Marketing is in large part what necessitates marketing to begin with.

ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 268 points –

A few genuine signals quickly become noise as everyone tries to be heard, demanding more and louder signals to stand out.

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Most gas pumps have a button you can press to mute the obnoxious ads. Usually second down on the right.

It varies. At one place I used to go to, you could mute them. But they disabled the mute button, so I stopped going there.

At a different place, I accidentally went into an admin menu (by pressing several buttons at once) and that made me nervous, so I stopped screwing with the buttons. While it's very tempting to try and hack them, everything is on CCTV now. It's probably a crime here in the United States of Corporatism.

Fortunately there are still gas stations close to my job where I can fuel the vehicle in relative peace. I'd rather give those places my business.

I need to sort which ones by me don't have ads. It's the jarring audio at 5:30 am when I haven't had coffee yet that just sours my mood.

They have AUDIO?

jesus fuck

Please don't make this a thing in Canada please don't make this a thing in Canada please don't make this a thing in Canada please don't

Yeah, I was visiting Seattle at a tram stop, I could hear an ad from a gas pump going off from halfway across the street... obnoxious af.

I’ve been trying every button on the pumps I’ve been to and none of them work. I think advertisers are onto us.