Idk if this is the right instance for this, but how fucking tired of these forced ads at gas pumps is everyone else?
I’m paying 4 bucks a gallon to have you shove advertising down my throat like an erect cock?
What the actual fuck
Anyone have any good ad blocking practices for this?
I’ve seen duct or painters tape covering the speakers…
You can press a button next to the screen to mute it, but this doesn’t work at all gas stations. (Usually its the 2nd from the top on the right side)
I guess its just time to gettoblast music every time I pump gas like back when I was 19…
It’s a good time to clean your windshield, check your oil/coolant levels, tire pressure and throw any trash away… do you really stare at the pump like a n00bz?!
Oh you’re getting raped?
Why don’t you go over your taxes in your head? Don’t forget those deductions!
You can always recite pemdas in your head, or other acronyms, roygbiv, count backwards from 100…
All in all, if you are getting raped, don’t fight back! Just lay there and take it like a good sheeple
You can’t rape the willing… But if you are dumb enough to return over and over maybe you lack the mental capacity for consent altogether…is there only one gas station you can go to? Are you like a moth that goes towards the light? You know, I can help you get a discounted bus pass for your condition. It seems like it might be the best thing for you ❤️
Tell that to my ex…
She was willing but I still raped the hell outta her
Gotta love people that think the way they live is how everyone else on this planet lives…
I’m sorry my mom told me not to talk to rapists/retards
Is this a thing in Canada yet? Thankfully have never seen it here.
I haven’t encountered it. Maybe we’re lucky and some law prevents it? I find it hard to believe they wouldn’t exploit us further if there wasn’t something stopping them.
This has been a thing in the States for about 15 years, it’s not new. If it’s just now becoming a thing where you live, understand that things like Gas TV, or ads for products or fuel additives were around since the late 2000s and early 2010s
Let’s just pick a day and all smash them at the same time. Sends a very clear message
I have never seen any ads in gas pump over here. But at the equivalent of 8$ per gallon, there is no need.
I would probably bring a really thick permanent marker with me and some chewing gum for the speakers. I’m lucky enough to live in an area that has pretty good cycling infrastructure so I don’t have to deal with that shit. I’m sorry you do though.
Get an EV and you’ll never have to go to a gas station again. None of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.
Volta has level2 free chargers in some of the grocery stores in my area. Pretty big screens. I don’t pay attention to them when I’m charging while shopping.
All of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.
I don’t even have an EV and I have to see the ads on the chargers because they’re in front of the store I’m walking into. So far, I’ve only noticed that at grocery stores, but it’s annoying.
Maybe public ones but the good thing about electric is you plug in and either walk away or sit in your car you don’t need to be outside near the pump to charge.
Watch them start making chargers that hook up to your infotainment system and run ads all the way through your charging session.
Edit: period.
That’s an interesting way to spin the fact that it takes so long to charge that it’s impractical to stand there and wait for it to finish.
If you turned the gas pump down to make it pump slowly enough, you could walk away from it while you wait, too.
Not great for privacy or freedom though
They target the most common denominator. Once EVs are everywhere, look at the chargers getting filled with ads.
Maybe, but I don’t think it’s worth it. With a gas car, you stand idle at the pump for a few minutes making sure that nothing bursts into flames or gas doesn’t overflow. Charging an EV isn’t like that. They’ve got about 5 seconds of your time at the most.
Fast charging is constantly improving though, I wouldn’t be surprised if we reach a point where EV charging improves to a point where it takes roughly the same time as charging an ICE vehicle in the 2030s.
Well, Toyota’s claims about batteries are intended to convince people not to buy EVs yet. They’re going to be SO much better real soon now so just buy another Toyota gas car and think about EVs next time.
It’s just another flavour of the anti-EV FUD Toyota has been spewing for a decade now. They’re also saying that hydrogen is the future and that gas will always be 70%+ of the car market, so you have your choice of anti-EV FUD. Consistency doesn’t matter when you’re running a disinformation campaign.
Lol that would be the ultimate first world problem. Charging so fast it makes more sense to stand at the plug than go into the store to pee.
Still early in the enshittification cycle. It’ll happen eventually.
Super glue in the speaker holes seems like a good solution
I sit in my car.
You aren’t supposed to do that, assuming you’re the one pumping gas. Gas stations are a bad place to generate static electricity, lol.
There was a whole Mythbusters episode where they tried TONS of stuff to get a gas station to go up in flames (they couldn’t, not even smoking a cigarette – under near ideal conditions for an ignition of nearby vapors – per my recollection).
So yeah, I’m sitting in my car (especially if it’s cold outside).
“Static electricity” isn’t somehow more of a concern sitting in your car than standing outside one in a fuzzy jacket.
Cool, here’s a video of a known static electricy ignition.
Hey look… a fuzzy sweater.
I’m still getting in and out of my car. I get in, shut the door, get back out, and close the door. Plenty of metal touched. Sometimes gloves.
Here’s another one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMfxPooeybg
Probably 1 in 10 million (and 2/2 videos where they didn’t shut the car door)… I’ll take that chance.
Dude your name is literally Dark_Arc. Just accept that your destiny is dying in a static electricity fire
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They do engineer the pumps to ground the static charge. That’s what can cause the arc.
You discharge yourself the first time you touch the pump before you fill up.
Getting back into the car defeats the purpose by then grounding you in the presence of fuel vapors, rather than before.
What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense. If you’re engineering something to prevent a spark from a static charge, you engineer it to prevent a spark from a static charge. You don’t engineer it to “ground you at first and then fail” if you pick up a static charge for some reason.
EDIT: And there are a lot more ways to become statically charged than getting in and out of a car (which in a lot of cases isn’t going to give you a static charge anyways – e.g. leather seats on cotton clothes is extremely unlikely to generate a static charge).
Yes, which is why the recommendation is to keep your hand on the handle while pumping or touch a metal part of your car prior to returning to the pump, and don’t get back into a car.
I have a real life degree in automotive technology and engineering, and you saw a Mythbusters episode.
We can keep doing this forever if you like, but you’re still very poorly informed on how safety is engineered into your vehicle fuel system and the mechanisms that support it.
Here is some reading to help you, API recommended fuel procedures (if you’re not familiar with the API just read any gas pump or bottle of oil until you are): https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/consumer-information/consumer-resources/staying-safe-pump
Most important, motorists should not get back into their vehicles during refueling. It may be a temptation to get back in the car for any number of reasons. But the average fill-up takes only two minutes, and staying outside the vehicle will greatly minimize the likelihood of any build-up of static electricity that could be discharged at the nozzle.
The concern (especially when it’s cold since that usually implies dry air) is that a buildup of static energy occurs when your body rubs up against your cars interior.
This concern is usually a bit bigger for younger folks because they tend to not touch any metal parts of their car when getting up, which would discharge the energy while still a decent distance from the nozzle that’s leaking gas vapors.
They need some signs, ‘No pumping gas in fuzzy jackets’
What about gasoline fights? Did they account for those?
I forgot about the epidemic of gas station explosions due to people sitting in their cars.
I mean, it does happen.
If it is of concern for you, you’re going to lose your shit when you find out the risks involved when you actually drive your car.
I mitigate risks when it’s reasonable. Not getting in my car while pumping gas is an easy step to take in order to mitigate a risk. Like buckling my seatbelt.
Can you perhaps share some statistics of explosions caused by getting in a car? No? How about an article of someone blown to smithereens by getting in there car? Not that either?
What you’re feeling better about is the theater of inferred safe practices. The fact that in spite of driving being the top cause of accidental death, you’re ok with but although there is no factual info backing up your fear of getting into your car should give you pause.
Wait do you deny these even happen? Are you serious right now? There’s multiple videos and articles. Like this one:
They put stickers on every pump everywhere warning about static electricity causing fires. Do you think they just put those on there for fun? I bet you’re not vaccinated either, idiot.
I used to do that until the pump failed to realize the tank was full and just kept going.
That’s also why there are signs telling you specifically not to do that.
I just watch the filler from the side mirror. When I feel the click of the disengagement, I hop out, give a ground pat to the pump and replace the nozzle.
That’s my point. When it fails, there’s no click. It just keeps going. Then you’re scrambling to stop the pump as it’s jizzing fuel all over your car’s paint job, the floor, you…
We should make a law that any process which requires continuous attention for safety reasons cannot be a venue for advertisement.
Most of them the second button down on the right is mute, though I’ve been running into some recently that disabled the mute.
Anyway, I sharpie a “mute” next to the button on stations where it isn’t labeled for other people. It’s one bit of graffiti that I’m not at all conflicted about.
This never works for me at any brand gas station. I try it every time.
I’ve had the exact opposite experience. Only once has the second button down from the right not worked. But in that instance it was the bottom right button.
For the pumps that the mute button doesn’t work: carry a small screwdriver, 1/8", flat blade, insert into center of speaker then pull sideways to severe the coil wire.
Or just go to a different gas station instead of vandalizing property that’s not yours.
Great idea, it’s not like every single gas station is riddled with cameras and you have a license plate they can track you with or anything….
Tired of ads at the gas station? Carry a lighter
Can’t have a problem if the problem is atomized. You being right along with it may be a problem….
They too will get the screwdriver treatment!
It doesn’t effect the operation of the pump and takes a three second poke and twist. With no legitimate use of the speaker it would be months before it is noticed. Think they would scrub through tens of thousands of interactions with the pump and find that one person who leaned in a bit? Doubtful, and if so, minor vandalism charge and a small fine for months of quiet peace. Worth it in my book.
Some electronics have a way to test the system if the speaker is functional and can potentially kill the system, so that’s not even remotely true. Also, maybe they have to manually check the pump every morning when they turn the pumps on as part of their start up process.
You are a fool if you think stuff isn’t able to verify and test itself in todays age or they don’t have an employee checking stuff semi frequently…
In either case it wouldn’t be hard to go through a days footage, even easier if the system self tests and tells you when/if the problem occurred.
Not only are they stupidly repetitive, they are loud. They do make me look for other stations. I’ve found I can mess with them sometimes using the home button, it can pause the marketing BS for a good minute.
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."
– Banksy
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That’s why my hobby is firing infrared lasers at soviet early launch warning satellites.
Never knew this was a thing, that better not come over here.
We need to start a movement to show people different ways to vandalize them without being caught, and print stickers to stick on them to show the reasoning behind the vandalosm
Finally a good use of the “I did that” Biden stickers.
lol!
Even better:
Start a movement to build robust cycling infrastructure.
They’ll start putting ads in the bike lanes
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Just you wait. You’ll see “This bike lane brought to you by Chevrolet” in under a decade.
A few more people would probably use bikes, but I don’t see how this solves the issue, no matter how good the cycling infrastructure we won’t see cars and gas stations just disappear. I suspect I don’t see the goals as you intend them, but I don’t see people dropping there kids off at school on bikes or biking to and from a restaurant to eat a steak dinner, not to mention city services and transportation. If your target is really emissions I’d suspect that electric cars and limiting private jets would make more progress.
There is some artist who uses this kind of “road sticker” that is damn near impossible to remove. All that artist does is put a little sticker down of a stylized humanoid form, but that sticker on a fuel pump would probably withstand weather and attempts to remove it.
Any more info would be appreciated
