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Yeah, I like his prefered football style, definitely one of the better options on the market. Personally, I find Ferdinand Feldhofer an interesting option outside of the names that are circulated in the media.

Bystander effect.

Same. Whom would you like to have as a head coach (realistically) for next season?

Kohfeldt's future will be decided before Tuesday. A meeting of supervisory and management boards took place today, no decision has been made yet.

Our next league match is only in two weeks, so a new head coach would have some time to prepare for the remaining 3 matches. That said, who would we appoint? I think we have absolutely no good interim solution, so Kohfeldt will stay... Maybe put Thomas Schaaf in charge for the remainder of the season and hope for the repeat of 1999.

Granted, this is about running out of energy that they are allowed to use, not running out of energy completely. Apparently the starting battery capacity is 52kWh, but for every minute spent behind safety car, the amount of energy each driver may use is reduced by 1kWh - and there were 5 safety car phases in the race, meaning that 19kWh were cut from the allowed amount of energy for each car. So definitely a miscalculation by the race control, but either way, they just keep on making a mockery out of themselves.. A complete farce. They even put a chicane in the middle of the straight to give the cars an additional heavy braking zone as a recharge opportunity.

Formula E

Just finished For All Mankind Season 2 finale. What an epic ending to the season and what a fantastic series overall... Looking forward to Season 3.

Shadow & Bone is now out on Netflix! Was looking forward to this one, will watch tonight after work. @Bluewolf

I agree, although Füllkrug was so shockingly bad yesterday, that bringing Selke on for him didn't make any difference, anyway... Kohfeldt probably brought him and Dinkci because of their height, hoping for some lucky header in the last minute of the match. But yeah, our goal scoring has been atrocious for a long time now.

This is an important breakthrough, and potentially a game changer. Great to see the technology works.

Last night's observation: Sirius, Canis Major, and a few neat objects around it. Started out with Sirius: very easy to find and unmistakeable, as no other star in the night sky is so bright and twinkles that much! Easily observed with a naked eye as well, but looks much more epic through the binos... Pretty much like a disco ball in space; think it twinkled in a handful of colours during my time of observation. Light refraction in the atmosphere is pretty cool... Not my image, but thought this was a great time lapse of Sirius "changing colour" throughout the night: What is particularly interesting, is that like Spica, Sirius is actually a binary star - sadly, Sirius B is too small and too faint to be observed even through a decent telescope, as it drowns in Sirius A brightness, so it's completely impossible through the binos. Anyway, moving on... Just south of Sirius (about half of the binoculars' field of view), there's a bright open cluster M41, also observable with a naked eye, but then all I can see unaided is a hazy blur Through the binos, it looks much better though; I think I could count nearly two dozen of stars scattered there in one spot, but as it's close to the horizon, the whole view suffers a bit from light pollution. Still, a pretty cool sight nonetheless, and a great and easy deep-sky target. Moving down from here, there's another three stars in the Canis Major that form a triangle and are in the hind legs of the dog, if you take the shape and the name of the constellation into account - Wezen in the middle, and then Aludra on the left and Alhadra on the right. All three are bright enough, and while not particularly interesting, it serves as a good guiding point to the two Collinder clusters just south of it - Cr140 and Cr132. Both observable, and Cr132 brightest stars form a quadrangle, while Cr140 stars form in a Y-shape of sorts. There are also a few other clusters around Sirius that I will try to observe tonight, if the conditions allow...

You don't get VIIT from long-haul flights, so it's misleading and I'd expect better from a chief health officer, even if the intentions are good.

mRNA vaccines (so Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna) are easy to modify, so any tweaks that would be required for any hypothetical new strain should not take long at all. It would be more complicated with the other ones that use different approach (adenovirus vector, weakened virus, etc.).

Do you remember the idiot karting driver who threw a front fairing of his kart onto the track trying to hit his opponent, and then attacked him after the race? He's been just handed a 15-year ban by FIA

Hi-res video!

My favourite part was "Then go ahead, do it - fuck off to your circus league, you damned turbo-capitalists."

A must-read from 11 Freunde regarding the Super League: https://11freunde.de/artikel/macht-kaputt-was-euch-kaputt-macht/3681000

No surprises there, Flick has always been too likeable for Bayern's egomaniac standards So what's next? Flick to DFB, Nagelsmann to Bayern, Glasner to RB?

Frankly, I see it as yet another example of sensationalist media reporting, first and foremost... "double mutant" sounds scary for sure, but it's not particularly unusual, and there are probably hundreds of similar other variants circulating unnoticed already. This particular variant has been sequenced in India last year already, has been found in numerous countries, might be more contagious, but so far, there is no evidence of it being able to successfully bypass T-cell immunity or evade antibodies, nor is there anything to suggest that it is more deadly or causes more severe disease. So in short, basically the answer is "there's not enough data", as usual.