• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    willing to bet the driver of the tiny truck has a bigger… ahem

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Neither is trashing the climate with pointlessly big vehicles just to compensate for whatever insecurities they have. We need to either tax or regulate these stupid vehicles back to a reasonable and safe size.

        • Tak@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          It’s not just big vehicles that do that. For instance I wouldn’t call a supra a big vehicle but when they wake me up at 3 AM because they have to be louder than fire sirens I feel like that is compensating as well.

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          1 year ago

          You are that body shaming is not okay and yet you contribute to it. Why?

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          1 year ago

          Not sure if you’re serious but i will answer as if you were.

          A common attack against people with large trucks is that they have a large truck to compensate having a small penis. This implies having a small penis is bad/unacceptable. This is obvious body shaming but also contributes to toxic masculinity.
          Both of these are unacceptable.

          There are many alternative ways to talk shit without playing into these kinds of comments and TBH, the compensation comments have been used so much and are so obviously baseless that they don’t hit very hard, IMO.

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            1 year ago

            well, i didn’t actually say that, and i’m not responsible for others filling in the blanks with their own negative thoughts. as you can see, several others actually managed to conclude something different.

            don’t blame the Rorschach test because you see something you don’t like.

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      1 year ago

      Death wish? I love kei trucks but I fear getting into a mash up in one of them.

      • Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        American 🫵😐

        Typical “Everyone drives a big truck so I will too!” mindset that misses the core issue on why kei trucks are the better ones. You simply can’t imagine a world where the Ford Death Cruiser 4 billion doesn’t exist.

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          1 year ago

          Japan, the country that invented kei cars, also has larger cars. You’re not looking at the same chance as running into a hummer, but crashing a kei car into a white plate out here still doesn’t look good for the kei.

          In kei trucks and other models where the engine is behind you, a crash is gonna fuck you up, no matter what country you’re in or what you hit.

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              Sure, but they’re not banned from highways. It’s not uncommon to see them, although you’re right about lower speed limits-- a lot of highways are about 80 km max

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          1 year ago

          2 wheels for me please.

          But, thank you for taking the time on that well thought out, informative post.