• Etterra@discuss.online
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    I don’t pity the fools, I just point and laugh. Do you know how much therapy you could afford with the money they wasted on their Cyber Rusts? Or a few trades courses? Or maybe a basic physics class for the but in this photo lol

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    This makes me remember Sweden in the nineties, everh 40yo man and their fucking grandmother just had to buy a … Harley Davidson motorcycle!

    I mean if you want an anchor to your boat there are way cheaper ones. :-)

    The thing was that those people wanted to be a rebel so hard, they shelled out astronomical amounts on that crappy bike (one story out of many; my lil bro got one in like 2010 and it broke down so much it was just comical, once he got it to this magic known harley mechanic who did a crazy overhaul, it broke down on the way home.).

    So they was working in front of a computer all day, or serving people or whatever, and they were not rebels (!) but Harley Davidson could fix that. Like the cybertruck makes you a craftsman. Just like that.

    Sweden was having more harley davidson motorcycles per capita than any other country in the world at that time. Guess insecurity sells.

    /Story off

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      for the last 3 years too, longer if you know that musk released the picture of the cybertruck long before it was sold.

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    Don’t get me wrong, I hate the cyber truck, but this is the owners fault. That roof thing slides back so he could have had them in at an angle where they wouldn’t have slid out.

    I mean there’s an example of what to do parked right next to him 😆

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      I’m not sure the CTs tailgate could handle that much weight though. Bottom line - this thing is a toy, not a work truck, like the one parked next to it.

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      i thought thats the point of the post? cybertrucks are bought by guys working in tech who are insecure about their lack of ability in “manly tasks”… like loading up a pickup

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        Sure sure, but I’m in tech and am not a manly man and yet I thought of it. This guy is just dense it seems.

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    It’s really just a techy spin on how a lot of car brands are marketed to insecure guys. Read the marketing strategy for big trucks or jeeps, and it confirms they are 100% aware that their marketing is aiming for weak men insecure in their masculinity. Pathetic.

    At least if they’d bought a real truck, they might’ve been able to haul something with it.

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    I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this isn’t unique to just the dumpster truck owners.

    I’ve seen people try to drive away with a couch mounted vertically in the passenger seat of a convertible (with no straps or rope of any kind).

    I lost track of how many people roped their doors shut through the windows on their vehicles while strapping a 75 inch TV down to the roof of their Honda CRV.

    The general population has an unbelievably poor understanding of physics and honestly I think we need to let more people die due to darwinism again. Saving the village idiot with modern medical standards has really just allowed them to get older and come up with even worse ideas. Sometimes they procreate and spawn in some new physics challenged shitlings that will be finding their way into your local ER with some self inflicted stupidity any day now.

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        As someone who grew up in a small farming town and now lives in the GTA fuck almost everyone with a pickup truck because it’s all for show ain’t no one slinging gravel or wood or a beat up generator somewhere like when I grew up. It’s all faux rural cosplay shit.

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          My bike has more mud on it than most off road vehicles and tyres are only 700x35c IIRC, may have been 37/38? Hybrid/Trekking bike, Boardman MTX 8.6, the suspension is most useful on the terrible roads we have in places.

          It also has more mud on it than half of the bikes I see with tyres that are like 8cm thicc. Usually only see those in urban environments. Often go on gravel or dirt trails and there is the occasional muddy puddle. Nothing really extreme enough to need a mountain bike for.

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      Pretty fucked up that you prefer people dying over just properly funding our education system.

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        Well hang on now. You have no clue where I stand on education.

        I think all of our teachers need to be better vetted and paid. Proper education of future generations should be a top priority of any society.

        That being said I think we both know there are certain people that will still not learn anything and they will still be repeat idiots until they do actually win a Darwin award or some other illness finally takes them.

        I would be fine letting them learn harsher lessons and not get saved once they are legal adults.

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      19 hours ago

      Congratulations, you’ve just talked yourself into being a proponent of eugenics. Speak with Goebbels for your welcome packet and fashionable armband.

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        There is a big difference between not using “shared” resources to save idiots that endanger themselves and others repeatedly and eugenics.

        I’m saying maybe we just don’t give that guy that decided to ride a motorcycle with no helmet at 2 times the speed limit for the third time all the bags of universal donor blood on the way to the hospital.

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          There’s less of a difference than you believe there to be. In principle, you’ve said the biker that rides without a helmet has proven themselves too dumb to live. You state that you believe we should allow more stupid people die, because our society has A) limited resources and B) removed or lessened the natural filter (risk of death) that accompanies stupid activity. You state that this has led to a situation where stupid people are procreating and the stupid offspring of stupid people are showing up in ERs, demonstrating new and heretofore unseen misunderstandings of physics. If we let more stupid people die, hopefully some of them will not have bred yet, and we, as society, can course correct back to nature, where stupid critters tend to die more frequently than intelligent critters (which is a huge assumption in and of itself).

          To be clear, despite my facetious comment earlier, I don’t actually think you’re a Nazi, or a racist, or any of the other things that proponents of this pseudoscience were back in the day. The tricky thing about eugenics is that, devoid of context, it sounds pretty fucking good. And, despite no one using the term anymore (thanks, Hitler), there are absolutely eugenics advocates out there today, and many of them aren’t even necessarily bad people! A few years back, FDA approved gene therapy treatments for folks afflicted by sickle cell anemia. This is, essentially, eugenics in action, and, other than the most die-hard slippery slopers, you’ve not got folks distributing torches and pitchforks because of some light genetic editing, especially when the tech has allowed eugenicists to bypass the most ornery methods of gene manipulation that previous advocates used: namely sterilization of certain populations.

          So, I get it. You’re not advocating preemptive death camps for idiots, or a sterilization device on motorcycle fuel tanks if you start moving without a helmet on. Therefore, you don’t feel like your argument is based on eugenics. However, it is, and you can either become comfortable with that notion, or you can reexamine your line of thought and come up with a different hypothesis. Neither option is any better or worse than the other.

          As an aside, to continue using your asshole biker example, there are tertiary benefits to attempting to save their life to best of our society’s ability, if you’re looking for silver linings. Skills practice in a “live-fire” environment for the folks trying to save him, for one. Sure, maybe, in your estimation, this biker didn’t deserve all the effort to save him, but maybe the sweet old lady with a TBI the week following does deserve to live, and the surgical team noted some process improvements during their work on the asshole earlier.

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            I wasn’t talking about it from a “they are passing down bad genes” kind of way. It was more of a “I have lived around these families and it is a taught/learned behavior.”

            Some of these kids who’s parents also have a lackluster understanding of physics and/or the consequences of their own actions learn this sort of behavior from their parents.

            If the parent had died prior to making and teaching their future children then that removes a person who is continuing the pattern.

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    I love that there are before and after photos. Someone saw that, knew exactly how it would end, and instead of telling the guy, took a picture, then waited in the parking lot for the inevitable results. 💀

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      Might have told them. Many people take unsolicited advice as an attack, and refuse to listen, thinking they know better.

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    I’m not even by any accounts manly, and arguably a techie type, but I’ve been able to carry bookcases on top of my sedan, and boards sticking out the back trunk, using just rope, bungees, or Ikea twine, multiple times without any issue. Driving down highways even.

    You don’t need to be hoo-rah to secure a damn load, you just have to brain

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      I can fit 90% of what a truck can in my hatchback. I can fit 150% of what a truck can in my work van. As an added bonus my shit won’t get wrecked by a passing rain shower.

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        I just checked for fun, the bed is 4X6’ I can fit a 4X8 in my minivan and close the hatch. haha

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    “Outside their domain of experience”

    Maybe more like nobody is around them to tell them that a) it’s not going to work, b) it’s a bad idea, c) nobody to dump the idea on to do the actual work of solving the problem that the originator can then take credit for or blame when it doesn’t work.

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      But there’s that one guy that drives his truck to and fro his office job every day because he hates gas. But then twice a year he mixes some cement so it’s totally valid.

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          They forcemasc’d the truck!

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          New meme:

          Truck nuts are bottom surgery for men who don’t have any

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          I have an S10. A 22 year old, 2-wheel drive compact pickup. I routinely visit a sawmill in that truck. For grocery trips I’ve got an old Buick I’m trying to wear out.

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            I have a 10 year old ford suv. It’s got a tow hitch for the atvs, AWD for the snow in the mountains, but is otherwise a comfy leather couch to cruise around in and neatly backs into a compact car spot. The giant pavement princesses are just obnoxious

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              I could see owning a pickup truck the size of a 90’s F-150. I would like a bed that has a proper 4x8 area on the floor of the bed to carry full sheets of plywood, flat on the deck. But I don’t need the machine to be that much bulkier than my S10. I live in the middle of North Carolina, it snows 6 times a decade here. I use my pickup to carry lumber, furniture, trash etc. on paved roads.

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      I’ll come at you by correcting it to NEW truck owners. If you are afraid of scratching your truck you shouldn’t be owning a truck. Also, exceptions apply for states that regularly see feet of snow during the winter where four wheel drive or awd are a necessity for safe driving.

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      If a truck is older than say 2015, has dings, scratches or mud. It’s probably their work truck. If it’s lifted, clean, etc. It’s a pavement princess. Ive also heard that a lot of those trucks that are diesel having constant problems because they aren’t hauling or driving long enough to get the engine nice and hot to burn some of the build up. Never owned a diesel so don’t @ me.

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        Its the particle filter that needs a good burning every once in a while. Otherwise it gets clogged and can’t filter anymore and also reduces your exhaust flow.

        It is indeed a problem with many diesel cars that are only used for city drives. As for the driving itself diesel is more chill than gasoline because the maximum torque is reached at lower rpm and it is more difficult to stall the engine than a gasoline engine so manual gear is easier.

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      The people with lift kits and glaring lights underneath who never have towed a single thing in their lives are who you call pavement princesses

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        I saw some dbag the other day driving a perfectly clean Ford F-350. In Western Canada. In April. It was clean. He was also headed downtown and wearing a suit. That truck has never had so much as a pebble in the treads of its tires.

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      Ya I hate that I have a truck because it makes me guilty by association but I like to go camping most weekends and it’s just the best tool for the job in my opinion

      It’s black and there are scratches down both sides of the truck from foliage and shit which I intentionally don’t buff out because I think it actually looks cooler being obviously “used” lol

      Fun fact but on Vancouver Island these scratches are known as “BC pinstripes”

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        I’m just south of the BC border, and I saw the absolute coolest truck a few years back. It’s a vibe out here.

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        Pavement princesses annoy me. When I see a huge truck sparkling like it just pulled out of a showroom, I figure they don’t really need a truck, they just bought it to show off.

        The scratches mean you actually use your truck as a truck.

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          My mom drives a full size pickup and all she does is get groceries with it, drives me mad

          She says “it’s safer” and “i don’t like sitting on the ground” lol

          This woman is 5ft tall

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        No hate, I had a Nissan Frontier, I loved that damn truck. I really only used it like a truck a handful of times tho. I had to sell her when I moved overseas.

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          Good truck. I have a 2007 gmc sierra with the 6.5ft box with one of those grandpa style tall canopies and i have a bed and stove built in the back for adventuring

          Drove from victoria bc to fairbanks alaska and it has 330,000km and it gives me zero issues (except the stupid fucking window switches, I’ve replaced the four of them like 3 times now)

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      As someone who has a truck that does truck things you are being too generous with “most”. That’s almost all truck owners.

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    I agree with the post. I’d say most issues can be followed back to fragile masculinity. Masculinity specifically for historic reasons.

    I do pity those so devoid of self-esteem. I hate the fact they’re manipulable sheep that vote, but I understand where it’s coming from. I’m sad for them that they’ll never find contentment where they’re looking for it.

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        They need a hug and to feel safe enough to be vulnerable. The identity of masculinity, the prohibition of displaying or feeling any emotion (other than anger), maybe is what contributes to people being underdeveloped husks. They’re empty shells and the way they didn’t learn to deal with emotions. Lashing out and compensating by “having” (things, people, being feared [‘respect’ to them]) because it makes them feel powerful. But real power is knowing who you are, being able to connect with yourself and others. They’re not allowed that, though. Connection requires being vulnerable and having a strong enough sense of self to not be threatened by that.