I posted a rant about this on Twitter. Here’s the transcription:
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America needs regulations on vehicle size. I’ve seen full-size pickups get bigger and bigger over the last twenty years, and this has reached the point of sheer absurdity.
Nobody needs a truck this big unless they’re doing commerical medium-duty loads. And then you’re just better off getting a proper medium-duty truck like an Isuzu cabover or an International.
But the truth is that the auto industry actively caters to a small subset of insecure American men who want to buy such absurdly massive trucks to look tough, and they should be held accountable for this.
Pedestrian deaths are reaching an all-time high. The price of fuel is skyrocketing due to the war. And the planet is still heating up. Why do not need these giant death machines on our roads, and we never did.
I don’t want giant pickup trucks taxed, as some propose. I want them to be legistlated out of existence.
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I used to work at a place with a drive thru and without exception, every single time I saw one of these huge newer trucks it was being used to transport one person, the driver. Maybe a passenger as well as. And nothing else. The trucks that were obviously being used to do work: haul stuff, haul trailers, were always much smaller older model trucks, with a few exceptions for specialized vehicles like tow trucks. I’m sure that part of this is that the people who worked hauling stuff around with a pickup all day can’t afford these stupid monstrosities. Ban them.
Not to mention most American suburbs and city streets were designed for much smaller cars, making massive trucks like this parked on the curb a pain in the ass at best and an active hazard that chokes up traffic and leads to more accidents and more likelihood for pedestrians crossing the street to be hit at worst. I live in a neighborhood where most of the houses, and the city planning, went up between the 30′s and 50′s–thus the streets, in theory, are supposed to allow two cars to drive in opposite directions. This is not fucking possible because apparently 60% of the men in my neighborhood have decided they need giant fucking trucks that haul around fuck-all. So this leads to playing goddamn vehicular “Operation” with everyone driving in the opposite direction of me on the road.
So i went on a date to a haunted house and made friends with the girls behind us. As we’re going through, one of them is holding my hand and a guy leaps out and separates us. I panic as my date is pulling me along, I reach back for her and grab her hand in a group of three other performers and start getting out if there. After a bit I look back to check on her and I discover I’m holding the hand of a six foot tall zombie creature and not a 5'2" girl.
Cue the most terrifying realization of my life.
I had basically kidnapped this performer from his section and abandoned the girl and her friend behind us.
Yes, I screamed. My date thought it was Hilarious.
Yes, we found the girls. Turns out when I grabbed the performers hand, he grabbed theirs so our group wouldn’t be separated. So there was just this zombie in the middle of our group line for like fifty feet
People with siblings are so genuinely scary they’re just constantly asking you things like “you never played 3-Minute Eye Gouge as a kid? you never played Fireplace Chase? you never played Actual Serial Killer?”
another favorite thing about the batman (2022) dir. matt reeves is that when you first hear bruce’s batman voice it’s ridiculous because it sounds so normal and like he’s not even trying to hide his identity but then you hear bruce talk to people as himself and he sounds like this and realize his batman voice does work actually
did I ever tell you bout the time I made a dude rage quit in a /k/ star wars thread?
some dude made one of those “WHO WOULD WIN?” generals, and it was 5 Panzer Tanks vs an AT-AT and one dude kept sayin the obvious AT-AT but most of us are SW fans so we were all “nah, the shields only protect from blaster fire” but this dude INSISTED “ACKSHUALLY, ITS SUPER CARBO-STEEL, IT SAYS HERE ON THE STAR WARS WIKI, ITS SUPER STONG DURRRR” and I fuckin blew his ass out with one simple image…
and then he said “The films arent canon” and everyone in the thread immediately shit on him til he stopped posting
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