We have this at my work. Liquid, powder, and freezie form. It’s good shit and has what plants crave!

Proportional Representation and First Past The Post

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I live inside that ring. Bought a 5 bedroom house for around $100k 3ish years ago. Been putting some work into it, hoping to sell in a couple years to move even deeper into the ring.

The biggest problem is employment. I got lucky and landed a great job that pays well. The second problem is cost of food as it highly depends on location. If I drive an hour south or east, I can reduce my food costs by around 30%. Not everyone has that ability because of the bigger problem. Gas price is the 3rd biggest problem, we’re on average 20-30C more per liter than outside the ring.

Then there’s the actual places. So many have very poorly run municipal governments that are full of the dumbest motherfuckers around who sink entire budgets into poorly thought out capital projects and raise taxes for decades after. Poor tax enforcement so that there are many properties with years in outstanding tax debt that doesn’t get collected, which leads to even larger budget shortfalls and more tax increases. Every now and then I’ll see a tax sale listed for $20k+ because the owner died and no remaining family could afford to claim the property because it the outstanding tax debt.

This is why I want to move into the bush where I have no neighbours, because at least the miniscule tax burden is less of a slap in the face when I look outside and see nothing coming back from it.

I’m not, I’m also imagining an alternate timeline where their last name was Holder instead of Held

I’m trying, that’s all that matters :)

Better question, do you want the least educated among us teaching what’s not currently in taught in school? Cause that’s what you’re advocating.

Now it’s obviously not all parents, but the point still stands. The better educated parents are already doing something to teach their kids what’s not in the curriculum, but even amongst them it’s still a small percentage.

Including things like basic taxation and financial education, the voting system, stuff like that. Make it mandatory to go through, if not actually have a passing grade.

Pretty much when I bought my house it’s been mostly grown-up feeling since then. Interest rates, insurance rates, and debt-service ratios are always in the back of my mind now.

Once I pay off my vehicle debt I’ll be able to bankroll a better house outside of town with some land. Assuming shit doesn’t go pear shaped in the next 3-4 years…

Also, playing the “should I dump my bonuses into my RRSP or pay down debt” game… never had medium or longer term goals before.

You monster!

He’s like Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon, obviously

Mine goes: zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out, zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out, zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out, zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out, zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out, zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out, zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out, zoom in, zoom in more, zoom out.

This is the “disheveled short hair dog, petting it might give you tetanus” look

Love me pi hole

Right? Know your rights, damn!

Ya, more of a logic problem than a math problem based on the question asked

We’re in a tight spot, our service desk is outsourced while escalations or issues requiring hands on are sent to us. Problem is our service desk is a dumpster fire. I have regular meetings with their leadership to address this but it literally makes no difference. I recently caught that one of their agents we told them to remove from our contract was back and just as shitty and work avoiding.

We’re in the midst of replacing them with an internal regional team, but regional moves glacially slow. So we’re in a “please use the service desk” and “fuck just email/teams me the details and I’ll handle it when I have time” kinda situation. I’d love everything to go through tickets but I also know there’s a 50/50 chance that service desk will fuck it up by camping on the ticket, sending it to our sister site who also uses them, or completely not understanding the situation and cocking up the ticket notes before escalating or closing the ticket…

Recently they took a user complaint of a singular device being offline and noted it as “entire site is without network”, giving it a priority 1 status and escalating to our on-call line.

Sometimes they also take an actual P1 issue and dump into our queue without calling our hunt group or on-call number during business hours. We’re project heavy so we don’t hawk the ticket queue and it often leads us to missing the SLA of 30 minutes to assign the ticket to a tech.

Dumpster. Fire.