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…

    • marx2k@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      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.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        We should make a law that any process which requires continuous attention for safety reasons cannot be a venue for advertisement.

      • Schwim Dandy@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        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.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      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.

          • Schwim Dandy@lemm.ee
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            6 months ago

            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.

            • hardaysknight@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              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.

              • Schwim Dandy@lemm.ee
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                6 months ago

                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.

                • nomous@lemmy.world
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                  6 months ago

                  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.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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        6 months ago

        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.