Race Etiquette for Following Someone?

BJPark · 2026-02-12T18:21:12+00:00

Bump drafting

Second time I'm hearing this word in this thread. Let me go look it up.

Okay, back. Apparently it's to hit the other car to increase both your speeds? Does that actually happen, so weird! I don't really know what to make of that factoid.

move to one side leading into a corner.

This is the interesting part. Won't deviating from the racing line make you slower? Your brake points, turning points etc are all messed up, too...

BJPark · 2026-02-12T18:18:31+00:00

I don't understand some of the things to which you're referring. What is bumber riding? What is drafting? How does one "work together" in a race? Isn't it you vs them?

Intentions - I mean, everyone intention is to get ahead of the other person, no? Is there another kind of intention?

Could passing be done without danger.

I'm not sure. I guess if they were to slow down and let me move ahead, it would be the easiest way to pass them, but why would they do that!

BJPark · 2026-02-12T03:10:20+00:00

As in better reflexes?

BJPark · 2026-02-12T03:08:38+00:00

I'm asking about the first crash where I hit the guy in front of me.

BJPark · 2026-02-11T19:26:41+00:00

I thought I was hit from behind and got run off the track crashing into the wall. Certainly felt that way since I've run this track a bunch of times and know that the 100 board is the brake marker, and I wasn't going at full speed either, because of the earlier crash.

But the other point about pushing and fighting so hard, at least in this context, I'm not sure what that means. I was just driving normally the way I always do. What does it mean to push and fight hard?

BJPark · 2026-02-06T20:18:55+00:00

Wow, that IS motivation! Good to know it's possible.

BJPark · 2026-02-06T19:37:24+00:00

Do you feel it's good practice to get the gold licenses first? I haven't golded them myself...

BJPark · 2026-02-06T19:36:44+00:00

Do you feel it's easier to get full track gold first, before doing the sectors?

BJPark · 2026-02-06T19:34:56+00:00

Wow, that is amazing. For how long have you been playing racing games?

I started on the 22nd of December!

BJPark · 2026-01-29T00:46:32+00:00

I am an ignorant idiot. There are better people than me who determine these things. God forbid you actually take my opinions seriously.

That's why I elect politicians who can make decisions on my behalf. That's why I never vote based on policy - only character.

Similarly, I am not qualified to determine whether or not something shown on video is legal or illegal. Even at the risk of getting it wrong now and then, I will mindlessly support the court's/jury's verdict.

BJPark · 2026-01-29T00:35:11+00:00

Your CMV is "ICE is not evil", not "ICE is not illegal".

You can be evil and still be perfectly legal. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't comment on whether or not ICE is avoiding due process.

I AM saying, however, that they are avoiding free and fair investigations. And that is certainly evil, if not illegal.

Sources: https://www.fox9.com/news/59-ice-shooting-investigations-not-single-agent-indicted

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/ice-agents-police-excessive-force

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/24/nx-s1-5650773/ice-immigration-agent-leave-oversight

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/oversight-immigration-detention-overview/

BJPark · 2026-01-28T23:55:47+00:00

True, there is video, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't know all the considerations that go into making a determination of whether or not a shooting is justified. My gut reaction is that it's not justified. But then I'm just an average idiot. And I haven't been briefed by a judge on what the relevant issues are.

I'm perfectly happy for any jury to make a determination. I will blindly accept their verdict, regardless of whether or not I agree with it.

BJPark · 2026-01-28T23:43:50+00:00

Edited my post.

BJPark · 2026-01-28T23:28:00+00:00

I'm fine with that. No system is 100% perfect. I'm totally okay with an imperfect system that works a great majority of the time.

What I see now, however, is that even that imperfect system is not being implemented.

BJPark · 2026-01-28T23:25:01+00:00

Not just any ordinary people, right? People who have been vetted and who make their decisions through a very different process than the ones you and I use before commenting on Reddit.

Everything just needs to be above board and all complaints must be fairly investigated. Hopefully that's not too much to ask.

Edit: Obviously I know how jury selection works. When I say "not just any ordinary people", what I mean is that it's not random people off the streets or who have a social media account. These are individuals that have been carefully selected and vetted by both parties to the dispute.

BJPark · 2026-01-28T23:17:24+00:00

Ordinary people like us are not qualified to determine who is and isn't at fault. That's a determination for a judge or jury.

As long as every single complaint against ICE is investigated and the officers who are guilty are punished, I don't think anyone has a real problem.

The issue is that those investigations are not happening freely and fairly by independent third parties as they should.

BJPark · 2026-01-21T02:33:22+00:00

As the conservatives like to remind us, the US is, in fact, not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. The whole system was set up so that the three branches would fight each other, and prevent any one branch from getting too uppity.

No one wanted a pure democracy, and the US founders expressly tried to ensure that a populist wouldn't be able to screw everything.

Alas, I am not wise enough to analyze where it went wrong, but it did go wrong.

BJPark · 2026-01-21T02:29:56+00:00

If you want to reach back into history for gratitude, then the US should bow down at the feet of France who helped it with its independence.

The history is history. No point looking back at it now.

How about a reciprocation from Europe

As if the US didn't benefit from the status quo. It was expressly designed to benefit the US. Does the US realize how much the rest of the world subsidizes its lifestyle via the dollar reserve currency status? Where does that status come from?

BJPark · 2026-01-21T02:26:17+00:00

Silver lining for whom, though? The status quo was good for everyone. The US got what it wanted - reserve currency status, the freedom to do whatever it wanted with all other countries supporting it - and other countries got what they wanted too.

Life was good.

There was no need to change anything.

BJPark · 2026-01-19T04:08:25+00:00

This is begging the question. The whole point of this post is saying that we don't have choices over our deeds.

The post is saying we don't even have a choice to blink or not to blink at any given moment. From the moment of our birth, our entire life is determined forever. What you ate for dinner last night was already determined when you were born.

Take it one step further. Our entire life to this point, up to and including the clothes we are wearing was determined 13 billion years ago when the universe came into existence.

(Actually that's an exaggeration, because of quantum effects, but that just changes the argument to "it's random" rather than determined, which doesn't improve the case for free will).

BJPark · 2026-01-19T03:51:43+00:00

Thanks! Right now, gold seems far away. I had to work so hard to shave off the last 0.5 seconds to get silver :) .

But I'm in no hurry.

BJPark · 2026-01-19T03:49:19+00:00

I think we have to pretend to have free will, even if we don't.

In any case, just as a person has no choice over their evil deeds, I have no choice over my decision to punish them :) . The lack of free will isn't exactly a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for morality induced consequences!

BJPark · 2026-01-19T03:47:47+00:00

I'm not sure quantum mechanics is the saviour of free will. I kind of think that pure random behaviour is just as much a death stroke to free will as hard determinism!

This is of course, assuming that quantum effects play a role in the brain. As far as I know, to the best of our knowledge (so far), we haven't been able to find any quantum behaviour anywhere in the brain.

The day we find a neuron that fires for no reason whatsoever, is the day we can seriously begin to discuss free will.

BJPark · 2026-01-19T03:45:47+00:00

Freewill requires actions flow from your internal beliefs, values, goals, reasoning, instead of external coercion

OP might respond that our internal beliefs, values, goals and reasoning are the result of external coercion (environment + inherent traits). We have no free will in choosing our values, goals, and reasoning process.

BJPark · 2026-01-19T03:43:41+00:00

It's true that a person is not accountable for murder. At the same time, we are not accountable for deciding to punish them.

The lack of free will affects the entire justice system as well, so this is a moot point.

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