#this was not invented in germany

[wesavegotham]

It's been 15 years and I still see people try to come up with excuses to claim that the way Grant Morrison wrote the al Ghuls isn't racist and sorry, no, it's very very racist. Read a book about orientalism.

[dronescapesvideos]

The Invention Of The Jet Engine: Hans Von Ohain, One Of The Fathers Of the Turbojet

[hetalia-club]

I have been wanting to make this forever but just never got around to it. I simply cannot believe no one beat me to it yet.

Little known fact Austria wrote this song in 1939 as an expression of anger when he was mad at Germany. Hetalia teaches us so much.

[leonsliga]

Leon Scoretzka, circa 2017 ⚽️💥

[jojojooo33]

Rotating trans girl Al in my brain some more

[animestan69]

bestie the last time unification was in not in context of gdr and frg was just the potential existence of germany as a country until 1871 and even then you can argue that germany was never unified until 1990 we can cut it up however we want and there would be historical precedent

bestie i dont EVER want to see the english abbreviations for DDR and BRD on this page again. i dont know what the HELL Giant Dick Ride and Fuck Rim Gangbang means. you into this kinda sick shit??????

[distinguishedstudentfishalien]

One thing that absolutely kills me about the argument of "Judea belongs to the Zionist Jews because we were here before" is that if that's how they want to play it, we should apply it everywhere else.

You know what that means. Goodbye U.S. of A.

You need to give back the half of the country you stole from Mexico.

Wait, actually, you have to give back all the land you stole from First Nations.

And Mexico, mestizaje is pretty much a lie, send back the oppressors to Spain and Europe, and give back the land to the original cultures.

Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Australia, New Zealand etc, etc, etc. You know the deal, give it back.

And STILL, Israhell would have to give Palestinians their land back because Palestinians are descendants of the Canaanites. So by their own logic, Palestinians have as much right (if not more) to be there.

[jotunvali02]

le « Spaghettieis » - Karambolage - ARTE

[vintagepromotions]

Poster for The Mothers of Invention concert at Deutschlandhalle Berlin (1971).

[unhonestlymirror]

I need more Germany&Lithuania interactions

Basically, Lithuania&Germany constantly joking about Prussia (since he's technically their brother). Them jokingly blackmailing each other because Germany has info about Baltic Prussia and Liet has info about Germanic Prussia. Pls let them be buddies, it's not 20th century anymore

[will-ruadh]

Kharkiv forest is the best forest in the world, and the only downside is that it doesn't have a name

[alexanderpearce]

the germany ive constructed in my head is a beautiful country in which there are no spiders larger than 3cm wide and the wifi is good enough that i can actually watch stuff on effedupmovies dot com

[isawthismeme]

[bibastibootz]

okay listen!!!! nobody can "invent" bisexuality, it has always existed and there is nobody who its formation can be credited to and—

. . . I stand corrected ✨

[cheruib]

leibniz haferkeks my beloved

[quotesfrommyreading]

For many decades, the American government has focused overwhelmingly on discovery rather than deployment. After World War II, Vannevar Bush, the architect of our thrillingly successful wartime tech policy, published an influential report, “Science: The Endless Frontier,” in which he counseled the federal government to grow its investment in basic research. And it did. Since the middle of the 20th century, America’s inflation-adjusted spending on science and technology, through the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, has increased by a factor of 40.

But the government hasn’t matched that investment in the realm of implementation. This, too, was by design. Bush believed, with some reason, that politicians should not handpick nascent technologies to transform into new national industries. Better to advance the basic science and technology and let private companies—whose ears were closer to the ground—choose what to develop, and how.

You could say that we live in the world that Bush built. “The federal government, through NIH and NSF, pours billions into basic science and defense technology,” Daniel P. Gross, an economist at Duke University, told me. “But for civilian technology, there has been a view that Washington should fund the research and then get out of the way.”

As a result, many inventions languish in the so-called valley of death, where neither the government nor private ventures (risk-averse and possessed by relatively short time horizons) invest enough in the stages between discovery and commercialization. Take solar energy. In 1954, three American researchers at Bell Labs, the R&D wing of AT&T, built the first modern solar-cell prototype. By 1980, America was spending more on solar-energy research than any other country in the world. According to the Bush playbook, the U.S. was doing everything right. But we lost the technological edge on solar anyway, as Japan, Germany, and China used industrial policy to spur production—for example, by encouraging home builders to put solar panels on roofs. These tactics helped build the market and drove down the cost of solar power by several orders of magnitude—and by 90 percent in just the past 10 years.

  —  Why the Age of American Progress Ended