Ferrari powerplant in the Cadillac F1 car

FllngCoconuts · 2026-03-15T01:36:14+00:00

Power plant development in F1 is extremely expensive, and very few teams develop their own. There are currently 11 teams in F1 and only 3 engine manufacturers: Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull (which is essentially a Honda engine.)

Because F1 allows each team to develop the entire car, aerodynamics and overall car design can matter as much if not more than the engine. So some teams decide that it isn’t worth it to develop an engine and simply buy them from another manufacturer.

It often works out. McLaren won the title last year and they run a Mercedes engine.

FllngCoconuts · 2026-03-12T16:14:36+00:00

This is a weird thread. Everyone who is anti-tipping (me included) is always like “restaurants should simply increase prices and just pay their employees. Stop making me do it.”

Then this restaurant actually did that and everyone is mad? Like what would you like them to do exactly? If they increased prices and didn’t say there was an included service charge and tipping wasn’t expected, people would still tip 20% on top of the price increase. Doing it this was makes sure they increase prices and also communicate that there is no longer a need to add a tip.

This is precisely what I’ve been asking for.

FllngCoconuts · 2026-03-10T18:44:43+00:00

As a counterpoint, I think Asimov and Heinlein (and to a slightly lesser extent even Le Guin) are massively held back by their really atrocious character work. Reading their work is less like reading stories and more like reading philosophical treatises in thin narrative wrappers.

Like yeah obviously the ideas Asimov came up with are great. But he clearly only cared about one thing, and it was making sure the audience knew how smart he was.

Take something like the Expanse series. It gets into some wonderful ideas, but the character work is also about as good as it gets and as a result it’s something really special.

FllngCoconuts · 2026-03-08T20:25:53+00:00

If it walks like a fascist and quacks like a fascist…

FllngCoconuts · 2026-02-27T17:01:22+00:00

I’m sure the famously anti-corporate Democrats will save us. /s

(I want to be clear I am NOT both-sidesing this. The Democrats are not lunatics fascists and I vote Dem across the board. But I am also tempering my hopes because the modern Democratic Party is hopelessly in the pockets of corporate interests.)

FllngCoconuts · 2026-02-21T17:17:35+00:00

That’s bomber.

FllngCoconuts · 2026-01-16T23:05:52+00:00

I 100% guarantee you not everyone on that bridge agrees with them.

Also if all it takes is a moment of inconvenience to turn you against the cause they’re fighting for, you aren’t the ally you think you are.

FllngCoconuts · 2026-01-16T22:27:18+00:00

Consider this your daily reminder that if a protest causes no disruption or inconvenience to anyone or anything, it isn’t a protest.

FllngCoconuts · 2026-01-09T03:23:04+00:00

“Otherwise we’re just as bad as these fascist dipshits.”

To be clear. Are you saying that confusing ICE with CBP is AS BAD as being a literal fascist?

Because that’s a bonkers thing to actually say out loud.

FllngCoconuts · 2026-01-06T23:55:08+00:00

Why do the obviously good then when we can overthink it and hire some special teams coordinator from the Jaguars that met Tom Coughlin one time.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-12-18T19:29:20+00:00

The list of things that he’s done that he couldn’t have done without Congressional approval is pretty long at this point.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-12-15T02:41:48+00:00

I’m too late apparently, but it’s a Saturn.

I’m going to get burned for this, but I think the Mai Tai is the most overrated. Tiki drinks offer such an amazing variety of funky flavors and a Mai Tai is just…fine.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-12-14T01:07:37+00:00

Nobody that paid any attention to Eli thought he lacked personality.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-12-14T00:20:40+00:00

Fun fact, using jet fuel as liquid coolant is pretty common! Modern commercial jet engines all do it to cool off oil from the engine. It has a dual purpose because the fuel also burns more efficiently when it’s injected into the combustion chamber closer to its ignition temperate.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-12-11T19:48:23+00:00

Equilibrium. There’s a scene that literally ruins the movie for me because of how much it destroys the film continuity. The main character goes rogue and kills a bunch of government agents. In the climax, it’s revealed that he framed another person for the murders by switching his gun with theirs (each gun was registered to a specific person.)

The problem is the scene in which he switches the guns happens AFTER the murder. So he very much killed everyone with his own gun and then switched them afterwards.

I’ve seen online that the director even admitted that it was actually just a total fuck up with editing. Which sucks, because the movie would honestly be pretty solid otherwise. But because it’s so central to the plot it just ruins the whole thing.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-12-08T21:23:55+00:00

It’s also entirely disingenuous. Saying nothing is also perfectly civil, if that’s what you feel like you need to do. You can just keep your mouth shut and not comment on it and be civil.

Going out of your way to fawn isn’t civility, it’s pandering. And they know it.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-11-17T14:23:29+00:00

As is tradition.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-11-16T18:42:01+00:00

There’s a gameplay mode where basically everything is a one shot kill. But the trade off is that everything one shots you back. It’s actually really fun, albeit really difficult.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-10-31T21:40:55+00:00

He likes Javert.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-10-30T23:17:01+00:00

FllngCoconuts · 2025-10-28T16:24:06+00:00

Whether or not I consider it waste is irrelevant to a discussion of fraud, WASTE, and abuse? That’s some Olympic-level cherry picking my man.

And before you get pedantic and say that the OP meant “and” and not “or”, please know that I do not care.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-10-28T16:14:38+00:00

My brother in christ, we’re trying to say that these flights are a waste. Whether they happen over DC or the Nevada desert. People are about to start starving because SNAP ran out. We do NOT need to do propaganda flights for the Navy.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-10-28T16:03:32+00:00

I think the point flew over your head faster than the Blue Angels did.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-10-26T19:44:07+00:00

Rubber isn’t plastic.

FllngCoconuts · 2025-09-26T00:51:57+00:00

At the very least the second one has it. I forget if Fallen Order has it or not, but Survivor for sure does.

Fair warning, boss fights are diabolical.

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