The fun thing with Musk is it’s now impossible to determine whether he’s lying, doing something stupid, or simply inaccurately reporting something someone who actually knows what they’re talking about told him.

This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face. And it’s an ad-supported service. If nobody’s able to view content, they’re also not viewing ads.

With this move, he has truly achieved fractal wrongness.

Honestly, he’s right to be annoyed. Four races on the bounce unable to make Q3 in by far the quickest car is not bad luck. It’s carelessness.

My favourite is

You know, sometimes I wish your real parents were still alive. Not often, though.

This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The more I hear about how these people operate, the more my internal screaming intensifies. Yeah, the ocean is inherently dangerous. That’s a reason to take all possible precautions, not a reason to pretend there’s no point in taking any. Sheesh.

Liked what they had to show a lot. Some of the little touches in things like the UI really impressed.

I do think it’s a bit odd they used the Unsportsmanlike Conduct rule for it, but it’s also a perfectly valid way to enforce a longstanding precedent. Exploiting the Safety Car rules to impede other drivers has been pretty consistently off limits, so it feels like a bit of a storm in a teacup to kick up a fuss over the wording used for the breach. It’s not like the penalty was unusual, a 5s Time Penalty is basically the weakest possible sporting penalty outside things which are effectively warnings.

Yeah, my friend and I had the same reaction. We loved it for the most part, but the ending was fairly disappointing because we hadn’t heard about it being a 2-Parter (I have found out since it was talked about early on, but we other didn’t encounter that info or simply forgot as they de-emphasised it in marketing later) and even if we’d known that was coming, it doesn’t really feel like a complete story with a cliffhanger. It just feels like they didn’t resolve much and you have to come back. Even Infinity War at least felt like there was a complete story within itself, it just left the state of the universe dangling for the sequel.

And I’m absolutely sure they’d have said the same thing if the wobbly rear wing had been on a car in front of theirs instead. Yep. 100%.

Clearly you’ve never had a novelty pen with a comically small biro inner due to limited space.

I think at this point the most likely scenario in this regard is that if Daniel seems up to what they’re looking for pace-wise in the tests he’s doing, they’ll look to slot him into Alpha Tauri next year with a view to having him firmly on deck if they wind up needing to make a change with Perez. Checo has definitely been underwhelming this year, but I think it’s only if he’s still underperforming next year that he faces the prospect of anything drastic. And on a similar line, De Vries seems like he’ll probably see out this year, but if things don’t improve for him then he’s who I’d expect to be moved aside for 2024 should they want to give Daniel a race seat.

I don’t think Sainz is doing poorly or anything, but he’s hardly setting the world on fire either. I’m not sure the leverage is particularly in his favour here, Ferrari have Leclerc already and there’s several drivers of at least the same or similar calibre to Sainz who they could look at as alternatives. So I’m not sure the threat really works. Not saying they’d definitely be looking elsewhere off their own back, just that if that’s his attitude they have no reason not to and they’d find other ways to go. Why rock the boat?

The lettering doesn’t scale very well. I assume it worked better for Mastodon World being “MW.” With this being “LW” the same stylisation looks fairly awkward, especially when scaled down.

Just the Grand Prix (it’s not called the feature race). The Sprint Grid is decided tomorrow in the “Shootout”

You took four minutes of my life and I wan them back!

Seems very likely he’s lying about the progress of this “march.” Main question is “how much is he lying?”

I didn’t hate it the way everyone else did, but I don’t think it’s particularly good or anything and the bugs were pretty bad at times. I agree that it can be fairly lifeless and dull, but I did find some fun in the combat for a little while. Not something I felt the need to stick with. Total B-Game. Which in general is fine, but they hyped it up as a tent pole release and it just isn’t one.

Starfield and Forza Motorsport. Been waiting years for them and what we’ve seen so far looks really promising

Zuckerberg is a surprisingly decent jiu jitsu practitioner as well as being younger and in better shape, so I’m reasonably certain he’d mop the floor with Musk.

Honestly he should count himself lucky he got away with only one such penalty. I suspect he won’t though, he tends to be quite stubborn about insisting he’s not at fault even when he blatantly is.