This is a huge price drop and everyone with an M18 battery should have one of these: https://www.homedepot.ca/product/milwaukee-tool-m18-18v-lithium-ion-175-watt-powered-compact-inverter-for-m18-batteries-tool-only-/1001588652 I paid like $140 this summer and that was on sale!
The milwaukee M12's go in and out fine. I had some ching chong meow 6 AH M12's that didn't fit as well but they have crapped out now. I definitely recommend bigger batteries in it as it's a bit thirsty. Mine has mostly been used outside for doing work on one of my trucks when the garage is full...
You took it to a shop now bend over. Sorry but that's the reality. At best you find a shop you trust with a shop rate that is $30-50/hr cheaper than the dealer so you know they aren't selling you chit you don't need but you're still bending over. Even a good account at the local parts house...
There are a lot of things around us happening that we cannot control. If we are getting gamed you may as well get rich while it happens. As said above there are a lot of ways to invest but to be diversified the stock markets need to be one of those tools.
Calgary does every time there's a hail storm it's not a big fuckin secret. City of Calgary makes out ok while fringe communities get hammered with golf ball hail
Ah yes Russia, the former USSR, that beacon of freedoms. Remind me again how Putin earned enough as the countries leader to build a multi-billion $ compound outside Sochi? He makes Pelosi look like a dollar store shopper.