We need to stop measuring phone compactness by screen size, and do it by… the actual phone size.

‘6.1 inches’ makes you think “jesus, this phone must be massive, my old phone was like 4.8 inches!”, but it completely ignores how much bezels have shrunk over the years.

E.g. the Galaxy S24 has a 6.2" screen, surely that phone is massive, right? Well it turns out it has a total frontal area only 0.8% larger than the Galaxy S5 that came out 10 years ago, despite the screen size being over an inch larger.

“6.1 inch” means practically nothing on its own.

Of course they could. But Liberty loves money, and they see the US as a growth market (a wealthy one too), so they’d probably capitulate.

It’s a bit complicated. Liberty Media is, Formula One Management (a subsidiary) isn’t.

I imagine they will argue that in the same way the US can’t regulate McDonald’s UK subsidiary, the US can’t regulate FOM.

However the US could say “ok well no more US races until you let more US teams join”

Silverstone. Skill and strategy won that. I’m still in awe at how good Lewis’ tyre management was on those softs while Verstappen was behind him on better tyres in a better car, getting closer and closer lap by lap. It was an absolutely masterful performance, and the suspense went on to the very last lap.

Lewis winning for the first time in ages, after so many times where he was so close. And the fact it was a home win adds to that and makes it feel all the more special.

Canada was also great, although I imagine the guy who’s been winning for years, particularly after last year when he had the most dominant F1 car of all time, winning again somewhat removed the shine for it for some people.

They also announced Seb going to Ferrari before Seb or Ferrari did.

Just strikes me as petty to your outgoing driver, and petty, perhaps even unsportsmanlike, to your rival team.

I don’t know of any other team that’s done this, certainly not recently.

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Oof. Adds insult to injury for Russell

Others did do a 1-stop. Alonso and Tsunoda I believe. They weren’t underweight.

I don’t think the issue is the tyres, I think it was a cockup from the garage.

Hamilton being above the McLarens is kinda crazy.

Actually, given McLaren’s strategy calls recently, maybe it isn’t actually that crazy…

Oh he’s certainly one of the best ever. I’d never dispute that. I can’t really name anybody else on the grid capable of seriously going against Lewis over the course of a season.

But the Red Bull has went from the most dominant car ever to second best, with the Mercedes in a not too far behind 3rd (certainly good enough to compete depending on the track)

Max has stated that the car now needs his complete concentration otherwise it’s easy to lose control, whereas last season and early this season it was on rails and just did what you wanted it to do.

I think that if he was tired (and I know I would be if I stayed up doing competitive sim-racing past 2 in the morning!), it’d be a lot more noticeable in his current car than in last year’s (or early season this year’s) car, because he has to be more “on the limit”, so-to-speak, in order to get a good result.

Incredible that his first 104 races were all wins

Is it? I’d say we don’t really know.

Yeah he did a couple where he won easily the day after. But he was also in literally the most dominant F1 car of all time at that point. He barely had to push at all.

Perez sailed to 2nd in the WDC in that car. A man regularly outqualified by Logan Sargent now…

The most recent time he didn’t have that advantage. He was irritated (to put it mildly lmao), error prone, and dangerous. Then the way he went on after the race was completely unhinged.

Lapses of concentration and irritability are pretty synonymous with lack of good sleep. I don’t think it’s that unreasonable to ask “was he tired?” considering he was up awake and actively competing well past 2 in the morning. Max is human, and that sounds like something that would make almost anybody tired the next day.

I mentioned knife crime because my manager, an immigrant from South Africa, said knife crime in particular is rampant, and it’s something she was fearful of. But yes it’s not limited to knife crime only.

Or crime. Especially violent crime.

For reference, according to the UN Global study on homicide 2019, here’s South Africa and a few other countries’ knife homicide rates:

• UK, Monaco (joint lowest): 0.08 per 100k

• France: 0.2 per 100k

• Germany: 0.23 per 100k

• New Zealand: 0.4 per 100k

• United States: 0.6 per 100k

• South Africa (hold onto your fucking hats for this one, the highest in the world): 16.95 per 100k

You are 212x more likely to die from stabbing in South Africa than the UK or Monaco. It’s crazy.

Lewis has a 58% podium record for races he’s started, even higher than that for races he’s finished (obviously).

He’s also been on the podium for 6% of all F1 races ever.

That’s insane considering he was born 35 years after the first one, and then took another 22 years of growing up before he got his F1 seat.

Mercedes is about to charge CrowdStrike a hell of a lot more if they want to remain a sponsor lol

I can see the utility in this.

I have tens of thousands of photos, it’d be nice to search “[daughter’s name] holding blue teddy bear” and have it come back with the exact picture I have in mind but would struggle to find.

Is it worth the privacy and potential security issues, though? I’d say hell no.

I look forward to the future where we have powerful, energy efficient neural processing hardware, and a robust open source software ecosystem to do this in a more trustable way offline and on-device, or on a Nextcloud home server or something like that.

Really? I think they share a lot of resemblance.

Flat top/bottom, curved sides, extremely N9-like corners, coloured body of the phone being visible on the front, even the colour lines up with a couple of N9 colour options.

How that’s just been swept under the rug and forgotten so quick is crazy to me

I never for a second thought he’d actually face serious consequences for his actions, obviously. But for it to be forgotten about and not mentioned anymore? It’s quite annoying.

It’s not highly debatable, it’s been studied to death. Sweeteners have existed for a long time.

There were rumours they cause cancer, this has been proven false. There were rumours they cause headaches, this has been proven false. There were rumours they cause infertility, this has been proven false. There have been rumours they stimulate your appetite, this likewise has zero scientific backing.

Aspartame, the most common sweetener, does cause issues for people with phenylketonuria, a rare genetic disorder, because it contains stuff they can’t metabolise. But so does a long list of foods people eat every day.

Some polyol sweeteners have a mild laxative effect if consumed in very high quantities, but the same is true for stuff like tea, coffee, most fruits, etc.

Sugar is far worse for your health.

They’re nowhere near as bad as consuming a huge amount of sugar.

They only cause issues for a vanishingly tiny amount of people that have pre-existing genetic conditions.