Where we live it will help a lot. It’s an economically depressed area and has some of the highest poverty rates in the country. Yet the local university has brought so many international students that housing supply dried up prior to COVID. Housing prices have skyrocketed. Food banks are stretched beyond their capabilities. Employment opportunities are at an all time low with a minimum of quadruple the volume of applicants for the few mostly part time positions there are. The local cinema is being used as a classroom there are so many students and no place to instruct them at the university because it is well over capacity on teaching spaces as well as housing. Yet the university keeps increasing the volume of students every single year by the thousands.

This means the local population which already has difficulty for many reasons is seeing homelessness rise dramatically along with food insecurity, housing prices rising at extreme rates, joblessness at extreme levels even for a historically depressed area. Not to mention a huge increase in crime.

For smaller population centers and those with schools acting as diploma mills, which is happening in many areas here, it will slow down the decline somewhat. It’s not an end all situation. Much more still has to be done to even try right the ship.

Someone is gonna bust my balls but whatever. We have an Alienware R8 hooked up to a 20 year old Sony flatscreen tv and an LG sound bar. No fucking about at all.

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All day yesterday. It happens occasionally.

As a not really techy person but one who has been cruising online for a long long time I feel Lemmy is a lot like old old Reddit. Reddit was full of techies when I joined. It grew over the years into a bigger thing but it started with a bunch of nerds talking about shit I didn’t understand.

Absolutely. For many reasons. Quality, price, delivery options, selection. All beaten by the original market for such items.

Hahaha fuck you Dana and your sketchy backers. You never have and will not ever get a cent from me you shady greedy prick.

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Games my kids enjoy without paying one cent…

All the games they play

We spend zero dollars on video games and yet our kids seem to play a lot of them, my wife and I don’t really play. They even had a friend give them an Xbox and there are computers and tablets and phones in our house. Games don’t have to be a money pit.

Canadian here, from the outside it seems to just be 3 states. Almost crazy, crazy and don’t come here if you want to exist.

We had loads of Americans move to our part of Canada from Trumpistan. They even stayed after he was voted out. Some good people.

History is destined to repeat itself…

I’m just an old man lost in a world of Linux and geek memes I don’t understand.

As someone permanently disabled and on CPP this scares the shit out of me. I can not physically work due to a debilitating injury but I am still quite young and have a young family. We barely get by with my spouse working and my CPP payments. I went from making over $100k/year to $14/k a year disability just for being injured. I am not poor enough to qualify for any other assistance and I am also not sick enough to qualify for any other assistance. If my income drops again we are fucked. Seriously fucked and we are fortunate because we own our own home and our own 15 year old vehicle outright. I can’t imagine what will happen if this occurs.

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