Go to another gasstation , EVERYBODY
To anybody thinking about vandalizing this thing:
DONT BREAK IT, not the screen, not the speakers and none of its electronics, you can create a shortcut, then a spark and YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF or the next person that uses the pump.
Paint and stickers are the way to go.
Does the ad need to be playing to dispense fuel or would these work just fine if they got accidentally dropped really hard?
a can of black spray paint might do the job well.
Advertising should be illegal.
Very Cyberpunky. The bad parts of Cyberpunk that is.
I found a patch for the problem.
Have you considered vandalism?
Let’s call it disabling or indispose as a public service.
Vandalism ( as they will undoubtedly will frame it) has a negative connotation.
Language used to fit the view of who uses it.
Like ‘regime’ (government we don’t like) or officer involved shooting (pigs murdered someone).Vandalism is always an answer. May not be the right answer, considering the question.
Hey Gina, what do you think would be a good fundraiser to help cover the funding gaps our shitty government leaves us with year after year?Hey Bob, Joey’s getting out of the hospital today and is going to have staggering debt because the purposefully inefficient private healthcare system has so much power over our elected officials.Fuck it, I tried twice. Vandalism is the answer.
Can of cheap spray paint, hit all the pumps at once
considered? always. trick is to not get caught
Here in the u.s they have insanely loud fucking screens that scream commercials at you.
Like volume to the max.
That looks like something that won’t last very long. I could be wrong, but my guess is that, being in the handles themselves, those screens are gonna get busted and they won’t have made nearly enough from ad revenue to warrant replacing them on a regular basis. Here in the US we’ve got them built into the pumps so when you start pumping you get some loud ass commercials.
get yourself one of those emergency glass breakers that are spring loaded.
resist the plutocracy
I’ve started leaving if the thing shows me an ad, I just put the nozzle back the second the ad plays, gets me enough fuel to get to a non compromised station.
The most fucked is full serve stations with the ads. While my windows are up so Im safe, the poor staff have to listen to an entire gas station worth of pumps blaring ads all day.
Vandalize it.
This was reported but I don’t think it warrants censorship.
If you’re taking this more seriously than it should be, just keep in mind that there will likely be legal consequences since gas stations frequently have plenty of cameras and ask yourself if this hill is worth dying on. You’ll get charged and they’ll just replace the damn things anyways.
Lmao, was my comment the only one reported? Because this whole thread is people saying to vandalize it. 😂
Yeah, not sure why yours in particular was the only one, probably timing.
I’m usually not in favor of this sort of thing. But I think there are some instances where that may be justified. This screen serves ZERO public benefit. It’s just there to annoy you. So IMHO doing something like 3d printing a cover that you leave on the screen is a public service.
99% of advertisements serve zero public benefit. Its in society’s best interest to actively hinder them whenever possible IMO.
Advertisement is the ruling classes’ graffiti. Obliterating it is a public service.
I like this take
All right well I hate to disagree but advertisements do support a lot of websites and news organizations, or at least they used to before the tech Giants took most of the advertising money.
The question is not whether they support a business model, it’s whether they are good for humanity. And they are bad for humanity from a socioeconomic perspective because it is labor power spent with negative net use value produced.
Compare it with imperialist wars: they are the business model of the entire MIC, and yet I hope you agree that wars of aggression are bad.
Without ads all news is subscription.
Or we could do the sensible thing and make a few taxpayer-funded news agencies, same as with the rest of public services. UK, Canada and Australia have public broadcasters, and while fundamentally they are still tools of imperialist propaganda they are usually more accurate with their reporting and truthful with their journalism than the billionaire-owned ad-ridden slop.
The rest could then be funded through a mix of grants, subscriptions and volunteers.
Continuing with the MIC/wars analogy: “without MIC and wars to fund it we wouldn’t have done the research for transistors/ICs/microwaves/radar/…”. It’s obviously a false dichotomy designed to normalize wars of aggression. It’s the same here, brainworm slop and paid slop are not the only two alternatives.
The government broadcaster would not work in the United States period It’s bad enough in the UK and Canada comma although I like their public broadcasters to a degree Comma with their Israel bullshit though, and that is just the start. In this country? It would be a fucking nightmare. They would appoint like Fox News producers to lead it.
Sorry, whose infrastructure are these gas pump advertisements propping up? Pretty sure this is just going towards lining someone’s pockets.
I was just responding to 99% of advertisement being whatever. Obviously this one is bullshit, a lot of it’s bullshit. Maybe most.
This screen serves ZERO public benefit.
It’s in a gas station, why would it?
Why shouldn’t it? Or failing that, why should it be there at all? Fuck capitalism, fuck the constant attempt to extract value from every single moment of our existence.
Why shouldn’t it? Or failing that, why should it be there at all?
You answered already:
Fuck capitalism, fuck the constant attempt to extract value from every single moment of our existence.
Agreed.
If you don’t know about automatic metal punches, they’re a great solution to these fuckin’ things. Small enough to be palmed and will punch right through a screen with little effort.
Yep… brass punch. Graffiti mop with a metal tip full of brake fluid/ink combo does some fun stuff too.
Hang on, that’s just a bingo dotter…
edit: God I forgot how much I hate what the graffiti community has become. “Oh just etch your tag in so it will be harder to remove” what fucking dipshit toy came up with that? Did impermanence just get forgotten? Where did the obsession about not getting buffed come from?
As someone who does slaps, I’m no stranger to the idea of temporariness nor do I really try to combat it. My work sticks around then disappears, as I will eventually myself. As for the obsession of not getting buffed who knows, likely born out of the gang affiliated side of graffiti, same boneheads who fight people physically over turf, etc… But since we were discussing obstructive protest I think it’s worth a mention. Speaking of which - don’t get a weed sprayer off of Craigslist and fill it full of paint, that sort of thing could lead to no good.
Thank you for your service.
Fuck me
With a metal punch? That seems kinda… organ-burst-y
This company went bankrupt btw 💯 I can only hope whatever chain decided to try this shit got ostracized too.
Reminds me of the company that did smart coolers for gas station coolers. It cost thousands of dollars and required proprietary service for this display. Idk if anyone is bankrupt but the company that made them essentially stopped supporting them so has stations have worthless screens blocking the merchandise
I saw a bunch of those cooler displays just showing errors/blue screens.
I refuse to look at them anyway and just stand there holding the door open while I browse/decide what I want. They can pay to cool and then re-heat the room ontop of the power costs for those displays.
We don’t have them on the nozzles, but our pumps blare out the audio at hearing damage volumes.
And they wonder why that brand of station is avoided.
Often times you can press one of the buttons to mute it, although apparently some pumps have decided you’re not allowed to decide when you want to hear your own thoughts. Just start pushing the buttons on either side of the screen, chances are one of them will shut it up.
Expanding foam spray in the speaker vents
If I can’t mute them I take my knife and destroy the speaker if its accessible.
They’re kinda hard to get to, but hey, if they want to chase off customers, who am I to stop them?
