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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Useful for carrying massive things every single day, completely useless for all other purposes.

I noticed that car owners never use their cars to their fullest potential. You have all this additional space just being permanently unused, which just worsens highway traffic. Not to mention all the additional pollution you're now responsible for because that big ass car is not an EV.

Just get a regular sized car if you don't wanna bother transporting 3 grand pianos to the same two places every single day. Oh wait, now you have to retune them too.

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[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Not arguing with the statement being made here but the tilt shift photography makes that picture much worse than it is in reality. Again, I completely disagree with these giant atrocities rolling down the road but still this photo is not accurate by any means.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I think you mean forced perspective, not tilt shift. Those are two different things in photography.

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[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

One pretty big factor to these getting bought is due to safety and for that reason I feel like we as a society has prioritized driver safety that we have sacrificed pedestrian safety

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it's not safety, i mean, well, it is safety, at the cost of the poor sod that you crash into and fucking kill. Or the children that you're statistically more likely to run over and even more statistically likely to kill if you do hit them.

You know what else is safe? Not ramming your car into a brick wall.

I'm just talking about car safety for the first bit here, not even pedestrian impacts.

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

That's a goddamn Ferd Fteenthousand.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

My car is probably smaller than the cabin and engine of that truck and I don’t even have a compact car

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

How else are they supposed to tell the entire world they are massive dicks with micro penises?

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