Woke is a brilliant and evil political manipulation tool. As a conservative politician, you never have to state a position on any topic anymore. You just say you’re against all the woke stuff and your captive idiots just assume you agree with them. They hear exactly what they want to hear.

The unemployed auto sector worker believes “woke” means Chinese EVs.

The bigots believe “woke” means allowing gay people to exist.

The wealthy believe “woke” means making rich people like them actually pay taxes.

It’s a shortcut around actually saying anything of substance. You can get two people whose agendas are completely opposed to both believe that you are on their side because they both accept that “woke” means the thing they hate. And since you just said that you hate “woke”, then you hate the same thing they do so they will support you through anything now.

If you count all the aggressive pop ups and prompts and notifications and other bullshit that you can’t turn off any time you try to just use your own fucking computer… 10 minutes from power button to game launch. Linux? Less than 2.

Who cares if a MSRP$199 motherboard now costs $239 instead of the $249 it did last month? RAM is still thousands of dollars. GPUs are still thousands of dollars.

There is no point trying to build a PC anymore. Run what you have until the industry collapses, and only spend any money on indie games. The industry has chosen to fuck you over completely. Never forget that.

They’ve learned that most people are apathetic enough to just take it as long as they roll it slowly enough.

All the more reason for them to protest.

Buttermilk into the cabin air intake at the bottom of the windshield. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Truck Nutz are literally gender-affirming prosthetics for trans-gendered trucks.

If function were a priority at all for pickup trucks they would have stubby sloped noses like Sprinter vans have. But no, they need to have massively elongated and elevated hoods because the vast, overwhelming majority are sold exclusively as penis prosthetics.

It’s comical how empty the engine bay is under those stupid hoods. On Rams with the V6 I can literally stand on the ground in between the radiator and the front end of the engine and still have room to move around.

If they used a functional and efficient (and way less expensive) van instead of a pickup for their trade, the ownership and fuel savings would more than pay for a reasonable car to use as a car.

They should require a commercial license, have hardware speed limiters, be restricted to only the right lane of the highway, and require biannual safety inspections. You want to cosplay as a trucker, you get to live by trucker rules.

Vans are the real vehicle for trades. You can fit way more gear, it’s all locked up and weather protected, and the vehicle footprint is still smaller.

There is almost nothing a pickup truck does better than a van when it comes to work vegicles for the trades.

Tungsten carbide tips on the umbrella.

I’ve counted. In my area of Canada less than 3% of pickups that I see are being used as anything other than a commuter car at any given time.

These insecure dumbasses define their worth by the size of their truck. The things are just $100,000 fashion accessories. Emotional support vehicles.

My neighbour used to park his truck sticking way out like that, but it wasn’t all the way back in the spot.

I left a note on it saying: “It’s not as big as you think it is, you have to put it all the way in.”

From then on it was parked properly.

Let me guess, starting at just $799.

They’ll just invent new crimes. Like loitering, jaywalking, and using an open-source operating system that doesn’t forward your identity and details of your computer usage to governments and private companies.

That’s what Mint is for. It just gets out of my fucking way. Most of the time I’m not aware that I have an OS.

That site is cancer.

Exactly.

I’ve always been in favour of tiered consumption taxes. Basic neccessities of life aren’t taxed. Sorta nice stuff gets taxed a bit. Uber lux stuff and harmful stuff gets taxed all the fucking way.

Example: bus pass? Free. Subcompact cheap EV? 20% tax. Lambo? 300% tax.

Rich fuckers have way too many ways of getting out of paying income tax. Tax the stuff instead so that you can’t live like a rich person without paying the kind of taxes rich people should be paying.