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image descriptionTwitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads πŸ™ (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk)

Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front)

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[–] [email protected] 207 points 7 months ago (16 children)

One's gotta feel so goofy bragging about their truck hauling a load that would fit in most any compact sedan

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean that easily fits in my compact hatchback

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Hatchbacks generally fit things like that more easily than sedans.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Bragging

*Advertising

Look at the username, and the platform

Why the fuck do people use that site?!?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That would fit in my wife’s fucking Camry man

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Sorry, my wife drives a cavalier. Not a Camry. I am not good with vehicle names. I am big dumb.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I have walked more home in a cheap wagon.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I appreciate what Len's going for, but showing a Cybertruck with a load that would fit in a normal car, and 'owning' it by showing a bike carrying what appears to be half as much, is only going to give ammo to the dipshits with their massively oversized trucks.

'Hey, bro! My Ford SuperMacho DonkeyDong Pavement Princess edition would fit the load from the Cybertruck and the load from the cargo bike. I could throw the bike on top too!'

Reframing it as 'the Cybertruck's so shitty that half the load will fit on a bike with no issues, and you don't have to be seen driving a Cybertruck' would probably work better πŸ‘

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (13 children)

The packages on the bike look far longer, it's quite possible that it actually is the same load

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Reframing it as 'the Cybertruck's so shitty that half the load will fit on a bike with no issues, and you don't have to be seen driving a Cybertruck' would probably work better πŸ‘

I fully agree with this, but I have to say I think it's equivalently and succinctly encapsulated by "wankpanzer".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The bags on the bike are bigger, i think. I think that is in fact the same load, or close to it.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wankpanzer has now been added to my lexicon.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Meanwhile in a real truck...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

This image broke me, 95% of the trucks I see everyday are used as commuter vehicles with nothing in the bed. And the ones that do are hauling a single sheet of plywood. I plum forgot people use trucks to move stuff.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Couldn't you do that on a cybertruck as well?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The most similar bed for regular trucks is about 14 cu ft more than in the CT (about 70cu ft vs about 56 cu ft) but technically yes you could load a Cybertruck like that, although I wouldn't want to see the sloped sides after a loader dumped a couple of yards in it...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yards? What the hell? You measure volume in yards now?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

Yes and it's as annoying and stupid as it sounds

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

The cubic yard is common among contractors in the US. You buy concrete in yards

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A cubic yard is about 30% less than a cubic meter. And a ton is like 10% less than a metric ton.

Water volumes in reservoirs are measured in acre*feet. By comparison a cubic yard is pretty sensible. And for comparison if you know of any big lakes near you, a million acre feet is about 20% smaller than a cubic kilometer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You got some special edition yards or something?

A cubic meter is 30% more than a cubic yard, meters are longer than yards.

A tonne (metric) is 1000kg, about 2200 pounds. A ton, often called a short ton, is 2000 pounds. A long ton is 2240 pounds. A long ton is 1.6% more than a metric ton.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think I'm going to refer to pick ups and SUVs exclusively as "wankpanzers" from now on

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My vocabulary was enhanced today too.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Call me crazy, but I think original op, the one with the cyber truck, was actually making a joke

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I also think it's more of a sarcastic remark about size of the cargo bed, if you can even call it a cargo bed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The account is literally called Dirty Tesla. This must be one of the biggest whooshes in history.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Funny seeing this, I just got back from taking 40L of planting soil home in the back of my (non-cargo) bike. It's doable, for sure.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lol, I don't know about a bicycle but I routinely toss six bags of dirt in the back of my Honda Accord and my ex- boss has a trailer for his Corolla.

Also, presumably he got it to the checkout at the store in a grocery cart, he (I am making an assumption here that this is a dude) has to know you don't need a truck to move it.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thankful to have Cybertruck

Isn't that the most basic feature of a car?
Reminds me of the people thankful for Facebook so they can talk to friends, when what enabled that really was the Internet and Facebook just created an app incompatible with any existing messaging standard.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's a big load? Thatβ€½ That'll fit into any car.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

my wagon can definitely carry that, without the risk of slicing off pedestrians' faces in an accident, too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, I guess that some people just like to put big loads on their back and post it on the internet... Who am I to judge...

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[–] Squirrel 16 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I'm in the unfortunate position of not living in a place to practically use that bicycle, and being unable to afford a cybertruck. I wouldn't buy one, even if I could afford it, but I'd like to be in that position.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Can we just officially call it the Wankpanzer? That's too good.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I saw one IRL the other day and it was way bigger than I thought based on pictures. This shows how shitty the trunk on it is. Whole car was bigger than an Escalade, but this is all that trunk can fit. What a hunk o shit.

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