KillingTimeItself

it can be cheaper that way for a lot of reasons, you might not be in network, your insurance might not want to cover it, there might be a million other factors, often times it’s just easier, and cheaper to go somewhere else, do that shit, pay out of pocket, go home, feel better, and then start working again.

Generally people aren’t too keen on working when trying to figure out if they have cancer or something, for example.

If you’re in the act of shooting the gun, the saftey routinely gets in the way and requires training in an extra step before firing, something that could be a problem in an emergency. A common way to lose a violent encounter while carrying a gun is to fail to actually shoot your gun.

i have a massive counter for you. If you aren’t trained well enough to be able to disengage the safety when needed.

you probably shouldn’t be using a gun in an act of self defense

in case you haven’t picked up on what im saying you need to train

I don’t think that’s true and I don’t think I want it to be.

it is just true, fear is one of the primal human responses, it’s what kept us from being eaten by fucking lions or some shit.

Australia is not just the US with death spiders.

Aussie land is factorio. America is like a civ game or a city builder.

mogs are cool, i don’t know much about them because they seem to be primarily european, but i will probably own one someday out of curiosity, i only hear good things about them.

Personally i’m a fan of industry trucks though, tatra, oshkosh, unimog, the usual suspects. Ford can eat shit.

better yet, mandatory lifelike dummy crash experience. Send em into a ballistics gel dummy loaded with blood and organs, see how they feel about it.

dude minivans are crazy, you can fit a full 4x8 sheet of plywood in that bitch EZPZ

“It helped when I had to haul shit to the dump” or “I bring wood back to build my shed”.

the marks of a man scared to learn how to tow a trailer because “i don’t know how to do it”

Just use a trailer, it’s not that bad.

For all the actual off road work I’ve done, the best vehicle has always been those little utility off-road vehicles (we call them mules or gators but I’m sure they have a real name) or just a regular-sized pickup truck with 4 wheel drive and low gears.

UTVs, side by sides, i’ve seen stuff like that used to refer to them in a more generic manner, shockingly those are so good primarily because they weigh nothing and have comparatively huge tires with way more surface area, while also having equivalent power if not more, just due to the size.

Anyways, you know what I learned? These fucking things suck at off-roading.

no shit, they’re running live axle suspension, no amount of lift kit is going to get your diff case unstuck from the mud LMAO.

Doesn’t help that these idiots also put small tires on big rims to get that bafflingly stupid look on them, which lowers the ride quality, and lowers the axle even more.

I’m convinced you have to be brain damaged to own a bro dozer, let alone think an f150 with live axles can get around in mud. Bro almost nothing can, a humvee might do it, but it’s also literally built to do it. It’s got full independent suspension, nice large tires with high sidewalls, portal axles for increased clearance. It’s got a low cab, set next to the engine and transmission (that’s why they’re so wide) They’re short, so they can get around trees and shit and likewise have a low CG.

And f150 looks like it was built to be a parody of a hummer, and it’s no surprise that they drive and handle like shit as a result.

people keep saying that they have uses as work trucks and i’m not sure i believe them because they made smaller trucks in the 90s and 80s and those trucks were still for work?

I mean i’ve seen one of these things towing 5 fucking cars. I can’t think of the last time i had to load up 5 cars on a shipping trailer and then ship them on my fucking daily driver. Honestly i didn’t even think that was possible, but apparently it is, and i have no idea why people own these things as daily drivers now.

to be clear, my issue here is that saying they have uses is underselling the problem. You can hire a semi with a flatbed to ship a bag of sand. But that’s fucking stupid.

especially when lifted, if you’re driving a corolla or some shit and get hit with a tonka truck you’re getting mostly lower suspension, luckily it’s still an engine block in front of you, but it’s still fucking horrifying.

I’ve also heard that these things almost never get insured because they’re a fucking mess.

it’s not safety, i mean, well, it is safety, at the cost of the poor sod that you crash into and fucking kill. Or the children that you’re statistically more likely to run over and even more statistically likely to kill if you do hit them.

You know what else is safe? Not ramming your car into a brick wall.

I’m just talking about car safety for the first bit here, not even pedestrian impacts.

you know it’s funny, they made crewcab long beds in the 80s and 90s. They were just long and looked a little goofy, had normal proportions otherwise, these have been vertically stretched and widened to compensate for the absolutely bizarre form factor that they ship in. i genuinely have no idea what they’re doing with the front suspension to require the hood to be that high off of the ground. A fucking hummer has more ground clearance with a lower hood.

There is almost no reason for a truck like this to exist, especially when you consider it’s interior is “luxury”

i will never understand the inability for people driving vehicles like this to say shit like “never buy a small vehicle, this 3 ton truck saved my life, it’s basic physics”

Yeah, and if i’m rolling a freight train and someone gets in my way, i won’t even notice, it’s basic physics.

bro i thought this was an onion post for a second what the fuck just happened

ah the irony, thank you pantyhosewimp, what an insightful comment from the lemmynsfw.com instance.

man wait until you find out about flying into another country to do some medical operations or tests or whatever, and then flying back, just because it’s fucking cheaper that way.

This is genuinely a really common occurrence.

damn, so this is how i get the ultimate linux user badge?

yeah and neither is public education, yet most people here consider it to be free to the individual, unless it’s a charter school, in which case it makes money because it’s actually a tax loophole apparently.