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  • As an engineer i can tell you that a building being made of concrete and steel in no way indicates it to be safeguarded against fire. With how combustible a lot of interior has become over the past century, it can still turn into a flame engulfed hellhole, unless a high level of fire protection was achieved with proper firewalls and seals, containment design, extinguishing measures etc.

    If you subject steel directly or rebar concrete to heat for a long time, the structural integrity will be permanently lowered, often requiring a building to be demolished and rebuilt after a larger fire.





  • “For the aspiring politician there is no better way to get name recognition, build relationships with long-term donors, and to showcase oneself,” the hedge fund manager wrote, pitching the campaign like a business deal. “The risk/reward of running for mayor over the next 132 days is extremely compelling as the cost in time and energy is small and the upside is enormous.”

    Who wants to suck our dicks? Get to the dick sucking now! The chance never has been greater. We need our dicks sucked and will pay handsomely! If we like it, we’ll pass you around to suck even more dicks!


  • Ich musste meins leider aufgeben, weil bestimmte Applikationen eine höhere Android-Version gefordert haben.

    Ich kann noch immer mit diesen Bildschirm-Tastaturen nicht richtig tippen. physische Tastaturen sind objektiv überlegen, aber man musste die ja überall rausnehmen…





  • DW is run by the federal government to further the image of Germany abroad. It is the equivalent in organization to Russia Today, Radio Free Europe and other government run foreign media outlets.

    DW wants to promote an image of an open and discussive Germany, so they pick up on some issues as a reaction to the German issues already having become known, but they will not be proactive about it, e.g. run investigative Journalism.

    Especially in regards to Palestine there have been huge turmoil as the DW arabic staff got very upset with the narratives they were told to push and now DW is backtracking a bit to not loose too much face with arabic speakers.


  • The left party has had a consistent affordable living and long term inhrastructure investment program.

    But they are successfully attacked by the alliance from far right to supposed “liberal” press and politicians on a basis of “stealing peoples income”, “doesnt work in practice”, “evil communists”, “Putin friends”, “lgbt lifestyle party” and other attacks.

    Meanwhile parties like the social democrats or greens have moved significantpy to the right, embracing neolibetalism and since a few years open Racism and unconstitutional authoritarianism.

    Like in the US on the federal level these “progressive liberals” would rather bring the fascists to power than embrace “left” policies. Note that a lot of whatbis now attacked as “left” used to be standard among conservatives in the 50s-70s when it comes to taxation and public investment.


  • People have been protesting Elbit systems since many years and increasingly moved to direct action as the governments deliberately stayed deaf to the calls to stop cobtracts with and the operation of this company which isn’t knees deep, but deep diving into Israeli war crimes, crimes agains humanity, wars of aggression and illegal occupation.

    It was and is madness to give such a company leverage by buying their products and obviously Elbit is deeply integrated into the Israelo state and intelligence apparatus. Makes you wonder how reliable the products are, if the Israeli government needs something to blackmail you with.

    So i don’t think Iran has anything to do with it. We just see an escalation of people being fed up with the complicity in Israeli crimes.



  • It was never about that. Germany loves being on the wrong side of history. Now they have an excuse.

    Also fun fact. Remember Saddam Hussein? The former dictator of Iraq who massacred thousands of people with chemical weapons? His chemical weapons program was mostly built by German companies.

    Then Saddam threatened Israel with those, so to make up with Israel, Germany gifted submarines running on hydrogen and likely being able to launch nuclear missiles. With the hydrogen drive they are practically undetectable so Israel could nuke a country and claim having nothing to do with it.

    If it involves being bringing death and destruction to people considered inferior, there is a good chance Germany is on board with it.