BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them

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BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them
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BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them::The blowback worked—but subscriptions for software-based new car features will continue, according to a BMW board member.

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Terry Pratchett said it best!

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money,” wrote Pratchett. “Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”

Someone literally quoted this already lol

Someone will quote this any time shoes or products or money is mentioned. It's damn near a second Godwin's Law by this point

Hmm. This reaction has a very prescriptivist and strict attitude towards language... Hitler

First time I've ever seen it.

Idk if you mean the postin of the passage or Discworld books in general, but I highly recommend Discworld books.

Main reason I don't mind this passage being everywhere is it gives me a chance to shill for Terry Pratchett