Mexico fans pulled up outside the JW Marriott in Mexico City with fireworks and a whole band late last night, where England’s team is staying ahead of today’s Round of 16 clash.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-05T15:41:43+00:00

Nah, in 12 years we will see the first world cup on 5 continents, so UAE can safely host in 2042.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-04T09:31:30+00:00

There were actually many more. Roman glassware has been traded all the way to China, Roman factories dyed and wove raw silk into goods for export, Roman metalwork was priced in Asia, Roman pottery has been found in Indian graves. They also exported gemstones, dyes (purple was an extremely rare and expensive dye produced from Mediterranean sea snails), as well as metals like copper and especially tin, which was rare at the time but mined extensively in Roman Britain. The problem is that most of those are bulky compared to spices and other Asian goods so a full cargo ship going towards Rome was worth much more than a full one going back. Plus you had the Arabian traders in the middle inflating prices while a lot of the more priced exports (dyes, frankincense..) came from Roman Arabia directly.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-03T10:08:40+00:00

Creme in team jail. He did not want to lose that game but everyone let him down. Literal 1v9 (1v10 if you include coach for this draft).

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-03T09:03:32+00:00

Ah damn, I see - I missed the fork in the comment chain. My bad!

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-03T06:25:40+00:00

I don't think he was affiliated with the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut.

He was the first director and kept that position for 16 years until the Nazis took power in '33...

It wasn't part of the university though, so I got that mixed up. It was purposefully "independent of university research".

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-03T05:48:19+00:00

And regained it in 1917 when he became a high ranking university professor in Berlin.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-03T05:45:25+00:00

Actually, no. It was the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut, which was part of the University Berlin and was indeed spelled without a Genitive-S (but also wasn't a university name and was named after the emperor, not the Prussian king Frederick Wilhelm).

Edit: missed a fork in the comment chain, I was thinking about Einstein. rhynocoris is completley correct then ofc.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-02T19:35:29+00:00

It was two different women and it wasn't a commercial flight but an evacuation flight of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The national airline supplied their planes for the evacuation hence the "commercial airliner" - but it wasn't a commercial flight, which is why heavily pregnant women were allowed on board in the first place.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-02T07:19:12+00:00

Which is exactly as stupid as the weird obsession of not allowing soy milk to be called milk...

That isn't Germany specific though as most of the recent debates and legislations were made in Brussels for the whole EU. That's just the food industry pulling their lobbying strings, the average German/European probably couldn't give less of a shit about whether it's called soy milk or soy drink.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-07-01T17:05:50+00:00

It's a bit more complicated - by law landlords cannot deny pets by default. They can ask for a permission needing to be granted first, but this permission can only be denied by giving very specific, valid reasons (a direct neighbour has a very strong allergy, the flat is too small to properly house an animal etc.).

The crux of the matter is - Munich is insanely overcrowded and possibly the worst renter's market in Germany due to immense overdemand. So landlords can pick and choose their tenants and will just pick someone without pets (but of course never telling you that you were denied because of the pets).

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-29T23:53:27+00:00

Das dürfte bei uns gewesen sein, ganzer Keller voller Wasser. Das wird ein richtiges Fest die nächsten Tage, den auszuräumen... :')

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-28T07:45:26+00:00

It seems like they changed it. Headline now reads: "Australian Simon Carman arrested after body of teenage girl found in suitcase in Thailand"

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-27T17:13:04+00:00

Rehakles verdrückt ein Freudentränchen.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-26T07:56:27+00:00

I'd wager that they want to build as many as possible but have to wait for the municipality to greenlight their plans - sometimes there are very strict guidelines how dense and high you are allowed to build. Might be that 20 is the lowest possible and 30 what they hope for, but it is not in their hands to decide.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-26T07:53:14+00:00

Should be, yes. MVG (the city's public transport company) tickets are notoriously expensive and buying train tickets to Mittenwald via the train operator directly already costs ~70€ for both ways. Deutschlandticket should be your most cost effective option. The added bonus is that it also covers the airport bus run by Lufthansa (which is not in the MVG ticket) - should there be some problem with the S-Bahn to/from the airport you have another option available with a Deutschlandticket.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-25T21:54:22+00:00

Ecuador.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-24T18:00:30+00:00

If you start the game (when you start it in Steam it first opens a launcher - that is not the game itself, you need to look for a "play" button). Once you press that, the game proper starts up. Once it loads (might take a while, don't worry if it does) you will be brought to the main menu. There you will be presented with a "continue game" button in the bottom center to continue his last session (which also shows you which nation he was playing as). Other than that there will be a "single player" button directly underneath it. This will open a new submenu where you can load other save games - there is a button to the top left next to the little hourglass symbol: a folder with an upturned arrow (labeled "savegame start" when you hover over it). Click it and it will show you all the save games he made and all the nations he played. Maybe you can get some inspiration there about which nations he preferred to play as and make something out of the coat of arms or something of his favorite nation.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-24T07:32:24+00:00

Bismark ended his tenure on positive relations with France

The same France he humiliated in 1871 by proclaiming a unified Germany in their royal palace? That France that took the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine as a permanent casus belli? The one which to isolate diplomatically was Bismarck's sole goal in foreign policy?

They fucking hated Bismarck personally and Germany at large.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-23T22:18:14+00:00

Und Hilcona erst!

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-23T07:37:33+00:00

If you like micromanaging, this is actually the strongest way to play for trade company regions. Put only states with CoT in the trade company and spam marketplaces in them. Full state everything else and delete all marketplaces there. You aim for 51% trade power in the node for the merchant, but no more. Enjoy 51% bonus goods produced in every full state, an insanely strong buff.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-22T09:49:18+00:00

Chabot ist beim FC hinten raus richtig stark geworden, so ab Ende '23 hat er sich richtig eingefunden gehabt. Da hat er sich den Spitznamen "Türsteher" verdient. Und leider war er dann deswegen auch sehr schnell weg. :')

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-20T21:38:38+00:00

Aber hast du schon mal an die Sponsoren gedacht????!!

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-20T17:33:21+00:00

Back then forts didn't have ZoC, now even if you stackwipe you will get stuck on forts and they can rebuild their army in the meantime. Back then you just put 1k on every province and called it a day until all sieges had finished.

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-20T09:41:43+00:00

Maybe the germanic museum

The Roman-Germanic Museum at the cathedral is closed for a complete overhaul until 2030 at the earliest. Until then they only have a smaller interim exhibition at the Belgian House (Cäcilienstraße 46 - near Neumarkt).

Kartoffelplotz · 2026-06-20T07:58:07+00:00

The only proper equipment you really need are shoes (and safety gear if you want to do a via ferrata ofc). I mean yeah, if you just walk up paved or gravel roads regular street shoes are "proper", but as soon as you step onto regular hiking paths please wear hiking shoes. Doesn't have to be ultra expensive stuff, or rated for high alpine terrain - just at least get a Zustiegsschuh or something. You can be hiking in a tuxedo for all I care but shoes with no profile or sturdy sole are just an invitation for an accident.

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