Probably missed that because the club I follow (Borussia Mönchengladbach) have an account I followed but they've never posted.

Good point, it's a bit of a PL market dominance thing.

Clubs having official accounts on here would be a start.

Absolutely brutal line

www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Maybe I'm misremembering but didn't the issues buildup when they were chasing CL under Rogers & didn't sell their next star guy in Tielemans?

Yeah mass media delivery systems are kinda the exception. Records, DVD/CDs, Streaming. Even then there's a fair few failures because they were too technical.

Or the military it seems.
A world where tech CEOs are less interested in making god is one where something like Claude or chatgpt launch business facing to do your schedule & code, etc.
Then they would have an actual capital base to expand 🤷.

Ok just looked it up & smart watches go way further back with attempts to go big public a few times before Apple. Sony did a Sony Ericsson one in 2009, there's Microsoft & IBM models well before that.

Yeah, I was thinking about Google glass then extended it to the colour change stuff that's only really appeared at fashion shows.
I think the pebble was one of the first smart watches, failed, got scaled back to fitness stuff then apple did their thing. But could have my timelines off there.

GPS was military, so were wireless communications, I.e. the internet. Games were for those tech nerds before Nintendo brought it to the wider public. Early cars were weird as hell!
Stuff sold to the public first has generally failed, & become niche. VR/AR, wearable tech, segways, Blockchain, etc.

Same case for telephones before that, someone on the street got one for work & took calls for everyone. WiFi & smartphones were an office thing way before they were a home thing.
Silicon valley had a joke that all these nerds want to make popular consumer facing apps. Hitting the bullseye again.

a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is standing in front of a door in a room . ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is standing in front of a door in a room .

Oh, Britta's in this skeet?

I mean we could call it the Wurstwand & make it really bad.

That's more meat plaster in practice. Fleischwand would be a better translation.

How bad analytics built a Tottenham team that might get relegated Tottenham are really bad and looking at the way this team has been constructed, one thing clearly stands out: This team is really bad at passing the ball, and that may explain their present malaise.

excellent @rwohan.bsky.social on the obvious issue at Tottenham over many seasons -- you can't build a good football team without good passers, and it's weird they tried www.espn.com/soccer/story...

I don't think it's morally justified to allow blueco another shot at the CL though.

For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either.

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i'd argue this is true in britain as well. reform making the same orbanist mistake of shouting about "cultural christianity" in a country that barely goes to church.

It seemed like Howe got more powerful with regards to transfers. Is the club set up to for that rebuild if Howe leaves?

It feels a similar way for this Villa squad but I'm pretty certain Emery will be stopping on.

In Newcastle's case, it's a far harder job without European income. I guess you will have to extract as much value from Tonani as possible to fund that refresh.

From the outside looking in, it feels like Howe has managed to raise the game of the talent to its maximum but the club (& Howe himself) haven't used their CL qualifications to raise that talent level.
Like the midfield looks like the Bruno show to me so of course it struggles when he's out.

Maybe this is part of the excitement for space travel again but I think it's also because it's the moon, not low earth orbit.
That said, collective will pushes the boundaries (government), enterprise only makes what's within the boundaries profitable by efficiency (mostly).

But it's really hard to get milk out of them without udders.

Despite Gravity's technical greatness it doesn't hit anywhere near the highs of Hans Zimmer going hog wild on an organ during the docking scene.
People at the time talked about "love transcends dimensions" being too silly like Hathaway & McConaughey don't absolutely sell that shit.

Just another point in the Republican administration being bad/evil/stupid column. Trump is also bad/evil/stupid but in different ways.
A lot of the worst things of Trump 2.0, DOGE, Iran, ICE, have looked a lot more like the former rather than the latter as he declines.

This is the one thing they've quietly been competent at doing & it's not much of a surprise who's minister of that sector.
That said, the north sea thing is a bit crap & the Greens are looking to grab disillusioned Labour votes, this is just the game unfortunately.

We really shouldn't have been surprised that the Basque guy who spent the best part of his playing career in the Barclays under British managers would be this.

All the time under Pep did was teach him how to obsessively maximise that advantage.

I've not seen PHM but I think his style lends itself to adaption to screen. It's easy to read them & say ok we will cut out about 1/4 of the book that is aerospace engineering exposition & use that space to flesh out characters for expensive actors to play.
Worked well for The Martian anyway.

I mean yeah, it's far from great. The earth plot is undercooked & both books aren't aiming to be thematicly deep.
Though the main PHM plot being about understanding others through science principles isn't exactly Maga either.