Nowhere did I suggest binning it, and I support their eventual transition into being able to leave even hybrids behind. You stated “racing EV’s would be more exciting” and I just pointed out some of the issues that currently prevent it from being more widely adopted and more popular with motorsport fans at large. Otherwise, I doubt you’ll find many people to agree that a fully EV Indy 500 was comparable in impact of the event as it exists now if the vehicles could only do 2/3 of the distance with a car capable of less than half the power of the machines it’s meant to replace. An F1 car outputs 1000hp, while a Formula E car can do a touch under 500hp. This isn’t a knock on them, and I fully expect them to keep improving, but this is an edge case wear current EVs aren’t there yet.

Wasn’t really a competition, just for illustrating a point. I’ve only passed through Texas for a layover, but honestly, Texas as a state has zero appeal to me. I’d rather just go to Mexico for better versions of pretty much anything in Texas that’s remotely interesting to me, while avoiding a fair chunk of the things that make Texas so miserable a prospect to me in the first place.

Besides, Texans might have improved upon nachos at some point, but claiming you have a superior version doesn’t invalidate that nachos have already been widely accepted as a Tex-Mex dish. “Nachos are a Tex-Mex dish” is the opening to the wiki article on them, with 8 different citations to back up that claim.

racing EV’s would be more exciting.

Formula-E has been a thing for a few years, and this year notably included a mandate to drastically increase the reliance on the battery units over the ICEs for power in F1. In either case, it’s not really there yet, but I’m looking forward to the day that it does get there.

Formula E had (I don’t know if it’s been rectified since) a pretty significant issue with the batteries just not being able to last for F1 race distances on several tracks. They haven’t got the top speed and endurance at those speeds that the F1 hybrids deliver, and because it’s a racing sport, you can’t just make the battery larger to add capacity without a significant impact on your race pace, nor can they just pop into the pits and patiently wait for a rapid charge to finish topping off their batteries.

That aside, I can’t imagine Formula E really manages to deal much better with the major source of pollution and emissions for F1, which is shipping a full track worth of cars, drivers and support crew around the world many times a year. Of course, in that regard, I don’t know how many of the Formula E drivers are actual pulling in the sort of money to be owning and maintaining private jets for this purpose, and at least one of the F1 drivers has sold his off. I remember Lewis Hamilton used to get a lot of flack for telling people to go vegan to save the planet while using a private jet 20 odd times a year, and I guess he finally felt silly enough about that contradiction to sell it off.

Edited, realized my comment on F1’s new power unit rules was poorly written and confusing at first.

insecurity about being ‘authentic’

This insecurity about being authentic has pervaded so many things, even absent any real political context. LIke people will suddenly whip out “You know, nachos aren’t really authentic Mexican food, they’re Tex-Mex cuisine.” Okay, what do you expect me to do in that situation, spit it out and go “Ugh, that’s disgusting!” Authentic or not, they’re still delicious. I totally get pursuing authenticity when you’re trying to preserve a culture and are worried it’s under threat, but it gets brought into absolutely ridiculous contents, often by people who have no real basis or authority to be the arbiters of authenticity for what they’re discussing in the first place as a way to try and make themselves seem more worldly.

Any kind, empathetic character in a book sacrifices themselves to help others? “Oh, that character is an allegory for Christ, that’s why they acted that way.” I used to hear this all the time in English classes from middle school on, and eventually it got annoying enough that I wound up sitting down and reading the whole damn bible, just so that I could ask “In what way are this character’s actions better explained by them representing Jesus than by the fact that they’ve been an empathetic, kind character who looks out for others for the whole book?” and actually be able to call out teachers that were just using it lazily.

Yes, there are plenty such allegories out there in books, but it got to the point where it seemed like some sort of thought terminating cliché for literary analysis in middle school and high school.