This makes me remember Sweden in the nineties, everh 40yo man and their fucking grandmother just had to buy a … Harley Davidson motorcycle!
I mean if you want an anchor to your boat there are way cheaper ones. :-)
The thing was that those people wanted to be a rebel so hard, they shelled out astronomical amounts on that crappy bike (one story out of many; my lil bro got one in like 2010 and it broke down so much it was just comical, once he got it to this magic known harley mechanic who did a crazy overhaul, it broke down on the way home.).
So they was working in front of a computer all day, or serving people or whatever, and they were not rebels (!) but Harley Davidson could fix that. Like the cybertruck makes you a craftsman. Just like that.
Sweden was having more harley davidson motorcycles per capita than any other country in the world at that time. Guess insecurity sells.
/Story off
I don’t pity the fools, I just point and laugh. Do you know how much therapy you could afford with the money they wasted on their Cyber Rusts? Or a few trades courses? Or maybe a basic physics class for the but in this photo lol
That’s most truck owners. Come at me.
But there’s that one guy that drives his truck to and fro his office job every day because he hates gas. But then twice a year he mixes some cement so it’s totally valid.
Large trucks are gender affirming care.
My favorite is truck nuts. Did the truck want bottom surgery?
New meme:
Truck nuts are bottom surgery for men who don’t have any
They forcemasc’d the truck!
Basically, unless you legit haul stuff regularly.
I have an S10. A 22 year old, 2-wheel drive compact pickup. I routinely visit a sawmill in that truck. For grocery trips I’ve got an old Buick I’m trying to wear out.
I have a 10 year old ford suv. It’s got a tow hitch for the atvs, AWD for the snow in the mountains, but is otherwise a comfy leather couch to cruise around in and neatly backs into a compact car spot. The giant pavement princesses are just obnoxious
I could see owning a pickup truck the size of a 90’s F-150. I would like a bed that has a proper 4x8 area on the floor of the bed to carry full sheets of plywood, flat on the deck. But I don’t need the machine to be that much bulkier than my S10. I live in the middle of North Carolina, it snows 6 times a decade here. I use my pickup to carry lumber, furniture, trash etc. on paved roads.
Don’t say that too loudly or they might get taxed more /j
If a truck is older than say 2015, has dings, scratches or mud. It’s probably their work truck. If it’s lifted, clean, etc. It’s a pavement princess. Ive also heard that a lot of those trucks that are diesel having constant problems because they aren’t hauling or driving long enough to get the engine nice and hot to burn some of the build up. Never owned a diesel so don’t @ me.
Its the particle filter that needs a good burning every once in a while. Otherwise it gets clogged and can’t filter anymore and also reduces your exhaust flow.
It is indeed a problem with many diesel cars that are only used for city drives. As for the driving itself diesel is more chill than gasoline because the maximum torque is reached at lower rpm and it is more difficult to stall the engine than a gasoline engine so manual gear is easier.
Ya I hate that I have a truck because it makes me guilty by association but I like to go camping most weekends and it’s just the best tool for the job in my opinion
It’s black and there are scratches down both sides of the truck from foliage and shit which I intentionally don’t buff out because I think it actually looks cooler being obviously “used” lol
Fun fact but on Vancouver Island these scratches are known as “BC pinstripes”
Pavement princesses annoy me. When I see a huge truck sparkling like it just pulled out of a showroom, I figure they don’t really need a truck, they just bought it to show off.
The scratches mean you actually use your truck as a truck.
My mom drives a full size pickup and all she does is get groceries with it, drives me mad
She says “it’s safer” and “i don’t like sitting on the ground” lol
This woman is 5ft tall
she should get a booster seat then
The pedals in her pickup have a switch that moves the pedals up and down even high enough for her lol
I’m just south of the BC border, and I saw the absolute coolest truck a few years back. It’s a vibe out here.
No hate, I had a Nissan Frontier, I loved that damn truck. I really only used it like a truck a handful of times tho. I had to sell her when I moved overseas.
Good truck. I have a 2007 gmc sierra with the 6.5ft box with one of those grandpa style tall canopies and i have a bed and stove built in the back for adventuring
Drove from victoria bc to fairbanks alaska and it has 330,000km and it gives me zero issues (except the stupid fucking window switches, I’ve replaced the four of them like 3 times now)
The people with lift kits and glaring lights underneath who never have towed a single thing in their lives are who you call pavement princesses
I saw some dbag the other day driving a perfectly clean Ford F-350. In Western Canada. In April. It was clean. He was also headed downtown and wearing a suit. That truck has never had so much as a pebble in the treads of its tires.
As someone who has a truck that does truck things you are being too generous with “most”. That’s almost all truck owners.
I’ll come at you by correcting it to NEW truck owners. If you are afraid of scratching your truck you shouldn’t be owning a truck. Also, exceptions apply for states that regularly see feet of snow during the winter where four wheel drive or awd are a necessity for safe driving.
insecurity of tech workers
That’s the part that kinda boggles my mind. You’d think that engineers and hackers would be exactly the types who would be inclined towards DIY. I know I am, and I feel like that’s pretty common among the sorts of people who went into tech because they had a passion for it.
I suspect all these insecure cybertruck owner types are the dudebro assholes who are only in it for the money and are shitty at their job anyway because they don’t care.
You’d think that engineers and hackers would be exactly the types who would be inclined towards DIY.
Actual engineers and hackers usually are the kind of persons who can tackle problems out of their comfort zone with enough research. I’m a software developer, I couldn’t cook stuff, but one day I decided I’d make a pizza and it turned out okay.
Problem is, the Cybertruck target demo isn’t engineers or hackers. It’s their managers. The Idea Guys. Elon is the archetypal Pointy-Haired Boss and the other PHBs go “I want to be just like Elon”. They can’t solve any problem worth a damn, because they have underlings for that, and gods forbid if they decide to actually do something themselves.
I work in tech an power tools are scary, they make loud noices.
If it makes you feel any better, the magic smoke in technology is the same as the magic smoke in power tools.
Haha I’m the same. My wife’s a mechanical engineer whos very good with tools. She fixes all the shit in our house, she just makes me hold stuff when she needs another set of hands, then when she releases me I run away from the loud noises
This is very relatable to me.
Adam Conover did a good job explaining the phenomenon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4X6oc-tz8
Software engineer here. I want a truck, but one that fits my use case. I don’t want something taller than me. I have to be able to reach in and grab things out of the bed without climbing in. I don’t care if I’m always on pavement, it needs to have a use.
What’s the point of having a truck only to use it like an SUV?
I’m not good at DIY, but like… you should use the right tool for the job?
I’m a software developer and not really done any kind of DIY, BUT I do know that something not strapped in the back of a moving vehicle is not going to stay in the vehicle when you move.
I’ve done tech DIY stuff but it wood or metal stuff.
I like computers but I’m totally different from these fools
I don’t feel bad for them. I put sticky notes on the window that say “stupid.”
Seems like you’re doing only half the work, then. Dehumanizing doesn’t help any of us, least of all those who need it. I’m not saying we should not hate nazis/fascists/bigots.
Failing to keep compassion as some part of the equation only sets an exploitable standard to fuel more Us v Them™ bullshit from the top down.
Sticker the fuck outta these cuck-buckets, sure. Keep your bruised flame of silent pity alight for those fellow poors that got suckered, though. 🥹🙇🏽♂️
Cyberbrick owners are doing well enough to buy that monstrosity. I have endless empathy for people who are barely scraping by.
We’re all at varying stages of “momentarily embarrassed millionaire”, and arguments to the contrary are rooted in propaganda blindness & similar coping. We’re all fucked, and splitting hairs only benefits the fuckstains perpetuating it. Hate the players, not the victims.
edit: Downvotes are for that other place, fellow beasts of others’ burdens; read comprehensively or at least recognize that you’d “prefer not to”. Clicking a dopamine button is just showing off your shiny collar.
momentarily embarrassed millionaire
Buddy, I have a few months of mortgage payments saved up for emergency but I am still seconds away from being homeless if everything goes wrong but decades away from being a millionaire if everything goes right.
I presume you’re unfamiliar with the phrase, then.
I have less than $100 to my name and the abyss to welcome me. Thafuq difference do you really think there is between us? Time? Patience? A couple more dollars? Each of us is living every waking second as if somehow none of all this affects us directly, personally, immediately, and thus as a collective of livestock (ie “human resources”) we’re calm as Hindu fucking cattle — but only sacred to ourselves, in actuality.
Stop reacting to minutia. Act.
Ah, yes. More and more like that ol’ shit-site of yore: the auto-fellating abounds in silent anons. This species is totally gonna make it through the next century, yep. 🤣🖖🏽
Found the guy that bought the Cybertruck!
Are you high & replied to the wrong comment? Considering one of my colleagues-in-political-arms back in the day went to prison for blowing up an SUV dealership, and yet I generally hold the ELF to be sus-AF-at-best, you can breathe easy knowing you’ve fingered the wrong citizen for this flippant blurt of hurdur. Thanks for playing, though.
No, but you seem awfully sensitive for having such a hardcore friend. I’m sure glad they’re locked up so they don’t hurt me.
I agree with the post. I’d say most issues can be followed back to fragile masculinity. Masculinity specifically for historic reasons.
I do pity those so devoid of self-esteem. I hate the fact they’re manipulable sheep that vote, but I understand where it’s coming from. I’m sad for them that they’ll never find contentment where they’re looking for it.
How can it be changed? Their votes ruin society.
They need a hug and to feel safe enough to be vulnerable. The identity of masculinity, the prohibition of displaying or feeling any emotion (other than anger), maybe is what contributes to people being underdeveloped husks. They’re empty shells and the way they didn’t learn to deal with emotions. Lashing out and compensating by “having” (things, people, being feared [‘respect’ to them]) because it makes them feel powerful. But real power is knowing who you are, being able to connect with yourself and others. They’re not allowed that, though. Connection requires being vulnerable and having a strong enough sense of self to not be threatened by that.
Now, who is going to give those hugs?
Ultimately they have to feel good and safe and peaceful enough that they stop acting out.
If you have a bedliner, you have to pull that load in tension across the back and tighten it with motorcycle straps or the like. If not, it will slip right on out the back, friction free. Kind of one of the points of having a bedliner. A poseur truck owner wouldn’t know this, the same as they wouldn’t know how or why to tie a trucker’s hitch. You don’t have to be completely inexperienced to screw this up but it helps.
As someone who has decades of experience safely hauling loads of all shapes and sizes I’ll add my two cents:
Any load hanging out the back of the truck needs to be flagged. If a car behind me could hit the cargo before my truck, it’s getting a big bright flag. (most big box stores have them for free right by the exit)
Hauling anything with the tailgate down is asking for problems.
Composite decking is surprisingly easy to snap when unsupported. He should have pulled the back of the unibody off with a trailer for this. (Or jackknifed it into the shiny dumpster failing to back it up)
Anything that you could see blowing around in a tornado needs to be strapped down. Almost anything will fly out of a bed at highway speeds. Ratcheting straps in an x from corner to corner for 90% of the time.
Every truck has ratcheting straps ready to go. Otherwise it’s just a pavement princess/dick extender/soothing balm for fragile masculinity.
Even my old Mazda 3 had ratchet straps in case I unexpectedly needed to transport something on the roof.
I drive a Santa Cruz and even I have straps and tie-downs.
Very good points.
I had started to describe with more detail that I was a cabinet and furniture maker for decades and still work in industry as a designer, but was annoying even myself with the description (didn’t want to be lecturing folks further). Anyhow, I once saw a guy I worked for send a client off with an expensive piece I had just finished, without lifting a finger to secure the load. That piece exploded out of the bed, somewhere between our shop and the Bay Bridge, splintering onto the freeway. Dude made this woman pay for replacement, said contract stipulated as such. Even supposedly experienced jagoffs like that guy can blow it royally.
I love that there are before and after photos. Someone saw that, knew exactly how it would end, and instead of telling the guy, took a picture, then waited in the parking lot for the inevitable results. 💀
Might have told them. Many people take unsolicited advice as an attack, and refuse to listen, thinking they know better.
the head scratch!
Never heard of a rachet straps and red rag.
He forgot to hit the side and say “That oughta hold 'er”.
Or at least a “that’s not going anywhere”
Rituals are rituals for a reason. Sometimes they work.
Or, I don’t know, rolling up that cover and lifting the tailgate so that the boards sit at an angle and don’t slide out so easily?
Judging by the bending of some of the material in the 2nd pic, I’m guessing this person thought it would be bad for the material to be bent under their stacked weight if the tailgate was up so decided to lay them flat, completely ignoring the need to further secure the load because they were heavy.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate the cyber truck, but this is the owners fault. That roof thing slides back so he could have had them in at an angle where they wouldn’t have slid out.
I mean there’s an example of what to do parked right next to him 😆
I’m not sure the CTs tailgate could handle that much weight though. Bottom line - this thing is a toy, not a work truck, like the one parked next to it.
Oh god it’s even worse then 🤣
i thought thats the point of the post? cybertrucks are bought by guys working in tech who are insecure about their lack of ability in “manly tasks”… like loading up a pickup
Sure sure, but I’m in tech and am not a manly man and yet I thought of it. This guy is just dense it seems.
The insecure d-bags buying these “trucks” are the same people who were hardcore anti-EV not that long ago, right?
Wasn’t that group calling Obama all kinds of evil things simply because of the mandate to end combustion engines by like 2035?
Without data, it’s impossible to tell. I am sorry to say it but it’s very dangerous to get rallied up without evidence.
It’s really just a techy spin on how a lot of car brands are marketed to insecure guys. Read the marketing strategy for big trucks or jeeps, and it confirms they are 100% aware that their marketing is aiming for weak men insecure in their masculinity. Pathetic.
At least if they’d bought a real truck, they might’ve been able to haul something with it.
You’d think a tech worker would at least have a basic understanding of physics
Lol 80% of the computer science students at my uni absolutely detested math of any kind
At least intro physics was super interesting. Fuck Calc and Chem though.
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I can just picture this in a turn on the road wiping out a half dozen kids on e-bikes and killing someone easily.
