I feel like some of the hate for Microsoft products is disproportionate, like people are looking for things to dislike and ignoring the weak aspects of rival products or equivalent FOSS software, but this really is indefensibly egregious and greedy.

JWST is the 2021 James Webb Space Telescope, if, like me, you’re not plugged into this stuff.

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It’s looking more and more like the universal expansion was different when it was young than it is now. When it was young it was denser, galaxies were closer together, and conditions were just different. We know that dark energy plays a huge role here, causing the expansion to speed up, but how it does that isn’t clear.

I am the most inexpert of laypeople on this subject, but I’ve wondered whether the incursion into Russian territory has been to give Ukraine a better position to negotiate on a mutual return of territory in talks, if they come about.