Lysol @ lysol @lemmy.world

Metal fan with a concern for the environment and a passion for radiology.

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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.

The BMW representing "douche" is spot on.

The people burning it has mainly been a Danish right wing extremist and an Iraqi asylum seeker. Hardly any Swede.

Where are my Reddit awards when I suddenly want them?

Great post.

Ooh awesome. There are a ton of great custom maps and mods for Warcraft 3. I used to hang out at wc3campaigns as a teen so I have a ton of nostalgia thinking about wc3 now.

It has been reported that the Wagner group (Russia) supported the coup in some way. Russia does have an interest in getting African nations to support them instead of the West, so it would make sense.

Sorry, unnecessary way to phrase myself.

It's pretty common in Sweden with hitches (like, more than 50% if I would make a guess), so even if you don't have a car or a hitch on your car, you most likely know someone with one.

Uh... Ever heard of trailers?

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.