There are performance gains like improving the fuel economy and power by bypassing the emissions equipment, but obviously the trucks are much less clean as a result.
None of the diesel enthusiasts I know give a shit either way. The Venn Diagram of them, people who think any regulations are a literal gun held to their head, and people who derive perverse joy from ‘triggering’ others is basically one circle.
Blacksmith suppliers should have it. It’s also depends where you are in the world - I was surprised when we were vacationing in Ireland that you could buy it at the local corner stores. I guess it’s like how you can buy bundles of firewood here. No wood there though, only coal or peat was available for the cast iron stove in our cottage.
Best part is: because they left a huge opaque cloud behind them, they won’t be able to identify who put that round through their back window. But I bet they’ll think twice about doing it again, provided they survive.
Another meaning for the term, “ridin’ dirty”.
Much like the “History” Channel
I was living in NYC during 9/11 and its anti-muslim aftermath - at work one day that December, a very right-wing co-worker looked at my beard and said “I hope Santa is bringing you a razor this Christmas”. I reminded him that Santa is not a good person to invoke when attacking beards.
This is like those folks who hear about “Earth Hour”-- spending one evening a year using as little electricity as possible-- and decide to turn on all the lights and run the washer and dryer with no clothes in them. “Ha ha, in yer face libtards!” There’s no benefit there, and you’re wasting your own money, and for what? It’s basically a pricey middle finger to the world.
Beards vs Beards.
Maybe this could just be an April Fools Year. 2020, the year that was a day. A day that will live in infamy
That brings back memories. In early 2002, a management type a couple rungs up the ladder from me asked if my then-new beard had anything to do with the Taliban.
I managed not to get myself fired.
This same management type later went out of his way to try to fire the guy who sat next to me–one of the hardest working and most valuable employees we had.
For a pile of perfect examples of those exact attitudes, just check out the comments in the linked article. Or you can spare yourself. But Jesus Christ.
These guys are just posers, here’s the real rolling coal 
:
They’re not the ones breathing it - you are.
It’s equivalent mentality to an 11 yo farting in the face of their younger sibling. It’s a power move and the only consequence that matters is the satisfaction of belittling someone else.
Also, that ‘DB’ on their shirts clearly announces that they’re douchbags. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Haven’t seen him in years, but I worked with someone who (1) did not believe in climate change, and (2) acknowledged that smog was a problem in Utah – more specifically, in Salt Lake City.
My beard is a symbol of my dedication to Glykon the Snake God and my own Arcane powers.
It’s commonly available through home heating fuel suppliers and the sort of places that carry shit like wood pellets for furnaces. Tractor Supply is the first thing that comes up. I would imagine Tractor supply is a favorite of the Coal Rolling set.
Coal stoves are still sometimes used for home heating, or the pleasure of it, much like wood stoves. Otherwise it’s mostly available for shit like coal fired baking ovens (of rad New Haven Pizza fame) and black smithing or whathave. So you can still run out to the right place and grab a sack of it just like charcoal.
I’m sure Amazon sells it. I was able to order a sack of Irish cut peat chunks on there for pretty damn cheap, shipped free with prime.
From what I understand, a proper performance tune for a truck like this for something like off road use. Will lower fuel economy and increase emissions. But it’s fairly trivial to do it in a way that still passes emissions testing, even in strict as hell California.
And what these shits are doing is not that. They’re not just bypassing the emissions system, or tweaking things for performance. They’re altering things to deliberately burn excess fuel in the dirtiest way possible. Often with a button or switch that allows on demand smog clouds.
The approach apparently lowers performance, and slowly destroys the engine.
Until surprisingly recently there were still houses heated by and cooking with peat stoves, and some people chose to run them on coal. Mostly older folks who refused to give them up. My great aunt wouldn’t agree to a modern stove until my cousins forced the issue in 1996. Her house still has peat smoke stains on that part of the kitchen wall.
But also because the peat bogs were basically considered public property, and any house hold was allowed X amount of peat free of charge provided they cut and dried it themselves. There was this interesting adhoc system going on. Where you would cut your share of peat and leave it to dry, then take a share from what was left and already dry. Leaving what you cut for the next guy. Like a round robin.
That made running a modern, peat fueled furnace a really cheap way to heat your home.
There’s been a big push to move off peat over there for environmental reasons, and the peat bogs are being closed to harvesting. But given the lack of wood, a coal or peat stove is sort of the local equivalent of a fire place or fire pit.
One day I would like to calculate how much time and money I’ve saved by not shaving for 20+ years.
edit for clarity
I do occasionally trim so I’ll have to put that time in the red column.
Is that really the case in the US? All the countries that I can think of, the exhaust has to come out the rear or on the driver side to avoid directing the output at pedestrians.
From the factory that’s the way these trucks come too.
But they’re modified, often move the exhaust so it can be aimed without bothering the driver. It’s common to send a vertical straight pipe up through the bed along the back of the cab, and cap that with an angle that directs things to the side and down.
There’s a guy near me who’s got one of those pointing each to driver and passenger side, and an exhaust straight out the back so he can smoke everyone out.
Do you remember this one? Also utah…
It’s pretty common for real high-grade stupidity to include a side-order of smug self-regard. Trump is the contemporary poster-git for that these days but there are many prior examples to point at whilst laughing.
And of course the current herd of ‘conservatives ‘ in the US and UK (and on and on) are deeply infected with stupidity.
