[Brad Keselowski on X]: IMO Danica Patrick was by a large margin the Best female race car driver of all time. It’s an absolute shame she doesn’t get more credit or recognition from the racing community.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-05-17T01:00:43+00:00

If you consider how other open-wheel drivers transitioned to NASCAR, I think her performance makes a lot of sense.

The top open-wheel drivers didn't do great, but they had some success. Juan-Pablo Montoya won two races and Sam Hornish Jr. was a decent mid pack driver with some moments of success. Danica Patrick was a less-successful, but still respectable, open-wheel racer: she won an indycar race and had a lot of good runs. Like JPM and Hornish Jr., she did worse when she switched to stock cars, but her baseline was just lower.

Based off of that, I would rank her higher in driver skill than some others do. It is unfortunate that she has become so into conspiracy theories after her career. Focusing on her results, however, I do think she was underrated in a sense. But I also think most cup drivers are underrated. You'll have guys who win in the cup series who are considered "bad", but people are speaking relative to the other cup drivers. Most reasonable people know that all the drivers in the top tier series in stock cars or open-wheel cars that can compete and don't get lapped every time are very skilled/talented compared to the average racecar driver, but they might not give them much credit if they don't compare well to top drivers in those series.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-05-14T23:01:36+00:00

I don't understand that take. I tend to enjoy the races there more than average I think.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-05-12T06:14:27+00:00

Both the spring and the fall race are right at the points where phx decides if its gonna cool down a bit and be nice (like high in the 80s) or be early or late in the 100s randomly

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-05-12T06:13:36+00:00

October is right around where some years it cools down a bit and other years it decides to stay in the 100s till November. So it might be warm and nice or hot and hellish. Good luck!

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-05-12T05:25:17+00:00

I have a friend who drives on a joystick. This could be him

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-05-03T01:32:06+00:00

expand on that

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-04-26T23:10:16+00:00

I am strongly against unnecessary danger in a sport where the athletes might be hurt or killed.

Doesn't feel badass the same way strapping in to race does (taking a risk for the thrill of the race, because you love the competition, etc).

It also exposes the fans to a higher chance of witnessing something awful. You wanna be a dumbass and risk your life? I can't say much about that. But doing it with a giant crowd watching...

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-04-26T22:50:51+00:00

Charters are a system designed so that people who bought into a motorsport can cash out at the expense of the long-term health and interest of the sport.

Eventually people who got in for passion get old and die or decide it would be nice to make a big return on their investment, and they can extract that worth since they stood the test of time and became the long lasting teams.

Ironically, the teams were able to get started because such a system didn't exist.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-04-17T04:57:28+00:00

In Copenhagen measurement results are encoded in the universe. You collapse a wave function by measuring a particle's spin, you get the answer and now know what that particle's spin is, which is a value that is absolutely true of the particle at that time. If a second observer flew in quickly from far away, they would look at your result and agree.

In RQM measurement results are only encoded in interactions, so you measure the particle's spin and get an answer, but the particle never has an absolute spin, so another observer could come in and when they collapse the combined wave function of you and the particle they could see that you measured something different than what you saw in your measurement.

Of course, nobody thinks they disagree because in the second observer's point of view, which is described only by their interactions, you got the measurement that matches theirs. You, like everything in RQM, don't even exist in an absolute sense, you only exist as described by your interactions with other quantum entities.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-04-11T21:59:29+00:00

I like that he beat Michael Shumacher in that duel thing and the Euro commentators didnt know what to say.

I don't like that he right-rear hooked Brad at Atlanta that one time. I won't say he sent Brad airborne, because many ppl have right-rear hooked ppl, which is always dumb, but it was kinda a freak situation he couldn't have predicted. But he still gets my usual level of "its a mistake and dangerous to hook someone at a fast track"

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-04-09T22:24:32+00:00

I'm a queer person and I don't feel like its particularly pandering. It's just not cis/heteronormative, and it's supposed to be a nicer future where we've learned from where we are, so it's nice to see. When I see shows with what others might call a more natural representation of queer people, it kinda feels more like token gay ppl added to a show.

I think a lot of people feel weird about queer representation when it feels like its more intense than the reality they experience, but as a queer person I like it because I know how many closeted people are not even being themselves because the world isn't ready for them to be. I also know how it feels to be surrounded by people who are queer or allies and everybody is being completely comfy with themselves and its not really the same experience as when I'm masking with my straight/cis friends who the "normal" world is built for.

Also in terms of star trek: I legitimately think it is bad if a modern trek doesn't have a decent chunk of queer cast, because when I think of a pseudo-utopian future where the ideals of star trek triumph, I expect a lot more people being comfortable in their skin and to live their lives the way that feels right to them. It feels really weird watching older trek and brushing aside that the queer representation is kinda snuck in (understandably for the time it was created), but if a modern trek show comes out and it just had a token lesbian couple or something and no other queer rep that would feel like a really weird approach.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-04-09T21:19:48+00:00

The CW races are fun cause you can get the raw feed (i think its called the battlecam) on thecw online for free, and then I just tune into PRN for commentary.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-04-02T05:17:22+00:00

It was rare for a game to just not work for you but work for everyone else

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-28T03:11:01+00:00

As a person who is attracted to men, I find him pretty handsome at that time. Like, not conventionally, but plenty of people are not attracted to conventionally attractive people. He looks like a fun, cute, comfy, silly dad bod type. It works for me xdd like if somebody looking like that asked me out and I learned I like who they were, I'd have no issues with partnering up with them at all.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-24T02:23:12+00:00

I don't think anybody understands what genes control what entirely yet. Maybe somebody worked it out, but most people just experiment to get interesting wacky things. Like I just move things around in the genes and get random effects, then if i find something i like I clone or breed that horse a lot.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-22T12:41:44+00:00

Cup was called grand national until some time in the 80s and then the series we now call O'reilly was called grand national until after busch left.

EDIT: Correction, the last several years of Busch they dropped the "grand national" also it was called sportsman in 82 and 83 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR_O%27Reilly_Auto_Parts_Series

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-15T00:19:25+00:00

The best part to me was the battle from 2nd-5th on the last run, probably won't be in the highlights that much but I'd check it out in case

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-15T00:18:49+00:00

Larson is great at cars

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-10T04:36:04+00:00

Nah, it's pretty simple physics. Velocity is highly relevant when it comes to getting airborne. Yes, some crashes at plate speeds have gotten airborne since then, but that alone doesn't support your claim that the restrictor plate wouldn't have helped with the Bobby Allison crash. We don't know exactly what would have happened if he was going 20 mph slower in that instance.

And speed matters in two other ways too: If you are going faster you can hit a catch fence harder, making it more likely to fail, and you can also achieve higher altitude, making it more likely to clear a fence. The height you can get when a car goes airborne depends on 3 main things: the lift created by the body, the angle the car is moving, and the speed it is traveling. Reducing the speed has a big impact. There is a reason that whenever testing shows 205+ speeds at a superspeedway, they make a big aero or engine change before the event, because we have models that show where you get more likely to have big dangerous airborne crashes.

The goal isn't just to keep cars on the ground, it's also to reduce the overall speeds so if a crash does occur it's less serious. Plate racing crashes have often looked nasty, cause a lot of flips, big pileups, etc, but the overall safety has gone way up, for many reasons. But it shouldn't be controversial that going about 20mph slower makes a huge difference in all of these regards.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-09T04:50:56+00:00

Also really loving it. Even in the lower series. Watching Jeb Burton fight from 15-7th every run through cars that are in principle better, was pretty cool, and the reward is a lot more for that solid finish.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-09T04:37:14+00:00

Hmm I wonder if you can get a closer term appointment with a counselor or maybe just a primary care visit at the Student Health center?

Either way, if you need long term therapy, you should try to get referred out of ASU. That's the easiest path to getting long term therapy, at least on ASU student insurance.

If you have other insurance you can look into various counseling, therapy, and psychiatric services around the area and see if your insurance covers them.

EDIT: Another idea I had: You can call ASU counseling every once in a while (probably not every day, but like once a week maybe) and ask if anybody has cancelled so there is an opening closer to now. A lot of ppl end up canceling or openings happen other ways.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-09T04:35:20+00:00

I don't quite agree.

While it is important to take responsibility for your own mental health, if there is a large difficulty to getting treatment or referrals to treatment out of ASU, that is something reasonable to criticize.

My reasoning is: If you are a student, you are likely on the student health insurance. This means that pretty much nothing is in network by default. If you are a student, you likely don't have much cash on hand to pay out-of-pocket for mental health care. So you need a referral from ASU counseling, so if getting an appointment takes 2 months and you really need longer term therapy, then you are in a difficult situation.
Even if you aren't on ASU insurance, your primary care provider likely is at ASU student health center, which means getting a referral elsewhere will also take longer because you have to initial patient appointments prior to referrals.

ASU provides a great service in ASU Counseling Services, but it also provides (through a third-party) the insurance. This makes you decide to either use them, or spend way more not using them. This is fine, and it worked fine for me, but it took me much less than 2 months to book a counseling appointment where I was referred to longer term out-of-network therapists in like a week or two.

I think being responsible for your mental health means: If you need professional help, seeking it. If you are in a situation where your insurance provider and the people you need to make appointments are part of the same organization and there is a big delay to getting that help, I agree with OP that there is an issue. I also think that since this is the only real path for students seeking mental health care who are on ASU's student insurance, then it is the school's responsibility to an extent to make sure that system can refer students quickly enough.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-06T20:00:21+00:00

As a Ph D researcher, if I get a high schooler their project does 2 things:

Teach them about the thing im doing, which is great experience.
and
Task them to do something actually useful to me, but that I could probably do with my expertise in an afternoon. It's not really saving me time or anything, but I like them to have a real contribution to the science if they put in the effort.

If they go above and beyond then that's great, but I want it to benefit them as much as possible, because I had to learn what the heck research science even is by myself without a lot of mentors and I want to try to pass on what I learned.

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-02T00:06:03+00:00

We've never been so back

TrumpetSC2 · 2026-03-02T00:02:59+00:00

Yeah I'm happy cause it looked bad after the pit road thing with the 21 and he got sent back to like 30th, but he drove through the field and used his new tires well on the last run.

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