2026: the year in pro-active review

A little more precise than ANYWHERE

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The Dirndl: I learned something. They could have put the October bier festival which is as famous as the Autobahn, even in Asia! Other 3 are in fact very obvious, well for me being a neighbor.

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That’s probably the only thing I know about that place :joy:

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To be a bit more precise: I am living in northern Germany. The Oktoberfest is in Munich Bavaria.
This culture is according to my feeling farer away from me than i.e. the Netherlands.

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I doubt you never heard about the no speed limit on highways…

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This is what I love about Japan :joy:

This move is called the Sliding Dogeza btw.

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https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5685082/curling-skillet-chattanooga

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Good news:

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Glad to see that my car, bought 10000 € in 2010, doesn’t have any of these modern features. Hope I’ll be able to buy an old-fashioned car next time, maybe around 2040.

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This is a news post.

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You might be forced to look into getting one far sooner:

Taxing what was one “reasonably priced family cars” in the same tax bracket as a Lamborghini Gallardo means that most of these cars will probably end up in the scrap-yard within the year, inflating the price of the models above the cut-off year and generating a lot of enviromental waste (when you scrap a still functioning and easily servicable car, that’s hardly “eco-friendly”, but maybe this is just me).

Granted, that’s in the UK at the moment, but we’ve all seen that such policies tend to move around and spread to other governments with similar ideas.

“Pricing poor people off the road.” is the first comment and it is very accurate.

Similar silly laws are being passed in the EU about houses.
Soon, unless your house passes a certain “enviromental threshold” you won’t be able to sell it or rent it. As if we do not have a housing/renting crisis already… :thinking:

I assume “Pricing poor people off the houses.” was also going to be top comment, if this was a video. :roll_eyes:

Here we are not allowed to rent a house under a certain environmental threshold, but selling is possible.

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This will arrive here soon, since it is an EU regulation.. the already insane rent situation in the big cities here will become mental. :roll_eyes:

Considering that a lot of apartments are quite old in the big cities here, the rents will go even higher and, quite frankly, a lot of people will be practically homeless, just for an environmental rule of dubious results (e.g. if you move out of the city and go back to your grandparent’s stone house and run a wood stove for heating, I am not sure if the environment really gained anything - similarly if you are forced to a far-away suburb and you drive 1 hour to get to work, is that a net-gain for the environment? Who knows?)…

@Gia! :slightly_smiling_face:

So good to see you back here!

And thanks for that video … sharing far and wide.

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Well, that did make cheating the “secong biggest mistake” of his life, so I guess, technically, he did improve something. :sweat_smile:

"I made the choice to tell the world what I did so maybe there’s a chance she will see what she really means to me - maybe not, but I don’t want to think I didn’t try everything to get her back.

Yes, nothing shows “honest love” like globally televised humiliation that you have been cheated on.

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Good news:

And for today’s tear-jerking story:

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:sob:

Being an avid proponent of animal rights (the rights of non-human animals that is, of non-human persons!), I MUST ask this rhetoric question:

“Why are those monkeys imprisoned? What crimes did they commit?”

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The monkey getting warmth from the “mother” after falling into the water :sob:

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Anyway it seems like the monkey is blending in well with the other monkeys, so nothing to worry about anymore!

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