The Daft and the Füherious

This energy harvesting and deployment is just the new “porpoising”. The new regs have given the teams something they have no experience with.

The teams will figure it out. Some will be better at adapting and development than others (see Ferrari’s starts and how quickly Maclaren reached start parity). That’s what makes F1 interesting and great compared to spec series like Indycar.

I think the development battle is more interesting than the driver battle so I’m 100% here for it.

Aldi

Costco

Locally owned shops (not for better deals, but to support small businesses)

By choosing not to participate in the system that we have right now, you’re perpetuating it.

Run in a primary.

Vote in the primaries.

Get or be a better candidate that can help change things for the better.

Action in the only way to change the status quo.

That’s why we need to encourage viable, like-minded candidates to run in primaries and then vote for them in primaries. Then, regardless of who wins the primary we vote for the non-fascist.

I pay for Kagi search.

What ads? My browser blocks ads. My vpn blocks ads. I pay for email so don’t see ads there. I pay for search so I don’t see ads there, either. I self host media. My TV doesn’t connect to the internet.

I seriously never see ads.

It’s the same hand holding the same phone, but it is in there twice. Not even the perspective has changed. That’s one easy giveaway.

I use CoMaps. It uses open street maps. Can run completely offline. Zero tracking.

It is extremely clear that there are no all-powerful, all-knowing, benificent gods. They’re all lacking at least one of those things, if they exist at all. And then what is a “god”? It just becomes a semantics game and becomes pretty pointless to discuss.

I’m planning on leaving my estate to the local indigenous nation when I die.

If we’re boiling things down to biology, if two people are finding it impossible to conceive/carry to term, that’s biology telling them they shouldn’t be combining their genes.

Did Claude select the girls’ school and the hospital as targets?

Always has been.

I think we need a “Monaco spec” car that’s basically a souped up go kart with aero if they insist on keeping on the calendar. Points don’t count to the championship.

So is this basically just another DAM system (but marketed more to end users/self-hosters?

There are FOSS DAM systems.

I agree.

When we were a young married couple decades ago, we’d check out movies from the library on VHS tape. One we loved was Topper. In the VHS transfer, there was a line from the protagonist giving “good advice” to another main character: “You haven’t lived until you’ve beat your wife.” In all earnestness.

That line was mysteriously missing from the DVD and all subsequent versions I’ve seen.

I think it is detrimental to society to whitewash shameful past behavior. We need to acknowledge it, remember how bad things have been, and respect the progress that has been made. It also helps us reflect on ways we might be acting now that could be viewed as horrific or backwards in the future. It helps drive continuing progress.

The lightening rear is an interesting thought. It would take some pressure off the rear tires, shrinking their contact patch a bit and reducing rolling resistance down a straight (I think). It could have potential tire wear benefits (in the rear). It may even effectively increase the diameter of the rear wheels a small amount (at peak speed since they wouldn’t have so large of a flat contact patch), effectively being a nano-CVT adding a little top speed. The effect would likely be very small, but measurable.

I can’t tell if the camera frame rate changes over the course of the clip, but if it was my design, I’d make the “opening” rotation as fast as possible (minimizing drag while accelerating) and then close it with a slower rotation to act as an air brake to let my drivers brake later.

I’m guessing their exhaust deflector plate also plays into their rear wing and active aero performance. It looks engineered to help the flow reattach more quickly as it is closing. It may also play into some effects of its aero while the flap is inverted.

This is one of the things I love about the movie, The Big Lebowski. The characters often start a sentence, but transition to a different thought before finishing the first sentence. They’ll pick up an overheard word or phrase they like and use it in their own conversations. It feels so much more real than typical move dialog.