If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

[mattblaze@federate.social]

If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

[990000@mstdn.social]

@mattblaze they’re trying to delay. I think some heads are gonna roll if it proceeds so they’re stalling

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mo5f3igmyn23

[kaiser_franz@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze Some things just warm the heart!

[mattblaze@federate.social]

These are the most famous construction workers in America right now.

[idlebrain@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze These workers sure are taking their time. Slower than road works.
Maybe they'll only be a few hours behind the deadline.

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@mattblaze I had a piece of the wall rattling around in some drawer somewhere.

I remember the fall quite distinctly. My parents woke me up to watch the TV. We had family in the GDR, and I crossed the border several times to visit. It was surreal, even as a kid.

The way I remember it, my dad was excited, and my mom skeptical. Guess she didn't want those "Ossis" coming to the west and mess up "her" country.

Odd to think that neither of them were worried about the possibility of nuclear war.

[wildeyedboyfromfreecloud@masto.ai]

@mattblaze Couldn't they have done this at a sensible hour, like 10am?

[mattblaze@federate.social]

I have to say, even with a safety harness and a reasonable knowledge of physics, I would feel very nervous working up high on temporarily rigged scaffolding like this.

But I would gladly volunteer for this job.

[emma@orbital.horse]

@mattblaze Gimli to Frodo: "you have my impact driver."

[me@social.taupehat.com]

@mattblaze it's nice modern scaffolding material and those columns are a good backstop against it toppling. I'd be alright up there. (I've done some work at elevation though, have a good idea about what would be worrying)

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@emma @mattblaze And my thermite.

[emma@orbital.horse]

@drwho @mattblaze I'd settle for an edge grinder.

[me@social.taupehat.com]

@mattblaze although to be fair part of me has been wondering if these cats have never heard of a scissor lift before...

[mattblaze@federate.social]

@me I was wondering that, too. Maybe too high up? Or not stable enough for the tools they're using?

[gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org]

@mattblaze

After cyberpunk we have now "cyberumarell"…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell

[20002ist@thepit.social]

@me @mattblaze They literally used scissor lifts and cherry pickers in the absurd race to put DJT’s name up there!

So weird how it requires hours and hours of scaffold assembly to reverse that.

[me@social.taupehat.com]

@mattblaze assuming those are 6-foot scaffolding sections the floor right in front of the row of text they're supposed to remove is at 36 feet. That's well within reach for a scissor lift. Even if those letters are heavy, they could bring a cherry-picker in to stabilize and remove the letters as they're removed. They used a similar setup to install the unwanted text.

I can't help but believe the scaffold approach is a way of stalling.

[kaspian@mastodontti.fi]

@mattblaze

In the future I wonder if they are going to call this "damnatio memoriae" (which it isn't). Time and oblivion will certainly obscure things, and they are going to get the chain of events wrong. The stone slabs have holes where the letters used to be so they can restore the text and make this claim.

[me@social.taupehat.com]

@20002ist @mattblaze when I was a wrestler, the coach-code for "slow it down without getting called for stalling" was "use your head!"

These cats are using their heads.

[sigsegv@hachyderm.io]

@mattblaze those workers are going as slow as they can. Lots of moving around, or standing around with little getting done. And just how high above the letters do they need to build this thing? Total bullshit. My bet is this is all delay until SCOTUS weighs in and says the name stays.