I keep hearing that violence isn't the answer but I swear it feels like.... FOR LEGAL REASONS THIS IS SATIRE
Meanwhile, LOTR nerds:
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Interesting.
First of all apparently ublock, no script, or some combination of my add-ons kept me from seeing the message and I'm able to view the entire article.
Even more interesting is this text at the end of the article-
This story was originally published by Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions.
So this source basically spun an article from Grist and put it behind their paywall.
Following the link from Scientific American, the first line of the Grist article is-
This story was co-published with WIRED.
It's clowns the whole way down, yaaaaar.
My dyslexic ass
Next time just use your eyes, it's faster.
Thoughts and prayers.
The whole thing sounds like some cockamamie plot derived from chatgpt itself. Corporate America is completely detached from the real world.
Why the hell can't we just have both? One of the biggest problems with smart speakers and voice assistants is that they're so damn stupid so often. If A.I. were to become smart enough to be what the current assistants/speakers aren't, surely that would drive device sales and engagement astronomically higher right?
What a weird way for Sargent to get his first point.
As it turns out he may not be wealthy either lol.
It begs the question- could these drivers safely exit the car if they had a crash towards the end of these races? Were some of them already past a safe limit?
Watching Sargent bring the car in on the lap he eventually retired was shocking. He looked like someone struggling to function in the most basic sense, not like someone in control of their car.
After going back and watching his driver cam and listening to team radio calls around the time he went out (There may be more before this that I've missed) he definitely seems to be reeling from exhaustion-
Lap 40 Logan radios in to tell his engineer he doesn't feel well, and is almost immediately asked if he's retiring. There's some back and forth but he is ultimately told if he doesn't feel well he's retiring.
A couple corners in to lap 41 he radios back that he needs to stop. A few turns farther and he radios back that he needs to stop again and says he has no mirrors. From this point on he drives very erratically as he gets calls for where drivers are on track. At one point he's all the way down in 1st gear crawling so slowly that his engineer asks him repeatedly if he's ok and tells him to park the car.
As he enters the pits he tries and fails to open his visor, and later struggles to finally get it open. Before the camera feed cuts you can see him trying to get out of the car, stopping to gather himself, and ultimately being helped out by the mechanics.
I'm not a doctor but it would seem like a better solution is needed to decide if race conditions are safe if this is how things are going to be. F1 doesn't need to turn into a middle eastern blood sport.
Clown company doing clown things.
Hasn't that been the strategy for several decades?