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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • 'Easier ways to send messages' to Trump than bringing in the King: U.S. ambassador

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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. "

  • Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny

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  • 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.

  • Do you tag people in Lemmy?

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  • And no, you don't, I do.

  • Do you tag people in Lemmy?

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  • Nice, I keep learning things about this app!

  • Do you tag people in Lemmy?

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  • I don't think labels/tags are a feature in Voyager. So, no.

    Edit: it is! See below.

  • He was part of a pattern, you might say

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  • Smh, ohhhh'brien

  • Nous sommes des Borg Canadiens

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  • A-hohn-hohn-hohn c'est drôle!

  • 2025-05-19

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  • It's a reference to BMOC, or "Big Man on Campus".

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20man%20on%20campus

    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?

  • The Houthis Almost Shot Down an F-35—and Washington Is Panicked

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  • It's stealth to radar, not infrared. It has other countermeasures for infrared missiles.

  • The Houthis Almost Shot Down an F-35—and Washington Is Panicked

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  • Wait. 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?

  • I don't remember that part of the movie Ghost

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  • It's... about to get all up inside her...

  • I don't remember that part of the movie Ghost

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  • Based on context, that's a deleted scene from episode 14 of season 7 of ST:TNG...

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  • Pocket post?

  • Brooklyn Bridge struck by Mexican navy training ship, 2 dead, NYC mayor says

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  • 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

  • Canadian campers going 'elbows up' this summer amid U.S. trade war

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  • 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.

  • Canadian campers going 'elbows up' this summer amid U.S. trade war

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  • 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.

  • Canadian campers going 'elbows up' this summer amid U.S. trade war

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  • 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.

  • Canadian campers going 'elbows up' this summer amid U.S. trade war

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  • 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!

  • Canadian campers going 'elbows up' this summer amid U.S. trade war

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