Well, I’ve atleast got the two seater with a long bed so it’s barely adequate for what I need it for at work. It’s undeniable that a similar size Vivaro or Transporter would be more practical but I’m willing to trade some of that for a fun truck.

Sounds quite petty.

My apologies for not consulting your opinion when building out my truck.

The number one reason I went with a pickup over a van is that it just looks way better. Vans are boring. But also that my pickup has a 4WD, low-range gear box and a diff lock which vans don’t. It also has a camper shell on it so stuff on the bed stays dry too.

I think those huge American trucks are cool too, but the size is more of an inconvenience than it’s worth, and they stand out and draw too much attention - which is a big reason I didn’t get one. I’m honestly surprised by how much attention even my ’07 mid-size Nissan gets, but luckily it’s all been positive.

Why does that matter though? A van is just as big and heavy with even worse visibility around you.

I use it for work so pretty much every single day but that’s besides the point. It would be awesome even if I had no need for one.

Owning a pickup truck is pretty awesome, and I don’t think I’ll ever buy a different type of vehicle again.

Mentioning it online gets hate, but in real life people keep coming up to me, complimenting how nice it looks, asking questions about it, and kids give me thumbs up when I drive by. All of that is just a bonus on top of the fact that I love driving it and the way it looks - and that’s all that really matters.

Perhaps midwit meme format would work here as well with Ubuntu on both ends and everything else in between

Same reason people buy motorhomes - this just moves on water. It’s like a second home you can go to on holidays. Our first one was just a small fibreglass hulled boat for day trips but every subsequent one after that has been bigger than the previous. The current one is 11 meters long steel boat that weighs over 10000kg and has most modern comforts you’d find on a house or summer cabin: heating, running water, indoor toilet, sauna, solar panels, full kitchen and so on.

I don’t. It belongs to my parents. They have two and this is the tender we tow behind the bigger one.

Few underwater videos too:

https://streamable.com/8p1w6w

https://streamable.com/kp35yq

Aluminium hull Buster XS

Lake in Finland

61.3364225, 25.4610739

Yeah, I doubt it’s even a hundred years old. I almost don’t even want to find out its story as it’s likely nothing that exciting. If I had to bet I’d guess it’s an old barge of some sort.

It’s only about 70cm deep there.

Submechanofobia might be more accurate in this case.

I’ve come to the conclusion that if you’re buying tools, you should go for the sets. Take a socket set, for example. Realistically, you’re probably using the ratchet, an extension, and three to four sockets the most. At some point the cheap ratchet breaks and you replace it with a high-quality one. You may also lose or break a few of the most commonly used sockets and replace them with high-quality ones. In ten years you’ll have a set with a high-quality wrench and a few high-quality sockets that you commonly use, plus the rest of the other sizes you’ll only touch once every few years.

Had you gone for the high-quality set right away, you would have paid even more - and now you’d have a 4mm made-in-Japan socket you spent 10 euros on that you’ll never use.

No idea, but my 15 year old Sony seems to be hanging on just fine.

Well, first of all, like I already said, I don’t think there’s substrate dependence on either general intelligence or consciousness, so I’m not going to try to prove there is - it’s not a belief I hold. I’m simply acknowledging the possibility that there might be something more mysterious about the workings of the human mind that we don’t yet understand, so I’m not going to rule it out when I have no way of disproving it.

Secondly, both claims - that consciousness has very little influence on the mind, and that general intelligence isn’t complicated to understand - are incredibly bold statements I strongly disagree with. Especially with consciousness, though in my experience there’s a good chance we’re using that term to mean different things.

To me, consciousness is the fact of subjective experience - that it feels like something to be. That there’s qualia to experience.

I don’t know what’s left of the human mind once you strip away the ability to experience, but I’d argue we’d be unrecognizable without it. It’s what makes us human. It’s where our motivation for everything comes from - the need for social relationships, the need to eat, stay warm, stay healthy, the need to innovate. At its core, it all stems from the desire to feel - or not feel - something.