• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I can already tell what the article is about

    i use it to carry the occasional purchase I make of large objects

    i like driving it, it makes me feel like a big man

    it's safer than an ordinary car

    Standard I'm an insecure baby shit

    • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      it's safer than an ordinary car

      I sometimes imagine my little subcompact getting turned into a stain on the road by an F-150 and the driver's defence is "you shouldn't have been driving such an unsafe car." These are the people telling us we spend too much on avocado toast.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        When I was five, a guy in a Ford Ranger almost backed up over me in a grocery store parking lot.

        extraneous background information

        Guy backed up and nailed me with the bumper, knocked me to the ground and started to keep going

        My dad basically had to bash in his rear windshield before he stopped

        Then he tried to fight my dad in the parking lot, he lost when my dad gave him a right cross across the face with the brass knuckles his biker gang buddies gave him to celebrate the momentous occasion of my birth

        Anyways, this was the early 90's and the trucks have only gotten bigger since then

        Shit's fucking dangerous

        • Shoegazer [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          my dad gave him a right cross across the face with the brass knuckles his biker gang buddies gave him to celebrate the momentous occasion of my birth

          :grillman:

    • Beaver [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      i use it to carry the occasional purchase I make of large objects

      Hardware stores have F250 flatbeds that you can rent for like $20 and can carry way bigger stuff for than your pickup.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's so funny when moving and occasional big purchases are used as a justification. It's literally cheaper to get a small car and rent a uhaul on occasion.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    If you have a pickup truck that reduced the bed size in order to accommodate a bigger cabin. No, you do not need a pickup truck.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      That's just an SUV that leaves your cargo open to the elements.

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        24 days ago

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  • good [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    As someone who does actually need a truck for work, the wee one I have is so much more practical than big stupid modern trucks. It's impossible to find one in this size anymore. The bed is at knee level instead of chest level so I can actually get heavy things in it, and it gets gas mileage only slightly worse than my mother's sedan.

    The modern trucks only get bigger and stupider and harder to load. Sad.

      • good [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I just know it's a lot easier to unload furniture from mine than my coworkers'. Just a short knee bend and I can get underneath it.

        Or when I'm hauling something very heavy like a wood stove or a riding lawn mower, the ramp is much shorter than it would need to be if I had a full size truck.

        I'm sorry you had to go through that, and I wish ill upon your bosses as well :knifecat:

      • good [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Now we can make them bigger than you ever imagined possible, with an elevator for the driver's seat and an elevator for the cargo :jeb:

  • MrEntertainment [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Says something about how secure he is about it that he even felt the need to write this lol.

  • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    The pickup truck in the picture doesn't have an 8' bed, so is basically useless as a pickup truck. It's just an El Camino SUV.

    I will say that Ford is starting to go in heavy on electric pickup trucks, though. The F-150 Lightning sounds good except for only coming in crew cab. It's got good towing capacity, though.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The 2022 F-150 Lightning Pro with the smaller standard-range 98 kWh battery pack has a base curb weight of 6,171 lbs and a GVWR of 8,250 lbs. It also puts the base Lightning payload at just over the promised 2,000 lbs.

      Progress is when the largest electric truck with load has a good chance of absolutely fucking obliterating en ampty ICE F150 due to sheer accelerated mass

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      11 days ago

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    • TechnologyMoth [comrade/them,any]
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      2 years ago

      no need, but I live in the mountains and would love a truck or suv for exploring dirt roads without bottoming out on rocks constantly

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    like half of the people I know drive lifted trucks and have to get a step ladder to even put stuff in the bed (which is tiny because of the huge cabin)

    what is even the point