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@CirclesOffHQ Getting bitched at by him is a badge of honor at this point

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@JohnJHarwood This is a journalistic colleague of yours was gang raped and beaten by a mob. You damned well know this. Maybe try to have some freaking compassion?

what happened to her brain?

@iowahawkblog The Rollie Free tidbit is incredible! The Vincent Black Shadow was of course immortalized to a wider audience by Hunter Thompson’s obsession with it

The first Indy Junk Formula cars of 1930 were a bit ungainly compared to the supersleek Millers of the day, but had some success. #1 here is Rollie Free piloting the Slade Special, powered by a Chrysler Model 70 engine. Free would go on to become a motorcycle legend, photographed in the 1950s planking in a Speedo on his Vincent Black Shadow across the Bonneville Salt Flats en route to a motorcycle land speed record. #2, the Buick Fireball 8-powered Butcher Brothers Special. That's Harry Butcher behind the wheel with brother Jimmy as ride along mechanic. Just a couple of bros with a dream. #3, The Romthe Special, driven by J.C. McDonald. Powered by a Studebaker engine, and you can see the stock Studebaker hood sides. #4 Chester Miller behind the wheel of the Fronty Special. Believe it or not, the engine block is a stock Ford Model A 4-banger, but with a Frontenac (aka "Fronty") overhead cam conversion. Frontys were popular at lower classes of racing, and designed by the Chevrolet Brothers.

Happy Indianapolis 500 Day to all who celebrate from Dave's Car ID Service! Today we pay homage to Indy's "Junk Formula" Era of 1930-37. Why celebrate a formula for junk? Let me give you some context. At its inception Indy featured some cars that were pretty much stock. In that first 1911 race, the 5th place finisher was a stripped-down but otherwise complete stock Marmon 32 passenger car that was street-driven to the track. It was in the realm of possibility for a regular upper-middle class Joe with cojones and a dream to participate. That all changed quickly, especially after WW1. By then it was strictly a rich man's sport, dominated by very exotic and expensive specialized racing machines, primarily Millers and Duesenbergs. Rules demanded smaller and smaller engine displacement. Until 1922 cars were limited to 3 liters (183 cubic inches), then from 1923-25 2 liters (122 ci) and starting in 1926, 1.5 liters (91 ci). The reduction in displacement was to curb speeds in an age where death on the track was common, but also to spark innovation. Those rules worked almost too well. Geniuses like Harry Miller and the Duesenberg brothers figured out ways to coax ever more power out of ever smaller engines: overhead cams, integrated head-engine block casting, arrays of carburetors, exotic superchargers. Those cars, to me, are the Sistine Chapel of American car racing. But they were incredibly expensive, and you had to have one if you wanted to be competitive at Indy. This all but closed off the field to anyone who didn't have cubic buttloads of cash. That was okay for a while. During the Roaring Twenties there were plenty of high-living Gatsbys who wanted to sink some mad money into the exciting glamorous world of big time auto racing. But then came October 29, 1929. The Black Tuesday stock market crash wiped out a good number of those Indy-curious Gatsbys, kicking off what would soon become the Great Depression. Enter Eddie Rickenbacker. Best known as a World War I fighter ace, Rickenbacker was already famed as a successful racing driver for Duesenberg before the war. In 1927, the war hero had enough financial backing to buy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Less then two years later he was faced with a grim reality: there were probably not going to be enough entries in the 1930 race to fill the 33-car grid. The economy's impact on ticket demand meant that the total prize purse for 1930 would be reduced from $98,000 to $54,000, and the winner's share from $50,000 to $18,000. Which made it even harder to attract entrants, etc. A vicious cycle that threatened to end the Indy 500 for good. In response, Rickenbacker announced a new set of rules for 1930: displacement up to 6 liters (366 cubic inches) was allowed, supercharging was banned, there would be a return to Indy's mandatory ride-along mechanic rule 1911-22, and the field was expanded from 33 to 38. This rule was derided by the high-dollar Miller and Duesenberg teams as the "Junk Formula," because it meant there'd be cars in the field with unsophisticated stock block engines. But that was sort of the point. It gave quasi-regular Joes and backyard mechanics a fighting chance to field a car at Indy, powered by a big modified Buick or Studebaker engine. It didn't end the dominance of Miller & Duesenberg, who created their own bigass engines under the new rules, and no true "Junk Formula" car ever one. But helped keep Indy alive during 1930-37, amid the darkest days of the Great Depression.

@stephenfhayes @RpsAgainstTrump Cheung is the mouthy, special-needs version of Oddjob from “Goldfinger”

Yeah, take it from a 1980s-born political hatchetman and ex-UFC comms director, Mike Pompeo (top of his class at West Point, Harvard Law grad, House Intel, ex-CIA director, ex-SecState) is clueless about Iran.

@jonlerner Compassion is a worthy response. Guy has much to be grateful for —but insists on claiming the moral high ground in the industry for DK. Bizarre n dysfunctional af.

Bring around gamblers and people in the business for much of my life, I really hope this guy isn’t in the middle of a breakdown.

@w8wuttt @White_Janissary Methods of middle-class economizing that were common for decades postwar just aren’t aesthetic enough for you, are they?

@White_Janissary I dont think eating nothing but nearly-expired marked down chicken parts should be the norm for people working and living in the largest city in the richest country on the planet but thats just me x.com/w8wuttt/status…

You know what, I checked my freezer and you’re right. Chicken breast isn’t $2.50-$3.00 on sale in Brooklyn. Mia Culpa. It’s $1.99 per lb. Sorry pal! Maybe shop a sale for once?

@romanhelmetguy in what world is "high skilled" a synonym (or even proxy) for "highest paid"? you think we're giving partner positions at Skadden/Goldman etc to H1Bs, just for the asking?

I’m sure there are tons of extremely talented foreigners who could come here and do all the highest-paid jobs better than Americans. But why should we give all the best positions in our country to foreigners? What people in all of history would have willingly accepted that?

@BitcoinPierre lol perfect example of the form, wp wp this is the “giving HJs for crack” of engagement farming

President Trump is the greatest statesman in human history.

@BitcoinSapiens @saylor Saylor giving off Willy Loman vibes more and more lately.

Michael Saylor was asked by Saudi State TV how much Bitcoin their $930 billion sovereign wealth fund they should own. His response, “all of it.”

@mattkalish it's cool to see guys in the industry willing to talk like radical feminists, points for that.

@skipjack661 I’ve said my truth at length, you say yours. No one stopping anyone from making internet content. Agree or disagree doesn’t matter one bit to me.

I’ve said my piece on Kalshi and have nothing further on the topic. We must stop the Kalshi gaslighting of retail bettors. I’m calling on all nations to come together and stop these fake marketing and PR teams from lying to the normal gambler. Now watch me hit this drive.

@avidseries you've spent time around Princeton alums, yah? Michelle may not have been future Rhodes material, but she stacks up perfectly well against the average legacy-alum lacrosse guy, particularly in the Seventies. "meritocratic" here seems to fall under Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.

There's never a trace of shame or embarrassment at taking a place from a more deserving applicant. Only the most self-serving and dishonest rationalizations. In a meritocracy, she would have been aiming too high. But in the Ivy League, she was just what the university needed: Another black body to fill their racist de facto quota.

@grpwins $22/lb for mid (at very best) steaks? this is the beef equivalent of laying -120.

In about five hours you’ll see the grill and the water bottle in action.

What an opening paragraph

@pmarca praying this is just heavy-handed irony 🥵

Improved it!

@P_Kallioniemi @RpsAgainstTrump He think he’s a Xi or Putin but it’s a lot closer to Mao at the end.

By 2028, Trump’s cognitive decline will likely prevent him from forming an understandable sentence. By 2032, considering his current lifestyle, he’ll probably be dead.

@AviFelman @TMTLongShort Seconding this question. The London-based patriarch was one of a kind, in the best way.

@TMTLongShort Elghanian?

As an American with Isreali-Iranian parents whose grandfather once used to own a sizable portion of the Tehranian real estate that the IRGC subsequently commandeered (and which has now mostly been turned to rubble) it is wildly entertaining to hear experts consistently opine on wether people will or will not take to the streets if we start airdropping guns. Ten different group chats. Fifty different sets of opinions. From macro PMs, geopol experts, Persian family members in Beverly Hills, Israeli family members in Tel Aviv. All of them have been consistently wrong. No one knows shit.

@grpwins AAxx isn't enough info, we need more. suited? any 10s and up? what stakes? also -- try granola or muesli.

Had a taste for bacon today. I upscaled the pancakes to chocolate chip. Too bad I lost $1,500 in two great PLO games this morning. (AA cracked twice)

@mattkalish someone who finds $7 limits a religious experience?

Who made this lol

@capnek123 guy does a nice-enough job from what i've seen. declining to appear on a show hardly seems like confirmation of malicious intent.

Blocked another warrior from mom's basement behind a hidden account. I repeat the invitation to my show where we will get to know you better and where the other side can respond to mean and malicious attacks. #uranium