• Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Humans have quite literally invented cars that are better at killing people, especially children.

    “I don’t want children to die in accidents,” say people as they drive huge masses of metal that might do just that.

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      6 months ago

      Driving a truck and not wanting children to die in accidents are in-fact not in conflict with each other. Or are you implying that truck drivers do want them to die?

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        6 months ago

        Driving a truck and not wanting children to die in accidents are in-fact not in conflict with each other.

        Then design trucks which are not as deadly to pedestrians on impact.

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      6 months ago

      I’ll keep driving my PEV Minivan that has 360 cameras and I can see in front of me easily. I care about children’s lives, unlike bubba in his lifted pickup truck. Why do you need a 4x4 lifted 3 feet and you live in the suburbs?

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        6 months ago

        …you know what they say about guys with big lift…

        Funny thing is, the people I know with large vehicles around here always bemoan how difficult it is to park, yet don’t want to solve the obvious problem because twice a year they want to haul a fridge to the dump or pick up something from the home improvement store rather than have it delivered or rent a truck for an hour.

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          6 months ago

          always bemoan how difficult it is to park

          I’ve made multuple older men incredibly upset by laughing at them when they say this

          They get pissy and respond with “well you’re some skinny long haired hippie who drives an EV so what do you know?” Which, yeah, all of that is true

          But then I pull up the pictures of me 4x4ing in the rain and snow through fire smoke at work, pointing out that I drove a RAM3500 fully kitted out and lifted with a giant set of 4 110g tanks in the bed blocking anything other than my mirror and cam view, yet I only had issues parking when people didn’t know how to stay in their own lines, and that I regularly had to squeeze my truck into areas with an inch or less of clearance in order to do my fucking job on a construction site, and I never hit anything but a rock (downhill, someone left a fucking rug out on some dirt in the rain and when my truck hit it I just slid til I hit the rock, company deemed me blameless)

          They usually get flustered and change the subject p quick at that point

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        6 months ago

        Why do you need a 4x4 lifted 3 feet and you live in the suburbs?

        Penis issue