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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Walking around in general public in only Speedos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the use of towels as a territorial marker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

They draped one over the back of Poland that time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The automobile - pronounce it out loud, you'll say it something like "ow-toe moh-beel", i.e. in a German accent. Because Germans invented cars.

The assault rifle. They invented the concept, a handful of prototypes without the relevant doctrine (or for the 1890s one, even a detachable magazine) is irrelevant. Fight me, @bluewing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the otto & diesel cycles are a better claim than the automobile, given there are like 100 different competing "first automobiles" to chose from

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The Wankel engine is also a German invention. Though you could argue it's an improved Otto cycle. Also the inventor is problematic to say the least.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The hamburger, from the city of Hamburg.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (8 children)

And German chocolate cake from Deutschschokoladenkuchen

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Name something the Germans didn't invent.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The bicycle
The car
The computer (arguably, with the Zuse Z3)

Spoiler: I'm German.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the computer, but the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer (which would be a stage in computer hardware.)

It would be Babbage's machine as mechanical computers precede digital ones and only if we only allow nonspecific turing complete machines.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn't invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.

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