The Next Generation Delivery Vehicle that the USPS ordered is legit the most fucked up thing you’ll ever see in your life.
Whoever did this should be hurt
NO YOU ARE ALL WRONG THIS IS INCREDIBLE
You’re telling me the mail service is handing you this highly accessible Akira Toriyama-esque piece of gold and you’re spitting in their faces?!?!
Not only that, they have more cargo space for mail, have a larger front front windshield so they’ll be able to see better as they drive, and they’re electric!
Plus, you know how old the previous trucks were? Half of em didn’t have A/C.
I’m glad they’re investing in the postal service, especially considering they’ve been trying to nerf it for years now and pushing us to use private delivery companies that are worse and for-profit.
In fact I want MORE cars that look like this! I hope every car in the future looks like this!
Why hate on this lil guy when Tesla is right there to hate on? My poor lil guy ;(
Literally the only thing giving me pause (and this could be an angle issue or a case of picture vs reality) is it looks like it sits really, really low down. Which becomes a problem should you encounter something like a speed bump (which may exist in neighborhoods in school zones, which it’ll probably go through) or really uneven ground/really steep inclines. Like, it’ll just get stuck on it, or wreck the under carriage.
Buy like I said, this could be an angle issue and it’s not quite as low down as it looks.
It’s an angle issue. I posted about this last night, but the ride height is a minimum of 7.3", which is about 2" higher than a Corolla and 1.5" lower than a Rav4.
One of the many boring but useful milestones of the Biden-Harris administration [April 2022]:
Repeal GOP mandate requiring USPS to set aside money for workers’ healthcare costs for next several decades
Enroll workers in Medicare
Overhaul its finances
Use $50 billion saved to replace and upgrade its fleet with EVs
Create online dashboard with local & national performance data
Closer integration with local governments for more non-postal services
Support for things like delivery of COVID testing kits, mail-in ballots
The Republicans were trying SO HARD to kill and privatize the USPS.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that the Postal Service delivers democracy. And it’s no exaggeration to say the Postal Service is as essential as it ever was, has ever been, today,” Biden said at a bill signing ceremony at the White House.
Every time you see this lil guy —delivering ballots, prescription drugs for seniors, government info that does NOT require disadvantaged or privacy-minded people to download an app or consult their local government agency’s Facebook page (grrrrr) or login with an email and answers to privacy questions they’ve forgotten — think of it as Joe Biden’s middle finger to the outsourcing, corporatization, and/or online-only-ization of essential services.
Honestly, it can stand as it’s own post. The tobacco industry is evil they want to get you smoking yadda yadda you’ve heard it a million times and like. I think we hear it so much but that a lot of the younger generations in the us dont really get why there’s such an aggressive anti smoking campaign, I think people buy into the narrative South Park has spun about it “the cigarette companies are all upfront about it and people still chose their service and everyone against smoking are just obsessive fascists” and it’s like. Genuinely, the cigarette companies are some of the most evil entities this world has ever seen. From knowing cigarettes caused cancer before anyone else and lying about it, to being the reason the majority of 50s television existed (shows like I Love Lucy existed to sell you cigarettes) to specifically making flavors of cigarettes and cartoon mascots to sell to kids. And I’m not saying that if you smoke cigarettes you’re bad but I do really want the tobacco industry abolished and have it’s wealth distributed to the society it controlled for so fucking long.
Seriously, go read about it. They did shit that manipulated the country, politics, and the lives of your parents and their parents, and likely their influence is affecting your life in this day and age still.
‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs
Since the Paralympics are happening and I’m seeing all sorts of people saying “See? This person doesn’t let their disability stop them!”
I would like you to remember that Paralympions are OLYMPIC LEVEL ATHLETES.
How would it feel if I compared your output to that of a literal olympic athlete and used that to justify not helping you or giving you what you need?
Oh, well Michael Phelps and Simone Biles can do it - why can’t you?
Thats how you sound.
I used to have a roommate who was training for the Paralympics. She can snowboard better than I ever will. She’s incredibly strong and i’ve seen her flip a tractor tire, which I cannot do. I am athletic too and do several winter sports but not at her level.
THEY ARE OLYMPIC ATHLETES MOST ABLE-BODIED PEOPLE COULD NOT KEEP UP WITH.
However, she is still very much affected by her disability during every waking moment. There are a lot of things she either can’t do, struggles to do, or needs some accommodations in order to do. I did change a couple things for her in the house to make tasks easier and offered to change more if she found a task frustrating. I did a lot of the carrying things up and down the stairs to our apartment because that was particularly difficult for her.
Someone can be both disabled, a world class athlete, and still need a lot of support. And no, I would NOT want my athletic performance compared to that of a Paralympic level athlete.
Btw it’s crucial to protect and defend any Haitians in your community rn. The obvious and sole intent of this clearly baseless conspiracy is to encourage hate crimes.
If you want to donate to Springfield, Ohio Haitians, please consider this:
I JUST learned that this shirt cost them $10,000 to put into this movie… but they refused to compromise because they were like: he’s the hugest Golden Girls fan… this has to make the movie… so they paid $10,000 to use Bea Arthur’s likeness on this shirt… Ryan Reynolds, you’re doing Deadpool so right.
They traded all the guns in the final climactic showdown for Bea Arthur’s face. Worth it.
Reynolds paid it himself, out of pocket. It didn’t come from the budget. He talked with Bea’s sons and they agreed to it for a donation to Bea’s favorite charity. ☺️
I did not know that. That’s so much better than I could have imagined.
It’s important to note that the aforementioned charity is a charity that offers housing to homeless LGBTQ youth
i know it may seem miniscule, but i genuinely can’t stop thinking about how students in gaza were preparing for school around this time last year. and it’s not just gazan children i’m referring to. it’s little kids who were about to have their first ever day of school. it’s university students in their last year of college. it’s grad students who’ve been working so hard in their field, who just had years of labor and effort torn away just like that. we all have the luxury of continuing on, of starting this new chapter in our lives, while theirs seem to be on permanent arrest. it’s just not fair. it’s heartbreaking
guys please donate to and share ola’s fundraiser. she’s someone i could not stop thinking about w the onset of this academic year, bc she’s a math grad student whose entire life changed in october of last year. she was working her way through grad school, teaching what she loved, preparing for the next step of her life - only to get a death sentence when the iof bombed her neighborhood, basically rendering her and her family homeless. they are still in north gaza, still trying to shelter from israel’s relentless terrorism to no avail, and i am so fucking scared for her. the least we can do is donate what we can and share. please spread this so ola’s fundraiser can reach more people. it has been stagnant for days and the conditions in north gaza are no conditions at all.
Only 4 donations in the past 4 hours!! Please continue to help Ola and her family. Do not let her campaign stagnate any further!!
$33,668 raised of $50,000 goal as of August 29, that’s $16,332 left to raise
hey dude im on Loves You island and all of your friends are here too. what time are u planning on getting here? we are gonna order pizza
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this is exactly the way i meant it :) the sooner u love urself the sooner we can all play mario kart btw. but its ok if u take a while. we are not going anywhere
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one of my favorite things to do in limited perspective is write sentences about the things someone doesn’t do. he doesn’t open his eyes. he doesn’t reach out. i LOVE sentences like that. if it’s describing the narrator, it’s a reflection of their desires, something they’re holding themselves back from. there’s a tension between urge and action. it makes you ask why they wanted or felt compelled to do that, and also why they ultimately didn’t. and if it’s describing someone else, it tells you about the narrator’s expectations. how they perceive that other person or their relationship. what they thought the other person was going to do, or thought the other person should have done, but failed to. negative action sentences are everything.
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