m0darn @ m0darn @lemmy.ca

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Kinda, Not really.

The Suzuki Carry has a bed width of 1585mm (62.4") the Silverado has a max bed width of 64.8" (1646mm) so 60mm/2.5" wider. But the Silverado's bed isn't rectangular, ie if you want to lay something flat, the widest it can be is 50" (1270mm). That's a foot narrower than the Suzuki.

The Silverado has higher walls which imo isn't really a plus or minus. (More bulk materials, and less need to tie things down, but harder to access the things).

There are a lot of other differences in available configurations. I think the reason a lot of people prefer Silverados boil down to esthetics, and the perceptions of others. I think that for a lot of men, pickup trucks are an expression of their masculinity. They want something big and powerful that they can take into the woods and be manly^tm with.

A Carry is very practical and if I owned a landscaping business I think that's what I'd want my crews to be driving.

But also, I'm not a business owner. I'm a man and I get it. Honestly I'd way rather own that enormous impractical pickup. I'm more likely to be hauling hockey gear than lumber and drywall. I'm tall and girthy, I appreciate a spacious cab. I have child seats in my car.

Maybe men should stop pretending they don't care a lot about fun.

Edit to add: but I do agree we need society to be less car/truck centric.

My comment was within the context of the person I was replying to suggesting companies should abandon public consultations all together.

I don't see what's notable about your picture

Because it can be really expensive and risky to bribe local officials

Oppression has never been defeated with pacifism.

I was taught that Gandhi helped India defeat the oppression of the British Raj with pacifism.

Is that not the case? I mean I wouldn't be surprised if Power taught me peaceful protest works every time.

Don't make threats (also don't kill people, it's usually wrong). It is too easy for Power to amplify and harness sincere backlash against your movement and whip it into counter progress outrage.

At a consultation stage don't threaten lives and infrastructure. Ask how the company will protect against sabotage and vandalism.

Are they building infrastructure that is vulnerable to ecoterrorists? If an ecoterrorist were to attack their pipeline with a high powered hunting rifle would it be an ecological disaster?

If a saboteur spread diamond grit abrasives on the rail track the coal cars travels on, would that cause damage, a derailment, or just increase maintenence costs? What about grease?

If seepage from the tailings pond was spread onto the plant manager's lawn, would he let his kids play there?

Don't you think it's good for the company if the death threat is received before they've spent millions of dollars on construction/procurement? While they can still afford to shift locations to a welcoming community? Don't you think the consultation process may have alerted the company to the threat of vandalism and sabotage to their project?

If I was building an industrial facility in a small town, I'd want to know the locals' priorities re: noise vs visual aesthetics vs smells vs funding local community projects so that I could keep the electorate happy and not have to go head to head with a hostile local government making new rules to make my life miserable.

Am I too dense to recognize that everyone is intentionally not saying:

Massive squirt from sloppy pussy (furry)

It's funny how it's methane when they're talking about reducing emissions, but natural gas when they're talking about building pipelines.

Maybe nicotine addiction should be medicalized.

Anyone born after [date] could get it legally through a pharmacy after talking to their doctor/nurse-practitioner and explaining why they need a prescription (ie they are addicted and can't function without it).

I actually like that framing. I'm imagining explaining it to my 5 year old:

What's that person doing?

They took the wrong medicine and now they have to take that medicine everyday. It's yucky, expensive, and very hard on their body.

Why did they take the wrong medicine?

They didn't realize it was medicine and they thought it looked interesting or fun, I'm not sure exactly. You know not to take medicine without talking to mum, dad, or a doctor right?

Hey thanks for more context I appreciate it.

-20F (-30C) is quite cold. How often is it that cold during commuting hours? It's hard to read too much into anecdotes re house latches freezing because there are so many peculiarities of individual houses. Range will definitely be reduced though.

I could see the ice melt slurry being messy and gumming up the bike's mechanics for sure. Not something I have experience with.

Yeah separate infrastructure makes biking a lot safer and so more attractive.

Coquihalla highway has something like this to keep avalanches and rocks off the road.

It's the only tunnel I've driven that has windows.

Great Bear Snow Shed https://maps.app.goo.gl/HJUSEtGB2Jg8FFTN7

IMHO there is nothing wrong with the N word used in an history lesson.

Have you spoken to any [other] people that have been subjected to anti-black bigotry directly about how its inclusion would affect them in a lesson?

I am a white man that had a similar view to you. About 10 years ago I had a conversation with a black classmate about appropriate use of that word. It was my position that it's too bad we continually empower the word by avoiding it even in dry intellectual contexts and we shouldn't censor it when reading quotations.

She said:

I know you're not being racist but it still makes me super uncomfortable to hear you say it.

I made the decision not to say it ever again. Obviously my classmate can't speak for all black people, every person has different experiences, and reactions will be along a continuum. There might be situations where the educational value of using that word explicitly, outweighs the discomfort it causes. But I think it's pretty inappropriate for me to 'whitesplain' prejudice (and the language of prejudice, and the power... of the language of prejudice)

Teachers have to ask themselves: How much will its explicit use enhance the lesson? How many students are we willing to risk alienating? How much time would we like to spend defending our decision to use the word explicitly? How much of that will be class time?

Even with a lengthy preamble setting the perfect context to use it explicitly with minimal potential for alienating students there's a significant chance we'll fuck it up and spend the rest of the class reteaching the class why we think they are wrong to be offended.

Some of them will be disingenuous, some of them will be sincerely offended white soyboys not too dissimilar to me, some of them will be legitimately alienated racialized minorities.

We'd also be implicitly asking the non offended racialized minorities to stick up for us. Their well meaning friends will ask them to weigh in on the subject (and speak for all blacks). It's not fair to them.

In a context where class time is limited, I have to think that students are best served with more lesson time and less meta-discussion. So I don't think it's a good idea to use the word explicitly in educational contexts, unless maybe there's some sort of vetting of students for the course.

I hear that biking in the snow isn't actually bad. This is hearsay because it doesn't snow much where I am.

You wear your winter coat and snow pants, and get studded tires.

You don't have to worry about getting stuck going up an icy hill (because if its too icy to drive up, you can walk up it), granted not likely to be a problem in Wisconsin.

You don't have to worry about getting stuck due to low clearance (like the snow between the ruts that hatchbacks and minivans get stuck on) because you can just pick up your bike.

Also if a pedestrian slips while crossing the road, you probably won't kill them if you can't stop in time.

I guess the wind could be intense. What's your experience been?

But if her claim is that it doesn't matter if she was conceived by indigenous parents then doing a genetic test can only strengthen her opponents' position. Why would she do that?

It's my opinion that she is unlikely to have significant indigenous ancestry and that she has intentionally mislead the public about the nature of her connection to the indigenous community. That said: she may have entered the indigenous community under false pretenses but she IS part of the community.

I feel it is quite inappropriate for her to have accepted grants/awards reserved for people disenfranchised by settler colonialism and residential schools. But, I don't know if it's possible to discern which awards etc are intended as such and which are just to lift indigenous cultures in aggregate. She should double down on her rejection of colonial definitions and just announce her willingness to voluntarily return any awards/ grants to all organizations that feel blood quantum is paramount to indigeneity. I think that would put this whole thing to bed.

I'm fine with melting butter, but show me where in the prices I'm supposed to do it.

The pancake recipe my wife likes me to make say something like:

Milk

Flour

Sugar

Egg

Melted, slightly cooled butter

add the lemon juice to the milk and let it thicken while preparing the dry ingredients.

Beat the egg into the milk then whisk in the melted butter.

If it was slightly cooled at the beginning it's not whiskable by the time I get to the step. If it's solid at the beginning it's not slightly cooled when I go to whisk it in (it will be straight out of the microwave)

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As someone else said, it's an extremely small hill but I don't think you're going to push me off of it.

You know what's the real bullshit? Listing melted butter as an ingredient. Mother fucker, who keeps melted butter on hand? Make the ingredient oil, or make melting it part of the instructions!

Isn't her contention that it doesn't matter if she was naturally born to the Sainte-Marie's because the Piapot's adopted/claim her as their family and therfore she is indigenous no matter what anyone else says?

Big shiny tunes 2 was foundational to me.

Dbrand is lucky they haven’t been sued by the board manufacturers for creating an unlicensed derivative work (which is what the case art is, just as the photo of a sculpture, even stylized, has been deemed derivative - especially when the reproduction is intended to represent the original).

I think "lucky" is an overstatement but this is an interesting point and could be the knockoff company's defense ie:

we couldn't have infringed their IP because they don't own the IP

But I think this line of defense would open both case makers up to a suit from the phone manufacturers. Dbrand is well familiar with IP issues with hardware OEMs though so I don't know...