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  • No. They deal with the fact that they didn’t start the technological race until it was too late (and haven’t fully committed themselves even nowadays) and that they strongly build their sale strategy on the Chinese market - which nowadays is basically an EV market and one where German cars are now seen as either preposterous or “Grandfathers car”.

    This comes together with a price hike (not only on EVs but also across their fleet - starting long before EVs were common and affecting the combustion fleet as well; see the price of the Golf or Passat compared to an average worker wage over the last 20 years + it’s resale value), a major lack of quality control since COVID and a lack of financial planning for this upcoming storm.

    In other words: Their problem was not the end of the subsidies (which basically only affected the ID3 anyway as neither VW nor BMW or MB had any other models below the maximum price threshold for the subsidy) but their lack of management flexibility in time with a rapidly changing market.




  • Yeah, the second part is not feasible in the way mentioned in the article with the victim being alive and talking - putting a fire extinguisher into someone’s behind and releasing it will kill the person unless major surgical care is delivered within a very short timeframe (and even then chances aren’t too good).

    Pressure injuries from to the rectum do exist, as people are both horny as well as stupid/assholes. But a fire extinguisher is applying a pressure in the range of 15 bar. That would instantly tear the complete lower rectum and colon, even in cases where the pressure valve would not have been actually inserted into the victims anus but only released closely to it, as the sphincter does open up from far less pressure. A patient victimised like that would either bleed to death within a short time frame(minutes to hours) or die from sepsis (hours to days) with the first option being far more likely. It requires massive surgical and critical care efforts to even make people survive that - and measures that are easily recognised decades later. The patient would receive a anus praeter (articial stoma in the abdominal wall) and require weeks to month in hospital - under ideal treatment situations and only if not dying before that could be started.

    Additionally the substances within a fire extinguisher are highly problematic - military fire extinguishers are almost always powder or foam based. The powder used is highly irritating to the body (and depending on the type plain toxic) and would absolutely killed a guy from the reaction alone. The foam is also highly toxic and irritating in this capacity and would likely also kill the person without medical care.

    So no,as a healthcare professional who has seen a fair share of torture victims from Assad’s torture chambers, that report does not seem valid to me. (And I am doubtful that a arab only publication would be allowed to visit a prisoner in these facilities…twice)

    Don’t get me wrong, I am very sure that there is torture and major human rights violations going on in the Israel’s “detainee/military prisoners” system and these are beyond bad. But creating false/fake news discredits the real reports.









  • I have been picked up by a private airplane once. And I don’t mean an private jet like a bombardier global (which are still beyond cool), I mean like a full size long range airliner. The conference room alone was larger than my apartment at the time. Who especially was send my our customer to pick up my colleague and me. Even crazier: As it was somewhat urgent the customer “called” someone in his countries air traffic control and even though we arrived through rush hour at this airport we landed priority - which meant around 12 large airliners had to wait.

    (To make that clear: I am not a prostitute, especially as I am a ugly ass overweight dude, but I work in healthcare and did a fair share of VVIP jobs over the last two decades)


  • Was ein dümmlicher Post,sorry:

    So ganz einfach ist das nämlich nicht. Betriebseigentumsversicherungen sind a)komplex b) Arsch teuer c)viel schneller kündbar durch den Versicherer. Mitunter sind auch keine blanko-Versicherungen zu finden,sondern du kannst nur besonder gefährdetes/teures Betriebseigentum einzeln versichern. Und natürlich kann man davon ausgehen,dass die Versicherung auch nicht blöd ist und spätestens nach dem ersten Schadensfall eine Deckung von Vandalismusschäden ausschließt/dich kündigt wenn du dem nicht zustimmst.(Es handelt sich hier nicht um Verbraucherrecht,nicht vergessen)

    Schlussendlich hat die Versicherung auch irgendwie Recht mit: Der Vandalismus bzw. die Unfähigkeit der Stadt Köln und des Landes NRW dem Einhalt zu gebieten kann auch nicht das Problem einzelner Versicherungen sein.

    Vielleicht muss man sich eingestehen,dass der Karneval so wie er jetzt ist nicht mehr tragbar ist und die Menschenmengen effektiver begrenzen (frag nicht was ich als Katastrophenplaner von dem derzeitigen Konzept bzw. der Konzeptlosigkeit halte).

    Oder man muss als Stadt die ja immer betont wie sehr die Stadt profitiert in die Tasche greifen und Vandalismus sichere Geschäftsfronten und Verdienstausfall sponsoren.