It's so weird to see all the white people there....... white men as newscasters, white men working in the stores. It's infuriating how quickly that's been stolen from us.
Yeah we had a real run of shit happening in the Seventies. Even a brief toilet paper shortage in some regions. The Gas Crisis was caused by the OPEC cartel limiting production in order to drive up prices. In the USA, we wound up with rationing arranged so that if your license plate number ended with an even number, you went on even days, and if your license plate number ended with an odd number, you went on odd days. Soome stations also imposed ten-gallon limits.
That was the official story. In reality US oil companies dumped products into south America and other countries so as to not deliver to stations. It was a complete fraud. After it was over prices never returned. OPEC was blamed. They were all in it together.
When was the last time you saw one of those manual credit card processors?
Tough call but more recent than you might expect as I worked in related industry. Don't think I can recall. But I do remember us talking about how long it had been since we had seen one.
Nowadays some cards don't even have raised numbers. They just write it in the form when power goes out. Those imprint devices were a clever speed automation and authenticity validation scheme.
Welcome to jimmy carter 2.0
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Way to go geniuses.
Those who do learn history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
The Cassandra Complex.
Also see normalcy bias.
I can't wait for the "No Ass No Gas" stickers to make a comeback.
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