My friend bought a Model 3 about 3 months ago while he waited for his Model S Plaid to be built, as he wasn’t sure if electric life was for him. He traded that same Model 3 back in to Tesla for $10k more than he paid for it. The market for these things makes no sense whatsoever 

In fairness, this is why any _real_, official road sign has an icon, not just words, so that they are language independent (this is why stop is a red octagon and yield a red triangle, for example, despite both having words on them). The problem is that many special cases like this don’t have standard iconography to…

It’s actually only $230 on the 992 (and I think it was less on the 991 but I can’t remember). So about the same price in real dollars :p

Yeah, Valhalla definitely forces you to interact with the bloat a lot more, by making each chapter follow the exact same sequence of steps to clear it. Odyssey was equally bloated, but the main and primary side quests didn’t force you to interact with the other content as much, so you could digest the bloat at your…

Oh most certainly, and those things compound themselves. A player that gets a big rookie contract has more money to invest in maintaining their body earlier on, which helps them earn even more money later in their career (this is particularly true in the NFL, where the sport is brutal on the body and you need to spend…

Got it backwards, they’re saying it’s not a sport because of pay drivers, not because the team with the most money wins. What they’re missing though is that financial backing, not driver skill, is the biggest driver of competitive outcomes in F1, unlike in most other sports where player skill trumps all, so this…

Yeah, people over blow pay drivers. It’s not like an average scrub with a billion dollars can buy an F1 seat. A more relevant analog is if a D1 college athlete could guarantee they got drafted by having deep pockets. Sure, it means something more than your pure skill is deciding your outcome, but by being a D1 athlete…

Commercial considerations are absolutely a thing in most sports. But the thing is, in most sports the player themselves is the primary decider of competitive outcomes, not the equipment they’re using. So this naturally checks a player being on a team purely for commercial considerations. In F1 you need money to build…

I mean.... all sports make rules like this in the name of making the game entertaining. For example, the Restricted Area exists in the NBA purely to generate more dunks by making it illegal for a defender to just camp out under the basket and take the charge.

For sure. I’m not angry at Max for winning that way. I’m mad at Masi for how much of a rules shit show this season has been.

You can’t, if the tub is cracked it’s toast.

Right. I have less problem if they say nothing. What I have a problem with is the waffle with like 2 turns notice, and that waffle being to a non-standard interpretation of the rules (only just enough cars go past for Max to being behind Ham).

Masi says nothing? Fine. Masi changes his mind and does the normal thing?…

Mercedes got the tactics wrong there in part because Masi said at first he wasn’t going to let the lapped cars through, then changed his mind 3 laps later once it was too late for Mercedes to do anything about it as the cars were already bunched. That’s the thing that seems unfair about it. I think Mercedes pits in a…

For me, the biggest problem was that they said they weren’t going to let the lapped cars pass, and then changed their mind 3 laps later, after the cars were all bunched. If they had said from the start they were going to let the lapped cars through, I think Mercedes pits Lewis. As you say, they know he’s a sitting…

They only awarded half points for Spa, as elaborated in the article. Max got 12.5, Ham got 7.5. So I still did math bad, but it’s a 5 point delta, not a 10 point one. It would still be enough to incentivize Max to actually finish, but a 1-2 to Max would do the job in that world, where as removing full race points…

I mean, Senna figured that one out in 1990. The only thing actually stopping drivers from taking each other out is risk to their own car. The penalties are never severe enough to make up for a DNF for your rival.

Well, Ham would also be down 7, so it would only be a net 3 point swing. But yeah, I mean, crashes happen. Honestly of all the contact between the two, while the results were the most spectacular, it was probably the least clear cut case of “obviously trying to drive the other off the road.”

The first gen Panny is... really not that great. The 2nd gen is so much better a car, it’s unsurprising the leftovers depreciated like stones.

Well, in fairness, you do get 3 of them. You get a binnacle cluster that can display most relevant info for the driver, you get the center console, and your passenger gets their own display above the glove box. All can be displaying totally independent information.

You’ll definitely enjoy it. It handles _much_ better than a Tesla, no matter the trim. But the base model is a weird preposition. Size wise, it’s somewhere between a model 3 and a model S. But for the ~$80,000 entry price for the Taycan, a loaded Model 3 at $57,000 starts looking like a much better value proposition.…