What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?
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Yeah, you're clueless.
Pickup trucks are useful for more than just work.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Insulting me doesn't make it untrue.
Trucks are for hauling things and towing things. Again, the vast majority of truck drivers, and I'm not saying all, but the vast majority of people do not need a truck.
Most truck beds now are only a few feet long. Minivans and old school station wagons can store more in them then most modern trucks can. Why do you think Amazon and UPS use vans instead of pickups? Because they're more efficient at hauling things.
Then even if you need to haul things and you choose to disregard the whole thing about vans having more cargo space, I ask how often? How often do you actually roll up to the home Depot and grab a while pile of lumber to take home that wouldn't fit in a van? If it's not once a week or more that you fill the truck, congrats you're losing money on your truck. Truck rentals are about 20 bucks and haul my stuff just as easily back to my home, with the added benefit of them I'm not paying for gas and maintenance for this giant thing as my daily driver nor a huge car payment either.
Oh and proof of all of this? Crew cabs. The stupidest invention and absolutely proof it's just marketing. "Hey we convinced you that you need a truck even though all you really need is a rental truck every once in a while, but oh no you have this family, where do they go? Don't worry now you have five seats AND a shortened bed!". They already solved that problem. Vans and station wagons. Can haul minimum 5 people and if you needed to haul shit you just folded down the seats, could fit an entire sheet of plywood in there.
Same goes for towing. If you own a boat I might get it, or again a trailer if you're towing something regularly, then sure, you need the torque.
I would wager that 95% of truck owners do not actually need a truck.
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Owning a pickup truck is pretty awesome, and I don’t think I’ll ever buy a different type of vehicle again.
Mentioning it online gets hate, but in real life people keep coming up to me, complimenting how nice it looks, asking questions about it, and kids give me thumbs up when I drive by. All of that is just a bonus on top of the fact that I love driving it and the way it looks - and that’s all that really matters.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The rise in pickups causes everyone’s insurance rates to go up because of the increased fatality of average crash now, they blow through our global carbon budget even faster, they make roads less safe for everyone, they drain your wealth away from your kids inheritance and directly into banks and oil companies. I know you love bankers more than transmitting generational wealth to your kids. Fuck them kids. The bankers need your money more.
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Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.
My daughter introduced me to that show. I enjoyed watching it with her.
Greg fucking rules.
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Insulting me doesn't make it untrue.
Trucks are for hauling things and towing things. Again, the vast majority of truck drivers, and I'm not saying all, but the vast majority of people do not need a truck.
Most truck beds now are only a few feet long. Minivans and old school station wagons can store more in them then most modern trucks can. Why do you think Amazon and UPS use vans instead of pickups? Because they're more efficient at hauling things.
Then even if you need to haul things and you choose to disregard the whole thing about vans having more cargo space, I ask how often? How often do you actually roll up to the home Depot and grab a while pile of lumber to take home that wouldn't fit in a van? If it's not once a week or more that you fill the truck, congrats you're losing money on your truck. Truck rentals are about 20 bucks and haul my stuff just as easily back to my home, with the added benefit of them I'm not paying for gas and maintenance for this giant thing as my daily driver nor a huge car payment either.
Oh and proof of all of this? Crew cabs. The stupidest invention and absolutely proof it's just marketing. "Hey we convinced you that you need a truck even though all you really need is a rental truck every once in a while, but oh no you have this family, where do they go? Don't worry now you have five seats AND a shortened bed!". They already solved that problem. Vans and station wagons. Can haul minimum 5 people and if you needed to haul shit you just folded down the seats, could fit an entire sheet of plywood in there.
Same goes for towing. If you own a boat I might get it, or again a trailer if you're towing something regularly, then sure, you need the torque.
I would wager that 95% of truck owners do not actually need a truck.
How am I going to move an ATV in a minivan or station wagon?
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Why not a van? Can typically carry more and keeps it dry.
Not a truck guy, but I've had enough vans to know that not having an open top REALLY reduces the potential of what you can put in the back.
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I wish it had better a final act than two almost identical armies fighting in a desert. Reminded me of FPS games the late 2000s.
Yeah but that building going kaboom in both directions of time is super cool.
Not sure what tactical purpose it had.
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Ohh people are aren't going to like this
AI coding, "vibe coding"
Nice an actual controversial take. Im glad more people are getting into coding because of AI honestly. Anyone can code (not just a saying).
Me im impressed sometimes, but its only good for scripting languages. Start getting into compiled or anything beyond templates and it falls on its face.
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The food looks a little odd, but reasonable. The chocolate is... Someone replied saying chocolate tastes good with savory food, which is true, but IDK about that combo!!
Salami + chocolate is probably a dud, but fries and chocolate? Give it to me! Or maybe not, I'm trying to lose weight.
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Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.
Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it's true.
BUT:
a) what's the alternative? Not having these shows at all?
b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there's an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there's a very large part of the population who'd go out of their way to act against everyone's best interest.The argument that these people act too stupid has become irrelevant since we had a pandemic.
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Specifically, Tamers’ “Sonic The Hedgehog Gets Stuck In A Hole Because He’s Fat”
Sonic gets stuck in a washer machine.
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Thief 4. Sure the story sucks and this is not my Garrett, but game play wise, this is the best Thief has ever been.
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I haven't seen it yet, what are the plot holes?
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There was actually someone else in the replies with the same confusion lol You're not alone
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I dunno, my experience is teams of people grinding away designing systems that are likely 95% the same as what several other companies already constructed, if not hundreds. It’s great if they use (much less contribute to) some open library for the functionality, so the wheel doesn’t get re-invented, but how often is that the case?
Of course one doesn’t want to distribute slop. I’m talking more theoretical, especially if more formal code verification becomes standard.
Mind you, a lot of this reimplementation is because those 1000 other implementations that came before all haven't had their source code released to the public. No amount of vibecoding is going to help there because those LLMs were never trained on code that was never publicly released.
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Salami + chocolate is probably a dud, but fries and chocolate? Give it to me! Or maybe not, I'm trying to lose weight.
Even fries... Well, fries sounds alright, I guess it also depends on the fries.
Good luck on your weight loss!! I lost about 25 kg myself, relatively recently. You can do it!!!!
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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The Force AwakensThe Last Jedi was the freshest and most creative star wars movie since Empire and Rian Johnson is a hero for trying to take the franchise in a new direction -
What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Totally Spies 🥲
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Even fries... Well, fries sounds alright, I guess it also depends on the fries.
Good luck on your weight loss!! I lost about 25 kg myself, relatively recently. You can do it!!!!
Man, it's not even that bad, but I've been trying to watch my calourie intake for months without success. Losing weight without any outside assistance is fucking hard ...
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How am I going to move an ATV in a minivan or station wagon?
Sounds like a job for a trailer
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The Force AwakensThe Last Jedi was the freshest and most creative star wars movie since Empire and Rian Johnson is a hero for trying to take the franchise in a new directionDo you mean The Last Jedi? Force awakens was the first of the new trilogy and was directed by JJ Abrams. If so, agreed.
