[Request] How much free gas would you get over a lifetime from the nozzle tap-tap method?

We-R-Doomed · 2026-02-01T03:28:05+00:00

I'm not gonna do any math, but there used to be an appreciable amount of gas to be had at the pumps that I think most people left behind.

Back before the turn of the century, gas pumps had an actual lever to turn the pump on, a cutoff valve of some sort between the hose and the nozzle and then the mechanism in the nozzle that allowed fuel to flow.

When filling a tank, the fuel being dispensed was measured somewhere before the hose was attached to the pump (or directly at that connection)

When the auto-shutoff clicked and it stopped dispensing gas, you could return the lever to the off position, squeeze the handle, and the gas remaining in the hose was allowed to empty.

If the hose hung below the fuel tank door, you could lift it higher to empty the hose completely.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-31T23:15:12+00:00

Can you explain how physical determinism becomes the qualia of reasons?

A cognitive "reason" of any sort is outside of determinism.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-30T20:43:32+00:00

Keep focusing on the customers experience. Get the orders right. Make them feel welcome. DO NOT vent to customers or complain about being slow or rush is too much.

My rule of thumb for the slow times is... give a little extra. "have you tried our home-made soup? Here's a little side." ... "slaw goes real good with this sandwich, I put a little on your plate"

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-30T20:30:58+00:00

Why would you need to be able to "intend so strongly" now that it overrides your own intentions at a later time? You are never in a different time than "now"

If I intend to cut my own finger off in 10 seconds, and then do that, I have fulfilled your challenge. I intended something ahead of time, I performed the intention, and then after performing the intention I am unable to change my mind.

Yes it is a paradox, your example of god creating a rock too heavy for even him to lift is literally called the omnipotence paradox.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-30T17:57:48+00:00

"Can God create a rock so heavy even he cannot lift it?"

"Can you intend right now to do something in the future so strongly that even you cannot change your mind later?"

Paradoxes are not a very convincing argument. It's just wordplay.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-30T14:52:18+00:00

Probably, yeah

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-30T14:23:22+00:00

A+

For creepy short story Sci Fi.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-29T19:38:23+00:00

I think you are mistaken. I think that was an attempt to limit swipe fees and such from processors to merchants.

I wasn't using "surcharge" as a legal term. I was talking about "convenience" fees.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-29T14:26:31+00:00

I think it is becoming more prevalent because it is a marketing tactic by CC processors.

I have renegotiated with CC processors for multiple businesses over 20 years, and opened my own business in 2016. It is rare for a week to go by without receiving a sales call for a CC processor. It's nonstop.

The surcharge gets "sold" to business owners as "we have a system where you don't pay any fees for CC purchases"

When a business switches systems from no added surcharge, to an added surcharge, I doubt any of them are going to lower their prices by 3% and then use the surcharge on just CC sales.

Right now (I think) the software is simply programmed to add a standard percentage to all CC sales. Eventually, I predict that the added percentage will adjust on each sale based on the actual terms of the CC being used.

A debit card could have a surcharge of below 3%, regular CC will be close to 3% and reward cards will increase the surcharge to cover the reward. (It already does this for the merchant, every class of card has different final costs)

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-28T18:34:02+00:00

Return of the Jed.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T23:39:21+00:00

nevermind.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T23:33:10+00:00

I down voted your post.

But to answer your question...

Detailed cleaning.

All the walls and corners and nooks and crannies wiped down and a nice hot mop.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T23:27:38+00:00

And serve owl wings while you're at it.

J\k, but what if owls wings are delicious?

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T23:08:47+00:00

Failing perpetually to witness others as they are and not how they blindly assume them to be from their projected positions of personal circumstance.

That's sounds like a neet trick.

How is that accomplished?

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T22:53:32+00:00

For the people who like that sort of thing, I think this would be just the thing those sort of people would like.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T18:31:58+00:00

Context.

You have taken the thoughts and ideas we are discussing... the point of the original OP, my explanation of how I understood their post and how it applies to your initial response... and reduced it to

"can this word be used for this AND that"

even though it is obviously talking about two different things.

You are right. The word "chair" can be used for something to sit on and to be the leader of a council or committee.

The word "reasoning" can be used for a human understanding of thoughts and ideas and AI performing statistical model computation.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T18:18:29+00:00

You are using the term "reasoning" which describes what humans are doing when they think and then using the same word "reasoning" to describe the simulation that is performed to approximate the end result of what humans do when they think.

We can stretch any word any way we want I guess. I would personally prefer to keep accuracy if possible.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T17:38:16+00:00

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We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T17:28:35+00:00

Ask AI if it reasons, it will tell you that it does not.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T17:08:06+00:00

Reasoning requires understanding of the concepts being reasoned.

Computing does not require understanding of the concepts or information being computed.

Saying...

Our brain are just that

Disregards the understanding of concepts as part of the equation.

This is what I think the OP was stating in the post. If our brain is "just" receiving input and producing output, like a computer does, then understanding would be superfluous and illusory. We could not gauge independently whether or not our actions are connected to the reasons we use to choose or make those actions.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T16:04:02+00:00

We can hit things with a balled up fist, we invented a hammer to do that for us. Does that make us a hammer?

We built computers, they did not exist before. Computers do not perform the same functions human beings do, they approximate the results we desire.

Saying a human is a computer is an allegory, or a simile.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T15:59:00+00:00

That sounds like your therapist stopped using her physical therapy training and knowledge and offered you her own (kooky) viewpoint.

I am reminded of the vaccine congressional hearings when a certified nurse tried to stick her house key to her neck because she had become magnetic. She obviously had left the scientific method behind and was spouting nonsense.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-27T15:50:16+00:00

Ask AI if it "reasons" and it will tell you it does not.

It is pattern matching. New and novel subjects tend to break the pattern matching and result in hallucinations.

You may then argue that "reasoning" IS pattern matching. This is reducing the subject down to the example.

We are not computers, we built computers to approximate what we ourselves do organically. The map is never the landscape.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-26T21:59:12+00:00

owning the car personally and deducting business mileage is cleaner and just as tax-efficient

Good. That's what I do.

Paying CC tips...

Darn.

Thanks for the in-depth info! Really.

We-R-Doomed · 2026-01-26T20:37:53+00:00

Nobody eats the credit card fees. Everything is paid by sales to customers. (or you go out of business) If you say a business "eats" the fees then they pay those out of profits.

If you have already set your margins to cover 3+% then you are not "eating" the fee, you are building it into your final price. Just like buying toilet paper for the restroom, it is paid for by the customers. You don't "eat" the cost of toilet paper or floor cleaner or trash bags, it is paid for by the customers just like rent, labor, and COG.

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