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Albino Squirrel posted:The last straw was housing? The only reason we need federal money for housing is because you won't fund any! Please come to PEI and be my doctor, it still sucks, but it doesn't Alberta suck. Will give you art, not a joke.
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Arc Hammer posted:Lol 30 year mortgages to pay for first time homeowners. Thanks Freeland I wasn't planning on moving anywhere for the rest of my life.* (just don't ask where you're supposed to move to)
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flakeloaf posted:That is the point of the PP party: Splinter for being "too extreme", round up a bunch of lunatics, mainstream them, and then have the leader abdicate for the nearest tory. This is their second kick at that cat in recent memory, the first being Preston Manning's CRAP party Right but my question is; does it actually look like this is happening? Bernier is ceding to Polly instead of splitting their base? My rightwing kith & kin can't seem to tell me, but they're not super aware or informed, or all that good at clear communication to begin with lol
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Virtual Russian posted:Please come to PEI and be my doctor, it still sucks, but it doesn't Alberta suck. Will give you art, not a joke.
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Albino Squirrel posted:I'm an inner city/addictions specialist by this point. I'm sure there are addictions in PEI - what do you do with all those potatoes - but I dunno if Charlottetown counts as 'inner city.' Actually to be honest I think the island really needs that. Addiction is out of control, but we are still in the phase were no one talks about it. Charlottetown has set up an outreach centre, but as usual the nimbys are out in force against it. I spent enough time on the west coast to know this is going to get way way worse. People get busted here periodically with 100k+ fentanyl pills, a memorable bust had one pill for every person on the island. People handwave it away saying they are just being trafficked through the province, but that makes no sense. No one drives through PEI to get somewhere else. I used to live in a small farming village, about ~500 at the absolute max. On and just after benefits day we'd have multiple ambulances a day. I'm in Summerside now, the locals are convinced it isn't an issue, except a couple homeless. Again, having spent time on the west coast I can tell who is hooked, and it is a lot more than a couple homeless. Keep an eye out for postings in the future. The cons are gutting healthcare, but that is going to turn around. People here are about to riot over housing and healthcare. We had a by-election in my old riding, it was a diehard conservative stronghold for decades. At my polling station in 2015 (16? I forget) only like myself and one other (my partner I hope) didn't vote con. The Greens (who are good in PEI) swept it in the by-election. The media made some noise about it, but I bet the cons are making GBS threads their pants. I cannot stress how conservative the riding is, and especially the village i was in. You'd get run out of town if you let people know you didn't vote conservative. The polling station workers harassed me and my partner for not living by conservative values (living in sin!). Edit: Somone recently got busted with ~1 million doses of Fent. I'm sure that is a bit inflated by police, but it was nearly 2kg of pure fent. Insane. Virtual Russian has issued a correction as of 22:15 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Virtual Russian posted:You'd get run out of town if you let people know you didn't vote conservative. The polling station workers harassed me and my partner for not living by conservative values (living in sin!). Virtual Russian posted:Somone recently got busted with ~1 million doses of Fent. I'm sure that is a bit inflated by police, but it was nearly 2kg of pure fent. Insane. can't help but wonder,
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I don't follow? Conservatives and pills are a thing for sure. Utah was famous years ago for having an absurd opiate consumption combined with very little open discussion of the issue. Is that what you mean? The old-timers in my village would talk about how the local doctor would "prescribe" them all bottles of some opiate for cash back in the day. So people there have been hooked on opiates since the 80s at least.
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Nah, it was just that some doctor used to prescribe it for cash. Not really a scheme. I'm sure that happened all over. I'm not suggesting the conservatives are pushing pills as a party, just that highly conservative areas get hit by addiction just as bad, but no one talks about it in those communities so it just burns out of control. Edit: but also yeah, rural martitimes be bleak as hell even in the near past. Things are a touch better now, but not much. In NB a decade or so back nearly a third of the province had an income under 10k. There are a lot of factors there, but no matter how you slice it that is poverty. Virtual Russian has issued a correction as of 00:29 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Rodney The Yam II posted:Bleck are you saying the whole village was in on it? everyone and their mums on fentanyl around there..
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Who knows how many people. It is insane though how much fentanyl is routinely found on the Island.
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Virtual Russian posted:I don't follow? Conservatives and pills are a thing for sure. Utah was famous years ago for having an absurd opiate consumption combined with very little open discussion of the issue. Is that what you mean? The old-timers in my village would talk about how the local doctor would "prescribe" them all bottles of some opiate for cash back in the day. So people there have been hooked on opiates since the 80s at least. is this what they meant by taking the red pill
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Virtual Russian posted:I don't follow? I just think it's weird that cops are able to bust huge amounts of fentanyl on people in a place where nobody seems to know how it's getting in. It's almost like the cops know something we don't, about where the fentanyl is coming from,
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Bleck posted:I just think it's weird that cops are able to bust huge amounts of fentanyl on people in a place where nobody seems to know how it's getting in. It's almost like the cops know something we don't, about where the fentanyl is coming from, 
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odiv posted:Come on, you just flip it in 2 years when it's worth 50% more, this poo poo's so easy. good news, you can also now borrow almost 2x as much from your rrsp and don't have to pay it back for five years so you can ride the edge of solvency that much longer!
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Arc Hammer posted:Lol 30 year mortgages to pay for first time homeowners. Thanks Freeland I wasn't planning on moving anywhere for the rest of my life.* It's for people in a specific income range, for newly constructed homes, under a million dollars. It's too means-tested to be useful for people in places where "starter homes" are over a million dollars and too means-tested to be bad for everybody who doesn't live in Vancouver and Toronto lol
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Albino Squirrel posted:The last straw was housing? The only reason we need federal money for housing is because you won't fund any! I'm not joking when I say move to a different country. They probably need doctors in the US and you'll get paid more and be able to afford a house and the only downside is knowing you'll probably get shot to death. They probably need doctors in, like, Iceland too. Iceland seems chill.
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Virtual Russian posted:Actually to be honest I think the island really needs that. Addiction is out of control, but we are still in the phase were no one talks about it. In 2010 when I first went back to visit friends after moving away for university, I wondered why people had taken to calling it "Scummerside." I assumed it was just the usual petty township rivalry, but when I got there, it kinda made sense. As a kid I never noticed the lack of opportunities there. I dunno what people can even do to get above minimum wage if they're not at CRA or working remote in tech. Excluding seasonal jobs, that is. The story my NB relatives have told me about drugs in the Maritimes is that it comes in through the ports (eg Halifax) and then gets smuggled alongside other goods. For instance, Summerside's 7 car dealerships competing for the custom of retirees and CRA employees get their cars from Halifax, and drugs could get hidden in the bodywork. On one memorable occasion, there was a big cocaine bust at Dooly's in Summerside. The day before, my uncle had driven in from Halifax on his motorcycle to visit us, but said he had to stop in at Dooly's first, to visit his "motorcycle buddies". Late in the evening, my dad went to check on him at Dooly's, but was stopped at the door by a brick shithouse of a man. Instead my uncle was sent out to mumble a vague excuse and convince my dad to go home. Uncle motorcycled back to Halifax overnight, drug bust implied to be HA the next day. Quite the coincidence! Anyway, we haven't been especially close to that uncle ever since.
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Glimpse posted:The razor thin profits thing is bullshit obviously, their own reports disprove it. But like yeah, their expenses all come out of that markup too. 
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:Iceland seems chill. its literally in the name
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digitalist posted:Thanks! Will repeat my offer for 5$ gift certificates for anyone who wants to join the gang, which might be more a reflection of how few people I think will take me up on it than generosity. Imagine being a loving monarchist in TYOOL 2024. And for King Charles of all people.
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:I'm not joking when I say move to a different country. They probably need doctors in the US and you'll get paid more and be able to afford a house and the only downside is knowing you'll probably get shot to death. They probably need doctors in, like, Iceland too. Iceland seems chill. My cousin and her husband made a ton of money as pharmacists working in the states. Now they're back in Canada and have kids and make decent money here but they definitely set themselves up well working down there for 5 years.
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Crime: They eat rotten shark and created the online game EvE: Online Punishment: Death by guillotine
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Suplex Liberace posted:if you leave the best country in the world (canada) for one of the lesser countries you should never be allowed back inshallah
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Fried Watermelon posted:rcmp usually hires the local denturist to do the smuggling this was a wild story. were there any more revelations?
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MattDarling posted:In 2010 when I first went back to visit friends after moving away for university, I wondered why people had taken to calling it "Scummerside." I assumed it was just the usual petty township rivalry, but when I got there, it kinda made sense. As a kid I never noticed the lack of opportunities there. I dunno what people can even do to get above minimum wage if they're not at CRA or working remote in tech. Excluding seasonal jobs, that is. Summerside is honestly a lot more vibrant than even just ten years back, but still looks and feels like a shittier poorer Moncton. I think another car dealership is going in, but don't forget about the like seven competing furniture retailers! That Dooly's still has a bad rep. Summerside area was very cheap, so now it is filled with folks from out west that just work remote. The population nearly doubled since the pandemic. Retailers for stuff that can't really be found on amazon are doing extremely well. The furniture people all drive Audis and BMWs now, but besides that there hasn't really been an increase in opportunity. There aren't better jobs, just more bad ones. The influx of people working remote does nothing to build community wealth, it just increased retail sales, but the cost of housing has gone up about 400% since the pandemic. You used to be able to buy a house here for 70 - 150k, now they all range from 300k - 750k. MY rent is still reasonable by western standards, I pay $1200 a months for ~1100 square feet. Before the pandemic I'd have expected somewhere between $550 and $650 for the same place. I also had a connection there, so I'm paying slightly below market rates. Plus the guy gave me a free month because I'm a maritimer. His Ontario born son-in-law arranged everything and his eyes did a Tex Avery when I gave him the first cheque. He literally came back to me after like 20 minutes and said "the rent is too high" and gave me a free month. He's a solid dude, fixed my car for free too. A dying breed of maritimer. The locals are beyond furious with westerners that move here. Being poor here used to be ok, bleak for sure, but if you had any full-time job you'd be guaranteed to be able to buy a house. Most people survived on only 6 - 8 months of full-time, the rest of the year on pogey. That way of life disappeared overnight, but if you are an illiterate 55 year old farm hand you are just screwed. I don't know what those people do to survive. I've had customers of mine from Ontario complain about being harassed constantly when people see their plates. Little do they know they've got it easy. Back in the 80s and 90s the locals would burn your summer home down in the winter while you were away if you pissed them off. I know a museum director who locals mailbombed (almost killed his son who got the mail) all because he was from away and got the job over an islander. There has been an uptick in arsons on the north shore where the cost of living climbed the most. So maybe old habits die hard? Growing up in the maritimes I always understood that our drugs came from Montreal, maybe with Hali on the up things started coming in there. I always heard bikers got stuff in Montreal and then distributed from there. No matter what no one is trafficking through PEI, there are only three ways onto the island, I can't imagine that is good for smuggling. What is found in PEI must be meant for distribution, but I could be wrong. I don't know more than what I observe, I haven't touched anything worse than weed since my early 20s.
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bedpan posted:this was a wild story. were there any more revelations? The wiki is pretty nuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks somehow withdrawing $475,000 from Brinks and having $705,000 in cash at your residence having 4 refurbished police cruisers having a stash of guns that the police new about since as early as 2011, police were alerted multiple times over the years RCMP is of course denying that he was a CI
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comforting to know that if Canada had a sovereign wealth fund like the geniuses in Norway wed just waste it on idiotic boondoggles like AGI. probably better that we dont quote:If you define AGI as smarter than the smartest human, I think its probably in the next year. Like within two years, Musk said during a chat with the head of Norways sovereign fund on Tuesday. Juul-Whip has issued a correction as of 18:18 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Glimpse posted:AGI is for losers, I put all my points into STR nobody wants cha but in real life its the actual primo stat
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mediaphage posted:nobody wants cha but in real life it’s the actual primo stat If you pick the Animal Friend perk from a high Cha and Survival stat then you can be adopted by deer like that guy out in BC.
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Glimpse posted:The razor thin profits thing is bullshit obviously, their own reports disprove it. But like yeah, their expenses all come out of that markup too. The problem is you can't explain all this stuff to the public in a short 7 minutes timeslot they still might find too long and boring anyway.
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Rockstar Massacre posted:i always catch a lot of poo poo for building my characters with too much CHA, but i can't roleplay an ugly person, just cannot relate at all High cha doesn't mean you're not ugly, just that people like you. You could be the elephant man and still drown in pussy. Or dicks. Or both. I won't judge.
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