I think saying “their culture” is way too generalizing. The problem is that they had their traditional way of living, and ever since the 1700s the governments all over central Europe have gone out of their way to destroy that. Treating Romani, Sinti and other “traveler” groups very much like how natives were treated in the Americas - their children taken away, families broken apart, languages forbidden etc. That has created a broken community/society. What laypeople might consider “their culture” is not their traditional culture at all, it is a result of their original culture having been destroyed by modern societies.

Obviously the status quo is a huge problem and the main factor in that are Romani people themselves. But I’d argue that it is really hard as a kid growing up to figure out a way that works in between problematic adults in your community, actual racism, reaching a good point in the main society and still not losing your roots.

Max burying his possibilities of getting out that RB contract

Accelerating under red flag is something that they need to punish harshly

Oof the moment Bearman does a stupid red flag pit lane crash, he does a mega Q1 lap

The developers of Fedi software have different philosophies. Some developers are just not interested in implementing and supporting all kinds of AP actors, kinds of media, ways of attaching media etc. Because they want their software to focus on a certain thing.

Others want to implement everything and interconnect with every platform.

Also: this is food. It rots. It’s simply not possible to move surplus food to other countries that easily, even if it was a good idea (which it isnt)

He seems to have at least some support with the voting national automobile clubs, I assume european ones. (Which is what Sainz sr didnt manage to get)

Also interesting from the article:

Mayer is the son of former McLaren team principal Teddy Mayer, and has held leading positions in US-based Champ Car, Imsa and the American Le Mans Series, as well as stewarding across many of the FIA’s championships, including Formula 1 for 15 years.

He was sacked by Ben Sulayem last year after representing the Circuit of the Americas in a “right of review” hearing into a fine levied on the track following a crowd invasion at the end of last year’s US Grand Prix.

Mayer was one of a series of senior officials who have been fired by the FIA in the past 18 months

Erik van Haren (who is considered close to Verstappen’s personal team) has just posted :

"Many stories and rumors are circulating again about Max Verstappen and Mercedes. The interest from Mercedes is there, and that is also known, but according to my information, there is no official offer, and Verstappen has therefore not said ‘yes.’ "

He added: “We’ll probably know within the next month or so. Nothing definitive yet”

“As far as I understand it drivers have very limited impact on the development of the car these days.” Haas people have publicly said that Hulkenberg joining them enabled them to finally get the kind of feedback needed to solve the issues they had had for years. Maybe that’s an outlier case but I believe the ability of a driver to give feedback for car development is valued.

It seemed like quite a few drivers were not improving anyways even without the yellows

“Keep moving the goalposts”? Mate this is my first comment in this comment chain. And it does make a difference to me personally if someone said something before a very public turnaround 5 years ago, or recently after this change

Spielberg turns into Suzuka with its own burning grass.
And lol the steward slowly dragging the extinguisher over there was a great Austrian stereotype haha

There are only three tenths between Bortoleto and Hulkenberg, but in that span is more than half of the field

When did he state this? Recently?

Hm, I’m not sure about that. There was a point in time where he was - even outside his videos - engaging with Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk. Echoing their philosophies and world views. The alt-right was using him and his platform to lure teenagers in. It’s possible that Felix did not even realize what was happening there. Or he was brainwashed himself for some time.

The important thing is that from 2019 onwards he clearly distanced himself from any of that.

He emphasized that for him living in Japan and mainly needing to use maps in order to navigate, the japanese car GPS is the best fit.

Which obviously is very different for people in a different situation.

Yeah I know some big german youtubers who years ago were like “we need to be more independent from youtube” and set up their own website. Every year the costs for hosting that would take out a huge cut of their earnings, so at the start of 2025 they finally gave up and said they couldnt pour even more money into that project as it simply wasnt profitable.

The big youtubers rely on sponsorship money way more than ad money. But sponsorship money is dependent on viewership numbers, so that is the main issue

Absolutely true for the time the article was written (2017). He changed his ways after the Christchurch attacks which happened in 2019.

Ah yes, looks like piefed.social is currently having an outage or trouble. That explains it