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Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:

Perestroika posted:

Now for something a bit local. I recently looked up my local Abgeordnete in Hamburg, and as it happens the local fash is represented by one Michael Tauck (AfD). And holy poo poo does this guy ever redefine "horny on main". Take his twitter profile:

:nws: https://twitter.com/MichaelHH111 :nws:

This lad's Following list is quite a wild ride. You get accounts with bios like "Pascals Sub Sluts.Extraordinary long Labia.", side by side with the likes of Beatrix von Storch :barf:. And the "Like" history is, of course, filled with outright hardcore porn. Similarly, his facebook profile banner is him proudly posing in front of a local brothel's limousine. Horny Nazis in my Bezirksregierung. :allears:

almost every person in his follows i haven't blocked for being a chud is a sex worker, nice


i mean, at least there's hope he doesn't discriminate against sex workers ... maybe?

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Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH2joBDXOpY

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

suck my woke dick posted:

political violence is always bad etc but :lol:

Ah, ein Jemand, der das gesamte Staatswesen ablehnt.

Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:
doesn't get more woke than ultra anarchism

Smirr
Jun 28, 2012

Randler posted:

Ah, ein Jemand, der das gesamte Staatswesen ablehnt.

I'm gonna need a bigger emptyquote smiley here

Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:
https://twitter.com/watch_union/status/1143788540544847875

Ritznit
Dec 19, 2012

I'm crackers for cheese.

Ultra Carp
Nicht vergessen, rather conveniently not mentioned. Still best friends with Parteimitglied Maßen, after all!

Ritznit
Dec 19, 2012

I'm crackers for cheese.

Ultra Carp
Meanwhile I'm dealing with the Ausländerbehörde again and these people keep managing to limbo below my already extremely low expectation. Nothing like dealing with extremely understaffed yet extremely important bureaucratic processes to crush any joie de vivre I might have had. :shepicide:

I found out I managed to move into one of the districts of Hamburg with the absolute worst Ausländerbehörde in the entire city. For reference, I lived in Eimsbüttel in the past and while the Ausländerbehörde there was unpleasant, everyone was rude and they literally mishandled our documents and blamed us until we called my husband's employer to yell at them ... Wandsbek is apparently worse!

Turns out that in Wandsbek, you gotta do the classic "stand in line at 2 in the night to maybe get a Wartenummer at 8". You cannot book appointments via phone or in person. I found that out by being insulted on the phone by an employee who was self-loathing made flesh. So, you either do the waiting thing or you book an appointment online, at a very deeply buried link on the stupidly confusing hamburg.de website ... except the appointments can only be booked up to 14 days in advance and no appointments are ever open no matter when you check. They tell people to refresh at midnight and you still get nothing. Basically you either refresh at the exact right second to grab an appointment or you are poo poo out of luck, friendo. Booking Wacken tickets is a walk in the park by comparision.

For reference, my husband worked in Berlin for the last 3 years and got his previous visa extension there, and during that time they legitimately upgraded their system. He got an appointment for 2 months away, they extended his visa to that day automatically, and once we were there in person stuff went really quickly and the employees were actually friendly and didn't act like they ran on their all consuming hatred for the entire human race. Berlin can somehow step up its game and Hamburg can't - Rot-Grün claims they totes improved the situation, for realsies. They also claimed to have opened another Kundenzentrum in Wandsbek ... which they closed last year because there was supposedly no need anymore. :v:


So yeah I'm going to spend my night in front of the Ausländerbehörde, waiting to get the privilege to wait more. Wish me luck that I at least get that privilege because my husband needs his visa extended and not being able to even book an appointment for that online makes that a very shaky proposal.


TL;DR: gently caress every single person who claims this process is remotely fair, acceptable or humane. I struggled to get all the info necessary and I'm a German native speaker with experience in German bureaucratic fuckery.

How do they expect any foreigner to handle this? The answer is they don't, because they are racist assholes. gently caress them.

Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:
That Alice Weidel action in the last 20 seconds is impressive.

https://twitter.com/ARD_BaB/status/1143848936421171200

Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:
Are you forced to use that one office or could you also go to another one?

Drone
Aug 22, 2003

Incredible machine
:smug:



Ritznit posted:

Ausländerbehörde

Oh, Berlin upgraded? They used to be every bit as bad as you describe, and the few times I had to go there count among the most depressing moments I've had in my life.

So glad I'm in a smaller city now with an Ausländerbehörde that is, paradoxically, not super überfordert and relatively friendly.

Ritznit
Dec 19, 2012

I'm crackers for cheese.

Ultra Carp

Mithaldu posted:

Are you forced to use that one office or could you also go to another one?

It has to be the Bezirksamt responsible for your place of residence. So it's Wandsbek or bust.


Drone posted:

Oh, Berlin upgraded? They used to be every bit as bad as you describe, and the few times I had to go there count among the most depressing moments I've had in my life.

So glad I'm in a smaller city now with an Ausländerbehörde that is, paradoxically, not super überfordert and relatively friendly.

Yeah Berlin was shockingly nice when I went there with him. Trust me, I was as surprised as you. I wouldn't claim it's perfect or anything but he got an online appointment no problem, got a Fiktionsbescheinigung for it no problem, and once it was time to go there in person we got seen within 10 minutes of the appointment time. Even the actual employee was friendly and explained things well, and the whole process of getting an extension took like 10 minutes. It was heavenly.

Bureaucracy is one of the things that rules about small towns - I'm personally sick of living in a town dying a painful slow death to urbanization, but what was great there were the Behörden. I had issues with my tax filing once and I got legitimately friendly help at the Finanzamt with zero trouble. People in those small towns seem to be more chill and not horribly overworked, which helps a ton with the attitude, surprise surprise!

Ritznit fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jun 26, 2019

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


I don’t even know why, but the clip below is loving hilarious to me

https://twitter.com/florianklenk/status/1143846118398353410?s=21

„Und, hobts scho Mittag gessen? Ja... ja...“
*camera zooms out to reveal a bunch of disinterested olds*
*immediately turns around and walks away without waiting for an answer*

Mithaldu
Sep 25, 2007

Let's cuddle. :3:
Can i have a serving of context? I assume he's a chud, but i couldn't guess who.

married but discreet
May 7, 2005


Taco Defender
Its our Altkanzler

Decius
Oct 14, 2005

Ramrod XTreme

Mithaldu posted:

Can i have a serving of context? I assume he's a chud, but i couldn't guess who.

Altkanzler Sebastian "der Gesalbte Heilsbringer Wunderwuzzi" Kurz. Hat die Balkanroute geschlossen.

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


Mithaldu posted:

Can i have a serving of context? I assume he's a chud, but i couldn't guess who.

lol if you don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of the exploits of Basti and Bumsti, just lol

(what the guys above said, it's the uncanney valley chud Altkanzler of Austria :v:)

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

So what are people in Berlin's plans for Sunday? Especially considering everywhere with AC will be shut (all the malls and shops), and everything outside will be on fire?

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Gotta be museums open where you can enjoy the AC along with 500 others.

pidan
Nov 6, 2012


It's so hot lol

Thank God we have a north facing apartment with trees around

Sunday predicted to be even hotter: museum time

Ritznit
Dec 19, 2012

I'm crackers for cheese.

Ultra Carp
Folks, give me your best tips for passing the 6 hours wait in front of the Ausländerbehörde.

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Good call on the museums thing. That lead me to this map of places with AC in Berlin which is pretty decent. It doesn't show the Technikmuseum, but apparently their new building does have AC, according to their website.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Dear Visitors, we regret to inform you that the AC is an exhibit

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

My Lovely Horse posted:

Dear Visitors, we regret to inform you that the AC is an exhibit

oh no :ohdear:

SavageGentleman
Feb 28, 2010

When she finds love may it always stay true.
This I beg for the second wish I made too.

Fallen Rib

Ritznit posted:

Folks, give me your best tips for passing the 6 hours wait in front of the Ausländerbehörde.

https://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/krieg-und-frieden-4040/1

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
Oh, did the Gutenberg project stop geoblocking users from Germany?

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
https://m.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/wolfenstein-youngblood-erscheint-auch-mit-hakenkreuzen-a-1274471.html

Endlich hat ein Publisher es mal darauf ankommen lassen, anstatt wie andere (i.e. Paradox) irgendwelche Lügen aufzutischen.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Ritznit posted:

Meanwhile I'm dealing with the Ausländerbehörde again and these people keep managing to limbo below my already extremely low expectation. Nothing like dealing with extremely understaffed yet extremely important bureaucratic processes to crush any joie de vivre I might have had. :shepicide:

I found out I managed to move into one of the districts of Hamburg with the absolute worst Ausländerbehörde in the entire city. For reference, I lived in Eimsbüttel in the past and while the Ausländerbehörde there was unpleasant, everyone was rude and they literally mishandled our documents and blamed us until we called my husband's employer to yell at them ... Wandsbek is apparently worse!

Turns out that in Wandsbek, you gotta do the classic "stand in line at 2 in the night to maybe get a Wartenummer at 8". You cannot book appointments via phone or in person. I found that out by being insulted on the phone by an employee who was self-loathing made flesh. So, you either do the waiting thing or you book an appointment online, at a very deeply buried link on the stupidly confusing hamburg.de website ... except the appointments can only be booked up to 14 days in advance and no appointments are ever open no matter when you check. They tell people to refresh at midnight and you still get nothing. Basically you either refresh at the exact right second to grab an appointment or you are poo poo out of luck, friendo. Booking Wacken tickets is a walk in the park by comparision.

For reference, my husband worked in Berlin for the last 3 years and got his previous visa extension there, and during that time they legitimately upgraded their system. He got an appointment for 2 months away, they extended his visa to that day automatically, and once we were there in person stuff went really quickly and the employees were actually friendly and didn't act like they ran on their all consuming hatred for the entire human race. Berlin can somehow step up its game and Hamburg can't - Rot-Grün claims they totes improved the situation, for realsies. They also claimed to have opened another Kundenzentrum in Wandsbek ... which they closed last year because there was supposedly no need anymore. :v:


So yeah I'm going to spend my night in front of the Ausländerbehörde, waiting to get the privilege to wait more. Wish me luck that I at least get that privilege because my husband needs his visa extended and not being able to even book an appointment for that online makes that a very shaky proposal.


TL;DR: gently caress every single person who claims this process is remotely fair, acceptable or humane. I struggled to get all the info necessary and I'm a German native speaker with experience in German bureaucratic fuckery.

How do they expect any foreigner to handle this? The answer is they don't, because they are racist assholes. gently caress them.

Deutschland needs braces facheinwanderung ... schwarze null

Decius
Oct 14, 2005

Ramrod XTreme

Randler posted:

https://m.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/wolfenstein-youngblood-erscheint-auch-mit-hakenkreuzen-a-1274471.html

Endlich hat ein Publisher es mal darauf ankommen lassen, anstatt wie andere (i.e. Paradox) irgendwelche Lügen aufzutischen.

Paradox' letztes Spiel mit entsprechender Symbolik war doch deutlich vor der Änderung der USK-Politik, oder? Wobei ich mir nicht sicher wäre, dass es durchgehen würde, wenn man mit Adi die Welt unterm Hakenkreuz vereinen kann. Sozialadäquatklausel scheint mir sehr biegsam zu sein, aber ob sie sich so weit biegen lässt?

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


Gripping local journalism below:

Aix
Jul 6, 2006
$10

System Metternich posted:

Gripping local journalism below:


Geschriebens Österreichisch macht mich normalerweise rasend, aber das hier ist der Hammer

Zwille
Aug 18, 2006

* For the Ghost Who Walks Funny
“Geld beheben”
“Niederungen der Geldbeschaffung”

:laffo:

I’m wondering which group the author belonged to or if he actually was the guy in the Bademantel at the ATM. :v:

Haramstufe Rot
Jun 24, 2016

Can confirm that peeps at Berlin Auslaenderbehoerde are surprisingly nice, for what it's worth.

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.
I have recently seen a house

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

Honj Steak posted:

I have recently seen a house

outrageous lies

Greader
Oct 11, 2012
Was gonna ask if there was a kälte karte for other places but lmao I work nightshift on sunday. Which means I have to start working at like 5:30PM when presumably the heat is at it's worst.

So I guess what I am asking is: Is there a kälte karte for other places and which of those places would be the easiest to steal an AC for because this tiny office fan won't save me from the heat :v:

(Though it would be hilarious if word of museums having free AC got around enough that our local one got completely filled up. If nothing else I should tell my Pokemon Go local group because the idea of them fighting over the museum gym while stuck inside for several hours is hilarious)

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
https://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Politik/Deutschland-Welt/Gabriel-wird-Chef-der-Atlantik-Bruecke

The SPD is a cancer.

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?


Honj Steak posted:

I have recently seen a house

Pics or it didn’t happen

Zwille
Aug 18, 2006

* For the Ghost Who Walks Funny

“Ausgerechnet Sigmar Gabriel” ist ja auch ein bisschen ein Lebensgefühl.

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Dommolus Magnus
Feb 27, 2013

Wollte der Mann sich nicht aus der Politik zurückziehen? Lobby-Arbeit muss dann wohl komplett unpolitisch sein. :rolleyes:

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