Counterpoint - the US is killing for this price. We've been at war in the middle east the vast majority of my lifetime, in no small part driven by wanting to control access to and profits from oil.
We're going to need a reverse Jurassic Park...
Man brings back dinosaur, dinosaur wakes up working on an oil farm, dinos find out they are the oil, dinos help other dinos escape, dinosaur use man's machine to get thumbs. Dinosaurs take back the world.
And there's the plucky comic relief best friend dino, he put one of his thumbs on backwards (haha) so it always looks like he thumbs-down good ideas.
In the climax our hero makes a big decision. Looks to the plucky best friend. The best friend locks eyes. Moves his dino arm up and -
Gives a thumbs-up
When the slow moon passes the lion's third claw,
And the basin of Venus is drained of its tear,
The great vessel of men shall split without war,
Not by fire, but by silence, shall vanish their fear.
Oh don't worry, humans are too stupid to understand what that means anyway. People will just ascribe it to Nostradamus or aliens and then make shit up about what it means.
38 Comments
tempest@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 108d
It is sorta funny watching Americans pay gas prices that many parts of the world actually already paid.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 25 pts · 108d
What's ironic is that for most of America they're paying those amounts on top of government subsidies
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 108d
We have poor public transit and on average longer commutes. That makes it hurt the average person a lot more
brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 108d
Don't forget the absurdly big and fuel-hungry cars.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 107d
That's mostly fueled by cheap fuel (heh) .
Toyota really started to take off in the 70s when oil got bit more expensive.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 35 pts · 108d
Higher quality version
Edit: wtf when I initially looked OP was like 200 pixels and now it's normal resolution
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 108d
seems worse to me if anything. unless OP used to be worse and they switched it
tdawg@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 108d
Might be getting compressed by Lemmy
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 108d
Both are perfectly readable to me, Perhaps that other user had some issue that showed him a low-res version. Federation isn't perfect.
sundray@lemmus.org · 25 pts · 108d
The 7th-11th son of the 7th-11th son.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 108d
OH oh ohOH
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 108d
I call BS - I have never seen gas prices (in the US) that don't end in a "9".
vardogor@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 108d
there's a snopes on it for some reason, was just on the sign to promote the store's opening
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 107d
It's allowed if all the digits add up to 9.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 107d
Gas price gematria
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 108d
I've seen all the other numbers for the least significant digit up here in Canada.
Though $7.11 per L would be crazy.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de · 19 pts · 108d
Germans would still kill for this price. 7.11 USD/gallon is something like 1.60 EUR/liter. We’re currently way above 2 EUR/liter.
Taokan@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 107d
Counterpoint - the US is killing for this price. We've been at war in the middle east the vast majority of my lifetime, in no small part driven by wanting to control access to and profits from oil.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 107d
Damn, if my maths is right it would be 2.59/l aud, my closest station atm is at 1.80/l and hit a high of 2.30/l
YeahToast@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 107d
For unleaded? Diesel cracked 3 buckeroos in most places
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 107d
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 106d
Your mistake was pricing in liters and not gallons ;)
P s y c h o l o g y
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 108d
The end of days? Or a new color mtn dew? Can't keep these straight.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 108d
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 108d
So mote it be.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 108d
ᔆʸⁿᵉʳᵍʸ
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 108d
Sweet, is this when the dinosaurs come back to life and get revenge on us for using oil?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 108d
Why, did they want it?
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 108d
We're going to need a reverse Jurassic Park...
Man brings back dinosaur, dinosaur wakes up working on an oil farm, dinos find out they are the oil, dinos help other dinos escape, dinosaur use man's machine to get thumbs. Dinosaurs take back the world.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 2 pts · 108d
And there's the plucky comic relief best friend dino, he put one of his thumbs on backwards (haha) so it always looks like he thumbs-down good ideas.
In the climax our hero makes a big decision. Looks to the plucky best friend. The best friend locks eyes. Moves his dino arm up and -
Gives a thumbs-up
sanitation@lemmy.radio · 2 pts · 107d
Bread@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 107d
The sign says 7 eleven so I am going to gamble on it being there.
cm0002@europe.pub · 3 pts · 107d
Chicago https://www.kuow.org/stories/no-this-7-eleven-isn-t-charging-7-11-for-gas-even-if-the-internet-says-so
uzziah0@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d
When they were building the station near us this was what they put on the sign until they opened.
Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 107d
This prophecy sucks, what else ya got?
Kaligalis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 107d
When the slow moon passes the lion's third claw, And the basin of Venus is drained of its tear, The great vessel of men shall split without war, Not by fire, but by silence, shall vanish their fear.
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 107d
What have you done!? You can't just speak the deep truths like that!
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 107d
Oh don't worry, humans are too stupid to understand what that means anyway. People will just ascribe it to Nostradamus or aliens and then make shit up about what it means.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 107d
They could move out of California.
0ops@piefed.zip · -3 pts · 108d
Haha! Aha. Ooh, ouch