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          Considering the shit our current corpos would do to your brain most of the “dystopian” visions from old cyberpunk sounds pretty optimistic.

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          Tbf, there is a small gorup of DIY bio-hackers somewhere out there. I saw a doc about it a few years ago. Nothing like super major but like installing an NFC chip in a hand and stuff.

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                  Not an electrician but I have one of these. While I have used it to troubleshoot electrical problems on occasion (eg- this thing doesn’t have a power LED but I can tell it’s getting power), it’s far more useful for locating and holding small screws. The field sensing bit is somewhat hit and miss. Mine works on microwave ovens, most transformers, some models of anti-theft gate, an electric tram once or twice, and on one occasion, a laptop WiFi card.

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        That’s so accurate, but landlords have jacked up rent so cities are little luxury zones for the rich only so only they can enjoy the few cool things about cyberpunk while I’m stuck living like a medieval peasant in bumfuck nowhere Ohio.

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          First I don’t wish Ohio on anyone, even my worst enemies.

          That still tracks. Us poors can’t even afford the disassociation treats that the movies and books suggested that the cyber-poors would be enjoying. I just wanna be the homeless guy with the beanis-pump gooning himself with VR in the first episode of Edgerunners. Is that too much to ask?

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      The pumps have little screens on the that play adds and yell at you. They used to just use speakers to play the adds to the whole complex, but now they’re right in your face. There’s lots of surveillance, too, since they want to be able to prosecute you if you somehow manage to get gas without paying. It makes sabotaging the screens complicated.

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          We need a commercial point of sale sabotage manual. Like we need to comb through the repair manuals for all these things, all these advertising machines, and determine how they can be disabled quickly, quietly, and with minimal evidence by the “end user”.

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            That’s one of the reasons some advertising and ATMs have switched to panel speakers, there’s no requirement for vent holes for the sound to escape, so it’s pretty much impossible to vandalise. A physical part of the gas pump or ATM becomes the speaker, by being energised by an audio exciter stcuk to the back side of it. If you see something producing sound with no obvious speaker holes, it’s probably using a DML exciter. It’s actually a very interesting technology, a shame it’s being used in advertising.

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                That could make it louder. I’ve built my own set of DML panel speakers, and coating the outside of the panels in a coat of PVA glue enhanced the high frequency sound. If there’s good connection between the epoxy and the surface, and the exciter is powerful enough to energize it with the extra mass of the epoxy, it will still work. Some people even coat their panels in expoy to try enhance the sound in a similar manner to coating in PVA glue. You would have to get the epoxy jammed in on the side with the exciter, which is usually not accessible.

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                Exactly where my head went, but with expanding spray foam to get in and out quickly. Don’t know if that would even defeat these panels though.

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          yeah, I genuinely thought about trying to figure out where the essential components of those were so I could pop a little hole in them with a drill but I decided to stop driving for like a year instead

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      There’s a gas station near me that have the mute button disabled. I refuse to go there and the station I fill up at is 2 miles out of my way.

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    You know what goes great with volatile flammable vapors? Distractions!

    I hope whoever invented that shit stomps on a rake and the rake somehow goes up their ass.

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      One of my favoirte “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” contradictions in modern life is a 50 foot by 10 foot billboard next to the high way screaming “don’t look at your phone pay attention to the road!” On a road lined with brightly colored bullboards. Hell, some are giant animated screens now.

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      Exactly, these aren’t just annoying, they’re dangerous for people with hearing impairments who already have trouble processing the sounds of the world around them.

      I just press every button, starting on the right. Mute is usually the 2nd or 3rd from the top.

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      Everything about cars is treated with this insane level of ease and casualness that nothing else with their level of danger gets, I guess simply because they’re for common civilian use?

      Forklift drivers are held to a much higher standard than car drivers, despite forklifts being much less dangerous

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        only because they haven’t found a way to offload all the externalities of drunk speeding forklift drivers onto the public and the government yet.

        its an insane libertarian thought experiment and not in any way realistic, but if capital owners that built cars, or roads, or whatever, any capitalist really, was liable for all the damage caused by drivers and maintenance incurred by rampant car dependency, and couldn’t offload it, suddenly they’d care a lot more about this shit

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    The person who invented video advertisements with audio on gas pumps needs to be flayed alive

    I also crossed out alive since they are dead for thousand of years at this point, but still.

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      “hey everyone I made some cupcakes and left them In the community center for whoever wants some!”

      Is also techically an advertisement, same thing for lost pet posters etc.

      it’s not necessarily inherently bad, just capitalism hellworld incentives

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        We don’t have many surviving examples but Pompeii walls were pretty full of it too and not really better than today considering differences in development level.

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    those showed up around me a few years ago but now they seem to have mostly stopped, seems like pissing off 100% of their customers every single time they show up may have had unintended consequences over time

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      Yeah, the one by me started doing them around 2019 or so and stopped about a year back. They were loud as fuck too and I’d hear them echoing off the buildings across the street.

      They still do ads but it’s silent slideshows of food and products that are on sale in the gas station store. Still shitty but kind of an improvement I guess?

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        That’s not something I even begrudge them for. Telling me I can go inside to get a soda and snacks in an unobtrusive way is just a sensible thing for a gas station to do. It’s about the same as the decals they have on their windows to advertise that shit