i think several things that impressed me the most is that acosta also has sprints to contend with, so double the work on the weekend compared to marc’s 2013 season. plus with modern aero dirty air is now a prevalent thing, which wasn’t so in 2013, so tyre management is crucial, of course, he still has to master that, but there are elders of the sport that still can do that (not naming names jack miller) and acosta is still doing better than them! ducati today has a super developed software that determines tyre wear, and that lead to the entire ducati lineup picking a soft at cota this year, and pedro has literally on his own picked the correct tyre, which was a medium. i know that the ducati’s most likely followed pecco’s lead, but they’ve all run race pace in practice, has not one of them felt dubious about the soft? this was a pretty great indicator of pedro’s instinctive understanding and feel for the tyres, the bike and the track conditions. and most importantly, pedro is already fighting a very competitive marc!
like, we don’t know how pedro would fare in a title fight rn, but we also cannot tell how mentally 2013 marc would have coped with not immediately being on the best bike and not fighting at the front.
don't really have much to say beyond, yeah, completely agree with all of this. how quickly he's gotten the hang of the tyre management is insanely impressive and was far from a given... look at how the moto2 field this year has been completely mixed up by the switch. he struggled basically for one race and since then, he's kept progressing
the austin thing was very funny to me yeah. I do vaguely get pecco's reasoning for his tyre choice, but obviously it's a sign of confidence to be willing to go your own way. the contrast with jorge martin is quite fun - despite jorge's general air of confidence verging on cockiness, he was spooked into making the wrong call and following pecco's lead. (admittedly, I imagine he doesn't trust his judgement as much as he perhaps should after the phillip island fiasco last year.) pedro didn't let himself get psyched out into the wrong call, he went a different way from all the ktm's, absolutely paid off for him
and yeah, the marc 2013 point is true... I think this is partly an expectation thing - if he'd been on a worse bike he probably would've handled it fine, I just reckon he would've crashed a lot. the sprint thing is another important reminder that different eras are just. very tough to compare. I think you can go two ways on this - on the one hand, pedro's definitely having to deal with more strain as a result of just how intense race weekends have become, plus he's only now trying out this format (unlike everyone else in the class who already did it last year). that being said, the experts seem to think that the best way to adapt to a bike is to actually ride it in race conditions, so it's not implausible that the sprints have allowed someone as talented as him to get to grips with the motogp bikes faster. it's tough to compare! all of these things are tough to compare! all we know for certain is that pedro is incredibly impressive and is going to go on to win a shit ton of stuff
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i stopped to get milk at kwik trip and i considered getting a little treat but i did not and now i am treatless
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I can just see it now, I'll get asked by my manager what I mean by saying my period started "unexpectedly" when I come in tomorrow and she'll probably also say, again, that many people just deal with it when it hurts, you know, why not just push through it??
Ma'am they stOPPED REFILLING MY BIRTH CONTROL PRESCRIPTION THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CONSISTENTLY TAKEN UNTIL SOME TIME NEXT SUMMER, IT WAS UNE X PEC TE D
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I'm going to say it and some might hate me for it. Hell, most might just ignore me and it's fine. I just want to vent.
I decided to listen to the album, obviously like most folks are...even though it might take me a few days to get through with my schedule.
I love the banger that is "But Daddy I Love Him," but it also makes me feel so...disgusted. In a way with her, but in a way with myself? Which doesn't make sense since fans do nothing wrong by not supporting her decision to date a legitimately BAD GUY. Like, not a BAD GUY in a COOL way that isn't cool but a BAD GUY...the extremists with the letter and all that will be extremists. Hence, why they are called as such. They are not a majority of fans.
And after Snake Gate, calling them vipers?
The lyrics "I keep my side of the street clean" end her show every night. She is now dropping verses that yell out fuck YOU SNAKES for calling her out on dating a sexist and racist. Do your own sweeping...
I like her as an artist (I don't worship her), but this almost...hurts in a way. I just know that if my friend dissed me for calling out her racist, pig-headed boyfriend I'd be hurt as hell.
And don't get me started on her exposing Joe's depression and victimizing herself for it...
-Done.
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The piercers keep reminding and recommending that I don't sleep on my side for at least another 3 months
But (to use the Tumblr phrase) I sleep like a rotisserie chicken
They suggest using like an airplane travel pillow thing but I still can't really see how that will help
We've managed to save the helix pericing but the lobe one healed over in like. Less than 12 hours. So I have to wait a couple weeks to heal fully and then repierce and start from scratch on that one.
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What confuses me about the whole hormone cycle thing is that I never had completely regular 28 day periods naturally, they were almost always around 6-10 days late (a lot of variations outside that but that was the norm), and YET when I take birth control that's 3-weeks-on-1-week-off my body absolutely knows when I'm down to my last couple of pills of the set. Like this is a b/c where all the pills are identical, there's not a tapering level of hormones towards the end. Body is just like "aha, I detect it has been precisely 20 days since you started taking this set of hormone pills. Therefore I must deduce that today is our final pill and tomorrow it shall be the time to bleed!" And I'm like "alright Sherlock, how come you're suddenly able to count properly?"
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