Define “culture war bullshit”. Is it having minorities in Hollywood movies or is it complaining about The War On Christmas? Because if “The War On Christmas” is culture war bullshit, I do agree.

That being said, regardless of what you think “culture war bullshit” is, it’s very easier to disengage from it. Less effort then it takes to complain about it even.

Cancelling Storm Front was mistake. It was containment for these people.

You’re not silent and you’re not a majority.

Post 911, the “War on Terror”, and the Patriot Act. I was young enough not to have complex political opinions, but it all stank to me.

I need a pickup truck for farm work, but I hate how big these things have gotten. I wouldn’t buy anything made in the past 20 years. All this height for no practical benefit.

Where does this shit even come from? I’ve never had a popup on my screen like this.

Combine that with the fact that this town looks like it has a very slow life style, it wouldn’t be weird to have to wait a month or so for an order. Everyone probably knows each other and if there was an emergency, there would be someone nearby to help patch a roof, even if it was just throwing a tarp over it.

Here’s an article from closer to when I first hard about it.

Apparently this has happened more then once. I can find more articles once I’m on my desktop, but here’s one of the more recent examples.

https://ophtek.com/lenovo-laptops-shipped-with-new-malware-risk/

Impressive. I know many corps still use Leveno laptops even though they got caught putting spyware in their firmware.

Never. They’ll just try again later with different and more obtuse wording.

It’s no private car ownership. If you need a load of bricks, if delivery isn’t an option, a rental might be.

Especially when the person carrying the basket like to chuck eggs out of it at random. Never know when google will discontinue a service.

Vehicle Combat games might be getting a comeback with the WH40k game and the Twisted Metal movie coming out.

Tempus Rising might kick off a C&C style RTS revivial.

There’s efforts to make Li-ion batteries recyclable and there’s also efforts to have sodium-ion batteries as an alternative to Li-ion. I’d also like to see more discussions for nickel–iron batteries for stationary storage for solar/wind buffers.

All better then burning oil.

Is that static grouping all pickup sales to all car sales or just the leading pickup model to the leading car model?

Because there aren’t as many models of pickups out there as there are cars. One manufacture can have half a dozen models that are all about the same, but with different badges them, but a truck platform will only have the pickup and maybe an suv.

Small farm. Pickups are good for quickly hauling tools, fertilizer, seed, etc… to fields. Huge, thousand acre fields might use tractor trailers with flatbed or liquid holding tanks. We have a box truck for big deliveries, but a pickup will be good for small deliveries. More fuel efficient and easier in irregular parking lots then a box truck. I’ve also made a grease pumping setup on skids that I use to pick up wvo. That can go in most pickups.

When I have to drive though gridlock in NYC, what I see are yuppies in SUVs that wont make eye contact while they sit their asses in the middle of the intersection. I’m surprised those even fit in parking garages. They should really put a height limit on privately owned vehicles in cities.

I drive pickup because I’m a farmer. The comment here about pickups being terrible terrible at most jobs obviously comes from someone who doesn’t use one for work. Are they really suggesting I buy three different vehicles and the environmental costs associated with producing them? I don’t even like traveling for fun. My pickup is a 99, so it’s not even that tall compared to what they sell now. I can do all my deliveries, pickups, and even took the back seat(4 door) out for more cargo space.

That being said, modern pickups have gotten too bulky without any gains 8n function. A dream build for me would be an 80s era square body with a modified Tesla rear end.

If we really want to start comparing, SUVs don’t offer any more function over a classic station wagon. Build one of those with modern crumple zones, materials, and make it an EV and you have the perfect around town errant vehicle.