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As Lemmy has scaled it’s approaching average. The masses have chosen to demonized minority opinions not for profit, but for short term comfort. They’ll enshitify socially. It’ll be faster than profit max as there’s no delay to begin.

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I’d hardly describe myself as “apathetic” though

I believe your heart’s in the right place. I’ll write a sincere response, though it’s deep meta.

Given all the arguments I’ve been in online

If you ever feel like that alone isn’t the best thing for you then the rest of my message could apply.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The individual who wrote the line above called it the “great stumbling block in (our) stride toward freedom”.

I do what I can where I can.

One thing you could choose to do is read his words in the context he wrote them, think about how the themes apply to almost everyone today, then target specific individuals with good questions.

I should minimize the hard hard work and message of the others to protect the feelings I think they have. Then, I should create a strawman argument.

No, apathetic moderate. You’re the greater obstacle.

I found this video to be helpful in comforting me. It minimized all those scary truths those pesky scientists keep bringing up. Once you find just the right take you can be on the bandwagon but with zero responsibility and accountability!

This is why the moderates will be first.

Inciting the revolution.

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Outside, the sign says “Heros Work Here”. Inside, two people do the work of four.

Brothers and sisters, if you and I would just realize, that once we learn to talk the language that they understand, they will then get the point. You can’t ever reach a man if you don’t speak his language. If a man speaks the language of brute force, you can’t come to him with peace. Why goodnight! He’ll break you in two, as he has been doing all along. If a man speaks French, you can’t speak to him in German. If he speaks Swahili, you can’t communicate with him in Chinese. You have to find out, what does this man speak? Once you know his language, learn how to speak his language. He’ll get the point, there will be some dialogue, some communication, and some understanding will be developed… Learn the language that they understand, and then when they come up on our door step to talk, we can talk.

Jesus, talk about failing to answer a simple question. If you don’t know fuck all about how to implement our shared goal, perhaps you should humble the fuck down and learn to ask good questions.

I scoped correctly. And, you’re Australian, meaning your government follows where ours leads. It leads where it wants regardless of what you or I vote for. Bad faith fuck.

Seems to me every single time Americans significantly changed their laws, they had to break laws, often pick up firearms, then boycott, illegally enforce their strike’s picket lines, riot and revolt. Perhaps you shouldn’t be speaking of the combined weight of ignorance of society. Maybe your time would be better spent reading a history book rather than attempting to teach nonsense like voting will change their material conditions.

It seems to me groups have people have been choosing a king to do their reasoning for them since the beginning of humanity. And, the application of computers to communications and profits has significantly raised the bar of adequacy for wise decisions while (US) educational efforts have been in decline for nearly a half century.

How do we encourage the critical mass of free thinkers to break the current paradigm, let alone the ancient one?

Sincerely, does anyone see some sort of plan here? I often feel like I’m shouting into the void for little more than dying with self-respect. Can we reason our way to revolt, already?

OK. Then, I ask with humility and respect, “Why?”.

My objection to the Tundra is that I could buy a diesel for nearly the same money that’d give me double the fuel economy and double the miles. And, it’s not going to be much more reliable than a domestic tuned and maintained by myself.

If I had to have the best gas 1/2 ton on the market then I think it’s a Tundra. But, I’m not looking for the best tool. It seems a 1/2 ton is a mistake. I want best value under the assumption labor is free.

What am I missing?

My first year was about 1500lb payload. I went easy on it. But, there’s no such thing when pulling at the limits of the transmission & drive line. This is why I thought of a 1/2 ton, 2.5t sitting at around half the max capacity. But, because I’ll be towing full time for awhile, the accepted perspective seems to be to overkill even a bit more.

It could be the northern Rockies. It could be Iowa (flat). Most of the miles will be interstate and highway. I’ll be pulling the 2.5t trailer almost exclusively for 10-12k miles. Then, I’ll have many short haul loads in the 1-4t range for maybe 2k miles. Then, it’ll spend maybe a third of its remaining life with that same 2.5t, the other two thirds with less than 0.5t payload.

Based on what we’ve both said, it seems like you’d favor a 3/4.

I’m not worried so much about pull power acceleration as efficiency at 70-80mph.

OP here: I’ve an ME Auto degree. I never thought of increased tire wear. It makes perfect sense. Great explanation. Thank you.

The fact that you’re entirely happy with your F150 but will replace it with a 250 is very helpful. Much respect for moving living cargo. I think I’d want 5-10k miles before I’d trust myself to do that.

You did give me the advice I was looking for, sorta. You had me thinking, “How could downsizing be wrong”

Yesterday, every opportunity, three times, I asked someone else that was towing (random drivers stopped) what they thought. They all agree with you: Downsizing is not good.

Also, the diesel owner wishes he’d bought a gas. The gas owners wish they’d bought a diesel.