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Yes, that’s why you pay with credit/debit. To avoid the round up.

I changed “will” to “would” to hopefully make it more clear.

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.

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

Yeah this looks to me like everyone got scammed, including the new owners.

Like Joe Rogan

Well if his self-inflicted suffering makes him stop an iota of what he’s doing on Xitter or with DOGE, then yes, it will improve the lives of others.

Insurers always look at whether you’ve been denied coverage previously by another insurer as part of the decision whether to insure you and at what level and rate. Collusion is built into the system.

That said, I certainly wouldn’t want to insure anyone in that area either. Not in this climate…

Won’t somebody think of the poor haul video people?

Why isn’t this one getting more attention?

True

She said Trump’s rhetoric is unfortunate and she wants prospective Canadian visitors to know they are welcome in California.

They don’t even get what the issue is apparently.

We’re being warned to leave our phones at home when crossing the border. People are being detained for weeks for visa issues. Our government has issued a travel advisory about how US border guards are screening travellers.

This isn’t just “oh, we’re upset you hosers are calling us the 51st state, eh.”

This is genuine fear of what might happen if we go to your country. A friend of mine was almost in tears because she had non-refundable tickets to go to the states to see a friend and was worried about crossing the border.

Sorry, but it’s going to take more than, “please come visit because we like you, really.”

Yes, but I’m saying the algorithm for layoffs factors in “performance”, which can be factored from past bonus allocations.

The algorithm isn’t going to lay off 150’s, but might preferentially select 100’s.

I don’t have inside info, I’m just making assumptions that the data has to come from somewhere.

Who is waiting in the wings to take over?

Sort of. Managers still get in a room and decide how the bonus pool should be distributed by ranking people.

Having a more aggressive manager is important for getting a better bonus.

I could see this factoring into layoff decisions.

Does this mean the other products they ship aren’t hit with tariffs? Are they somehow wholly made in the US vs the ones that were dropped?

Edit: found my own answer:

“We priced our laptops when tariffs on imports from Taiwan were 0%. At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss.”

Wait 'til you see their retaliation!

US CBP are going to eliminate the need for their own jobs by scaring the rest of the world away from wanting to visit.

That’s what he wants them to do…

Vive le roi!