You are either a sponsored official race driver or you will likely never see a track

weeeeak

We only have one kind of drivers license

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But we have huge largely unpatrolled roads so we mostly street race

I have 3 tracks (ALT Tsukude, Mikawa Motor Land, Mihama) within ~40 minutes drive, and there's a GymKhanna course about 3 minutes away, and a rally stage about 50 minutes away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRQb1LNxiQA

Stoplight drag races are very common

This was at Tsukude

Yea unless you have a ton of money you can't really race herry

Here

hahah Tsukude is like $70 for a 5 hour pack on special

```
Russia: We're on our way to ban the internet.
EU: Hold my beer.```

my profile shot is actaully form Suzuka

was just a free run, not an actual lap

https://www.reddit.com/r/SargonofAkkad/comments/8dmmli/as_russia_nukes_half_the_web_to_ban_his_app_pavel/

```[–]DDE93[S] 17 points 8 hours ago

20 million IPs banned to prevent the operation of Telegram, because the owner wouldn’t provide all the encryption keys to the spooks.```

damn

wew

wat

r u ok Putin?

Every now and then, people need to remember how far ahead Putin's Russia is on issues like suppressing speech

well some of that speech was surely hate speech so I'm sure it's all very progressive

More annoying, as this video points out, is how Western media (you know, the ones who have been 'ooo spooky evil Russia, Putin baaaaad') have also been dogpiling on Telegram too

Some dude got arrested (and I think wound up under house arrest) for playing Pokemon Go in a church

Which, from a memetic perspective, is funny enough, but legit dystopian in actual practise

^^

I thought he got a prison sentence

He did, but I think he wound up serving it stuck in his house, or something like that

I remember footage of armed guards shuttling him to and from his apartment

General responses I saw from priests (not in Russia) was, "just don't hunt Pokemon during mass."

weird

They take their religion more seriously over there than you'd expect

Not in Russia.

Also if you want to hold an anti-government protest, you can, but you have to apply with the city you live in, and if the city approves you're pretty much gauranteed that you'll be having your little protest right on the edge of the city limits, not in the town square

Yeah, that's the smart way to suppress dissent

If you're Orthodox, Russia takes it seriously

If you're not Orthodox, there's a good chance you're fucked

*rummage*

I'm glad they take their own stuff seriously