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I love trucks. They're a lot of fun to drive (I have two 1990 JDM SUV for offroad camping. Especially to modify and add things like CB radios for convoys, bull

I love trucks. They're a lot of fun to drive (I have two 1990 JDM SUV for offroad camping. Especially to modify and add things like CB radios for convoys, bull bars for protection from trees and assholes who won't let you merge. My favourite modification was a turbo. At night in the bush, navigating some track, the turbo diesel whistle sounds so good, and gives more torque for the mud. I think it's quite weird to hate a type of vehicle and want to prevent other people from accessing it. Just live and let live.

beej71 4y ago
I'm good with live and let live. But my SO's Honda Fit was just demolished by a modern truck who "didn't see her" despite having a clear line of sight down the road--but due to the relative slope, I suspect the Fit was obscured by the truck hood. She was in pain for 6 weeks. So where is live and let live?
sinistersnare 4y ago
Maybe you should watch the video and realize that it can't be live and let live. By you living with your truck, we die.
- mikrotikker 4y ago
  Yea, no, I challenge the narrative pushed in the video as flawed at best.
vvpan 4y ago
Well I'll be first to admit that my thing against trucks is a bit of knee jerk. To me they are big, loud, scary and expensive. I'm uncomfortable being around roads full of trucks, especially biking. Yet I know that a Mazda Miata will kill be just as well. And I can see the utility in a lot of situations. I've looked at them for camping in wilderness of western US too, I'll be honest, but realized that I would not be able to stretch out in any of them and quickly passed. Yet at the same time I just moved to a little city that identifies hard (to an unhealthy degree imho) with cowboy and military culture and it seems most vehicles are trucks. I honestly think this contributes to this city being universally looked down upon and ridiculed. Although the symbolism of the truck in this context is probably tightly enmashed with the real physical properties. Utility depends on context. Emotions matter. Urbanism consists of emotional responses. Camping in wilderness is different.

beej71 4y ago

I'm good with live and let live. But my SO's Honda Fit was just demolished by a modern truck who "didn't see her" despite having a clear line of sight down the road--but due to the relative slope, I suspect the Fit was obscured by the truck hood. She was in pain for 6 weeks. So where is live and let live?

sinistersnare 4y ago

Maybe you should watch the video and realize that it can't be live and let live. By you living with your truck, we die.

mikrotikker 4y ago
Yea, no, I challenge the narrative pushed in the video as flawed at best.

vvpan 4y ago

Well I'll be first to admit that my thing against trucks is a bit of knee jerk. To me they are big, loud, scary and expensive. I'm uncomfortable being around roads full of trucks, especially biking. Yet I know that a Mazda Miata will kill be just as well. And I can see the utility in a lot of situations. I've looked at them for camping in wilderness of western US too, I'll be honest, but realized that I would not be able to stretch out in any of them and quickly passed. Yet at the same time I just moved to a little city that identifies hard (to an unhealthy degree imho) with cowboy and military culture and it seems most vehicles are trucks. I honestly think this contributes to this city being universally looked down upon and ridiculed. Although the symbolism of the truck in this context is probably tightly enmashed with the real physical properties. Utility depends on context. Emotions matter. Urbanism consists of emotional responses. Camping in wilderness is different.