Fear is definitely a reason they love to drive 3-ton trucks to rugged wild places like the office and McDonald's. I have heard my fair share of rednecks call ANY small or normal sized car a "death trap" or "tin can," or comment something like "I'd hate to have somebody crash into me in that thing!"

"Winning" in a crash is a big unspoken feature that drives vehicle choice for a lot of paranoid/scared iamverybadass turds. Around me it's a pretty varied mix of trucks, truck-based SUV barges, and luxury SUVs.

This image hits especially hard for me just because of the specific project. I've been medicated for a couple years now and thanks to the work I've gotten done in my hobbies I have built up a huge collection of power tools and I have bought SO much lumber.

Gross. This reinforces my existing habit of not trying to integrate everything and instead use specific tools for specific functions. That's kinda unix-like of me, right? lol.

I like using the git CLI client in a standalone terminal window, and might still do so even if Microsoft weren't constantly giving me reasons to never even consider changing.

I'm imagining Microsoft taking it all the way and when you buy a Win13 license key, it basically installs a custom theme in KDE Plasma or maybe Cinnamon.

It might be worse for their profits long term than sticking with their locked down bullshit, but it's kind of funny to think that they would first make billions of dollars of sales on their linux distro.

I could imagine us mounting a huge effort to get the fediverse jet and even have an instance based on the thing. We would always have a bird in the air, so that the fediverse would belong to no nation and would survive any conflicts.

But then somebody would mention how bad flying the plane is for the environment, and calculate that it breaks down to multiple kg of CO2 per post, and we'd all be like "shit, you're right" and shut it down.

Maybe the kids ARE alright!

I graduated high school in the late 90s in white christian suburbia USA. It's definitely unnerving how often I get to go down a rabbit hole about events that happened before I was born but are still new to me.

That's especially true when the "rebellion" is something other than war or occasionally civil rights. Anything related to labor or worker's rights just didn't come up.

But then I had to keep learning about the world from as many sources as possible, and instead of fulfilling my destiny to be an angry unwell rich republican, here I am on Lemmy and spending more time thinking about my family, hobbies, and farm chores than about work. I use Debian btw.

I think there is a real, deep seated conditioned response in a lot of Americans to just assume things will work out and it will be OK in the long run. Basically a form of privilege to not worry about the problems of the world because somebody else will definitely fix it.

I'm a white male american born into conservative culture who grew up in the 80s and 90s , and I definitely had that feeling instilled in my head along the way. For gen x and boomers who spent more of their early years in more of the post-ww2 US dominance, it's probably worse.

Yep. My disdain for the combination of fascist government where everything is surveillance, and sociopathic corporations and billionaires where everything is a cynical cash grab, overcame me excitement for tech "products" a long time ago. I'm in the US so it's especially bad.

I still have a smart phone that's 4-5 years old, and I do of course use it every day, but I consciously avoid using it every hour. I love when I misplace it in my own house, to then not look for it for hours. The only person who is going to message me anything urgent is my wife and she knows where to find me.

Constant phone addiction is one of those situations where when you remove yourself from it you can more easily see it in others. It's like there's a new form of body language where when you see that slight forward tilt of the head you know they are in the Phone Zone without even seeing the rest of their body.

They are the starters for the entire Eastern United States!

Yeah, it could be because of our car culture, not the cars themselves. Or maybe it's just good old fashioned lack of mental healthcare.

People spend SO much money on their damn cars, and often treat them both like a second home and a part of their personality.

If we work together comrades, maybe we can get the government's new death ray to destroy the Orphan Crushing Machine that has been causing issues.