JohnnyCanuck @ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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Think 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. "

We 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 will would 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.

When you hit the hamburger menu in the built in browser, what browser does it say it's running in?

√-4 = 2

It's all fun and games until someone loses an i.

TLDR:

• 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

Escalating 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.

Lol that's cute. I did a Monty Python sketch for my future wife (not on the first date) and she was highly amused.

Helllloooo Nurse! Always loved that show. I'll have to check out the reboot.

Yeah I was trying to avoid something that included his name directly to keep it out of the lexicon as much as possible.

Oh don't get me started. In BC they "expanded" the number of campgrounds by converting existing non-provincial-park campgrounds (forestry service campgrounds) to be under the provincial park system. They jacked up the prices (some were free before) and added no services. Total bullshit.

Even the lesser known ones were shit shows in BC in 2021. They also took over a whole bunch to make them provincial parks that were previously forestry and often free or very cheap. Frickin' annoying.

I haven't been looking forward to this part. Camping sucked during covid because the campgrounds were too busy with us all staying in Canada and going camping. Hopefully people take the opportunity to go to Europe or Asia this year!

https://theconversation.com/why-gordie-howes-elbows-are-canadas-answer-to-donald-trump-252167

That's bullshit behaviour by staff. When was that? I haven't really liked going in there for the last few years.

They never saw the vote. They can't count it, it has to go to court. They're following the law.

They're doing everything by the book. They never saw that ballot and can't just count a vote because someone said their ballot was returned. It will have to go to court at this point but EC has done nothing wrong in terms of the recount. You make it sound like a conspiracy that they counted more votes for the Liberals.

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