Posts by Zachary Vaughn92

briskhound76 said:The hiding behind free practice sessions is finally over... now it’s time for McLaren to actually show what they're capable of. 🙂

Sad but true.

Alooo, is anyone even out there?

jadeseal7 said:God, these amateurs on this forum. 🤦

tomorrow Ferrari will easily take a 1-2 in qualifying, and Sunday will be a total walk in the park. ☕

I’d love to be optimistic, but I honestly don't think there's any chance. We'll find out in a couple of days. 🙂

Raymond Anderson4 said:Ferrari is way faster than they look, but RB is quicker.
Is Ferrari actually faster than Mercedes? They might be somewhere in that ballpark. Honestly, if they snag pole, I wouldn't be surprised if Vettel takes it.
Ferrari is basically dead on the straights. Out of everyone, Vettel is the one squeezing every last drop out of that car by driving right on the edge.
I suspect they'll grab pole by a tenth, thanks to a massive lap from Vettel.

What makes you think Ferrari is significantly faster than what we're seeing?

ruggedhawk20 said:Sebastian Vettel actually had a pretty decent 2018, given the circumstances.

"Decent" isn't enough if you're actually aiming for the title. He was fine up until the German GP, but later on, he proved he just doesn't have the mental toughness of someone like Lewis Hamilton. The team made plenty of mistakes—Ferrari's strategy is a whole other disaster story—but even then, he made more errors after Germany than any four-time champion should ever make.

stormybadger8 said:If we judge based on how things look in Australia, there won't be much of a fight, let alone a close one...

From what I can see, Mercedes has an advantage on par with 2014, if not even greater. 🤦

Pure guesswork here...
1. Mercedes
with a minimum advantage of 1 second.

2. Ferrari and Red Bull look very evenly matched; anything could happen there...
3. Everyone else is within a second of Ferrari/Red Bull, though Alfa Romeo looks perhaps the best of the bunch. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see Kimi Raikkonen regularly fighting with the Red Bulls and Ferraris...

4. Williams 🤦 is at least 2 seconds behind the ninth-placed team...

Mercedes could practically stroll to the championship, unless all the other nine teams are in full sandbagging mode.
But expect a massive scrap from 2nd place all the way down to somewhere around 6th or 9th in the constructors' standings...

That’s exactly what I’m afraid of. Ferrari had their moment in 2017 and bits of it in 2018. It seems to me they're done, unless they've got some nasty trick up their sleeve, which I highly doubt.

Is he going to be just as useless as Vettel was this year, or is he just going to be spinning his wheels in the wind again?

I could really use some clarity on this too. For instance, what would be the approximate total annual tax burden for an LLC owner who already holds a full-time job elsewhere, with their Social Security and health insurance fully covered by that employer?

What kind of business entity actually makes sense if I'm flipping art pieces?

I was originally planning on just running a simple sole proprietorship, but my whole business model has shifted since then.

Regarding the tax implications of a sole proprietorship—please correct me if my math is off here:
If I buy item X for $290 $0.00 and sell it for $300 $0.00, my actual profit is only $10 $0.00, but have I already hit the annual revenue cap for a sole proprietorship because the client paid me $300 $0.00?

Which business structure would be the most efficient move for me?

I don't even have the option to send a message, but you've actually given me a much better idea.

As the title suggests.

Mark Harris66 said:🤦
You didn't really explain how they could possibly know... I mean, if their great-great-great-grandfather was the one who actually lived through that last war...

Fine, I’ll admit I went a bit overboard with that claim. Are you really suggesting they're so sterilized that there's absolutely no way back?

Mark Harris66 said:How can they claim to know anything about violence when they haven't seen a war in 200 years?
Their last actual conflict was back in 1814...

That’s two or three generations. Is that supposed to be a long time?

Walter Long7 said:This whole situation is spiraling toward a brand of totalitarianism—the kind that hides behind a mask of fake humanitarianism and a supposed fight for freedom, while actually just strangling any dissenters who don't fall in line. It’s a classic trap. Every step they take to tighten the leash only guarantees a massive backlash from the people being forced into submission. The real question is how far this can go before the entire world reaches a breaking point.

That’s pretty much my take on it. I’m just sitting here waiting for people to finally wake up and put an end to this nonsense. I'm waiting for Germany to finally lose its cool. A year ago, the radicals were practically invisible, and now their popularity is skyrocketing. As for the Swedes, I agree—they’ve convinced themselves they’re some sort of untouchable superpower, and it’s going to be a hell of a job unlearning that delusion. Though, given their own history with violence, you have to wonder if the lightbulb will ever actually flicker on.

Walter Long7 said:My friend, they’re just mocking their own laws that protect the savages... though there are far more of them than those mentioned here. When I browse through the local forums, I find myself wondering, right along with the locals, what on earth is happening—if they aren't going to start hunting down anyone who actually thinks straight.
Personally, I thought it was peak irony when the conservatives in Malmo pushed for Gay Pride parades to go through neighborhoods where Muslims/migrants are the majority, only for the leftists to erupt in protest, claiming it was "racist."🤣🤣
It’s that classic situation where you’re caught in a trap and forced to pick a side between two different versions of your own people.

And don't get me started. It makes my skin crawl to hear that rape is being excused, while the perpetrators are just let off scot-free. Wtf?

Historically, Europe has mostly dealt with various forms of violence. But today? The real issue is "political or racial incorrectness." People use it as an excuse to ruin everything, granting every possible right to any violent offender who shows up at the door. In the long run... where exactly is this heading?

I honestly can't wrap my head around what motivates people who actually defend this kind of chaos. What "political correctness" are you even talking about? To actively sabotage your own country like this is pure insanity, yet somehow, there's still an attempt to justify it. At this point, watching how things unfold makes Putin look more and more interesting by the day.