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Cake day: October 2nd, 2023

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  • He’s absolutely right; it’s a fundamentally Republican feature to allow an extremist minority to control everyone else. The electoral college gives republicans a huge advantage in presidential elections, for example, and now we see that the Freedom Caucus, a very small cadre of right wing extremists, can exert it’s will over the entire 435-member Congress. Instead of compromise, a handful of wackos elected a guy who swore to “fight vigorously with the Democrats.”


  • I’m not, I’ve had a very bad day, and I’m sorry it’s come out at you like this. You did nothing wrong, other than have an objectively incorrect opinion (this is a joke).

    I personally dislike the new sprint format. It’s completely disconnected from the race on Sunday, and it separates the race from the race quali by a whole day and two events. It’s like having an entirely different league doing their own quali and race in between the actual quali and race. They might as well replace the sprint with a rugby game and arbitrarily award points afterwards.

    And I don’t get why everyone hated the original sprint. Having it award points and count as qualifying for the Sunday race meant it mattered more to the drivers and lead to some good battles and passing, but it was short enough that as soon as the field spread out, it was over so it skips the boring part of an actual race where everyone manages tire wear and waits to pull the trigger to pit.



  • I dunno, if my VPN came out and said “heads up, one of our servers was seized and you have literally nothing to worry about because nothing is stored or logged on our servers,” that’s good news IMO. Obviously the best case scenario is not having it seized, but sometimes that’s not possible, and it’s a mark of a good VPN when the consequences to you of a server being seized are the same as if it wasn’t (i.e., none).



  • I have very little idea about the salary of everyone on the grid, but according to a random article I found on the internet:

    Max Verstappen - $55,000,000
    Lewis Hamilton - $35,000,000
    Charles Leclerc - $24,000,000

    Oscar Piastri - $2,000,000
    Yuki Tsunoda - $1,000,000
    Logan Sergeant - $1,000,000


    And this doesn’t even include sponsorships, of which Max and Lewis have significantly more than Yuki and Logan, it seems crazy to me that a single fine can be a driver’s whole salary for the entire season. It’s just running into the same problem that speeding tickets have for regular people: the same ticket could mean not making rent for one person, and be pocket change for someone else.