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On the way home from Pennsylvania, I stopped at a gas station I normally use as my halfway point. Gas, take a leak, something to drink, etc.

The station has video screens in the pumps that play garbage like sportsball, tiktok-like things, "news," and other nonsensical crap that isn't relevant to anyone. However, I watched some of the other customers as they were pumping gas. Most were focused on that screen like it was their last link to life, rapt unmoving attention, even past the point where the pump clicked off.

It's no wonder we're in such dire straights right now. Idiots are captured by a video that has no relevance to anything. Programming is complete, I guess.

On the way home from Pennsylvania, I stopped at a gas station I normally use as my halfway point. Gas, take a leak, something to drink, etc. The station has video screens in the pumps that play garbage like sportsball, tiktok-like things, "news," and other nonsensical crap that isn't relevant to anyone. However, I watched some of the other customers as they were pumping gas. Most were focused on that screen like it was their last link to life, rapt unmoving attention, even past the point where the pump clicked off. It's no wonder we're in such dire straights right now. Idiots are captured by a video that has no relevance to anything. Programming is complete, I guess.

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[–] • 0 pt

I dont mind driving my car and using my own tools at all. But I stay close to home most of the time and refuse to do anything far away at all, unless they want to pay through the nose

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That's the problem. They don't. Last time I had a call from them and told them to fuck off, it was $16 an hour.

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I mean if they want me to go a hundred miles away for a job, I tell them that will be an extra $500 and sometimes they pay it, sometimes I ask for $1000 if I really don't want to and sometimes they pay that too. Which kind of pisses me off but I get over it.

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The trick is, if you don't want to do it, increase the price until they say no.