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thepotentialof2007 · 7 days

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last minute announcement that i’m having top surgery today

#tos #well done

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thepotentialof2007 · 8 days

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tokyo drifting p2

#lewis hamilton #japan #city streets #candy #2024

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thepotentialof2007 · 10 days

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The arrival of Lewis Hamilton? It's important for the team. Beyond speed, it brings serenity to the team, experience, a track record. An experience of victory that we also need at Ferrari to move forward. I'm also super happy because I'm convinced that the two (Charles and Lewis) will get along well. This will help Charles. The driver is not just about performance in the car, in qualifying or in the race. It's also 365 days a year and on that I think Lewis is an absolute master.

- Fred Vasseur

#frederic vasseur #le plan #2024 #red team signs lh #lewis hamilton #most winningest #centered intensity #speak your truth fred

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thepotentialof2007 · 11 days

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#niki lauda #committing to the bit #ratling #finally a useful trophy #parmalat #1970s #f1

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thepotentialof2007 · 11 days

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"They say racing drivers talk more and do less about sex than men in any other sport."... I treated her to a bitter smile. The playboy reputation, and its sarcastic flip side, is one we no longer deserve. Everything has become too competitive and commercial. Indeed the playboy image has all but expired.

"Formula Zero has rekindled our infamy," I explained. "New cars. New regulations. They want to rekindle the old magic. It's plastic. Packaged. Our sponsors twist incidents into publicity gimmicks. It sells ratings."

- "Grand Prix" by Simon Ings, Omni Magazine, June 1993

No one spends eight figures sterling on one man without some feeling behind it. Me? I get fresh ROMs sent me every month from Achebi where they analyze my race data. It helps me drive better. Only they went one stage further. They built me a second jack, behind my arse. When I strap myself in, I hotwire myself to the car. I don't drive it; I become it. This has consequences. My body is a corporate concern.

#f1 #the more things change #data driven #sports entertainment #commercialization of athletes #seat of the pants driving #1990s #cyberpunk #speculative fiction #omni magazine #simon ings #disability as cyborg #many cw including #cw: crashes #cw: the whole typical suite of #dehumanizing and cringe biases #you'd expect of a white british dude of that time & milieu

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thepotentialof2007 · 18 days

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Lewis after finishing P9 in Japan | 07.04.24 “I mean the car is never what I hoped it would be (giggles). It’s never what we hoped it would be. I got some damage I think after the first stint. At the restart with Charles and I had massive understeer. Like huge huge understeer. That’s why I decided to let George by. He seemed quicker and I just couldn’t turn the car. It took us two stint to finally dial more and more wing in to make up for that loss.”

#lewis hamilton #media pen #post race #suzuka #2024 #damaged car #trying to elevate the team

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thepotentialof2007 · 18 days

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was looking for a specific post of his but found this instead. i love him so much lmao

#lewis hamilton #2019 #coco #by the sea with her girls #short but sweet

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thepotentialof2007 · 18 days

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A journalist asked him (Lewis) if he was “jealous” when watching Ferrari’s strong performances.

“Do you have any better questions?” Lewis asked, and then walked away from the media session.

#lewis hamilton #i laughed #ofc i didn't have to suffer the race #media pen #post race #suzuka #2024 #stunning tho to see f1 press not throw a strop #at lh not being at beck and call #eta: nvm #just saw the headline abt this at dieter's old rag

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thepotentialof2007 · 20 days

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Alpine's statement:

On the afternoon of March 27, 2024, during the A424 test session in Motorland (Aragon), driver Ferdinand Habsburg had an accident at Turn 7. The cause of the accident is currently under investigation. Ferdinand was taken to the hospital in Alcañiz for examinations and was discharged in the evening. The next day, he was repatriated to Austria, where he underwent further examinations. Ferdinand suffers from two fractured lumbar vertebrae, with no neurological impact. He is beginning his recovery, the duration of which has not yet been defined. It will determine its participation in the next round of the FIA WEC at Imola. Alpine gives Ferdinand its full support and wishes him the best and quickest recovery.

#ferdinand habsburg #wec #alpine motorsport #testing #crash #injury #paul-loup chatin #filling in for ferdi at #cool racing #for april 14 barcelona round of #elms #endurance racing

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thepotentialof2007 · 20 days

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if you got an additional line of income that guaranteed your basic needs would be met, (notes below)

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- the money can come from whatever source you'd like to imagine. UBI, sugar daddy, magically delivered in unmarked bills onto your dining table overnight by elves, blackmailing jeff bezos, wherever

- it will keep coming indefinitely

- basic needs: housing, food, medical care, clothes, a bit of disposable income, etc. You would not be rich, but you would have enough. It will rise with inflation and such, to have the same purchasing power as before, and will cover you and your dependents

- any money you earn at your job (or anywhere) is on top of the basic needs money. How much you get is not affected by how much you make elsewhere

- vacation doesn’t necessarily mean you go anywhere; you just don't need to go to work

#assured and sufficient #basic income #could mean someone within #social services network #might actually #find satisfying work #without risking losing e.g #essential healthcare services #tho they can't sustain regular nor full employment #things one dreams about

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thepotentialof2007 · 20 days

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#lewis hamilton #fake tequila vendor #suzuka #2024 #they make carts for this sort of thing #he should get a little pull cart

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thepotentialof2007 · 21 days

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Are you trans-feminine? Intersex? Do you have a connective tissue disorder like Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? Do you have erectile dysfunction? Are you any other kind of person who has a penis? Do you just want to see the results?

Then please take this survey! I'm looking to gather a large sample size of anonymous information for a personal study on the relationship between age, gender, hormone replacement therapy, and connective tissue disorder on erectile function. It won't take more than a minute or two. Even if you're none of the above groups, I'd love for you to pass this around.

I've also shared this on Reddit!

#transgender #living with disability #ehlers danlos #oh hey what an #extremely relevant subreddit

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thepotentialof2007 · 23 days

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So there's this idea I've seen circulating periodically of "don't tag your hate", that fandom tags are for being positive about the fandom and if you're going to say negative things about a work you shouldn't tag it and harsh the vibe of the fans.

And this is, like, utterly baffling to me. If I'm a fan of something I want to see critical analysis! And some of that will say good things and some will say bad things. Unmitigated positivity mostly just pisses me off for being shallow.

Like, the first thing I ever really did with the internet was join a Wheel of Time fan community. But I also spent time looking for negative comments about the books. (I just didn't find any that made sense! The two critiques were "it's too long", which like fair enough but I was a bored speedreader in high school; and "all the female characters are indistinguishable", which may be one of the most incorrect claims about a work of literature that I've read.)

If I post meta about a work of literature, I'd kinda like people to argue with me! That's fun and engaging. (As long as the things they're saying aren't stupid, obviously, but stupid responses are annoying regardless of whether they're positive or negative.) And when I search for commentary, I'd like both positive and negative commentary.

I kind of suspect that I just don't do "fandom" in the sense that people who are part of fandom think and talk about it.

Of course, the weirdest one is that in the early days of this blog, I did a lot of criticism of effective altruism, and I got asked not to tag it "effective altruism" because that tag was for positive stuff about EA. Which is why my tag for effective altruism discussion is still "ea cw".

#tumblr tags #tags = subject headings #anti would be a subheading #if even one were thinking in those terms #as opposed to e.g.#crit #or factual description #or simple blog organization #wherein a choice has been made that #tone is not a classification criterion #so very strongly dislike #using weasel tagging #even as #for site culture reasons #so often feel compelled to employ some variation thereof

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thepotentialof2007 · 23 days

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