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[–] 124 points 1 month ago (35 children)

Some local hero around here has been stabbing ball point pens into the speakers on them.

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  • [–] 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (34 children)

    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

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

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (8 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    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.

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

    ???? 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

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't understand what you think you are saying, just that it's wrong

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    Whats wrong. I was asking how all the gas pumps got ads. I was asking why some did not have ads. I responded to a comment by repeating my understanding of what they were trying to explain to me.

    And here comes you Captain Moron swooping in to say some negative shit of no consequence, so now i can't even insult you because you gave me nothing to go on other than being a vauge fucking asshole who probably reads at a third grade level?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    You're saying the gas station down the street from me did get sold from private owner to private owner? That it wasnt worth what it sold for. The little old lady that owns the gas station down the street from me is a billionaire? whats wrong moron?

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

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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".

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

    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.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    I actively avoid any gas station that uses these.

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

    Which don't? My whole, small, rural county has them at every pump.

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

    Read that as "country" and was confused, because this is a very 'Murican thing. Not saying it doesn't exist at all elsewhere, just that it seems to be extremely common in the US and not so anywhere else. There would be riots in a lot of countries if they even tried this.

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

    In my area it’s only the major chains. The privately owned ones don’t, but I think that’s just because their pumps are too old.

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

    Quicktrip doesn't have them, and I don't believe Casey's uses them.

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

    🤯The QTs a few villages over in either direction here have them!

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

    My small rural town, which is clearly thee more smaller and ruraler than thou.... still has a 1970s style pump with the big flip up handles and you have to stop it yourself and the numbers are on a physical wheel that rolls. Better think twice before claiming rural there city boi!!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Rural town near me has 3 gas stations, and they all have them.

    They're also all owned by the same guy and the prices are like 60-70 cents higher than any of the neighboring cities, but since it's 20 miles to a station he doesn't own he gets away with it.

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

    Your rural towns have gas stations? Can you even call it rural at that point?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)
  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Ads for gambling should be prohibited, just like those for tobacco and alcohol.

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

    Ads for gambling should be prohibited, just like those for tobacco and alcohol.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    There was once a campaign going that had billboards like: no more cigarette ads? Next they ban ads for (some sausage) and i just thought: yeah, ban them too, and any other ad.

    I assume these people exist, but who the fuck sees that and goes: NOT MY SAUSAGES!! Or: NOT MY ADS!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Are you saying ads for tobacco and alcohol are prohibited on gas pumps? Because ads for alcohol are all over every advertising medium in existence.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Depends on where you are.

    Where I am, alcohol, tobacco and gambling were all prohibited in advertisement, then gambling had a pass (because those making the laws are most likely in the pockets of gambling execs), but it looks like it will get prohibited again.

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

    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?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

    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

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

    I don’t have $50,000 to drop on solar, byd and bice either.

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

    I just got a 2023 id.4 for 20k, and I charge off the grid.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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...

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

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Yeah, the 200% charge and extra 10-20k to get it insurable is a no from me.

    Solar roof would be sick though.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

    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.

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

    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?

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

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    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!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    You could have stopped at "ads".

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