It started because some germans pizza day got cancelled, but I think the real motivation is a subtle dunk on some earlier meme rotation from americans about corporations trying to placate employees with pizza.
In a nutshell, americans: we don't want pizza, we want unions and worker's rights!
Germans: we already have unions and worker's rights, we want pizza!
Not from Germany but I do speak the language.
As far as I can tell, someone used to have a kinda pizza day at work but it's been cancelled so this employee started memeing on the German me_irl.
Actually, compared to the US at least, we do get decent comp. I believe the meme spawned from that one incident was more along the lines "We want Pizza Parties" because we've got the rest already.
I don't know about this meme, but you know memes come in waves. It's just the nature of memes.
That said, Germans - at least the Bavarians - have a special relationship with pizza second only to Americans. It's kind of weird, because it's so random. You don't see this in, e.g., Southern France, and Italians seem almost ambivalent to it.
I think it's because, despite the world wars, Germans generally have a fondness for American culture, the same way Americans generally have a fondness for Mexican culture. They have Germanized versions of American food, like we have Americanized versions of traditional Mexican food.
I don't know who the French are fond of, besides themselves.
I don't speak German but I also don't have any kind of language filter on Lemmy so I'm a bit disappointed I haven't seen any pizza memes. I miss the Bean and Beef Stroganoff times
Those are rotating jet turbines. To my limited knowledge there's no way to just stop them. They wind down even if they had turned them off. The very first article I found searching his name showed him approach a jet that was slowly moving across the tarmac, which obviously means the turbines were turning and not going to just immediately lock up if turned off.
I don't even know that the pilots would've seen him from the footage I saw in the one article I looked at.
I haven't seen the video, but from your post it all sounds reasonable. Even at idle the safety zone in front of a turbine engine is probably 7+ feet.
Especially while turning you have to push the thrust up, so that distance can go up to like 10-15 feet, maybe even more depending on the engine.
Also, even if they saw him, which in the dark at an airport would be pretty hard to do, shutting the engine down takes time. And I don't mean you can't shut it off, I mean after you turn the switch off (Airbus at least) it takes at least 60 seconds for the engine to slow down to a speed that would only maim you, instead of kill you.
Odds are that the pilots themselves didn't see him and would have learned about the situation from air traffic control. It was late at night, there's a limited range of sight from a cockpit, and at least one of the pilots is going to be paying more attention to the pre-flight checklists than their surroundings. Additionally, even if they shutdown the engines it would still take time for them to fully stop. As for the footage being cut off, it's probably because that portion hasn't been (and probably won't ever be) released to the public. Ultimately, you're going to have to wait for the NTSB's report for more details.
"Money printer go BRRRRR" was originally a joke about the US Federal Reserve printing money to make all the financial problems go away, usually paired with something like Wojack screaming about how economics work.
It got co-opted by the GameStop stock movement (Apes) saying GME was the money printer. Whenever the stock went down people would post memes of apes asking "Where money printer?"
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