Yeah, sure. Everyone throwing out old books is knowledgeable enough to know and willing enough to check that the book they’re throwing isn’t rare or important.
You’d think people would check on the off chance it’s worth a bunch but you’d be surprised.
To be honest, I’d be MUCH less against this practice if this shredding at the very least included saving the original scans at at least 300 dpi for everyone to access, freely.
Ideally, they wouldn’t cut them by the spine, but even giving the despined ones to an archive/library would be just above the unpermissible line.
Despining, scanning and public access archiving is borderline permissible.
Yeah sorry, saussage fingers. Fixed now.
That is everyone except a handful of designations. Everyone except babies, the dead, and the theoretically alive such as Mitch McConnel.
Also it’s not as if chips alone went insanely up beacuse the manufacturing equipment did so as well. And if you’re building fabs, you’re not gonna do it in the US or Europe - for a reason. Even Apple gave in to “Designed in California”.
Working for an idiot with peers that are his fellow idiots. Definitely worse than just working for an idiot.
I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.
As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.