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(DIR) Post #B0bWYX2QFmhfBRFNT6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T12:42:04Z
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I am an adult. I’m short, yes, but this is ridiculous. The hood on this truck is higher than my shoulder. It forms in 90° angle with the ground. hideous! There’s no way they could see me in the crosswalk.They were double parked. Even with the engine off it felt unsafe to walk in front of this thing. I would be so embarrassed to drive a car like this if I were not … plowing snow?
(DIR) Post #B0bWtps9QIOzg7bKMK by AbyssalRook@mstdn.social
2025-11-25T12:45:51Z
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@futurebird Okay I've lived in like, rural small town / mini cities for most of my life so I've seen monstrosities like that a lot, but what is that thing doing IN THE CITY???
(DIR) Post #B0bWxXTdl5SRmhu05Q by Gurre@mastodon.nu
2025-11-25T12:46:31Z
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@futurebird I keep saying it:Ban them. Outright ban.Fronts of cars/trucks/buses/lorries... need to be regulated to be designed with pedestrian safety as 99% of the priorities. Including how big the direct lines of sight are, and to do away with the kill zones where drivers can't see.
(DIR) Post #B0bWy9A7e6QMfB3wwK by Gustodon@mas.to
2025-11-25T12:46:34Z
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@futurebird It looks like something the A-Team put together in a barn.
(DIR) Post #B0bWz17r0khC1mPttw by veronica@mastodon.online
2025-11-25T12:46:47Z
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@futurebird Just a couple of months ago an old lady in her 80s were killed next to where I work because she walked over a crosswalk by a roundabout in front of a truck. The truck driver couldn't see her (presumably) and just started driving when the roundabout was clear. It's bad enough that trucks have this issue. At least trucks have a purpose. These cars have none. They should be banned on the road everywhere.
(DIR) Post #B0bX17Lqpp8Tupxulc by veronica@mastodon.online
2025-11-25T12:47:13Z
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@futurebird Just a couple of months ago an old lady in her 80s was killed next to where I work because she walked over a crosswalk by a roundabout in front of a truck. The truck driver couldn't see her (presumably) and just started driving when the roundabout was clear. It's bad enough that trucks have this issue. At least trucks have a purpose. These cars have none. They should be banned on the road everywhere.
(DIR) Post #B0bX6zS978SB9li57A by tkinias@hcommons.social
2025-11-25T12:48:16Z
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@futurebird I remember when I was a kid, they were starting to bring in snub-nosed schoolbuses because of how dangerous it was that drivers couldn’t see children walking in front of the old long-nosed models. Now basically *all* buses are like that—but yet somehow, 40 years on, we’ve normalized these monstrosities.They should be illegal.
(DIR) Post #B0bXCTnrhRqgjaUEAi by eowyn@pouet.chapril.org
2025-11-25T12:49:16Z
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@futurebird this is a tank with big windows
(DIR) Post #B0bXji43hKomWLuFPc by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
2025-11-25T12:55:16Z
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@futurebird never see these plowing snow - too fancy, and too long, and terrible visibility. Large commercial driveway clearing companies use smallish agricultural tractors with a snowblower attachment. Small independent operations use an old, short box regular cab truck from the 90's or earlier. Easy to maneuver, and cheap to repair. After 1 season, everything plastic on the outside of that will be broken. Clients aren't happy if you plow the rosebushes into the garage door.
(DIR) Post #B0bYE9dljfbajY7uYS by Trojaner@norden.social
2025-11-25T13:00:46Z
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@futurebird The box could at most push out a pile and get stuck in it. The fake jewellery would be crushed in the process. Too fat to move.The Trum is ridiculous and dangerous to others.
(DIR) Post #B0bZFQMN9tfSpd9uaW by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-11-25T13:12:12Z
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@futurebird I remember a time when blind spots on cars were specific odd angles behind the driver - not the entire field of view directly in front of them where they're supposed to be looking while driving the vehicle...
(DIR) Post #B0bZzsvjGdCAlHqoXg by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2025-11-25T13:20:36Z
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@futurebird The city really should be leading the charge on pedestrian safety standards in the same way that California is doing with emissions standardsThey should not be street legal here (maybe with a CDL) and should be towed any time one is seen whose owner did not register it to prove they have a CDL or if they are parked even a little bit illegally.
(DIR) Post #B0bak88d3Y2FFWw6Bk by katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org
2025-11-25T13:28:55Z
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@futurebird Plowing pedestrians?
(DIR) Post #B0bcWaqhiGFk9IDzd2 by knodel@mastodon.de
2025-11-25T13:48:55Z
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@futurebird And if you wait for the driver, you'll find out he's even shorter than you.
(DIR) Post #B0bcXh7jrwHdtoiYca by MichalBryxi@mastodon.world
2025-11-25T13:49:03Z
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@futurebird A new trend needs to emerge where it’s cool to point & laugh at the drivers. Nobody *needs* to drive one of those outside of *very* rural areas.
(DIR) Post #B0bcarcLJJDvJUXlXE by panda@freiburg.social
2025-11-25T13:49:41Z
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@futurebird and the US government wants to force those monsters also into Europe, where they are not allowed as of now
(DIR) Post #B0bduoxH1E0WnmPj4y by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-11-25T14:04:30Z
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@futurebird It's kinda like owning a giant dog that you can't control... It makes _you_ feel safer.I guess.I dunno. I don't own a giant dog that I can't control or a giant truck that I can't control.I'm not even sure it's ego that moves people to buy these things... I think it might actually be _fear_, as counter-intuitive as that might sound.
(DIR) Post #B0bfTuxQnF71VYmr6u by WTL@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T14:22:03Z
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@futurebird There … you know, should be a law about this. <long digital sigh>
(DIR) Post #B0bfqpu1klisUV7haa by donlamb_1@mastodon.online
2025-11-25T14:26:12Z
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@futurebird Last year in stopped traffic a large truck like that had a small sports car right in front of him. When it started to move he forgot they were there and smashed right into them.
(DIR) Post #B0bgJsf4ZispReygoy by EndicottAuthor@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T14:31:25Z
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@futurebird I once saw a short adult woman use a portable stepladder to get up into such a vehicle.
(DIR) Post #B0bgnRsEjfY93IEaK8 by run_atalanta@beige.party
2025-11-25T14:36:47Z
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@futurebird It just the mainstream trucknuts coming up to speed from when they were made to feel so small on the 2000s. Imagine coming out of a diner to find a pair of these sidled up to your prius "because they can." https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2006-international-cxt-2/
(DIR) Post #B0bhCSZlGLLeT8WEMK by mossyrua@mastodon.ie
2025-11-25T14:41:18Z
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@futurebird It’s also why no self respecting European would ever want to own something g the same size as a panzer tank
(DIR) Post #B0bhRSgJ9VAt8kjagC by JeanSanPach@mastodon.world
2025-11-25T14:43:59Z
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@futurebird Big Truck; Small Dick
(DIR) Post #B0bhYyyrSku9LEzzIO by farah@beige.party
2025-11-25T14:45:22Z
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@futurebird Once I stood in front of one of these trucks (parked). I only come up to the wheels. It keeps going on and on
(DIR) Post #B0bidlhKNKOBY1dxNg by Miredly@raru.re
2025-11-25T14:57:17Z
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@futurebird I got rear ended by one of these almost a year ago because he pulled up behind me at a light, lost my ENTIRE CAR in his blindspot, and forgot I was there. Light turned green and he went before I did.I flinch a little every time I see one in my rear view mirror now.
(DIR) Post #B0bighkTVz32AUW2YS by Elleaster@ohai.social
2025-11-25T14:57:58Z
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@futurebird I'm visiting Mexico, and they have little mini pickups and I love them. One of those massive Rams or F150s would make it around the tiny streets and sharp turns.Where I live everyone drives these massive trucks, pretending to be a cowboy. They are really babymen.
(DIR) Post #B0bijQy8MFOGznCpo8 by exchgr@mastodon.world
2025-11-25T14:58:30Z
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@futurebird even if i were plowing snow
(DIR) Post #B0bioSUq6dLJBHtqSm by tsyum@thepit.social
2025-11-25T14:59:23Z
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@futurebird uggh, there’s nothing positive about these things. Posturing and a feeling of safety for the operator but otherwise dangerous for everyone
(DIR) Post #B0bj1PfDwrmIA1vydM by Feralhousewife@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T15:01:44Z
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@futurebird At least it has a commercial license!
(DIR) Post #B0bjcoPSuI57chOdWq by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-11-25T15:08:29Z
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@futurebird I think snowplows have better forward visibility than that truck does.
(DIR) Post #B0bk0ioXMYiPDcWaMS by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T15:12:48Z
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@futurebirdi view these massive trucks, massive SUVs, as a parallel to american gun culturethis zero sum, absolutely psychotic need for overpower. carrying around a handgun, because "the guy with a knife." when more have handguns, you "need" to carry around an AK-47, etc, etc, all the way to "i need my own nuclear bomb"the parallel "logic" with tank cars is that in an accident, the other sap dies, not you in your tank(better road safety and gun control is never considered by psychos)
(DIR) Post #B0bkQpIFtZsGqKsAJk by paneerakbari@mas.to
2025-11-25T15:17:32Z
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@futurebird it's an Emotional Support Vehicle for the insecure and inept with more money than sense
(DIR) Post #B0bkYyUnZ6yBhTcoTo by mothninja@beige.party
2025-11-25T15:18:59Z
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@futurebird apologies for sounding like a European, and a European who lives in a car-free city to boot, but, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING JUST ABSOLUTELY NO
(DIR) Post #B0bkmhFeTZVGGw5EWG by kimlockhartga@beige.party
2025-11-25T15:21:29Z
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@futurebird I know that they were designed and marketed towards customers who feel insecure and inadequate, but this feeds into the idea that the potential for violence makes a person more powerful. It's obviously a way to make them feel like they could run over people, especially protestors, but its much more likely they will hit an everyday pedestrian. Don't they worry they will hit a child? You couldn't possibly see anyone close to the front of that ramming vehicle. It should be illegal. It's inherently dangerous.
(DIR) Post #B0bloIXjPbpKAprqcq by Lazarou@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T15:32:57Z
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@futurebird such things should not be allowed in Cities, it's silly and dangerous.
(DIR) Post #B0bmWt0hBnJe14g0Vk by Sassinake@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T15:41:02Z
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@futurebird They're urban tanks. These people are at war... against everyone else.
(DIR) Post #B0bnYbIg6ailchT8wC by jackemled@furry.engineer
2025-11-25T15:52:32Z
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@futurebird It's a commercial vehicle, so at least it most likely has a justifiable use. It's still unsafe & I hope the driver is trained to be aware of the blind spot.
(DIR) Post #B0bnvjNYEeg1L4mHce by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T15:56:44Z
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@401matthall Until it mauls your kid. That’s who gets hit most often— kids in driveways.
(DIR) Post #B0bot20ebuAcCrLPvc by KevinAvery1225@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T16:07:26Z
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@futurebird that's midtown; where they hell do they park it??
(DIR) Post #B0bp0Zac9vQ0NclEJc by WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai
2025-11-25T16:08:48Z
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@futurebird The owner certainly bitches about gas prices. Also, cue up Randy Newman Rednecks.
(DIR) Post #B0bp48DtqfYyfApi5o by AppleWoi@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T16:09:26Z
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@futurebird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
(DIR) Post #B0bpABGhRJcZqS1k1I by duncan_blues@norden.social
2025-11-25T16:10:30Z
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@futurebird the only item these huge chunks of metal are designed to transport are fragile male egos. 🤷🏻
(DIR) Post #B0bpVxnKDPrgQZfrIe by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-11-25T16:14:29Z
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@futurebird Oh, yeah, I wasn't _justifying_ them. I hear you.
(DIR) Post #B0bt0ymqsLDCLRvy5I by otherdracula@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T16:53:29Z
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@futurebird the best part is there's barely any engine in that compartment, there's so much empty space they put a trunk in thereso it's not even Bigger & More Powerful, it's just Bigger
(DIR) Post #B0bt5wnXhIlxcmcrvE by mack505@feistycricket.org
2025-11-25T16:54:24Z
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@futurebird Have to double park. No way that thing fits in a space. :-)
(DIR) Post #B0btGgyuqLazkv4M76 by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2025-11-25T16:56:29Z
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@futurebird A few years ago, I walked across on intersection and the girl in a suburban one of those really large ones from five or seven years ago was in it. She could barely see over the dashboard.A cussed her out for nearly running me over. It’s all forms of stupidity..
(DIR) Post #B0btRzYa7a3KYF8itE by iain_bright@mastodon.green
2025-11-25T16:58:34Z
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@futurebird a mobile death trap for driver and pedestrians
(DIR) Post #B0btpilYCVT9QRWLpY by bedast@beige.party
2025-11-25T17:02:51Z
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@futurebird I don't think it could ever be understated how much of a problem these are.A lot of police departments have moved to large SUVs with frontends like this. I was rear-ended by a cop in my small car because I disappeared under his hood at a stop sign and he thought I had made my turn.There was a crosswalk there. It was right next to the police station, too, which was across the street from an apartment building where children live.
(DIR) Post #B0bv01OrsG2s4IO2N6 by Gergovie@piaille.fr
2025-11-25T17:15:55Z
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@futurebird Truth is worse than fiction.
(DIR) Post #B0bwDo1cUyVqaweK1I by pattykimura@beige.party
2025-11-25T17:29:37Z
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@futurebird These make little sense where road conditions or loads do not require them. I live rurally, where hilly muddy dirt roads are ubiquitous, and high snows make low clearance vehicles useless. We are a low traffic area where walkers and horses and loose dogs and chickens are not uncommon. But a large vehicle in an urban area is an unnecessary liability for all.
(DIR) Post #B0bxPnNso6pu2JLN3Y by Quinn9282@mas.to
2025-11-25T17:43:01Z
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@futurebird In my fairly large sample size seeing these trucks roaming around my area over the years (not including fleet/work trucks from businesses), almost none of them were actually hauling anything meaningfully large (if anything at all) and only had 1 person inside driving it. Which unfortunately confirms my theory that people mostly only buy these just as a "stand out" commuter vehicle and for the one time in it's life it might actually get used for a legitimate practical reason.
(DIR) Post #B0c0c1XkI1EDHsTmi0 by TomasHradcky@mstdn.social
2025-11-25T18:18:49Z
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@futurebird The grotesqueness of this is so a big part of the america I live in and hate.
(DIR) Post #B0c5zbOHfwXgth7GLI by viralobscurity@mstdn.social
2025-11-25T19:19:05Z
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@futurebird although we are not plagued by large vehicles in the UK to the extent you are in theue US, they are becoming a problem hereThe common view here is still that those (usually men) who drive the larger vehicles in towns and cities are clearly over compensating for something
(DIR) Post #B0c6cmwIfi1O0aiE5o by _kit@fosstodon.org
2025-11-25T19:26:12Z
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@futurebird I watched a similar SUV park recently. The spot was so tight that the wife had to get out before the parking and the husband had to crawl out the back. No regard for the cars they parked between obviously.
(DIR) Post #B0c6tytfT1JY17gAzI by olafk@norden.social
2025-11-25T19:29:17Z
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@futurebird use _that_ for plowing snow?...meanwhile in Germany...:mastowink:
(DIR) Post #B0c7dFNT2UQYA7Cb0S by Clutha@mastodon.scot
2025-11-25T19:37:28Z
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@futurebird Not a Musk fan but banning the Cyber truck in the UK because panel radius’s didn’t conform seems weird.
(DIR) Post #B0cBMLdqtYyqU53zlo by uzakl@masto.ai
2025-11-25T20:19:14Z
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@futurebird Tires are really expensive if they need to be changed for whatever damage they are exposed to 😇
(DIR) Post #B0cFxEV2oNyqrfmrmS by Robo105@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T21:10:43Z
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@futurebird But the driver is 12 and he has a big truck...
(DIR) Post #B0cG0GneiSZerpwNtI by alihan_banan@mastodon.world
2025-11-25T21:11:17Z
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@futurebird amazing for soccer moms and office plankton
(DIR) Post #B0cN4a27qe3fM8i9mS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T22:30:32Z
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"SUPER DUTY"more like super dootyTBF I have noticed they have commercial plates, but they were still double parked on a NYC residential street. Just don't ever do that.
(DIR) Post #B0cO93Zc3oTG5N4acC by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T22:42:32Z
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@futurebird sooper dookiesooper dog dookie
(DIR) Post #B0cOQa5kPZSRrWSaTg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T22:45:43Z
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@llewelly "SUPER DUTY"Is so ... child-like. Doesn't any of this trigger any feelings of embarrassment?I'm going to put: "UBER SHELPPER" on my shopping cart.
(DIR) Post #B0cOTxWDlbonO9SBG4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T22:46:20Z
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@llewelly I legit do not know what "super duty" is supposed to mean at all? What are they trying to say?
(DIR) Post #B0cOisJ5QVvlZHQFhw by drahardja@sfba.social
2025-11-25T22:49:00Z
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@futurebird I always feel that these silly urban trucks are the modern equivalent of high heels in Renaissance Europe. High heels were a *practical* invention that let horseback riders maintain a firm foothold on the stirrups, but they eventually became the status symbols of aristocrats. French men in tights wore heels in the 17th century *because* they were impractical. They couldn’t walk on muddy or cobblestoned streets or for long distances with them on, but THAT WAS THE POINT. They wanted to show that they *didn’t have to* walk like a commoner; society had to *accommodate* them.(Women started wearing heels in the 18th century, and men lost interest soon afterward, because…obvious reasons).I think men driving alone in sparkling clean F-250s, and having trouble fitting into parking spots even in huge suburban malls, are exhibiting similar behavior: the truck is primarily a flex. The cumbersomeness and socially-maladapted inconvenience of the truck IS THE POINT.
(DIR) Post #B0cOrXR8OIRbRkJlJ2 by JohnJBurnsIII@kzoo.to
2025-11-25T22:50:34Z
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@futurebird Some newer cars have auto-engine stop when vehicle is stopped (usually at stoplight). (e.g. fuel-saving purpose)I don't know if this type of vehicle has that...So don't ever assume it won't move toward you, even if it appears to be off, or that the driver isn't leaning away from driving position.#PSA 🤔
(DIR) Post #B0cOyJY4QPY6OsnEQa by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-11-25T22:51:46Z
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@futurebird i'm having trouble understanding how this is even in a parking spot. it looks like it's in a lane of traffic.
(DIR) Post #B0cP2Ttbta4teOr4oy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T22:52:34Z
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@burnitdown It is a lane of traffic! They are double parked blocking the street which is only 1.5 lanes wide as it is (with the parked cars on both sides.)
(DIR) Post #B0cP40bTm71RNg6RFY by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-11-25T22:52:51Z
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@futurebird @llewelly probably a means to make a lot of bullshit claims about what a unnecessarily gigantic truck can do.
(DIR) Post #B0cP82akKCyuhngNoe by katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org
2025-11-25T22:53:30Z
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@futurebirdMaybe the car was built to cope with an extreme pedestrians / area quotient.It's nothing personal, it's just their duty.™@llewelly
(DIR) Post #B0cPAW2hnXFwcowN8a by jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt
2025-11-25T22:53:58Z
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@futurebird Basically "super duty" means it should be able to handle more than "light duty trucks", they apparently have heavier-duty chassis components that allow for heavier payloads and towing capabilities, above other Ford F-series trucks. Apart from that, it's a marketing play on the US truck classification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_classification).@llewelly
(DIR) Post #B0cPBBZPOqmFQ7YZIu by WTL@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T22:54:04Z
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@futurebird @llewelly Might as well say Maximum Cowboy Cosplay. 🤣
(DIR) Post #B0cPEVDYo5hbE0v1qj by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-25T22:54:45Z
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@jt_rebelo @llewelly *begrudgingly*well I suppose that makes sense. ... still sounds silly.
(DIR) Post #B0cPRtKgSYZVmSdRBY by mbpaz@mas.to
2025-11-25T22:57:07Z
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@futurebird A proper snow plow has really good visibility. I can hardly think of any vehicle with a front visibility as poor as that oversized truck. A tank, maybe?
(DIR) Post #B0cPojQfRkijj4KD6O by jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt
2025-11-25T23:01:15Z
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@futurebird goes into the "super-hyper-ultra" marketing realm (in science we know super is lower than hyper, and most people agree ultra is higher than both super and hyper, mega... thats a size thing lol ). If not actively used in a setting that warrants that kind of truck I always think the driver is missing something somewhere and is trying to compensate for it.@llewelly
(DIR) Post #B0cQLKSfIUA3qVnqIi by Nostrodingle@masto.ai
2025-11-25T23:07:06Z
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@futurebird In the south, of course, there are people actively trying to do worse. Because, you know.This has perplexed me for years, not only on safety but style as well... I can only guess that somebody saw a truck in the shop with its engine out and thought "Hey, that looks pretty snazzy. I want my truck to look like it's partly disassembled, too."
(DIR) Post #B0cSgPD52LMmYyguKO by australopithecus@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T23:33:21Z
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@futurebird @jt_rebelo @llewelly It's absolutely 100% silly marketing nonsense, because it actually signifies a lower power class than the heavy duty designation.
(DIR) Post #B0cXamKKfuzAICDf5E by 3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
2025-11-26T00:28:21Z
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@futurebirdThese are turning up in Australia now too and I'm so angry our government didn't regulate against them before they had the chance to get here 😡
(DIR) Post #B0cexDiaDQ9dIKD7Gi by ramsey@phpc.social
2025-11-26T01:50:50Z
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@futurebird @jt_rebelo @llewelly Kind of like “heavy duty” garbage bags?
(DIR) Post #B0ci9nRFX7rdPun7aK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T02:26:47Z
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@josh0 @WTL @llewelly As someone with five bolo ties I think this is kinda cute. I mean *for a car*
(DIR) Post #B0cjqed4GJ68V9Jr4S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T02:45:39Z
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@josh0 @WTL @llewelly Honestly, I've never owned a car in my life, but if I ever have to I would want a nice truck, like from a country song. Not a big tumorous looking one, but something elegant your dog could ride in while you think about why she left you.
(DIR) Post #B0cku0YZID7tKaNTcG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T02:57:32Z
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@josh0 @WTL @llewelly OK. I can see how you thought that's what I was saying ... OMG.
(DIR) Post #B0coLjLdARI1vjEkeO by Gurre@mastodon.nu
2025-11-25T13:58:55Z
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@futurebird Yes, this means the new USPS trucks are about what the fronts of anything big should look like. Including the very visible position of the driver.image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_NGDV
(DIR) Post #B0coLkbcUTfppbj2DA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T03:36:10Z
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@Gurre This mail truck is cute, but I think it will be annoying to have to keep shooing people who will sit on it like a bench when you park it away. I guess if you start it up they might go?Do electric cars have a start up sound?
(DIR) Post #B0coTqnLMbKbLL4UBE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T03:37:39Z
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@Nostrodingle It looks like it is trying to fly...
(DIR) Post #B0coYazvWY5PnVDgbw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T03:38:30Z
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@olafk This is very cute but I think the snow we get when we do get snow (which isn't often, but still) well it would eat this little car.
(DIR) Post #B0cq1eUFjLVKyFp76O by galad@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T03:54:55Z
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@futurebird It’s getting beyond ridiculous. I was entering my bank’s parking lot the other day and the largest ford truck I’ve ever seen nearly t-boned me because it was too large to round the corner of the exit. I don’t normally do road rage but I definitely got that fucker’s plate number. These ridiculous monstrosities are unsafe for everyone else around them.
(DIR) Post #B0cqywjFYDiQdH6zpo by olafk@norden.social
2025-11-26T04:05:38Z
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@futurebird this one is mainly used on pedestrian paths, where adjacent house owners are supposed to plow snow (and sometimes book a service like this)The city, for the streets, has proper heavy duty vehicles
(DIR) Post #B0cwS1h0fqQGCEkYZE by dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T05:06:53Z
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@futurebirdI have a photo somewhere of my 4' 11" spouse standing in front of a truck like that. The hood was higher than than the top of her head! Ridiculous and dangerous!
(DIR) Post #B0dIgBKNqUqF7nK0B6 by thierry_van_kerm@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T09:15:57Z
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@futurebird @IngridHbn such cars should simply be banned. They should not exist. That's where I blame designers (I used to be one of them...) for even imagining such a stupid engine.
(DIR) Post #B0dKgdnwAbC5LsUYUa by niekvleeuwen@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T09:38:28Z
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@futurebird Usually guys with small dicks
(DIR) Post #B0dN7XlcvMW8M3MopU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:05:47Z
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I don't often draw people but this car inspired me to make a sketch I hope I can render into something worth showing some day.Basically a group of kids and adults are running across the crosswalk with ice cream, and pinwheels from NYC street fair. They are looking at each other and having a wonderful time.Meanwhile in the dim narrow window of the car the driver leans forward frowning and straining looking down to see what's going on right in front of them. Life is passing you by.
(DIR) Post #B0dNN1FZabIC8dkm9I by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:08:33Z
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The windows are tinted, or at least shaded, the car is so tall and high you can hardly see. The car is sound insulated and there is even noise canceling so nothing from the outside world can read you in there. And maybe the computer will drive for you sometimes too. It's like you never left your house. The world cannot touch you. You are alone. Do we ever talk about how cars make people lonely?
(DIR) Post #B0dNXLrdnm1Iy2UDL6 by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-11-26T10:10:19Z
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@futurebird I couldn't work out the physics of this until I remembered in the US people drive tanks to buy milk. Then I saw your first post! Good lord.
(DIR) Post #B0dNbdbBo4uf82ppcu by isotopp@infosec.exchange
2025-11-26T10:11:11Z
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@futurebird Ray Bradbury did, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pedestrian
(DIR) Post #B0dO8R6hGv5ZwUDCUK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:17:08Z
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Are these people really so fragile they need to be packed in a padded box like brittle bone China just to drive to the store? Would a summer breeze knock you over? Would the shouts of children at the playground shatter your ears? Is the sunlight on a bright summer day too bright for your eyes?Is life too much for you?
(DIR) Post #B0dOfeAniGnG1Sy3FI by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-11-26T10:20:36Z
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@mzedp@plasmatrap.comhttps://youtu.be/e_oWmY_mkCA amazingly the people at this car company were so car-brained that they filmed this whole ad without realising that they were saying exactly that. @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B0dOffiVyPM6oJkUQy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:23:08Z
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@Flisty @mzedp Wow take the cars out of the car ad and I start to consider liking it a little. This is such a fun concept for a short.
(DIR) Post #B0dP02L7ZY5ylVW8oq by Deixis9@beige.party
2025-11-26T10:26:48Z
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@futurebird also, there's an environmental impact. Make the streets unhealthy for SUVs?Tyre Extinguishers:"I’m treated to a solemn demonstration of the process: a masked figure removes the valve-cap from a looming Porsche, adds a lentil and returns the cap – tightening until it hisses. The whole thing takes about ten seconds. “They generally go flat within about an hour,”https://www.vice.com/en/article/who-are-the-tyre-extinguishers/
(DIR) Post #B0dP2WGrGABoAshuYS by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-11-26T10:27:16Z
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@futurebird I cycle pretty much everywhere in town (4* win: helps my brain & body, better for the environment, WAY more convenient). The thing I most notice is that even though people bring their entire living room with them, including armchairs, the lizard-brain driving really comes with dark/rain. I think behind the windscreen people feel close to the weather and forget they're inside, so they drive erratically to try to get inside as quickly as possible. We're really not evolved for cars.
(DIR) Post #B0dPJaupFCnxVDXljs by GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
2025-11-26T10:30:22Z
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@futurebird Many of those oversized cars have a camera to see what's in front of the driver.But soon or later the screen will start to show ads instead of the road, until the driver will pay for a subscription to the service…
(DIR) Post #B0dPMaAUTmG83NIOLA by jerzone@techhub.social
2025-11-26T10:30:53Z
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@futurebird My brother worked in radio and after 911 one of the local truck dealers wanted his ad to say something like, “Don't let the terrorists win, get an [xyz] truck and be prepared!”911 seemed to emasculate a certain class of people, sending them into wildly performative toughness. A marketer’s dream consumer, which only reinforces and amplifies the behavior.
(DIR) Post #B0dPbzIfK1F6LHSuAa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:33:41Z
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@GustavinoBevilacqua People talk about "screen time" but looking at a screen to see something that you ought to be able to see by, well, looking right at it with your eyes is a new level of unreality.Will people allow themselves to be sealed off from the world so completely that *nothing* is experienced directly?(That said, rear-view cameras are kind of awesome, but this tech has only really been developed so much because of the poor sight-lines of what passes for car design.)
(DIR) Post #B0dPd08DiRJxD83x8S by katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org
2025-11-26T10:33:44Z
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@futurebird FYI, here's a Mercedes Benz video ad from 1990 that might answer some of your questions.Designed to be openly racist, too, down to its very core (note the attitudes shown in every mini-event; the sound design; how the locals get pictured). It's title is "Willkommen zu Hause" (Welcome Home), and it is set in – Tunesia.InvidiousYouTube
(DIR) Post #B0dPrFZN7Ahd92YbY0 by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-11-26T10:36:26Z
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@futurebird @GustavinoBevilacqua impairing our senses, honed over millennia, and replacing them with less-sensitive tech *on purpose* is pretty dystopian.
(DIR) Post #B0dPuaNUCrBuY7aXGC by GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
2025-11-26T10:37:02Z
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@futurebird People WANT to live in Matrix pods.
(DIR) Post #B0dPvR4AJQEBxXxM0G by bewilderbeast23@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T10:37:09Z
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@futurebird Theyr PATHETIC. Ninety percent of the time, these two pickups can do the SAME JOB.
(DIR) Post #B0dPwu1q7FRE4gZHVo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:37:14Z
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@katzenberger I understand from the way it's put together I'm supposed to sympathize with the guy but I just watched thinking "wow what a huge asshole" the whole time. And the ad is racist, but in that way where if you discuss it eventually someone will ask "but how is it racist? he just wants quiet?" and you will feel so exhausted by the question you just let the whole thing go.
(DIR) Post #B0dQ4xP9RpaArUJRcu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:38:53Z
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@GustavinoBevilacqua Oddly enough it's the same people who have been talking about their fear of pods and being forced to eat soy who have put themselves in literal isolation pods.
(DIR) Post #B0dQFkh13CNeccoequ by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-11-26T10:40:51Z
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@futurebird @katzenberger at least now you could directly compare it to some of those god-awful Loop earplugs ads which at least are just, like, random children you don't see making a noise in a supermarket. "Other cultures disgust me" is a TAKE.
(DIR) Post #B0dQcKZeKGLMHC8Xjs by nicholas@aklp.club
2025-11-26T10:44:56.495895Z
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They aren't popular, they're just all the EPA let's the car companies sell anymore.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azI3nqrHEXM
(DIR) Post #B0dQdiutJ2R03yjimu by Tallish_Tom@mastodon.scot
2025-11-26T10:45:11Z
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@futurebird These people live in a seperate community that is geographical congruent with your world but not part of it. They do not want to interact at all with the city and its people & don't care what happens there.They cannot fly or use private tunnels yet, so their cars have to pass through your world & are therefore built to avoid any interactions. They dream of buying totally seperate spaces to get around, then they could ignore you entirely.
(DIR) Post #B0dQoBlmsxmERgT7Ca by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:47:06Z
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@Flisty @katzenberger I haven't seen those ads. And for the record I love noise canceling headphones and earbuds. Riding the subway without all the rumbles is amazing. But, sometimes noise canceling can go too far. I often do a zoom call with my friend in Brooklyn to work on our writing. She has a lot of birds. Zoom cuts out all of the birdsongs so I couldn't understand what she was talking about.It also cuts out #picatheCat 's dynamic songs too. Robbing the world of her little voice.
(DIR) Post #B0dQqom6ptszzssApk by katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org
2025-11-26T10:47:28Z
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@futurebird Most of the German comments under the video are along the lines of "this is like every average Western European city today", etc.The car enables you to say "get off my land" wherever you choose to. Even abroad. Utter denial and distortion of reality, but on wheels.
(DIR) Post #B0dQxzNhnfmCv3sT4q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T10:48:52Z
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@katzenberger "this is like every average Western European city today"This is what real cities have always been since the dawn of time and if you don't like it? You don't really like cities or civilization.
(DIR) Post #B0dRRuay9vawlNLkn2 by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-11-26T10:54:17Z
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@futurebird @katzenberger I've heard good things - my brother's partner swears by them: they have 6 kids! I'm definitely tempted to give them a go. Maybe this ad is only in Britain: I find the voice really grating as it's so AI (so many of them are now and they all really make me itch) and it's on relentlessly. I assumed that because it was AI it would be global in different accents/languages! Maybe it's just targeting that it's getting me so much ...!
(DIR) Post #B0dSW1c66j3FdsP28G by iwein@mas.to
2025-11-26T11:06:11Z
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@futurebird I really like to shield myself from other humans, so I get that part, but I don't like to kill them. For shopping a cargo bike, sunglasses and hearing protection are fine. But for the transport of tools and family I like something bigger.The funky thing is that it's virtually impossible to buy a vehicle that's doing what I want that isn't also designed to murder humans.Why do even electric vehicles have the 'FU just die' fronts??I blame the ads of the evil oligarchs for this.
(DIR) Post #B0dShtJQnRRFN7KWDg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T11:08:23Z
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@katzenberger Cities are the place where you encounter people who are different from yourself. You can learn from them, fall in love with them, trade with them and become fabulously wealthy. That's the whole point of the city. It's a place for everyone who likes the idea of a place for everyone.
(DIR) Post #B0dStXJ2RQ7kayhOqW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T11:10:27Z
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@iwein Too many of the people who might want more reasonable vehicles have just opted out of having one at all. Carmakers don't care what someone like me thinks about their cars as I will never buy one. If I had to I expect it would be a very annoying process.
(DIR) Post #B0dTWe2ZKwqIm8dzLk by iwein@mas.to
2025-11-26T11:17:30Z
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@futurebird I didn't want to put that rant on your timeline, but I'm that person, and you're absolutely right.https://mas.to/@iwein/115615712220793724
(DIR) Post #B0dTdt5bmd3tTaWFvM by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
2025-11-26T11:18:49Z
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@futurebird I take every occasion when at a car dealer to explain in gore detail to whoever is listening how the square high front of such cars – right in front of us there and then – destroys a pedestrian. I then call them "murder cars" and further add it doesn't help the fuel consumption is so bad, whatever happened to making cars both aerodynamic and pedestrian-friendly? There's no point to such cars. And I really hope the image of death and destruction I create in the mind of the listener never fades away.
(DIR) Post #B0dVNjmKphwXsFvmls by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T11:38:21Z
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@futurebird I think it has been covered in several episodes of "the war on cars". I also think I've encountered discussion on how cars isolate people in several books. I don't have links handy thought.
(DIR) Post #B0dVQ2mz7iQnPgKp8a by bovaz@misskey.social
2025-11-26T11:36:30.245Z
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@Flisty@mstdn.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org I bought a pair of those a million years ago for live music shows, but the amount of ads is making me regret my choice.
(DIR) Post #B0dVQ41uVhxrGGKG2a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T11:38:41Z
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@bovaz @Flisty @katzenberger ear plugs what ads?is this what you are telling me this is???that is a nightmare!
(DIR) Post #B0dVgcRwJ2Pse6OX3Y by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-11-26T11:41:43Z
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@futurebird I have never owned a car, and life is definitely too much for me.
(DIR) Post #B0dVuStwbSct5Q60pM by denki@mastodontech.de
2025-11-26T11:44:10Z
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@futurebirdhttps://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fj5ikqrw5en4a1.jpg
(DIR) Post #B0ddlop4WuY06MCmGW by jandi@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T13:12:19Z
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@futurebird I don't use Zoom, but it seems you can turn it on and off:"By default, Zoom uses noise suppression and echo cancellation to enhance the clarity of your microphone audio. You can adjust your professional audio settings during a Zoom Meeting to disable audio filters or enable higher-quality audio modes. From the meeting toolbar, you can access and configure your microphone modes and audio profiles."Source: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0064198
(DIR) Post #B0dg1Rk6JDPP3rSXuS by Flisty@mstdn.social
2025-11-26T13:37:33Z
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@futurebird look what just came up in my feed https://techhub.social/@jerzone/115616259720625740
(DIR) Post #B0dmNPNIOOfVoUeEXg by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T14:48:43Z
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@futurebird been researched, yes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
(DIR) Post #B0dqDLv2ml2o15tUEi by ShadSterling@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T15:31:44Z
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@futurebird @iwein when I was a kid, we had a family station wagon, and many of my friend’s families had one too. All a bit different, but basically pretty reasonable cars to go places with up to 8 people. Now they barely make sedans, and the closest thing to a station wagon is a smallish SUV. My dad recently got one to use like a station wagon with my step-niblings, and it doesn’t quite have the “die, peasant” look, but it’s got a milder version of the same problems…
(DIR) Post #B0dr2xbASCWre7CnWi by ShadSterling@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T15:37:04Z
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@futurebird @iwein …I’ve got an 11-year-old sedan, and even that is bigger than I need. I’m hoping it’ll last until I pay off my student loans, and I’m not looking forward to what my options will be at that time. Especially if I’m lucky enough to have kids by then. I miss when they made cars that were just reasonable ways to get places, especially ones like our old station wagon
(DIR) Post #B0drvblFLXgJqTygbo by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-11-26T15:50:58Z
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@futurebird @iwein I want something not made by a fascist, with enough cargo capacity to haul a standard 4x8 foot sheet of plywood or drywall, able to handle driving on logging roads, and not bigger or heavier than it needs to be while accomplishing those tasks.
(DIR) Post #B0eFAyEWNLcipaxu4W by nicholas@aklp.club
2025-11-26T20:11:28.345328Z
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I don't get it, they all have CVTs now (also thanks to cafe standards) so they torque-slip; can't haul or tow anything worth a darn. What do they do with them?
(DIR) Post #B0eJ3932gLPfsB7V4K by number6@fosstodon.org
2025-11-26T20:54:50Z
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@futurebird @GustavinoBevilacqua I want them to put those cameras on the *front* of the car.There's times when it's easier to move backwards than forwards, thanks to the rear camera and of course incredibly bad sight-lines on the front.But I'm so out of touch, I suppose now you'll tell me they already do.
(DIR) Post #B0eJCHFhY3qXvLObNg by number6@fosstodon.org
2025-11-26T20:56:31Z
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@futurebird It's probably one of those famous New York city ranchers or farmers.
(DIR) Post #B27VUTBBle0kU39OSm by blechterror@mastodon.de
2026-01-09T20:52:58Z
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@futurebird https://xkcd.com/3167/#carBrain #motorizedViolence
(DIR) Post #B27W8NvqhFLHnC0afY by villon@bildung.social
2026-01-09T21:00:09Z
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@futurebird Kleiner Pimmel halt.