jerkface

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Health care money is very notoriously being withheld from hospitals, and gets redirected to private clinics at several times the cost to taxpayers. This is not the situation in education. We don't have a massive pay-to-play tier of Universities. They're all non-profit.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Honestly, I don't think you even know what the word "gouge" means. HINT: IT DOESN'T MEAN "EXPENSIVE"

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The absolute cost of tuition doesn't speak to whether the school is "gouging," which would imply excessive profit-taking with funds moving to private investors -- WHO DON'T EVEN EXIST IN THIS SCENARIO.

No school's tuition covers the actual cost for Canadian citizens. Every tuition is highly subsidized. If anything, we're gouging the schools, because they are not allowed to raise tuitions but their costs are going up while their revenue is dropping.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

WTF are you even talking about?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 hours ago

What unexamined emotional need does that fill for you?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

No, they moved to Discord because there was a for-profit corporation that was extremely motivated to move people to Discord. Mumble is better in every way that an anti-consumerist cares about.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Mumble is THE SHIT.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

What institutions are you talking about, specifically. Name a couple.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The didn't get "addicted", they had their funding model fucked with by various levels of government. They don't choose their fucking revenue models! The state clawed back a bunch of funding and replaced it with international students, and now they're taking that away. So the result is massive hardship.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

Because withholding the money doesn't punish the irresponsible parties, it punishes the students and (consequentially) all of society.

 

Eglinton Crosstown LRT Science Centre Station Renamed to the Don Valley Station in Toronto. The video discusses the closing of the Ontario Science Centre and how much it would have costed to fix the roof vs. the cost of renaming the Eglinton LRT station from the Science Centre to the Don Valley Station at Don Mills and Eglinton Ave. in North York Toronto.

 

Article contains significant errors. MEC was never owned by its members. If it were, we would have had a say when it was sold, voting on whether to accept the offer, and receiving a share of the payout. MEC was never actually a cooperative. I think there should be consequences for this deception. I also think there need to be more consumer cooperatives than there are. Please mention any you know below.

 

He's 101 years old, a WW2 veteran, and a fascinating interview.

 

Steel bands tighten around my heart. My knees knock and my vision wavers. But then I remember I'm not on Reddit, and metacanada has not yet replaced the moderation team with pod people.

What measures are in place to ensure the continuing security of our moderation team? If it won't compromise them to tell us.

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