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Posts posted by wood
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Yep. That's what I'm thinking. Just because he might be leaving the team doesn't mean he's going to another team. But who knows?
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According to Roberto Chinchero, Stroll is offering Newey 100m euro over 4 seasons at Aston Martin https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-newey-lascia-red-bull/10603193/
If he's actually leaving the team and I had to bet on what he's going to do, I'd put my money on retirement, but 100m Euro is a big whip..
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Newey out of RBR? Headed to Ferrari? Aston Martin? Merc? A fishing boat with Ross?
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-adrian-newey-red-bull-abgang-ferrari/
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23 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
Does UT still allow the anti-abortion group to set up shop at the corner in front of Gregory with their giant pictures of aborted fetuses like they did in the late 90s?
I also recall in 1994 I believe the KKK marched down Dallas Ave in grapevine, fully permitted, after some racial incidents at GHS got their attention.
was told 1st amendment allowed for it.
Yep. I was at UT in the mid-late 80s when the KKK marched down the drag chanting their racist shit. We were told it was their right, and of course, it was. So we just watched for a couple of minutes while we waited to cross, then ignored their shit and went on about our binness.
I've always told my kids that so much of the freedom so many take for granted is incredibly fragile, and here is a great example. It doesn't matter if the protesters or anyone else there is 'right' or 'wrong'. They were protesting peacefully. About as peaceful a protest as I've ever seen with that many people. So sad. I can't believe how far we've fallen in so short a time. /csb
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7 hours ago, Captainant said:
It's almost like abbott is choosing to escalate this as a culture war issue, or something.
He's also framing this action as being "against antisemitism" which is bad because that means he thinks he's justified in arresting those protesters.
Abbott? Needlessly escalating shit for personal gain?
Shocking.
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1 hour ago, bolverk said:
But, but, but Brisket, MacKenzie says the protestors were there "to scare, threaten, and intimidate Jewish Austinites."
English, bitch. Do you speak it?
(Fitlump, not bolverk)
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8 hours ago, yoladu said:
i know our high school requires that the seniors do FAFSA as a condition of graduation. Not holding out hope that is actually does anything for us specifically.
Same here. It's fucking bullshit.
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2 hours ago, Hate said:
It’s Mexico. Finding weed if you really need it is not a problem. Seriously.
Este.
Heading back in July. Been a while. Can't wait. Got some good news re: the beach. Back in January 2023 I posted the photo below.
On 1/15/2023 at 5:49 PM, wood said:Damn. I just checked the live webcam for the first time in a long time and I has a serious sad...
I've posted about the beach erosion on Playa Norte before, but got damn, it's really fucking shit up now. Look to the right, right next to Chimbo's. The beach has receded probably another 15-20 just since we weree there in March. Fucking hell.
Then the webcam was down for like a year. Webcam's back now, and so is the beach. Made my day. So we got that goin' for us ... which is nice.
On 2/1/2024 at 1:32 PM, Zepol87 said:Looks like you were at Oscar's. Good people there.
On 3/28/2024 at 12:28 PM, rage-a-holic said:Holbox is like a smaller, shittier version of Tulum you need to take a ferry to. And the water is Gulf of Mexico, not Caribbean.
Go to El Cuyo instead. Unless you enjoy crowds of douchey influencer types, then definitely stick with Holbox.
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On 8/2/2023 at 8:49 AM, midtown said:
Anyone want to or have knowledge of the ability to bring gummies through CUN?
Nurse likes to take a gummie, send her teen son to bed, put on music and spend a few hours being tied up.
You could hide 'em in the kid's camera bag to get through customs, the way my dipshit dumbass ex-BIL hid pot on my wife's sister's kid (no pics) a few years ago without telling anyone. Told everyone after we got to Cozumel. He thought it was cool and no big deal. I though the kid's dad was gonna break other BIL's neck right fucking there. I know I woulda if it had been my kid.
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On 7/3/2023 at 2:34 PM, SimonBolivar said:
How is this pronounced btw? I always just say supermercado so I don't butcher it.
Ched - row - ee.
(the 'row' should rhyme with 'cow')
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You'd think if she wanted the job so bad, she'd at least proofread her cover letter before submitting it.
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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
One of the reasons these chucklefucks bought the damn thing is it was made of stainless; it looked cool and shit. Like nothing else on the road!
Then some of them promptly decide to cover the thing in a giant sticker.
That's 'cause after they buy it they realize stainless steel looks like shit on cars.
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1 hour ago, texasdago said:
To be honest... they all suck but wrapping them hides a little bit of the suck so, regardless of the color, the wrap is an improvement
The wrap guys must love Cybertruck owners. They all look the same, so most of the owners will want a wrap. They'll pay a lot for it, and it's the easiest wrap job ever.
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So the series owner's own team was caught cheating. Oof. Newgarden and McLaughlin disqualified from St. Pete results for using PTP on starts and restarts.
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Still not getting tired of watching that save ...
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I thought about this, too, after seeing the lack of any apparent reasonable logic in the application of penalties in China. He's not wrong. Why risk it?
'Better not to race' in Sprints – Alonso https://racer.com/2024/04/23/better-not-to-race-in-sprints-alonso/
QuoteFernando Alonso says the Sprint format is showing it is “better not to race” on a Saturday due to the impact on tire usage and the penalty points he received at the Chinese Grand Prix.
The stewards gave Alonso a retrospective 10-second time penalty and three penalty points for causing a collision with Carlos Sainz when fighting for a top three position in China’s Sprint, leaving him halfway to a race ban. The penalty points appeared particularly harsh despite the pair making contact, and with Alonso then forced into an unusual strategy on Sunday where he made an extra pit stop due to a lack of hard tires, he says sitting out the Sprint would have been a better option.
“I think getting more tires will be good because in FP1 it is a game of who can run less and who uses less sets of tires, so it is a shame for the fans,” Alonso said. “And then, the Sprint, if they want it for the show and for overtaking and you don’t let them race, it is better not to race.
“We didn’t have any more hard tires (on Sunday). We had one soft and one medium and 35 laps in front of us, which, in our calculations, it was not possible to make it to the end. Obviously, there were a lot of safety car laps to remove the Sauber and once the safety car came in – more safety car laps because they crashed.
“The best thing is not to do the Sprint, probably, on Saturday, to keep a set of tires for Sunday. There are few points on the table for us if you are not winning the race and you risk penalty points and things like that, so it is better maybe not to race.”
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5 hours ago, MR David said:
Fernando’s performance was indeed remarkable, showcasing his exceptional skill. The decision not to switch back to medium tires might have been a strategic call, but his ability to handle the car at high speeds, especially during that save, was pure talent.
Yeah I thought at the time it was a bad call to go to softs, but since then I've been told they did it because they didn't have any hards left for him and didn't think they'd make it to the end on mediums. So they put soft tires on to take advantage of the field being bunched up for the restart. Makes sense, but I could have sworn some of the others went with mediums to the end. I could be wrong though and haven't bothered to go back and check. That second incident happening so quickly really screwed their strategy on the softs.
What's most striking to me about that save, as mentioned above, is the reflexes it takes to do that. Especially at his age, and especially for a guy who many have said for years is too old to do this at a high level. Not only is he doing it, he's still doing it at an elite level, even among F1 drivers.
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33 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Sigh. So many stupid offsides tonight.
Yeah but the one on the odd man rush wasn't offsides. Amazing that they blew that call. Strange, one might say.
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So ...
- Alonso gets it wrong and bumps wheels with Sainz in the Sprint, with no consequences to Sainz, and ending his own race. He gets 10s and 3 points on his license, for something we've frequently seen not even get investigated or go unpenalized in GPs.
- Sainz completely ignores the apex en route to causing a collision with his teammate. No penalty.
- Stroll drives into the back of RIC in the GP because he wasn't paying attention, ending RIC's race and damaging another car. 10s and only 2 points.
- KMag literally drives all the way across the track and ends Yuki's race when he had all the room in the world. In the GP. 10s and 2 points.
How does any of that make any sense?
Oh, and KMag is just bad. That collision late was particularly terrible. People talk about taking seats from guys like Fernando or Lewis to make room for young new drivers, lol. I would suggest they're looking at the wrong end of the grid.
Then you have Sargeant getting to the safety car line a millisecond after Hulkenberg but passing him on pit exit. Penalty: 10s and 2 points. The fact that he got the same penalty as Magnussen and Stroll for something that wasn't his fault (no way he would have seen it, the team needed to tell him) is a joke.
What a shitshow.
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1 hour ago, deft said:
It was wild that he controlled that much of the sprint for so long and then boxed by the end. And for that matter, any time we talk about drs trains, it involves him. Is that good or bad?There have been loads of DRS trains for years that haven't involved him. It's just a couple recently. DRS trains aren't usually really the fault of the guy in front though. They're a symptom of having DRS. I.E. everyone has DRS, so they can't get by each other. If the 2nd guy (who has DRS) can't get past the guy in front who doesn't have it, then that's not on the guy in front. And the guy leading the train, who can't keep up with the car in front, is usually in that position because his car is too slow in race pace and he qualified it higher than it would normally be positioned, for one reason or another. But in the GP today I don't think he really caused a DRS train. For example as soon as Checo started putting pressure on him, he just moved over and let him past because his race really wasn't with Checo anyway.
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In other news, man, Aston Martin should have put Fernando back on medium tires during that SC, but his run on mediums at the end was absolutely epic and almost covered that mistake. He was a rocket, and the save on the front straight ... just wow. Should have been a Code Brown moment, but Fernando didn’t miss a beat. Immediately pressed the DRS button and got after Lewis.
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15 minutes ago, Levi said:
Has he ever been this vocal about stuff like this?
Not to my knowledge. He's always had an edge that many people don't recognize though, imho.
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2 hours ago, TonyTexas said:
Netflix just released a DTS style show for the Indy Car series. It’s startling to see how minor league it is compared to F1. I’m not talking AAA but more A ball
Still hasn't recovered from The Split. IndyCar was right there with F1 before that.
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UT Pro-Palestine Protest Thread
in Daily Texan
Posted · Edited by wood
nsiap ... Looks like Abbott is taking some heat from both sides of the aisle. Texas Gov. Abbott faces backlash after mass arrest at UT Austin pro-Palestine protest https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4620838-texas-governor-abbott-backlash-mass-arrest-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest/