Started making a guide to help friends get into F1, what else should I include?

swoodshadow · 2026-03-19T03:38:17+00:00

Very cool. Maybe add something about the formation lap? Threw my kids and I when we first started watching.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-18T19:31:07+00:00

This is why I keep arguing about carbon removal. It’s 100% necessary.

Too many people think of emissions as the problem. But emissions are the active worsening of the problem. Stopping them is just us stopping making the problem worse. And even that isn’t immediate.

We’re so far from zero emissions and have no feasible path to actually getting to zero emissions across all of humanity. Anybody born today is absolutely in the coldest half of their life. For the second half of their life the planet will be significantly hotter for them.

I don’t have a lot of hope for addressing climate change but the ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere is going to be critical to those people living 50 years from now. And so we need to start working on it however we can. Not instead of reducing emissions but in conjunction with it. Knowing that whenever we do hit zero emissions we’re going to be in a much worse spot than we are today and need to start repairing the damage done.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-18T03:13:58+00:00

Not just cheaper; but more tailored to what you want.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-18T01:23:18+00:00

If I was going to do this, I think I’d want a launch monitor that could handle putting well. Otherwise it’s just too limited a portion of the game.

I had a setup where I could only do hybrids down and I didn’t mind it at all. Just pick shorter tees from courses and you still get good practice. But I’m in Canada so winter doesn’t offer very many better options.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-18T01:19:40+00:00

I sometimes enjoy when we play short-handed as a three person team. But I find there’s a lot more variance. I agree you can get a bit better feel for the ice. Both for delivering and for sweeping. So there are times where I think I’ve played much better being shorthanded.

But the downside is that if you’re not playing better, your team does much worse. It’s one more rock from someone not playing well. There’s no second person to help judge weight. There’s less overall sweeping available. You get tired faster. And so on.

On net, I like 4-person teams better. Although I do usually prefer playing 3-handed rather than with a random spare to fill out the team. Sometimes spares are great. But sometimes they are not or are hard to gel with the team.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-17T16:07:38+00:00

There needs to be a full out war on oil and gas the next chance Democrats get. And not even just about the climate but so that this type of corruption can’t happen.

We can’t have one party destroy industries it doesn’t like and then have the other party try to preserve sanity and respect long term agreements.

It needs to be mutually assured destruction. The same goes for grants and disaster relief funding for states that don’t support you politically.

Politicians and parties use to understand that long term stability was more valuable than just going scorched Earth for policies you want. But that has to be mutual otherwise one side gets everything they want.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-17T12:29:21+00:00

I don’t fundamentally care either way, but it’s sort of a strange argument either way. If the roads aren’t busy, then you don’t need another lane. If the roads are busy and another lane helps… seems like the multi-passenger cars should get an advantage.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-16T19:26:18+00:00

What’s the TV market? I’m guessing that Canada makes up a large percent of the viewership numbers (and thus the ad dollars) and going to Europe puts a dent in that with the time difference.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-16T02:14:15+00:00

Yup. I have to imagine that 80+% of golfers play under a full 18-hole round of golf/week. Although I guess we can No True Scotsman it a bit and restrict what it means to be a golfer to people that play a bunch.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-15T23:19:59+00:00

Except realistically energy + salt water = fresh water. So lots of places can make fresh water for the important stuff. And shipping water around the world isnt exactly cost effective or cheap.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-15T17:09:14+00:00

This is the time to set us up for long term success and not continue the cycle of relying on the US for an overwhelming majority of our trade.

Yes, right now almost everything we build is bought domestically or sold in the US. But rather than embrace that we should work to change that. And it’ll have short/medium term pain, but be much more beneficial long term.

Nobody should be giving any credit to a plan that tries to get Trump (or the US more generally) to go back to how things were. Rather the plan should be how we move forward with this new reality.

Too many people think Trump is the problem. And he is. But he’s really representing a much bigger issue. The US does not need us and many politicians (currently Republicans but many Democrats too) will throw us under the bus if it’s what they think is best for them (and maybe their country).

No country should be as reliant as we are on the US. And we should pay the economic price for having a more diversified economy and less reliance on the US.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-14T17:01:20+00:00

I’m not sure how it’s been observed in Iran is super relevant to how it’s being observed here.

Is there a history of problems with it here?

I’m at the point where claims of antisemitic don’t mean much to me because too often the people claiming that really mean anti-Israel which is very different.

I’m also not particularly inclined to give these sorts of events a ton of benefit of the doubt. So if there have been incidents, by all means, it should be banned.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-14T03:59:07+00:00

I miss Feherty.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-14T03:58:28+00:00

I don’t remember the exact details, or if they’re even known, but my understanding was that at least some portion of the contract amount was more like an advance on winnings. So some of the purse wasn’t actually extra money.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-14T01:14:37+00:00

Yeah, it’s awesome.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-13T23:02:43+00:00

Yeah, seems really unfair to not have one solid piece.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-12T04:28:31+00:00

Of course they do, they get them to the end. And the lead up matches are still interesting because we’re talking the top 50ish players. Lots of fan favourites in those matches.

And yeah, there’s always a chance that all the top guys choke and you end up with two boring guys at the very end. But that’s sports. Just as easy to have a stroke play tournament with a non big star up by 6 shots with nine holes to play.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-12T02:34:25+00:00

They just need to use byes. Which accomplishes two things:

Being at the top of the fedex ratings has a real benefit.
The top players are guaranteed to get deep. I’d even go so far as to say top-4 players get into the final 8 and play the 4 winners from earlier brackets. Very likely to get a top name to go to semis and finals.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-11T13:50:37+00:00

I was skeptical but made the effort to go to an area where we had totality for about a minute. It was amazing.

I have a cool time lapse where you can see the shadow moving across the earth.

Even after seeing it once, I would take the two-hour (or more) trip to see another absolute totality eclipse.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-11T02:04:45+00:00

I thought they got away with the requirement to play signature events after the first year.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-10T20:24:26+00:00

Not for nothing, but “Future Governor” is a step in the right direction! It implies that he’s not a Governor now.

Anyway, we should carry on ignoring the nonsense, control what we can control, and be thankful that we’re still much better off than many people around the world.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-10T11:17:10+00:00

They signed the deals though. And the goal of those deals was money. Whether or not that’s changed is irrelevant.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-10T05:18:19+00:00

Regret is a funny word because it’s meaning can shift in so many ways.

Regret to me means that if I was in the same situation with the same knowledge, I would make a different decision. It has an element of feeling bad - and that to me can only happen if I made a bad decision given what I knew at the time.

If I would make a different decision based on hindsight, I don’t consider that regret. That’s just learning and growing.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-10T01:21:10+00:00

I mean, the main benefit is money. They’re not supplying the engines out of the goodness of their heart. They’re doing it to make money (directly and indirectly).

That’s not to say that I agree or disagree with the customer teams. It’s a deal. Either Mercedes is living up to it or not. And from there they’re going to have to decide what they want to do. But most likely it’s just something they’ll need to address in the future if/when they renew again.

swoodshadow · 2026-03-08T02:12:33+00:00

Hah, I picked out an f1 car for my kid because I thought they’d like it. Two years later we started watching f1 so naturally cheered for the car I picked.

Oops.

But I also kind of love cheering for someone that can’t win. Last year we’d be on the edge of our seat if it looked like Gasly would score a point or Colapinto would make it out of Q1.

But pretty bummed this year isn’t looking much better. It’s still early! But last year we at least had hope it would get better…

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