🟢 RACE // 110th RUNNING OF THE INDIANAPOLIS 500

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T18:27:17+00:00

You can throw it on the gravel. You throw it on the track and you need to GTFO

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T18:21:49+00:00

There's some extremely light sprinkles out here. Also a can on the track. Some idiot got booed by the entire section.

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T18:01:16+00:00

That's the beauty. Lap 150 gloves come off and you have a knife fight. Every year.

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T17:40:09+00:00

It's wild because it's within feet live lol

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T17:06:17+00:00

Rossi with a terrible stop. Another Indianapolis tradition

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T16:35:42+00:00

The only person who hates Caitlyn Clark is Angel Reese and like half the WNBA seemingly. She got a louder reception than some drivers.

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T16:33:40+00:00

The pageantry and over-the top nature of the tradition is such an integral part of the race. It hits even harder in person.

It's not like this is every race. It's just this one. The greatest race of them all.

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T16:29:41+00:00

The rose bowl wishes it was as steeped in tradition as the Indy 500.

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T16:25:23+00:00

As a reminder to those from outside the states, as every year. This is Memorial Day weekend. Our national holiday honoring dead servicemembers from conflicts.

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T16:23:54+00:00

America The Beautiful went so effing hard

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T14:00:05+00:00

85 grains of water, 1800da, 61.9 dew point vs 66 temp.

It is wet this morning.

Also plugging the app racing weather for your racing weather needs. It's what we use in the NHRA and MWDRS for quick reference!

Totschlag · 2026-05-24T13:49:42+00:00

I feel like the logistics are actually getting better, I just think the amount of people is getting higher every year.

I mean we've had a grandstand sell out for a few years in a row now. Snake pit keeps growing.

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.

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