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  • It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

    They all do. My best guess as to why you’d say this is that you’re including Democrats.

    At risk of a strawman…

    The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

    That’s what’s best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it’s that equality and economic growth aren’t their goals.





  • I’ve two Mint VMs in Virtualbox. One hosts internal services and has critical data. The other is hosting services exposed to the internet and has no data of value.

    I think I can paravirtualize one of these VMs, I think using docker. I’d end up with a single image I could then easily migrate to physical hardware.

    Am I on the right track? I’ve no problem figuring out how. But, I’m not sure which means is best and why.







  • It seems to me groups have people have been choosing a king to do their reasoning for them since the beginning of humanity. And, the application of computers to communications and profits has significantly raised the bar of adequacy for wise decisions while (US) educational efforts have been in decline for nearly a half century.

    How do we encourage the critical mass of free thinkers to break the current paradigm, let alone the ancient one?

    Sincerely, does anyone see some sort of plan here? I often feel like I’m shouting into the void for little more than dying with self-respect. Can we reason our way to revolt, already?


  • SirDerpy@lemmy.worldOPtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldChoosing a used truck
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    OK. Then, I ask with humility and respect, “Why?”.

    My objection to the Tundra is that I could buy a diesel for nearly the same money that’d give me double the fuel economy and double the miles. And, it’s not going to be much more reliable than a domestic tuned and maintained by myself.

    If I had to have the best gas 1/2 ton on the market then I think it’s a Tundra. But, I’m not looking for the best tool. It seems a 1/2 ton is a mistake. I want best value under the assumption labor is free.

    What am I missing?


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    My first year was about 1500lb payload. I went easy on it. But, there’s no such thing when pulling at the limits of the transmission & drive line. This is why I thought of a 1/2 ton, 2.5t sitting at around half the max capacity. But, because I’ll be towing full time for awhile, the accepted perspective seems to be to overkill even a bit more.


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    It could be the northern Rockies. It could be Iowa (flat). Most of the miles will be interstate and highway. I’ll be pulling the 2.5t trailer almost exclusively for 10-12k miles. Then, I’ll have many short haul loads in the 1-4t range for maybe 2k miles. Then, it’ll spend maybe a third of its remaining life with that same 2.5t, the other two thirds with less than 0.5t payload.

    Based on what we’ve both said, it seems like you’d favor a 3/4.

    I’m not worried so much about pull power acceleration as efficiency at 70-80mph.




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    You did give me the advice I was looking for, sorta. You had me thinking, “How could downsizing be wrong”

    Yesterday, every opportunity, three times, I asked someone else that was towing (random drivers stopped) what they thought. They all agree with you: Downsizing is not good.

    Also, the diesel owner wishes he’d bought a gas. The gas owners wish they’d bought a diesel.



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    The '19 3/4 ton is worth $38k. It was a great truck for my wife and I to build experience. Only now, with some experience, do we know it can be done for half the price. But, with only a little experience, we’re not quite sure what our best choice is and why.

    Can’t do an electric bicycle out here for lots of reasons, first and foremost range and speed. But, we’re thinking along those lines. We’re aiming at a 650 motorcycle in the next six months.