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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 126 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

A lot of people I've seen in Lamborghini cars aren't serious about their lives. They're spoiled idiots who lucked out and got a ton of money handed to them and are driving it around to show off how much money they have as if they deserved it.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 65 points 9 hours ago (17 children)

I have a buddy who wanted a Ferrari and a Lambo since they were a kid. They finally got to the point where they bought the Ferrari only to realize he has a wife and kid. The kid can’t safely ride in the Ferrari for 12+ years and he can’t fit 3 people in the car so he sold it. These aren’t cars for people with normal lives.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I've driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I'm not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn't buy either one over my Miata.

Supercars are vastly overrated.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 61 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Notice the implied and unquestioned assumption that “life goals” means accumulating resources and not building relationships or contributing to society. In fact, it’s expected that personal relationships and societal responsibilities shall be neglected in the quest for resources.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 40 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

I listened to a really interesting podcast the other day about how the current online alpha male culture, the kind we see propagated by Andrew Tate and co, actually emphasizes an incredibly lonely existence. It’s almost hermitical. Whereas masculinity in the 80’s up through the 2000’s or so was about getting rich, partying in incredibly conspicuous ways, and getting laid all the time.

This lambo meme (first part) falls right in line with the Tate mentality for sure. There are people who read that and go “yes, that sounds great.”

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think the current online alpha male culture is a marketing tool meant to validate the antisocial beliefs of potential customers in order to convert them into paying customers.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 hours ago

Oh definitely. At its heart is the grift

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

It’s very likely that it’s all about justification of where someone is more than it is about getting to where someone truly wants to be. Making a lot of positive changes is hard but claiming that you actually really wanted whatever shitty outcome is “easier”.

In the ‘80s it was about claiming you definitely weren’t buying your friends and, if you were, that was some kind of cool power thing and not horrifically depressing for all parties involved. These days most of the world hates these losers, and for good reason, so they shift the blame away from themselves in a desperate attempt to pretend that they aren’t at fault.

We’re social animals and we want genuine connection. The alpha males are deeply lonely and angry about it all the time but try soooo hard to pretend they aren’t which only makes them sadder and madder.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 34 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

man, those guilt coping posts. maybe just do the right thing, so you don't need to make up bullshit to feel good

[–] Szewek@lemm.ee 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You mean just take the bus?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nooooo, I wanted to ride the bus but someone took it!

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's OK my friend, just catch the next one. You can probably make it to the next bus stop even, that's what I like to do.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

People who are serious about life value long term benefit over short term material goods. Public transportation is a public good for all and in the long term will save you a ton of money.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

But how else can you show off how much money you have and how insecure you are?

Buy a massive long gun to compensate

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I fucking hate people that act like they escaped the matrix because they drive a personally owned vehicle.

Like wow you're really showing us public transit welfare queens what true independence looks like, gripping a steering wheel in a vehicle they can only legally operate with a government-issued license, on a road built and maintained by the government, cleared of snow by government workers driving government-owned trucks, fueled by government-subsidized oil, and parked in government-funded lots. Let’s not forget they had to go to a government building, talk to a government employee, and pay a government fee just for the privilege of registering their car — which they’re also legally required by the government to insure. And after all that bureaucratic red tape and recurring fees, they have the audacity to act like they're the icons of self-sufficiency. The cherry on top? If their precious symbol of ‘independence’ breaks down, the government isn’t going to help — they get to shoulder the repair costs entirely on their own.

Meanwhile, I swipe a card once a month and get access to a system that moves people efficiently, doesn’t ask for my blood type, and doesn’t require me to pour thousands into maintenance and paperwork — and I’m the one supposedly suckling at the teat of Big Government?

Ok.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

As someone who owns a vehicle, I feel more like I've escaped the matrix when on public transportation than when I'm driving. I still have to have a car to get places public transit won't go, but I always look forward to the completion of each new station, one more area I don't have to drive to.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I rarely go farther from my home than I can go in a few minutes in my bycicle, so I never felt the need for a car. But once every few months I would need to go somewhere that is two hours away by bus, often with inconvenient bus timings (like either 6am or noon) - so I sometimes take an Uber instead.

When people her about me taking an Uber for such a "long" trip they call me insane, say that I'm wasting money and I should just get a car and those trips would be much cheaper. They never consider all the other costs involved in owning a car.

But then after a while people in my town started giving up on Uber and it became hard to find a driver whenever I might need one, so I finally got a driving license and bought myself a bike. People now were like "you'll see how it changes you, you'll use it for everything, you'll go out a lot more often and to everywhere with it". By the time I had a trip to make it was no longer turning on due to being stuck in a garage for so long. The counter showed less than 20 kilometers when I sold it.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

You are definitely singing the song of my people. I bought my car when I was working 2 jobs with heavy overtime, and it mattered a lot that I could drive 20 minutes instead of the 1hr bus ride. I put about 20k kilometers on the odometer. Things changed recently, and I've found myself doing maintenance on it based on a time schedule rather than distance. I could buy 200 round-trip Uber rides per year for what I'm paying.

I tried getting into cycling, but there's a lack of cycle paths and protected bike lanes here. It's one of those areas that has "sharrows." Pro tip: drivers do not share the road even with the sharrows.

[–] Szewek@lemm.ee 24 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

I wonder which one is more expensive, a new Lamborghini or a new bus.

[–] noride@lemm.ee 21 points 9 hours ago

Depends on the size of the bus - anywhere from high 90s to half a million for a school bus.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 21 points 7 hours ago

If you need a meme to feel good about your decisions, then maybe make better decisions.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 hours ago

I'm pretty sure nobody driving that midlife crisis on wheels has ever gotten "serious" about their lifes

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It's a great meme, but I do cringe a little bit at the idea of engineers designing the car while already having built most of it.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Those engineers just got serious about their lifes. You can crank out way more products if you skip designing them, it is the engineer hustle 🔧😎

And if they didn't decide yet, they could always just bolt more seats to the roof.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

That's agile for you.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

TIL: The people on the bus are my friends! Yay!

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

Commute friends are great. You've got a pleasant conversation for the ride, and another source of information when your ride is canceled.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

The bus on the bus go bus bus bus!

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If you're choosing life-goals that shut out your friends, those are the wrong life-goals.

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[–] stinerman@midwest.social 7 points 8 hours ago

My life goal is to not work...which is why I'm not spending my money on a status symbol.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (12 children)

Commas, man. They're important to not abuse. You made my brain hiccup

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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The car they're working on only has one(functional) seat.....

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

But the car on the second panel is a Ginetta G58 (with a Chevy engine) for LMP3, not road legal ... witch ... ok, it does have two seats, so it checks out, carry on.

The seats:

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (5 children)

Nice catch.

That's a straight up racecar, though. Like it's built exclusively for entertainment and fun, not epeen.

I'd respect someone driving a Ginetta G58 around (or, more practically, an Ariel Atom, a homogilation special or something) way more than a chonky, overpriced lambo. That screams "I don't care what you think, I like to drive" instead of "hey everyone, look how rich I am!"

Like this people driving around these monsters. That's beyond flaunting wealth, that's someone's neurotic hobby, and most bystanders aren't going to realize how special they are compared to the Porsche trailing them:

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Replace second speech box with “two, because people who buy our cars are losers”

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