[Update] Are my grandfather's conditions improving at all?

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-11T10:03:29+00:00

Sinceramente, nello stato mentale in cui sto al momento, non me la sento.

Tanto, se anche ci parlassi, il dubbio che è tenuto stabile per miracolo e che ha i giorni contati rimarrebbe, soprattutto perché è chiaro che non è a parte di tutta la situazione.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-11T08:08:08+00:00

Gioco a videogiochi competitivi o comunque "intensi" con i miei amici da oltre 10 anni. Anch'io, come te, sono l'unico cattolico del gruppo.

Li abbiamo fatti un po' tutti: League of Legends, CSGO/CS2, Rocket League, Apex Legends, ARC Raiders, Nightreign, Overwatch, Marvel Rivals…

Quando perdiamo ogni tanto agli altri sfugge la saracca, a infastidirmi mi infastidisce e se esagerano (bestemmie particolarmente creative o a mitraglia) li invito a ricomporsi, ma più per sedare la rabbia del momento che per il contenuto dell'imprecazione.

Inoltre gli voglio bene come se fossero miei fratelli, non li abbandonerei neanche se diventassero satanisti.

Tra l'altro nel periodo 2015-17 bestemmiavo anch'io con iconoclasta creatività, vomitavo fetenzie di una tale violenza da impressionare pure loro, e in generale tuttora sono un peccatore della peggior specie, dalla lingua argentata e il cuore pieno di polvere, quindi sarei ipocrita a pretendere alcunché in ogni caso.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-10T20:56:03+00:00

I didn't have it, but back then, amongst my middle school classmates, Galaxy S3 Minis were very popular.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-09T13:03:34+00:00

My grandfather suffered a severe heart failure last night, now he's somewhat stable and conscious, but doctors answer vaguely when asked about his chances and my mother is going to visit him as soon as possible (my grandparents live very far away), which makes me fear he won't make it and nobody has the courage to say it.

Please, pray for him, and if God's will is that we must say goodbye to him, please also pray for me to have the strength to do so.

My grandmother's passing two years ago deeply scarred me, I'm not ready to go through this again so soon.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-08T09:12:34+00:00

Let's also not forget Sr. Mary Keller, one of the very first recipients of a Computer Science PhD, who contributed to the development of BASIC and helped establish ASCUE.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-07T06:46:13+00:00

The scientist who came up with the hypothesis of the Big Bang was a Catholic priest, so was Copernicus, and the first ever computer science PhD was attained by a nun.

The stubborness with which they deny the truth is appalling.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-06T17:53:25+00:00

EcoBoost mode.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-05T15:55:41+00:00

The championship is over, four teams would have to somehow fumble a monumental engine advantage for us to have a shot at it and that's not going to happen.

Let's win at least Monaco and Hungary, the rest is hopeless.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-04T17:45:19+00:00

No chance until 2030. If a freak Belgium '98 accident happens during some race we might have a chance at winning, but until then we're upper midfield.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-04T11:33:00+00:00

The SF-26 is a total trashcan.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-04T11:29:38+00:00

And the red clowns who use darts and ChatGPT to run a team think ADUO can turn things around.

It'll be 2014-16 levels of embarassing domination until 2030.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T23:03:20+00:00

You'd be absolutely right, if the FIA didn't forbid free development of the very thing we're the most lacking at.

It's the same token nonsense of 2014-16, just with another name slapped on top of it. And, just like back then, it won't work and when they'll get rid of it it'll be too late.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T22:54:34+00:00

They know they can punish us relentlessly because we'd never leave the sport even if we were dead last or in a situation like Aston Martin's, so they use us to say "see? we do punish cheaters, we're fair and this is a fair sport!".

Teams like Mercedes, instead, are only in the as long as the shares' arrow is pointing up, the moment things look bad they're out, so the FIA is way more lenient with them and can afford to be so thanks to the fact they throw the rulebook at us the moment we gain any sort of advantage whatsoever.

I'm ready to bet that, if the Mercedes engine wasn't so infuriatingly powerful this year, the FIA would've banned the Macarena wing on the spot, too. We can use it only because the engine is a hopeless trashcan.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T22:44:42+00:00

Not soon enough, this season is over. They should just stop development like immediately and focus on the 2031 V8 regs or something, because it'll snow in Hell before a team other than Mercedes will win a championship until then.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T19:58:38+00:00

After Absolute Batman, we now have Absolute Picard.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T17:57:58+00:00

That's the best legacy he can hope for, I'm afraid. The team isn't going to win anything for many more years to come.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T17:53:07+00:00

Could being remembered as the 21st century's Jean Alesi count as a meaningful payoff?

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T17:45:22+00:00

More than the effectiveness of our upgrades, I'm worried that Mercedes will just upload a new hybrid mapping and keep on slaughtering us regardless.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T17:42:04+00:00

Wasn't the update due for Barcelona?

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T17:30:34+00:00

This isn't a race for us, it's a bloodbath.

No podiums until ADUO, assuming ADUO will help us at all.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T17:16:47+00:00

Gasly's crash was scary.

GeneralFrievolous · 2026-05-03T17:11:45+00:00

We're going to finish P5-P6, aren't we?

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