I clicked the link and immediately thought “wow this is going to be nothing more than an obnoxious load of marketing wank” as soon as I saw the loading bar appear and take 20 seconds to fill.

I was right.

That was beautiful, but I didn’t think it would still hurt this much.

It’ll be two years this month.

The truck I was driving had a DT12 (12-speed) and it would shift 1-2-4-6-8-10-12 if I remember correctly. Even with only 7 gears to go through, it still took forever. Maybe it wasn’t actually more time shifting than accelerating, but it sure felt like it lol.

I’m guessing that twenty years ago you didn’t have to go through the all the training that they make us go through today which explicitly talks about things like this? It’s not uninformed, it’s making a huge deal out of a small thing to make the average idiot driver 0.2% safer, which I guess makes a difference in the math of our modern megacarriers.

Yes but like any vehicle, if you know your machine and drive within its limits, it’s fine. The only exception I can think of is when you’re on the freeway and you suddenly encounter a patch of extremely rough road that you’re going too fast for.

As a former truck driver: can confirm. It was mostly freeing because I could actually go to Walmart or do laundry in the city without worrying about where and how to park.

Also, without a trailer it accelerates a lot faster. Like, genuinely spending more time shifting than accelerating. Feels weird.

That’s exactly what I was thinking reading through the article… Yeah, I’m generally at my best if I spend most of the day doing stuff, with the occasional rest day. People tend to want to work and accomplish things, but when their time is consumed by what feels like meaningless drudgery on top of the other daily necessities, that’s a recipe for a mental health crisis. It feels like the author is deliberately omitting the part where your “55 hours” necessarily has to include all the stuff you work on outside of work, including hobbies.

I would love to not let the nazis dictate how the swastika is used, but their perversion of the original meaning has permanently altered how it’s seen by the rest of the world. Claiming the moral high ground by trying to force something to mean what it no longer does is a pointless exercise.

Have you considered that the comment could, in fact, be a joke?

You know a lot of us hate our government too right?

why would you remove the bones and skin to make a broth? that’s where all the flavor is