#news that the heat wave killed 15,800 people in #Germany, most in a single week. #global-warming
on 02026-08-28The tax burden in #Germany. “The tax wedge is a measure of the tax on labour income, which includes the tax paid by both the employee and the employer.” and “for the average single worker” in Germany in 02024 the tax wedge was 47.9%, above the OECD average of 34.9%. “The employee net average tax rate is a measure of the net tax on labour income paid directly by the employee.” and, for the same worker, the employee net average tax rate was 37.4% (OECD average 25.0%). #CC BY 4.0. A #PDF extract of OECD (2025), Taxing Wages 2025: Decomposition of Personal Income #Taxes and the Role of Tax ReliefsTaxing [sic] Wages, OECD Publishing, Paris, <https://doi.org/10.1787/b3a95829-en>.
on 02026-08-19#history article claiming that #Goddard’s liquid-fueled rockets didn’t influence the V-2 program in #Germany. #flying
on 02026-04-28#history of the "Vehmic courts", secret courts in Early Medieval #Germany (#Westphalia) that meted out death in the name of the Holy Roman Emperor, with the term “Verfemen” used today to mean “ostracism” or “lynching”.
on 02026-01-16Willy Ley on the #history of #pseudoscience in #Germany before the Nazis
on 02025-12-12Yes, Wankel really was a militant Nazi. But he invented his engine in 01924, before Nazism. But not before he was an anti-Semite. And, yes, he was expelled from the Party in 01932 because of a dispute with the local Gauleiter, who didn’t want the Hitler Youth to get military training, and did join the SS in 01940, after having been imprisoned for criticizing the Gauleiter for corruption, then freed by Hitler himself. “He was known for his championing of animal rights and opposition to the use of animals in testing.” #mechanisms #history #Germany
on 02025-12-12“The testing of Hitler’s DNA showed “very high” scores — in the top one percent — for a predisposition to autism, schizophrenia and [bipolar] disorder,” but rule out Jewish ancestry: “the Y chromosome data matches the DNA of Hitler’s male line relative. If he had Jewish ancestry (through an outside relationship), that match wouldn’t be there.” Also he probably had Kallmann Syndrome, which can cause micropenis and undescended testicles. #history #Germany
on 02025-12-11#history of #Germany #fonts #politics
on 02025-12-11The Bormann brief ordering the use of Antiqua rather than Schwabacher “Jewish letters” or Fraktur. #history #fonts #Germany #politics
on 02025-12-11“For a future with #privacy, not mass #surveillance, #Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in the #Chat-Control proposal” #politics #EU #human-rights #PDF
on 02025-10-02“The point of this module is specific to German internet politics. It can be considered an ode to the German Minister for Family Affairs, Ursula von der #Leyen.
Among German geeks, she is known as "Zensursula", a combination of “Zensur” (German for “#censorship”) and “Ursula”. She has been pushing for legislation to force ISPs to censor the web much in the same way that China does.” #Germany #politics #human-rights (note that von der Leyen is currently the president of the #EU)
on 02025-10-02#Milei’s Hayek medal last year #politics #Germany
on 02025-09-30a map of all the #garbage landfills in #Germany. #Maps
on 02025-08-13rise and fall of #Hansa #history #toread #Germany
on 02025-07-30#news on #AfD: “#Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution [Verfassungsschutz]. “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.” I think that’s a nice capsule summary of what the problem was with the Nazis. It wasn’t their use of ancient Hindu religious symbols or their industrial policy; it’s that they were incompatible with the free democratic order because of the ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party. #politics
on 02025-05-02#Elmu is actually a neo-Nazi now, endorsing #AfD in #Germany #politics. “Musk (...) was met with roars of applause from the more than 4,000 attendees gathered in the German city of Halle as he appeared on screen at a rally for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
“I think you really are the best hope for Germany,” Musk told them.
Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader, party chair and candidate for chancellor of Germany’s AfD, prepares for a live X interview with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in her office in the Jakob Kaiser House in Berlin, on Thursday.
Musk was introduced by party co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, whom he endorsed and praised effusively during a more than hour-long conversation live-streamed earlier this month on X, the social media platform he owns.”
on 02025-02-03#news #video nine months ago from #Deutsche-Welle on #solar #manufacturing in #Europe, for example by #Switzerland company #Meyer-Burger in #Germany, which is opening a new factory in #Colorado-Springs, #USA. Credits national #China policy prioritizing #polysilicon production in the early 02000s. Lots of talking-head filler by Richard Black, director of policy and strategy at #Ember. Says #Brazil is “leading the renewable #energy boom taking place across the continent”, but apparently is trying #import-substitution with tariffs, and #ABSOLAR isn’t convinced local producers are enough. Says #Trump plans to cut Biden’s US subsidies. “Today, solar-powered energy is the cheapest form of electricity for the majority of the countries that use it. (...) Estimates put the cost somewhere between 300 and 900 dollars per kilowatt by 2030.” I guess when they made this video the mainstream solar module price was €0.14/Wp, and now it’s 29% lower at €0.10/Wp (US$106/kWp). Panasonic and LG recently exited the market. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-27#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27#Hossenfelder #video on #politics in #Germany resulting in infrastructural decay and trains not running on time
on 02024-07-0617-year-old Lasse Stolley lives as a #nomad on trains in #Germany with his laptop for €9900 a year.
on 02024-03-05more recent #history of #Germany #inflation, 02015–02022.
on 02022-05-26#history of #inflation in #Germany, 01995–02012. #economics
on 02022-05-26CO₂ emissions in #Germany did go up in 02012, and by 1.5% in 02013, but not up to their 02000 levels, and then they went back down. #energy “There is no dark side to the Energiewende”. Jesus, I still have 1342 tabs open
on 02022-02-11a Bronze Age battle 3200 years ago (1250 BCE) on the banks of the Tollense River near the Baltic Sea, 120 km from Berlin #archaeology #Germany
on 02021-03-02a review of a book arguing that Heisenberg probably sabotaged #Germany’s #WWII #nuclear-weapons effort #history
on 02017-02-24New York Times from 1930-09-27 about #Hitler’s pathetic appearance before the Supreme Court of #Germany in Leipzig. #politics #history
on 02016-11-11“Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defense”. #Germany
on 02016-10-02#racism in #Germany, a personal story about being harassed by #police in a park. The title is actually false; the photo at the top is not a photo of the author, but of someone in a somewhat similar situation.
on 02016-07-11“#Germany has never paid its debts” (#Piketty) #politics #Greece
on 02015-08-05