Monstrosity? It’s fuckin AWESOME

– Facebook

Exactly, fuck cars isn’t “fuck transportation vehicles”. The things clogging the streets are personal vehicles, not buses and semi trucks (did I do American English correct here?) transporting stuff.

Worse aerodynamics, worse stability, more prone to roll over, will more likely kill the driver of another car in a crash, will more likely kill a pedestrian. Etc etc.

It comes with a cost.

Fair enough of course, stuff needs to be defined. I wouldn’t call an outback an SUV personally. That car is more like a station wagon with a slightly higher ground clearance.

Then by all means, if you live in rural Colorado or whatever, get a truck. But it’s not like they are the majority of Americas population.

First off - God bless the Yaris.

Anyway, this is exactly the point. Most people with huge trucks do not need huge trucks. That doesn’t mean no one does, but most people with huge trucks or SUVs are living in suburbs or whatever. They claim to need them because “road bad once a year” or “I move a chair sometimes”. It’s simply just mental gymnastics to excuse the real reason which is “I am insecure of my manliness”.

You live a life where people actually might have use for a huge truck. Yet you still moved a baby cow in your Yaris (which is so awesome btw I laughed out loud) because it worked just fine.

The right tool for the right job, and most people don’t need the truck. The few who do, great, get one.

EDIT: Just looked up the GMC Canyon. I first googled “GMC Canyon”. Then I added “2007”. What the fuck. What happened. It’s so obvious it’s just an arms race of who can build bigger.

99% of SUV owners do not, no. His point is not that no one needs a car with high ground clearance because of course some people do. His point is that the vast majority of people do not. He lives in an area where people often claim they “need” SUV:s, but he does not own an SUV and it works out fine.

Perhaps. But he is writing in Swedish.

It doesn’t really, it’s just his way of writing very sarcastically.

I guess what he’s trying to say is that it generally boils down to some macho attitude when you think you “need” an SUV.

I feel so many of these arguments have been addressed already by NJB, CityNerd and the like, and they don’t hold up.

Xkcd is so great at being relevant.

Heresy!

Yup, we say åttondelsfinal in Swedish which means just that.

I think you misunderstand, he means you can’t publish the results of your own research to Wikipedia. It has to be published somewhere else and then you need to reference to that on Wikipedia.

Trust me, it’s sooo worth it. I have a three-wheeled one. First I drop my son off at kindergarten and then I go to the grocery store and bring home like five or six large bags of food. It’s so great.

It’s sad really, I still appreciate phpbb boards, but there’s really no reason to hang out on one if you don’t have any activity there anyway.

I’m all for a fuckplanes community

I’ve listened to a podcast about geoengineering, but it’s unfortunately in Swedish. The name of the podcast? P3 Dystopia.

Yeah… Geoengineering might sound good on paper, but often comes with all kind of terrible side-effects.

Right, I missed that. Thanks.

Rice up*