Woofcat

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[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I guess it's not a great advertising opportunity.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's insane to me that these failing businesses due to lack of giving a shit will soon have their hand out for Government money and some are eager to prop them up.

Maybe actually have local news, and maybe actually generate interesting stories rather than just printing the AP wire and calling it 'town name press'.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Well not affiliated with them in anyway. But Mullvad will take cash in an envelope for your payment with no record of who you are. Just a thought should this pass. 😂

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

And then VPN usage explodes just like it did in Utah.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Blackberry at their peak 20,000 staff

OpenText today 24,000 staff.

One could argue thare ar Canadian Tech companies with larger presence than BlackBerry had. It's just not consumer level things.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, how much money do you think we should give the Public School system? Is the nearing on $400k per classroom not enough? Would it magically get better at $500k? We've done nothing but throw money at this problem with zero results.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, one would argue that the money is for a child's education.. why do you care where it gets spent? We're currently in Ontario spending north of $12,500/per year per child and somehow that's underfunded. A class of 30 kids is getting $375,000/year. With that we hire 1 teacher and if we're lucky 2 EA's which would equal maybe $200k of that $375,000.. so I guess we just accept having $175,000/year in overhead per classroom.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago

Sure, I donno. Somehow as a responsible adult I've never had to default on payments for anything. I know it's a foreign concept for some however.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Then why don't they have a rainy day fund? Likely they're living paycheck to paycheck.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If you're derailed for this month and the next, what makes you think you can then afford your rent plus 20-30% for the next 4-5 months?

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like the town needs to run a better website and not depend on Facebook for broadcasting news..

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