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  1. 12 hours ago, wood said:

    Yeah they've never put on a race, and it shows. They're making a complete mess of it PR-wise locally. They're pretty much pissing off the locals every way possible.

    What COTA video are they talking about?

    Proper track, proper engines, cars that aren't SUV-size and weight, and No DRS, so proper racing and overtaking. Enjoy!

     

    Obviously amazing driving, but *that sound*!!!!  🤤

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  2. 40 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    If done for yourself, it's as powerful as self-talk, meditation, transcendence, yoga, focused mindfulness, etc.  The "we only use 10% of our brains" cliche is bullshit.  You're running Terra-bytes of activity at any one given time, it's just that what you're consciously aware of is a small fraction of that.  I believe, and know, that if I center my thoughts and energies in any of the above forms, I can harness my subconscious to help me.  I can call into action the ability to enable good behaviors and thoughts and avoid bad ones, but having the software run properly in the background while I go about my day.  We've been doing it for tens of thousands of years.  What we call prayer has been around for a long, long time...way before religion.  

    I think about one degree beyond that is still valid.  I can "pray" for somebody close to me.  Not someone I can necessarily control, but can influence.  I can "pray" that I am a better husband or that my mom feels less sick or my daughters feel more empowered.  The prayer or meditative self-talk doesn't directly impact them, but it tacitly calls into action speech and actions on my part that may help those in my immediate vicinity feel more love and positivity from me so that they turn that energy into something positive for themselves and feel better and do better.  After that degree though, I think it's all bullshit.  Praying for an end to war, or hunger, or the lives of unborn or whatever the fuck.  It's farcical.  Ostensibly charging myself with being a little less negative and a little more helpful each day will certainly guide my day and control my addictions.  With some guidance and direction, it can even help lift those immediately around me.  After that, it's a fucking con game.  

    If prayer beyond ourselves and those in our immediate circle of influence had 0.0000001% effectiveness, we'd probably---just maybe---just maybe on a wing and a prayer---not have so many room fulls of dead chlidren with faces mangled beyond recognition.  But as Reverend David Cross once said, you go on and you pray the shit outta that prayer.  It's a most bizarre contest for the stupid among us.  

    But it comes in many forms for us all...at the foot of my bed, or in a parking lot, or at sunrise in the grass---I shut out the noise and focus my heart and mind onto what I need to do to be better that day for myself and those around me.  Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to God, other times the Universe/Mother Nature, other times myself, other times the voices in my head.  Either way, I fail miserably each and every time.  But there is great benefit to taking stock of what's going right and what needs doing better.  Shit, half the time I write it out which is oddly not to this day recognized as a form of prayer by most Judeo-Christian sects.  Breathe and tell yourself to be better.  Then take swift action to that effect.  Sure beats shooting your way out...

    You said it much more eloquently than I, but I'm right with you on this...

  3. 1 hour ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Enjoying the answers. Both the serious and comical.

    Can we circle back around to pray requests? Like “hey everyone, little Johnny was diagnosed with elephantitus of the balls, please pray for his cure and speedy recovery”.

    How does that work? Do people believe their God takes into consideration the number of prayers he gets on a subject?

    I am sure when God sees Aggy praying for a national championship he is “fo fuck’s sake, not this shit again.”

    For me, I tend to think that God has bigger things in mind than the things we typically pray for.  And, as mentioned, free will is our blessing and our curse.  My prayers for little Johnny would be more along the lines of "let this pass him by, if it fits in your plans, or grant his family peace if it is his time".

    I think a lot of it is meditative.  The act of expressing your thanks and/or your needs can be very healthy & centering.  YMMV

  4. 8 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I wish we could know how much of an advantage this provided. I mean, you have to have rules and restrictions to keep the competition in check, but the vibe I'm getting is that they are getting a disqualification for something that's minor. Then again, I'm just a guy on the internet reading from other guys on the internet.

    In a typical race, a very low floor can lead to much better aerodynamics for the overall car.  The intent of the rule is to make sure teams don't run *too* low - I think I read this was due to the fact that anything that raises that floor during a race (like a bump for example) can cause a rapid loss in downforce that can lead to the driver losing control.

    Even as a Max fanboy, this seems unfair on this particular weekend - the stewards even said (paraphrasing) "it's probably because we didn't give them enough time to dial things in since we added a sprint race.  Oh, and also because this track surface suuuuuuuuuuuucks."

    2 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    And of course... 

    "Lewis Hamilton didn't lose. He just ran out of laps."

    I did laugh at this during the interview... :)

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  5. 1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

     

    Busy day yesterday, so I put the replay on while I was eating dinner and kinda fast forwarded toward the end. What was the issue with the sprint? Just that nothing happened in the second half?

    FIFM.  Incredibly boring race, er, sprint.

  6. 8 hours ago, wood said:

    I'm watching FP1 now to see all the stuff I missed sitting at T9 most of the day. Got damn, the bumps are worse than I even thought they'd be. The onboards are brutal. Ant just said the hottest/toughest race he ever drove was that 2014 WEC race at COTA. I was there, and yeah it was hot AF. He said it was hotter than today, but it wasn't by much. It was 100 during Q3.

    The track surface is, frankly, embarrassing.

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  7. Damn @wood, I'm sorry and congrats?  Sounds like you won't forget this weekend, at least. :)

    We bailed again on enduring the COTA logistical shitshow, so will be watching the broadcasts somewhere well-air conditioned.  There's a local British pub in RR that we may check out for a few of the sessions at least.

  8. We got AHS as part of a home purchase ~12 years back, and we've kept renewing it since then.  We've replaced microwaves, a dishwasher, and several water heaters.  We've gotten repairs on our HVAC multiple times.  With all of that, I'd say we are about breaking even.  I actually plan to cancel them this fall/winter though.

    2 big reasons:

    - you have to use their contractors for repairs, and they are never quick.  When your AC goes out in the Texas summer, 3/4/5 days of waiting for someone to even come look, just doesn't cut it.

    -their coverage for AC coolant replacement is just stupid.  They pay something like $10 a pound...and the actual cost is more like $100 a pound.  The rest, lf course, comes out of my pocket.

    And finally, I've just had enough of them band-aiding our AC units every summer with no thought of replacing them (regardless of how much screaming we do).  I keep thinking 'surely this will be the year that it completely dies and they have to replace it'...but it never happens.

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  9. 14 minutes ago, MIkeHoncho said:

    I absolutely LOVE that they are now trying spin that they need to keep Jimbo in order to keep the 2022 class.  Implies that (1) they love Jimbo, (2) they won't jump ship for a chance to win during their last year of college (most will leave after their Jr. year)

    Also allows them to say they *want* to keep him, and avoid coming to terms with the fact that they can't *afford* to not keep him.

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  10. I feel like we're living parallel lives.  Our 2016 Silverado was stolen, and we have a 20 year old suburban that is no longer reliable. 

    With an admitted GM bias, we looked at Ford, Dodge, GMC, and Chevy when looking for a replacement.  Ended up with another Chevy anyway - a Silverado High Country with the 3.0 babymax.  We felt the interior was on the same level as the other higher-end options, and the new entertainment screen is much larger than the previous gen.  Babymax is like 400hp/500lbft and still gets 30mpg on the highway.  No complaints at all - though we're only 8k miles in.

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