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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Historical Artifacts@lemmy.world•Egyptian figurines, 10th century BCEEnglish4·15 hours agoIt’s pretty cool that this tech basically hasn’t changed in 3000 years.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny3·2 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 Canada@lemmy.ca•'Easier ways to send messages' to Trump than bringing in the King: U.S. ambassador91·2 days agoThink he’ll eat crow when Trump brings it up again in the next couple of days? My prediction: "If CANADA wants in on my GOLDEN DOME they can become the 51st state. It’s a GREAT DEAL for them. Free military which frankly they’re already getting. They’re ROBBING US BLIND and they want our dome too. I don’t know why they’re so against it. They can be part of the greatest country. It wasn’t the greatest, not under Sleepy Joe but poor guy was being abused, and now it is again. It’s the greatest and we’ll have the best dome and they can be the 51st state if they want it. "
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny10·2 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 TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•He was part of a pattern, you might say8·3 days agoSmh, ohhhh’brien
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Nous sommes des Borg Canadiens6·3 days agoA-hohn-hohn-hohn c’est drôle!
It’s a reference to BMOC, or “Big Man on Campus”.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big man on campus
an important and well-known person especially at a school
The quarterback of the football team is a real big man on campus.
Fun fact: this comic is how I learned about the term when I was a kid. I had to ask my mom to explain it.
Here’s where it gets weird though… There’s a 1989 movie called Big Man on Campus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Man_on_Campus) which is based (loosely) on the Hunchback of Notre Dame and that even has the alternate title The Hunchback of UCLA.
This comic came out in 1993, so maybe Larson was inspired by the movie?
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Global News@lemmy.zip•The Houthis Almost Shot Down an F-35—and Washington Is Panicked3·6 days agoIt’s stealth to radar, not infrared. It has other countermeasures for infrared missiles.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Global News@lemmy.zip•The Houthis Almost Shot Down an F-35—and Washington Is Panicked6·6 days agoWait. The fancy jet didn’t get hit, right? A missile was fired at it and it successfully evaded said missile? So what, exactly, is being called into question here?
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I don't remember that part of the movie GhostEnglish28·6 days agoIt’s… about to get all up inside her…
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I don't remember that part of the movie GhostEnglish902·6 days agoBased on context, that’s a deleted scene from episode 14 of season 7 of ST:TNG…
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Voyager@lemmy.world•Something in this article is crashing the builtin browserEnglish1·6 days agoWhen you hit the hamburger menu in the built in browser, what browser does it say it’s running in?
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite math constant that is NOT a real number?12·6 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 says391·6 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 Canada@lemmy.ca•Canadian campers going 'elbows up' this summer amid U.S. trade war1·6 days agoEscalating tariffs wasn’t going to solve anything. Taking American products off the shelves without the tariffs is way more effective.
Elbows up was about the 51st state bullshit.
Absolutely.
There’s probably someone out there who paints their gold miniatures.