Sure he does. People take way less than their labor is actually worth all the time, it’s one of the big issues of our time and part of the whole minimum wage conversation. It’s not insulting to say that they should be paid more, it’s insulting that they don’t get paid fair wages from the jump, even if they’re…

If so, it was in incredibly poor taste.

I’m sure this isn’t an unpopular opinion, but anyone who behaves like that van driver should lose their license for life. There’s no excuse for that kind of irresponsibility. That’s someone who has well and truly proven that they are not sufficiently in touch with reality to be trusted with a vehicle.

The rules were misapplied.  You can say whatever you want about the decision that Merc and Red Bull made but the bottom line is that Masi screwed up.  And his screw up decided the title.  Not really the way anyone wants it to work.

I agree that everyone should move on, but your first paragraph misses the point.

Yeah, that’s not how any of this works. Just because he and his team did better than everyone else, we shouldn’t care about race officials screwing up (all year, not even just one race)? That makes no sense. No one likes races being interfered with, no matter who wins. The FIA need to get their shit together so don’t…

This is the right answer.

Zero is a good number.

good. the sprint races suck.

they totally devalue qualifying and equipment penalties in favor of race pace. the sunday race is over for the most part on saturday when you have a sprint race.

edit: also it totally fucks over the midfield cars making it harder for them to keep in contention for higher championship spots.

How about zero?  Zero would seem to be the right number of sprint races to me.

UK news this week has been covering a British man shot dead in the US. From our point of view it looks like murder, but US police have reassured everybody that it was just a normal random shooting - some people were wandering around at night and were just firing randomly into the buildings, so it’s not a big deal, the…

“She also appeared to be reporting from the side of the road without any reflective clothing.”

Because Michael Masi had his head up his ass and/or is just not used to a very stressful job that has so many moving parts that he choked.

I tend to agree with you, but I honestly don’t think it was all that complicated. They had 2 options that fell completely under the rules: let all the cars through and finish under safety, or leave the cars and pull the safety a few laps early. They had one ‘kinda’ inside the rules option: red flag it immediately and…

Or have a sense of fair play.

Wow. Don’t let your worship of Max get in the way of objectivity or understanding of the sport.

I’d have loved a duel, except that they gave VER a Gatling gun while HAM got a slingshot.

The driver reactions during and after the race would tend to disagree with you. The FIA had a few options, instead they cherrypicked parts from each to make what they thought was the most entertaining finish possible. Regardless of what the outcome actually was, in doing so, they violated a number of their own safety…

It was controversial, period. I was rooting for both Lewis and Max this season because it was such a great duel and made it super entertaining to watch. The drivers, the fans and the sport didn’t deserve for it to end like that, regardless of who won in the end.

My points *are* in the article.

Is Ninja a public figure? Yes. He has a Twitch rep, he makes a living streaming his video games, he very much is a public figure. Which makes any defamation claim he tries to make much much harder.

Does Pokimane have proof of his contrary words? Yes. She’s got his DMs to her and clips of…