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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•American transgender woman files asylum claim in Canada after Trump’s edict on gender12·4 days agoArchive from the original post: https://archive.is/DgQoY
I avoid using single use bottles, but when I do, I often crush them after I’m finished to save space, so they don’t blow away and roll around as easily, and to save space in the recycling.
Do they not take crushed bottles where you live?
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny3·15 days agoYes, that’s why you pay with credit/debit. To avoid the round up.
I changed “will” to “would” to hopefully make it more clear.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny10·15 days agoWe follow normal rounding rules in Canada. 1, 2 round down to 0. 3, 4 round up to 5. 6, 7 round down to 5. 8, 9 round up to 10.
Can you game the system? Yes!
As a business, make sure all your prices (plus tax) come to a price ending in 3, 4, 8, or 9. When consumers buy a single item you’ll get the rounding up (edit: if they pay cash) and make sweet, sweet profit. But if they buy more than one item, you’re SOL on controlling the rounding.
As a consumer, you have way more control. First, pay with cash whenever the price will round down and you can probably “profit” 5 or so dollars a year. (Assuming you pay with cash on or two times a day, saving 1 to 2 cents each time.) Pay with credit or debit each time the price
willwould round up.Second, you can get real fancy. You can learn tax rules in depth so you know what items will or won’t be taxed and at what rate (we have federal and provincial taxes but they don’t apply to everything and they don’t follow the same rules on what is taxed.) But, you can use this info to always know what the final bill will be and always buy combinations of items that end in 2 or 7 (or 1 and 6 if you’re lazy) and always pay cash. You can profit like $20 a year or something doing this.
In reality? No one gives a shit until that one rare time you’re paying with cash and it rounds down. It’s your lucky day and you do the Six Flags Man dance. It’s like finding a penny and picking it up.
And no, you don’t, I do.
Nice, I keep learning things about this app!
I don’t think labels/tags are a feature in Voyager. So, no.
Edit: it is! See below.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite math constant that is NOT a real number?12·20 days ago√-4 = 2
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an i.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Brooklyn Bridge struck by Mexican navy training ship, 2 dead, NYC mayor says391·20 days agoTLDR:
- No major damage to the bridge
- It was a masted ship and the mast hit the bridge
- Injured and killed were all on the ship
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond.3·20 days agoLol that’s cute. I did a Monty Python sketch for my future wife (not on the first date) and she was highly amused.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond.4·20 days agoHelllloooo Nurse! Always loved that show. I’ll have to check out the reboot.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.caOPto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should name the recent stock market crash the Fool's Fallout3·21 days agoYeah I was trying to avoid something that included his name directly to keep it out of the lexicon as much as possible.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Tulsi Gabbard fires top intelligence officials who contradicted Trump331·23 days agoEurope, maybe?
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About ThemEnglish351·24 days agoYeah this looks to me like everyone got scammed, including the new owners.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Wisconsin woman missing for more than 60 years found ‘alive and well’.English57·26 days agodetective Isaac Hanson, who found Backeberg, said he was able to locate her through her sister’s Ancestry.com account.
“That was pretty key in locating death records, census reports, all kinds of data,” Hanson told the news station, adding: “Ultimately, we came up with an address
I hate that about those genealogy sites: Someone else can give up your privacy for you. I found myself on one with a whole bunch of private info because some relative thought it was cool to put the whole family out there. They included kids, everyone’s birthdays, maiden names, addresses, the whole shebang. All completely public for anyone to search for, without asking anyone if it was okay with them.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•"Stick," as a tool, is basically the Finglonger8·27 days agoMakes snu-snu a little different.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Trump has skipped almost all of his intelligence briefings441·28 days ago“I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing them, Bob.”
Unfortunately, by that metaphor, the world is constipated.