Just went with my mom to a station across the street to stock up on some gas, only to find a huge line going back whole blocks, my heart damn near jumped into my throat
Folks we're in the cool zone
Just give the gas out for free ffs you miserable capitalist fucks. Vaccines need to be shipped. People need food. Fuck who's going to pay for it.
excuse you sweaty, but it is common knowledge that the invisible hand of the free market is the only fair just and equitable way to determine the rate at which goods are transfered! if not for these poor hardworking gas company shareholders and executives, there wouldnt be any gasolines at all! and then where would we be? vevuzela thats where!!
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To be fair, getting ransomwared can happen to public enterprises too. I wonder how in 2021 their it dept wasn't prepared for it ...
Yeah definitely, cause the fucked up thing is they are stopping the supply cause of money, not because there is a problem with the infrastructure
Really training employees is time-intensive and most places don't have the people to do it.
They could literally also do something "reasonable" and just bill their customers based on the last three month's invoices and sort it out on the backend.
This is how utility companies do it -- in particular, that's how the natural gas price spikes were handled during the polar vortex bullshit that froze Texas. Well, outside of Texas, anyway.
Capitalism regularly ceases to function for no other reason than that the numbers are wrong.
Now that's an efficient system.
Me when Ever Given was stuck in the Suez Canal : :sicko-beaming:
Me when I'm a mm above E and can't get gas because the trucks aren't moving: :sicko-no:
Me using this to radicalize my community around electrified public transportation
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lol the stations on base were operating normally, this solidifies my belief the US will end up a military dictatorship, like hell they'd let their own gas tanks run dry
As dumb and awful as that show “Revolution” was the prediction that post collapse US will be carved up by weirdo military leaders with a shit understanding of history and a hard on for violence was pretty accurate.
Super pumped for my home town to try to do the isolated guarded suburb thing from snowcrash but fail miserably
I don't care what anyone says, the 70s was the best decade. Gas lines, zero faith in government institutions, funk, prog, American brutalism, cookie cutter multipurpose sports stadiums, openly corrupt heads of state, New York as an innovative city/landfill hybrid.
Reject 80s nostalgia, embrace browposting
It was also the peak of Soviet influence and communist movements around the world.
Also, I'm fucked for work if this continues, but we have access to the local military base, so maybe we can stock up there
Why this dumb fuckin country have to fall apart on my two days off, I just wanna game for god’s sake
Bruh we've passed four stations, EVERY SINGLE ONE, it's lookin like hush hour out here, lol everybody had the same idea
Can't believe I'm saying this.....but the US military is my only hope :desolate:
Yeah like wtf isn't the main reason we have the military to control the flow of the black blood?
Sure, but they will still miss like a day or two of sales for this, which may or may not be more than the reduced profits from temporarily hiring functionaries or whatever
Yeah I'm scared I'm going to find a line at the station down the street tomorrow morning. What's the government's plans anyway to deal with this? Is darkside asking for a ransom?
Shock doctrine deregulating a semi full of petroleum into a Montessori school.
If there's a gas shortage does that mean I don't have to go to work? or does it mean I have to stay at work 🤔
My loop only goes to the parking lot of the LA convention center, and somebody made an awfully big mess out there!
The pipeline runs from Houston to NY, from what I can tell, the closer you are to Florida, the worse off you are.
the closer you are to Florida, the worse off you are.
Good rule in general tbh
