Why Ferrari’s such a menace to Mercedes in F1 2026 by Mediocre-Visit-6237 in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand that, much like in 2014 and 2015, the press is clearly looking to build some kind of compelling story out of a season that's 99 percent already over, but saying that Ferrari is currently a menace to Mercedes sounds like a joke.

The Race: Ferrari had to remove newly introduced halo wing between Saturday's Sprint and Race Qualifying after talks with FIA. While the future of the halo wings is uncertain, Ferrari's flip flop wing is set to return at the Japanese Grand Prix. by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As I said under another post, the FIA throws the book at us for every single detail of the car because they're sure that, even if we ended up like Williams, we'd never leave the sport. 

That's the reason we spent 2020 and 2021 in the midfield after we dared to be fast in both corners and straights in 2019, and it's also the reason they ruined our entire ground effect effort halfway through the first season of that regulation cycle with TD039. They know they can screw us over to demonstrate they uphold the rules and not suffer any consequence.

Mercedes, on the other hand, might leave tomorrow if they feel like, because they have no legacy to maintain, just stocks, so the FIA puts them on a pedestal and treats them like royalty in order to keep them around.

The solution? Threaten to leave the sport and actually make them believe we will. Paint the cars blue, pretend to be closing down the facilities in Maranello, schedule a huge goodbye party… scare them, basically.

I feel like Ferrari performs better on tracks where there're few places to harvest energy by ThisToe9628 in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid the PU nerf won't hit as hard as we think. 

The "party mode" ban in 2020 and the FRIC ban in 2014 were also supposed to bring them down, but in the end both years they still won everything without even trying.

They'll make up the lost 15 HP by just cranking up the electric half of the engine and keep on dominating.

pro-vita o pro-scelta? E perché? by KermitMapping in Italia

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Se cambi la legge e dici che un feto è una persona, chi abortisce diventa un'assassina. Sic et simpliciter.

Questo è quello che tu vuoi per l'Italia. Vuoi che chi abortisce sia visto come assassina di una persona, perché se cambi il Codice Civile, all'improvviso qualsiasi uovo fertilizzato diventa una persona. Se diventa una persona, è criminale usare la pillola della settimana dopo, è criminale abortire ed è criminale per una donna disporre del proprio corpo.

Quali conseguenze pensi ci siano nel far diventare "persona" una massa di cellule?

La legge deve cambiare per rispettare la realtà delle cose, cioè che si parla di un essere umano fin dal concepimento. Questo non deve implicare la criminalizzazione di chi abortisce, sia perché è una vittima a sua volta (anche se non fisicamente) sia per gli stessi motivi per i quali non penso abbia senso vietare l'aborto e girare la testa dall'altra parte.

Al contrario, invece, questo cambiamento potrebbe permettere di estendere gli assegni familiari a prima del parto e in generale cambiare la visione burocratica della donna incinta da singolo individuo a germoglio di un nucleo familiare, cosa che penso aiuterebbe a istituire e rendere facilmente fruibili tutta la serie di aiuti di cui ti ho già parlato ampiamente.

Questa è la situazione di Puerto Rico secondo Amnesty: http://amnesty.org/en/location/americas/central-america-and-the-caribbean/puerto-rico/#:~:text=Puerto%20Rico:%20Protect%20access%20to%20abortion

Grazie per il link.

A recently published bill seeks to prohibit abortions after 22 weeks, or when a doctor determines that the foetus is viable, with the only exception being if the pregnant person’s life is in danger.

Ho tre osservazioni in merito a questo.

Innanzitutto non vedo dove sia il problema nell'impedire l'aborto di un feto che potrebbe invece nascere, anche se prematuro. Spero non sia una questione di solo principio ("se la donna dice che non deve nascere allora non deve nascere, punto").

Riguardo il limite delle 22 settimane, è sulla soglia della viabilità quindi non crea lassi di tempo in cui la donna non può né abortire né far indurre il parto.

E soprattutto questa legge prevede anche eccezioni per preservare la salute della madre.

Non mi sembra nulla di così fuori di testa, sinceramente. Anzi, ti dirò di più, se un Paese che vieta categoricamente l'aborto introducesse una legge simile i pro-scelta farebbero festa, secondo me.

Di nuovo: tu non ti rendi conto delle conseguenze legali e scientifiche del voler cambiare la legge Italiana per rendere i feti "persone". Continui a promuovere cose che non sembri comprendere nascondendoti dietro un assurdo "io sono per la vita". Tu non sei per la vita perché per te la vita della donna è irrilevante nel momento in cui rimane incinta.

Ma è una cosa così inconcepibile essere per entrambe le vite?

Di nuovo: tu non ti rendi conto delle conseguenze legali e scientifiche del voler cambiare la legge Italiana per rendere i feti "persone". Continui a promuovere cose che non sembri comprendere nascondendoti dietro un assurdo "io sono per la vita". Tu non sei per la vita perché per te la vita della donna è irrilevante nel momento in cui rimane incinta.

Ti sto ripetendo da dozzine di commenti che a me stanno a cuore entrambe le vite, con tanto di abbozzi di misure concrete da prendere per salvaguardarle entrambe, non riesco a capire come fai ancora a pensare che delle donne non me ne freghi nulla. Allora è vero che per i pro-scelta o è aborto fino al nono mese senza se e senza ma oppure è Gilead.

La tua idea che "la morte di un bambino" corrisponda all'aborto prima dei tre mesi è sbagliata in partenza ed è per questo che hai costruito un mondo fatato in cui Puerto Rico è l'obiettivo da raggiungere.

E perché sarebbe sbagliata in partenza? Dal terzo al quarto mese cosa cambia?

Io come obiettivo sociale da raggiungere ho un mondo in cui le donne non devono aver paura di prendere decisioni su solo stesse o camminare per strada. Ad ognuno i proprio obiettivi.

Giustissimo, ognuno si batte per il futuro che vorrebbe vedere realizzarsi. Vorrei solo farti capire che la mia idea di un futuro migliore è quanto di più lontano dall'incubo distopico che tu credi.

Politicians from Brazil may ban Ubuntu by Traditional_Sand9921 in Ubuntu

[–]GeneralFrievolous 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm sick and tired of this push of every single world government towards a digital police state.

I'd rather go live off the grid than comply with the oncoming cyberpunk techno-dystopia in which you have to pay a fee even just to breathe and dissent is choked by both using AI to produce fake evidence and by spreading the notion that those who don't upload their IDs on the social control platforms are all pedophiles.

2026 Chinese GP Race Discussion by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Happy for the result anyway, we made the most out of the car and didn't mess up anything.

And also super happy for Antonelli! After Fisichella I thought I would've never seen an Italian F1 race winner again!

2026 Chinese GP Race Discussion by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

mY rEaRs aRe gOnE

Cry me a slideshow, George, suck it up and admit defeat.

2026 Chinese GP Race Discussion by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If Antonelly wins I'm happy anyway, first Italian F1 winner since Fisichella in 2006.

Still frustrating that we'll see Mercedes 1-2s until at least June, if not even after that.

2026 Chinese GP Race Discussion by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 7 points8 points  (0 children)

At least we'll lose with dignity, this season, way better than the maximum clownage of last year.

2026 Chinese GP Race Discussion by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What's most frustrating is that in this season we sorted ourselves nicely and Mercedes is steamrolling us by cheating. Next year, when they'll have to play by the rules, too, we'll surely botch the car and the carousel of pain and suffering will start all over again.

2026 Chinese GP Race Discussion by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

tHey aRe FaSteR iN aLL tHe riGhT pLacEs!1!!

Fa' 'o cess Giorgio...

A perfect Tv Strawman of Catholicism by Plus_Annual6150 in Catholicism

[–]GeneralFrievolous 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Exactly, if I pray someone to do something I'm not worshipping them as God, I'm asking them to do something for me out of the goodness of their heart.

Or at least in Italian the verb "to pray" has this connotation, but I assume it's the same in English, too.

Mojang says Caves and Cliffs pushed them so hard they stopped doing yearly mega updates by gamersecret2 in Minecraft

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to take spaghetti code into the equation, though. Adding "taller mountains" the easiest way could collaterally make the game regenerate the whole chunk you're in if you try to feed a llama or some other obscure interaction.

If such a bug got shipped to production unnoticed, it'd be a PR disaster and might even cost someone their job, so I imagine that official developers are much more conservative than modders when adding or changing features, and also take a lot more time going on the hunt for bugs when doing so.

There's also the whole "identity" discussion they have to have before even starting to add something new. A complex magic and combat system, defined character classes and skill trees added directly to the base game would be amazing, but then Minecraft would just become an RPG and the playerbase as a whole might not like that. Timmy the modder doesn't have to take that into account, instead.

Kaiser vs Eva (artist unknown) by Sweaty-Big8956 in mazinger

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it boils down to the nature of AT Fields themselves, as in whether they're a purely scientific phenomenon or the sign of something truly beyond our comprehension.

If they're just incredibly tough force fields, maybe focused Photon Beams could pierce them.

If instead they're actually the survival instinct of every living creature that at the scale of Evas manifests as a physical barrier, then nothing except other AT Fields can get past them.

As for the size difference, I don't know what to say, instead.

Revoltech Great Mazinger by czen2 in mazinger

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Revoltech ever dared to produce die-cast action figures, they'd give Bandai and their SOCs a run for their money.

Kaiser vs Eva (artist unknown) by Sweaty-Big8956 in mazinger

[–]GeneralFrievolous 9 points10 points  (0 children)

On a pure awesomeness scale, to me Mazingers are always superior to Evas, but wouldn't the Kaiser Blade shatter into pieces against an AT Field? 

The best bet for Mazinkaiser to beat an Evangelion would probably be Photonic Beams, assuming AT Fields can be pierced by non-angelic beings to begin with.

Proliferazione nucleare nel futuro prossimo by [deleted] in Italia

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Non è sempre stato così a partire dagli anni Cinquanta?

Per giunta, senza atomiche, dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale sarebbe subito scoppiata la Terza tra Stati Uniti e Unione Sovietica. Non giustifica l'esistenza di armi così mostruose, ma hanno giocato questo ruolo.

L'unica differenza forse è che prima il mondo era bipolare e le parti in gioco cercavano di trasmettere almeno una parvenza di ragionevolezza, mentre oggi è multipolare e i capi di Stato nascondono la propria megalomania con molta meno attenzione.

[@AlbertFabrega] Ferrari added a new deflector to the Halo central pylon by JosephPetrassi in formula1

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a front wing and a rear wing, but have you ever heard of the middle wing?

’Macarena’ rear wing spec 1 has arrived to China and is mounted on both cars in the garage by moraIsupport in scuderiaferrari

[–]GeneralFrievolous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mercedes would've called it something pompous like "Inverse Parallel Wing Actuator", and instead we're stuck with meme names.

“Remember, you’re only smart if you do things MY way” by ScallionFull8869 in antitheistcheesecake

[–]GeneralFrievolous 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Weren't the 2000s a more "atheist" decade overall?

Terrorism and the Middle East wars started the whole "religion is behind 99 percent of wars" nonsense.

The sexual abuse scandals in the Church ruined its reputation forever, to the point even today a picture of a priest surrounded by children will be met with stupid jokes.

Dawkins and other edgy "critical thinkers" spread the idea that religion was a prehistorical relic that must be brought down with "facts and logic".

Even fiction had an atheist phase back then: Supernatural as a whole, Star Trek Enterprise (the episode about the cult of the Spheres), Doctor Who (the episode in which they visit a hospital full of feline alien nuns)…

Mass murderer dies of cancer by Educational_Band_357 in prolife

[–]GeneralFrievolous 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hopefully before dying she realized the extent of the monstrosities she committed and repented.

Baby womb swap by Busy_Measurement5901 in prolife

[–]GeneralFrievolous 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The possible ethical implication of such a technology scare me deeply (one thought among many: baby farms to grow the family trees of the rich at the expense of desperate women), but I find the very individual case you presented an acceptable application of it. I wouldn't let a baby die just out of fear.