"...Let them take over the party?"

We ARE the party. We've been the party.

Imbeciles.

That was unexpected.

We paid an illegal tax and now corporations are getting our money back.

How is this not theft and equally illegal as the tariffs in the first place?

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

Largest in population. Largest in economy

Land doesn't vote.

Acknowledge Polerviking’s meat!

Autists: “The bottle is completely full, half with liquid, half with air. The liquid would be boiling if half was a hard vacuum.”

I’m convinced that there’s nothing that can redeem it. The only reason it’s still on the calendar is that the teams and FOM love going to Monaco (and all the oligarchs that are VIPs). It’s a terrible race parade and has been for many decades. They’ve tried so many things to spice it up and they’ve all failed miserably. Bottom line: it’s a week long party around the most boring F1 parade of the year.

The two pit stops “made it so unpredictable” according to people before the race, but how different was the finishing order from qualifying? It just made RB and Williams run 5-10 seconds off the pace for most of the parade. Epic fail.

My best idea to make it fun to watch is to put all the drivers in go karts. Don’t even bring F1 cars. They’re too big to facilitate any kind of overtaking. Instead of armco barriers, straw bales. But then it wouldn’t be F1 (just the drivers).

Make this the last Monaco race. I beg that every year. The only way to fix it is to take it off the calendar. Go back to Portugal, instead. That was a fun race to watch.

That will come. He’ll also stop payments on Treasury Bonds. Not paying agreed upon obligations is his MO in business.

Mosquitos interrupted by daily rain and a hurricane or two every year.

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.

I will laugh so hard if he beats Max on Sunday.

Always has been.

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.

Tesla is the original meme stock.

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.

All of these issues would have been avoided if the regs would have allowed AWD and regeneration (front and rear).

It could have been even faster if we replaced the traditional transmissions with eCVTs. The ICE could run at optimal efficiency at any point when max power isn’t demanded, constantly feeding power to the battery, regardless of torque demand.

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

This is why I shop at Aldi and Costco and my local grocery co-op. No secondary prices. No coupons needed. No rebates that aren’t automatically applied at point of purchase.

Don’t shop at garbage places that do pricing shenanigans.

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.