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Or efficient, for that matter.

... plans? No. No plans.

It's mostly a warning I give out from reading the manga; from what I understand it's toned down pretty heavily for the anime, but it's still something that can stand the heads up for folks walking into the series unaware, especially if they end up looking into anything related to it (like some of the creator's other work).

Folks can get troubled when they get hit with underage stuff, pretty often moreso than the rest of it, so it's not exactly surprising it gets brought up, heh.

Pretty messed up that the operator, Norfolk Southern, helped remove regulations.

Well, if by messed up, you also mean "completely expected". Safety regs like that, you don't lobby against unless you expect you'd actually need them and don't want to pay, eventual disaster be damned. This is what would reasonably be called malice aforethought, were the courts just.

So you want a massive expansion of amazon drone delivery, gotcha'.

I do have this neat mental image of them flying bureaucrats around, though. Like, the logical expansion of "bring the destination to you" is that when you need to do paperwork a drone would abduct whoever handles the processing and fly them to your house.

Also flying petting zoos would be awesome. You want pet kitten, drone steals kitten and brings to window. You want pet goat, drone gets goat. You want pet giraffe, drone straps jetpack to giraffe, flies it tugboat style to your house. This is a future worth living.

For what it's worth, there probably are people that do repo work on books, it's just... they're not in public libraries. That's the kind of thing you see in high end private stuff, or specialized archival libraries or whatev', and is probably contracted work rather than a dedicated position in the library itself. Your average public library doesn't have the funds or the reason (they don't tend to carry super expensive or rare books to begin with!) to have a specific person for that kind of thing.

Plenty have just given up more or less entirely on tracking down media that walks off, for that matter -- it's often less trouble to just repurchase if it's worth keeping around, and libraries have found that not trying to levy fines or whatev' actually tends to work better for getting stuff back. It's a weird thing where some libraries that stop charging fees find their budget increases, 'cause people are more likely to just bring stuff back and they spend less staff hours on enforcement and processing.

... that said, it 100% is a fiction prompt, and one I'm pretty sure I've seen both in writing and manga. Fancy magic/secret libraries, mostly. Lots of sexual tension.

Public Library Repo Agent.

We don't have those, sadly fortunately. Most you get is some poor sod doing plz-give-our-shit-back calls in between other work.

Anyway, good luck EJ. Hopefully it'll be a reasonable sort of full time, not the sort that grinds you into a fine paste and shits on your remains.

... would the heated moment be about it technically being ecgonine instead of cocaine, or...?