some of us charge our BYD electric cars from solar panels on our roof and ride our ebikes charged similarly.
We live in a society...
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hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t have $50,000 to drop on solar, byd and bice either.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
I just got a 2023 id.4 for 20k, and I charge off the grid.
tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yeah, the 200% charge and extra 10-20k to get it insurable is a no from me.
Solar roof would be sick though.
BlindPenguin@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
they are bitching about prices that are still 75% or so of eu prices
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m too bicycle and trains to undestand
return2ozma@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Here’s what we Americans have to deal with at the gas pumps
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
We are paying three dollars more per gallon here in Germany because of the stupid war your country started in Iran
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
To be fair I’ve seen them du this in some french stations. Infuriating tbh.
Lexam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I actively avoid any gas station that uses these.
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Which don't? My whole, small, rural county has them at every pump.
M137@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
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.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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!!
Lexam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Quicktrip doesn’t have them, and I don’t believe Casey’s uses them.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ads for gambling should be prohibited, just like those for tobacco and alcohol.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Ads
for gamblingshould be prohibited,just like those for tobacco and alcohol.ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I’m with you on that one, but I’m also realistic.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks 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!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bet they won’t be.
AugustWest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
alx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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?
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Correct. Loud, half blown speakers, usually three adds in a cycle. If we just avoid stations that have them.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey another reason I’m glad I don’t drive anymore.
We need more public transit, washability, and protected bike lanes.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m fairly washable.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hmm, I would hope so! Also added a correction.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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. I hope it really hurts when you fill up your F-350s
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Soon coming to charging stations.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean it hurts to fill up my 2010 Yaris. Ain’t no F350 drivers here bro we poor poor.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All the pumps near me disabled the mute button years ago.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bummerrrr
Le_Mon2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I try this every time and I’ve never had it work :(
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
Molvorin@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
About time people in the us pay what the rest of us have for decades
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
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.
knightly@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I carry a bluetooth speaker on my chest so that I can crank up my own personal soundtrack whenever unwanted audio is imposed on me. =U
mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re like Iron Man but an asshole on hiking trails
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Usually the top middle button, at least at Shell stations in my experience
Nonprophet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They… they have ads in the gas pumps? Do you have to watch the ads before you are allowed to pump?
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Drink verification jerry can to continue.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And font forget!!! Your 75 dollars go to an Arab that works with isrealis to kill other Arab. Oh and they fuck little kids…
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Yet another EV win 😎😎😎
At least I’ve never seen blaring ads on an EV charger. Nor paid anywhere near $75 at one
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
give it time… give it time
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’ve never seen/heard blaring ads on an EV charger.
SHhhhhhh! Don’t give Big EV any ideas!
drakej@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
I just get back in my car and stare at ads on my mobile ad displaying device (“smart” phone).
portuga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You must have a really small tank. Last time I filled up (less than a week) it was over 120€ (50 liters)
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Black mirror baby
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
A well places screwdriver can break the speaker, “oh no I tripped”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
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 be the first one to see them working. And then break them myself.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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…
baddaywithacamera@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haven’t seen any vandalized ones yet, but I’m Canadian. Maybe we’re too polite.
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
$100… trump is a cancer on humanity’s asshole.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Wish I could get a tank in full of fuel in my wagon for anywhere near 100 dollars. It’s more like 140 euros and not a very big tank. I think that’s about 160 dollarbucks American.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Me setting up my bets for tomorrow, let us do what we do without judgement
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gambling sucks, you’re wasting your money. I invite you to get a more interesting hobby, such as drugs.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It do be like that tho
Kcap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most gas stations in my area have disabled the hidden mute button.
gigaqps@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
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.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
but what if you pay 75 for an actual tank?
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Awesome. I’ll keep making my stupid face until someone else does something to fix it.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Some local hero around here has been stabbing ball point pens into the speakers on them.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Theyre smart to that already, most of them have speakers hidden inside the housing that you can’t access anymore. At this stage just boycott those stations, leave a 2 star review on Google and deal with paying an extra 15c a gallon a couple blocks away.
restingOface@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s called civil disobedience??? Felony vandalism sounds like something a narc would say.
bcgm3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
Zidane@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Two stars? That’s generous
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Spray foam in any openings lol
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
i wouldn’t go as far as prison for it, but fuck that brainwashing garbage.
weps@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
just set the gas stations on fire huehue
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Why not 1 star?