I was there. Such a shitshow. My family and I had tickets in the stands at T5. We did leave the fan areas around 12:30a because music was stopping, food was stopping, and it was getting cold just sitting/standing around doing nothing, having heard FP2 was tentatively scheduled for 2:00a. We went into a casino to get coffee and warm up, expecting to go back. But then around 1:45a we noticed everyone was walking away from the Sphere, instead of walking towards it.

Like I get FP1 getting cancelled. I can look past that. Sometimes unexpected things happen. But running a delayed FP2, while kicking everyone out or not allowing them back in isn't as easily forgiven. We spent $1000 for 7min of racing. I flew into town for this (luckily my family lives here, so had a place to stay). I think total, with drinks, ubers, tickets, airplane tickets, it was like $1500. For 7min of FP1.

As FP2 was starting, we were on the public sidewalks after T12, so we did hear the cars -- could barely see since the fences were covered -- going by flat-out, which was incredible to hear. But that's not the experience we paid for.

I also understand the labor laws or contracts or whatever, to help protect the service workers. But FOM should've planned for that. Maybe if they didn't run the sessions so late, this wouldn't have turned out this way. They could've started FP1 at 6pm, when the sun was already below the horizon. Woulda looked just as good for TV imo.

I also felt bad for the drivers, teams, marshals, broadcasters...anyone who was out there. That was a long ass day. Colossal fuckup, to say the least.

Maybe I'm not reading that right or didn't catch it, but it doesn't sound like all cars' planks were checked during scrutineering. From the same document:

A physical floor and a plank wear inspection was carried out on car numbers 01, 16, 44 and 04.

So all the cars were subject to various inspections, but not all had the same things inspected. In particular, only cars 01 (VER), 16 (LEC), 44 (HAM), and 04 (NOR) were selected for plank wear inspections. And as such, only cars 16 and 44 were found to be out of compliance.

Am I understanding that correctly?

Remember when "If it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down," literally ended a then-winning senatorial campaign in Missouri? That was only 11yrs ago!

For those who don't know, that was Todd Akin (R) who said that. And before he said that, he was the favorite to win against the incumbent, Senator Claire McCaskill (D), when MO was turning from purple to red. It was a landslide loss for him. Just 11 years ago, a comment like that would've ended a campaign and career completely.

Nowadays, that'd barely register.

A little teensy disappointed Perez didn't get P3, but seeing Alonso back on the podium again makes up for it and then some.

But man, what a battle between those two. With a photo finish!

Sigh, Yuki. That prob would've been best finish for AT. Both Top 10. And now he's down in 16.

Poor Sargeant. He gets a lot of shit, but that's gotta suck being sick out there, as hot and humid as it is. Yeah, nothing wrong with retiring if he really can't handle it anymore.

That's only because he rubb--Oh god, I don't even want to think about that. Nope, nevermind.

Are there enough GOP House members from competitive or bluer districts that could swing this? I know the GOP has a razor thin majority, so it shouldn't be that many who would need to vote with Democrats.

At the same time, that kind of thing, some kind of coalition, just isn't feasible in the US. Any Republican, no matter if the district is safe or not, who votes for Jeffries would be primaried. And the primaries show us that the extremes tend to win them. It'd be political suicide.

We literally saw this in action on Saturday. McCarthy chose to put up a clean CR that Democrats were willing to and did support. And in return he just became the first Speaker to be removed through a Motion to Vacate.

TIL, Gasly loves Pandas. Thank, random F1TV driver infographics.

My friends mentioned getting it like 4-5hrs ago, while I was on YouTube myself. It wasn't appearing for me.

Then a couple hours ago, it finally popped-up for me. Right now, you can click through it or just reload the page and it goes away.

I think all of us are using uBlock Origin. And we're using various browsers.

Mexico City Grand Prix next weekend, eh? Hopefully we'll hear the return of this classic.

This sprint race might be the best of any race this season so far. So much going on.

Charles post-race interview: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that wasn't my fault with Checo! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Don't hurt me!!"

Eh, different time, different context, different people. The Gulf War went well enough. Highway of Death and all that. So why wouldn't Afghanistan and even Iraq 2 electric boogaloo ten years later not go well, either? Nevermind that we'd need to nation-build in both those countries, something that wasn't done or needed in Iraq in the early 90s.

But after 20+ yrs of Iraq+Afghanistan adventures, Americans today are hesitant to get involved in anything outside of the US, especially in the ME. That's why questions arise around support for Ukraine and Taiwan, particularly the latter.

Stewards eating good tonight.

Was that Alonso's fault? That seemed like Ocon's fault since there was snap of oversteer just before.

OK, that was a sick pass of Perez by Hamilton. Goddamn.

Perez better pick it up.

DR P4 in SQ2! Both ATs, really, since Yuki is P10 currently. Impressive!

Not quite. The US isn't Israel. Israelis aren't Americans. I don't think I need remind you that the situation in 2001 was that the US was attacked. The US have not been attacked this time. This is another country.

As much as Americans and/or American officials are willing to go to bat for Israel on the international stage, Americans largely are not prepared to potentially put boots on the ground for not-America, even if it's an ally like Israel. Especially an ally as "divisive" as Israel and one who's in the ME. As such, American public support for Israeli retaliation is going to be somewhat muted to prevent the possibility of US troops getting dragged in.

Now if the US was attacked directly by Hamas, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now because Gaza would be...I don't even want to think about that. I'll just leave it there.

Well, at least they're consistent. In terms of not respecting legitimate, legal votes.