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people don’t want to spend their money on starting businesses

I'd love to. Unfortunately if I quit my day job we'll lose the house in six months.

We live in a more geographically isolated part of Canada (ie: not a big city) and at this point, our monthly grocery bill is approaching our mortgage payment amount. I still have to drive to three different stores to buy basics, because they're all frequently out of stock for common items (like milk, sometimes). It's not uncommon to pick up 3-4 bags of groceries (no meat) and pay $150-$200.

We garden, and have birds, and even started raising dairy sheep to reduce costs, but it's still too much.

Yet, there are seven cannabis stores in town, and they're all well stocked, somehow.

A government willing to go into debt with public spending? Cut off corporate subsidies and allocate the increased revenue to new technology businesses to reduce the risk involved in trying something different?

Coastal BC here - we get light to heavy rain for 6 months of the year now, then it dries up completely. If there isn't enough snow in the mountains, the stream on our property runs dry.

We've been here a decade, and the time the stream runs dry has gone from late August to early June (last year was an exception and it ran until July). We're expecting one of the ponds to go entirely dry this year.

Technically, we live in a rainforest.

Thanks for posting this - our children both have extra physical needs, but thankfully our school district is well funded and has extra support for them. I wish that their non-government funding didn't make so much of a difference to the children's education.

Even so, the kids start late, get sent home early, and are excluded from a lot of the educational content, despite interest.

Damn, looks like the pellet grill isn't allowed during the summer?!

Learned the default account password and figured out which teachers had not changed their password from the default. Learned that all teachers had access to a share drive with all student records. Read through a lot of information.

Did not look at porn on school computers, because wtf?

At grad event, in front of elderly relatives, was called out for looking at porn on the school computers, other student was credited for breaking into all systems. More pissed about the latter.