Yes there are at least two possible interpretations of 1/1/1. Either take the sum of digits of the sum of digits, or take the remainder of division by 9 (which is the same as iterating sufficiently many times sum of digits).
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That thread is like the regular family of OGS Christmas, coming back again every year.
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Well, I think it’s looking like the title should be 2026: Rule of the Jungle…
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Here’s some kpop to break in the new year
I wonder what game that is 
Well considering the news since January second… “2026: WTF”, seems somewhat appropriate.
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Roger Federer is back in the courts!
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Never did I expect Jet Li to start a YouTube channel!
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Buttons for the win!
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I purposefully bought my car in 2023, a 2018 Skoda Octavia, for being the last year before the new model came out with the big touchscreen and not real buttons.
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I did something similar, that same year, to replace our 30+ year old family car with a new one and I had only those two requirements:
- No turbo powered engine
- No fancy electronics and large infotainment systems. It needs to have all the basic stuff with buttons, an actual handbreak and a small screen just to support music/radio, a parking camera and the navigation system.
I even tried to opt out from the “button start” system and I asked the owner of the dealship if I could have the “good old normal key based ignition” but she said “unfortunately not, but why would you want that?”… At least it is a real button. 
It was a bit shocking to me that these two requirements (especially the lack of turbo) actually excluded the vast majority of cars in general (assuming I could afford them) and all but five cars in my budget range where available here for sale iirc. Now there are only a couple of them (even the car I bought is no longer available due to the constantly changing regulations), until the tide shifts again.
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Why didn’t you want a turbo, something else to break and be expensive repair? Mine has one (petrol rather than diesel), I didn’t particularly want one but didn’t dislike it. I think cars in that market niche tend to have them because it means the engine can make enough power whilst still having low enough emissions and decent fuel economy. I also got an automatic with dual-clutch despite that being another expensive thing to break because my wife didn’t want a manual, but she still hasn’t passed her driving test.
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This was also a valid concern (my father used to read a lot of car magazines and he always gave more credence to the readers’ mail instead of the articles and a lot of people that owned cars like that complained about them being fickle. Surprisingly so did readers that owned repair shops. So after years of reading those magazines he finally gleamed some insight from them: “avoid turbo charged engines in normal family cars, especially if they are low-powered three cylinder engines”), but the main issue with a turbo engine is that I have never driven one and it probably requires a totally different driving style from mine for the turbo-charger to actually be useful.
I have a (s)low/steady driving style where I keep the RPM of the engine in the 2.5-3k RPM range which doesn’t stress a normal engine and doesn’t waste any fuel (even with the old car I kept consuption low. In the new car I am around 4.9L/100km or 58 british Miles per gallon). This also probably means that this style rarely engages the turbo properly, which in turn would mean that with my driving style I’d have a sub-par engine unfit for the car, which would have to stress out more in order to keep the car rolling on the normal speeds I am going.
So, while I already do the “progressive acceleration” I’d probably have to change my driving style to reach more revs than usual, waste more fuel and always be conscious/anxious of the engine warms up and the power graph of the car.
On the other hand, the 1.2L naturally aspirated engine ion my car, while not very strong (even combined with the very mild hybrid system), it is at least designed to provide the same power, at all times, without me worrying about any lag or whether the engine is warm enough or if the car has gotten to progressively accelerate or not.
The power is low, but it is always available, without issues or worries.
Yeah, they are pretty much mandatory now, which is a real shame because it has been systemarically affecting the low end affordable cars making them harder to drive/maintain or outright getting them banned from the market, like mine.
Depending on the kind of gearbox, that also tends to spend more fuel and over-rev the engine, but if properly maintained most automatics can last quite a long time.
I went for the manual because I do not live in a city (where an automatic shines with all those traffic lights and stops) and I kind of enjoy the micromanagement of the trip. A manual transmission also helps a lot in hilly/muddy places, like the Greek countryside.
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Imagine having a Netflix show for just being yourself 
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Hotel on the moon??
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What’s the task? Guess one word with 7 letters based on the images using the letters offered below? If so, it looks easy to me, but that’s not surprising.
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Oh, now that you say it’s not surprisingly easy for you, I found the word.
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Well, I am living in the country which is the solution.
We See Schloß Neuschwanstein, the Brandenburger Tor, two woman in a Dirndl, and a picture of the famous german Autobahn.
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