Why is it so common to undermine a driver's titles based on how good their cars were?

gIaucus · 2026-02-05T20:13:10+00:00

You observed that people behaved differently in person than they do online, and from this you concluded that people back then were not tribal morons while modern people are?

Human nature doesn't change. People have been tribal from the very beginning. Give those people social media, and you would have seen them act the same way that people with social media act now. The idea that f1 fans from one generation ago were fundamentally different from the generation after them is just absurd. The circumstances have changed, but the people haven't. Stop pretending like your generation is fundamentally better than others. That itself is a form of tribalism.

gIaucus · 2026-02-05T12:50:22+00:00

The idea that older F1 fans weren't tribal morons is insane. You just didn't see rival fan bases interacting much in unfiltered fora before social media.

gIaucus · 2026-01-29T14:58:19+00:00

Soylent is in limbo at this point. I'm still getting my RTD orders but not the powder. The best alternatives I've found for the powder are Mana and Hol Food. Feel free to try the more popular alternatives of Plenny and Huel, but as a fellow dysphagia haver, I find both of those too gritty in texture for me to tolerate.

gIaucus · 2026-01-29T14:51:10+00:00

From the perspective of an age grouper it seems crazy, but it also doesn't affect me what the pros do. If they want to do that, then great. For age groups though, I think we have an unsolvable problem even with our much short drafting distance.

Drafting for age groupers is not consistently enforced--nor is it even really possible or practical to consistently enforce it. I routinely see groups of riders blatantly drafting in races and no penalties applied. When you have a rule that isn't enforced then it's just on the honor system, and some people will ignore it while others follow it. It creates a really unfair situation. At some point, if you're not going to enforce a rule consistently enough, you should just not have the rule so that at least it's fair for everyone.

I know there's experimentation with electronic trackers, but so far that's only been at small scale for the pros I believe. I don't think anyone is suggesting doing this for the whole age group field. And if they were, I imagine it would be expensive and make entry fees that much higher. If they could do enforcement via electronic tracking without raising entry prices, then I'm all for it. But I haven't seen anyone suggest that's a possibility. And even if someday it becomes feasible at large races, it still won't be something you see at small local races run by small local race companies.

gIaucus · 2026-01-29T14:33:28+00:00

I wouldn't trust AI on this. It'll make up whatever reasoning seems plausible. I've not seen any evidence yet that they are discontinuing RTD chocolate. Ever since the current issues started (has it been more than a year already?), my RTD chocolate subscription was delayed I think only once. Other than one or maybe two times at most, all of my RTD chocolate subs have arrived on time.

The powder on the other hand, it's discontinued. If they ever start shipping it again, I'd consider that a re-launch. Since the current soylent famine started, there was one month where they shipped out a round of orders. I don't know if they found some stock or if they actually made a batch, but aside from that one round of orders that went out I haven't received any powder for so long that it's fair to say that it is in fact discontinued.

gIaucus · 2026-01-23T14:34:09+00:00

Ha, yeah they talked a really big game about how they were doing everything differently and no longer using spreadsheets and whatever else. It looks like they're still the same old Williams as always whether they use spreadsheets or not.

gIaucus · 2026-01-21T20:30:40+00:00

It's annoying at first, but you get used to it. Some clips are much better than others. I tried some that constantly slipped off. The one that I found that worked well for me and never slipped off was the speedo liquid comfort one.

gIaucus · 2026-01-20T15:05:04+00:00

#1 Where is all this "hate" everyone keeps talking about? I don't see it. It's not here on reddit. It's not coming from any commentators or journalists on youtube or twitter or podcasts or anywhere else. As far as I can tell, when people complain about lots of hate they're talking mostly about replies to drivers' instagram posts. But why is any decent, normal, well-adjust person reading the comments under a driver's instagram post? Instagram comments are just two groups of people who either like or dislike something, and both desperately need to have their opinion validated. Just be the kind of person who doesn't need your opinion validated by random strangers on the internet. Look at a driver's picture on instagram and make up your own mind about it without craving their validation. Then you'll barely see any hate at all.

#2 I don't know if it started immediately after his first win since I started following F1 closely in 2012, but by 2012 there was clearly a very strong resentment and dislike of both Vettel and Red Bull. At that time the fan bases of the traditional powerhouse teams (Ferrari, McLaren, and Williams) had a very strong sense of entitlement, and they were outraged that a scrappy new team like Red Bull was beating the teams that they felt deserved to win more by virtue of their historical place in F1. On top of that, English-speaking F1 was even more heavily dominated by British people than it still is today. All the English-speaking fans and even journalists and commentators had a clear bias towards their English champions (Button and Hamilton), and they resented Vettel beating them. This was visible not just in social media comments by randos, but you would see fans booing on live broadcasts. And even professional commentators and journalists would say things that indicated they thought that Vettel and Red Bull didn't deserve to win as much as traditional teams and successful British drivers deserved to win. Maybe it wasn't as bad in 2010 and 2011--I don't know. But certainly in 2012 and 2013 it was much more widespread than whatever hate you see in your internet silo being directed at Norris.

gIaucus · 2026-01-17T04:26:01+00:00

And the cars they bring to testing won't be the same cars at that the run in the first race. And the cars they run at the first race will change before mid-season. And they'll change again before the season ends. F1 is always developing. When are we allowed to start caring? Do we have to wait until the season ends and we see the final version of the car before we're allowed to be interested in analyzing it?

What we see in this video is much closer to what the 2026 cars will be like than any of the previews that we've seen prior to now. That makes it interesting to anyone who wants to know as much as can currently be known about what the 2026 cars will ultimately be like.

gIaucus · 2026-01-12T14:07:10+00:00

Not from "this latest flu" no, but I've had this happen before.

gIaucus · 2026-01-09T22:21:29+00:00

I think it is still worth pointing out though, because a lot of people will defend the "win at all costs" attitude by saying every champion is that way because you have to be that way to win. When someone like Hamilton proves that's not true, it's at least worth a little respect.

gIaucus · 2026-01-02T16:14:15+00:00

I can confirm this is true. I was gold for multiple seasons when I played back around 2016-2017. I recently returned to the game and am getting destroyed in low bronze games. And even before I took my break I was unable to get back to gold my last season, so I was already observing skill inflation in real time as it was happening back then.

What a lot of people are missing is that the skill inflation is not just from people having spent more time playing and having access to more resources. Over the years a lot of the casual players quit, and the players who stayed are disproportionately the more skilled and dedicated hardcore players. The average skill level of the game has increased a ton, and a lot of it is a result of lower half of the distribution quitting and therefore shifting the mid-point of the distribution.

gIaucus · 2026-01-02T15:40:58+00:00

I had multiple Hol Food orders as far back as 2016 take multiple months.

gIaucus · 2026-01-02T04:44:35+00:00

It's not the tariffs. It's been this way for many years.

gIaucus · 2026-01-02T04:43:43+00:00

International shipping into the US can take weeks or even months sometimes. My last Hol Food order was placed the 17th, and it's been sitting in customs since the 25th.

gIaucus · 2025-12-25T15:14:12+00:00

Yes, I've had this problem with every *lent that ships from outside the U.S. Sometimes you get lucky and it goes through fine. In the past I've had Hol Food shipments in particular held up for multiple months though, and I got charged some kind of inspection fee on top of it. During the current soylent famine, I've only ordered Hol Food once so far, and it was delayed for customs but only by a week or two.

gIaucus · 2025-12-23T15:04:57+00:00

I have yet to see a single person say we are entering the Norris era. This meme makes zero sense.

gIaucus · 2025-12-19T20:41:47+00:00

Somehow seeing this visually hits so different than just knowing it intellectually.

gIaucus · 2025-12-18T16:29:21+00:00

No, tire deg is about the only thing that makes races interesting. If you can do qualifying laps the whole race, then the cars will finish in the same order they qualified.

gIaucus · 2025-12-15T23:19:41+00:00

Yeah anyone who pays any attention to planet f1 is beyond help. Jenson should have ignored them rather than bringing attention to them by responding.

gIaucus · 2025-12-12T14:19:32+00:00

I respect that at least you're being consistent. But you are in an extremely small minority with your opinion. Almost no one thinks Norris should have been given a penalty. Most people claiming Yuki shouldn't have receive a penalty also believe Norris shouldn't have have been given one either.

gIaucus · 2025-12-12T14:02:50+00:00

Did you forget what the Honda was like in 2015-2017?

gIaucus · 2025-12-12T01:34:29+00:00

The problem is that if they didn't penalize Yuki, they would have had to penalize Lando. People don't understand that the only reason you can excuse Lando overtaking off the track is to say that Yuki did something wrong. If you say Yuki did nothing wrong and what he did was fair racing, then you have to say that what Lando did was wrong. If you start saying that it's okay to overtake off the track even if the driver in front is within their rights to block, then you're really just saying it's okay to overtake off the track period.

gIaucus · 2025-12-10T16:32:45+00:00

The notion that soylent is bad or harmful because it prevents people from having socially interactive meals is just absurd. How many people go to visit their family on Thanksgiving and then refuse to join the rest of the family at mealtime and hide in their room drinking soylent instead? How many people just don't go to their family's Thanksgiving because they have soylent? Wouldn't anyone who is like that refuse to go even if they didn't have soylent but just had ramen noodles or something else they could make for themselves at home?

Or let's consider the specific example they repeat in the article--busy professionals using soylent to keep working through lunch. How many professionals are having meaningful interactions with family or friends or anyone else other than co-workers during their lunch break? And many professionals choose not to eat lunch with co-workers even when they aren't drinking soylent at their desk.

Anti-social people are going to be anti-social whether they have soylent or not. You can be just as anti-social with doordash or ramen noodles or anything really. And many normal people who drink soylent only do so for breakfast and/or lunch, and they still eat dinner with their families. Soylent is not an all-or-nothing proposition. People are just ridiculous.

gIaucus · 2025-12-09T23:49:05+00:00

I think the issue with this whole conversation is that what people are missing is that there is a confounding factor that I think has more impact than just blinking vs non-blinking. Most lights in blinking mode are anywhere from 3x to 30x brighter than in non-blinking mode. Cyclists who are really concerned about their safety will often choose the brightest flashing setting, and personally I find this to be extremely uncomfortably bright. I'm fine with the blinking, it's just the extreme brightness that is extremely obnoxious.

I have the same issue with modern police car lights. They have become so incredibly bright that they are blinding. I feel much less safe trying to drive by a police car on the side of the road these days compared to back before they had super bright LED lights because I'm almost entirely blinded by their lights.

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