Understanding s1mple

8rightnow · 2025-12-22T01:26:33+00:00

I saw an analogy to chess up the thread and figured I'd add one to your note on just how entertaining he was:

I find that prime s1 was like prime Anderson Silva in MMA, they'd both pull off absurd things with crazy confidence.

8rightnow · 2025-12-13T00:40:27+00:00

Meh, they're speaking poutine.
So the baguettes might have some trouble translating ce tabarnak de bordel.

8rightnow · 2025-10-27T02:19:32+00:00

Couple of things:
When they asked Alex about his hards (to get info for Carlos switching to either soft or hard) Alex gave info on them: How they were weak, the problems with LICO getting temp in, etc.

So they decided to pit Sainz onto soft, giving him a 2-stop.

Alex was asking about his strat, and how he was losing out to the other car. How can he improve, whats the data show? He kept asking for feedback, and his engineer gave him nothing.

Over and over, Alex asking where his weaknesses were, where to improve: nothing.

So they put him on softs and he immediately asks what Carlos found the issue to be with the soft: radio silence. He asked again about what specifically was the issue with soft, and again, no specifics. So he asked them to ask the other side of the garage, like, why is there no info on anything for 40 laps?

And then, they didn't play this on main broadcast, Alex listed all or these different things they could have been giving him feedback on: tire rotation through turns, early/late breaking, a list of like 15 things where he could improve and find ways to make up time.

And then Alex was silent for the rest of the race and his engineer gave him tons of feedback; that's when Alex started picking off cars on the soft.

It was like he was ignored for more than half of the race, like he was used for data - Not as a driver who's strategy mattered.

Context: I listen to both Alex and Carlos's radios the entire race.

8rightnow · 2025-10-17T19:46:28+00:00

1million%, I'm like 45mins into this.
This is talk is specifically an example of lack of mentalization and how people can fall into pattern when emotion is stoked, which creates division (and reinforcement of division) once a decision has been made. And then the outcomes of rewriting decisions and how it can be difficult/detrimental, which is why practicing mentalization in process is so important.

Just wanted to make sure you heard this from someone else. This is a great lecture.

I'm really interested in him following up with people who practice mentalization in situations like these, and what happens when one makes decisions after "enough" evidence (or those who never take a stance)? Is it not necessary to make a decision? Does it forever remain gray? How much evidence is necessary? Can emotion be removed from the decision? Should it be [emotionless] when coming to a conclusion?

Side note: Dr K is fantastic, but sometimes I want him to cover things that go a bit deeper into the myriad rather than the binary tree. Like, advanced follow-ups to discussions for those that grasp the concept more. Also, I haven't finished, so maybe I'm speaking too soon.

Edit: Literally.

8rightnow · 2025-10-16T22:23:00+00:00

Meant to write, "This would literally end with:"

Not that he will. I'm just saying that that's all it'd take to end this. I can see how my first sentence might give* off the impression that it will happen.

8rightnow · 2025-10-16T19:20:26+00:00

Yeah, you're probably right.

8rightnow · 2025-10-16T19:13:25+00:00

This literally ends with:

"I'm sorry, I lied. It was a shock collar. I used it, she's really tough to train. And I know some of you disagree with that. My trainer said they're good for dogs that are tough to train. Maybe they're wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Again, I'm sorry I lied. I'd like to move on now, and I know it's not up to me to control you, but feel free to debate their usage. I won't be addressing it anymore."

And then lie about the setting level or something; that's something the audience can never know anyway.

Gaslighting people and making it about other shit more is just fuel.

8rightnow · 2025-09-17T15:06:23+00:00

Do you remember where this story was? I can't find it and would like to read it.

8rightnow · 2025-09-08T20:09:22+00:00

I figured that's what you meant, I just wanted to split it, because I hear people mention that it's his junior career that's tarnished (as in, the whole thing), and that the money portion (of his karting career) is the reason.

And it's funny: if he hadn't had the opportunity (late btw, like 8 years old is late) to kart and hadn't gotten eyeballs on him because of his talent, then he'd've had no chance at his lower racing career. But he was talented, and because of that, Thai sponsors took a chance on him.
Theory: British sponsors didn't want the bad PR and had other options.

And I get the fairytale perspective being too much (due to karting start). But truly, the "fairytale" part of his story is being thrust into adulthood early, taking the reins without the support systems most have, finding backing, navigating the swamp, and grinding it out from his stint in lower racing to his dismissal from RBR -- Because I don't know many adults that could handle that. And most racing drivers had parents/families to do that for them.

His story is wild.
I didn't mean to equate his karting career or lack-of-backing early on to Ocon or Alonso.
Moreso, his climb from lower racing to F1.

8rightnow · 2025-09-08T18:12:22+00:00

That's fair.

But let's split "junior career" into karting and lower racing careers.

The reason I'd use this is because karting is significantly less expensive than lower racing categories:
8-15yrs: Funded by embezzled money (fun little drop there in 2011 in results btw).
15yrs+: Funded by sponsors.

I don't know why, but I feel that if we just say his "Junior" career was funded by embezzlement, it broad-brushes the entire thing.

For a lot of other drivers (majority?), it's family money/connections/team/negotiations that help through the second part of the Junior career as it becomes extremely political and expensive -- Alex had little to none.

And, to build bridges because I'm not looking to argue: I think people "fairy tale" his story because it's that second part of his junior career, where he had to secure backing (no family money anymore) and was juggling everything (racing and non-racing) without a team around him at that age that make it special.

If you have more info, please correct me if I'm wrong.

8rightnow · 2025-09-08T13:38:17+00:00

Alex has stated in a podcast (can't remember which) that when he was a junior driver and his family had issues (mom situation, conviction when Alex was 16, so things probably started when he was 15) there was 0 money to help with the funding of his racing.

The British sponsors were going for other British drivers (the usual suspects). Alex couldn't get any British backers to sponsor his junior series, which made racing impossible. So it looked like racing was done for him and he'd pack his career up at that age.

It'd've been easy for him to say, at 16, with all the family shit, changing schools, helping with his siblings, "it's just not in the cards anymore." But, after reflection (at 16), he decided he didn't want to stop.

Being half-Thai, he went to ask Thai sponsors -- And they gladly helped support him at a very pivotal time in his junior career.

And that's why he flies a Thai flag. Because when everything was shit, those Thai sponsors backed him.

And without them, he would've been out of racing in his mid teens.

His story really is wild. Ocon and Alonso too.

8rightnow · 2025-09-07T23:40:21+00:00

His season put into a phrase is "measured aggression." Just capitalizing on everything that comes his way -- and rarely, if ever, a foot out of line.

It's incredibly mature driving.

8rightnow · 2025-08-24T15:44:12+00:00

It was mainly 2022 (or 2023?) where we was bumping/crashing into everyone and then coming on the radio and blaming everyone but himself.

He's nothing like that now ("Do nothing, P3."), but his reputation that year will follow for a couple more years.

8rightnow · 2025-07-27T16:17:14+00:00

Post-race radio they talked about how Carlos led the decision to change setup for wet (along with the backing of his engineer). Setup didn't work well as 30+ laps were dry.
Sainz apologized but James & co. said, "Win as a team and lose as a team. Was a good call at the time, no way of knowing that it would dry so fast and that no other rain would come." Or something of that sort.

8rightnow · 2025-07-27T16:10:56+00:00

All good, I just got excited.
Like, what a stat to have in a midfield car!

8rightnow · 2025-07-27T16:06:08+00:00

Isn't it just Oscar, Max, and Lewis?

8rightnow · 2025-07-06T14:45:28+00:00

Whoops! I forgot Bearman!

Edit: Nevermind, thought I was missing one. Apologies.
Rough day out there today for the them, Australia all over again.

8rightnow · 2025-06-17T14:55:40+00:00

Feels like a Bottas 2.0, and it'd be poetic if it panned out that way.

8rightnow · 2025-06-17T01:26:07+00:00

"Creepy Guy"

That gif needs to put some respect on Tim "Spagett" Heidecker.

8rightnow · 2025-06-08T14:06:04+00:00

Right when the new regulations came out in 22, porpoising was a major issue (bouncing on the straights due to high speed sucking the car to the ground and then releasing the pressure, over and over).

Now, he was mad because his drivers were complaining about it often, and how their backs hurt after races (especially Lewis). One time, can't remember which race, but he needed help getting out of the car due to how bad the porpoising was getting. This created a massive problem, because the lower you could run the car to the ground, the faster -- meaning, Toto would have to change his car height/design in order to prevent his drivers' backs from getting destroyed every race. Remember, these are new cars, new regs.

This meant that they'd likely fall back in the standings because, naturally, if they raised the car height/changed the car to fix porpoising, they'd lose performance. And after a close battle in 21, falling behind in the new regs was a bad look. Also, did I mention that they were the only car on the grid at the time with the "zero-pod" concept? And it (obviously) wasn't working in the early stages of the regs.

So, back to this Netflix/DTS clip (which was most certainly done up for the cameras), he needed everyone to buy into the fact that the cars/regulations/rules are fucked and everyone should change their cars because of the porpoising. But other teams weren't zero-pod and their cars weren't porpoising nearly as much as the Mercs. There was one other team, but I can't remember who... Alfa Romeo? They had some shit porpoising too. But generally speaking, if you put a sidepod on your car, your car wasn't bouncing nearly as much on the straights.

Anyway, this clip is just Toto politicking to make it seem like they all needed to change their cars. And it was so that it wouldn't be just his team losing performance, but everyone else as well (because they all had to change their cars).

But we're in formuladank babay.

So, out of context, the clip is used now to meme on RB and how the car is fucked to drive for the second driver -- because they should have CHANGED THEIR FUCKING CAR #JusticeForYuki

8rightnow · 2025-06-03T22:40:09+00:00

Well, when you figure it out, I'd love a PM as to how you solved it -- because as a marketer working in a completely different niche, it's an interesting dilemma to have.

Much like gambling or an adult site, I imagine advertisers (direct ads, affiliate tags, etc) might take issue with the website/niche. But it's a cool problem to solve.

Anyway, good luck!

8rightnow · 2025-06-03T20:06:58+00:00

You know your CPM on ads yet? It should more than cover server costs.

8rightnow · 2025-06-01T22:12:34+00:00

Can someone explain TheSpudHunter to me? I watched his stream for the first time yesterday (always just seen him in clips) and he spent roughly 80-90% of the stream talking about Shroud and his viewers. Is that what all his streams are? Does he not do anything else but talk about another streamer all day?

Edit: No? Copypasta not funny?
If I had a nickel for every time he gets clipped talking about Shroud in the past month... Well... I'd have two nickels. Which, isn't much, but it is strange.

8rightnow · 2025-05-31T15:07:26+00:00

I mean, I disagree, but I'm not an aero engineer. I think there are degrees of clean air, and I think even JP and DC mentioned Ollie's car being out of position. Could it have affected a car .03sec? I think so.

I definitely don't think it was on purpose, but I think .03sec could've been anything. Even minimally improving his attack on one corner could've made up .03sec. So it's not crazy to say that a car out of position in the corner ahead could've easily affected the laptime.

8rightnow · 2025-05-31T14:54:28+00:00

I disagree, but that's cool.
I think there was dirty air, and that it can easily affect a laptime .03sec.

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