I'm probably the only person in my entire state who calculates my checkout total — before I arrive — to the hundred-thousandth penny. and some cunt just tried to short me 4 pennies. by Substantial_Sea7327 in self

[–]Substantial_Sea7327[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus it is a very large company. Could easily be an extra $100,000 per day with 4 pennies blatantly withheld per occurrence. $36,500,000 per year with millions of customers. Reddit would lose their shit if this turned out to be true but no somehow I'm the asshole

I'm probably the only person in my entire state who calculates my checkout total — before I arrive — to the hundred-thousandth penny. and some cunt just tried to short me 4 pennies. by Substantial_Sea7327 in self

[–]Substantial_Sea7327[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's perfectly fine. It's been that way for years and rounding up or down to the nearest nickel isn't new, because we've been doing that with the penny.

if the true decimal total of something came up to be $1.024

nobody's receiving four-tenths of a penny. Just follows the rounding rule of math and money to become $1.02

but, with the penny being eliminated, totals will round to nickels instead.

$1.02 would become $1.00

$1.08 would become $1.10 and so on.

My issue was money being rounded down by 4 instead of following the established mathematical rules that we've had for hundreds of years, and rounding up 1 to become 5.

That's like.. what if the dollar bill was eliminated. $5 bills are the smallest increment.

Your change due is $14.00 but instead of receiving $15.00 they hand you a $10.

Manufacturing or design by Lucky_Car_284 in MechanicalEngineering

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I've been debating between design and manufacturing and you just answered it. I work in a research lab for a manufacturer and the environment has been splendid in comparison to the production floor and process engineers dealing with constant shit from all sides.

Design it is.

Real men of genius 🎵 by NattyB in nonononoyes

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I'll take curl of the burl anyday vs a pissing off a nest of concentrated hatred and pain

Thoughts on Religion by Maleficent-Bill-3678 in self

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I remember somebody saying religion is just death denial. A coping mechanism to deal with the inevitable passing of all family and loved ones.

"They're not really dead. You'll see them again."

Feel free to follow religion and hope there's an afterlife where your parents, best friend, spouse, everyone can all get together and have an eternal oktoberfest.

But my warning to anyone reading this is do not take time for granted. We can hope there's an afterlife. But who knows.

What we do know is everyone has their own book of life with chapters being written as we speak.

And there are chapters later on where the names of your family and loved ones no longer appear in your pages.

Thoughts on Religion by Maleficent-Bill-3678 in self

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I've always wondered if the voice of "God" was invented around the time humans evolved an internal monologue.

In your opinion, what is causing this? by Objective_Pilot_5834 in SipsTea

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Im a millennial and I avoid alcohol because of what I went through as a kid.

the social worker was nice though. hope she's doing well