• creamlike504@jlai.lu
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    20 hours ago

    I feel like the gas and the monthly cost of the loan they took out against their mortgage is probably tax enough.

    I genuinely believe most of these super-truck owners already have one foot in the financial grave and are just in denial about it.

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      8 hours ago

      The flip side of this is that people who actually want a small, practical truck for utility purposes cannot buy one in the US. Doesn’t exist. Those supertrucks are all you get now, and yeah, the finances don’t make sense for this utility use, either.

      And for fucks sake, nobody point me to the Maverick. That is not any kind of small utility truck and you know it. The Maverick is “well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it” except for trucks.

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      18 hours ago

      Clearly not, because these dickheads are out there driving vehicles that are way over-specced for their use cases, all because they have tiny penises and need to compensate! Some of these things are that tall that you can’t see an average height adult standing in front of the grill from the drivers seat.

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        14 hours ago

        Yeah, and they’re not even needed, except as an emotional support vehicle for their impotent owners. Very few are working vehicles - how often are they seen with the bed loaded up?

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          13 hours ago

          A coworker was telling me all about how “once you own a truck, you realize all the things you can do with a truck that you couldn’t before”

          And like, he’s not wrong but all the things he listed were my non-urgent to-do list that I keep written down and when it has 3-4 items I rent a truck from Uhaul for the day. I spend about $20 while they’re spending thousands on their monthly payment, not to mention gas.

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            12 hours ago

            In 2018, i had to talk a roommate out of buying an F150. He wanted to buy it because we were moving… Two miles down the road. We lived in the valley, and he was going to school in Hollywood. Imagine driving 30-40 miles, daily, on the 101, in bumper to bumper traffic, with Los Angeles gas prices. I showed him some napkin math and he ended up getting a Honda Civic and renting a uhaul.

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                9 hours ago

                It’s not a joke.

                I still remember the route to my Moms place

                101 to the 126 to the 5 to the 210 to the 57 to the 71 to the 15 to the 78.

                All to try and bypass LA traffic.

                The 405 is always bumper to bumper around LAX, even at 3 AM.

                That route was the fastest. Or it was like 15 years ago.

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          10 hours ago

          I play a game if I’m ever like, waiting at a red light with one. Could I fit my couch in their truck bed? This massive, beefy truck that may have cost nearly a 100k…

          I dont think my couch would fit in most of their truck beds. And I laugh at the idiocy of owning such a machine that is useless.

          I remember my redneck hick uncles talking so much shit when extended cabs became a thing in the 90s. I don’t know the bigots anymore but I think they called in right with this non practical trucks.

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          10 hours ago

          I rarely see anything in the back of these Earth killing things. And where I live, every idiot owns a diesel version. Louder and dirtier.