Had to do a little digging, but in fact he did compete in his most recent FIA event (F2) under an American racing license.

The reason the superlicense points are so low for US feeder series is because the level of competition is just really low. The strength of field just isn’t there, so they can’t in good conscience award higher points numbers. It’s absolutely vital for young talents to go up against strong opposition in order to develop…

The other problem is that Herta is currently not on track to get a superlicence, and O’Ward isn’t sure of one either. IIRC, they both need at least 3rd this year, and Herta is currently 6th; O’Ward is leading, but he’s only 48 points ahead of 4th place with 150 points on the table so it’s far from certain he’ll make…

For recreations of this event, please see or read Day of the Jackal.

This is the sort of performance to think about when we look at business models that move away from personal ownership models.

Are you really cool with some petty local manager deciding that you no longer should possess the items you are licensing instead of owning?

Avis blows balls.

They once rented me a Camry that THEY had switched out the license plates with another vehicle. As the story goes, the Camry had its license plates stolen, but they had just sold a Ford Expedition that they still had the plates for. So, they threw the plates from the Expedition onto the Camry, and…

Except that Heard was not the Defendant in that case. Someone publishing something based on info provided to them vs. someone telling the truth and a finder of fact having all the information necessary to make a determination are two very separate things. Depp should have gone after Heard first, not the newspaper. His…

In theory, an “anti-gravity” device could work by counteracting/nullifying/eliminating the gauge particle that mediate gravitational attraction - the graviton - for a single object or area, without affecting other objects.

You’re right, the real mathematicians stayed behind on Trantor to create the second Foundation. That was in the back of my mind when I made my comment, but the Encyclopedia being just a distraction was such a fantastic rug pull I wanted to mention them!

I’m not a lawyer but I’m not really surprised. Since when does winning a lawsuit in one country meant that a lawsuit in another country will not go on? Amber’s lawyers are earing their pay by trying to have the suit dismissed like any good lawyer would do. So far this is pretty meaningless.

I just don’t have that much faith in Goyer’s abilities to either structure something so complicated or to maintain a good thing over such an extended period of time. (See the Blade movies, for instance.)

They cast him too early, assuming that the series does follow the broad strokes of Asimov’s books. He’d make a great Mule.

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Featuring Trump as the Mule: dopey clown appearance, not predicted by the authorities, inexplicably able to command loyalty from people even by videoscreen.

“It’s a 1,000-year chess game between Hari Seldon and the Empire...”

Can’t see shit. I even tried opening up your comments in a separate tab and window, still nothing. Kinja is legit one of the worst commenting systems I’ve ever had to wrestle with.

Fuck you Kinja. So if someone replies to your post but they are in the greys, it seems like there is literally NO way to view or reply to that comment? I know the notification links have BEEN broken, but I get a notification that a greyed commenter replied to me, I can read half their comment in my notifications, but…

TIL Carrie Coon was in Infinity War/Endgame.

Dollar stores are targeting demographics who [.....] don’t make enough to have much choice in where and when they buy their household necessities.

So the scam is that they’re generating a positive gross margin? And I think everybody, even less educated folks, knows that you generally get a better deal if you buy a bigger-volume product. If lower-income people are unable to afford larger-volume products, that’s not really these stores’ faults, more the nature of c…