#germany

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

War for profiting

It is important to know who are those who like to win.

According to the Monitor, “Ukraine has become a giant testing ground for #drones from all over the world – the United States, #Germany, #Poland, and other partner countries. Countless new companies are taking shape around the technology; teams of engineers are tinkering on prototypes, trying to clear the Ministry of Defense and NATO checklists of technical requirements, hoping to nail a military contract…Oleksandr Yakovenko, CEO of TAF Drones [said] the company already has four factories spread out across #Ukraine – despite suffering a sabotage attack that destroyed equipment worth $300,000 in July. The bulk of its supplies (90%) come from #China or #Taiwan. The remainder comes from suppliers in #Europe and the #US. ‘We have to create products that are cheaper than the targets,’ he says. ‘Otherwise, we will not win because our #enemy has more resources than our country.’ ”

#UK government records for a parallel-named Piranha Tech company, operating in the Liverpool area on “computer related activities” and “information technology consultancy activities”, indicate the possibility that the #Israel'is and their Ukrainian partners were considering a British company front during their start-up.

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bliter@diaspora-fr.org

I #sampled a #bunch of #YouTubers (in 2019) - Once Upon a #Synth

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This is a throwback to 2019 when I went to a #synth event in #Germany with a bunch of content #creators and #sampled some of them saying random things into a mic. Then I stitched it all together into a beat using a custom piece of software I wrote. I posted this a while back but the old #video had a long #vlog intro so I figured I'd share just the #music part cause I feel like it got lost in the #noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znbr9FpGHQE
#musique #sampling #fun

christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

BBC Archive on X: "#OnThisDay 1960: A British schoolgirl cheerily told Judith Chalmers about her holiday, which involved accidentally getting arrested in East Germany. https://t.co/rxVBeU1Psb" / X

Fascinating story!
#history #Germany #Britain
@Girl Of The Sea

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1788463919113339230

faab64@diasp.org

Another asshole on mastodon who got mad about my post about German police attacking a man carrying Jews against genocide.

Supporting police brutality against those protesting against ongoing genocide while crying over lack of free speech for those denying the Holocaust is the lowest I have seen.

Extreme right and so called liberals seems to be united in their fight against Palestinian protesters (as always).

#Germany #FreeSpeech #Mastodon #Holocaust #Genocide #Politics

hudsonlacerda@diasporabr.com.br
christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

When the Maibaum Falls — 40% German https://40percentgerman.com/home/2024/5/3/when-the-maibaum-falls

For almost 90 years, my home town spent the annual May Day public holiday transporting and carefully setting up the same maypole. Three generations essentially watched an identical process play out, as Lederhosen-clad men hoisted the roughly 38 meter pole into its mooring, secured it in place, and then celebrated the achievement with copious amounts of beer and, more often than not, Wurst. Although the traditional Maibaum has a finite life cycle, ours could easily have lasted decades longer, its sturdiness never in question, even when it gave the occasional disconcerting wobble when the wind caught it. Sadly, all good things do eventually come to an end, and it was with no little sadness that in 2021, locals awoke to find the pole lying on the road, in two very broken pieces.

#germany

faab64@diasp.org

Russia claims that their missile and done attacks against Odessa last week destroyed entire shipment of recent missiles and air defense system from US and Germany worth over $4B

The attacks were reported by both Russian and Ukrainian sources and the aftermath of the attacks were clearly indicating that the targets were amonition depot of some kind and the fire lasted for hours and spread to a large part of the storage facility that was hit.

The Russian military blogger claims that the information was leaked by an Ulrainian military who gave the coordinates and the date of the arrival of US and German shipment only hours before they were planned to be shipped out to different locations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/14-injured-russian-missile-attack-083800168.html
#Russia #Ukraine #UkraineWar #US #Germany #Military #Odessa

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#padreborn #germany #paderborn #river #washer women #sculptures
PADERBORN, GERMANY
- I've read that during this time in Paderborn, women were greatly involved in important political decisions made by their husbands, and even in the decision to have these memorial sculptures made of the Washer Women doing laundry in the famous Pader River in their city. They are beautiful and amazing sculptures.

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

#gaza #germany #genocide #icj

The Government of Reconciliation and National Unity wishes to express its recognition of the Court’s decision to remind all states of their international obligations with respect to the transfer of arms to Israel, including Germany. This reaffirms that no state can ignore its obligations with respect to the risk of genocide in Gaza and other violations of international law.

Finally, the Court rejected Germany’s request to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction, and will therefore continue with the process involving a review of Germany’s conduct before it reduced its material support to Israel, among other points.

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