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That's most truck owners. Come at me.
Large trucks are gender affirming care.
My favorite is truck nuts. Did the truck want bottom surgery?
New meme:
Truck nuts are bottom surgery for men who don't have any
They forcemasc'd the truck!
If a truck is older than say 2015, has dings, scratches or mud. It's probably their work truck. If it's lifted, clean, etc. It's a pavement princess. Ive also heard that a lot of those trucks that are diesel having constant problems because they aren't hauling or driving long enough to get the engine nice and hot to burn some of the build up. Never owned a diesel so don't @ me.
Its the particle filter that needs a good burning every once in a while. Otherwise it gets clogged and can't filter anymore and also reduces your exhaust flow.
It is indeed a problem with many diesel cars that are only used for city drives. As for the driving itself diesel is more chill than gasoline because the maximum torque is reached at lower rpm and it is more difficult to stall the engine than a gasoline engine so manual gear is easier.
The people with lift kits and glaring lights underneath who never have towed a single thing in their lives are who you call pavement princesses
I saw some dbag the other day driving a perfectly clean Ford F-350. In Western Canada. In April. It was clean. He was also headed downtown and wearing a suit. That truck has never had so much as a pebble in the treads of its tires.
insecurity of tech workers
That's the part that kinda boggles my mind. You'd think that engineers and hackers would be exactly the types who would be inclined towards DIY. I know I am, and I feel like that's pretty common among the sorts of people who went into tech because they had a passion for it.
I suspect all these insecure cybertruck owner types are the dudebro assholes who are only in it for the money and are shitty at their job anyway because they don't care.
You'd think that engineers and hackers would be exactly the types who would be inclined towards DIY.
Actual engineers and hackers usually are the kind of persons who can tackle problems out of their comfort zone with enough research. I'm a software developer, I couldn't cook stuff, but one day I decided I'd make a pizza and it turned out okay.
Problem is, the Cybertruck target demo isn't engineers or hackers. It's their managers. The Idea Guys. Elon is the archetypal Pointy-Haired Boss and the other PHBs go "I want to be just like Elon". They can't solve any problem worth a damn, because they have underlings for that, and gods forbid if they decide to actually do something themselves.
I work in tech an power tools are scary, they make loud noices.
Haha I'm the same. My wife's a mechanical engineer whos very good with tools. She fixes all the shit in our house, she just makes me hold stuff when she needs another set of hands, then when she releases me I run away from the loud noises
If it makes you feel any better, the magic smoke in technology is the same as the magic smoke in power tools.
Software engineer here. I want a truck, but one that fits my use case. I don’t want something taller than me. I have to be able to reach in and grab things out of the bed without climbing in. I don’t care if I’m always on pavement, it needs to have a use.
What’s the point of having a truck only to use it like an SUV?
I’m not good at DIY, but like… you should use the right tool for the job?
I don’t feel bad for them. I put sticky notes on the window that say “stupid.”
Seems like you're doing only half the work, then. Dehumanizing doesn't help any of us, least of all those who need it. I'm not saying we should not hate nazis/fascists/bigots.
Failing to keep compassion as some part of the equation only sets an exploitable standard to fuel more Us v Them™ bullshit from the top down.
Sticker the fuck outta these cuck-buckets, sure. Keep your bruised flame of silent pity alight for those fellow poors that got suckered, though. 🥹🙇🏽♂️
Cyberbrick owners are doing well enough to buy that monstrosity. I have endless empathy for people who are barely scraping by.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this isn't unique to just the dumpster truck owners.
I've seen people try to drive away with a couch mounted vertically in the passenger seat of a convertible (with no straps or rope of any kind).
I lost track of how many people roped their doors shut through the windows on their vehicles while strapping a 75 inch TV down to the roof of their Honda CRV.
The general population has an unbelievably poor understanding of physics and honestly I think we need to let more people die due to darwinism again. Saving the village idiot with modern medical standards has really just allowed them to get older and come up with even worse ideas. Sometimes they procreate and spawn in some new physics challenged shitlings that will be finding their way into your local ER with some self inflicted stupidity any day now.
Pretty fucked up that you prefer people dying over just properly funding our education system.
I love that there are before and after photos. Someone saw that, knew exactly how it would end, and instead of telling the guy, took a picture, then waited in the parking lot for the inevitable results. 💀
Might have told them. Many people take unsolicited advice as an attack, and refuse to listen, thinking they know better.
I agree with the post. I'd say most issues can be followed back to fragile masculinity. Masculinity specifically for historic reasons.
I do pity those so devoid of self-esteem. I hate the fact they're manipulable sheep that vote, but I understand where it's coming from. I'm sad for them that they'll never find contentment where they're looking for it.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate the cyber truck, but this is the owners fault. That roof thing slides back so he could have had them in at an angle where they wouldn’t have slid out.
I mean there’s an example of what to do parked right next to him 😆
i thought thats the point of the post? cybertrucks are bought by guys working in tech who are insecure about their lack of ability in "manly tasks"... like loading up a pickup
It’s really just a techy spin on how a lot of car brands are marketed to insecure guys. Read the marketing strategy for big trucks or jeeps, and it confirms they are 100% aware that their marketing is aiming for weak men insecure in their masculinity. Pathetic.
At least if they’d bought a real truck, they might’ve been able to haul something with it.
If you have a bedliner, you have to pull that load in tension across the back and tighten it with motorcycle straps or the like. If not, it will slip right on out the back, friction free. Kind of one of the points of having a bedliner. A poseur truck owner wouldn't know this, the same as they wouldn't know how or why to tie a trucker's hitch. You don't have to be completely inexperienced to screw this up but it helps.
As someone who has decades of experience safely hauling loads of all shapes and sizes I'll add my two cents:
Any load hanging out the back of the truck needs to be flagged. If a car behind me could hit the cargo before my truck, it's getting a big bright flag. (most big box stores have them for free right by the exit)
Hauling anything with the tailgate down is asking for problems.
Composite decking is surprisingly easy to snap when unsupported. He should have pulled the back of the unibody off with a trailer for this. (Or jackknifed it into the shiny dumpster failing to back it up)
Anything that you could see blowing around in a tornado needs to be strapped down. Almost anything will fly out of a bed at highway speeds. Ratcheting straps in an x from corner to corner for 90% of the time.
Every truck has ratcheting straps ready to go. Otherwise it's just a pavement princess/dick extender/soothing balm for fragile masculinity.
Even my old Mazda 3 had ratchet straps in case I unexpectedly needed to transport something on the roof.
Never heard of a rachet straps and red rag.
He forgot to hit the side and say "That oughta hold 'er".
Or at least a "that's not going anywhere"
Or, I don’t know, rolling up that cover and lifting the tailgate so that the boards sit at an angle and don’t slide out so easily?
They just summed up marketing. Buy your way into who you want to be
The insecure d-bags buying these "trucks" are the same people who were hardcore anti-EV not that long ago, right?
Wasn't that group calling Obama all kinds of evil things simply because of the mandate to end combustion engines by like 2035?
You’d think a tech worker would at least have a basic understanding of physics
Lol 80% of the computer science students at my uni absolutely detested math of any kind
the head scratch!
This makes me remember Sweden in the nineties, everh 40yo man and their fucking grandmother just had to buy a ... Harley Davidson motorcycle!
I mean if you want an anchor to your boat there are way cheaper ones. :-)
The thing was that those people wanted to be a rebel so hard, they shelled out astronomical amounts on that crappy bike (one story out of many; my lil bro got one in like 2010 and it broke down so much it was just comical, once he got it to this magic known harley mechanic who did a crazy overhaul, it broke down on the way home.).
So they was working in front of a computer all day, or serving people or whatever, and they were not rebels (!) but Harley Davidson could fix that. Like the cybertruck makes you a craftsman. Just like that.
Sweden was having more harley davidson motorcycles per capita than any other country in the world at that time. Guess insecurity sells.
/Story off
I can just picture this in a turn on the road wiping out a half dozen kids on e-bikes and killing someone easily.
If they'd bought a beater car and asked their dad to help troubleshoot it, they'd actually learn something about the field they're insecure about.
Chances are they're from families with a similar upbringing. You're assuming a lot that they can just ask their dad
A place to post your Cybertruck fails! We're here to make fun of this hunk of shit and throw as much shade as we can to that garbage bag of a human elon.
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