• ccunix@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, one of the nicest guys I have ever known is a retired copper.

    He joined up in the 60s as a smelly hippy (his words) to “bring the system down from the inside”. Very quickly discovered he could change peoples’ lives for the better and retired 45 years later having considered his career a success.

    He estimated that 4/5 were like him, but the rest are tossers (again, his words).

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    1 year ago

    Dunno why but a bike. Everytime I see one it’s going 2x the speed limit, weaving through traffic, or doing a wheelie…

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    Anything Lexus. Mostly luxury brand SUV (Lexus, Cadillac, BmW, those trying to be cool Denali shit). Sprinkle in some “modified” diesel trucks and we have a party.

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      Lexus is a quality brand - it’s Toyota’s luxury brand. If I can’t find a good price on a used toyota in my neighborhood, I can usually find a lexus for a surprisingly good price. You’re sleeping on this brand!

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    NL here: Imported American trucks. You do not need a car that costs €5000/month in fuel alone that you cannot use practically in any way that a van, a regular car or even a bakfiets could do more cost-effectively. The only people who go through the effort to get such a vehicle are compensating for something, and a Dodge Ram in The Netherlands is only useful for dick measuring, and the most significant thing it’ll ever move is the owner’s fragile ego.

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      Yeah, they don’t even fit in a regular parking space, it is ridiculous to drive one in the Netherlands

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        They don’t fit in parking spaces here either! I’m constantly saying that they should park in the back of the parking lot

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        At least the European car market still has regular cars. Turns out that if it’s cheaper and easier to build and sell trucks, car manufacturers will make only trucks. So too many Americans buy trucks and SUV’s, not because they want to, but because that’s the only thing they can buy.

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          So too many Americans buy trucks and SUV’s, not because they want to, but because that’s the only thing they can buy.

          That is…insanely inaccurate lol. “I wanted to buy a car but I could only find trucks for sale” is not a thing in this country whatosever.

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      I mean Tesla was one of the first normal looking battery cars and when they came out that was before musk went full blown brain dead. Really you can’t judge all of em

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        Yeah, the problem is that they started to become status symbols, all of which are massive asshole magnets.

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          Do you think so? I don’t fully see that since they really are not all that expensive especially with the cheaper one. I just never thought of a Tesla that way before

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      God, this is tautogical at this point. In San Francisco, about 6 years ago, you suddenly saw Teslas beginning to do the asshole shit that BMWs were famous for.

      By now, the infamous BMW drivers have been wholly replaced by Tesla drivers. I can’t remember the last time I saw a BMW do something assholish.

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      I’ll give someone with an early model the benefit of the doubt as they might not have realised the heights his assholeness would reach and may have been trying to do right by the environment, but newer models and I’m going to judge you.

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    I’d say those extended cab pickup trucks with those big smokestacks, they’re literally made that way to blow smoke in people’s faces, pollute the environment.

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    What’s the assumption here? Am assumption means there are insufficient known facts to assert the truth.

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    This may just be confirmation bias but it seems like the majority of cars that pull out in front of me forcing me to break when they could have just waited 2 seconds for me to pass seem to be pickup trucks. Bonus points with last weeks one to do that which was also 1) driven by an elderly couple 2) swerveing all over the road, 3) driving 5 miles below speed limit, 4) had unsecured items in the back.

    They do make mini-trucks which are much better for fuel mileage while having the benefits of a work truck, but like you said these people aren’t buying them with fuel mileage or practicality in mind.

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      this is a total tangent but historically the pedal that’s not your gas or clutch is a “brake” and if drivers are causing you or your car to “break” then you should definitely get their insurance details and they should go back to driving school 🙃

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      Tell me you live in Florida without telling me you live in Florida. If you don’t, you sure know their drivers.