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wood

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  1. This is simply fantastic.
  2. He'd be in way over his head running a 7-11.
  3. Yeah my 21 yo has been playing that since they first posted it. F1 should take note.
  4. That would definitely be nice, but the biggest problems with ingress and egress are on the property at COTA itself. And a rail line, as someone mentioned on the Autosport board the other day, will never make any sense as long as it would be just COTA at the end of the line. There are only a few days out of the year that COTA would actually need it. The biggest help imho would be COTA getting its shit together on race days, not skimping on buses, on-site personnel and traffic control, cooperating with the neighbors who sell parking, like Daytona and IMS do, instead of trying to shut them down, etc. Hell, Daytona arranges free parking right across the road from the NASCAR T4 entrance for people who don't want to pay for on-site parking (which is typically not crazy expensive to begin with). We parked there last year, at the mall. This year my kid parked there again and slept in his car instead of going to a hotel. He said the track had also provided portapotties in the lot for people who might be staying in their cars. Bobby would rather set himself on fire than do anything like that. Oh, and the first event was the 2012 USGP. MotoGP was next in April 2013, and then V8SC in May. Here's some typical COTA fuckshittery though: COTA has a page with a history of the events they've held. On it, they list V8SC as a support race of the Pirelli World Challenge weekend. LMAO WTF? It was the other way around. It was all billed as a V8SC race weekend, with PWC as a support series. Even wikipedia shows PWC as a support race for V8SC that weekend. PWC has its own weekends here now. I guess this is COTA's lame attempt to make a current race weekend seem like a bigger deal than it actually is, and maybe also to diminish V8SC after they pulled out of COTA. https://circuitoftheamericas.com/timeline/#2012-2
  5. Yeah it's gonna suck for the captains of both ships, no matter who was predominantly at fault. In the maritime world, a collision is generally going to be laid at the feet of both of them, because in open water the general thinking is that there were always things both of them could have done to avoid the collision.
  6. Why in the actual fuck do we have Pete Hegseth of all fucking people publicly speaking to foreign dignitaries on sensitive Foreign Policy matters, and JD fucking Vance talking about war with got damn Russia?
  7. Oh yeah, I forgot they were talking about doing that. It'll help keep the cars in front of the fan-accessible parts of the track more. The only series iirc that's ever done that was V8SC, and it did that, but it also seemed too short, and left a lot of people wishing they had run the full circuit for at least one of their races that weekend.
  8. nsiap ... Critic’s Notebook: In This Trump Presidency, the Domination Will Be Televised From the Super Bowl to a self-produced version of “Cops,” the second Trump administration is using imagery to project an air of authority and invincibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/arts/television/donald-trump-tv-ice.html
  9. Yeah Sunday last year really wasn't even close to MotoGP level ... and damn, the yellows between the stages are just brutal. So stupid. ETA: Oh, and they'll likely restrict you from a huge portion of the track again this year, which sucks balls. Some of the best action last year was in parts of the track inaccessible to the fans.
  10. It, uh, sure looks that way, lol.
  11. My kid sent me this today from some kiosk at Barton Creek Mall. He said nobody seemed interested in buying it, so we got that goin' for us ... which is nice.
  12. I'm speaking generally. There will always be some or even many FDs that are more Trumpy than the areas they serve, but typically it will be nothing like what we tend to see with the PoPo imho.
  13. Man, don't get me started. Teachers get taken advantage of more than probably any other public employee subset.
  14. Este. The paid FD isn't gonna be much more Trumpy than the general population. Probably less so in Texas which, of course, is Trumpy af. But hey, some surlers knew some asshole Trumpy firefighters once, so they're probably all like that, right? I've probably known more asshole Trumpster FF than everyone on this board combined, but painting us all with that brush is idiotic.
  15. Don't forget the jacked, tough-girl special operator version of Jill Wagner❤️ from Wipeout .
  16. Pretty much this here.
  17. Let's just trade 'em Calfornia for Greenland, and then I'll move to California. Everyone wins!!
  18. Which of those guys are you referring to as a good source? First response: https://bsky.app/profile/da-jay-swizzle.bsky.social/post/3lhtqzzs63c2v (Bsky does not allow embedding of it for whatever reason)
  19. Balcones Heights stopped sometime last year.
  20. LOL. Grown-ass man who probably can't sleep without his blankie and a nightlight. The bigger they are and the tougher they talk, the bigger pussies they usually are.
  21. Yep. I've been saying for 35+ years how fragile it all is while watching so many people take it all for granted, acting as if none of the terrible things we see in other countries could ever happen here ... but here we are.
  22. IF saner heads ever return to DC, we really need to take a long, hard look at limiting/restricting/narrowing the President's pardon and EO powers, control over (lack of) background checks for appointees, access to sensitive data, etc, etc.
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