Ubuntu 6.04. It was really simple to get it up and running even back then.

Yes, but I am European as well (Swedish), and up until like three years or so, I would fully agree, but the damn american trucks have become really common here the last years.

“Large pickup”… I can’t believe I actually find these pretty small these days. GMC et al, fuck you.

Nice. Noted, if I get an EV one day.

It’s like you’ll have to go convert like a 2005 ICE car to electric to get a “nice car without tech shit I never asked for”.

Monstrosity? It’s fuckin AWESOME

– Facebook

Source? Because from what I’ve learned, they’ve studied aspartame so much now it’s almost silly, and it has never been proven to be “worse than sugar”. Though the sugar industry is really happy you believe otherwise.

There’s also the option of renting a car that single time.

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.

Where are my Reddit awards when I suddenly want them?

Great post.