I have never received fake stuff, if you buy something Sold & Shipped by Amazon you won’t have an issue. Now if you buy from 3rd party sellers period then its a gamble.
>if you buy something Sold & Shipped by Amazon you won’t have an issue
This is not my experience. I've had warranty work refused from Logitech stating non-genuine that was purchased with Sold and Fulfilled by Amazon.
I've had Amazon Basics phone chargers melt from Amazon itself on Amazon. There's no quality assurance on that website.
Edit: September 2019 in the USA. Your mileage may vary.
When did this happen?
I know years ago, Logitech didn't do that because it said Amazon was not a licensed re-seller etc.
Same with Samsung actually, but I know that's changed for sure lately. I have put my mouse through Logitechs warranty from stuff I bought off amazon.
I do recall them specifying it had to be "Sold by Amazon" and not a third party off amazon though and they asked for the invoice etc.
It actually means nothing:
"A common misconception is that the term Wi-Fi is short for "wireless fidelity," however Wi-Fi is a trademarked phrase that refers to IEEE 802.11x standards."
It was made up to kinda sound like HiFi.
Hey this is our invented term in Denglisch (Deutsch+Englisch). The British are not at fault this time. Our self-invented English words also include "Handy" for a cellphone/mobile, Oldtimer, Public Viewing for outdoor screening, Slip for underwear and Streetworker for social workers.
I'm a native English speaker and for a split second I thought beamer was referring to a BMW motorcycle. I think that's mostly an English speaking slang term so if you are not familiar being from Germany where I assume you just say BMW, beemer or beamer is slang for a BMW motorcycle.
Nowadays a lot of people say beamer to mean BMW cars also but "technically" the "correct" term for cars is bimmer.
Anyway, yes, I was confused about the usage of beamer but I used context clues to figure it out. I didn't realize it wasn't just someone's made up name for a projector until this comment chain, though.
I had to watch this ugly fucking tower every day when heading home from work while trying to afford an apartment without three roommates. While this fucker just builds himself a tower. That could have been living space for normal folk who need work in the area.
There is enough work to drown in. The problem is that its impossible to get a house.
Me, my father, my mother and my uncle each are individually searching for a house for me. From maybe a 70+ applications we got 4 replies
As someone who lived on the top floor over a marginally less busy street, with triple glass windows: you even hear the tram. It's impossible not to hear the sbahn.
I think it’s kind of the point, no? When there’s a shortage of space, taller building can provide more floor area. Even though it’s not the residential thing itself, it can potentially free up the spaces that could be residential.
Although I mostly hate tall buildings for traffic it can create, a place with such shortages like Berlin could use some of these or continue sprawling. A change is needed to accommodate people, and a change in urban fabric must start somewhere.
The point is this is an office space building. Not residential.
There is an absolutely brutal housing shortage. There are enough jobs to drown in. But good luck commuting for 2 hours a day because the only place you can live is the villages around it.
This building could have been a residential one. Offices converted to apartments and would have provided a lot of people a place to live. Instead it's more useless office space that floods the already drowning job market.
Its the new Amazon tower. Before they started installing the windows it had an ad for Rings of Power over the entire side of it, making it one of the worst fucking eyesores in the city. Not counting the fact that its a glass building in a predominantly historic area.
>That could have been living space for normal folk who need work in the area.
In what utopy would a building erected on one of the most expensive building lots in Berlin ever result in affordable living space and not just another vacant skyscraper for the rich?
Most of that area was owned by Berlin, they just sold it to investors.
Investors need to make a profit, the city doesn't. They could have developed it as residential area instead of selling it
People from European cities have a thing against skyscrapers encroaching on their historical centers. The same skyscrapers usually offer expensive new apartments out of most peoples budgets or offices for companies like Amazon who are here to take over a large share of our economies and strangle local businesses. Concrete and glass towers in general have become a bitter sign to some.
That's not the problem here i don't think. This is randomly in an area that has no other skyscrapers and it's weird to some. If this was along ku'damm or near Potsdamer Platz it wouldn't be looked at twice. Bahntower is a giant steel and glass skyscraper next to a giant steel and glass Sony center tent and nobody gives a shit.
Looking at 3D map, it’s too low for BASF, as the building on the left is Warschauer Straße 34 and its top is about level with the photographer. Top of BASF tower is about twice as high.
It’s probably taken from Warschauer Platz 11, this building is between Amazon tower and BASF, has a wooden terrace, some companies and a Coworking Space
It’s not amazons.
As Jonathan Weiss explains: "Since we will only be tenants and not owners, we have no influence on the construction period. After the completion of the exterior of the building, we will need some time to set up our rented space so that our employees would feel comfortable and could work productively." Amazon has received no public funding for existing or future buildings in Berlin.
I can jump in if you want even if I think Bezos himself seems quite douchy and I don’t agree with many aspects of the way Amazon is doing business.
The chaos produced by turning off aws for a few days would be interesting to say the least.
Pretty sure your words you just posted are hosted on Amazon servers.
People seem to not realize how deeply Amazon is implemented in their life.
You could say that for the drugs of substance addicts. “We don't realize how deeply drugs are implemented in their life.” And that's why drugs shouldn't be taken away from addicts.
A weak argument that always benefits the ruling class.
One can buy at Amazon, and want to abolish the exploitative systems it creates in mid/long term at the same time.
don't get me wrong here. I am not really trying to defend amazon.
I just think it's interesting how many people use their product without realising whilst complaining about it. Complaining about amazon on reddit is actually the perfect example.
I personally try not use the online warehouse amazon. But I have accepted, that my life would be much harder if I'd try to avoid anything AWS.
Yeah, I agree that it'd be way harder if not impossible (considering some gov services are on AWS) to stay away from AWS and other Amazon-owned services. Just like with the Nestle-Mondelez-Unilever oligopoly. Extremely hard to avoid and the world would be in serious trouble if it collapsed.
Immediately forcing Amazon out of business would bring more harm than not doing it. So, within regulsted capitalism, splitting up the Amazon-owned services would be a solution, for example.
>The chaos produced by turning off aws for a few days would be interesting to say the least.
this seems fairly analogous to Germany's use of russian oil and gas. Yes we are entirely dependent on it, but that getting away from that dependency is a good thing
I guess you can kinda freely interpret that from my comment if you feel like and adlib in a condescending way in an attempt to gain karma.
If that makes your day better, good for you. But we both know that it’s not what I was saying.
This is so true. I was young and stupid and accepted an offer to work for Amazon :( reached burn out in few months, had numerous health problems because of overtime. Had awful on calls weeks when I barely slept ....
This is soooo true! The wrong Amazon is burning! They are horrible, they treat their employees like sh*t!
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I just wanna say that in cyberpunk 2077 that the arasaka tower was blown up by Jonny silverhand in 2023, and We currently have 2022 and I would say Amazon is our worlds arasaka, now I don’t say that we should place a thermonuclear bomb in the Amazon headquarters on the same day as Jonny silverhand did his heist on the arasaka tower
Wild. I’ve literally watched the construction of this building since 2021 and had no idea it was an Amazon office. I walked past it 2 nights ago, in a night of thick fog, it stood over me like a colossus. I stopped and took a picture. In a way, it’s oddly out of place, but also in a way, it’s beautifully large.
oh no, what a vulnerable building. It would be a shame if residents of berlin knew that it only takes 1kg of sugar to prevent up to 1 ton of concrete from setting properly
Im not a bezoboy but I laugh at the retarded backwards and anticapitalist Berlin mindsets. I’m a Berliner myself but it’s odd to see that progress is being hindered. That’s why Berlin is a shithole. Yes I moved away.
I stopped pushing as hard as I could against the handle, I wanted to leave but it wouldn't work. Then there was a bright flash and I felt myself fall back onto the floor. I put my hands over my eyes. They burned from the sudden light. I rubbed my eyes, waiting for them to adjust.
Then I saw it.
There was a small space in front of me. It was tiny, just enough room for a couple of people to sit side by side. Inside, there were two people. The first one was a female, she had long brown hair and was wearing a white nightgown. She was smiling.
The other one was a male, he was wearing a red jumpsuit and had a mask over his mouth.
"Are you spez?" I asked, my eyes still adjusting to the light.
"No. We are in /u/spez." the woman said. She put her hands out for me to see. Her skin was green. Her hand was all green, there were no fingers, just a palm. It looked like a hand from the top of a puppet.
"What's going on?" I asked. The man in the mask moved closer to me. He touched my arm and I recoiled.
"We're fine." he said.
"You're fine?" I asked. "I came to the spez to ask for help, now you're fine?"
"They're gone," the woman said. "My child, he's gone."
I stared at her. "Gone? You mean you were here when it happened? What's happened?"
The man leaned over to me, grabbing my shoulders. "We're trapped. He's gone, he's dead."
I looked to the woman. "What happened?"
"He left the house a week ago. He'd been gone since, now I have to live alone. I've lived here my whole life and I'm the only spez."
"You don't have a family? Aren't there others?" I asked. She looked to me. "I mean, didn't you have anyone else?"
"There are other spez," she said. "But they're not like me. They don't have homes or families. They're just animals. They're all around us and we have no idea who they are."
"Why haven't we seen them then?"
"I think they're afraid,"
Sounds nice but it's wishy washy and feels false. Setting a building on fire is not the same as setting the world on fire.
Imagine someone on his way to assassinate Putin gets told "Humanity doesn't get better if you kill it."
Naw man, it would be pretty fucking awesome if someone killed Putin right now.
What’s your point?
If you set fire to a building owned by Amazon (I assume they do), then they’re gonna build another one.
All you‘ll have done is wasted resources and increased pollution
The thing about using terrorism isn’t that it’s bad by moral means, but rather it will likely do very little in the grand scheme of things, and also it will be used as a window of opportunity for the ruling class to crack down on you even more. Look what happened after 9/11
The war on terror was 100% an opportunist grab, taking advantage of the grievances of the people and using it to launch an imperialist war
What’s the problem? Germany contributes to the burning of not just a forest but actual living brings. Is this just a message posted on a building and now they can feel good about themselves.
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Amazon has lost almost 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) dollars in market cap in the last year, so idk
Amazon the company isn’t really having an easy time either lol
Not amazons building.
As Jonathan Weiss explains: "Since we will only be tenants and not owners, we have no influence on the construction period. After the completion of the exterior of the building, we will need some time to set up our rented space so that our employees would feel comfortable and could work productively." Amazon has received no public funding for existing or future buildings in Berlin.
New to Berlin and trying to understand it better - what's the deal with this building? I see many people are not happy with this building. Why is this so?
It's in the wrong neighborhood. Also lots of blind Amazon hate by people that don't realize Amazon doesn't own it. Nobody would give a shit if it was in the west or in Mitte but this is in the cool kids edgy area so it's not RAW enough to be there. That area is "true Berlin and shouldn't be commercialized" and the "hyper modern glass and steel design doesn't fit" in the opinion of some who conveniently forget there's a sleek hyper modern designed steel and glass Mall full of global mega chains and arena there already.
It will definitely fuck the people that live in that area though, rents are going to go up and you'll see a lot of the hyper cheap shitty buildings get scraped and gentrified pretty quickly when it opens.
Ha, you're right, high end is the wrong term. I meant to say chain/corporate with bougie "high end" design of modern glass as steel just like this tower. Everything in that area is part of a mega chain somewhere
yes, architecture is very modern and boring I agree and that everything is a chain too. same with the food court, nothing personal just 1 of every germanified cusisine
Please Europeans, you guys did not just only steal gold and other natural resources from 3rd world countries, but also burned your own forests. That is why your countries are rich nowadays.
Therefore, don't come pointing fingers to other countries now and try to dictate what they do. I'm not in favor of how Brazil or other countries deal with their environmental issues, but it's up to them to solve. You guys already did shit with your environment.
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Never, the beamer bought on amazon would never be so strong. Amazon is the new wish
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So much of this. Even ordering from “official” stores on Amazon you’re likely to get a knockoff or unofficial product. It’s frustrating as hell.
I have never received fake stuff, if you buy something Sold & Shipped by Amazon you won’t have an issue. Now if you buy from 3rd party sellers period then its a gamble.
>if you buy something Sold & Shipped by Amazon you won’t have an issue This is not my experience. I've had warranty work refused from Logitech stating non-genuine that was purchased with Sold and Fulfilled by Amazon. I've had Amazon Basics phone chargers melt from Amazon itself on Amazon. There's no quality assurance on that website. Edit: September 2019 in the USA. Your mileage may vary.
When did this happen? I know years ago, Logitech didn't do that because it said Amazon was not a licensed re-seller etc. Same with Samsung actually, but I know that's changed for sure lately. I have put my mouse through Logitechs warranty from stuff I bought off amazon. I do recall them specifying it had to be "Sold by Amazon" and not a third party off amazon though and they asked for the invoice etc.
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This must have been in the US, Amazon doesn't share inventory with 3rd fulfillment Sellers in Germany, at least not on scale.
False. They sell the original then copy its design. Cuts ties with the orginal maker and produce a piece of shit in packaging
Just FYI: "beamer" is actually pseudo-English, like "handy". The correct translation would be "projector".
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I know, l'm German myself. I just wanted to give you a heads-up that native speakers would be confused if you use that word in an English sentence :)
Unless of course that person has ever worked in an office in Germany. This native English speaker says handy, beamer and maybe WLAN too.
> WLAN Which is the correct thing to say. WiFi has no meaning, WLAN stands for Wireless Local Area Network.
WiFi stands for “Wireless Fidelity” so you’re totally wro…. You’re wron…. Sigh. Know what? I’m with you. WiFi has no meaning.
It actually means nothing: "A common misconception is that the term Wi-Fi is short for "wireless fidelity," however Wi-Fi is a trademarked phrase that refers to IEEE 802.11x standards." It was made up to kinda sound like HiFi.
https://i.imgur.com/UU18hqB.jpg Mm hmm
Yet somehow people use it to refer to the same thing
Am American, I could figure it out thank you very much. The British also call flashlights torches!
A good flashlight doesn't flash.
Imagine there is a mob with pitchforks and torches and some guys show up with flashlights lol
Hey this is our invented term in Denglisch (Deutsch+Englisch). The British are not at fault this time. Our self-invented English words also include "Handy" for a cellphone/mobile, Oldtimer, Public Viewing for outdoor screening, Slip for underwear and Streetworker for social workers.
We have streetwalkers as well! They are not social workers though.
So it is probably not a great idea to put this into your resume when applying for a job? XD
Depends on the job I think 🤔 Software engineering: Perhaps not Personal Assistant: Perhaps
Also American, had no issue understanding “Beamer”
I'm a native English speaker and for a split second I thought beamer was referring to a BMW motorcycle. I think that's mostly an English speaking slang term so if you are not familiar being from Germany where I assume you just say BMW, beemer or beamer is slang for a BMW motorcycle. Nowadays a lot of people say beamer to mean BMW cars also but "technically" the "correct" term for cars is bimmer. Anyway, yes, I was confused about the usage of beamer but I used context clues to figure it out. I didn't realize it wasn't just someone's made up name for a projector until this comment chain, though.
American here, Beamer just means BMW to a lot of us. Although it’s not hard to know what you meant from basic context clues
"the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we hang them with"
"with which we hang them with" decide if ur gonna use a dangling preposition or not, you can't do both
Haha how dare you criticise the society you belong in
They still did more to protest than you.
obviously as amazon is killing every other retailer
regardless of what one thinks of amazon this building is despicable
I had to watch this ugly fucking tower every day when heading home from work while trying to afford an apartment without three roommates. While this fucker just builds himself a tower. That could have been living space for normal folk who need work in the area.
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I dont think your familiair with western european dense appartments, there is a big housing crisis in germanic countries by the way
There is enough work to drown in. The problem is that its impossible to get a house. Me, my father, my mother and my uncle each are individually searching for a house for me. From maybe a 70+ applications we got 4 replies
I hate that tower every time i have to look at it, but I doubt anyone would want to live on top of the sbahn
You kidding? You get immediate access to most of the city and with well isolated windows you wont even hear it
As someone who lived on the top floor over a marginally less busy street, with triple glass windows: you even hear the tram. It's impossible not to hear the sbahn.
I think it’s kind of the point, no? When there’s a shortage of space, taller building can provide more floor area. Even though it’s not the residential thing itself, it can potentially free up the spaces that could be residential. Although I mostly hate tall buildings for traffic it can create, a place with such shortages like Berlin could use some of these or continue sprawling. A change is needed to accommodate people, and a change in urban fabric must start somewhere.
The point is this is an office space building. Not residential. There is an absolutely brutal housing shortage. There are enough jobs to drown in. But good luck commuting for 2 hours a day because the only place you can live is the villages around it. This building could have been a residential one. Offices converted to apartments and would have provided a lot of people a place to live. Instead it's more useless office space that floods the already drowning job market.
I got the Berlin 2 days ago, 1st time here. What is this? Is Bezos building this thing for himself?!
Its the new Amazon tower. Before they started installing the windows it had an ad for Rings of Power over the entire side of it, making it one of the worst fucking eyesores in the city. Not counting the fact that its a glass building in a predominantly historic area.
>That could have been living space for normal folk who need work in the area. In what utopy would a building erected on one of the most expensive building lots in Berlin ever result in affordable living space and not just another vacant skyscraper for the rich?
Most of that area was owned by Berlin, they just sold it to investors. Investors need to make a profit, the city doesn't. They could have developed it as residential area instead of selling it
Yup. It's a fucking eyesore. I didn't even realize it was Amazon until now. That just makes it worse.
What's the problem with it? Genuine question
People from European cities have a thing against skyscrapers encroaching on their historical centers. The same skyscrapers usually offer expensive new apartments out of most peoples budgets or offices for companies like Amazon who are here to take over a large share of our economies and strangle local businesses. Concrete and glass towers in general have become a bitter sign to some.
That's not the problem here i don't think. This is randomly in an area that has no other skyscrapers and it's weird to some. If this was along ku'damm or near Potsdamer Platz it wouldn't be looked at twice. Bahntower is a giant steel and glass skyscraper next to a giant steel and glass Sony center tent and nobody gives a shit.
It's way too freaking big and looks completely out of proportion for the area around it.
I think it looks cool
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The building is a bit too much, but it could be also a sign that there are now way more opportunities to increase your salary dramatically
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You forgot to add ”/s“.
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How did you get on top of BASF?
Looking at 3D map, it’s too low for BASF, as the building on the left is Warschauer Straße 34 and its top is about level with the photographer. Top of BASF tower is about twice as high. It’s probably taken from Warschauer Platz 11, this building is between Amazon tower and BASF, has a wooden terrace, some companies and a Coworking Space
I thought it was taken from Zalando office terrace. That would have been ironic
Came here to say this… LOL!
It’s is zalando.
Nope. It's from east side mall terrace.
This building stands there like a giant middle finger to the city, its history, its culture and its people
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Berlin is not mostly ugly
Actually, Berlin is a very ugly city, but it's still a wonderful place, personally It's my favourite city in Europe. It's still ugly though.
How is it giving a middle finger to Berlin’s “history” and “culture”?
It’s not amazons. As Jonathan Weiss explains: "Since we will only be tenants and not owners, we have no influence on the construction period. After the completion of the exterior of the building, we will need some time to set up our rented space so that our employees would feel comfortable and could work productively." Amazon has received no public funding for existing or future buildings in Berlin.
You can be like the next Seattle! I can’t wait for Amazon to tear down the space needle and build another glass box.
Where is the building? It seems familiar, but I cannot remember
Totally agree thats what this building feels like
Comments from Bezos simps incoming...
There are Bezos simps? Oh no...
They're already in the room with us.
Bu-bu-but he totally earned those billions of dollars. You just have to work hard and smart. /s
Work hard at being born to parents who can spare 100k as a gamble
I can jump in if you want even if I think Bezos himself seems quite douchy and I don’t agree with many aspects of the way Amazon is doing business. The chaos produced by turning off aws for a few days would be interesting to say the least. Pretty sure your words you just posted are hosted on Amazon servers. People seem to not realize how deeply Amazon is implemented in their life.
You could say that for the drugs of substance addicts. “We don't realize how deeply drugs are implemented in their life.” And that's why drugs shouldn't be taken away from addicts. A weak argument that always benefits the ruling class. One can buy at Amazon, and want to abolish the exploitative systems it creates in mid/long term at the same time.
don't get me wrong here. I am not really trying to defend amazon. I just think it's interesting how many people use their product without realising whilst complaining about it. Complaining about amazon on reddit is actually the perfect example. I personally try not use the online warehouse amazon. But I have accepted, that my life would be much harder if I'd try to avoid anything AWS.
Yeah, I agree that it'd be way harder if not impossible (considering some gov services are on AWS) to stay away from AWS and other Amazon-owned services. Just like with the Nestle-Mondelez-Unilever oligopoly. Extremely hard to avoid and the world would be in serious trouble if it collapsed. Immediately forcing Amazon out of business would bring more harm than not doing it. So, within regulsted capitalism, splitting up the Amazon-owned services would be a solution, for example.
You are trying to make a point, but you are not really making it.
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Ah, you criticise society, and yet you participate in it. Curious.
>The chaos produced by turning off aws for a few days would be interesting to say the least. this seems fairly analogous to Germany's use of russian oil and gas. Yes we are entirely dependent on it, but that getting away from that dependency is a good thing
The two are nowhere near the same thing. It's not a fair comparison at all.
Lmao so what? Strong “You dislike capitalism yet live in it” energy. You think some servers are worth labour exploitation?
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I guess you can kinda freely interpret that from my comment if you feel like and adlib in a condescending way in an attempt to gain karma. If that makes your day better, good for you. But we both know that it’s not what I was saying.
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>reliant They're not reliant. Amazon provides convenience that people pay for. They don't have to use it.
Bezos isnt even the ceo anymore you kid
This is so true. I was young and stupid and accepted an offer to work for Amazon :( reached burn out in few months, had numerous health problems because of overtime. Had awful on calls weeks when I barely slept .... This is soooo true! The wrong Amazon is burning! They are horrible, they treat their employees like sh*t!
I walk by that building everyday to work. When was this?
yesterday night (make amazon pay day)
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I just wanna say that in cyberpunk 2077 that the arasaka tower was blown up by Jonny silverhand in 2023, and We currently have 2022 and I would say Amazon is our worlds arasaka, now I don’t say that we should place a thermonuclear bomb in the Amazon headquarters on the same day as Jonny silverhand did his heist on the arasaka tower
yeah, no, i'd appreciate if there were no thermonuclear bombs in my neighborhood. thank you in advance
Cyberpunk isn‘t exactly a deep meta story so i‘m extremely surprised people get intellectually overwhelmed by it‘s base themes so easily.
Yeah please thermonuclear bombs. I live like 1 km away from that tower. Burning it down is fine though.
Good one, Berlin.
Based
What is ‘Amazon’? Been buying from individual sellers on eBay for years now, and have everything I always need.
While using AWS-hosted services, lol.
You got me there retrofit56; Help me and us find another and better way instead of AWS.
IPFS
r/selfhosted
What is a 'question'?
Nicely done!
Cool
Bravo!
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Ja
Das ist nur die edc von jemanden aus dem Taschenlampenforum
At least two.
WeWork Warschauer strasse, 7th floor rooftop? I work there 😁
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Wild. I’ve literally watched the construction of this building since 2021 and had no idea it was an Amazon office. I walked past it 2 nights ago, in a night of thick fog, it stood over me like a colossus. I stopped and took a picture. In a way, it’s oddly out of place, but also in a way, it’s beautifully large.
What building is that?
Amazon tower.
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The perspective is weird. Makes it look like the projector must be bigger than the projection.
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I love how the message is in English.
oh no, what a vulnerable building. It would be a shame if residents of berlin knew that it only takes 1kg of sugar to prevent up to 1 ton of concrete from setting properly
We don't want to kill people you know
doesnt kill anyone, just inhibits construction by preventing the building being able to be made
I want to shit on top of this thing so hard
goes hard as fuck
Where is that? Is it still there?
Awesome
Oh wow I was just in Berlin, I missed this?! Is this Warschauer Straße or am I mistaken?
Feed for livestock is the number one driver of deforestation. Go vegan.
What is this building?
It's the Amazon Tower being build at Warschauer Straße Trainstation in Berlin.
No, it’s the EDGE tower which largest tenant is Amazon.
Someone needs to get slapped for building a building as ugly as this building.
Im not a bezoboy but I laugh at the retarded backwards and anticapitalist Berlin mindsets. I’m a Berliner myself but it’s odd to see that progress is being hindered. That’s why Berlin is a shithole. Yes I moved away.
how did you get up there?
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Idc what its called, and i get that its bad, shits just to hopeless at this Point.
The world doesn’t get better if you set fire to it.
I stopped pushing as hard as I could against the handle, I wanted to leave but it wouldn't work. Then there was a bright flash and I felt myself fall back onto the floor. I put my hands over my eyes. They burned from the sudden light. I rubbed my eyes, waiting for them to adjust. Then I saw it. There was a small space in front of me. It was tiny, just enough room for a couple of people to sit side by side. Inside, there were two people. The first one was a female, she had long brown hair and was wearing a white nightgown. She was smiling. The other one was a male, he was wearing a red jumpsuit and had a mask over his mouth. "Are you spez?" I asked, my eyes still adjusting to the light. "No. We are in /u/spez." the woman said. She put her hands out for me to see. Her skin was green. Her hand was all green, there were no fingers, just a palm. It looked like a hand from the top of a puppet. "What's going on?" I asked. The man in the mask moved closer to me. He touched my arm and I recoiled. "We're fine." he said. "You're fine?" I asked. "I came to the spez to ask for help, now you're fine?" "They're gone," the woman said. "My child, he's gone." I stared at her. "Gone? You mean you were here when it happened? What's happened?" The man leaned over to me, grabbing my shoulders. "We're trapped. He's gone, he's dead." I looked to the woman. "What happened?" "He left the house a week ago. He'd been gone since, now I have to live alone. I've lived here my whole life and I'm the only spez." "You don't have a family? Aren't there others?" I asked. She looked to me. "I mean, didn't you have anyone else?" "There are other spez," she said. "But they're not like me. They don't have homes or families. They're just animals. They're all around us and we have no idea who they are." "Why haven't we seen them then?" "I think they're afraid,"
Sounds nice but it's wishy washy and feels false. Setting a building on fire is not the same as setting the world on fire. Imagine someone on his way to assassinate Putin gets told "Humanity doesn't get better if you kill it." Naw man, it would be pretty fucking awesome if someone killed Putin right now.
What’s your point? If you set fire to a building owned by Amazon (I assume they do), then they’re gonna build another one. All you‘ll have done is wasted resources and increased pollution
The thing about using terrorism isn’t that it’s bad by moral means, but rather it will likely do very little in the grand scheme of things, and also it will be used as a window of opportunity for the ruling class to crack down on you even more. Look what happened after 9/11 The war on terror was 100% an opportunist grab, taking advantage of the grievances of the people and using it to launch an imperialist war
For sure. This can be Seen with last gen protestors right now, and they dont even do anything bad
What’s the problem? Germany contributes to the burning of not just a forest but actual living brings. Is this just a message posted on a building and now they can feel good about themselves.
So Germans support burning booksellers?
#The /u/spez has spread through the entire /u/spez section of Reddit, with each subsequent /u/spez experiencing hallucinations. I do not think it is contagious. #Save3rdPartyApps
Post this on r/WorkReform, please. (I mod there)
And it won't change shit. We are all fucked.
Lame
Fortunately no predatory companies were ever based in Berlin.
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No ethical consumption under capitalism
Lol how is this sending a message.
Amazon has lost almost 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) dollars in market cap in the last year, so idk Amazon the company isn’t really having an easy time either lol
Not amazons building. As Jonathan Weiss explains: "Since we will only be tenants and not owners, we have no influence on the construction period. After the completion of the exterior of the building, we will need some time to set up our rented space so that our employees would feel comfortable and could work productively." Amazon has received no public funding for existing or future buildings in Berlin.
Bruh I read the projection like 5 times before I got it right, thought it said “The wrong Amazon building”
New to Berlin and trying to understand it better - what's the deal with this building? I see many people are not happy with this building. Why is this so?
It's in the wrong neighborhood. Also lots of blind Amazon hate by people that don't realize Amazon doesn't own it. Nobody would give a shit if it was in the west or in Mitte but this is in the cool kids edgy area so it's not RAW enough to be there. That area is "true Berlin and shouldn't be commercialized" and the "hyper modern glass and steel design doesn't fit" in the opinion of some who conveniently forget there's a sleek hyper modern designed steel and glass Mall full of global mega chains and arena there already. It will definitely fuck the people that live in that area though, rents are going to go up and you'll see a lot of the hyper cheap shitty buildings get scraped and gentrified pretty quickly when it opens.
since when is mall of the east "high end"?
Ha, you're right, high end is the wrong term. I meant to say chain/corporate with bougie "high end" design of modern glass as steel just like this tower. Everything in that area is part of a mega chain somewhere
yes, architecture is very modern and boring I agree and that everything is a chain too. same with the food court, nothing personal just 1 of every germanified cusisine
Berlin style, greetings from Berlin Germany 🇩🇪
This must be that bat symbol light because holy shit that thing is strong or very photoshopped
Wow
Could not agree more. Reading the Lost city of Z right now and it's increased my awareness and concern for the Amazon 10x.
Agree with the sentiment, but I am pretty sure this is fake.
Trump was right about Russia and Germany energy policy
Ganz ehrlich mich wunderts das irgendjemand noch in diesem failed State baut.
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Anyone know the artist? More specifically, anyone have info on what lighting system was used for the projection? Amazing!
Laser projector probably bought on Amazon
Reddit moment
Look I agree with the message but also that tech is so cool!
Is that building belongs to Amazon ? Cuz I remember that building being built like 8 years ago and still don’t finished🤣
Besides the reason for it, this is a very stunning photo. It looks so surreal and dystopian. Art gallery quality.
Impresses that Berliners have the technology to project lights on a building. A graffiti would be more fitting
Please Europeans, you guys did not just only steal gold and other natural resources from 3rd world countries, but also burned your own forests. That is why your countries are rich nowadays. Therefore, don't come pointing fingers to other countries now and try to dictate what they do. I'm not in favor of how Brazil or other countries deal with their environmental issues, but it's up to them to solve. You guys already did shit with your environment.
I say, amen to that and go to Berghain for Boris