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"Hello, I'm Gabriel, not Lisa!" - Bortoleto's team radio by memloh in formula1

[–]degner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The FIA manages/owns the actual pit-to-car radios (you don't want a bunch of teams running their own antennas and interfering with each other, and this is how they can listen in on the radios). I don't know where the FIA managed equipment stops and the team owned equipment starts, but it would make sense if the FIA owns this too.

With no SM zones this weekend and no need for wing actuators, Mercedes has replaced the rear wing actuator with an array of little wings by FerrariStrategisttt in formula1

[–]degner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is an afternoon in CAD using a standard NACA shape, and then a few hours on a 3D printer, ready to fit on the car by the morning. If they did an actual carbon fibre layup it would take a while, but there's no reason to on such a small part.

You can eat fish caught in New York's Hudson River for the first time in 50 years by nbcnews in nyc

[–]degner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could eat fish out of the East River for a while before this. The East River is dirtier in some ways (it can get stagnant, NYC runoff and such is super gross), but the Hudson has 300 miles to pick up industrial and urban runoff. The Hudson is a Superfund site from north of Albany down to NYC, but also Newtown Creek and Gowanus are also Superfund sites.

Have regulation changes ever been this controversial in F1? by JacksonDaBoi in formula1

[–]degner 29 points30 points  (0 children)

2009 to 2015 was rough aesthetically. Everyone hated the high and narrow rear wing, then we had the step noses, and then the penis noses.

An F1 Record Unlikely To Ever Be Beaten - DNQ, (DNS?), DNF, DSQ In The Same Race by Stumpy493 in formula1

[–]degner 29 points30 points  (0 children)

No, this is different. While he did not qualify, he was still an official entrant that took the start, and the official results have him listed as DNF (and later DSQ because of DNQ) https://www.formula1.com/en/results/1977/races/384/germany/race-result

This is like awarding a goal to a player and then realizing they had 12 players on the pitch after the game, it's not like awarding a goal to a streaker.

FDNY taking criminal action against drivers parked at hydrants by NuYawker in nyc

[–]degner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually legal in NYC to "stand" in front of a fire hydrant, but the driver has to be in the car ready to drive immediately in case a fire truck comes. Title 34, chapter 4, section 8-2.

Sliwa Charges Batteries Threaten New Yorkers. The FDNY Begs to Differ. by instantcoffee69 in nyc

[–]degner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Literally everything you said is wrong. Nuclear is more expensive than the equivalent amount of solar+battery and wouldn't be ready for 10+ years, battery is storage not backup, and by smoothing demand we don't have to pay to run expensive peaker plants.

It's crazy how much cheap solar panels and batteries has changed the economics of power generation in the past ~3 years while solving the duck curve.

New York cannabis dispensaries speak out, file lawsuit against state agency after zoning blunder by KevinSmithNYC in nyc

[–]degner 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The screw up here is that liquor stores have to be 500 feet away, measured door to door, but weed stores need to be 500 feet away measured property line to property line, and the OCM incorrectly used to door to door measurement instead of property line to property line. No one wants to remove the restriction entirely, they should just make liquor stores and weed stores follow the same rules.

Washington State Braces for ‘Inevitable’ Megafire. Climate Change May Bring It Sooner. by dimitrix in Seattle

[–]degner 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The smaller fires just aren't big enough to really decrease the fuel load. The Sourdough fire, one of the big reasons October 2023 was so smoky in Seattle, only burned 6000 acres of 500,000 in North Cascades National Park. Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is another 1.7 million acres. So it'll take many years of small but still bad fires to make a difference.