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   Smitty (josephsmith3130@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 12:20:11 JST Smitty

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   • Clive Thompson

   @clive wow. Why not pick on the lifted F-150 Silverado King Ranch Big Horn FX-4 Trail Boss Tuscany Duelly Merlot Platinum Editions Maxi Cab Raptor Power Stroke Diesels? There are 12 million more of them rolling coal today!

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 12:20:13 JST Clive Thompson

     Great piece on the Cybertruck’s design

     … which distills every malign trend in US trucks: Massive weight, jacked-up height designed to lethally throw accident victims beneath it, noise baffling so perfect you can’t hear the outside world

     Cars are rolling buckets of externalities: They greatly improve the life of their riders, while making the lives of everyone *outside* them worse

     The Cybertruck is a tone poem to this impulse: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/12/02/how-to-build-a-car-that-kills-people-cybertruck-edition