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Gas is cheaper than milk, Thats kinda fucked considering gasoline is finite
The fuck? Milk is 2x to 4x cheaper ($0.50-$1.00) than the most common gas, Natural 95 ($2.10) here. I thought you’d get something from those crazy “Got milk?” dairy subsidies…
(Multiply by 4.5 to get US units rather than liters)
High fuel prices is a good thing and a 32" TV shouldn’t be that cheap.
How have TVs gotten so cheap. It’s gotta be shit.
They stopped making them out of gasoline.
Boy you are gonna be shocked when you learn about where plastic comes from.
Nearly all tvs are smart tvs that make money with showing ads and selling data. Any loss on the hardware is made up on selling customer data and ad space. The tvs would be amazing if they didn’t come with smart features.
did this happen recently? i got mine in 2019 its enormous and all it does it turn on and lets me play xbox
The build quality is not great, they saved on backlight heatsinking so the LEDs will bake and delaminate, causing dark spots, discoloration etc.
TV?No, it’s just a big display
Is there any way to lobotomize these smart TVs? Even the specs on a cheaper mid-range would blow my current dinosaur out of the water
Never connect them to the internet
You want your favorite streaming service on there? Get an older (used office) PC, load it up with (your prefered flavor of) Linux, get a bluetooth keyboard mouse combo, hook it up to your HDMI port, and go ham.
Some TVs even let you turn them on directly to a specific HDMI port for a bonus fun time of never having to see the TVs menu.
Don’t connect them to the internet.
True, I’ll probably end up going that route when this one dies (assuming they don’t all require sign in and heartbeats at that point)
Was hoping for something like a FOSS OS just for the convenience of keeping jellyfin up to date and cleaning up the useless baked in apps.
This probably exists, or at least I hope it does
Use an external media player. Personally, I use a roku routed through a pihole.
I’m guessing it’s all advertising deals and spyware. Oh, and the TV is still shit.
Yea, TVs are all “Smart” now. But they don’t have any truly new or useful features, they just record your conversations and transmit occurrences of keywords as “usage and diagnostic” data. I guess now they can use wifi to do occupancy scans of your house too, so that’s fun. Oh and they use Bluetooth to scan for nearby devices that are willing to cooperate in case you don’t put them on the LAN and they transmit that way.
Anyway, TNG has left Netflix. Can you fucking believe it?
TNG left Netflix like eight years ago… 🦜Yarrrr
My blu-ray set is still on my shelf.
Telly is a TV you can pre-order, which is completely free but apparently pays for itself with all the ads it will display lol
They externalize their true cost to the environment and laborers.
Don’t forget ads! They’re also subsidized by the ads they’re definitely going to inject if you use the built in OS.
Usually the cheap ones are so cheap they don’t even do that.
In both cases. We don’t pay nearly the real cost of gasoline.
They’re single use and throwaway, with the bonus of spyware. Like everything made today. Everything.
Well the gas would be cheaper if they could somehow make it contain advertising and data theft
Oh wait till you find out about how modern cars are mining your data, including facial recognition and reporting of you are having sex in the car! And the best part it’s all unregulated! Govt can simply buy the info for tracking even your Phone would be jealous of!
As someone who makes that software that does this, we can’t even figure out how to properly handle the data we actually want, like analytics to see if anyone actually uses the auto feature on your air conditioner. Nobody actually cares if you have sex in your car. Besides you’re on Lemmy we know your aren’t having sex.
Why is it all in the terms of service? Also there have there been numerous data leaks. The sex thing is from a specific manufacturer m’s TOS, but nonetheless
I love it when the government finds out when I have sex. It’s so romantic – just me, her, and the CIA.
It depends, if it out of the country it’s you, her, and the CIA, if it’s inside the US, it’s you, her, and the NSA
Sounds like a song title “it’s you, her, and the CIA”
Sounds like something chef would sing.
It’s a party in the CIA
Don’t know which one I prefer as a cuck tbh
Why not both?
Never been happier to have a base model car from 2012
Never been happier to have a car that can’t even be sold in the US because it can’t connect to any form of network.
Somebody forgot all previous instructions and dropped those straight facts.
Ohh that is a great idea. We can put different markers in different brands and then detect those markers in a customer’s breath to tell what brand they are using on the fly.
Then when you develop cancer from exposure we can use this information to market other brands. After all, why would you use Shell gas if it gave you cancer when you could use Exxon instead.
Where in America do you have gas pumps that don’t have ad TVs or ask you for your zip code?
Very few of the ones around me have the built in ad players. Several stations blare ads (inevitably largely for themselves, curiously enough) over the PA system constantly, though.
The ZIP code thing is for credit card verification. I ask for that too, when you pay me by credit card. I don’t have a choice unless I’d like to enjoy zero fraud and chargeback protection.
Lots of places now
You don’t get ads on your gas pump?
They don’t exist in my country, and to be frank, I’m shocked the ones in the US aren’t vandalised to hell and back by masked vigilantes at night.
The pumps do
Yeah gas should be a lot more expensive.
Gas would be more expensive if it wasn’t subsidized.
Why is your fuel so cheap??
Because the US is the largest exporter of petroleum products in the world.
Norway exports far more than they use, and petrol prices there are among the highest in the world.
That is a policy decision. In places like Saudi Arabia, gas is cheaper than water.
Norway, correctly, invested more into public transit and EVs, and high gas prices encourage that.
US fuel is heavily subsidized compared to the rest of the world.
And assholes, but I saw a pack of hotdogs for 10 bucks today here in Oklahoma
There was a Planet Money episode that broke down where the $4/gallon went in 2022:
$2.40 for the price of crude oil when priced at $100/barrel.
$0.65 to the refiner that turns crude oil into gasoline (this was the prevailing spread in 2022, maybe different now).
$0.184 in federal taxes
$0.30 in state taxes
$0.20 to $0.50 for transportation from the refiner to the actual retail station.
Remainder is for the retailer (usually about $0.30 but fluctuates wildly).
That’s how it is in the U.S. In other countries, it might be higher taxes, higher cost of refining, higher costs of transportation from the refiner, and higher margins for the retailer.
Political choices and lobbying
Low taxes, high production, and government corn subsidies.
I was thinking that. Hot fuck is that cheap.
I can’t tell if you’re from outside the US, or from California.
Ha. But am outside, and an online calculator says the price here converts to $9.08 a gallon for diesel. And that’s cheaper than it’s been recently.
I guess there has to be something positive about the country.
Probably before VAT.
Nope. Gas pumps are one of the only places in the US where the price as displayed includes taxes.
Because otherwise it would just be confusing? So let’s have two systems instead.
I mean if the US could get away with a more confusing system it would
ehh, why not? electronics got really cheap.
Nah its a ad delivery and surveillance device that you pay for, like the superbox but less nefarious https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/
The price of the TVs hadn’t caught up to the price of energy and other commodities that are used to manufacture and transport them. We will be seeing that inflation hit over the next 6 months
And I think you shouldn’t be driving a giant gas guzzling SUV or truck.
I filled up a family members Rav4 the other day. It was $96.
Not exactly the best car, but hardly a gas guzzler. Or maybe it is, idk. I normally drive electric.
Even my motorcycle is $25 to fill
i took a chance last year and bought a honda ruckus for daily driving. it pays for itself in the gas im saving, i spend abt 10 bucks a month for gas. i hope to upgrade to a real bike at some point but for now i will enjoy the 100mpg perk.
can i ask what you ride, and the mpg?
Honda ruckus hell yeah I love those things! Sv650 and I get 60mpg (edit wrong acronym)
oh i like that, reminds me of the honda hornet! i was wishing i had the budget for one of those lol
Yeah I mean at these prices even a lawn mower might cost $10 to fill
I follow a lot of lawn care YouTubers
More than a few commenting about raising prices and canceling contracts of customers not willing to pay enough to cover it
Its not an insignificant difference either, like +$40 on a weekly cut for a quarter acre lot. That’s between a 35-50% price increase depending on the market of the people I’m watching
The trucks to get there being the big portion of that increase not the mowers, but certainly the mower/trimmer/blower opex increased as well
Regardless though anyone not running primary electric rigs are definitely hurting right now
Those who invested into it early, and especially those who got State and Govt incentives, before the current administration shut them down have a massive opportunity to cash in over at least the next ~2 years while this settles, keeping their prices just below whatever their competitors have to charge until their routes are fully booked while those running gas are forced to raise prices and renegociate contracts to maintain profits
+$40 on a weekly cut for a quarter acre lot. That’s between a 35-50% price increase depending on the market of the people I’m watching
bruh is deep in the lore…
My CRV takes 10 gallon when it’s on empty. and gets 32 mpg. Just saying.
we’ve been going backwards on fuel efficiency. the little compact i had back in the early 90s got over 40mpg.
Because we discovered that running the engine lean and hot for maximum efficiency creates NOx and we don’t like acid rain.
Greenpeace modified a compact car with off-the-shelf parts in 1996 so it could get 68mpg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmILE
I think the gas was in the 6.50 range? Idk.
The display say 17.624 gallons. That is a full size SUV or truck.
That’s like 68 litres. My current sports car and my last 3 sedans have all had bigger tanks than that.
Not necessarily. My 4-door sedan holds 18 gallons. It’s 12 years old now. Maybe they’re making them smaller now.
Just saying its less than what I paid for what I would consider to be a “standard”-ish vehicle?
I don’t think a rav4 stands out as an interesting vehicle.
Could be a labourer. I didn’t see much point in trucks and such before but now it makes sense for some to have them.
80 bucks to fill up my minivan.
17 gallons is 64 liters, that’s a midsize sedan tank.
Yeah you should not drive a tank either. Even if it is midsize.
some people have a buttload of kids to haul around. generalizing this topic isnt helpful
Companies that sell TV sets actually lose money on the sale. They make their profits by selling your data to advertising companies.
Vizio TVs won’t fully function until you sign in with a Walmart account. They sell your data and shove ads in your face.
So do gas stations.
You got a “points card”? Guess what? A lot of pumps play ads directly at the pump too.
Usually one of the eight buttons is mute button.
That TV was manufactured unethically.
Meanwhile, the gasoline produced to support the native peoples of Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.
32” is tiny and even at $3 a gallon, that fill would be over $50.
I’m not really seeing the argument here tbh. It’s apples and oranges.
I agree when it comes to an onn TV. It should be the same price as a name brand TV.
