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[–] 55 points 1 month ago (8 children)

"Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. They're going to be tumbling down, and we'll get them down. I think for gasoline we'll get them below $2 a gallon," Trump said Wednesday.

He’s so full of shit.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Incorrect.

    His diaper is full of shit.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    How fucking stupid can people be to vote this turd in.

    Oh right, half of Americans. I hate this country.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Musk probably fucking rigged shit. I don't think half of American voters are this fucking dumb.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Also half of US voters have never voted for him. The US election system is just so fucked up that a minority of voters can elect unpopular authoritarian dumbshits like him.

    Voters in depopulated hick states have more voting power than the majority of the US population living elsewhere.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Time to move to liters eh?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Don't try to bring logic into America. It will not work.

    I think they'd make a new system, which makes about as much sense as the imperial system. Knowing Trump, he'd probably call it The Trump System, wherein 1 Trump will be the highest value you can get to.

    5 Donalds and two thirds of a Baron makes one Trump.

    The lowest value will be one Melania. You need 172 Melanias to get to one Baron.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago

    This is what's really frustrating about being a progressive in the US.

    In 2024, the supposed progressives insisted they had to run as conservatives or they wouldn't have a chance to win. The Republicans, though they were lying, ran on affordability and won a landslide, and they've since used their majorities at every level of government to make life more expensive.

    And all the Dems are doing about it is sternly-worded letters, while doing their best to kill the candidacy of any Democrat who is actually committed to affordability, whether smearing them as an Islamic extremist, a Communist, leveling a weaponized (and evidence-free) SA allegation, or bringing up a tweet from 2012 or something.

    I hate our ruling parties.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I'm old enough to remember when that happened with $0.999 prices. They haven't learned. There are people who like to write the current year as 02026. Maybe they haven't learned either ;).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They will just use high resolution screens now so they can just make the font smaller.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    Dude, the digital price tags in stores. You can't fucking read anything besides the price. The BOGO tiny text, the price per unit, ugh, it's so bad. Some of them even try to cram the "scan the digital coupon QR code".

    I'll be homeless from expensive groceries before I spend the time to install the stupid app and try to scan a QR code while holding a freezer door open to save $0.50 on green peas. Fuck these fucking companies man.

    I'm old enough to remember when tech was making things faster or more convenient. We have fully evolved into the tech dystopia of using our data collection device in the dumbest way to upload even more data.

    Scanning those digital coupons makes me so close to snapping. I stopped. I'll pay the oligarchs the tax for my sanity. I don't want to snap at the grocery store employee that doesn't deserve it. I've been on the edge a couple times.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hexadecimal base (cracking knuckles).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The us could get cheaper fuel my moving to the metric system like we did in the UK when fuel got too expensive

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    damn i oging make new board with more number. money here i come!

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Why not just alter the significant digits? What is the point of this article?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    The digital signs are usually

    A.BC ^DE

    You don't make gas station signs from a massive LCD screen like your TV. That's a huge waste of money when you can accomplish a brighter and cheaper visual that is a simple array of LEDs or even older non LEDs lights.

    Some might not even be able to move the LED that represents the decimal point.

    And if you did you'd have a price that looked like

    10.9 ^59

    Which looks really confusing. Is the price $10.9059? Or $10.9590?

    The point of the article is that gas station signs were designed with the assumption that the signs would need to be replaced long before we got close to having a price near $10 a gallon. It's an example of how insane the cost is now. That's it. I think it's an interesting tidbit. Nothing to be excited about. But not something to be bothered by.

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    [–] 15 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    I paid 3.75 this morning. I get that gas is high, but like… wat?

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    Which is what all of US transport runs on (yes, almost all trains too because railroads decided that electrified overhead looks ugly and needs more maintenance), and is largely the main driver of everything getting more and more expensive.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    For context for others, US is abnormally very low in train electrification compared to other developed countries. It's not zero though, for instance there is the Northeast Corridor which is electrified and the most used passenger train routes in the US

    Here's a map of what's electrified in the US

    And here's it with the rest of the rail network

    Meanwhile here's what it looks like in Europe


    There are now some battery-electric train options if the US wanted to use a stop gap solution to allow partial electrification to more quickly be a line without any diesel needed. Though a fully electrified line would be more ideal for the longer-term

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Those maps are cool. How did you generate or get them?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I did not make them, I just looked up train electrification map and found a site using Open Street Map data. The interface of said site is a bit annoying and I suspect probably AI generated, but if you really want to look at it https://railsmaps.com/usa/electrification

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    Meanwhile, with all the construction happening in the US, traffic keeps getting worse and more crowded, and most of us unfortunately are forced to drive. We dont have other options but to drive, cause are railway system is not feasible unless you live in the overcrowded, overpolluted cities. It may look expansive but its all very closed loop.

    So many of us are even changing our jobs and even moving further out into the country just to get away from the traffic, its stupid.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I remember when pumps and signs only had price digits for cents, and they had to add the one.

    Just like this:

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I’m expecting some gas company to start selling gas by the quart instead of gallons, just so they can cut the price in the sign.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Good point. They sell gasoline by the liter (close to a quart) in many countries. They might just try this.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Haha, no doubt. If anything might convince Americans to go metric, maybe it would be this. "It will cut the (displayed) price of gas to a quarter of the current price!" I can almost see an executive order coming to mandate this.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You absolutely do not need over 4 significant digits to represent a fuel price.

    I'd argue that no price for anything requires more than 3.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    All gas stations (that I have seen) charge you an extra penny per gallon with the 9/10 bullshit.

    It's possible some signs could reuse that space for the real price but i'd guess most electric signage can't.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Canada checking in. Just paid $7.48 for a freedom unit of premium.

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    So much winning

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    $6.70 for 91 at my nearest Chevron

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  • 2 comments in c/usa@midwest.social view that post

    lol we blew right past the I Am Legend prices

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Let’s price it by the pint. That way we can see how expensive beer is and what a racket it is that the glassware doesn’t have mandatory fill lines.

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