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REO missed one important point: monster trucks are about vice signaling and political identity. Most people that own monster trucks know they don’t need them for truck-like things, they need them to identify with their chosen group. There are also a lot of people who own them who think they will need them (like monster SUVs) and overbuy because literally bigger is better in their minds. REO is right in that there is no bottom market and I’m sure folks want a normal pickup, but I don’t think the market for small pickups is big enough when identity and politics (and existing policy) drive decision making at scale.

Cloudflare tunnels are pretty cool. Do you segregate your server from your home domain too? Little weird having cloudflared on my home network. It make things a little more annoying but I haven’t bothered to fix it since I dev on the same production server.

This article is a great example for anyone in their 50’s who is worried about not having relevant skills anymore.

Although calling it hardcore makes it sound like porn. Too bad they had to add that term for something painfully not hardcore.

Ah, I’m a purist and didn’t like the extended volumes by his son. Obviously I didn’t read it but the plot summary sounds painfully pedestrian. Was it good and I’m just being a snob?

In Dune we never learned what exactly went down in the butlerian jihad. Perhaps it was worse than idiocracy and the galaxy became monumentally stupid for an eon or two, rather than a bloodthirsty Terminator scenario.