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Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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Re: Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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Post by noufalibrahim »

cik wrote: post #98
noufalibrahim wrote: post #88

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I don't know if that's the same. There's another here called Kim and Co. which makes ebonite pens without fillers. They became popular via. social media and a lot of people ordered pens from them. Perhaps that's the one you're referring to?

No, I'm referring to Pen Hospital in Kolkata: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kolkata-pen-hospital . By ordered, I mean had friends who have stumbled across it and brought me things. If there were a website mind you. I don't have the socials, so I don't see things like what you mentioned.

Ah. This is something I'm not familiar with. This is the Pen Hospital I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2a_yKeCS7M

Re: Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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Post by throwatdem12311 »

fragmede wrote: post #94
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #13

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AI was supposed to do my laundry so that I could make art and code for fun but now the AI is coding and making art while I do laundry.

it's a funny meme but it's because software can iterate faster than hardware. Give it a few years for robot maids to come out that can do your laundry, then we'll see society upturn.

What social upturn do you expect because robots will still be coding and making art as well as folding laundry.

How will I buy a robot maid if I don’t have a job because a robot does it? These robot maids will be doing manual labour jobs before I can just buy one for myself. So who will be left to buy thing at all?

Re: Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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Post by g8oz »

zuzululu wrote: post #140
bluGill wrote: post #137

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It always depends. You get people in Mississippi who don't have electric, pump water by hand and use an outhouse. (They are not Amish or otherwise religiously against technology they just can't afford it) you also find engineers and doctors making as much as anywhere else in the US. Mississippi has great weather year round. Canada gets really cold (most of those I know in Canada live in Manitoba). Your standard of li…

Most Canadians and Americans I'm guessing takes their cues from movies like My Cousin Vinny when they think Mississippi and probably have never ventured through it. I have. It is a very safe and clean city. There are ton of engineers and professionals out there making equal or more than what creme of the creme in Canada take home after taxes (another major point besides the exchange rate that puts Canadians behind Am…

Jackson Mississippi has the highest per capita murder rate of any city in the United States. More than double that of Mexico.

Re: Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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Post by selimthegrim »

annzabelle wrote: post #154
selimthegrim wrote: post #126

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I still get emails from NZ begging for people to come fill IT jobs

It's great for a couple years, but compensation is so much lower here I wouldn't do it long term, except if you marry a local or are independently wealthy. I make a third of what I did in the US, and my job in the US was in a medium cost of living area and wasn't a startup or big tech. Housing costs about the same amount.

I had the opportunity to take up a working holiday visa 10-12 years ago and never used it.

Re: Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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Post by wasabi991011 »

vlovich123 wrote: post #102
wasabi991011 wrote: post #101

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No, it isn't, at least according to here [1] (data from worldbank). This is in nominal USD as almost all calculations of GDP. If you compare by purchasing power, Canada likely pulls out ahead since Canada has a lower price level than the US [2] (can't find Mississippi-specific price level). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... section "U.S. states by GDP per capita if they were sovereig…

You can’t just say “no it isn’t” when your own link disagrees with you. From your link per capita GDP for Mississippi $55,877 in 2025 compared with $60,305 in 2026 for Canada [1]. That seems pretty similar. My point was that when the Canadian dollar is weak GDP in USD decreases while when it’s strong GDP increases without anything about the country’s output changing - that’s the challenging of comparing by normalizin…

My own link did not disagree with me. The claim was "Canada slightly below Mississippi". My link showed "Mississippi slightly below Canada". Both in the same year.

Did you intentionally move the goal posts or did you misunderstand?

Re: Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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Post by cik »

noufalibrahim wrote: post #161
cik wrote: post #98

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No, I'm referring to Pen Hospital in Kolkata: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kolkata-pen-hospital . By ordered, I mean had friends who have stumbled across it and brought me things. If there were a website mind you. I don't have the socials, so I don't see things like what you mentioned.

Ah. This is something I'm not familiar with. This is the Pen Hospital I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2a_yKeCS7M

Oooh thank you!
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