i sold it. while it was a fun little toy to have for eight months, i found that i was just not using it enough to justify keeping it around. that doesnt mean i dont love these little trucks. i had envisioned it being useful. but for a few key reasons, it just wasnt for me(thread)
i bought the mini truck for $5k and i sold it for $5k. and i really didnt intend for this to be some kind of review or experiment. i wanted one. i intended to get plenty of use out of it. theyre cool and cute and very easy to work on. so let me start by saying, if you are balling on a budget, and you have no other options, dont have a truck or maybe even a vehicle at all, and you arent a freakish giant and can fit in one, then definitely consider getting one.
but what ended up happening for me was that i bought it, and i parked it next to my regular truck, a crew cab toyota tacoma, and when i needed to drive somewhere, i would go out in my driveway, and think- do i take the kei truck or do i take the tacoma?
and for me, i just was not reaching for the kei truck in my arsenal enough to justify keeping it around. i believe vehicles need to be driven. im not the kind of guy who gets a vehicle or a tool or any object i own and am just satisfied with owning it. what matters to me is using the thing that i own. and it made me sad to see the kei truck sitting there when it could be in the hands of someone who would use it all the time. so here are some of the reasons i was too frequently reaching for the keys to the tacoma over the kei truck
Apr 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
the american education system rocks so fucking much. your high school teachers will be like “oh you like to draw? you should take out six figures of debt for four years of daycare. afterwards you can work food service and drink yourself to death by 35”
the problem with the american education system is not a lack of imagination or encouragement. the exact opposite. mediocre kids are told they can be anything they want to be, a singer, a painter, a youtuber, when they should just get one of the many jobs society needs to function
landlords and tenants being broke at the same time represents an incredible opportunity for private equity to come in like vultures and buy up massive swaths of real estate from distressed small owners. yet another way the pandemic resulted in a giveaway to the elites
its difficult to even talk about because a small middle class of rentier boomers was already a leeching scourge on the economy, but for those units to be absorbed en masse by the elites as part of a land grab is much more appalling. a small evil giving way to a greater evil.
Feb 3, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
the proliferation of rise and grind/hustle culture where everyone needs to have a side hustle or small business to survive is a survival instinct response to the collective realization that the wheels are coming off an already barely functioning economy and help is not on the way
you can either be someone who becomes entranced by the allure of passive income streams and tax loopholes or you can hold out hope that society will eventually come around and bail you out. the former is a deep blackpill and the latter is an intensely cucked loser mindset
Feb 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
why is the modern left obsessed with the idea that “vulnerability is strength“ instead of, perhaps that strength is strength and vulnerability is vulnerability?
“vulnerability is strength” which is why Achilles is considered the greatest warrior of mythology with absolutely no weaknesses, because his one huge vulnerability was actually just another strength
