Digitalisation is a pretty large investment, and libraries typically have pretty tight budgets, so outside of governmental (or philantropic) intervention I assume it might happen very slowly or not at all. Old books are very fragile, so any intervention must be done very carefully.

And outside of that… while the contents can be saved with digitalisation, there is value in the object itself, and that’s what they are trying to protect. They won’t just abandon the items they protected for centuries because the text has been moved to another format.

Thank you, this will take some time to go through haha. I’ll come back at you if I get the chance.

We have a mountain of evidence, that small hospitals are providing far worse outcomes, even if you factor in transport times to larger facilities.

Do you per chance have interesting sources you recommend? I feel this must very much depend on the distance.

It’s a reference to a meme.

KnowYourMeme page.

That’s the worse part. They are already paid well, they’re just greedy assholes.

Actually the worse is that we keep getting them elected and letting them get away with it probably.

Did you have higher expectations of western politicians or think those were non-western rates?