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Emotional Support Vehicles (aussie.zone)
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TranscriptionA picture of a hand holding remote car keys pointed at a white pickup truck. Below that is the text:

In the US, 75% of truck owners tow only once a year or less. Nearly 70% of them go off-road once a year or less. Additionally, 35% of truck owners haul something in their truck beds once a year or less

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Don't blame emo for what can be explained by YAGNI.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago

But you get to own the libs every day so it evens out.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Saw a truck the other day with Harris and Coexist stickers and was so confused.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

I got a 2004 Silverado 1500 and I couldn't be happier with it. It's not a giant penile enhancement. Its just a normal sized truck. I use it as a daily driver and grocery getter. But when I need a truck to haul shit I got it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

saw a rivian on my way home from work this morning. poor guy tried to keep up but my old 4banger was just too light on her feet

[-] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

It compensates for penis size 100% of the time though.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

I imagine it's pretty much the same in UK - a lot of the people using them for work might be better off with a small van.

But then, they don't look 'manly' do they?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

What does a van offer that a small truck wouldn't? Other than opportunity for passengers. Since its a work vehicle passengers isn't generally a concern since basically anything you can buy can handle atleast 2 people. Covered space? Get a cap. Need more Clearance for a fridge you intend on plugging in right away? take the cap off. Over sized item in more ways than one like a couch or bed? you can drop and remove the tailgate. I have yet to see a small van that can be all that customizable?

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You can down vote but you should add to the discussion. Can we get the numbers on people that have vans and aren't using them to capacity or carrying anything. How about the amount that drive passenger cars that are driving 2+ occupant but serves no more utility than a bicycle that's faster.

To add to the numbers my house hold has a 4 door sedan and a pickup. But we are dual income with no kids. What should I drive instead? so I live 30 miles from work because who is so lucky to work next door and wife is 20 miles fron work. I also do things like move fire wood and mow lawns and... Really do you want a list of all the things I would have to rent a truck for? I have a cap for my bed and have pulled it to move larger stuff. Just because you dont have to do a thing or have a thing or what ever.... Doesn't mean there is t a use case which doesn't involve using someone else's and just using your own.

[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A guy at work has a massive truck, and once had a bunch of bags of wood pellets delivered to the office.

As he wrangled a bunch of low level employees to help him load it all up, he exclaimed "I can fit two tons in the back of this!"

"I can have things delivered to my house" I replied.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

It's $100 minimum to get anything delivered from the hardware store a mile from my house. It's $20 rent a pickup from U-haul for their 4 hour minimum. I do that maybe 4X per year. I drive a little electric car now, but when I had a Prius V (station wagon one) with the seats folded down I could fit as much in there as a light duty pickup.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

That sounds dumb. Lets instead expend $60k+maintenance and insurance in order to not have to pay $100 once every othe year or so.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

the math makes more sense when the truck costs <$20,000 and only has colision insurance.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I think there's a significant part of American culture and mythology constructed around self-reliance. It is at the heart of the rage over socialism (that and anti-communist sentiment left-over from the Cold War), the hardcore prepper mindset, and pickup trucks.

When that is your identity logic doesn't play into it, unfortunately.

Also, the prevalence of $100k+ vehicles is getting goddamn ridiculous.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

That's exactly what I do with my Forester. I live in a regional area of Australia so for me it's a daily driver and great for long trips, and if I need to pick shit up, fold the seats down and I effectively have my ute.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Gender affirming truck. But seriously, I will never ask someone to haul stuff for me. It's like you didn't buy a truck to haul my shit around. There are also seasons of life where a truck would be super useful. What I'm saying is I need a fucking truck you bitches.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just rent a pickup truck from U-Haul for $21 per day. I'm never gonna need it more than 1 day.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Less than the price for insuring a big ass truck for a year.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Emotional Support Truck

[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Beautiful! Ford F550

Would love to haul my sleds in that

[-] [email protected] -5 points 15 hours ago

Why do I keep getting recommended this sub. Wtf is this place even for?? Is it hating on cars or hating on car owners??

WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS PLACE TO BEGIN WITH???

[-] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let’s explore the bad world of Cars!

From the sidebar. If you don't like it, block the community instead of complaining and typing in full caps with excessive punctuation like some boomer on Facebook.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 13 hours ago

Also you can't get miffed at me for supposedly "Complaining" about the point of the community

Deadass the title is fuckcars. 90% of everyone here is complaining about something jerkass

Its always Anti-"Insert topic" subs that, when I ask why they exist and what's the point, people immediately insult me instead of either going "Myeh we don't all just hate on cars here, just specific things like 'Insert specific things'" or just answering the question. Its always "WELL IF YA DON'T LIKE IT GET OUT!"

Maybe it is the caps, but I never badmouth anyone or anything when I ask, Im just super confused and wanna understand. But I get told to fuck off.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

All you're doing by commenting here is telling the algorithm you like to engage with this community, therefore you will keep seeing it more, and complaining more, thus telling the algorithm you like engaging with the community etc.

I told you to block the community because you don't enjoy it, that's all.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

Jesus fuck, you didn't have to go and insult me. The sidebar was enough but even then I still don't understand wtf the point of the sub at all or why it's constantly recommended to me. :/

I use a buncha caps and punctuation all the time cus im autistic, it's in all my comments and posts; for me it's like I'm putting my thoughts as they are on the screen. So if I wanna scream or emphasize somethin then I put it in all caps.

I don't really like having to block whole ass communities like that, cus what if there IS an interesting post I see from there?? I like just being able to tell Lemmy "Hey, stop showing me this" instead of blocking.

And im not even complaining really I just:

A. dont understand what this post is trying to tell me.

B. what this has to do about cars being bad.

C. Why fuckcars is the only one shown to me and not something else like Anti-child or Anti-work or anti-anything else.

And the sidebars are often useless compared to the actual behavior of the community. Scrolling the comments, it's just a lotta people going "Yea I know a guy who ALWAYS drives his truck with stuff in it, fukin chump." and some (Seemingly) sour attitudes towards truck drivers for carrying a buncha stuff in their trucks.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

tldr

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The TLDR: "I don't understand the point of this place and since I can't read, this place sucks."

Every comment here is "Why do you wanna do that?!" And then it'd explained and they double down or ignore it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Thanks for the concise translation.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

It's to promote and advocate for alternatives to car dependence.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

What alternatives?? Every post here is either complaining about roads, traffic, or specific cars?? I have yet to see someone go "Ah, just finished a bike run! Feeling real good!"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Because car infrastructure is totally dominant. There are some posts about advocating for busses, trains, or bike lanes. Most users are in the US though where car dependence is strongly built into the system.

You can only make so many posts saying how much better trains or busses are at moving people though. It gets old fast. There's a lot more ways to joke about how much it sucks that we are required to use cars, and how shitty certain large vehicles in particular are.

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