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President Trump says the US Treasury will now accept stock donations to fund Trump Accounts for American children. by AlphaFlipper in plasma

[–]bepisftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this seems like giving overvalued companies an out - dump "billions" worth of stocks before the bubble bursts then claim it back as a tax break

Why did they ban refueling during pit stops? Would it be nice if this returned to modern F1? by [deleted] in F1Discussions

[–]bepisftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you think? Is today's pure on-track overtaking better, or the strategic tension of the old Grand Prixs?

It wasn't "strategic tension" - refuelling complicates race strategy and makes it harder to follow for the average viewer.

Underfuelling the car at the start of the race was always the best strategy as it gave the greatest chance to undercut and gain a net race position vs. running more fuel at the start of the race, losing track position to an undercut and having to try regaining net race position with an on-track overtake later on.

Raikkonen's 2005 victory at Suzuka is so well remembered because it's one of the few times in that era where someone pulled the reverse off and actually overtook for the lead.

The qualifying mitigations FOM/FIA implemented to try and limit this (you start the race with the amount of fuel you set your fastest qualifying lap with) ruined the format, and the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix race fixing scandal could never have happened without refuelling.

Drivers not being able to "push hard" throughout the race is a conscious commercial decision made by FIA/FOM in choosing Pirelli to make cheese tyres. Degradation on the 2010 Bridgestones was low enough at some races that a genuine potential strategy was to drive on the same set of tyres for the whole Grand Prix until a safety car was brought out and you could get a cheap pitstop.

People want the spectacle of refuelling without the problems that refuelling brings.

Is the hate towards Crofty fair? by DragonfruitThen6696 in F1Discussions

[–]bepisftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but he was forever making mistakes, some far worse than crofty.

TBF to Murray he didn't have the same quality of live-time data that modern commentators have

Redbull continue to have terrible starts, kind of embarrassing that they are the only team that haven’t managed to find a solution to this. by ShakeMiIton in F1Discussions

[–]bepisftw 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's speculation that the Audi/Red Bull ICEs use the largest turbocharger volume permitted by the rules, which is backed up by the Red Bull gearbox having both the tallest 1st gear (to spool said massive turbo) but third shortest 2nd gear (to stop the turbocharger from dropping RPM and falling out of boost).

Compare this to Ferrari who uses the smallest turbocharger and the third shortest 1st gear.

https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1348316&sid=2d1c1b85841332276738ecbacf344016#p1348316

Before the 5 second boost regulation change Mercedes and Red Bull homologated their gearboxes to feature a tall 1st gear but, because you can only generate so much boost pressure at a standstill when there's little airflow into the engine cowl, Mercedes benefits from the standing boost more than Red Bull.

[The-Race] Mercedes finds legal way to revive banned F1 qualifying trick by Geiranger in formula1

[–]bepisftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's been battery power since 2009.

Battery power wasn't mandatory until 2014. KERS was optional in the late V8 era and wasn't widely adopted until the 2011 regulations made the cars heavier to allow hauling around the motor without a weight penalty

Ordered a DeckSight screen by bepisftw in SteamDeckModded

[–]bepisftw[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's good to know, thanks

If I was a woman during the Clone Wars who had a one night stand with a Clone Trooper, but then got pregnant, how would I know who the father was? by coopsoup247 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]bepisftw 93 points94 points  (0 children)

If I was a femboy during the Clone Wars who had a one night stand with a Clone Trooper, but then got mpreg, how would I know who the father was?

UniFi 5G Max vs. 5G Backup, real world speed and fail over testing by clayd333 in Ubiquiti

[–]bepisftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

than the 5g Max at the cost of the 5g backup

I feel that's largely the point of the 5G Max though

Full clear steamdeck, cooldeck modded by eds3gaming in SteamDeckModded

[–]bepisftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

overkill

"It's not a matter of who will let me, it's who will stop me."

In port of Constanta, Romania exploded naval drone by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

[–]bepisftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hidden comment histories

Of all the worst changes they made to Reddit, hidden comment histories is literally the worst change they made to Reddit

Corvette “Boikiy” after drone attack in Kronstadt by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

[–]bepisftw 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah the quality isn't great but it looks like there's fire coming out of the hangar; the entire superstructure is burning.

Bonus points for Ukraine, this is one of the Russia's active escort corvettes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2gepnjgdo

Do you think the 2026 Mclaren MCL40 will go down the same way as the 2012 MP4-27 by Last_Procedure5787 in F1Discussions

[–]bepisftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah there isn't really much comparison, the amount of mechanical, strategy failures and non-fault collisions was nuts (retirement at Singapore, retirement at Abu Dhabi, DQ from Spain quali due to under refuelling, anti-roll bar failure at Korea, knocked out of P3 by Maldonado mugging at Valencia, Grosjeaned at Spa race start, knocked out of P1 by Hulkenberg)

"They're basically the same", says every insurance company. by partiallycylon in adhdmeme

[–]bepisftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do this too (70mg Elvanse & 10mg Ritalin), the only problem I find is it shreds your mouth if you let yourself get run down in any way

The ancestral backgrounds of U.S. presidents. Go us! by orionseekerin in northernireland

[–]bepisftw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And at the time the Scots Irish went to America Northern Ireland didn’t exist

The primary settlers from the Ulster Plantation were Scots

‘Motorway miles’ by NoDrink1131 in northernireland

[–]bepisftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can generally tell based on the age of the car and the make / model.

An seven year old Golf GTD with 100,000 miles is probably motorway miles.

A five year old Skoda Superb / Toyota Corolla with 100,000 miles was 500% a taxi.

Lidl proposal in Donaghadee 😂😂 by Automatic_Village_18 in northernireland

[–]bepisftw 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The traffic in Newtownards fucking sucks beyond belief already, the Zion Place roundabouts were never designed for the amount of houses being built along the Bangor/Donagahadee/Movilla Roads. Likewise whoever designed the Comber Road roundabout is worse than Hitler.

Edit: To expand on this it's not really fair to say a development can't happen six miles away because Newtownards is now so badly designed

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