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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Meissnerd wrote: »
    mully what are you doing


    digging a hole
    god meiss i thought we'd established this

    mully on
  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Defender wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    I find it appaling that it is culturally expected in the USA and many other nations to pay a monthly subscription fee for a service which spends billions upon billions of dollars to convince you to waste your wealth on products which largely offer little benefit to your household.

    Are you referring to television? Check this out, man, I have the awesomest counter move since that time Bruce Lee did that flip in Enter The Dragon: I don't watch TV. If there's a show I really want to see, I'll see it on the Internet, like AS:Fix or whatever. I will likely see an ad or two, maybe a banner ad or something, but that's just payment for the show, and frankly I think it's a pretty good deal.

    People get caught up in consumer culture...by which I mean they overconsume...because they are greedy, impulsive, and stupid, and because they spend no time at all on introspection or even critical thought. If you have a brain and some patience, and you use them, you're basically immune to this bullshit.

    I haven't watched TV in about three years but that doesn't mean I can't bitch it's role in society.

    Defender wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    the gas that you're paying 7 cents cheaper for probably has an octane rating 4 points lower then the regular unleaded at the other station

    they sell it cheaper as they purchase a lower grade fuel or don't add their own additives in the tank

    So then your stance is that oil companies are in such harsh competition that cheaper gas, even if it's just a few cents per gallon (7 cents out of a $2.60 gallon is only a 2.6% price drop), certainly indicates lower quality?

    I can go to the gas stations around here, and the only stations that offer anything other than a $0.01 price difference, other than the ones like the Costco stations where they make their money back in you buying bulk shit you don't need, are stations that sell a fuel four or more points lower in octane that stations that have the more average pricing. I would call that lower quality fuel yes, but it had nothing to do with the companies that import the oil and refine it into gasoline it has to do with service station business models.

    Weaver on
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