I never saw such thing in canada. But let me guess, you see ads but the gas price is not any cheaper than other gas stations without it?
Correct. Loud, half blown speakers, usually three adds in a cycle. If we just avoid stations that have them.
Ads for gambling should be prohibited, just like those for tobacco and alcohol.
Ads
for gamblingshould be prohibited,just like those for tobacco and alcohol.But without ads, our children and grandchildren will have no idea what to do when they have a structured settlement and they need cash now.
Yeah, I’m with you on that one, but I’m also realistic.
I get ya. One step at a time. I believe there’s value just saying these things out loud, getting it in the zeitgeist, helping people imagine the possibility.
I bet they won’t be.
You must have a really small tank. Last time I filled up (less than a week) it was over 120€ (50 liters)
An air can turned upside down will freeze and destroy a speaker cone while leaving zero evidence.
You can afford canned air in this economy?
Dollar Tree is more expensive per oz than MicroCenter, but having a little can of air around is pretty damn handy, and not a huge investment…
And the only chance I get to go to Microcenter is when I go to work, since it’s near my office, but I’ve been WFH since covid and it’s like an hour and a half from here.
I actually use a rechargeable air blower at home because it’s so much cheaper lol.
Video evidence?
Yea definitely wear a hat and stuff.
Should my license plate wear a hat too?
No, that’s where you put the fake mustache.
…but really though, just do what cops do and tuck a dried leaf in the plate holder to partially obscure it with plausible deniability.
and hope that someone else in the state has the exact same car model/color with plates that match the part of the plate that your leaf didn’t obscure.
Police can get away with it because almost all police cars are identical.
great idea!
that’s what I do to get past the Flockness where they can see the scratches, stickers and mud on your car to identify you.
hope you have your car’s bluetooth and telemetry turned off.
but wait, even if you manage that without bricking your car there’s always your phone.lol the cops are waaaaaaay too lazy to go after you for damaging a gas station speaker.
Park next door?
Or walk, if that’s an option.
You could also stay to the unlit parts of the lot and practice your airsoft aim at the screens.
Park next door right in front of that flock camera lol
they are bitching about prices that are still 75% or so of eu prices
I’m too bicycle and trains to undestand
Most public transit that I’ve ever been on has ads in the stations and the vehicles. Does Germany manage to avoid that?
Here’s what we Americans have to deal with at the gas pumps
We are paying three dollars more per gallon here in Germany because of the stupid war your country started in Iran, while you are largely unaffected yourself because of your own oil production
America just cares about it’s own interests, and every time I see a country work with them, I’m just waiting for the betrayal to come.
The world is still stupid though and believes that Trump is an idiot, despite him accomplishing his every goal. This place is funny because there are a lot of people here unable to think strategically. They think conflicts between countries are accidents and nobody stands to gain anything. :)
Largely unaffected? Our prices have soared since the war in Iran. Our prices were substantially lower before Iran because of our local oil production but it’s very clear to most Americans that our fossil fuel consumption is largely supplemented but foreign oil. And we are seeing the result at the pump. Sorry you’re paying even more but you were paying more than us before too.
You’re still paying less than many of us were paying before, man the fuck up and stop complaining. Literally living in one of the most privileged countries in the world.
To be fair I’ve seen them du this in some french stations. Infuriating tbh.
I’ve started blasting death metal as load as possible when this happens. If my ears are going to be assaulted I’ll just double down with the noise i want to hear. Luckily the pump i go to has never done this so i try and go there everytime.
Some/most gas stations that auditorily assault us like this also have the option to mute the sound. Usually a vertical row of buttons on the right side of the screen, push each button sequentially from top to bottom and the sound might mute.
Usually the top middle button, at least at Shell stations in my experience
Ah yes, maybe that’s why someone along the way recommended pushing all the buttons until we hit the right one 😄
I carry a bluetooth speaker on my chest so that I can crank up my own personal soundtrack whenever unwanted audio is imposed on me. =U
You’re like Iron Man but an asshole on hiking trails
Nah, I actually respect hiking trails. =D
I don’t know if it’s a national app or what but we have ads around here for a gambling app named “JackPocket” and I can’t help but wonder how much the board was giggling about that name when they agreed on it.
They… they have ads in the gas pumps? Do you have to watch the ads before you are allowed to pump?
Drink verification jerry can to continue.
It’s during.
I have legit punched the screens, and pressed all the buttons so hard in, I’m suprised nothing broke.
When it’s obvious from the start you can just drive to a different station (for now), but when it sneaks up on me is when I get angry.
No because then you might realize what’s about to happen and go somewhere else. They wait until you start dispensing so you’re a captive audience, then they blast ads.
Sheetz plays ada for their food on the pump screens, which, fair enough. I’m okay with “We have sandwiches if you want one.”
Some local hero around here has been stabbing ball point pens into the speakers on them.
Theyre smart to that already, most of the ad pumps I’ve run into have speakers hidden inside the housing that you can’t access anymore, and the “bottom left button on the screen mutes the ad” trick is disabled.
At this stage I just boycott those stations, leave a 2 star review on Google and deal with paying an extra 15c a gallon a couple blocks away.
Edit: Jesus Christ y’all are way too quick to jump straight to felony vandalism over fucking advertisements
Edit: Jesus Christ y’all are way too quick to jump straight to felony vandalism over fucking advertisements
Why do you have to do me like that dawg. Instant tears.
Making fun of people for pushing back on something you’re never going to do is cringe
God i hope the gas machine ad venders are not actually billion dollar companies. I wonder whos responsible for the madness? What fucking jackass was like “How about screaming gas stations?” “Ya im talking about ear breaking ads!” and then packaged it up and sold it.
??? The gas station is the company. Of which all are multi billion mega corps that all have openly astroturfed and without denial decided to cause the species of human to end in return for taking the last remaining money from poors for their last death party alone with three hookers that no longer can even pretend to like them
Ah so the oil companies approached the advertisers and were like boy have we got an idea? All gas stations are not multi billion dollar companies lol, the last two local ones i saw change hands went for under $1M and they have local owners, only one had ads, and it was part of the new owners upgrades… so like that was a member of my community who replaced gas tanks to sell ads. It’s clearly worth some money, and was not forced upon them.
It’s called civil disobedience??? Felony vandalism sounds like something a narc would say.
Why not walk on some railroad tracks until you find a railroad spike lying around?
Then you could take that spike and stab the screen. 8 screens taken out, and the gas station can’t pump gas anymore. You’d think they get the message before they get to the 8th. If not? Oh well. Their loss.
And if the train gets you first, then the pain will be no more…
Why not just build your own dirty nuke from parts you got on the dark web and use it to wipe the city block containing the offending gas station off the map completely?
EDIT: Sorry, got to this discussion a little late
Drawing of a man holding sign that reads “I require alt text” with a hat reading “alt text hat” and a shirt reading “alt text shirt”.
I don’t like making my civil disobedience posts too easy for government web crawlers to understand. There are ways to discretely hurt electronics without hurting people or risk a fire.
I mean, I get that the bottom half is meant to be a taser of sorts with that cylinder thing being a common ready-to-go component, I just don’t get what that giant loop of wire is meant to be doing. Is it an attempt at an EMP thing? Doubt this will do anything significant.
The loop induces magnetism
For anyone wondering, that is a home made battery pack:
https://github.com/trisp3ar/BNV-BatteryPack/blob/main/Documentation/BNV-BatterPack Documentation.pdfA fun project for anyone with a 3d printer
explain
Diy emp.
HELL YA BROTHER
A dirty nuke would simply kill the people. You want a home-made fuel-air bomb to really destroy those speakers.
Two stars? That’s generous
Or it’s to fool the review bomb detectors?
Spray foam in any openings lol
Edit: Jesus Christ y’all are way too quick to jump straight to felony vandalism over fucking advertisements
i wouldn’t go as far as prison for it, but fuck that brainwashing garbage.
just set the gas stations on fire huehue
Why not 1 star?
Most people don’t care about 1 star reviews, because they’re often really fucking stupid.
1 star the animals at the national park didn’t come out to greet us please tell them to be nicer to visitors
And font forget!!! Your 75 dollars go to an Arab that works with isrealis to kill other Arab. Oh and they fuck little kids…
“Congratulations, you live in a society.”
Still one of the best quotes from the Satisfactory AI.
ADA?
Yep, I just wanted to be specific about which AI named ADA I was talking about.
About time people in the us pay what the rest of us have for decades
I have yet to encounter a gas station pump that displays ads that hasn’t been wholly vandalized to the point of non-functionality. I think I’d have to find a gas station being built the day they install the pumps to actually see them working. And then I would break them myself.
There are a couple of American Express cards that give you 3% cash back on Gas (including one with a low annual fee, that also gives 6% back on groceries up to the first $6000 spent per year).
That helps.
There’s a gas station chain near me that doesn’t play ads, usually has the best prices, and gives 10c off per gallon if you use their app linked to a checking account…that helps, too.
I miss the days when that was the better deal…
Haven’t seen any vandalized ones yet, but I’m Canadian. Maybe we’re too polite.
Be the change you wanna see.
Well, I don’t want to see vandalism. I don’t want to see ads, either, but you’ve got to buy where the sales are these days. I’m sure not rich enough to be choosey.
some of us charge our BYD electric cars from solar panels on our roof and ride our ebikes charged similarly.
but hey, at least you don’t have that one trans kid playing in the girls soccer team /s
I don’t have $50,000 to drop on solar, byd and bice either.
I just got a 2023 id.4 for 20k, and I charge off the grid.
Right… I drive a 20 year old Toyota Yaris that gets 40mpg, and i drive like 30 miles a week max, more like 15. It cost me $5,000 3 years ago and i pray every day it last another 3 years. Theres absolutely no cost savings for me dropping $20k on an EV to save 50-75 gallons of gas a year. I dropped $10-12,000 on solar to save $4,000 a year on power and heating. One of these is a good use of money one of them is virtue signaling…
Whatever makes you feel better
I got a 2007 A6 Allroad Quattro for 1.8k. Let me know when I can get an EV for that price, with highway cruising range (I get about 1000 km on a tank but I’d find 400-500 acceptable on an EV).
So far the closest and most tempting are old Tesla Model S, which I could get for 15k, but I’m not a fan of touchscreens, I prefer a proper interior. And not sure I should give money to someone who bought a car off Elon Musk and will likely do it again. Runner up is Jaguar I Pace which is super cheap because… Jaguar decided to pretend its old lineup doesn’t exist and is discontinuing parts production.
Even then, being able to charge at home is incredibly privileged. Not everyone lives in a single-family home. I do, but if I didn’t, charging would cost as much as fuel before the Iran war.
Yeah, the 200% charge and extra 10-20k to get it insurable is a no from me.
Solar roof would be sick though.
Yea i started planning one out this spring and opted for DIY. its still expensive as fuck and i hate myself for taking on the project. But i also cant afford to heat my house with kerosene anymore so something had to break. it was my back and my bank they broke. Not to mention Tariff King bumped the prices up on everything 50% or more. It’s worth the peace of mind, but its honestly a 10k adventure.
Where the fuck do you life where you’re heating your house with kerosene?
Or How’d you get a computer with modern internet in 1904?
I bought the place from an 80 year old lady who had weird imitation kerosene lantern lighting from the 1980s, and I have Amish down the road. We do be trying to pretend its 1904 around here as much as possible.
I live in a mobile home in rural maine. Most of rural maine heats with regular heating oil, but if you have to keep your oil tanks outside in the winter, the oil will freeze so you need to pay extra for Kerosene. It’s a poor tax!
It’s pretty common in the North. Older houses built in the 40s thru 60s that have never been fully renovated. Furnaces are surprisingly resilient
The furnaces are awesome, I’m keeping mine for a back up unit. In the more brutal storms and dark winters the solar and the heat pumps start struggling. I imagine i’ll still get some use out of the Old Beast.
A lot of fuels are in use for residential heating in america, and the fuel of choice is usually regional. Example
A lot of homes in the North still use it.
'Murica
'Mercia
God. White people steal literally everything
Hey, leave New Jersey out of this, I don’t pump my own gas!
Exactly, and this is posted (as always) like nothing else exists.
It’s a meme it’s really not that deep. Just say you’re jealous of American technology and want more gambling.
