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

We are basically a cyberpunk dystopia without all the pizzazz at this point.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Most ones out my way are right hand buttons, third one down in most cases.

Never works for me

that used to work for me but the chains in my area caught on

Actively spitting on my face with that even while the money I'm planning to pay them counter ticks up. Can't you settle for the $70 cash I'm about to hand you??

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

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?

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

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

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.

I've never seen a better advertisement for electric cars in my life.

Where I used to be, charging stations all demanded their own individual bazinga apps, which made it so you needed multiple bazinga apps and all their consequent surveillance and advertising clutter on your phone just to charge anywhere outside of your routine.