Fairly uneventful in the end. Norris doing what he and McLaren should have done 2 races ago and played it safe. Great to see, and he's a fantastic new winner
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Turn 1 spiceyness. Max ending up with Oscar behind him, but some minor damage so only just. Norris keeping clean, but running 4th. Max pits early for alt strat and new front wing. Then has to hunt. And he does, car after car taken each lap and he's back in 4th himself. With Russell in 3rd having taken fresh tires himself. Oscar beside himself with the 1st, but Norris still keeping it clean and managing the gap. Then we see Russell go wide in a strange corner, blaming a wind gust/back marker. Max takes 3rd and Norris is next. Norris basically pulls over to let him through, wasting no time at all on Max. Oscar now sweating bullets does the same, tries to back Lando up to Russell, who does not want anything to do with being kingmaker. Retires the car so much so. Then Tsunoda is there, in 4th and he wipes out both McLarens on the last corner in a very obvious team call. Meaning the FIA have to decide: scrap the last lap from standings or let it stand. Lawyers are armed and ready, this to be the most legally fought for racing lap in history with the FIA announcing a special last 2 lap shoot out to occur in 2h instead. All cars in park ferme to receive 2L of fuel and to start on the grid in 2h in last but one lap order. Then Lance stroll, somehow in 5th himself, causes a last lap 10 car pile up and causes a red flag. Shoot out is declared void and last 2 laps too, meaning Lando takes it
Popcorn at the ready
We are underprepared in the west for sure. But that's probably all right. One of the big points from WW1 was that large standing millitaries meant they needed to be used. Armies beget war as much as any other factor. This is why NATO is so important. The collective force of it means that we don't need to be as prepared. Which has seen unprecedented levels of peace in the west since its inception
Yeah, I get it. Volunteers' time should be valued. But, there is more to valuing than money is my counter: authority, respect, community engagement, and a fraternal/paternal element
I salute all mods. And I pay for admins
Keep it away is my strong advice. Having to deal with banks will mean having to deal with regulations. Having to deal with crypto means having to deal with crytpo bros. Having to deal with paywalls is a barrier to entry
The internet was a better place without money touching everything!
Wait, she was twelve?
So as much as I dislike crypto, it is basically built to be enshitification proof. And hence a good fit for the fediverse. But I wouldn't want to touch the crypto ecosystem with a ten foot pole, nevermind a lemmy/mastodon integration
Which leaves us at the behest of traditional payment processors, and they are all faceless conglomerates who care not for anyone. Meaning we're fucked there too
Maybe we should instead not bring transactions to the fediverse
Didn't change any positions, they started on different tyres. No problems