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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I work in the construction industry. Convenience is king and people will give up quality for it when they’re handing it out 10 times out of 10 sadly.

    I bring in high quality donuts from a place near me. Trudeau put it in the spotlight a few years ago for grabbing from there lol. Every single time I do it, people comment and thank me for getting them something good… but they’ll never do it when they’re grabbing them. They’re like double the price but i expense it so why wouldn’t I at least get something good?













  • I’ve got a family member who’s a level 2 Canada research chair and professor. During COVID I was asking about the move to virtual learning and how they were set up for it, they were telling me that a much larger portion of her grant money who’s going to technology then before and it had started a few years earlier.

    Now this prof does some crazy stuff with brain scanning and virtual reality which takes some horsepower and probably needs more upgrades than your typical university computer lab. But the point remains their budgets were being strained 5 plus years ago because of the technology that’s been incorporated into teaching.

    I’m inclined to believe that the relative costs of operating a university theatre have risen rather than dropped since I graduated 20 years ago.