Squatting

[Bobcat Sig]

Those are policy failures

This...

The product of the oligarchy we live in. Late stage capitalism ftmfw!

not this

[wolfelot]

What are the Mad Max tent city shanty encampments between the sidewalk and street I ride my bike past on my my to work considered? Is that squatting?

Well as I walked to my car tonight I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Denver powers that be had cleared the primary encampment I was thinking of. It was really, really bad and something needed to be done.

[billyk]

Well as I walked to my car tonight I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Denver powers that be had cleared the primary encampment I was thinking of. It was really, really bad and something needed to be done.

Austin has woke up a little, and cleaned out at least a couple of the major camps in town, too. About time.

[Garbowski]

Seattle has ben cleaning out some of the major ones- like the huge one on school grounds and the one on top of the spray park, but we have so many major ones it doesn't really make a dent.

[schuss]

Another "odd" but true short story:
When my sister-in-law was in her early twenties, she was living in a very small village near Fulda, Germany when she met a guy from from the former DDR (this was right around 1988-9), and they decided to live together in Berlin. At the time, neither had any ties to Berlin. They had no apartment, no jobs, a few friends living there, but no prospects. Upon arriving in Berlin, they met up with some people living in Prenzlauer Berg, which is a now hip section of Berlin, and located in the former DDR. At the time, it was sort of like Berlin's Alphabet City (East Village Manhattan). They met up with some friends and found a place to squat. I was there. It was a bullet pocked, decrepit small building left standing from WWII. It had been abandoned. There was no running hot water (I think they had cold running water) and no electric, but there was a wood burning stove, a toilet and a sink. After a while, they actually applied to the government, and were able to rent it for around DM 60/mo. Anyway, no one ever came to claim the condemned building, and they wound up living there for 3-4 years. Their first child was born there. Three children and 30ish years later, they still live in Prenzlauer Berg, but they own a nice apartment.
I can't imagine that things, even in Yurp, can be that way today.

I listened to a podcast that touched on this - once the wall fell, Berlin had a lot of unoccupied buildings that had no real ownership as they tried to revert some to pre-wall owners. So especially on the east side, you had lots of massive buildings with no occupancy and no real owners, so squatting was fairly normalized and the city was mostly interested in just getting more people in, so you just had to say "hey, I want this building" and after a few years it would become yours if no one came out and said they had owned it pre-wall/USSR. Also, they were dealing with the much bigger problems of unifying the country, so small property stuff was just not a priority.

[skiskiskiskiski]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXUKm_pL...dium=copy_link

Included fuzzed out nipples and some buttcracks visible. Click at own risk.

[Danno]

if you're gonna link to pics of naked people, please label the link as NSFW. Pretty basic internet etiquette.

[PB]

Thanks Danno; but sorry you had to be the one.

[skiskiskiskiski]

if you're gonna link to pics of naked people, please label the link as NSFW. Pretty basic internet etiquette.

The nipples are fuzzed out, geez!

[Danno]

The nipples are fuzzed out, geez!

you think that's gonna matter when someone's IT folks or their boss sees that? "Oh, totally acceptable that Bob was looking at that, the nips were fuzzed out." It's not complicated, it's not prudish, it's been standard internet etiquette for literally decades now; link to naked people, put a NSFW warning in. Yet rather than say "my bad" and edit your post (and the "my bad" is totally optional), you complain about this being pointed out because the nips were fuzzed out?

[skiskiskiskiski]

you think that's gonna matter when someone's IT folks or their boss sees that? "Oh, totally acceptable that Bob was looking at that, the nips were fuzzed out." It's not complicated, it's not prudish, it's been standard internet etiquette for literally decades now; link to naked people, put a NSFW warning in. Yet rather than say "my bad" and edit your post (and the "my bad" is totally optional), you complain about this being pointed out because the nips were fuzzed out?

I figured clicking on an Instagram link one would expect instagram standards. My bad.

[stuckathuntermtn]

This...



not this

Awwwwww so cute. He thinks we live in a meritocracy.

[riser4]

Another "odd" but true short story:
When my sister-in-law was in her early twenties, she was living in a very small village near Fulda, Germany when she met a guy from from the former DDR (this was right around 1988-9), and they decided to live together in Berlin. At the time, neither had any ties to Berlin. They had no apartment, no jobs, a few friends living there, but no prospects. Upon arriving in Berlin, they met up with some people living in Prenzlauer Berg, which is a now hip section of Berlin, and located in the former DDR. At the time, it was sort of like Berlin's Alphabet City (East Village Manhattan). They met up with some friends and found a place to squat. I was there. It was a bullet pocked, decrepit small building left standing from WWII. It had been abandoned. There was no running hot water (I think they had cold running water) and no electric, but there was a wood burning stove, a toilet and a sink. After a while, they actually applied to the government, and were able to rent it for around DM 60/mo. Anyway, no one ever came to claim the condemned building, and they wound up living there for 3-4 years. Their first child was born there. Three children and 30ish years later, they still live in Prenzlauer Berg, but they own a nice apartment.
I can't imagine that things, even in Yurp, can be that way today.

Weren't Soviet tanks supposed to invade West Germany through the Fulda Gap?