The person who invented video advertisements with audio on gas pumps needs to be flayed alive

You Americans have this? Good Lord

We are basically a cyberpunk dystopia without all the pizzazz at this point.
- Wheres my damn cyberware? Oh neuralink? Fuck no
- That’s so accurate, but landlords have jacked up rent so cities are little luxury zones for the rich only so only they can enjoy the few cool things about cyberpunk while I’m stuck living like a medieval peasant in bumfuck nowhere Ohio.
The pumps have little screens on the that play adds and yell at you. They used to just use speakers to play the adds to the whole complex, but now they're right in your face. There's lots of surveillance, too, since they want to be able to prosecute you if you somehow manage to get gas without paying. It makes sabotaging the screens complicated.
- That truly sounds annoying. So what next? Ads on the screen of your cars while stuck in traffic?
- Also from what I've seen online some of the gas pumps have switched from conventional speakers to DML panel speakers so you can't destroy the speaker cones.
- And some places around me put mute stickers on the things, but they were forced to take it off by corporate!
There is nowhere you can go in this country without somebody trying to sell you something
Some of the big name servos here in Australia have them too, namely Caltex servos.

The people who take a sharpie and draw an arrow to the mute button are unsung saints.

There's a gas station near me that have the mute button disabled. I refuse to go there and the station I fill up at is 2 miles out of my way.

You know what goes great with volatile flammable vapors? Distractions!

I hope whoever invented that shit stomps on a rake and the rake somehow goes up their ass.

One of my favoirte "you've got to be fucking kidding me" contradictions in modern life is a 50 foot by 10 foot billboard next to the high way screaming "don't look at your phone pay attention to the road!" On a road lined with brightly colored bullboards. Hell, some are giant animated screens now.
- Don’t look at your phone, peasant, it distracts you from consuming our treats
Exactly, these aren't just annoying, they're dangerous for people with hearing impairments who already have trouble processing the sounds of the world around them.
I just press every button, starting on the right. Mute is usually the 2nd or 3rd from the top.
Everything about cars is treated with this insane level of ease and casualness that nothing else with their level of danger gets, I guess simply because they’re for common civilian use?
Forklift drivers are held to a much higher standard than car drivers, despite forklifts being much less dangerous
- only because they haven't found a way to offload all the externalities of drunk speeding forklift drivers onto the public and the government yet.
  its an insane libertarian thought experiment and not in any way realistic, but if capital owners that built cars, or roads, or whatever, any capitalist really, was liable for all the damage caused by drivers and maintenance incurred by rampant car dependency, and couldn't offload it, suddenly they'd care a lot more about this shit

The person who invented ~~video~~ advertisements ~~with audio on gas pumps~~ needs to be flayed alive

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I fucking hate advertisements with all my soul

Learned you usually mute the fuckers. It isn’t marked, but if you hit the buttons on the console, usually the top left or right mute the ad.

Most ones out my way are right hand buttons, third one down in most cases.
- Death to all advertisers, death to america. Glad we can at least shut these fuckers up for the meanwhile though.
Never works for me
that used to work for me but the chains in my area caught on
- I’m sure forcefully subjecting people to advertisements when they explicitly and repeatedly try to shut them up is a great way for a company to make a positive impression

Oh a cutomer let me DIAL THE VOLUME TO 11. NO YOU CAN'T TURN ME OF HEHE! KEEP PUMPING YOUR SLOP!

The person who invented ~~video~~ advertisements ~~with audio on gas pumps~~ needs to be flayed ~~alive~~

I also crossed out alive since they are dead for thousand of years at this point, but still.

brought back from the dead and then flayed
"hey everyone I made some cupcakes and left them In the community center for whoever wants some!"
Is also techically an advertisement, same thing for lost pet posters etc.
it's not necessarily inherently bad, just capitalism hellworld incentives
- We don't have many surviving examples but Pompeii walls were pretty full of it too and not really better than today considering differences in development level.

those showed up around me a few years ago but now they seem to have mostly stopped, seems like pissing off 100% of their customers every single time they show up may have had unintended consequences over time

Yeah, the one by me started doing them around 2019 or so and stopped about a year back. They were loud as fuck too and I'd hear them echoing off the buildings across the street.
They still do ads but it's silent slideshows of food and products that are on sale in the gas station store. Still shitty but kind of an improvement I guess?
- That's not something I even begrudge them for. Telling me I can go inside to get a soda and snacks in an unobtrusive way is just a sensible thing for a gas station to do. It's about the same as the decals they have on their windows to advertise that shit

I go out of my way to avoid these gas stations

Imagine having the wherewithal to track which gas stations are doing this to avoid them, life is hell
Same, but they're getting harder to find.

Wait, you guys don't follow Maria Menudos' podcast?

I genuinely have no idea who Maria Menudos is aside from “That super annoying lady that won’t shut up at the gas pump and before movies start”
Literally who the fuck is this woman and why do people keep giving her jobs where she speaks on camera
- who the fuck is this woman
  That super annoying lady that won’t shut up at the gas pump and before movies start
  it's a narrow niche but it is all hers
Its so weird to see ads in public for a podcast. Id always associated the medium with niche interests for such a wide appeal sort of advertising

flensing knives for everyone

I avoid those gas stations like the plague. I've never seen a better advertisement for electric cars in my life.

- Fuck you're right. E-bikes and solar panels it is.

One gas station near me has had the exact same ones for over a year too

I don't want any TV blaring while I'm smoking cigarettes filling up the ol tank

Expanding foam.

Or if its winter, fill it up with snow

I didn't think they would do a worse version of in taxi ride ads

Unlimited annoyances upon drivers

I waited at a train station where the loud 10 second loop advertisement video lipstick vending machine was beside the ear buds vending machine

Both right next to the seating area

I have never agreed with someone more. I think this everytime I see them

On that matter, Mrs. "just make coffee at home" Menudo should get the wall.

Play around with the buttons. If there are multiple buttons available, press and hold them all down at the same time for a few seconds. I've noticed it sometimes mutes or turns off the ads.

Stab the speakers out with a knife or paperlip