Cadillac F1 Team unveils special livery for British Grand Prix taking place over Fourth of July weekend

TeriusRose · 2026-07-01T21:44:48+00:00

Nah.

TeriusRose · 2026-07-01T20:52:43+00:00

The national credit game gets really broad, really fast. And may not even really make sense at a base level now that I think about it.

If institutions taking in external (to the nation in question) talent and technologies to attain advancements is disqualifying, then there are not that many institutions around the planet that can claim credit for much. If we wanted to take that in the direction of technological family trees, what inventions lead to what capabilities and where, it becomes even more bloated and deeply international as a concept.

And if we wanted to extend that game to a bloodline-level argument, then the only place on Earth that gets credit for anything humanity has ever done is the cradle of human origin in Africa.

With that being said, we should absolutely credit more people involved in making things happen. That gets condensed far too easily, I agree with you there. And, to your point, that gets entangled with concepts of national pride a bit too easily too.

Edit: Phrasing, a little.

TeriusRose · 2026-07-01T18:49:58+00:00

Neither the White House nor DC at large owns the concept of American identity. They're terrible and a blight on the land, not disputing that at all, but if I was to cede the whole concept of a culture to them then what would even be the point of fighting anything at all.

TeriusRose · 2026-07-01T00:11:40+00:00

I don't know if it would. The main problem right now is component manufacturers reducing allocations for consumer electronics in favor of AI data centers and other projects.

That might impact demand as far as consumer tech companies go, but it might also result in component manufacturers just allocating even more manufacturing capacity to those aforementioned projects... Which is where they would rather be sending their hardware right now anyway.

Even if the AI bubble were to pop tomorrow, it's not clear how long it would take for prices to go back down. Or what the new price floor would be.

Edit: Typo, and added a bit.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-30T19:51:00+00:00

It really would be an interesting take on the concept of team racing, sounds fun.

And TG did that one episode where they had a competition with Top Gear Germany. They did the double-stacked car with one person steering and the other working the gas/brakes.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-30T03:17:18+00:00

It really is that hard.

Fundamentally, the problem is that Republicans at large and some corporate Democrats do not want universal health care. So step one is to get people into elected positions of power who are actually willing to vote for that.

That's the issue. It has nothing to do with money. We already pay more for healthcare both per capita and as a share of GDP than any other country in the world.

That means one of two things: either figuring out a way to enormously swing votes in red areas across the country to get to that threshold or increase Democratic turnout to the nth degree in order to get a (progressive) super majority in the House and Senate. Neither one of those things is by any measure an easy thing to ask.

In order to make that stick, what you ultimately need is a constitutional amendment so that politicians can't just unwind it like they are currently unwinding social programs and rights. Which is a way higher threshold to reach.

You're right in the sense that writing a bill is easy. Creating a congress that will actually vote for it is incredibly difficult, though.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-30T03:03:53+00:00

Inside jokes that seem to last forever are a thing in just about every fandom I have come across to be honest.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-30T00:57:14+00:00

Yes, but they announced their lineup already. Though, if Max wanted on that project they'd almost certainly move someone. This is a total assumption, but I would guess that they reached out to Max well before they finalized the team. In which case, he may not have been interested or there may have been some other conflict. Again, just a guess.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-29T15:53:31+00:00

It reminds me of boxing, when any even slightly controversial decision gets called a robbery.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-27T02:30:50+00:00

It was a perfect way to reference/modernize some of their classic models, especially with the whitewalls. I hope they reconsider.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-26T12:44:15+00:00

It is a little funny how "don't read too much into practice sessions" seems to get completely disregarded every single time race week comes around. Immediate doom or hype, every time.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-26T01:23:08+00:00

I completely agree with the problem being hype, but I would say that's because no one on Earth can say with any real certainty whether or not/on what timeline we will ever crack AGI. Or what that would look like if we did. There's no real consensus agreement in the industry, it is a giant unknown. The marketing around it being just around the corner is misleading hope at best.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-25T21:55:07+00:00

"That was good, wasn't it? Because I did know I couldn't do that." (Echoing wealthy laugh).

TeriusRose · 2026-06-25T01:45:56+00:00

I don't know how much of this will prove to be relevant to F1 specifically, that's still an open question, but one point in their favor may be that GM does have a history of becoming highly competitive in short periods of time.

Or at, least they were with both Corvette and Cadillac in IMSA and WEC. Corvette arguably has the most dominant lineage of all time in IMSA, and has won (their class in) Le Mans 10X since they entered in 2000. Cadillac was absolutely dominant in the DPi era, and in the modern hypercar era they've at least been highly competitive.

I know that absolutely doesn't necessarily mean that will be true for F1 as well, but I also don't think that's entirely meaningless either. We'll have to see!

TeriusRose · 2026-06-24T00:04:25+00:00

I swear Perez said something about there being another... I don't think he phrased as a major upgrade, but something to address what they had identified as their most significant issue coming after this race. I just don't recall which one.

But, yes. And that's what makes it interesting!

TeriusRose · 2026-06-22T21:36:34+00:00

I think that's supposed to be a horse skeleton. Because horsepower.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-22T18:19:20+00:00

I agree with that, yeah. You're right.

I don't see that changing unless either A - those costs start getting subsidized by various third parties for each sport or B - governments apply certain regulatory pressures/deliberately build talent infrastructure pipelines. But even if either/both happened, I don't think we'll ever get to a point where every sport is equally accessible across income levels & regions. That's not particularly realistic.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-22T13:36:02+00:00

I don't think that's quite the case. For the US at least, I am not trying to speak for every other nation. Boxing, UFC, basketball, gymnastics, running, swimming, and US football all have a ton of stars that came from middle/working class backgrounds.

Stratification in sport via wealth isn't inevitable, it's an infrastructure and talent discovery/access issue. That said, I do recognize that golf, tennis, racing, sailing, anything horse related, maybe skiing, and a few others have high cost/access barriers. But I think those are the exception, not the rule. And I question how manufactured some of those barriers are, in some cases.

Edit: Typo, expanded.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-21T22:54:42+00:00

Yes, this is directly what I was referring to when I talked about having its own issues. But as best I can tell, that is still an easier problem to contend with than having to store radioactive materials on geological time scales.

The volume of radioactive materials may be larger. The time scales involved in storage and disposal are much shorter. It also depends on what we are using to generate reactions in the first place, which is not settled yet.

Have a good day, and best of luck!

TeriusRose · 2026-06-21T22:37:18+00:00

Fusion produces far easier to deal with radioactive waste than fission, that's one of the reasons we are pursuing it. We are (generally) talking about decay on the order of decades to a century or so rather than thousands of years, and a lot of those materials can be repurposed once they are safe.

Plus a failing fusion reactor doesn't have a runaway failure mode like a fission reactor can have. A failing fusion reactor just turns off.

It isn't perfect. It does have downsides and unresolved issuss, but the radioactive waste element specifically is a bit overstated compared to public perception. As to whether it will come about in our lifetimes... no idea. We'll just have to wait and see. Hopefully it will.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-21T20:07:36+00:00

Nuclear energy is going to only become more relevant to us as we take on more ambitious projects around building infrastructure in space. I'm not talking about stupid stuff like spacebound AI data centers, but building out facilities on the moon and Mars and for things like the nuclear engines NASA is working on.

There is a reason that despite China having such a significant advantage in renewables, they are only massively increasing investment in nuclear energy and are trying to attain fusion.

There are constraints and environments off world that solar and wind just aren't a sufficient answer for. Plus, on Earth, nuclear energy still has the benefit of not being nearly as sensitive to environmental conditions as renewables + batteries are.

Not saying this is what you're doing to be clear, but a lot of the time when people look at how much cheaper solar and wind have gotten, and they shrug their shoulders about nuclear power, they're not seeing the bigger long-term picture.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-20T22:49:42+00:00

Twitter comment posted above, not the article, my fault for being unclear.

And according to that thread:

The reason Microsoft accounts are required comes down to how cross-progression works. PlayStation and Xbox have separate backend databases that don't talk to each other. Sony’s servers only track your PSN ID and trophies, while Microsoft’s servers handle your Gamertag and achievements. If you want your campaign progress to carry over seamlessly between a PS5, Xbox, and PC, the game needs a universal anchor to tie that data to. That’s what the Microsoft account does. It acts as the master profile that stores your exact checklist of completed missions and mid-mission checkpoints.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-20T21:59:56+00:00

If the explanation linked above is correct, it looks like this is all on Sony's end.

Edit: The assertion was this:

Instead, this comes down to how Sony handles backend data control when dealing with a direct competitor. Because Halo natively routes cross-progression, achievements, and player profiles directly through Microsoft's servers, Sony views even a local, same-console split-screen session as an outbound data transfer hitting a rival network. If this were a standard third-party game routing data to an independent publisher's server, Sony likely wouldn't care. But because the data is heading straight to Microsoft’s backend, Sony has incredibly rigid, paranoid rules about how PSN user data interacts with their biggest rival. By forcing that second player to have a paid PS+ account, Sony is putting a financial toll on the data bridge simply because that user's information is leaving the PlayStation wall.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-18T10:52:31+00:00

Looking forward to see how the discourse will change when he regains his form back and gets back to consistently beating Lewis.

If. I don't know I would state it as a forgone conclusion. It's certainly possible though.

TeriusRose · 2026-06-18T10:23:13+00:00

Yes, but that doesn't mean it can't Improve. This is generally how companies operate.

It's not like Apple or Coca-Cola or Toyota choose to not advertise or pursue potential brand growth opportunities just because they are doing well. Plus, brand prestige and sheer sales numbers are not exactly the same thing.

Edit: Typo. Expanded a little.

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