bhmnscmm @ bhmnscmm @lemmy.world

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If you can't appreciate the amazing battles down the rest of the grid, then F1 simply isn't the sport for you.

Watch this and it should clear things up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oN2_NarcM8c

Two nuclear states engaging in combat; what an incredible risk that poses to the entire world.

Tom Hanks sent one of his kids to one of these institutions.

That's definitely a finger.

It really is a fantastic book. I'm a sucker for mid-20th century nuclear apocalypse literature, but this book is in a league of its own.

You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.

Reading that quote made me reflect on the distinctions between body, soul, and consciousness in a new way.

It's from the book A Canticle For Leibowitz for anyone curious.

Agreed. However, I'm skeptical the rumors about RBPT being behind or Mercedes being ahead are true. I haven't seen anything besides speculation that's the case, and if Mercedes was showing strong 2026 engine development I think Lewis would have been more inclined to stay with the team.

That's exactly my point. The issue to Russia isn't how countries join NATO. The issue to Russia is NATO in and of itself, so they create propaganda to justify their actions against NATO and NATO-aligned countries.

Again, all that matters is Russia believes NATO is an existential threat that is getting closer to their border. Good faith diplomacy has nothing to do with it.

Furthermore, Russia (and the USSR) has always used sticks rather than carrots in diplomacy. It's not like they immediately went from friendly relations in Ukraine to boots on the ground. It was preceeded by their version of "diplomatic" bullying for years. You can see this now in many other countries.

To be clear, I'm not justifying their actions. I'm just saying you can't look at their actions through a western diplomatic lens if you want to understand their behavior. They have a completely different modus operandi.

This rumor doesn't even make sense. Max is going to leave a clearly dominant team to go to the team Lewis jumped ship from because they're not competitive? Ridiculous.

That's interesting. So this year's car was designed under that structure? Hopefully the strategy works out for Alpine.

You're missing my point. I'm not making a comment on what Russia believes the reasons are for countries joining NATO.

It doesn't matter to Russia how countries end up in NATO. What matters to them is that they view NATO as an existential threat that is coming closer to their borders.

Absolutely no chance Max leaves Red Bull over the Horner drama while the car is this dominant. Clearly no other team is even close, and that probably won't change until new the new regs.

Does it matter if Russia rightly or wrongly thinks countries are being coerced into NATO? If Russia were convinced and genuinely believed countries are willingly joining NATO it wouldn't change anything.

The issue is that they believe NATO is their antithesis, and that NATO coming closer is an existential threat. The how or why of countries joining NATO is irrelevant to that mindset.

The same enforcement they've had for every other ruling they've ever made...

General recognition of their authority to make the final ruling on such matters.

Sounds like too many cheifs and not enough Indians.

Do any other teams have a technical director structure like this?

Absolutely. You could make an argument for Max going to a different team if Red Bull weren't dominant, but there is no way he would go to a worse team over this Horner stuff.

There's going to be so many contracts ending that he's got to end up somewhere. At least I hope so. He's shown that either Charles is overrated, or he's underrated. Or both.

I'm not splitting hairs over dead vs wounded.

The headline says thousands were gunned down (dead and wounded: total casualties), but the article says combined dead and wounded are in the hundreds.

I'm "splitting hairs" over the headline exaggerating an already horrific event by an order of magnitude.