Rob Zacny

Good interview with Doohan before Practice 2. Really didn’t get how hamstrung these cars are until he explained they’re coming out of the final corner at 45% throttle until the starting line, otherwise they will use up too much energy on the straight. That is a LOT of management.

Feels like F1 has nearly gone the route of NHL with digital advertising signage. Every other shot there’s at least one huge banner ad in razor sharp focus compared to the track and the cars. Miserable experience.

Honestly maybe I just need a bigger vac-sealer. Throw that bitch in a pot of water with error bars that are like, "Cook for 16-48 hours" and use that time to get my shit together. Or say I'll get it together tomorrow.

If you don't have the executive function to Finish It then maybe you have the spoons to British It (broil it to death in A Liquid for hours)

So not loving liquid glass?

“Son do you have the executive function for this cut?”

“I’ll just start it on the grill in the morning and have it for dinner.”

”Yeah, no. Can’t in good conscience sell you this pork shoulder.”

“What about this brisket?”

”Do I look like I’m in the business of helping people starve?”

I mean hell, did cabinet and subcabinet level people ever have this much access to private air travel? They exist within an entirely separate infrastructure!

I also just increasingly think that 9/11 was disproportionately horrifying to American elites because it was finance types and the Pentagon who were the primary target. “Never again” meant Green Zones for them. They’re confident those walls will hold, even if the broader “homeland” is vulnerable.

It’s fine for officials who live in comfort behind an enormous shield of taxpayer-funded security. Their safety is what’s important, as is minimizing military deaths. If the cost of their policies and force protection is American lives and omnipresent dread, that’s acceptable maybe even desirable.

It’s of a piece with Hegseth’s unhinged pressers. In addition to his obvious self-gratification, he exults in dealing death with impunity to both innocents and combatants. The framework’s obvious corollary is that mass casualty terrorism against soft targets is also justifiable in pursuit of policy.

This feels like a ”quiet part loud” thing. Dead troops are a problem for an aggressive government. Dead civilians can be used to justify the aggression, so they’re not a concern, maybe even helpful. It’s just that it’s important to PRETEND to be protective of your own civilians.

The campaigns in 2023 and 2025 are good and excellent respectively. 2025 felt to me exactly like that era’s F1 cars should feel. But it’s really not a game where you just sit down and have a fun race. You commit to a weekend and drive the car like it’s your job. It punishes heroics.

It’s ripe for a remaster, right? I feel like I haven’t seen a version of it on streaming that doesn’t look like shit.

Yeah I just intensely disagree with that characterization but I’d be curious what you’ve felt he was whining about. I’d describe him as jaded about F1, but not uninterested or uninteresting.

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I have a rotating cast of joyless pillows to address the ailment of the week. An almost entirely flat, slack pillow for when I just need to lie flat. Loathsome thing, but necessary. Also loathsome: a giant poofy structureless pillow for when I have to lie on my side.

The Third Way / radical center-rightism project is one of the few political ideologies even less popular than culturally liberal fiscal conservatism. They have to imagine victories for their playbook because almost nobody runs it. Starmer did, and arguably only a bad politician would have!

This completely misrepresents what happened in Canada. Carney's win was fueled by being a fresh face after Trudeau, a reputation for competence, belief he was best suited to stand up to the USA and the deep loathing of Poilievre in large parts of the country.

And it was still a minority!

I assume those buttons do sound effects?

Praying Mitch‘s dog does well at his littermate’s house today. All my clothes smell like anxious redbone hound. Laundry room is full of things he christened in Mitch’s absence. Need a little break!

It’ll never happen but I’d love some kind of special F1 commentary booth where it’s Montoya and Villeneuve. Consistently the guys I find most interesting when it comes to analysis from the driver POV. Maybe get Rosberg in there and just get two hours of the realest talk for a session.

The satisfaction of logging into a music service you haven't used in a while, playing the tracks you favorited, and discovering you had impeccable taste.

Pete Hegseth seems like he might be the first man to have a family court hearing at the Hague.

I do sometimes worry HOA will boomerang on me. Like I’ve become a guy recording audio logs to be discovered after a disaster. Or I’ll be in court explaining that, “Well I may have exaggerated my misadventures for dramatic effect, your honor. I assure you I cannot be blamed for the avalanche.”

Would be stunned if they end up holding the F1 GP in Bahrain. Jeddah might be safer being on the Red Sea coast. But no way could you get me on a plane moving through that airspace, either.

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But it all stemmed from that decision to mess with a distributed series of permanent campsites that were really good at staying out of everyone's way. Meanwhile, new housing proposals were a street fight. The planning board treated their job like goalies in the Olympics.

It was real bad. So the city intensified sweeps and ended up turning a major park into a carpet of humanity. Nearby church stepped up to provide food and warmth, residents started complaining because it was a pretty grim, unsanitary situation. I checked it out once and, yeah, I couldn't live by it.

Exactly what happened in my home town of Lowell over the last few years. There were tons of small, semi-permanent homeless campsites. Residents complained about a couple of the larger ones, and there were some violence incidents in those sites. Clearing operations led to a few HUGE sites.

Yikes. That seems incredibly damning of Mills and whatever bench the Democrats have in Maine. Because I don’t think most Democratic voters anywhere would be KEEN to vote for someone with Platner’s baggage.