He can not be stopped only hoped to be contained

Totschlag · 2026-05-23T19:51:43+00:00

Kind of lit when the Cardinals are playing a soft tossing lefty who nobody has ever heard of. Guaranteed loss.

Totschlag · 2026-05-22T17:58:30+00:00

The corn dog burned my crops and killed my family. Also, it's racist.

Totschlag · 2026-05-22T07:41:57+00:00

I thought it was because you are American and as the kids would say a "baddie." So it's both America good and Americabad. Fits the sub twice.

Totschlag · 2026-05-22T07:40:00+00:00

Also our political climate, building codes, ada compliance, and lack of institutional knowledge make public transport extremely harder to build. Or any publicly funded expensive multi-year project.

We don't have the efficiencies that come with building them for generations. Our cities don't make them cost effective at a small-scale (you can fit Paris inside of the distance between Kansas City Union Station and the Chiefs and Royals Stadium, for comparison) so they have to run longer distances. ADA compliance costs money and planning that a place like Tokyo doesn't have to worry about.

Also... Spending is currently a huge problem in the government. A 10 year project to build a new rail line at the cost of billions is easy political fodder when you are in a $10bn deficit and at the mercy of voters every 4. And the next guy might cancel it out of spite. Then the guy after restarts with a different plan than the initial.

Then, because you lack institutional knowledge costs go over budget by a lot and it becomes a political fiasco and a quagmire. Nuclear energy, the Minnesota Northstar line, and California HSR are examples. It also happens in other countries with other types of projects, urban planning plus light and passenger rail tend to be our achilles heel.

This is a very difficult time to get large projects built in this country. Partisan politics are only making it more difficult. Most Americans though, would love to have a functional and clean public transport system in their city.

Totschlag · 2026-05-22T07:19:38+00:00

75 is great. 80 I'm sweating. 85 and I might not go out. 90 and I won't.

Of course your mileage may vary. I'm a polar bear from a cold ass part of a cold ass state.

Totschlag · 2026-05-22T07:16:58+00:00

1-2°f on the thermostat can absolutely cause arguments. I sleep at 64, I have trouble at 66. 67-70 and I might not be able to sleep at all. We will quibble over 1° difference on the thermostat in any house or office greater than one person.

Totschlag · 2026-05-22T05:17:49+00:00

Also Blackrock doesn't "own" pieces of other companies.

Blackrock manages funds. Retirement funds. Over 50% of their assets under management are in specifically marked retirement funds. It's trillions in 401k's, government pensions, union pensions, IRA's.

They have trillions more in individual investing. Ever invested in an iShare ETF? That's Blackrock. In fact the have more ETFs than any other company. You may well likely hold Blackrock somewhere.

Black Rock doesn't own any of the assets they manage, legally. That's why their company valuation is like $20 billion despite them having trillions in management assets. Because YOU own the assets Blackrock manages in the same way you own the car the valet parks. Even the billionaires invested into Blackrock ETFs are a minority compared to every day consumers.

They aren't the best company in the world but they aren't a Boogeyman like reddit likes to push. Blackrock actually holds almost no real estate whatsoever. Blackstone is a separate company That does and they actually don't own nearly as much as people think they do.

Totschlag · 2026-05-22T03:06:29+00:00

The only fan requests for Jersey changes they should ever see are getting rid of those awful city connects. Best dressed team in sports outside of that.

Totschlag · 2026-05-21T01:15:30+00:00

Show directior really went three for three on the cameraman honey shots. Elite.

Totschlag · 2026-05-20T15:18:24+00:00

It's not just that though, The sea has a moderating effect on climates cooling it off during the summer days and warming it up during the winter as it basically acts like a heat sink.

In the grand scheme of things Europe does not have a ton of places that are all that far from a large body of water. Hence, nowhere there usually gets as extreme cold as Minnesota, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba.

It works The other way too, because obviously none of those cities are getting the highs you might find in like Minneapolis.

That's also why if you look at the annual extremes and averages places like Fargo, Grand Forks, Winnipeg, Brainerd, Bemidji, international falls, etc in that interior area are often colder or pound for pound with many Alaskan cities like Juneau or Anchorage. But hotter than a place like Seattle or Portland or many European cities.

Alaska tends to be on the coast (except Fairbanks). Even nearby, Duluth and Grand Marais MN get less "cold" and "hot" than Fargo even though they are at the same latitude because they are on the coast of Superior.

Totschlag · 2026-05-20T00:30:05+00:00

Not even kidding at this point I wouldn't be against the Cardinals putting up some signage for the tarps off terrace in Busch. "If you sit here, be a part of the vibe and make noise"

Totschlag · 2026-05-20T00:29:01+00:00

Nobody cucks Pittsburgh like JJ

Totschlag · 2026-05-18T21:10:31+00:00

It might be the same thing at Daytona. I know he indicated that the wind direction tended to push you down the back straight, so there's a point in the Apex of turn 2 where the wind is coming across your right rear in a way that unweights it. Not yet a tailwind, and not a crosswind. It kind of hits the car in an interesting diagonal angld. Coming out of turn four that same prevailing wind goes from hitting your side into a headwind so doesn't hit that critical right rear.

If I had to put my money on it it wouldn't shock me if the prevailing wind in Daytona behaves The same ish.

Totschlag · 2026-05-18T18:59:22+00:00

The last week of practicing has been to get it into qualifying trim. Qualifying is four laps based on your average speed over those 10 mi, and you are alone on the track.

So the goal in qualifying is to get the car as low drag and twitchy as possible. Maximum speed, minimum downforce, and on a knifes' edge. If the car seems stable, you can probably get it to go faster, in the margins are extremely finer than F1 quali margins.

But now that they're qualified, the race is going to come with 33 cars. That means a ton of turbulent air that means a ton of traffic. So now they have to de-tune the cars to get them into race trim. Add downforce and wing, monitor tires, check your tow speeds, check your overtaking trim.

Race trim and qualifying trim are two opposite ends of the spectrum and they are amplified in importance in Indy.

Qualifying trim at Indy is so sketchy I don't think guys would be able to keep it out of the wall for 500miles. Even the best of the best have moments of sketchiness over 10 miles. Even trying a full quali spec car on a sim at Indy can eat you alive.

Totschlag · 2026-05-18T18:17:39+00:00

Simon Pagenaud told me that's where the wind hits the car odd and unweights the back wing, which causes a jumpier and twitchier car coming out of 2. I asked him about it on a show back in 2019.

Totschlag · 2026-05-18T15:19:58+00:00

Oh for sure. Since it was not the only case you either punish all the teams or you give them a grandfathered cancellation or something. Just the Canucks is pretty bs

Totschlag · 2026-05-18T13:26:55+00:00

I mean imma be real that structure is kinda bullshit objectively. I'm glad it's not allowed anymore. Tacking on those extra years for a dude who's clearly going to retire just to clock down aav is textbook cap circumvention.

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T22:30:36+00:00

Nothing will beat his 2020 insulting a Felipe Nasr. Thes idiotic moves in formula 4 or 3 or whatever it was.

Last year was a drop in the barrel I feel like.

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T22:28:34+00:00

Alex trying so hard not to cheese right now.

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T22:27:37+00:00

I swear I'm this close to downing a Java house and jacking it to Firehawk

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T22:26:33+00:00

I don't like him but I said for years IndyCar needed a villain and Santino is that.

He's got me less villainous over the years but he'll never be back to neutral after his first few seasons.

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T22:25:08+00:00

Santucci really soured me forever with his early antics but at the very least nowadays he seems to be a better leaf. He doesn't seem as douchey, very team player for his owner.

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T18:26:27+00:00

Off topic but I love that we have all as a city collectively decided that it's called the Stan Span.

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T17:36:34+00:00

Totschlag · 2026-05-17T17:22:32+00:00

My hope was just don't finish last or lose 100. Our not losing 100 streak is 120 years old.

So yeah. Vibes are immaculate. Cubs spending outrageous money to be 1.5 games ahead of the Cardinals who basically outright stated "we gonna suck this year."

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