Definitely seems Not Good, but the fact of it being an isolated incident implies some kind of mitigating circumstance...
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Definitely seems Not Good, but the fact of it being an isolated incident implies some kind of mitigating circumstance...
I feel like I remember a Prairie Home Companion bit about this...
Sex as a motivator bores me immensely, LOTR is so much greater for leaving it behind.
In terms of track time, Piastri made three horrible mistakes in 30 seconds. #azerbaijanGP #formula1
I played semi-regularly for a few years, but primarily just small-gang null-sec shenanigans. Never involved in any of the major alliances or skirmishes.
"What does this mean for Titanium futures at the Jita exchange? Will Test Alliance shift to a war economy? For more we turn to embedded correspondent XxHeadBasher69xX."
EVE online was the closest a games journalist could get to being a finance writer or war reporter. Every once in a while there would be a story like, "Tensions erupted in EVE Online last night, $30,000 in assets were destroyed."
you'll never guess the original name of this file as pulled from the internet
This is just an actual EVE Online screenshot.
let's remember some good internet videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1X...
On my work computer there is ONE shortcut which is always there due to some weird network policy. If I delete it, it just comes back in ten minutes. If I move it out of the way, it moves itself back over. It's a shortcut to a WEB PAGE that I ALREADY have bookmarked in my browser! Drives me mad.
Is this what it's like watching American football
They brought elimination qualifying back
hahaha get rekt Sinclair!
Lawson and Sainz both outqualifying the drivers that replaced them this year, gotta feel great for them. #formula1 #azerbaijanGP
On a more serious note, I don't remember the last time I saw a car come to such a dead stop. Probably knocked the wind out of him real good.
Not the fanciest cars, but often great action, and you can so easily approach and chat with drivers & crew. Also a great way to get noticed as a photographer ;-)
OH NO THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN #F1 #formula1 #azerbaijanGP
He was weaving carbon fiber from thin air with his bare hands
One day people will realize there are other motorsports they can watch besides F1. Whenever someone asks me if they should go to an F1 race, I tell them they should go to WEC or IMSA instead. At least they've got V12s!
Let them fight.gif
If you don't have a countertop deep frier in your kitchen, you are simply a coward
Like I recognize that credit scores are theoretically very handy, but the rules are so stupid. Sorry for trying to save money and not buying a car every 2 years I guess!
This is exactly what I mean. "We need to know you can pay off your loans" *Pays off a loan* "Oops sorry that's bad actually" "Your credit lines are too old" *Applies for a credit line* "Eeuuughhh too many credit lines, gross" Make it make sense!
Some of those are good. Too many and it's just a lighter Black Mirror.
My score has gone down like 50 points in the last 2 years and I've been nothing but financially responsible. It's an arcane and broken system.
I did a lap around Bathurst once in a Ford Ranger. Still counts, still awesome
Star Trek is such a wonderful optimistic vision of an idealized future #startrek
62 orders from the BMW event. And 9 still to do from Track Night. This may, uh, take a while...
This depends a lot on what's included in the pink region vis-a-vis immigrant communities in New York City and San Fransisco.
"Behold! Said the Professor" is "We'll Always Have Paris" if it was a TOS episode written by Harlan Ellison
(also, most basic wearables will not give you really reliable heartrate data anyway, so their true utility is limited.)
Most people probably do not "need" any sort of fitness tracker, especially all day long, unless they have specific training goals or health problems. I have a Wahoo I wear when biking or hiking, mostly out of curiosity, and a Seiko for most other times.
So many good curbstrike shots. These drivers were putting on a show #motorsportphotography #trackday
It's a good coaster
him and the undo guy should honestly be sainted
tfw the wind blows your foreground into the *foreground* #photography
"Should I meet them at the dock with guns?" was her first line in the series, and, honestly: iconic.
I do not understand this tyre call from the Falken team #NLS7
say it isn't so!
"quarterly report brain" has done a lot of damage over the years, but this is not the cure
Caught some great moments today! Looking forward to going through these...all 18 thousand of them. #photography #trackday #motorsport
Ok I will survey these two photos at least #photography #motorsport
Actually today was way better than I feared. Hopefully get better sleep tonight! That probably means I shouldn't survey the 10,000 photos I got...
I can just *hear* JG Hertzler's line deliveries
Really curious to see how he does in a proper NLS race
Nothing like waking up at 3 am the night before a track day >_< Everything would have gone way better this weekend if I'd gone to bed at midnight Thursday instead of being in a good mood and indulging in one more episode of Star Trek.
Today was not as productive or restful as it should have been, alas (thanks, leafblower guy >_<). But here are a few shots from the Track Night event from yesterday. Shooting another event on Saturday/Sunday so I have my work cut out... #photography #trackday #tracknightinamerica
i think about this one often <3
It's probably fine to have just one media company, right?
See this is what I'd like genAI for. I could write this movie in a day, and get it pretty good after a few iterations. But there's no way it would ever be made for real, and if it were it would be completely ruined by studio meddling.
The Klingon first officer tragically dies, his last words being, "I would like to have tried some prune juice"
Christian Slater plays a Starfleet Intelligence analyst that thinks the captain of the prototype Bird Of Prey wants to defect. He gets hot-dropped onto the Enterprise and Kirk has to overcome his racism to fight for peace.
What if instead of The Undiscovered Country they made The Hunt For Red October But With Klingons? You wouldn't even really have to change the themes of the movie!
If they're gonna make submarine movies out of Star Trek let's make *submarine movies* out of Star Trek.
Picard was appalled at the insinuation, but what was the guy supposed to think? It's big, well-lit, carpeted floors, quiet, pleasant aesthetics, a magic "any food/drink/object you want" device in your room, and a bar with free drinks and a nice view at the bow. Definitely a cruise ship.
Maybe that guy that woke up from the 90's had a point comparing the D to the QE2.
The set design kind of annoys me on that show. Everyone's quarters are bigger than my apartment. The engine room is CAVERNOUS. The conference room has its own separate lounge area. All the interior spaces are way too big for what ought to be a relatively compact spaceship.
Hello yes are you the manager? I was told that Nothing Ever Happens?
Trying to imagine you explaining this to Denis Lawson in line at a coffee shop
All cars should have Spyker switchgear
Bloody Keir Starmer's only gone and got the Bible blocked
This one never gave me any trouble, but it was a manually actuated lever, not powered retractable. Seemed like it probably had aerodynamic benefits.
Yessss *sickos.jpg* I'm going to have to make time for this.
I wonder if they have a rifftrax of it yet. That's the only way I'll watch it a 2nd time.
Found B5 episodes?? π
Had a big car show gig over the weekend--LOG44! Will post more from this in the future, but it's gonna be a busy couple weeks for me so forgive me if it takes a little while. #LOG44 #lotus #carshow #photography
I wish it was easier to get a Sony in the US...
If you like that sort of thing you may enjoy Iain M Banks' Culture novel Matter
I wish I had a clear enough schedule to follow all these people
Just bring a GameBoy, as God intended
yeah you can do absolutely everything right and have it all turn to shit anyway but if you've got a way of telling the front left mechanic they did not accidentally just decide a title battle (not that it mattered *hugely* each way, either) then idk I'd probably do that tbh, seems better
I've flown to APAC twice, once through Chicago to Hong Kong, once through San Francisco to Sydney. Curious that west coast connections wouldn't be more common for you.
Really, never SFO or LAX?
They heard "man vs self" in a writing class once and said "ah yes I know what that means"
I wish Iain M Banks was still here to be like "you idiot, you moron, you absolute rube" and then write another book where he's even more explicitly the villain.
I am hoping that the easing of TSA rules means 90 minutes becomes more reliable
Doing the whole "2 hours early for domestic" thing saved my ass when I went to the wrong airport once.
McLaren are going to get team orders re-banned at this rate #formula1 #italianGP
No #HULKPODIUM today =( #formula1 #f1 #italianGP
It actively prevents growth in a market they're ostensibly trying to capture, reduces the potential talent pool and overall competitiveness in the sport, and betrays a lack of confidence in their actual product.
Oh does it? I must have missed when they changed it. At any rate it certainly doesn't count as much as it should. I know why it's like that, but it seems so shortsighted to make it that much more difficult for Americans to enter F1 for little to no good reason.
I think this is pretty shrewd of Herta, but it still sucks that IndyCar doesn't count toward a Super license
Sat around for a while watching, but no airplanes crossed over the moon. Oh well at least I got this photo to show for it. #photography
Fun fact, the only Ghibli movie I've actually watched is Grave of the Fireflies. So yeah I don't really have this association.
After some minor research I've found that black tea exceeds their "150 mg/L" threshold, and I think I would laugh for three days straight if the UK accidentally banned kids from drinking tea.
Are they gonna age-gate coffee as well or is this just a prejudice against acidity?
Guy who doesn't know what the big deal is with Dyson Spheres, because his vacuum cleaner has one
I'm not inherently against it I guess, but if their main reason for doing it is "it's expected of me" then they need to gtfo.
But...2 was the worst one
The TSA's dumb-ass rules are like 70% of why I don't like air travel. This might actually get me into travelling for fun more often.
The liquids rules always seemed way stupider to me than the shoes rules, only mitigated by the shoes being more of a hassle. Then we just need to make the item separation rules consistent among airports, and the TSA would finally have a mostly sane ruleset!
And no I'm not going to type out three paragraphs with attached image and excel file in SMS. Sorry not sorry.
Meanwhile, the other guy on the email chain finally started responding to text messages, but didn't reply to the e-mail. Like goddammit guys I want to have ONE conversation in ONE medium!!
Vaduz, Peel, Ambleve, Nurburgring #castleposting
