest Oscar winner” to not understanding how dna works. Bunch a brain dead people jerking themselves off. >

Idk if there's a subreddit with a more idiotic population. Not even conservative is as dumb as they are. Just check out the shit they're saying right now about Covid vaccines, blood clots, and transfusions. >

/r/conspiracy is a hard number 1 for dumbest collective group on Reddit by a country mile. 
/r/politicalcompassmemes is trying really hard to close that gap though. >

idk, I stand by my belief that /r/LouderWithCrowder is the dumbest of all the right-wing communities. They're like Joe Rogan fans if Joe Rogan Fans thought Joe Rogan was too liberal. >

I mean, if a Canadian theater nerd who unironically dresses like Nathan Drake doesn't fail your smell test then it's already too late >

It's important to find your goldilocks library. Not too much meth in the air, not too little, but just the right amount. >

As an HVAC engineer: you're welcome >

So, how would they clean it then, or return to acceptable levels? >

The standard, boring answer is better filters. But most buildings don't have any sources of methamphetamines around.   
But a little meth never hurt anyone. Right, Walter? >

Tell that to Florida’s meth gators. >

Please tell me that's the sequel to Cocaine Bear. >

That’s the good thing about Florida. Plenty of drug dealers flying in. Or at least there used to be. >

People with ADD finally able to focus in the library >

Everyone else running around and hyper and the adhd people are like "Hey calm down. I'm trying to take a nap here..." >

You guys seen the Seinfeld episode where Elaine fails her work drug test for poppy seed bagels? I guess if you get drug tested stay out of the library....I mean its proly not enough to register but still funny. >

No, see, if you fail, that's your excuse. Don't lie about your alibi. >

It's not a lie if you believe it >

Can you believe it if you know it's a lie? >

You're severely underestimating how much people can delude themselves >

Well, the Boulder library is fairly sketchy these days.  It pretty much serves as a de facto homeless day shelter, especially during the winter.  I'm sympathetic to the homeless, but the library (and whole creek path) area has gotten really bad. >

It's almost like we need our cities to invest in housing programs at scale instead of barebones shelters that are perpetually full, have arcane rules for conduct, and stop using the police to throw away people's few belongings while they try to get their life in order >

Many in my area would benefit from mandatory mental health and/or rehab treatment first. >

Fun fact: Housing people leads to better mental health outcomes than trying to treat mental health situations before getting someone stable housing.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that this is a "Yes, and" situation before it was ever an "either/or" situation >

This is very interesting, and makes sense. For example, for addiction, it's difficult to stay sober on the streets or in shelters where you're around others who are using. >

How bad does your town’s meth addict problem have to be in order to close down the library due to second-hand meth… >

Libraries are the last free space people can hang out in with zero expectations of having to buy something in order to be there for long periods. This obviously attracts a lot of homeless, especially when the weather's bad and there are no daytime shelters open for whatever reason. Source: am librarian. >

I appreciate libraries for continuing to stand as free public spaces. It sucks that some people make it a bit unsafe but I appreciate that it remains free and accessible to everyone. >


It sucks that some people make it a bit unsafe but I appreciate that it remains free and accessible to everyone.

But it doesn't. When it's free and accessible to mentally-deranged, hard-sleeping junkies, it's no longer safe for more vulnerable people. Spaces that are infinitely tolerant to these types are no longer free and accessible to children, women, the disabled, the elderly, etc.
My partner and I used to live in suburban New Jersey. She absolutely loved our public library, went there all the time. After one babbling crazy pulled a knife on her, and another followed her around the stacks, limping and blowing kisses, she never went back. I went to look for a book a bit later for research purposes, and went around one stack corner on the second floor to find a homeless guy, all of his clothing hanging from books to dry (it was raining), masturbating furiously. Never went back after that either.
It's like social media. If it's completely free and accessible for everyone (no content moderation to keep fascists / hate speech in check), it's no longer free and accessible to others who are subjected to doxxing campaigns / rape and death threats. >

The problem isn’t the library being freely accessible, the problem is that these people don’t have anywhere else to go. >

Exactly. You think anyone wants to be jerkin it in a public library while their clothes are drying? >

As someone with severe ADHD, this seems like a possible solution to my attention problems! /S >

Meth is actively prescribed in the USA for severe, treatment resistant ADHD under the name Desoxyn. >

All bc some pos smoked meth in bathroom (more times then 1) >

Wait... this title suggests there are acceptable levels of meth at a library?! >

We're rather good at testing the air down to the "X parts per million" level. With that kind of measurement theres not much you won't find. Shit, ash, tar, meth, nicotine, oil, dirt, etc. all just a few parts per million as background pollution. >

This is why we don’t have nice things… >

What is an acceptable level? >

Google says around 1ppm. So, not very high.