Me setting up my bets for tomorrow, let us do what we do without judgement
The damage gambling does to society in general and families specifically is horrific. It’s one of those things that hotwires the reward systems of a persons brain as surely as alcohol or opioids. And it’s so casual, gambling, especially at this level, finds the people who are susceptible, and exploits them until they are rung out like a dry cloth.
You may be one of the people who can just casually gamble, and not understand why it’s so crazy destructive, or you could be 10 toes in a downward spiral, there’s no way for me to know.
This period of legalized gambling is going to go have a body count at the end of it, a huge one.
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.
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?
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
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.
It’s called civil disobedience??? Felony vandalism sounds like something a narc would say.
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.
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.
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
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
just set the gas stations on fire huehue
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 1 star?
Most people don’t care about 1 star reviews, because they’re often really fucking stupid.
Spray foam in any openings lol
Black mirror baby
I just get back in my car and stare at ads on my mobile ad displaying device (“smart” phone).
'Murica
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.
It do be like that tho
I actively avoid any gas station that uses these.
Which don’t? My whole, small, rural county has them at every pump.
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!!
We had a store like that, but it closed a couple of years ago. It was also the highest priced gas for the three closest stores.
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.
🤣 it happens.
USians don’t riot.
We do black friday mob shopping instead, some of you will die without having punched an old lady trying to get her grandchild a gameboy, and it shows.
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.
Oh. We have independently owned, but they play ads, too. I wonder if they get an incentive compensation for doing that.
Thank you for replying.
Of course they get paid to blare ads
Quicktrip doesn’t have them, and I don’t believe Casey’s uses them.
🤯The QTs a few villages over in either direction here have them!
Oh suck!
100!
Hey another reason I’m glad I don’t drive anymore.
We need more public transit, washability (*walkability), and protected bike lanes.
ETA: hah, great autocorrect, keeping it!
I’m fairly washable.
Hmm, I would hope so! Also added a correction.
Chalk up another one for those gay, librul pansy ass effeminate electric cars…or something like that.
Let me be clear…obviously this is not an option for everyone…but a big schadenfreude filled fuck you to anyone who fell for the obvious propaganda about climate change and electric cars 10+ years ago (edit: *and still chooses to feel entitled to cheap gas). I hope it really hurts when you fill up your F-350s
I’m glad I was able to get an EV. Its great for my anxiety never having to wrangle busy gas stations, and the vast majority of my trips are short enough that the home charger is all I need.
I mean it hurts to fill up my 2010 Yaris. Ain’t no F350 drivers here bro we poor poor.
Soon coming to charging stations.
My driveway? I think not.
I hope not.
The logistics of charging stations means not having to be standing next to the station for minutes at a time. Doesn’t seem like a big difference but gas pumpers are a captive audience more than chargers
Wait for ad to end to be able to press the “start charging” button
Ffs, don’t give them ideas.
Welp.
BUT…users plugging in at home…
Wait for you to have to stop by the charger every hour to watch a new ad, and then see it fixed by a smartphone app that lets you view the ad on your phone to keep the charger on.
You could have stopped at “ads”.
Most gas pumps that do that have a way to mute them. It’s usually the second button from the top of the four on the right hand side. Sometimes it’s the top right button, but most of the time it’s the second one. Enjoy the silence. Oh, and also if you press and hold 2 on your microwave, you can turn the button pressing and beeping off. Silent microwave is the way to go.
Most gas stations in my area have disabled the hidden mute button.
Oh, and also if you press and hold 2 on your microwave, you can turn the button pressing and beeping off.
My microwave starts a 2 minute cycle. Do I have to hold the button until it’s done?
Hmm, it may be different from model to model, maybe give it a Google, but generally it’s just number 2 for only a couple seconds though.
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Awesome. I’ll keep making my stupid face until someone else does something to fix it.
