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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My guess is they had 6% sales tax and she rounded down on the output.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 178 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (15 children)

When you try to hit on someone but your charisma is −5.

[–] lemmm5ter@discuss.online 5 points 19 hours ago

literally me except the hitting on someone part

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 day ago

Being a shitty warlock is a hard life.

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[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 192 points 2 days ago (34 children)

1: This girl seems cool.

2: BATTERIES ARE $220 NOW?!?!

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Went to check if they were cheaper at Walmart, found they were 70-140 for a normal lead acid battery.

It popped up with an ad asking me to do a free month trial of Walmart+ or what not. I was like why would I want this. And the FIRST line wasn't about free delivery, cheaper gas prices or some shit, it was 25% percent off Burger King daily. (Guessing they say daily so you don't stand outside and give everyone 25% off on the drive thru.). But still... Why the fuck is fast food charging so much that they can afford to throw another 25% to Walmart.

[–] Kvoth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't ever buy batteries from an auto parts store. Find a hole in the wall hardware store or a rural king or something like that and you'll get them way cheaper

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

Just go to Walmart lol there's always like 100 free ones in the parking lot

Just need a crowbar and you're golden

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 56 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Just paid 350 canuck bucks for an AGM battery for a regular old RAV4.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

To be fair, they seem to be better than they used to. My car hit 200k not too long ago and still has its original battery. I have no problems with it but I remember having much newer batteries where it was a gamble on cold mornings if it would start. Purely anecdotal though.

[–] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

270k checking in, factory battery

[–] greenhorn@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

My car has 130k and I keep wondering when the battery is going to die, because when I was younger they didn't last this long and I just kinda forgot about it until it occurred to me recently.

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[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Thought for sure this was a Dull Men's Club post

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The price per battery goes up if you buy in bulk? WTF?

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is probably some US nonsense where the battery was $220 without tax, and the value at the register for the 99 batteries was with tax.

Needless to say: 🤢

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or OP meant to say one was $230 and 99 was $22,000.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like this train of thought, but 99 x 230 = 22,770

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The unstated premise being that $22,000 is discounted from $22,770 or OP just remembered the first two digits.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Oh yeah, I like this hypothesis

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is that with sales tax included?

220 x 99 = 21,780

[–] Jayve@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

5.6% sales tax?

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[–] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 81 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wait that’s more expensive per unit than one. Ya gotta throw a dog a bone in bulk.

She’s seems cool tho

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

As a native english speaker this

Ya gotta they’re a dog a bone at bulk

is just aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I feel the math is wrong but maybe I just don’t know enough about car batteries

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 days ago (12 children)

i remember when the same fucking battery was $80

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[–] Ele7en7@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

I did something similar in the early '90s, but it was a carved wooden eagle at Busch Gardens. When I hit the sub total button the P.O.S. system for the whole park crashed because it was around a million dollars. lmao

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