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
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
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.
Or it's to fool the review bomb detectors?
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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It’s called civil disobedience??? Felony vandalism sounds like something a narc would say.
Spray foam in any openings lol
'Murica
God. White people steal literally everything
It’s a meme it’s really not that deep. Just say you’re jealous of American technology and want more gambling.
I don’t have $50,000 to drop on solar, byd and bice either.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Of course they get paid to blare ads
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!!
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.
This guy gets it. But ya in fairness you have to have a post office to be considered an actual town. Delivery cars need gas stations. Your rural town is limited to 3 businesses one of which must be a gas station.
they are bitching about prices that are still 75% or so of eu prices
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.
I'm too bicycle and trains to undestand
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.
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!
I bet they won't be.
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.
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.
Correct. Loud, half blown speakers, usually three adds in a cycle. If we just avoid stations that have them.
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.
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
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.
Welp.
BUT....users plugging in at home.....
My driveway? I think not.
I mean it hurts to fill up my 2010 Yaris. Ain’t no F350 drivers here bro we poor poor.
My favourite thing about EVs is when you get a clown with a noisy car who thinks they're fast and then you just pull away from a stop much faster than them with barely any noise.
Fun fact, pass it on, etc! The 2nd button from the top on the right usually mutes the ads. It only hasn't worked for me once.
All the pumps near me disabled the mute button years ago.
Bummerrrr
Bottom left works sometimes too. Basically I go crazy and press all the buttons, and if none of them work then I avoid that gas station in the future lol
I’m fairly washable.
You could have stopped at "ads".
What a stupid fucking world to live in. Just break the speaker with a knife and pay it forward
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 😄
How did I know it was shells Chargers 😂
I've never seen/heard blaring ads on an EV charger.
SHhhhhhh! Don't give Big EV any ideas!
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.
Sheetz plays ada for their food on the pump screens, which, fair enough. I'm okay with "We have sandwiches if you want one."
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.
Video evidence?
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 font forget!!! Your 75 dollars go to an Arab that works with isrealis to kill other Arab. Oh and they fuck little kids....
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.
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.
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.
The pump at my regular gas station used to have a hidden mute button. Hold down the top right button next to the screen and voila no annoying ad noise.
After a a year of this they replaced the pumps and now I cant mute the ads anymore. Sad face.
A well places screwdriver can break the speaker, "oh no I tripped"
"Congratulations, you live in a society."
Still one of the best quotes from the Satisfactory AI.
Yep, I just wanted to be specific about which AI named ADA I was talking about.
It do be like that tho
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.
You sure? I'm not anymore.
Awesome. I'll keep making my stupid face until someone else does something to fix it.
My last tank was $170 and I got generic ads for "soda" nothing branded just "hey buy a cold drink inside" I'll accept that but if an actual external ad plays I put the pump back and goto the next station.
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.
Sucks for many, benefits some. I didn’t vote for this but I’ll participate as it’s legal. Not saying it should be, trying to stay neutral in this one. I spend like $3-$10 a week which o can afford. Just during football season.
Gambling sucks, you're wasting your money. I invite you to get a more interesting hobby, such as drugs.
I do those too, don’t tell me how to have a good time
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Some local hero around here has been stabbing ball point pens into the speakers on them.
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