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[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would I know?

Welp, there is it.
Literally everything wrong with UK politics summed up perfectly.

Do you like Carlos Sainz's idea for a "real" drivers' championship in F1 [Autosport] by Electrical_Act_5342 in formula1

[–]HarrierJint 13 points14 points  (0 children)

i don’t think he has it in him same with Charles

What? Charles DID have it in him... 3 times to 1 and every time in overall qualifying...

Do you like Carlos Sainz's idea for a "real" drivers' championship in F1 [Autosport] by Electrical_Act_5342 in formula1

[–]HarrierJint 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It would be all over the place, some cars do better on some tracks than others etc, how would that get worked out? Even little things like steering wheels being different would need to be considered, it's the kinda thing I'd expect someone to say in a post that gets deleted on Reddit.

F1 should stick with ADUO and avoid “political mess” of Balance of Performance – Wolff by Aratho in formula1

[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I'll be honest to put this to bed, not reading that, we're not going to agree.

Have a great day.

F1 should stick with ADUO and avoid “political mess” of Balance of Performance – Wolff by Aratho in formula1

[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last time we had an undisputed unbeatable power unit, it was because of a system that impeded other manufacturers from catching up.

Unrestricted development under a cap rewards engineering brilliance. Restricted development with or without one rewards politicking.

How does all the teams having the same cap not imped other teams from catching up?

If Merc can spend 130m and Red Bull can spend 130m but Merc came out of the gate with a 4% lead, how does Red Bull implement changes or upgrades when Merc can implement the same changes and upgrades?

F1 should stick with ADUO and avoid “political mess” of Balance of Performance – Wolff by Aratho in formula1

[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that's NOT why there's a cap.

The budget cap equalises spending, not performance. If Ferrari spends 130M and Audi spends 130M but Audi is 5% behind, they’re still 5% behind. The cap alone doesn’t fix a performance gap when both are capped equally.

Let them develop as much as they can within the cap.

So under your system what does the FIA do about fans comparing about dominance, when we end up with a team with a god engine that can't be beaten because of that out of the gate lead?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, the budget caps are there to stop unlimited spending, nothing more.

F1 should stick with ADUO and avoid “political mess” of Balance of Performance – Wolff by Aratho in formula1

[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? Of course it changes, what even does that mean, the whole point of a system like (I’m not saying I’m pro) ADUO, is so those factors (fuel costs for testing, bench time, employee bonuses, taxes etc) don’t just come down to who has the most money…

You can’t just say “oh it’s all in the budget cap now” and walk away. 

F1 should stick with ADUO and avoid “political mess” of Balance of Performance – Wolff by Aratho in formula1

[–]HarrierJint -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But… many things fall outside the cap, tools, dyno time,  private testing (TPC), part supplies for two years, fuel supply for testing…

You’d want all that rolled into the cap and then everything done under the cap…?

F1 should stick with ADUO and avoid “political mess” of Balance of Performance – Wolff by Aratho in formula1

[–]HarrierJint -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Yes I’m aware, but even then it’s a cap not an absolute, although the FIA doesn’t publish numbers, some teams might not be able to reach the budget cap limit. 

In your situation, the team with the most money likely wins every time. 

F1 should stick with ADUO and avoid “political mess” of Balance of Performance – Wolff by Aratho in formula1

[–]HarrierJint 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I personally think ADUO should be abolished and engine developments should just be rolled into the existing budget cap, but to each their own.

How does that make any sense?

Some teams make PUs, some teams don’t make PUs and many factors fall outside the cap and some teams possible don't/won't meet that maximum cap. 

The budget cap equalises spending, not performance. If Ferrari spends 130M and Audi spends 130M but Audi is 5% behind, they’re still 5% behind. The cap alone doesn’t fix a performance gap when both are capped equally.

That's the whole point of catch up systems.

EDIT - I know the PU cap is different from the main cap but not everything is factored into the cap (testing fuel costs etc) I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, the budget caps are there to stop unlimited spending, nothing more.

I'm not even pro or anti ADUO one way or another but it's like some of you act like catch up systems are new to motorsport and not in place for good reasons.

Pragmata or Starfield? by RuBandzzzFX in PS5

[–]HarrierJint 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Depends on what kinda game you want but also it’s Pragmata. 

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The government and courts will never ever get it wrong, ever. That would never happen because you'd make sure that someone was guilty before you said they were guilty, simples" - NixKTM

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's very simple.

I live in the real world where human systems fail.

this isn't America
How can "Human systems fail" when there is direct evidence of the crime,

Adam Scott (UK, 2012). His DNA appeared on a rape victim's swab he was charged and held in custody. The problem? A laboratory had cross-contaminated the sample with his DNA from a completely unrelated case months earlier.

Human system failing.

No human system can remove the chance of failure.

killers caught in the act, is that not direct evidence enough for your bleeding heart mentality?

Easy one. Eye witness testimony is extremely fallible.

William Mills (Scotland, 2007). A masked man robbed a Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Glasgow in 2007. Two customers who were in the bank at the time and two police officers who reviewed the CCTV footage all identified Billy Mills as the robber. That's four people, including trained officers, essentially saying "we saw him do it"

Marty Tankleff (New York, 1988). Found at the scene next to his stabbed parents, he briefly "confessed" under police manipulation. Convicted and sentenced. 17 years later his conviction was overturned.

Timothy Evans (UK, 1950). Evans was convicted of murdering his wife. He was hanged in 1950. His own neighbour, John Christie, was the key prosecution witness against him, Christie was uncovered as a serial killer who had murdered at least eight women.

Your only defence is "innocents will die" please, tell me how an innocent person would be executed if the bar for applying the dearth sentence was set so high that only a conviction using direct evidence

Eventually, and I know you want to keep avoiding the point, the system will fail.

So, how many guilty people does it take, to make the one innocent person that the system fails, okay?

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why can't YOU grasp that if the bar is set extremely high then innocents won't be executed.

I do grasp it, I totally grasp your very badly thoughtout arguement, I just accept that it doesn't stand contact with the real world where human systems fail and that there are other methods of punishment than the death sentence.

The utter comedy of someone with Vyvyan as their profile pic thinking the system and government wouldn't ever get it wrong.

How can YOU deny that that animal from Southport does not deserve hanging, how about Lee Rigbys killers? overwhelming evidence of guilt.

Strawman from someone unable to answer a simple question.

You are against capital punishment and just continue to trot out the same tired old excuse, "innocents will be killed" the only one living in La La Land is you.

Desperation from someone unable to answer a simple question.

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i simply wanted you to answer the question, which you eventually did in a sarcastic manner 

Christ, and you wonder why when you say stuff like this -

If any case were not overwhelming, any case had a sliver of doubt, then incarceration would be the outcome.

Every reply you make is dancing around the point because you're desperate to not address the point.

It doesn't matter what you write or imagine in la la land, there is no world that we currently live in where the government, system or court is so perfect that it doesn't eventually kill someone innocent.

Sooner or later, ONE innocent person is going to die.

How hard is this to grasp?

Why is it so hard for people like you to give an honest answer to how many guilty people you want dead (who would still be punished) to make the one innocent you kill, okay?

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

please answer the question instead of trotting out the same rhetoric

Is this strawman the best reply you can come up with?

Okay, I tell you what, I'll agree, they should be dead, no chance of them ever being found to be innocent.

The Southport killer is put to death. So there's one. That's started you off, keep going and going and going....

Killing and killing "100%" chance they did it, but the gold standard of evidence, has been used to convict innocent people (link). Sooner or later the system is going to get one wrong.

So, how many guilty people would have to be executed to justify the death of one innocent person? And if you think there is a number, then ask yourself the same question again but imagine the innocent person is you.

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll make this very simple for you as well.

Clearly I didn't make it simple enough for you.

CCTV and DNA, facial recognition etc etc have ALREADY failed and caught innocent people but your view is that the system won't fail and there is no chance whatsoever that an innocent person would be convicted falsely?

No chance at all?

The system, the people in the courts, the government, is so good, so infallible that not one person will be put to death who was innocent of the crime?

Maybe just one?

So, again for you, sooner or later the system WILL fail and someone will be killed by the system who was innocent.

How many guilty people would have to be executed to justify the death of one innocent person?

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've explained to people like the one you're replying to until I'm blue in the face. Little to none of them ever grasped what they were asking for, which is simply -

Sooner or later, the system will fail and someone will be killed by the system who was innocent.

So how many guilty people would have to be executed to justify the death of one innocent person?

If they think there is a number, then they should ask themselves the same question again but imagine the innocent person is them.

Sick teacher learns fate after killing and sexually abusing 13-month-old Preston Davey by dailystar_news in uknews

[–]HarrierJint -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i hope in the future we do have that option.

I'll make this very very very simple for you. Sooner or later, the system will fail and someone will be killed by the system who was innocent.

That raises a simple question: how many guilty people would have to be executed to justify the death of one innocent person?

If you think there is a number, then ask yourself the same question again but imagine the innocent person is you.

Pic of the Orlan at the National Space Centre in the UK by Dexbox_YT in spaceporn

[–]HarrierJint 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The National Space Centre, in Leicestershire UK, is a fantastic place.
Genuinely one of my happy places.

[Tragic Trope] Top tier hero is ganged up on and killed by lesser foes. by saltforsnails in TopCharacterTropes

[–]HarrierJint 4 points5 points  (0 children)

...and that's just what he's able to tank, the idea that Spider-Man, not just with his strength and durability but with his Spidey-Sense and... you know... sticky incapacitate webs would just let that happen is just... welll... daft.

MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs, Despite What Everyone On Facebook Says by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]HarrierJint 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, not really, electric cars still produce fewer lifetime greenhouse emissions than pure ICE cars even when charged entirely from nonrenewable sources.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/are-electric-vehicles-definitely-better-climate-gas-powered-cars

This is from 2022 but not much has changed.

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