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Motorsports absolutely is not a chill one. Besides the significant cost in most formats, it's actually quite physically demanding to do basically anything except the slowest go-karts. Obviously not everyone has to do full on neck strength workouts like the F1 drivers, but still

It's so bizarre to me that Toyota in particular isn't a bigger player in the EV market after they were the first to get a mass market hybrid going. They were halfway there before anyone else, why'd they stumble so badly?

Transnistria is a Russian-backed breakaway region of Moldova. It is not NATO- or EU-aligned, it is Russia-aligned. It buying gas from Russia is not a surprise.

It's worth noting that there are several other Grok personas besides Ani. If he's only engaging with / posting the Ani stuff but not the others, that's something of a smoking gun to me

I'm basing that on just transcribing the text and putting it into google translate with "detect language" turned on. That said I also assumed it'd be a Slavic language too, but I don't think any of them use the ү character that's in the second word on the second line, whereas Mongolian, other Mongolic languages, and Turkic languages often do when written in Cyrillic. The first word is "avtomashin", but Mongolian got that word from Russian

Edit: transcriptions

Автомашин

• тай бүх зургийг сонгоно уу

Roughly Romanised, just using Wiktionary's versions (I do not know how to pronounce any of this myself)

Avtomašína

• Tai büx zurgiig songono uu

Assuming I've got that right, it's quite definitely not Slavic

And then the machine translation from Mongolian

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It seems like it's Mongolian, if that helps you figure it out at all

Ahh, good point

That's definitely Wanker's Workshop. Clearly they really have been reading a lot of British material

My inner conspiracy theorist is telling me that someone at the DoD described climate change as a national security threat that the department needs to address as part of handling defence and that's what triggered this

Well you do have a whole New Scotland over there

I am Scottish, I own a kilt, and I love haggis and whisky. I have eaten the odd deep fried mars bar. I also like the sound of bagpipes (I have to concede that the Irish uilleann pipes are a much more versatile instrument BUT THEY'RE NOT AS POWERFUL)

I suppose I sort of fit the one about calling myself Scottish before I call myself British, though I don't consider the two incompatible if Scotland is part of the UK. I am both. Mostly I am just left in a terrible dilemma of whether to make fun of the French or the English more when the opportunity arises

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Also I'm fairly sure he's one of the guys from Rubberbandits