Someone sent me this one recently, and the lyrics are interesting.

“Rich Men North of Richmond” by Oliver Anthony

Follow-up question for Americans : what happens if you pay for, say 50$ and end up only filling up 40$? Can you go back to the cashdesk and ask for a refund on the difference?

In all EU countries I drove trough, the pump doesn’t auto-start when you unhook the nozzle from the pump. I think the cashier has to manually allow it to start, from their control system/computer.

So I suspect they glance at clients through the shop’s window/cameras, and they don’t start the pump if you look shady (hooded, no plates on vehicle) and they suspect you may run it off.

For example if you ride a motorbike, the cashier sometimes doesn’t start the pump until you remove your helmet / uncover your face (allowing cameras to see your face).

And yes, after filling-up you then need to go pay at the desk. There can be a waiting line if there are more pumps than open cashdesks.

You could easily tank then gun it. But there are cameras everywhere. They have your face & plates.

there a pumps with no human on site at all.

For these we need to swipe a payment method before the pump starts. It locks a sum on your card, say 200EUR, and when you hook the nozzle back it adjusts the payment transaction to only the amount consumed and debits you.

Thanks for the responses.

TIL: Americans pay first, then fill. Now I can understand how you could easily get distracted once it is in and locked.

To clarify : this is absolutely impossible to accidentally happen in the EU, because the payment transaction isn’t completed until the nozzle is placed back onto its support (that’s when the pump shuts off).

We also have trigger-locks on EU pumps.

I saw yet another online post of someone driving off, ripping the whole station off the ground, starting a fire…

We also have trigger-locks on EU pumps.

In the EU the nozzle handle also has a lock-in mechanism. But it looks like the main difference is that in the EU we can’t pay until the nozzle is placed back on the support. That’s what stops the pumping. Until then you’re still paying.

Yeah, same here (most of Europe).

But I think Americans pay first then fill.

I self-host a SearXNG instance and it works really well.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker

Quelle horreur…

Merci pour le partage.

le français se prononce comme il s’écrit

Plaît-il? Désolé mais non. Avec toutes nos lettres muettes et nos liaisons consonantiques, le français n’est pas un language qui se prononce comme il s’écrit.

Ca pue du cul

Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.

It certainly is one statement.

On Windows10?

I know this shortcut, and it resizes the window to half-screen. Got any shortcut that does the same, without resizing?

No. I know the Windows snapping to edge, which resizes the window to half screen. That’s not what I’m talking about here.

All I want is any program window moved to neatly align with my screen edge and with other wondows without changing size, instead of me having to align them pixel-perfect.

Click-bait article. Instagram/Meta did not add “terrorist” to user’s bio.

Some users say they have been “shadow banned” on Instagram over pro-Palestinian posts. This is when a platform intervenes to make sure posts do not appear in other people’s feeds.

They got shadow banned for supporting Palestine (now fixed). Still fucked up, but not accurate to the article’s title.

I Am Not A Lawyer : I presume your best chance of anonymisation will probably be crypto accounts. But even then, platforms must register as authorized banking institutions with ID verification to be able to operate. And I suspect the local state can access that data, for example to track tax evasion.

But you also don’t want unauthorized platforms because who knows what will happen to your money.

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