Yeah, but at least the new rules are designed from the ground up to allow for better competition. I imagine someone will pull a Mercedes and run away with it for a few years, but if it cuts down on the number of hopeless DRS trains in the midfield, it’s worth it.

Not a single front wing removed, corner overshot, tire cut, etc? Seems unlikely, given this season has seen a first-lap safety car just about every race.

I am so looking forward to this. The first 10-15 minutes of a race are usually the most exciting bits anyway.

I’ve run a kill-a-watt on mine (6-slot one), and it only draws about $1/mth in electricity and cough up enough basil for our 2-person family with a herb-enthusiastic cook. The liter of nutrients we bought last year for $20 is only about half-gone.

I’ve run a kill-a-watt on mine (6-slot one), and it only draws about $1/mth in electricity and cough up enough basil…

In Canada we have a ton of programs that “let” new homebuyers dig into registered retirement plans so they can spend it on a house, as well as straight-up cash payments from the govt so long as you spend it on a house.

Ooo, was one of them Target? Once they ran, there was tons of reporting that was basically exactly what you described: run at a distance by US managers, no attention paid to local supply chain, etc.

I’ve made a not even very successful game as a side hobby, and I could give nearly the same interview. It was a multiplayer game with only a few hundred passionate users, but every morning you’d wake up to 5 new emails where people had issues, feature requests, and so on. Every user seems to think they’ve got a claim…

Whiting did die, so it’s not an entirely unnecessary change.

Michael Masi is definitely has a different approach than Charlie Whiting.  Way more safety cars and red flags.

Looks like pretty shallow draft and calm day. If someone was doing some waterskiing in a big boat nearby or the wind picked up I bet it could’ve pushed them over.

Hindenburg is a short-seller. They find shitty companies, do research about them, go short on the companies, publicize their research, and then profit when the company’s stock falls to reflect the newly-public information.

Hindenburg’s reports can certainly cause a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In this case they’re probably not being supplanted be competition just yet, moreso I wouldn’t be surprised if the regular Chinese person looks at the government strongly hinting that it dislikes Tesla and says “yeahh... I’m going to avoid buy a car that the CCP hates”.

A family member used to do trans-atlantic sailing, and described the her first response to the concorde going overhead in the middle of the ocean as “OH SHIT DID THE MAST JUST BREAK?”.

If you would otherwise be taking money out of your savings to buy the vehicle, and expect those savings to generate returns greater than the financing rate, the correct answer is to take the loan.

The whole “Tesla slammed into parked firetruck” genre is generally down to radar’s shortcomings (radar is low resolution, so it can’t distinguish between a stopped in-lane firetruck vs a roadside bush), so maybe they’ll be able to do that less now that they’re fully vision-only.

...eBay, where the specialty resellers buy their supply from so that they can sell them to true enthusiasts after another layer of markup.

I don’t follow - was the cyclist or two wrecked civilian vehicles playing stupid games?

The cops can control their reactions. If the cops hadn’t chased, the idiots wouldn’t have hit the cyclist or smacked into cars. They would’ve gotten the infiniti to a chop shop and eventually been caught.

That was a surprisingly good race, given the circuit it was on. It had on-track passes for the lead, actual suspense, and of course HAM and VER going at it for the 4th straight race.