Fucking cracks me up how badly people want coal mining to come back. Coal mining is fucking terrible for workers on every level. My great grandfather died in a PA coal mine, and all his kids did whatever they could to get the fuck out of that town and industry before they died in one too. Coal mining is shit for coal…

And it generally involves a great deal of kicking and screaming along the way. Unfortunately it seems to be human nature to think a job/profession that has been stable for 20 years is now some kind of annuity and that any change should be resisted and/or blamed on some kind of scapegoat.

This. Our political system needs to re-tool how we educate/re-educate our workforce in lock-step or ahead of automation because the economics of people doing this all on their own simply do not work out. Basically I’m saying we are fucked because the type of politician that can get elected in the US is barely capable…

So what you’re saying is that Jackie O, as first lady, was too likely busy to design it herself and outsourced it to someone competent. And yet here’s this guy getting hands on with something so trivial in comparison to his actual responsibilities.

OK there is soooo much more to Perez vs teammates from 2014 - 2019 than just quickly cut/pasting the points totals... but I won’t even get into that.

(or a guy masquerading as a company but tweeting as himself, in this case)

Having grown up in TX, I have a strong libertarian streak, but what you’re describing above is exactly why society needs govt and enforcement. These companies are companies, there is no onus on them to act in any way other than one that benefits their self interest. To think they will act any other way is naive. We…

Kentacobell is a nationwide phenomenon at this point. I’m fairly sure I can metro to one in the DC area.

Sorry meant drivers that pay for their seats. If the argument is getting stale, it’s not because it is untrue, it’s because it is so ingrained into the fabric of F1 now. Kubica (and it kills me to criticize him) only has that seat because he was able to find more sponsorship this year. Perez has proven himself to be a…

I believe that because it’s unreasonable to believe otherwise. Go back and watch some old race of champions where nascar guys were allowed to compete. I specifically remember Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson showed some serious freaking pace. I think Jeff Gordon even had an F1 test for “fun” not for a seat and he was…

Very good point on the tub/floor pan, I forgot to consider that. It’s not like converting an f430 or even 911 where the design fundamentals were made to accept either trans. This is why I like having a non-hostile back and forth, I learn things!

You don’t have to separately crash test a car with a different trans. AFAIK Ferrari didn’t have to crash test the Pista because the 488 was already tested. So there’s some room for them to work within.

Don’t worry, instead go try it first. You’d be surprised what you will and won’t fit in. I think an ND Miata has more helmet clearance with the top up than my hardtop 911 does. Then again I sit fairly upright. That’s not even taking into consideration your leg to torso ratio. Go sit in one and find out, you might be…

Can’t shoot a river to stop it from drowning you, and that seems like the likely hazard here unfortunately.

Exactly. Countersteer is obvious, but many corrections are just unwinding the wheel slightly ahead of the car’s rotation, so they go completely unnoticed on video.

I don’t like nascar, but I think it is far from a joke. The rules constrain the cars to a much lower rung of technology compared to F1, but there are some amazing teams doing near F1 quality development and engineering within those tight rules constraints. And the drivers are no joke either. From a pure talent…

And if you’re 100% right, does the incident itself justify a penalty? I don’t think it should. If the rules of F1 necessitate a penalty here, we should remind everyone that F1 is RACING, not time trials, and revisit the rules themselves. 

Justification or clarification? In this case I think they are trying to show some transparency into what influenced their decision because those factors are not immediately noticeable to the viewing public.

Depends on what you prioritize. I woudn’t move back to Houston even if someone paid me 500k a year (500k in Houston lets you live like you make 1m a year). Id rather live in NYC and have a far more average spending power. But my wife and I arent planning on having kids and we value walkability and a virtually endless…

At least with ubers there is a chance the car isnt a POS. Every taxi Ive been in for the last 20 years sounds like it has loose parts, and half of them have some asinine tv screen blaring city based ads at me which I cannot mute.