This place is full of straight up brainwashed communists. I guess the whole free and decentralized thing kind of lends itself towards that crowd, but these people are fucking insane.

Ok I’m not even from the states, but you should be able to get to Washington DC in less than a day from North Carolina. Hell, anywhere on the east coast is within 5 hours from a huge metropolitan centre

What did they say like 76 percent of the population has had one strain or another of covid?

Even if masks are totally effective, all you’re going to effectively do is delay the inevitable. You will catch this; it’s only a matter of time. I choose to get it over with.

What do you do for a living? For many, wearing a mask while working is a recipe for guaranteed heat exhaustion. I’m not subjecting myself to that, and if the illness is anything at all like the last time I had it, it was a goddamn cold.

Wearing a mask in a hospital full of people with compromised health and all sorts of contagions floating around is a really good idea.

Wearing a mask outdoors in the summer time on a construction site full of other able-bodied people is just fucking silly.

Id rather be sick for a week than wear a mask doing physical labour.

I just find that screwdriver to be the most pretentiously bad product. Still a product that’s half as good as something from Klein or wiha, or Milwaukee, or Greenlee, for three times the price. He put all that money into a designing a cheap but overpriced Chinese piece of junk, when there are already great screwdrivers used by professionals for years and years. Linus was so arrogant he didn’t even think that somebody’s already made a superior product with established tooling. But no, he has to reinvent the wheel and design a screwdriver nobody’s asked for

The workers would rather work for tips. You can hide a lot of income if your wage is primarily cash.

Fuck the service industry as a whole

I’ve pulled empty hay wagons that have a front and rear axle it starts fishtailing if you try to go very fast. They had the orange triangles on them, haha.

I pull something like this https://cheyennecampingcenter.com/inventory/2022-forest-river-cherokee-grey-wolf-23dbh-bunkhouse-travel-trailer-439

With a truck like this https://www.edmunds.com/gmc/sierra-1500/2011/review/

comfortably on flat ground at 100km/h if there isn’t a lot of crosswind.

We don’t really worry about calculating tongue weight every time the load changes because we tend to tow with vehicles that are designed with towing in mind and have ample power. I guess that’s the difference between German and American engineering, one designs things to be as efficient and conservative as possible, the other builds something far heavier and larger than what the average person needs.

I’ll agree that trucks could be smaller. I drive 79 series Landcruisers for offroad use in a mine and they are tough little machines. It would have no trouble towing but they’re not considered road worthy here and can only be imported as offroad vehicles. We’re not hard up for space in North America so pickup trucks aren’t really seen as a nuisance here like I suppose they are in Europe.

The first president of Ireland was an American of partial Spanish descent.

Are trailers with that front dolly axle common in europe? We practically never see setups like that aside from slow moving farm equipment, or you’re pulling two or more trailers as a train

In North America we have bright orange florescent “slow moving vehicle” signs on the back of farm equipment and the like. If you are impeding the flow of traffic and you don’t have a slow moving sign, you’re committing an offense. Most of our rural highways have no passing lanes; the yellow line in the center indicates when it’s safe to pass using the oncoming lane.

Also, as someone else mentioned, the government dictates towing vehicle limits here, not the manufacturer. We all know how honest vw is when it comes to reporting their vehicle specifications.

I still can’t envision a VW golf pulling a 4400lb trailer. I’d be surprised if the tongue weight alone doesn’t lift the front wheels off the ground. My GMC Sierra with a 4.8l v8 struggles to pull my 6000lb travel trailer. According to GM, it’s slightly overweight but according to traffic safety laws I can pull it, considering it’s vehicle class.

This isn’t Germany, people don’t drive like robots, so you have to drive defensively at a relatively equal speed to the rest of traffic or some idiot will end you.

You try going 20km under the speed limit in Canada, and you’re going to get rear ended. If you can’t drive near the speed limit on level ground you are overloaded.

Your brakes, tires, suspension, motor, and transmission are not built for towing. You are going to cause an accident.

I really want to see this golf pulling 4400 lbs while not being a hazard to everyone on the road. Good luck climbing a hill on a busy highway without getting into an accident or shitting out pieces of transmission on the road.

That’s fucking insane, my “giant” 1/2 ton pickup is only book rated for pulling 5500 lbs.

God forbid somebody drives a pickup truck. There’s never ever a necessity to haul anything weighing over 500kg or to ever pull a large trailer. It’s safe to assume anybody driving one of these big scary machines is a sadist with a micropenis and a threat to society.

Do you realize that whoever grew the food you ate today likely owns and utilizes a pickup truck? Do you realize that your convenient city life would be impossible without rural people transporting goods to your little concrete paradise?

I think that kind of goes for anything in a market economy. Client wants item that vendor has for sale, vendor and client negotiate a price.