I’m giving him and his family as much sympathy as he gave other school shootings

Ah, the forum equivalent of vaguebooking.

I think it depends on if they retain their memories. I often think about how sad it is that we only have one life to live, that so much of our existence is based on where we happened to be born. It live a completely different life, a different childhood, a different continent - I think we’d gain so much empathy as a species.

Oh completely agree - but if forced to choose between those two types of trucks I know which one I’d say is more reasonable.

That’s neat you found a girl like that, but it is not the norm from my experience, as it looks like it’s yours too. I usually see a lot of angry men who are too eager to swerve lanes and show off how cool their truck (and by extension they) are.

I invite you to read my comment again.

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.

Again though, I ask how regularly you do this. If you go out every week? Sure it makes sense, have a truck to carry them out every week. However, an ATV is light enough a cheap trailer attached to any number of vehicles would be able to tow it. If it’s monthly or less, then again, renting a truck is cheaper on the books, or again a cheap trailer is only a couple thousand.

Again, I grew up in rural America surrounded by truck people exactly like you. This is not some new opinion I gained a couple months ago. Do you want to keep trying to trip me up because I guarantee I’ve heard it all before. To date there are only maybe a small reasons I see to own a truck, and most of them involve some level of using it for blue-collar work.

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.

Uh, nope. Lived in rural America. Most truck drivers are pavement processes who haul something maybe a handful of times a year. The vast majority.

There was not a shift from 30 years ago everyone driving tiny cars and hatchbacks to now where everyone became blue collar and needed a truck for work suddenly. It’s corporate marketing. Corporations can get around fuel standards by making trucks instead of cars, so they convinced everyone that having a truck was somehow necessary, and the good people of the USA gladly ate it up making the f150 the most popular vehicle on the roads followed by the other truck models.

Also, “most people on these forums live in major cities”. Ftfy. It wasn’t until I left my town in Iowa did I realize how many people there are. The entire population of thestate of Iowa lives in my one city.

That small red truck is a truck of a man who truly is masculine. Doesn’t give a shit what other people think, needs it to carry supplies, and didn’t want to waste any money.

Giant lifted trucks are the opposite of masculine. They’re for showing off, desperately trying to get people to notice them, they arely if ever haul anything (if they even can anymore with the lift), and they wasted huge amounts of money.

I used to be one of those people, that good and bad movies were black and white. I was stupid for thinking so.

Movies can be good for different moods and audiences. Sometimes I want to watch a heart wrenching drama, Oscar style, and I can get up after it and think wow that moved me. That is a good movie.

Sometimes I’m feeling in a funk and I don’t know what to watch, o I want to watch giant robots punch aliens with minimal plot. That movie is also good, just for a different mood.

Spouse is on Linux, but because one by one her devices started to switch. Setting up a new gaming pc, oh that’s weird it has Linux. Setting up the new gaming console, and it has bazzite. Suddenly they’re only using linux

Welcome!

P.U.L.S.E.is probably the best live album out there, with Comfortably Numb on it surpassing all of the other versions I’ve ever heard

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Yeah I honestly can’t tell if it’s probably or anti AI, or if it’s humanizing it, or what

Followed with one of their friends saying “Yeah Tim’s an asshole” and them replying either “Yes he’s such an asshole” or equally likely “Please respect our privacy”. Either way, super annoying.

Oh god now there is a concept I long forgot about!

Vaguebooking. At least it died out for me, when my age group grew up past high school. Specifically, the vaguebooking that would involve lame-ass “motivation quotes” or worse song lyrics that were obviously about some dramatic thing happening in their life, usually pointed at someone.

I still have one person who never moved on from high-school who still does crap like this, but now I just still follow them for the pure nostalgia and the joy of seeing these. Seriously, they show how immature they are, unable to actually go talk about their emotions a veil so thin of “please I want my privacy” while posting about it online.

oh my GOD and what other clickbait titles are they hiding too?!

Seriously, OP, wondrous that you want to post, but clean up the clickbaity titles and you’ll do better here

In my experience the largest demographic at the Disney parks are lower class white folks. Not everyone, but it’s their largest percent. For many it’s the only large trip they’ll ever do as a family