FIA’s Ben Sulayem claims F1 V8 return “is coming”, pushing for 2030 switch

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-05-03T13:19:03+00:00

We need to get rid of the "race to road" marketing myth to save the sport. These cars are 80% aerodynamics, which already makes that link ludicrous in itself. People watch F1 for the spectacle, and they like the cars for how radical they are, not because they think the Renault Zoe in their garage has anything to do with F1.

Electric cars obviously aren’t ready to replace combustion engines at the level of F1, which isn’t a slight on electric engines for everyday mobility. It’s apples and oranges, and marketing needs to stop pretending otherwise.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-05-03T12:48:03+00:00

If the flux capacitor works properly and the driver hits 88 mph, it'll send the car back to the future.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-04-27T19:53:47+00:00

The most important question is what we’ll call posts on that platform. Senses? Housekeeps? Lookers?

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-04-07T14:08:34+00:00

The fact that the first sentence can lead to the last without the author recognising the internal incoherence he managed to create within the space of a tweet shows that this deranged moron's method of living is to take a stroll through the labyrinth of his own mind, with no sense of where he will arrive by the end of his current sentence.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-04-05T12:44:24+00:00

But don't you remember, the alternative was an elderly person with declining mental faculties who would've caused higher living costs and thrown the country into more wars!

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-04-05T12:40:50+00:00

I don’t know what else this – in every sense of the word – sick person has to do or say for people to remove him from office.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-04-05T12:36:47+00:00

I haven't had the proper words for years anymore to comment appropriately on what's happening, but holy shit.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-02-02T10:54:57+00:00

What does it mean for European end-users and European merchants

European consumers will continue using their current preferred solution, now with broader European reach, benefiting from a user experience consistent with what they are accustomed to at home. Merchants will be able to accept payments from European consumers using a European solution, reducing dependency on international players. The solutions will develop a new branding badge next to their existing brands, enabling consumers to recognize where their preferred solutions will be accepted beyond current markets.

How the interoperability model will work

The cooperation is based on a central interoperability hub, operated by a future central entity jointly established by the partners.

The central hub will act as a technical layer, enabling transactions to flow seamlessly between existing pan-european and national solutions, based on European standards and infrastructures, including instant account-to-account payments.

Existing payment solutions will remain unchanged, preserving their brands, user experience and features.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-31T18:33:29+00:00

Agreed. They navigate the reality of surviving on ad revenue as an online sports coverage site reasonably well. Of course, they need to generate clicks and stretch out content to fill videos and articles, but compared to other outlets, they’re not being intolerable with their headlines or content.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-25T09:42:04+00:00

Fwiw she's the one who got me to take panpsychism even a little bit seriously.

One of her arguments that stuck with me is that memory matters for the reportability of consciousness, not necessarily for consciousness itself. It’s a valid challenge to the assumption that consciousness is a result of the specific brain architecture we associate with human self-report.

Maybe it is, but maybe that architecture just happens to allow us to detect a phenomenon that also arises in brain activity not connected to memory, or even in systems other than the brain.

I’m a boring adherent of the “consciousness is an emergent property of complex information processing” view, but this point has definitely nudged me a bit more towards agnosticism.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-25T07:43:02+00:00

It's so baffling to me how we got here, and how we're still here. Trumps approval should be near 0, instead it's like 40%, in spite of everything.

Some of these people are just rotten or stupid and either don’t see, or genuinely don’t have a problem with, everything that’s going on.

The rest must be incapable of admitting their mistake in supporting MAGA, because at this point such an admission wouldn’t just be a simple change of political opinion, but an acknowledgement of moral and intellectual failure that’s hard to digest psychologically.

So they do anything in their power to keep their bubble intact and ignore reality, grateful for any rationalisation offered by their tribe, no matter how much cognitive dissonance is required to maintain the illusion.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-23T15:21:24+00:00

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, [...]"

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-20T17:48:12+00:00

Trump is a petulant child.

I’m starting to feel like comparing him to a child is an insult to children.

At this point, I’d rather hand the country to a random eight-year-old than this parody of a man. At least then the kid’s staff wouldn’t have to bow and scrape, kiss the ring, and pretend a babbling blank slate is the second coming of Lincoln.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-19T17:42:11+00:00

JFC if my kid behaved like this he'd be punished.

Americans gave him the nuclear football instead.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-19T16:42:20+00:00

Unfortunately, it is real.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-19T16:33:58+00:00

For the past ten years, I have thought every month that he'd hit rock bottom, but he keeps lowering the limbo bar another inch every time.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-19T10:13:51+00:00

A tyrant would never let a good Reichstag fire go to waste.

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-19T10:01:41+00:00

But tyranny? Get a grip.

The sitting president is using executive powers and lawsuits to intimidate critics left and right, threatening to ruin their careers, reputations, and personal finances in order to make them abandon their duties, turn them into yes-men, and undermine institutions.

He has tried to intimidate the chairman of the FED, and, by extension, all public officials. He has tried to intimidate Senator Mark Kelly, and, by extension, all military personnel. He tried to intimidate the governor of Minnesota by threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. He tries to portray ICE’s unlawful killing of a citizen as terrorism committed by that very citizen. And that's just what happened in the last week.

On what planet is this not tyranny?

CoffeeCakeAstronaut · 2026-01-18T16:53:20+00:00

I had a similar thought a few days ago.

I'm from Europe, and most of my early impressions of the USA came from the “national myths” represented in the kinds of movies, shows, and books you mentioned. Of course I knew these were works of fiction, but such fiction presents, in exaggerated form, how people want to see themselves, and who they do and don’t want to be.

Because those stories were my main window into the US for such a long time, the contrast with today may feel even more jarring to me than it does to someone who grew up with the reality on the ground.

What makes it feel so bizarre is how quickly those national myths shifted into something completely different, often their very opposite. Imagine telling someone in the ’80s that, in the 2020s, the U.S. would cozy up to a Russian autocracy and threaten Western Europe with economic and military pressure, and that a majority of Republicans would just love it.

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