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More like this, tbh

So BMW is now charging monthly subscription to remove software block and activate front seat heating as if planned obsolescence wasn't enough, now we're also getting subscription models and microtransactions for things that are already built-in by default in the car you already paid for. Welcome to the future. What's next, monthly subscription to be able to use the breaks?... Although that wouldn't even be surprising; Boeing have been selling certain safety features on their planes as extra add-ons for quite a while already.

The signed jersey will be worth much more in the future, just keep it and profit massively in 20 years time... And yeah, how the fuck did he spend 400€ on a 100km trip anyway? Did he drive there in a Bugatti Veyron? Sounds like a 15 minutes of fame kind of story.

Finally started reading The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Only about 100 pages in so far, but can already say that it's a very fascinating and provocative revision of the history of humanity. Very impressive list of citations and referenced research papers. I will wait until I finish it all to form an opinion, but there are already so many interesting pieces of historical information that I was completely unaware of!

It seems that the first batch of data might have already revealed the earliest known galaxy in the visible universe! Another cool discovery from the early data was finding out that one of the observed exoplanets might have clouds made of sand! https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/james-webb-space-telescope-charts-exoplanets/670568/

Good to hear from you Truls! Similarly to you, I lost most of my interest in football in recent years. Still watch Werder regularly and then a few occasional games in lower leagues or Austria sometimes, but have absolutely no interest in European (whether it's other top leagues or European competitions) or international football anymore. If anything, Werder playing in the 2. Bundesliga last season actually rekindled my passion a bit, as it was a much more honest, pur, raw competition (an exciting championship battle really helped, too). I will try to watch more football this season again, especially lower leagues.

I quit after 20 minutes or so... Might give it another go, but I really struggled with the beginning of the first episode.

There can only be one!

Good news: Marco Richter underwent a successful surgery, and while the tumor turned out to be malignant, it was detected at a such an early stage that he will not need chemotherapy and will be able to return to playing football soon Now hope the same for Haller, too! (or even better, a benign tumor).

Heard this argument a million times before, and it's still wrong anyway, not the point and not the place for that kind of discussion... But if you decide to use a VPN for torrenting, make sure you do it properly. Connect to the VPN before you start the torrent, and make sure you terminate the torrent once it's finished before you disconnect from the VPN again. Don't change VPN servers while the torrent is downloading to avoid an IP leak. If the VPN provider has a kill-switch, use it.

Tbh, I think it's a good idea to use VPN in general if you care about data privacy. But anyway, there are good, reliable VPNs like Mullvad which costs only 5€ a month and it doesn't auto-renew (so it simply expires and you don't need to cancel).

So Füllkrug not only signed a contract extension for 3 more years, but also agreed to lower his wages by 30%. According to him, he's not the only player in the club to do that, either. Good to hear stuff like that. https://www.deichstube.de/news/werder-bremen-niclas-fuellkrug-ueber-gehalt-neuer-vertrag-den-tod-musste-ich-sterben-geld-verzicht-bundesliga-zr-91676732.html#idAnchComments

Use a VPN.

It's on Free Internet TV

@MUFC you should watch Dark Winds, I think you'd like it.

More good news! Hope he stays injury free and finish his career at the club. I still remember his debut and also his first ever Bundesliga goal for us. Was very disappointed that it didn't work out and we let him go, and I admit I was a bit skeptical when we resigned him, but in hindsight, it was really worth it.

For a moment there I thought he came out as gay

The man's got an incredible talent to be an annoying little shit.

Apparently has had a medical today, should be announced later today. Good stuff!

I can't, there's no whisky in the image

This is an impressive presentation of the latest images with simple yet detailed explanations of what we're seeing in each of the images: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/tour-through-nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-images/101231818 I must say the Cosmic Cliffs image of the Carina Nebula is blowing my mind, I can't stop looking at it... Do yourself a favour and view it at a full 14575 x 8441 resolution (only a link, as the image is over 120MB in size!) : https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7ETPF7DVBJAC42JR5N6EQRH.png

So the Sri Lankan president was supposed to step down today, but he fled the country instead and left the PM (whom he assigned as a PM a while ago after the former PM resigned due to the pressure from the people) as the acting president. There's now a curfew/emergency situation again, while the protesters occupied the PM's office and the party leaders had a meeting, asking the PM to resign immediately. Certain opposition leaders appealed to the Army personel/police/special forces to ignore any order from the PM or the president, and not to use force against the protesters. This is all not very helpful as the country is currently in talks with IMF, World Bank, and whoever the fuck is willing to talk to them in general, hoping to find the solution to restructuring the debt and getting the country back on track.

Comparison between Hubble and JSW image of the same region: GIF: https://gfycat.com/embellishedselfisharuanas The Hubble one also took weeks, while JSW is only 12.5 hours of exposure!

A documentary is coming

Yes I know, but 21? It's barely warm