If you’re gonna do dumb shit, do it smart

Well now I want a gas-powered vacuum

So when this first ‘broke’ I looked into it a bunch.

Like, a whole 20 minutes or so.

I found no images that had the same person in it as another, not a single ‘person’ in two separate pics.

One of the very commonly posted pics had a row of sheds that were identical, with different colored roofs. Not impossible, but odd, and pretty ai-y.

I checked ground.news, and it said the only sources were heavy left-leaning, and of semi-dubious legitimacy.

The real test though, was looking for stores selling daipers and shirts with that shit on it, and brother, let me link you to my etsy:

Well, automobiles at least, lol. Road’s kind of an old idea, eh

Oh the ship has sailed, but said dude was pushing this idea when roads and automobiles were a relatively new thing

The wild part is, the stepvans have wayy more visibility than a modern car. Like you can actually see your bumper and what it might run into. Taking time to learn the ends of your vehicle is important, but when you can’t see shit anyway, what’s the point?

I understand, crumple zones and shit require bigger a-frames, but I’d rather be surrounded by more competent drivers than crumple zones.

I recall hearing about some guy who was pushing for graded licenses and roads, and if you didn’t qualify as skilled for that road, you couldn’t drive there. It wasn’t a simple ‘this is harder, this is easier’, either. Tight-in low-speed city roads were a certain classification. Highways were another, twisties were another, and so on.

I fervently wish that’d taken hold, along with a vehicle classification to match. Mopeds and scooters in the city? Easy! Stepvan in the city? Hard! Modern ‘pickup’ in the city? Fuck no!

Driving a truck is extremely more difficult than that.

I’m continually boggled by the fact any jackass can walk into a uhaul and drive out with 30 foot box truck, because those are wildly different to handle than a regular car.

Massively larger stopping distance, something almost no one leaves in their regular cars, massively wider turning radius, and heavy enough that if you make a mistake or lose control, there’s a whole lot more destructive capability that you clearly are not appreciative of.

Going down a hill with a loaded box truck requires multiple different braking methods than just pushing the left pedal. You engine brake as much as possible, and use what’s called stab braking, to keep the pads and rotor cool enough so they don’t fail.

All of this is multiplied when you go from an automatic transmission, straight box truck to an actual semi truck, which weighs another order of magnitude more, has usually has a ten speed manual transmission (and three pedals, not two) and the whole trailer aspect.
And despite the extra weight, heavy winds can still blow the things over.

Frankly your cavalier attitude about how easy it is to drive anything is exactly why the roads are so dangerous.

Because nothing I said really mentions how people driving cars interact with trucks or buses on the road. It’s a constant stream of getting cut off and having to slam on the brakes because the dipshits don’t even know where the edges of their own vehicle are, let alone where mine begins, or the wildly longer stopping distance, or my extremely limited maneuvering capabilities , especially at speed, or the simple fact the larger vehicle will absolutely crush their whole car and everyone in it completely fucking flat.

Driving is absolutely a skill, and like any other, it will atrophy without use.

Can they please both fucking die?

I’m voting for taylor swift

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This was overtly happening and reported on a couple weeks ago

This is pretty rad, thank you!

Man. I zapped all my cookies the other day, and when I re-loaded reddit, it forced me into a new new version of the mobile site.

Now almost every single comment that isn’t top level is hidden behind the ‘more comments’ button. When I click it, the whole page reloads, with the top comment and the one response. And a button for the next reply. And so on.

I’ve noticed since this change, almost no posts have any discussion any more at all. Which honestly. Why would you bother?

Removed by mod

So you’re saying you Want your experience here to be dominated by ads, lies, and propaganda?

That’s exactly their goal

Well I can’t afford to pay for that much server traffic, can any of us?

Where will we be when meta own all the servers?

For some reason I can’t dowvote this, so: this is a fucking stupid take

So when they steamroll this place so hard you only get their side of the story, what then?

The fuck is wrong with you?

If you like meta so much, why are you here?

Do you understand what corporations do?