The Far Side

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

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Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

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Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of small trucks running around in the US. A 2023 Ford Maverick is just 1" longer than a 90s Nissan Hardbody and much safer with better fuel economy.

but let's ignore the size, since a kei style truck can he sized up or down to fit.

You don't know what you're talking about. "Kei" is a strict legal term in Japan, for keijidōsha or "light duty" and are regulated in size (no longer than 3.4m / 134in) and displacement. What you're describing is a cab-over design, which we have plenty of in the US but are known for being fuel inefficient and unsafe.

American pickup trucks are focused on being fashion accessories for insecure suburbanites, which involves creating these theoretical numbers and making those numbers as big as possible

Truck larpers have always been a thing. It still doesn't change the fact that when you need to haul things (like millions of people do every single day), a truck is the only vehicle platform that can do it.

Is carrying 5 people and towing however many tons at 112 km/h a common use case?

I do it 5 days a week. You've also just given out the fact that you don't live in the US, so I'm not even sure why you entered into this conversation about the American car market.