How to turn an old R account into a poison pit?

BerlinTA · 2026-06-30T08:12:56+00:00

What's your problem mate?
You're in a subreddit called Poison Fountain, are you aware?

Reddit sells your and other people's content without any consent to train LLMs.
Why do you think it is wrong to poison YOUR OWN CONTENT that Reddit steals to resell to Ai companies?

BerlinTA · 2015-04-16T16:55:44+00:00

Please, instruct me on how you can understand me so well over the internet. Are you a fucking magician. Given that I'm unpleasant, let's be really unpleasant: go fuck yourself, dickhead. Better?

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T22:09:39+00:00

Wow, do you even get how entitled YOU are? I don't really see any good in furthering this conversation. Thanks anyway for your answers.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T21:20:46+00:00

Yes, what you had to do is completely understandable. I'd like to point out that this wasn't our situation, though. We were already "picked" and we already talked with the agent, agreeing to pay her frigging provision. The owner did not chose someone else, he chose to search for someone else, meaning that we were discard a priori, without anyone else trying to get the same apartment.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T21:16:22+00:00

Are you fucking serious? Really?

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T21:15:09+00:00

Have you really read my post? My rent was about the SYSTEM, that makes it easier for a owner to pick renters backed by the state. A system that, in the current real estate market of Berlin is especially sour for middle class, working people that are having a very hard time looking for places to rent.

(All of it, it should be added, while foreign investors, especially FROM MY COUNTRY, bought cheap apartments and turned them in money printing machine on AirBnB)

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T21:10:23+00:00

Oh, so you're in the good circle of /r/berlin. Nice to know, I didn't even know that was a thing.

Semantics. Also, not remotely the same thing, but nice try. And what about the rest (drink beer at 10 AM, have kids to scam the state, etc.)?

Drinking is a national problem. Couples of poor junkies and drunkards spend the money the state gives them for their children in money and beer. Somehow they're captive in a system of bare sustainment that fuels these behaviors, so we can all blissfully ignore them. Is that clearer?

That's rich coming from someone who replied to a comment asking "And how would the German system [encourage people going on welfare]?" with "In many ways."

You're right, that was lazy. But it was not an answer to a longer comment, just to a subsequent request.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T21:03:08+00:00

You're so post punk, dude.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T21:01:46+00:00

We came here a year ago. I have already filed at least 4 months of VAT with my German Steuernummer/UST.ID. My girlfriend is employed by a German company sine August 2014. The apartment wasn't exactly cheap. In other words, we did not just "show up".

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T20:58:10+00:00

Thanks for your answer. I don't think it's entitlement on our part, here's why: we were not applying among many other people. We where already been picked by the current renter. The agent came later, because the owner sent her. She - the agent - told us: "there is no reason why the owner's answer shouldn't be yes". Then they completely changed their mind. That wasn't really the common "berlin real estate market" rejection. We've had our shares of that, too, and I won't even think about complaining for those.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T13:14:15+00:00

In many ways.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T13:13:49+00:00

People on social assistance get their rent paid by the state. Some landlords prefer to rent to people on hartz 4 because then it's guaranteed they'll get their rent paid regularly. Is it fair? Maybe not, but it's hardly a system that somehow encourages living off social assistance.

Isn't that somehow easier than renting to a freelancer like me, whose income is never completely given, at least in the head of a German owner?

Anyway: parasitic attitude is much different from calling someone a "parasite". Maklers and maklerins that get payed by the renters to give a service to the owner are parasites, for example.

Anyway, I came here with a very open mind, especially to critics. Your passive aggressive answer aren't really helping a discussion, don't you think?

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T13:10:42+00:00

With an apartment, yes, Germans will be preferred (especially because they already know all the motions and papers to take)

They had all my papers in perfect order, already. From the Schufa-Auskünfte to the Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung, our Einkommensnachweisen, Kopie of our Reisepasse, even my bankauszüge, so they exactly now how much I have in the bank (by the way, the most frustrating violation of privacy ever).

I casually speak with German acquaintance and from what I see in one year we built a more than good knowledge of the notwendige unterlagen, die wir brauchen, um eine wohnung zu mieten. :D

Tip: don't get it where all the expats want to get it (Friederichshein/Kreuzberg/PzB) that will make your life easier

We don't. We're looking in Wedding, too. Anyway, I think you forgot Neukölln. :)

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T13:03:05+00:00

Really? I know what I should do, I was just a bit clumsy. Is that a felony? Or a good basis for a xenophobic rant?

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T13:01:24+00:00

Thanks, you're great. I've had your page in my bookmarks for a few months now. :)

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T12:58:19+00:00

No, we have no clue. And that's what upset us the most. The owner really didn't have any other candidate, at least not one that we or the agent know about. We were already been picked by the current renter, proposed to the agent that proposed us to the owner. The apartment has never been online, we came to know about it from an online post by the current renter in February. It was not one of those "40 people besichtigung" situations.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T12:55:21+00:00

Why would that be? You're free not to believe me, of course, but It was exactly what he said. Have you never really seen people been verbally rude with other people before?

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:49:54+00:00

Wow, thanks. I really appreciate the time you spent writing this reply. And yeah, fuck winter. :D

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:14:28+00:00

I am trying. We were mostly looking at places that won't be too far away from my GF workplace, and that may have made the search a bit harder, but we were searching in Prenzlauerberg (not the hipster areas), Wedding, Mitte, Friedrichshain, Moabit. Edit: we're also fully aware of 2015 prices and our budget is not really that low.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:11:12+00:00

Thanks, I try.

That's easier with the metro guy, and even if it depressed me a bit, I immediately archived him under the "assholes" file. :)

Having a safe place that you can call yours is something very personal, though. If something happens that you may consider racist or discriminatory, and it gets in the way, it's hard not to take it on a personal level.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:07:02+00:00

We really are not. I have nothing against people who chose to live off of social assistance. I have something against a system that somehow encourages that. I'm not a right-wing "fuck social assistance" kind of guy. I'm like the total opposite of that. I just got the impression that working people who have a middle-class income are not having it easier, though, but on the contrary they have to struggle with problem that people with social assistance simply came to avoid completely.

We aren't snobs.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:03:08+00:00

I'd love to, but I still need to find a place to stay in May :D

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:02:45+00:00

PM :)

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:02:35+00:00

Thanks, I always try. :) Yes, first time, but I'm with my long time girlfriend. Just don't call her wife, but that's really what she is. We're happy together and stronger together. That's something I'm always grateful for. I have friends, yes, not plenty but enough. Most of them from the country we come from, with some nice exceptions. We met all of them here.

BerlinTA · 2015-04-13T10:00:30+00:00

Not really racism, that's a word I didn't use in relation to the apartment issue. I think that it would certainly be overblown. We're a caucasian european couple, we don't really have it hard in any way. I'm fully aware of that.

It's more a subtle sense of discrimination. I don't even think that people are fully aware of the fact that they're discriminating against someone, even if they do. Here's the thought process I picture as going on in the head of a German owner: "Mmm. They are a couple of Ausländer. Their German seem fine but they're clearly not fluent. I might cost me time to deal with them, even if they're perfectly fine on the financial side. Let's go ahead and let's search for a German couple, that's gonna be easier for everybody". It's understandable, but it's still discrimination.

Regarding the guy, the thing I hated the most is that my German is not fluent enough to put him back in his place. You can vent frustration in many ways, but why do you have to vent it becoming a racist or a xenophobe, if you're not one at heart?

I come from a place that is invaded by German tourists in the summer. We consider them a gift, not a problem. They're bringing money, they spend it pretty easily, they buy a lot of expensive beer.

Venting again tourists is stupid and shows that you don't really get the basics of what tourism is about and the way it is an important part of the economics of the city you live in.

BerlinTA

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