How to move a sofa

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• DankDingleberry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this is so wholesome

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Community.

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• nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This reads like folksy pandering of the highest order.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re ever in my neighborhood and need furniture moved, I will cheerfully prove you wrong for the price of a pizza.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can we not romanticize american truck culture? Those people’s heads are already swollen enough without telling them everyone around them relies on their condescension to help.

  Sure, there might be a few decent people out there who have trucks, but they’re not the majority of truck owners. They’re also more likely to help their friends and family, maybe a friend of a friend, but hardly a stranger.

  And if you’re viewed as an outsider or unliked? Forget it, you’re SOL.

  Also, this expectation that everyone “just knows”, without being told, is unrealistic. It is real, in that people do expect that. And perhaps most normies do “just know.” But the social rejects, the neurodivergents, the new neighbors who just moved to this state, etc.? Life is made far more challenging to these people as a direct result of that expectation that everyone should “just know” without being told.

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  • bees@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah fuck Americans! I hate all of them tbh, even the supposed “good” ones. Every single one is a pig and deserves to die. They should really learn to be more tolerant and not to hate people based on one characteristic that they think tells me everything they need to know about a person

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude, I’m an american myself, and having grown up surrounded by americans I think I can say that it’s not always sunshine and rainbows like it’s depicted in the post.

      The people around me who drive trucks are the biggest assholes for miles. Rolling coal, denying climate change, flying trump flags, shining high beams in your rearview mirror. Pretending this isn’t a real pattern and a serious issue isn’t going to get you anywhere.

      Sure, there are exceptions. Some people who drive trucks are nice people. They usually drive smaller, older, more beat-up and well-used trucks. But then again, lots of assholes drive those too. As for the big, shiny new trucks that never leave the pavement, there’s a reason people say they’re compensating for something. They’re more likely to run over a cyclist than they are to help you move a couch.

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  • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    First of all this is a shitpost community.

    When I moved states, we introduced ourselves to the neighbor and they offered to mow our lawn cause we didn’t have a mower yet. Gave em a bottle of wine, chill neighbors all the way until they moved out.

    Most people are decent, even more than the 80/20 rule.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re really only acknowledging that you’re part of an in-group that can move to a new neighborhood and be immediately accepted. Not everyone enjoys that privilege, and you pretending that your experience disproves that only highlights the erasure.

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  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thing is, like you say, they’re willing to help a friend of a friend, but frankly the bar for a friend is pretty low for a lot of people. As someone who’s also neurodivergent and has had approximately three friends on average for most of my life, but recently moved to America and so had a full reset, I’ve been reminded that the majority of people like to think they’re good people, even if they have questionable beliefs or cut you off in traffic or whatever, and thay extends to helping out people that they know.

    Given I’ve been in the country a month, have autism, and live out of the city, I’m still fairly confident if I needed a neighbor to take me to hospital, or someone to help me move a couch, or whatever else, I could find them even through work or the neighborhood pretty quickly, as it just takes one connection to flip a switch in people’s brains from “fuck that guy” to “they’re in my tribe, I’ll help them”

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      as it just takes one connection to flip a switch in people’s brains from “fuck that guy” to "they’re in my tribe, I’ll help them

      That’s the thing, not everybody has that connection, and the people who lack it tend to be invisible in these kinds of situations, and there’s always a lot of overt hostility directed towards those people whenever they point out that they don’t have this thing that everyone else seems to be pretending that everyone has, which is community support.

      It’s great that you feel like you connect and have the support you need, but that doesn’t justify the erasure of people who don’t have that.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are two kinds of truck.

    The first is an oversized showpiece that’s sparkling clean, has brand new tires, and not a single scratch. You need a stepladder to get in to drive, and it has never seen a day of work in its life. The driver is, invariably, a selfish jerk who wants the working-class status of having a truck, but no inclination to use it for its given purpose. They need a little sedan, but they want to take up space and feel important. This is what is known as a ‘pavement princess’. This is a bad truck.

    The second can be any year, but is usually a little on the old side. The owner has had their hands in every part of the engine, or is on a first-name basis with their mechanic. It is covered in well-earned scars, and the owner is a person like Kevin. This is a good truck.

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    • slackassassin@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As the maintainer of an ’02 community s10, I appreciate recognizing the distinction.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I saw this tweet back when it was on 2.1M

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• naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a friend with a ute, though he recently moved cities (and scrapped his (very old) ute)… Guess I need to be on the lookout.

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just in case anyone was wondering, here’s a video explaining what a Ute is:

    youtu.be/9i2eZaJsC7g

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    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also youtu.be/_yj1gff-ndc

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• chode_tode@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im the truck guy.

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• Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This makes me so happy 🥹

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• antiphon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  tldr. boring

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  • ReasonablePea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aww I thought it was fun

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• sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve got a guy 4 that

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• peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wholesome.

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reads like Cormac McCarthy a bit. I like it.

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