And yet many Germans don’t have passports because they don’t need passports, and similarly many people from nearby countries can visit Germany legally without carrying a passport. There are other types of legal identification commonly used.
For travelers who are obviously coming from farther abroad, staff are likely to ask you for the passport, but it doesn’t mean that you couldn’t use another document instead, should you have an acceptable one on hand.
You made a claim about hostels requiring passports. I was pointing out that actually hostels don’t require passports. Why would you write something that you know from personal experience is incorrect? It’s very strange.
@orcrist all due respect you sound a bit paranoid.
I'm a New Zealander. Every time I have stayed in a Backpacker hostel in Germany or Austria they have asked to see my passport and made a note of its number. Sometimes in the past they "held" my other government-issued identification instead but always sighted the passport.
If you don't believe me, that's fine.
But I'm not interested in continuing this conversation. I find it deeply strange.
Seven months after the start of Sudan’s civil war, conditions for many in the capital, Khartoum, are worse than ever - but some of those who escaped from the city in the early days are also struggling to survive.
“We need a ceasefire that allows us to deliver humanitarian aid to those affected and assess the extent of their needs,” says the UN’s deputy special representative in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami.
A few short humanitarian truces were agreed in the early months of the war, but various ongoing peace initiatives are making little tangible progress.
In a shelter for displaced people in the port city, I met Hawa Suleiman trying in vain to make a meal for her five children from the meagre remains of a tin of wheat.
As well as the Sudanese, people from many other nationalities are suffering because of this war - among them Syrians, Pakistanis and Indians, and large numbers of refugees from South Sudan.
She had earlier fled from South Sudan and settled in a camp for displaced people in Khartoum’s north-eastern district of al-Haj Yousif.
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Nothing happens for storing your gun in a dumb enough way that a 6 y.o. can get their hands on it and bring it to school…
Did you not read the article?
The mother of a six-year-old boy who shot his teacher in the US state of Virginia has been sentenced to 21 months in prison on a drug charge linked to the gun used in the attack.
Deja Taylor, 26, pleaded guilty in June to using cannabis while owning a firearm. She still faces sentencing on a state charge of felony child neglect.
She already pled guilty to felony child endangerment. I do not understand what you find significant about the fact that she has not yet been sentenced for that crime.
Even without any drug, alcohol or kid involved, leaving your loaded gun unattended in a handbag is wack.
This wasn’t even the first time her gun was fired in public through negligence, yet she’s still carrying one around.
It is illegal to have a firearm on your person while under the influence of alcohol, even one drink. Now as to how often that gets enforced is entirely another problem.
But it sounds as if the problem was that she owned cannabis, not currently being under the influence. Imagine having some beer in your fridge and not being able to own a gun. I might have misunderstood that part though.
Nah he don’t look like a drug user. You can survive easy out here if you can stay sober enough to make a few phone calls and show up to appointments. Most of the homeless crisis is really just a drug crisis.
You can survive easy out here if you can stay sober enough to make a few phone calls and show up to appointments. Most of the homeless crisis is really just a drug crisis.
I trust that in order to make such such a generalizing and dismissive statement you have some form of qualification or primary experience?
Yes. I get free healthcare, and I qualify for free food and low income housing. Many of my friends have been homeless and they have had an easy time finding a shelter.
The child, now aged seven, told police he obtained the firearm by mounting a drawer to reach his mom’s handbag on top of a dresser, where the handgun was kept.
Dipshit. I’m assuming VA doesn’t have any law about securing firearms. This is why we need them. You’d think it would be common sense, but I guess not.
Over the past while, our government has essentially turned our welfare system into a parody of the US’s. This guy makes the most amazing Lego sculptures, and it’s so fucking sad he’s going through this.
I dunno’, I still hear far too many people simping for the rich believing they all personally earned their riches and I hear far too many people still believing “capitalism” is just using money to buy things.
I had a construction worker try to explain to me how Elon Musk is a genius who makes it possible for me to do my job (I work in the Space Industry, NOT for SpaceX) and I should be grateful he’s creating those opportunities for me instead of hating on him. He got really mad about it when I didn’t agree.
He got even angrier when I asked him why someone like him, on the lowest rung of the labor ladder, was simping like that. He had no answer though.
A man born without hands or legs has been told he will soon no longer get a daily visit from a care worker to help him shower and get dressed.
It added that it understood “the worry it is causing”, and would “seek an alternative provider” that would “support him to continue living independently in his own home”.
His care is provided by Connected Health but that is due to end on 1 December, with the company telling BBC News NI that it was “increasingly stretched in ever more demanding circumstances”.
Mr Calvert’s friend Vicky has been making additional visits to help four days a week but now that looks to be the only assistance he will get.
Mr Calvert’s mother, Heather, said she “just couldn’t believe it” when she heard that her son was losing his care package.
She told Evening Extra that over the past seven months the situation surrounding DJ’s care has been “a rollercoaster”.
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20-some years ago I lived in a precarious situation in the back of an old Black Panther karate dojo (I know). Newly-minted urban white boy that I was, it was, culturally, quite a learning experience.
I remember one of the guys (an outdoorsman from Louisiana) told me that he was always armed when he went hiking or camping. I didn’t get it at the time, but now I do. It wasn’t bears or mountain lions he was afraid of. It was this shit.
No. The resolution of this specific circumstance in this specific location is not what I mean by this shit.
By this shit I mean the general danger of being the wrong color in nature.
In Europe, there’s nearly zero chance of running into serious, life-threatening, interpersonal trouble on a hike, no matter your color. That is less certain in parts of the United States.
If only all police were honorable and law-abiding and the laws were written to benefit the ordinary person. That would be an amazing world, wouldn’t it? Ah well, it’s important to have dreams.
No I’m sorry I don’t get it, what’s the plan here? Shoot at the cops? Threaten the racists with a gun? There must be a better answer to systemic racism than suicide by cop. A blank card with the words “not talking without lawyer present” would probably be a more sensible choice - against cops, not against mountain lions.
I believe this is the same issue with the other comment, taking what I wrote as a specific solution to a specific problem.
This issue of getting the police called is emblematic of a problem that dark-skinned people have, where they’re considered to be inappropriate for natural areas.
What I was getting at is that there are specific rural areas, with unhinged residents and poor policing, where no outsider should go. If I choose to go, I should expect to provide my own personal protection. Those locations would be vastly multiplied if I had dark skin, to the point that it might become more expedient to just always carry.
I’m certainly not saying it would be appropriate for anyone to arm themselves while hiking in the Alps, or when dealing with police or benign racism.
As Germany struggles with labour shortages in many sectors, local business leaders regularly express concern that the rise of the AfD may be harming eastern Germany’s economic prospects.
You say “labour shortages” but I hear “salary shortages”. Oh well!
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