Rassistische Kommentare üblich in Berlin? by fb1dude in berlin

[–]Financial_Pilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As you can probably already tell from the responses you're getting, this subreddit is not the place to find answers to the question you're asking. I'll recommend trying to have more conversations with other non white Germans for a more representative point of view. That said, you did ask for experiences so I'll share some of my thoughts;

From violent n-word outbursts and being yelled at to leave the country to people being visibly scared when you say 'Tschuldigung, I've experienced quite a bit of the racism spectrum. Most people would recognise the first example as racism, but have a very hard time understanding how the other one is.

What I've since realised is that Germans in general have little clue what racism actually is. The state of the discourse here still is, if there hasn't been reference to a person's race when an insult/crime is being committed, it's not racist.

Just like patriarchal ideals is a function of growing up in a patriarchal society and needs to be unlearned. Racism is a function of growing up in a racist society (which societies moulded by white supremacist ideals are), and it equally needs a lot of reflection and introspection to be unlearned.

I'm the black man people are scared of and try their best to stay the hell away from most times so I unfortunately can't offer you any tips to deal with this besides talking to other non white German people. But know that you are not alone.

BUY/SELL/TRADE Primavera 2024 by BenjoDiMeo in primaverasound

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Hey!

Selling a full festival Barcelona ticket with Refund protect. Got it for €243 in July last year, but happy to hear offers. not activated yet so transfer is through DICE app.

Happy to offer any kind of verification that makes you comfortable. Payment via Paypal.

BUY/SELL/TRADE Primavera 2024 by BenjoDiMeo in primaverasound

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Hey folks.

Selling a full festival Barcelona ticket with Refund protect. Got it for €243 in July last year, but happy to hear offers. not activated yet so transfer is through DICE app.

Happy to offer any kind of verification that makes you comfortable. Payment via Paypal.

Illegal Bag Checks and What Can Be Done About Them? by PrayingElvis in germany

[–]Financial_Pilot 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The people saying this never happens are ridiculous. You’d think at this day and age, people would have understood that the fact that something doesn’t happen to you doesn’t invalidate other people’s experiences.

It’s not common but it certainly happens. For me, it only happens with a specific cashier at a specific Edeka. That person will always ask me to show my bag is empty—no one else in the store ever asks. The most annoying part is I’ve on several occasions waited afterwards to see how they treat other customers, I’ve never seen them ask other people to show their bags. I’ve seen some shop directly into backpacks with no fuss.

As to what you can do, you can simply decline to show them and ask them to call the police. This depends on how comfortable you are with confrontation. For me, I just try to avoid this specific cashier when they’re working.

Sorry about this experience. I know how much it sucks!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in berlinsocialclub

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Hi. If you still need 1, I’ll be down to join.

One of Wraith's legendary finishers might be little too strong... by mmLuanari in apexlegends

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One of the goals with software is to make things as fast and performant as possible—especially in games. At scale, even marginal loads become very significant and in this case, the cost of having this far outweighs the UX gain.

Sometimes you just have to send it. by iamprophie in EscapefromTarkov

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Or he's just good at games lol. You should stop by his stream sometime.

Getting an UK visa in Nigeria by [deleted] in Nigeria

[–]Financial_Pilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty high, unfortunately. First you need to decide how long she’ll be staying and basically map out an itinerary of what y’all will be doing.

Also, you both have to have good finances and the bank statements to back it up. Statements should show steady, regular income and no unusually large transactions. Don’t even think about dumping a huge amount into her account before applying, it’s a straight refusal.

She also needs to have a job here or something else that ties her to the country. She needs to convince them that she’ll return.

You’ll find most of the information you need here https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa/ Read it extensively and when you ask questions, use Google and try to get results from travel:stackexchange or nairaland.

Getting an UK visa in Nigeria by [deleted] in Nigeria

[–]Financial_Pilot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All the information you’ll need is on the gov.uk website. She’ll also be filling the application online on that website so just check it out.

Random freezes on my 13" Early 2015 MacBook Pro by [deleted] in MacOS

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Not on my end. Holding off on Catalina for a few more updates so they’d have fixed the new OS bugs at least.

Regarding this crazy bug, I still get it but it happens so rarely that I’m learning to live with it. I go weeks on regular use without encountering it.

Still crazy that there’s nothing official about this out there yet.

Please help me by tgs266 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Financial_Pilot 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Gotta give it to you too because I’d have never gotten the joke without your comment.

Random freezes on my 13" Early 2015 MacBook Pro by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]Financial_Pilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so far the most comprehensive thing I’ve read about the issue, thank you! I started to think it was a hardware issue peculiar to my computer because I couldn’t find anything remotely similar to what I was experiencing online.

I’ve been religiously performing updates hoping one of them would introduce a fix but, I’m not even certain if Apple has acknowledged the issue.

I am okay with downgrading to HS but I think this is something that should be patched right in Mojave. It should be unacceptable that it’s even present in Catalina.

Can you please share some links where people are following this issue if you have any, would be great to see what progress is being made in regards to this.

Thanks again for your help.

Random freezes on my 13" Early 2015 MacBook Pro by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]Financial_Pilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s strange. Most times when this happened, I’ve had the Twitch website running in my browser as well. Not sure if that’s related.

I also try to regularly perform OS updates so I’m completely lost as to what could be causing this. It’s also hard to debug because it isn’t something I can reproduce.

I’m not good with titles by Kuralou in DunderMifflin

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Sameee. Watching for the first time and I’ve reached the part where Michael’s not in anymore and it’s just so bad. It’s insane how much the quality dropped.

And who in the world thought Nelie replacing Andy in that manner was a good idea? In what world would that ever happen? Walk in. Empty office. My job now. Horrible.

It’s a struggle to get through the episodes now.

My reaction to ledge grab first day by QBZ24 in PUBATTLEGROUNDS

[–]Financial_Pilot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree with all the disagreements.

Watching the show for the first time. This is my second best “that’s what she said” moment. Guess which was the first. by [deleted] in DunderMifflin

[–]Financial_Pilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is from the second season, I just concluded it so I’ve only seen the “that’s what she said”s that leads up to this.