It’s a legal requirement of SOLAS. They would be in the shit if they didn’t, and the people later died. As the cruise ship has AIS, there would be proof that they were the closest vessel.

Hilarious, at this rate he’ll end up being banned for the final race

I would like them to try to go to Mars this coming January. I am sure with enough fuel one of Elons rockets can get it moving in the right direction, they can wing everything else as they go.

A more mundane one, but people on reasonably normal incomes living in a house that’s at least one order of magnitude more expensive than they could ever afford even if they purchased it twenty or thirty years ago. Its particularly bad in things set in expensive areas like London or New York or Tokyo. Like being able to afford a house in central London rather than renting a flat with three other people takes substantial money, you aren’t going to be afford that if you work in a supermarket.

Unless you are buying your beans from somewhere like Starbucks they should not be that oily that the grinder needs its burrs cleaning. If you are buying Starbucks (or similar) beans then the single biggest upgrade you can do is to start buying quality beans from a specialty roaster. Its not as hard as it was a few years ago to get dark roast from a proper specialty roaster when the fad was for almost under roasted beans, thankfully that trend is drawing to a close.

Dark roast only I would only consider conical personally. The best flat burrs for dark roast just emulate the output you getting by default from most conical burrs, so why not just get the ones made for the job in the first place?

I am not sure what your budget is but something like a Helor Flux would be similar pricing to the DF83 and the Flux comes with immense 73mm Mazzer burrs that are hard to beat for dark roast. Only downside is that its a hand grinder, and take about 45 seconds to grind an espresso sized set of beans. I hand grind both espresso and pour over when I am not at home and its manageable if you are not doing too many shots back to back.

Otherwise the bigger conicals with a motor tend to be a lot more than the DF83. I would really stay away from the Niche Zero (and its bigger brother), they are overpriced and just not good value in today’s market. I used to own a Zero and its frankly disappointing for its price point, I sold mine and made nearly enough money to buy my (secondhand) DF83 with the upgraded burrs.

Something like a Femobook A68 would be around the same price as the DF83 and is motorized. I have not personally tried it, but it has decent reviews. I quite fancy getting one as another grinder (I have a Timemore 078 as well for pour over) for home for when I want dark roast as my setup is very much tailored to light/medium-light.

So what grinder you choose should be shaped by what brewing method and then what roast level you mostly brew with. For you thats espresso and what, medium to dark roast?

I have a DF83, one of the early ones, but with the SSP High Uniformity burrs that are an expensive but worth while upgrade for light to medium light roast beans. I would not recommend these burrs if you prefer a darker roast, as those flat burrs I have are the exact opposite.

The DF83 produces great results but the early DF83s do need constant care over retention as they can get blocked if you don’t. The DF83V solves a lot of the problem with my one, while still enabling a large number of suitable replacement burrs.

I would consider a similar price point conical burr grinder if you prefer mouth feel/more soupier coffee and plan on sticking with darker roasts.

I just use my Google Home Max for timers, it’ll display three timers at once on the screen and I can get the status of any or all with voice at any point. Plus it’ll do all the usual assistant stuff of conversions, cooking temperatures, and has a big enough screen for me to read recipes or follow along with a recipe video. Bonus feature is that its a reasonable loud speaker as well so I do not need a separate radio in the kitchen.

Sure its not as pretty as the clock but its a whole lot more useful for cooking.

I think there is a third factor here with why others do not do it so often, and when they do, do it, they often look clumsier by default and thus more likely to get a penalty. Max is a massive trail braker, riding the brake well into the corner to adjust rotation. This trail braking allows him to fine tune just how far and fast hes going into the apex for a corner, and then his setup is for progressive power under steer, which further allows him to adjust position on the exit while not having to decrease the steering angle from full lock

I haven’t disagreed with the stewards wording, so I did not comment on their ruling, just what happened as a basis to expand on why we need different rules and the area that’s currently being exploited as what we have is clearly going to result in a nasty accident some time soon.

Every time they change the rules, such as moving under braking, Max immediately stops doing that. I think that’s pretty telling use of the dark arts as an intentional grey area. If Max wants to complain about additional rule complexity then he needs to stop living in that grey area, he cannot have it both ways.

They have a tractor meme going on if that counts:

I think that while the opening move is similar, parts of that are very different.

Firstly Lewis is never as far along side, this makes it clearer in terms of the rules as written today who is at fault, Max managed to get along side/slightly ahead depending where you measure it for that second incident with Lando.

Secondly Lando cooperates with Max and keeps his distance as he is pushed off avoiding a nasty crash. Max does not do this with Lewis and instead turns in, while Lewis does not turn in as much as possible but equally he does not deliberately under steer to the point hes half off the circuit to drive Max off the circuit.

Dive bomb attacks require the other guy to cooperate not make the situation worse and I think this is were the drivers discussion needs to be focused. Are we going to allow dive bombs as valid and then sort it out with swapping back if it goes wrong? Or are we going to ban them because there are more than a few circuits with nowhere near safe run off to escape to without ruining your race?

I would be very surprised if Max hadn’t work shopped the rules with RB to understand exactly what he could and couldn’t do. I do not think hes alone in that, any good Sporting Director like Wheatley should be pushing to do this to avoid race losing penalties by setting boundaries for their drivers. Where I do think he differs is that hes the only one whose repeatedly gone for this grey area and that this grey boundary has been work shopped as an actual stratergy.

As we have seen when it was close with Lewis in 21 Max will do anything to keep his title rival behind him once he is ahead in the championship. This constant living in the grey area during title battles leads to a feeling of unfairness and I believe it is this desire to make things fair is why we see things like Sundays penalties as a desire to even things up. Fairness has nothing to do with actual racing rules, but here we are and now we need much more complicated rules defining and enforcing that will likely have loop holes like the last revision and the one before that.

I think its impossible to watch the alternate angles (https://youtu.be/zb7okJILTfQ?si=MPi6lTItfErIRJv0) or look at the telemetry to understand that first Lando used Maxs own spells against him, but also that Horner was also massively pissed that Lando pulled a Max to the point he made himself look foolish not realizing Landos top speed was higher due to DRS on the first time. Its also worth nothing that Lando was very much within control of the car on T4, stopping to the almost zero they did to actually get around the corner at the same time. This is the complete opposite for T8 where Max is very not not in control and uses the throttle to induce understeer pushing them both off the track.

Stolen from Planetf1:

Alpines looks to be a complete balls up, as it traditional for Alpine and paperwork, I do not suspect any malicious intent here just plain old incompetence as is to be expected with Alpine. This is the company that made changes to their own version of Oscars contract to their advantage, seemingly forgetting that both the FIA and Mark Weber had their owned signed copies of the original.

Probably, but I presume they are there to operate whatever equipment NK sold to Putin as the Russians cant even comprehend inside toilets let alone poo flinging drones.

Number 20 will shock you

So Blade Runner, Alien, and Predator franchises are linked, but I also a believer that the Terminator franchise is linked into the same, shared universe. Obviously Terminator has many different endings depending at which film you look due to timey wimey shenanigans, but if you pick one of the ones that the war is averted (I pick T2 as the sequels are not my favorite), it kinda makes sense. In this universe Dutch is the special forces ace that is picked (probably unknowingly) to be the model for the T800.

Both my kids have had Zoes, one of the original model and one of the latest one. They have been great cars, particularly the newer one that my son has, he does about 15k a year in his. Reliable, great economy, although my daughters replacement Fiat 500e for her Zoe gets a higher miles per kWh but it has a smaller battery.

However Renault can be an absolute pile of crap to deal with. Our local dealer is so bad we would never buy another Renault as they are the only dealer within a reasonable distance (nearest alternative is 25 miles of traffic heavy city driving).

Renault UK can be pretty shitty about denying expensive warranty claims as well from what I have seen. Anybody looking at buying any car should be checking out the reputation of their local dealer before buying but especially for Renault IMO

We are looking at a MG EV4 to replace his Zoe next year, more range, more space, and cheaper than the Zoe/5 with a longer warranty.

We’ve had three EVs for a few years now and they been great, had four in total and replaced the first one a bit over a year ago as its lease expired, so no regrets.

Lengthy road trips aren’t a problem if you plan out your route in advance I get not everyone wants to do this so if this you then wait till there are more charging stations for your region. We plan stops based on charging stations that have a lot of high speed chargers (over 100kw) so we are never waiting more than 20 minutes and never waiting for a charger. It is faster to charge twice to around 80% on one of these than it is to charge to 100% once due to how much charging slows down as the battery nears completion. I would not even consider a car that does not have a 800v architecture due to the slower charging speeds if you plan on road trips.

We have done 1200 mile round trips, probably small fry for Americans but a lot for us, especially as we towing for all that. Its achievable with planning in most western countries. I want to stop at most every three hours as I want to use the loo, are people who are driving 6 more hours non stop peeing in a bottle or something?

Cost per mile is stupidly low as we charge at home when not on trips over 280 miles, 8p per kwh, with a monthly cost between the three cars of £40 for around 2000 miles a month (more in summer, about that in winter). Good luck doing 2000 miles on £40 for an ICE car. Charging when out is more expensive the faster you want to charge, ultra rapids work out about the same per mile as high economy petrol ICE, rapids or lower a bit cheaper but nothing significant. Its only going to be cheaper if you can charge at home and your energy provider has a suitable EV tariff as we do.

Absolutely zero chance I would buy an EV right now as depreciation is already horrendous and the rate of change for EVs is rapid unless you know the car will meet your log term needs and those will not change. We lease so that all the cost of the risk is with the leasing company and we know we want the improvements.

Edit: Plug in hybrids are fucking useless BTW, you are either doing a ton of miles and using the ICE all the time, or you are using the battery all the time and very rarely the ICE. It means carrying around both a full EV setup and a full ICE setup, so you have more than twice the complexity of either and more weight than an actual pure EV with the same battery that impacts both EV and ICE economy. Plus recent studies have shown that hybrids are far harder on the ICE part than a pure ICE, which is fucking awful for long term ownership.

They were only ever meant as a stop gap until battery prices dropped, which they have and its now possible to get EVs with over 400 miles of ACTUAL range not just promised range.

The biggest issue is that as long as you are not dangerously out of control, in other words avoid a slide or lock up, you can brake as late as you absolutely want to regardless if you are going to make the corner and just go wide. The rule needs changing that you have to be able to make the corner inside the lines otherwise this legal pushing off the track will just continue and make overtaking on a corner between two similar performing cars almost impossible.

It works both way though, more equal team mates means your team mate takes wins off you. Charles has lost one race result to Carlos, Lewis one to George, and Lando has lost two to Oscar. Thats just the wins as well.

Sure the extra points from two wins for Lando isnt going to magically close the gap to Max at this point, but what if the situation was reversed and Max had been the one to lose a couple of wins to Checo early on in the season? Lando might have been within 20 points (ish) by this point.

It also means the teams primary focus is on the number one driver for development and strategy. Red Bull only made changes when Max complained and not when Checo complained and was clearly struggling more than normal.

I am not advocating teams having such a clear number one and two as at Red Bull, I personally cannot stand Micheal’s Ferrari years because of this, but it does have clear benefits for the drivers championship.

But this sort of adjustment is very strictly against the rules, it was just another clever trick to work around the rules that were clarified as being illegal. We’ve had all sorts that are clearly against the intent of a rule while not always againstthe letterof the rule, and this is a big part of the fun with the engineering part of the sport. Taking that away and you lose a big part of the sport.

Only reason RB aren’t completely in the shit is it’s impossible to prove if they did actually use it. From the description, it seems possible to change it on the grid if you take the nose off and another cover. I would be surprised if they never used it tbh.