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thatswhywelovegermany · 5 months

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Badgers cause year-long shutdown of railway line in North Rhine-Westphalia

In November 2022, first signs of instability on the railway embankment between Unna and Fröndenberg appeared. Subsequent safety inspections revealed that badgers had dug an extensive network of tunnels several meters underneath the tracks. At least 140 entrances to the badger burrows have been found so far, stretching over a length of 11 km (approx. 7 miles).

Meanwhile, the embankment has deemed to be too unstable to continue train operations due to the activity of the animals. The damage is too extensive to be repaired, so the embankment has to be rebuilt from the scratch. Railway company Deutsche Bahn estimates that planning of the construction works and obtaining the necessary approvals by the authorities will take several years before the actual construction works can begin.

#improbable news from germany #rail traffic #badgers #bureaucracy #badger city

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o0anapher0o · 11 months

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I know it's pretty established in fandom that Cardassians love their bureaucracy but I don't think I've seen any fics (including my own) that fully embrace what that looks like. Like rn I need a fic of Julian having a full on meltdown:

"What do you mean I can only send an application after the validation process has been completed? How do I know it has been? How many weeks are several? Why do they need my grandmother's birth certificate on my mother's side and what even is the difference between a certified copy and a regular one? Certified by whom? I just wanted a library card."

#me projecting my own problems on fictional characters? never.#fr though we write cardassian paperwork very handwavey #ds9 #julian bashir #cardassians #bureaucracy #seriously how many weeks is several?

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prokopetz · 2 years

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The fact that nearly all institutions are online now literally saved my life. Pre-Internet, if I needed a particular piece of paperwork or documentation and it was issued more than three months ago, I was just screwed. Now, I get to solve the fun puzzle of figuring out how to download a fresh copy without having to pay money for it.

#life #internet #bureaucracy #on rare occasions the pre-internet situation could be solved by calling someone on the phone #but that's sufficiently similar to death as to make no practical difference #death mention in tags

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pratchettquotes · 1 month

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Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#DEATH #thief of time #discworld #terry pratchett #the universe #reality #paperwork #bureaucracy #in fact #nine tenths

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madame-helen · 1 year

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#meme #memes #shitposting #shitpost #humor #dark humor #funny humor #funny memes #funny #stolen memes #joke #romania #bureaucracy #satire #irony

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ariirdraws · 6 months

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Day 19: Bureaucracy

The sillies, I love them so much!

#good omens 2 #aziraphale #good omens fanart #art #crowley #good omens #ineffable husbands #good omentober #good ineffable omens #ineffable bureaucracy #bureaucracy

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journeytothewestresearch · 5 months

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Immortals vs Earthly Bureaucracy

In chapter 88 of JTTW, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing take three Indian princes as martial arts students. Monkey goes on to perform a ritual in which he bestows them with superstrength and likely some form of immortality.

Someone recently asked me why the monstrous pilgrims would take human disciples in the first place. Well, this is the result of a sequence events:

The young princes are amazed to see Sun, Zhu, and Sha display their martial arts skills while flying on divine clouds.

They tell their father, the sovereign prince, that they want to become their students, claiming it would allow them to protect their nation.

The monarch asks Tripitaka for permission, and he agrees.

The sovereign prince then personally requests that Sun, Zhu, and Sha tutor his sons in martial arts (Wu & Yu, 2012, pp. 197-199).

This seems straightforward enough, but there is an underlying answer that just dawned on me. Everyone agrees, and Monkey goes a step further by empowering the princes, as a way of kissing the ruler’s butt since he stamped the group’s travel rescript, a kind of passport needed to legally travel through various countries (Wu & Yu, 2012, p. 193). Without the stamp, the pilgrims wouldn’t have been able to continue their journey to the Buddha’s mountain.

The humorous implication here is that even celestials have to bow to earthly bureaucracy.

Fig. 1 - The princes drop to their knees as they watch the three monstrous pilgrims display their supernatural martial skills. Image from the Qing-Period Color-Illustrated Complete Edition of Journey to the West (清彩繪全本西遊記, 2008). Fig. 2 – Monkey empowers the princes with his divine breath. Image from Chen Huiguan’s Newly Illustrated and Complete Journey to the West (陈惠冠新绘全本西游记, 2001). Both images found here.

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Wu, C., & Yu, A. C. (2012). The Journey to the West (Vol. 4) (Rev. ed.). Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press.

#sun wukong #monkey king #zhu bajie #zhu wuneng #pigsy #sha wujing #sha monk #tripitaka #tang monk #xuanzang #journey to the west #jttw #immortal #Chinese immortals #bureaucracy #i hate bureaucracy #sandy #lego monkie kid #lmk

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racefortheironthrone · 3 months

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I can get why it was created, but why does Department of Homeland Security still exist?

A combination of bureaucratic inertia and lack of political will. For the former, a lot of civil servants’ careers and influence depends on the existence of DHS as a Cabinet department. Even if the major functions of DHS would continue just as they have always done (the dirty secret of DHS is that the coordination and information-sharing that was the rationale for creating the department in the wake of 9/11 never actually happened and that most DHS agencies do their own thing like they did before the reorganization), a lot of high-up and middle managers would be at risk of losing their jobs or their power measured in terms of budget and manpower - so those folks are going to fight any attempt to de-establish the department with everything in their power.

Likewise, over on the political side, there’s a strong incentive to do nothing. Not only would a vote to reorganize DHS be controversial just in terms of generating lots of winners and losers, but it’s also a vote that could be easily characterized as “soft on national security,” and a lot of politicians would have to answer difficult questions about why they had voted to reauthorize or approve DHS funding in the past. Politicians don’t like having to admit to mistakes, and it’s easy to characterize a change of mind as “flip-flopping.” Finally, politicians also stand to lose power in this scenario - no DHS means no Homeland Security committee positions, means no DHS contracts and lobbyists to raise money off of. And so it goes.

#u.s. politics #u.s government #public policy #bureaucracy #political science

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therobotmonster · 2 months

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Be me.

Live in the same apt complex for more than a decade. Constantly have delivery issues because each numbered building has 2 street numbers and 2 of every lettered apartment. So there's two apartments B in my building. It causes constant delivery issues.

Wake up last month to an angry letter from the apt complex about me 'changing the power over to their name'. A thing I haven't done.

Make multiple calls to the complex and power company, eventually piece together that someone moved into the other apt B, called the power company to get the power turned on, and they switched my account to theirs.

Because while it takes 3 different methods of verification to even pay my bill by phone, apparently some bewildered dipshit can call in and take over an active account without a single question being asked.

Said dipshit realized their mistake, likely when their power didn't come on, and had it fixed. Dipshits at the power company didn't bother switching anything back, and simply reassigned my account to the apartment complex.

I set up a new account, making everything extra complicated, and the apt complex bills me for the leftover power bill they got sent by the power company.

Fast forward one month, now the power company is charging me that exact same amount.

Call the apt complex. They say they paid it, but do so the second I ask. They didn't check any records. I ask if they're certain or if they're just assuming that. They say they're certain. I tell them they need to call Power Co and straighten it out. They say I have to.

I call power company. They say the apartment company didn't pay them, and needs to call them to work this out. Just like I wanted them to in the first place.

Call back to the apt complex, talk to a second clueless fuck. They're "looking into it."

My anger could melt steel.

#my life #bureaucracy

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ladyevol · 2 months

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Grian: "In today's episode of hermitcraft we put our fellow hermits and friends through psychological torture and deal irl psychic damage to them that I would not wish on my worst enemy for fun!"

#mcyt #grian #hermitcraft #i feel so bad for scar #he must face his greatest enemy yet to get to his silly zookeeper roleplay #bureaucracy

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lbibliophile-sw · 6 months

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RE: For Approval

Also on AO3 @whumptober - day 17: "leave me alone" @clonefandomevents - Coruscant Guard bingo: flimsiwork

The thing about not being considered sentient, Fox discovers, is that his signature is not legally recognised.

Sure it is a pain, having to send even the most basic of requisition requests for external approval, but there are advantages.

In the upper ranks of Senate and military bureaucracy, delegation is an art form. A delicate dance of palming off work to any underlings with an appropriate security clearance, said underlings doing the same in turn. And Fox, as a Marshal Commander, seems a prime candidate.

Unfortunately for them, Commander Fox is a clone. ‘Non-sentient’.

He sends the flimsiwork right back.

#CG bingo #whumptober 2023 #no.17 #“leave me alone”#star wars #sw:tcw #drabble #bureaucracy #paperwork #dehumanisation #malicious compliance #commander fox #bingo fill

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inbabylontheywept · 11 months

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The Kitchen Labyrinth of Missile Science

I will eventually post my actual fiction works here, but for now, let me tell you a story of the insanity of working in a classified facility.

The building I work in has, maybe, 35 people in it. I think it's closer to 30? It also has 7 kitchens.

You may be curious why they have so many kitchens. The answer is because getting a contractor into a clearanced building either means getting a contractor in who has clearance, which is impossible, or having a clearanced person babysit the contractor for the entire time that they're working. This is also impossible.

My facility found a workaround, where you can build a little offshoot room on base just by having the contractors fill out a visit request, then having them build the room, then quickly making a shitty little entry once the offshoot is complete. So instead of remodeling an old kitchen ever (the building has been around since the 60's) they just add new ones on.

I just picked kitchens as an example of this, but it applies to every other type of room, so the location has this insane house-of-leaves sprawling labyrinth vibe. I've been here on site for a few months and I still keep finding new rooms. I only found out a few weeks ago that we have a sauna. At some later date, I will explain why this same facility hordes fridges. I am not shitting you when I say it has around 20 fridges. Something to look forward to.

#engineering #clearance #bureaucracy #fridge

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anexperimentallife · 2 years

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Disabled, neurodivergent US couple and daughter caught in a bureaucratic and medical nightmare overseas

Summarizing the situation until now (new post because the old ones were getting bloated woth updates): We got pregnant in the Philippines at the beginning of what turned into a two-year national lockdown, with nearly expired visas--which has resulted in thousands of dollars in overstay fees, even though we COULDN'T leave.

Our daughter was born here during the pandemic, with complications requiring a C Section, and an error on her birth certificate kicked off an expensive year+-long struggle to get her paperwork corrected so she could be acknowledged as a US citizen--because even after travel restrictions were lifted, we could not take her with us if we left the country until her citizenship was confirmed and she had a passport. That meant MORE overstay fees, because there was no way we were leaving the country without her.

Many thousands of dollars in donations later, El's citizenship is at long last confirmed, and we finally have her passport, but the struggle is not over.

We now have to come up with an estimated 4,000-6,000 USD more for additional overstay fees (which are several times more than normal extension fees) for all the time it took to get this sorted, and another trip to Manila before any of us are allowed to leave the country. This is in addition to the 13K in debt we've racked up over this.

And the longer it takes, the more the fees add up.

My disability is our sole source of income, as Zoey is not allowed to work here.

While dealing with all of the above, I had covid twice, and with my existing health issues, it nearly killed me both times--I spent a month on an oxygen machine--and have developed other issues (heart, eyes, joints, and a persistent two-year infection that just finally got resolved after a surgery and industrial strength antibiotics) as a result of long covid. That's taken a huge chunk of the money already donated.

Once we get the funds together to pay off our overstay fees, we plan to take the cheapest tickets we can find.

@thesurestthing and I finally managed to get married (turns out Utah will do weddings over Zoom, even for non-residents). Now that we're married, other options may be open to us once the immediate crisis is resolved. But we have to get through this first.

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