Woofcat

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[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca -3 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 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sure, but here there are many communities about subjects instead of one.

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

I'm always hoping for a safety car at this point in a race.

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

I'm always amazed that somehow has a first world nation we have this shit. When my kids had COVID there was nothing for a fever and there were guides on how to split pills for kids.

Just use our purchasing power to import it from some other country and ignore the red tape.

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

But the news org provides that summary with the page to Facebook... it's part of the Open Graph Protocol which... is for facebook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Platform#Open_Graph_protocol

Lets look at the source of a CBC News story.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-variant-ba-2-86-1.6943005

property="og:description" content="A highly mutated variant of the virus behind COVID-19 has popped up in multiple countries, but scientists aren't yet sure whether it will fuel a fall wave of infections or simply fizzle out."/>

So if the news companies are upset that Facebook is showing a summary... maybe stop providing a summary to facebook explicitly in your code?

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I find this outrage so funny. "Hey you give me $500 for this used Timmies cup?" "No" "How dare you!"

Why would Meta / Google want to pay 250+ million dollars a year to link to news sites? Do you think they're generating billions of dollars in revenue from those links?

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

McGrath pays $661 for her downtown Hamilton apartment she's lived in over 20 years.

This is the problem with rent control... McGrath is being subsidized by new renters, as someone has to pay for maintenance, taxes, etc.

[–] Woofcat@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope the situation is better over there than in Ontario. Sure day care is getting cheaper for those who have it. However there is basically no availability to the point where I have a nanny for my kids.

When the wait lists are years.... what the hell is the point. Should you register before your planning on getting pregnant?

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