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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I work in the construction industry. Convenience is king and people will give up quality for it when they’re handing it out 10 times out of 10 sadly.

    I bring in high quality donuts from a place near me. Trudeau put it in the spotlight a few years ago for grabbing from there lol. Every single time I do it, people comment and thank me for getting them something good… but they’ll never do it when they’re grabbing them. They’re like double the price but i expense it so why wouldn’t I at least get something good?










  • I’ve got a family member who’s a level 2 Canada research chair and professor. During COVID I was asking about the move to virtual learning and how they were set up for it, they were telling me that a much larger portion of her grant money who’s going to technology then before and it had started a few years earlier.

    Now this prof does some crazy stuff with brain scanning and virtual reality which takes some horsepower and probably needs more upgrades than your typical university computer lab. But the point remains their budgets were being strained 5 plus years ago because of the technology that’s been incorporated into teaching.

    I’m inclined to believe that the relative costs of operating a university theatre have risen rather than dropped since I graduated 20 years ago.




  • Life was never easy, I don’t know when the story it was got sold to people. At the end of the day, if you can’t scrape together $1000, then shits beyond fucked up and tough decisions need to be made. I didn’t take a vacation for like 15 years other than a long weekend so I could save up. That wasn’t even tough LoL, it was just life. That was the norm around me and I expect it to continue for many if not most.


  • I mean yeah. I also own a house and have set my life up in such a way that I can afford to live what most people consider a normal life.

    I’ll be honest if you can’t afford ~$1,000 in savings. Which is the sum that it took to cover my bank fees in dividend returns then it’s not about being rich or poor, it’s about being poor with your financial decisions. I grew up poor. Literally bankrupt poor, moving from place to place as we ran from bills. I started paying for my own clothes at age 9 and foot the bill for my entire life since age 12. Having $1,000 in the bank is not just for rich people. I’ve had that in the bank since I was 15 years old. Sometimes it wasn’t any more than that, but even when I was living on my own with zero support and bills up to my eyeballs, there was still a chunk of money earning me money along the way.