• Riskable@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Every trip in a truck with an empty bed is a waste. Tooling around with stuff in the bed without the intent to deliver/use it at your destination is even worse.

    Yet that describes 99.99999% of all pickup truck use in America. Just a huge ass waste of gas and space in parking lots.

    Trucks are expensive too! If I were a scam artist I would definitely be targeting people driving shiny pickup trucks with empty beds. Because they definitely aren’t practical or realistic people.

    Wait: Maybe that’s how MAGA started? 🤔

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      3 days ago

      That’s how you know it’s all for show. People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too. “Oh well I’m glad I have it for towing and moving”. Bull. How often do you tow really? And even then I’d expect it to sit at home most of the time. Moving? Once a year. Rent a truck. I go to home Depot and rent theirs when I need it.

      Buying a truck like that shows you are way too worried about what people think of you, you have to feel “big”, which usually means you’re a small man, and probably bad with money.

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        2 days ago

        People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too.

        Rented a big truck for my move. It was a bitch to drive, cost me 75bucks for 2 hrs (it has the 29.99 in-town advertising plastered on the side) and didn’t fit more shit than a rental van of the same price.

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        I haul shit home two or three times a week, nothing to do with work.

        Hell, today picked up a nice mower (free) to fix to fix and use or sell. Also found a cool wooden chair my wife likes for her campsite.

        Hauled cull wood from the store to my camp for building stuff last Saturday. Had it not been raining, I was going to take my kayak or canoe to the water today.

        You don’t know me or how I live. Could you be any more judgey?

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          Yes I could, because you use your truck, so I’m glad. You are one of the few. The vast majority of truck owners would do one of those things maybe once a month, and that’s wasteful and posturing.

          I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about Dave the accountant in his Oakley’s who drives an hour each way in his big stupid truck, acting aggro on the road just to appear manly, all while never using the truck for any truck things. The truck that carries at max a briefcase.

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      3 days ago

      I just looked up the dimensions of that thing and it has 10cm (3inch) shorter bed than mine. How you even manage to pull that off with a truck that big is beyond me.

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        These brodozers aren’t used for anything useful. I like having 4’ between the wheelwells and a box long enough to get a full toolbox across the front of the box and still get a 1000L fertilizer tote in it. And low enough that I can climb in the box without a ladder.