this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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[–] uzziah0@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

When they were building the station near us this was what they put on the sign until they opened.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This prophecy sucks, what else ya got?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 1 hour ago

They could move out of California.

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 hours ago

What have you done!? You can't just speak the deep truths like that!

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 40 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It is sorta funny watching Americans pay gas prices that many parts of the world actually already paid.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We have poor public transit and on average longer commutes. That makes it hurt the average person a lot more

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget the absurdly big and fuel-hungry cars.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

That's mostly fueled by cheap fuel (heh) .

Toyota really started to take off in the 70s when oil got bit more expensive.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 21 hours ago

What's ironic is that for most of America they're paying those amounts on top of government subsidies

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 17 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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 2 points 1 hour ago

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 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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 points 9 hours ago

For unleaded? Diesel cracked 3 buckeroos in most places

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

Same here in the UK.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

I call BS - I have never seen gas prices (in the US) that don't end in a "9".

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's allowed if all the digits add up to 9.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Gas price gematria

[–] vardogor@mander.xyz 12 points 19 hours ago

there's a snopes on it for some reason, was just on the sign to promote the store's opening

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I've seen all the other numbers for the least significant digit up here in Canada.

Though $7.11 per L would be crazy.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 35 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

seems worse to me if anything. unless OP used to be worse and they switched it

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Might be getting compressed by Lemmy

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 22 hours ago

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 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 7th-11th son of the 7th-11th son.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago
[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Bread@sh.itjust.works 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The sign says 7 eleven so I am going to gamble on it being there.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The end of days? Or a new color mtn dew? Can't keep these straight.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago

So mote it be.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

ᔆʸⁿᵉʳᵍʸ

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sweet, is this when the dinosaurs come back to life and get revenge on us for using oil?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 17 hours ago

Why, did they want it?

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

Haha! Aha. Ooh, ouch