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1. Joshywooful (joshywooful@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 01:54:44 EST Joshywooful

   RT @emilyy_nicolee@twitter.com: If any millennial ever gets called a snowflake again, just remember that there are grown ass adults, baby boomers, who are losing their fucking SHIT over having to now pump their own gas in Oregon.

   No, I️’m not kidding.

   Yes, it’s fucking hilarious.

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 02:38:02 EST clacke

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      @joshywooful
      
      > This is a service only qualified professionals should perform.
      
      To be fair, you need to have a very high IQ to enjoy filling up gas.
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 19:39:38 EST clacke

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         https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Nr1nQ
         
         "The Oregon Trail" screenshot (I assume)
         
         
         > You have died from having to pump your own gas https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1125609
   2. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 11:47:00 EST Michael Vogel

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      @Joshywooful WTF? With "pump their own gas" is meant that at the gas station they have to handle the gasoline tap by themselves? What is so complicated about this? (Besides when you are disabled, of course)
      
      This really sounds weird from an European point of view 😉
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 19:49:30 EST lnxw48a1

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         @heluecht @clacke In the US states of #Oregon and #New_Jersey, it is forbidden by law to pump one's own gas. Gas stations have attendants who get paid to do that. (It was standard practice across the country until around #1977 - #1978, but as far as I know, not legally required.)
         
         Maybe #OR's law was recently changed.
         1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 19:55:09 EST Michael Vogel

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            @lnxw48a1 That's really weird.
            1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 20:02:25 EST lnxw48a1

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               @heluecht Yes, it is weird. I think it was an attempt to maintain jobs that would have been lost. However, in the 1970s, a gas station attendant would also check oil, coolant, transmission fluid, brake fluid, and tire pressure. For a small fee, they would fill any of those things up to the recommended level. In my few months in #NJ, I did not observe that happening.
               1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 20:12:44 EST tekk

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                  @lnxw48a1 No, that would not happen. I was born and spent my first 9 years in NJ. The only thing gas station attendants did was pump gas. I can't speak for Oregon though.
               2. zoowar (zoowar@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 20:20:03 EST zoowar

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                  I **always** pumped my own gas in NJ.
                  1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 20:36:51 EST Michael Vogel

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                     @zoowar I always plug in the charger for my electric bike with my own hands 😀
                     1. zoowar (zoowar@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 20:57:22 EST zoowar

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                        In the spirit of one-upmanship, I can pedal my own bike.
                        1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 21:00:48 EST Michael Vogel

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                           @zoowar You are a true hero! You pump the gas on your own and you can pedal your own bike!
                           1. zoowar (zoowar@indy.im)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 21:17:34 EST zoowar

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                              You can breath better knowing my 2007 automobile only has about 30k miles.
                              1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 03:46:47 EST Michael Vogel

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                                 @zoowar My car is from 2006 and has got about 70k kilometers. But the engine is only 800ccm large and uses about 4 liters per 100 kilometer.
         2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 21:16:53 EST clacke

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            @lnxw48a1 @heluecht
            
            Oh, ok. I thought there was a new law forbidding pump assistants, which I thought would be weird, but if they simply removed a law making them mandatory, then I'm all for it.
         3. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 22:01:42 EST clacke

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            @lnxw48a1 @heluecht That OR law is now an XOR law.
   3. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 11:55:04 EST Adam

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      @Joshywooful Maybe I'm just weird, but I actually feel really weird when someone else pumps my gas the odd time I'm in some random small town where that's still the norm.

      Those people are absurd. (Also, if the gas station is full of dangerous vagrants, maybe the staff shouldn't have to pump your gas in such dangerous circumstances.)

   4. ay (ayy@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 13:18:34 EST ay

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      @joshywooful > posting names uncensored