It can sit right alongside “unions are inherently good”.

So you’re cool if it’s a bunch of 2nd amendment supporters blocking the highway?

While Yuki may have been unfairly blamed in qualifying this weekend, I don’t see any reason why F1 needs him. He does seem to be improving, so hopefully he can keep figuring it out before he is bounced, but other than adding some intrigue to races due to his unpredictability (a.k.a. the Mazespin Factor), I’m not sure…

Right?  I think a more accurate statement would be “this is how incredibly fast, talented racers end up being on the verge of winning a world championship”.

Verstappen’s crashes were early in his career, he’s learned a lot since then. And he didn’t nuke Ricciardo’s Red Bull career, Ricciardo saw Verstappen was faster, read the writing on the wall, and chose to leave.

This was my first reaction too. Porsche’s factory drivers have been using their cars as battering rams for years, not sorry it happened to them for once.

While it would be great to have a flawless autonomous system, I don’t think that ever happening is likely. I do agree there are a lot of people who would be better off being replaced by something, but I don’t think we’re anywhere close to a system that’s even an average driver. At this point Tesla has released…

“On one hand, they’ve gotta develop the system somehow”

True, but you have to admit the Merc engine has seriously helped their straight line speed, which is where they were lacking last year.  No way they would have held off the Mercs at Monza last year.

You mean when they switched to Mercedes engines?  Hmm... odd coincidence.

This is true.  Whenever I see one it’s always in a bright color and I say “hey look, a McLaren!”.  Never have any clue what model it is.  I think I could identify a Senna and P1, but the rest are just a jumble of sameness.

Yep, this.  Having owned 3 of these engines at various points, 1 had the manifold replaced pre-emptively, 1 had the manifold fail and fill the cylinders with coolant (yet still ran after sucking out the water and putting a new manifold on for $100), and 1 was sold before it had a chance.  The leaking coolant passage…

“Its Formula 1 team is also very middling”

Man, I even put the “/s” in there!

But don’t you know Schumacher and Senna did it in the worst cars on the grid?? Hamilton had the best equipment, which completely nullifies the possibility of him being skilled in any way!

Yes, because there’s no middle ground between hearing damage and silence.

So your take is that since some deaf people, who have no choice whether they can hear or not, enjoy motorsports, it means that sound must not be a factor in enjoyment?

Do you enjoy watching shows with the sound off as much as with it on? Just because I watch a show with subtitles on doesn’t mean I mute it.

This is a really weird take, and it’s pretty clear your understanding of crypto and blockchain comes entirely from a few articles on Bitcoin specifically. First, that’s really not how crypto works, and a gross oversimplification of the entire point of blockchain. Just because Avalanche is in the cyrpto/blockchain…

I was going to suggest an international villain may already have the technology, but didn’t want to scare anyone.