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Librarian. Small Town Girl. Slytherin.

[theraininspa]

Love that whenever fans point out how Daniel Ricciardo was the best option for that second seat last year, people will harp on about his results in VCARB (as if he was P20 every weekend 🙄) as a reason as to why he “didn’t do enough” to get the seat.

Like, yes besties. That’s the point. We’re seeing in real-time right now that how well a driver did in that little VCARB has absolutely no correlation to how well they’ll adapt to the RB21. And that perhaps they should be considering the fact that they had an experienced driver, who has the same car preference as Max, who was also at the tail-end of his career and could have, if for nothing else, acted as a buffer to allow either Lawson or Yuki to garner more experience in order to be called up for the 2026 regulation changes.

I’ll make it even simpler for you: VCARB more balanced. Lawson do better in VCARB. Daniel not like balance. Daniel like pointy front. Daniel do less well in VCARB. RB21 very pointy front. Daniel do better in RB21.

Everyone suddenly now wants to speak about how drivers’ preference has so much weight on their results. But when Daniel went into the very understeer-y McLaren or into the VCARB that failed time and time again to adapt to a stronger front-end…it was all Daniel’s fault and he deserved to be fired and have his entire career denigrated in the media all year.

Had Daniel been put into that Red Bull and done decently well - or even if he hadn’t done decently well - it would not have impacted or ruined his career like it’s ruining the careers of these junior drivers they keep trying to force into the seat. Daniel has his legacy. Lawson and Tsunoda don’t yet, and they might never get there if Red Bull have their way.

He was the best option. Not just because he’s the only driver familiar with the car’s extreme oversteer and their best hope to do well on it, but also because of his legacy with Red Bull and the goodwill and ambassadorship he would have secured for them for years to come had they not ended his career in the most baffling and unnecessary way possible.

Let’s do a though experiment for a second: think of Red Bull’s show run in five-six years time or Goodwood Festival of Speed, who is going to be driving for them? Who do you think about when you think about a Red Bull driver?

It won’t be Sebastian, he’s long since cut ties with them. It won’t be Max, if he’s already retired by then. It won’t be Checo, after the way they treated him. It won’t be Carlos, Pierre, Alex, Lawson or Yuki considering they all had one season each (if that) in the main team.

It would have been Daniel. Daniel is the only big name that would have genuinely come back for them. And how they don’t even have that.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[chaifootsteps]

#Please little bird

[finaldirl]

must suck being a daniel hater when everything in the world actively revolves around him lmao

[pierregaslays]

in the end, we have pierre gasly putting that shitbox into q3 even though the car should actually be buried at sea

[sandandglass]

Donald Trump gets attacked by an eagle.

This eagle truly represents America. What a majestic symbol.

[lukcskywalkcrs]

It’s only fitting that this gets reblogged today

[rinokami]

This is the only eagle that deserves reblogging on the 4th

[iamlostandinneedofcoffee]

Ted being done with the Redbull Car saying “it was not Yuki’s fault, not Liam’s fault, not Sergio or Daniel’s fault, it’s the car.”

This man just boarderline ranting about Redbull’s stupid car decisions is a mooooodddd

[this-is-where-i-hide-my-bullshit]

"You could just use ai" yeah well I could also just kill you.

[luainthewild]

I wish I woke up tomorrow in a world where I don't have to see a single AI generated image ever again

[kesterdbihown]

What do you mean hans zimmer took inspiration from Lewis Hamilton. What do YOU mean almost every actor when asked about what they know about F1 replied they know Lewis Hamilton. WHAT DO YOU MEAN OUTSIDE THE SPORT THEY TREAT HIM AS RARE UNICORN BRO 😭😭😭

[its-sir-actually]

I need the graphics person to understand that I need the timings at all times stop just showing me their names

[disasterenergy]

this might come across as anti capitalist but,,,,,, i want to enjoy life

[kaijuno]

[skeletondanceparty]

[cyberpriestess]

still mad about smart TVs. that shit should be in a separate box like you can literally buy one of them androidtv boxes for £30. it doesn't need its own ip address it doesn't need its own app store it doesn't need to replicate the functionality every device plugged into it already has

[opensuse-official]

Smart TVs are one of the great evils of the modern era tbh. If I wanted spyware on my TV I should have to download it myself

[cyberpriestess]

i keep promising myself i won't become another technophobe yelling about those "dang newfangled machines" or whatever. that i won't Get Worse until going back to punchcards unironically seems like a good idea. that i'll enjoy new things as they come out.

but so much is actively evil, hostile or otherwise enshittified. i don't want to track my greebles with splorp i don't want to pay a teehee subscription to get round cacophany's file limits i don't need 17 ways to skrimple my scronk 7 of which secretly activate scrungly plus ultimate i don't need to link it to my flowolf account i don't want to manage it with the flowby mowby i don't care if poob does or does not has it for me. i don['t care

i want a big screen whose ENTIRE job is to show me whatever device i plug into it. and also audio. i want to save my documents. on the computer. that i'm using. i want to own the media i buy. i want tech that is fat, properly cooled, simpler, serviceable by a normal person, and not forcing me to constantly select the "onlly spy on me a little bit" box every couple weeks.

[opensuse-official]

You are so incredibly right

[cecoeur]

They're going to do a season 1 to season 7 montage that starts and ends on the farm with his family.

[mirrorball-leclerc]

just a girl going into the 2025 season without her comfort driver, daniel ricciardo

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

Elon Musk attacked democracy defender and superstar court lawyer Marc Elias as “undermining civilization,” taunting him by asking if he suffered “generational trauma.”

Elias’s response was brilliant and worth amplifying:

Mr. Musk,

You recently criticized me and another prominent lawyer fighting for the rule of law and democracy in the United States. I am used to being attacked for my work, particularly on the platform you own and dominate.

I used to be a regular on Twitter, where I amassed over 900,000 followers — all organic except for the right-wing bots who seemed to grow in number. Like many others, I stopped regularly posting on the site because, under your stewardship, it became a hellscape of hate and misinformation.

I also used to buy your cars — first a Model X and then a Model S — back when you spoke optimistically about solving the climate crisis. My family no longer owns any of your cars and never will.

But this is not the reason I am writing. You don’t know me. You have no idea whether I have suffered trauma and if I have, how it has manifested. And it’s none of your business.

However, I will address your last point about generational trauma. I am Jewish, though many on your site simply call me “a jew.” Honestly, it’s often worse than that, but I’m sure you get the point. There was a time when Twitter would remove antisemitic posts, but under your leadership, tolerating the world’s oldest hatred now seems to be a permissible part of your “free speech” agenda.

Like many Jewish families, mine came to America because of trauma. They were fleeing persecution in the Pale of Settlement — the only area in the Russian Empire where Jews were legally allowed to reside. Even there, life was difficult — often traumatic. My family, like others, lived in a shtetl and was poor. Worse, pogroms were common — violent riots in which Jews were beaten, killed and expelled from their villages.

By the time my family fled, life in the Pale had become all but impossible for Jews. Tsar Nicholas II’s government spread anti-Jewish propaganda that encouraged Russians to attack and steal from Jews in their communities. My great-grandfather was fortunate to leave when he did. Those who stayed faced even worse circumstances when Hitler’s army later invaded.

That is the generational trauma I carry. The trauma of being treated as “other” by countrymen you once thought were your friends. The trauma of being scapegoated by authoritarian leaders. The trauma of fleeing while millions of others were systematically murdered. The trauma of watching powerful men treat it all as a joke — or worse.

As an immigrant yourself, you can no doubt sympathize with what it means to leave behind your country, extended family, friends and neighbors to come to the United States. Of course, you probably had more than 86 rubles in your pocket. You probably didn’t ride for nine days in the bottom of a ship or have your surname changed by immigration officials. Here is the ship manifest showing that my family did. Aron, age three, was my grandfather.

[see image in comments]

As new immigrants, life wasn’t easy. My family lived in cramped housing without hot water. They worked menial jobs — the kind immigrants still perform today.

Some may look down on those immigrants — the ones without fancy degrees — but my family was proud to work and grateful that the United States took them in. They found support within their Jewish community and a political home in the Democratic Party.

I became a lawyer to give back to the country that gave my family a chance. I specialize in representing Democratic campaigns because I believe in the party. I litigate voting rights cases because the right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy. I speak out about free and fair elections because they are under threat.

Now let me address the real crux of your post.

You are very rich and very powerful. You have thrown in with Donald Trump. Whether it is because you think you can control him or because you share his authoritarian vision, I do not know. I do not care.

Together, you and he are dismantling our government, undermining the rule of law and harming the most vulnerable in our society. I am just a lawyer. I do not have your wealth or your platform. I do not control the vast power of the federal government, nor do I have millions of adherents at my disposal to harass and intimidate my opponents. I may even carry generational trauma.

But you need to know this about me. I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. As you know, my English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן) — after the great warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.

I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

Defiantly,

Marc Elias

[nessa007]

@ gaurav