Vorticity
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- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
I don’t say any of this to say that I think what Walmart is doing here is ethical, onky to say that it is logical from their standpoint if they assume there won’t be any blowback.
Companies charge what they think they can get for a product. The tax is part of the price. If they think an item will sell for $5.26 including tax, it is reasonable for them to think it will still sell for $5.26 if the item isn’t taxed.
That isn’t to say this is nice on their part, but the current system doesn’t incentivise them to be nice. It incentivises profit.
It does seem like they took the easy route to gain more profit. It is likely that, in the a absence of tax, their profit would be maximized by a price that is somewhere between the old pre-tax price and the old post-tax price.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 2 weeks ago:
You got that reply because you surprised her and her immature 12 y/o brain spat that out as the best response on short notice. It’s entirely likely that response had nothing to do with you in particular.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What you said and your statement that “it’s a bit like grief” are dead on. I wasn’t kicked out by my parents, but I lost my dad when I was 27. I’m 40 now and still miss him but the feeling dwindles with time. I’ll always miss him but the impact of that feeling will always lessen as I gain more experiences. I suppose the same is true for any trauma of a similar magnitude. I imagine there are traumas that surpass the loss of parents in magnitude, though, and some of those may not pass in the same way.
- Comment on Bank of America will (stop|continue to) Accept $1 bills 1 month ago:
Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that’s a completely different post all together.
What do you replace them with? Coins have been tried and rejected by consumers a few times now.
- Comment on Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people. 3 months ago:
Entropy Man would be a scary accidental villain. Just random acts of chaos as they go through life until enough shit goes wrong and they become persecuted. The they learn to use their powers for revenge against an unjust society.
- Comment on It will outlive us all 4 months ago:
You look at the keyboard when you place your hands?
- Comment on It will outlive us all 4 months ago:
I go through a cheap Logitech keyboard just about once every three years. I replace them when a a couple of keys stop working or when the nubs wear off of the center keys and can no longer blindly find where my hands go.
- Comment on W Earth 4 months ago:
- Comment on I started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me? 4 months ago:
Thank you, this is really helpful!
- Comment on I started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me? 4 months ago:
Thank you, I’ll look into options.
- Comment on I started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me? 4 months ago:
When you say email aliases, what do you mean? A lot of services strip plusses from emails now, right?
- Comment on When a magazine goes out of print and/or out of business, do the original 'master files' for each issue still exist somewhere? 5 months ago:
How does the archive.org exemption work? When is it voted on next?
- Comment on Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.? 6 months ago:
Unless you are salaried. Being salaried normally comes with flexibility but gives no guarantees for breaks and number of hours worked.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 6 months ago:
Okay, I have a question. I would love to write my papers in latex, but none of my colleges use it. Is there a way to reasonably collaborate with coauthors who only use Word and for whom Latex would be confusing and difficult?
- Comment on LPT Do it. 6 months ago:
I do this using overleaf. It’s been much easier to maintain and update since switching.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 8 months ago:
The name comes from the name of the person who first proposed the Julian Calendar, Julius Caesar.
- Comment on Folksy stuff 8 months ago:
What do you mean by a “dismissive parenting style”?
- Comment on Beautiful 8 months ago:
the nose is maybe strangely small, lips are a little off-putting
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
I’d rather just buy loose leaf and use a washable strainer. It’s generally less expensive and higher quality too.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
Loose leaf is excessively packaged? Normally when I buy loose leaf I just get a tin that’s full of tea and nothing else.
- Comment on Anyone remember anything about 2021 1 year ago:
I’m really glad to hear that. It’s amazing how far cancer treatment has come in the last couple of decades. I hope you remain healthy!
- Comment on Anyone remember anything about 2021 1 year ago:
Oof, glad you’re still here. How are you doing now?
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 1 year ago:
- Comment on Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy 1 year ago:
So, now the question is which one of us has a problem.
- Comment on Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy 1 year ago:
The ducks don’t talk to you?
- Comment on Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy 1 year ago:
The total of all world assets is somewhere in the realm of $500 trillion. So, McDuck owns around 2,000 times all of Earth’s assets combined.
- Comment on Can't submit new post 1 year ago:
Since you investigated and found a workaround maybe it would be worth submitting an issue to the Lemmy GitHub repo.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
I’d forgotten this trick. It works for large numbers too. 122,300,223÷3=4,07
- Comment on When the pizza party is too expensive, you go with the EncourageMint 1 year ago:
I kept thinking “surely this was attached to something else and they didn’t just give a mint and a few stupid jokes”. Then I noticed another one of these stuck to a locker in the background. What pieces of trash. You don’t show appreciation by saying “You are appreciated”. You show appreciation by compensating your employees for their work.
- Comment on Reddit is a shithole 1 year ago:
I wonder if Reddit could be held legally liable for trafficking in CP in that case. They were explicitly told “this is CP and should be deleted” and they didn’t act.
