And for the billions and billions of dollars given to Telco companies, we should all have under $10 a month gigabit symmetrical connections to our house […]
One of the biggest thefts from the American people?
(Just one of, of course)
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finley@lemm.ee 10 months ago
In a pack of cigarettes cost a dollar.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I started driving in the 90s. I remember my favorite local gas station closing because their gas pumps could only go up to $0.999
finley@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I can 100% guarantee that that is not why they closed. Adding an extra decimal point to assign isn’t in trouble. Handling an order of magnitude of change to your pricing structure, however, isn’t.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
He had mechanical pumps. It had nothing to do with a sign, the pumps themselves were physically incapable of metering at a rate higher than $0.999.
He was also in his mid-60s and didn’t want to invest in new pumps for the gas station he ran out his front yard.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In the 70s or 80s when gas first broke the $1/gallon barrier, the just put up a sign saying the price was per 1/2 gallon and they’d double the charge when you went in to pay.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
$1 gas station, sweet!
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
So the last comment you made had little to do with reality. Sweet.
0ops@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Jesus Christ, take a walk my friend. No need for that toxicity in a shit post community
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
But Elmer said Cleetus was slack-jawed and pork fat could power a diesel enjun anyhoo, Egbert.
finley@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And all that pork fat made their hearts explode by the time they were 38. So much for Elmer and Cletus. The rest of us learned better and moved on.
dan@upvote.au 10 months ago
I’m from Australia and remember when gas hit $1/litre in the 90s. The pumps could handle it, but the signs only had space for two digits (cents) so petrol stations (as we call them in Australia) had a hand-painted “1” at the start of the price, until they could upgrade the signs.