This question is for US passport holders only: have any of you been asked political questions at the airport by CBP when returning to the states from abroad? I got grilled last time about what I thought of the president and other issues while they were searching my stuff. Just wondering if something similar happened to anyone else.
>>2902692Yes, your manager at 7/11 asked you to wear a mask and you stormed out in a rage and got fired. Nobody gives a shit. Keep seething for 6 more years or get on with your life, rabbi.
>>2902737>Presumably all this information is going to be put on file indefinitely and they're just going to let me worry about it for the foreseeable future.They used it for AI sloppa or some shit, they illegally searched and seized it so it would never hold up in court. Next time they're assholes I'll just plead the fifth for 3 hours or whatever
Once asked why I was abroad for so long, what was I doing there and why I am coming backShit is annoying I'll never go back now
>>2896978no
>>2898939>I guess every 4 years there's a hard change in policy so they just become cynical.Na CBP agents are just fags and always have been. US customs where fucked up in 1994 as much as in 2010 or 2026. It's beyond just frustrated stuck for the next 40 years in that exact position with absolutely no chance of getting a promotion or pay rise that use their only power they will ever have in their entire miserable existence to feel good for a few seconds a day.They try to ruin your day not because they believe in what they do, no they do it because they can and that's what they wank to before crying themselves to sleep in their 1room rental port-a-potty.
I'll be visiting Berlin for 3-4 days, what is there to do besides the obvious tourist traps?What we've already planned:Day 1: Museum IslandDay 2: Prenzlauer Berg + Kreuzberg (Bergmannkiez)Day 3: Kurfürstendamm + CharlottenburgDay 4: Potsdam?
Berlin is one of the only places to which I've ever been that I despised>Utterly filthy. Every single flat surface is covered in graffiti or stickers or tattered posters>druggies screaming their guts out in every single park>Rubbish and litter strewn everywhere>The people are either immigrants or miserable sullen arseholes>actual slum shacks everywhere (the locals refer to these as le vibrant squats where people do art)>obligatory tranny flags and antifa banners everywhereAvoid. I don't know how the rest of German can sleep at night knowing that this fucking SHITHOLE is their capital.
>>2901937If you wanna get some physical activity in and feel like getting really close to the molecule men statue and while listening to stories of Germans sneaking past the Berlin Wall along the way .. Kayak Berlin ToursPanorama BerlinDurch Kreuzberg auf die SpreeHonestly there's so only so many museums you can pack into a day. You can spare 3 hours to look at the city from a different perspective and take things slow :)I live in Germany, just not in Berlin, so I kind of hate visiting but this is probably my fav memory besides eating the best shishkebab on Sonnenallee
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>>2898006So you can buy tickets to an event and not be let in? That sounds like a scam.
I'd really recommend Potsdam, I really enjoyed it when I went ~8 years or so ago. Berlin has stuff to do but it is a big city and it comes with the usual Berlin-tier stuff that's not my cup of tea. Getting out of there and going to Potsdam to enjoy a bit more quietness, the beautiful streets, the big ass palace there to walk around on a nice sunny day, is a great way to spend the day IMO.
Is Moscow really as great of a city as Russians claim it is? Better than any European city? I am talking purely travel, no politics please.
I've watched some youtubers that went to Russia. Apparently they throw you in prison for no reason. Doesn't seem like a good experience.
>>2904071>>2903949>Apparently they throw you in prison for no reason>POV: You are riding the London Metro during the morning rush hourthats England or France or Goymany. They terrorize you out of spite
>>2904092>N....NO U!!!!!I see mosqueow got droned again today lol
>>2904117Why aren't you on the frontlines, Mykola?
>>2904198Take that to 2ch, lad.
Going to Amsterdam tomorrow, what are some good places where i could find fellow autists?
>>2905289$30 is overpriced regardless of the art quality. Who would even notice the difference in art quality except an expert Fuck Amsterdam, and fuck all western Europe tripled the price of everything to pay for the importation of 50 million rape apes. Its double or triple the price of Japan im going there instead
>>2905297You have never had a passport, you have never had a job or girlfriend, all you know about the world outside your mom's basement you learned from your fellow virgin neets of /pol/.
Im going there next monday and I'm a fellow autist
>>2905125More info on the ping pong?
Grab an edible of the strength you are comfortable with and hop on a train to Haarlem (less than 20 minutes). Sit on a bench by the canal and relax for a while. Head into the square of Haarlem and find a bar with street seating. Order a trappist ale and sip on it leisurely. Head back to Centraal once you've finished relaxmaxxing. Immediately hop on the tram to Artis. Go to the zoo, see some animals. Hop on the tram back to Rembrantplein, walk up Herengracht and go to the Cat Art Museum. Pet the kitties there and look at the art collection for an hour.
experiences with couchers, couchsurfing? i've hosted 5 women in a row and they were fun, though it was all platonic. hosted a couple of guys and they were cool, but only for 1 night each.
>>2904889I bought it because the captcha timer made /biz/ unusable.
>>2904580Couchsurfing was the greatest website in the world 10 years ago. The management deserves the death penalty for their utter ineptitude
>>2904889Yeah but also people who don't want to deal with captchas Also the janitorial staff are paid in line with their skills and talent
>>2904889>AAAAAAA I HAVE TO PAY 8 CENTS A DAY THiS IS LITERAL NAZI GERMANYkek, you people getting booted is the best thing to ever happen to this site
>>2905872>Don't have 8 cents a day so you can sleep on a stranger's couch while traveling?!? Heh, you must be poor...Not sure if retarded or a paid shill from couchsurfing
What should I do in Finland for 3 weeks in September?
>>2901564>the people are so weird and unfriendly and everything is a rip offSame as Finland except that Sweden actually has some history and culture
>>2901564Finland is even worse in every aspect
>>2900117Fuck off. Sompasauna's for locals, its not a tourist attraction.
Go to club swagga and get yoself sum snowbunny pu$$y
>>2895100saunas
My dopamine receptors are fried and I'm in capable of living a normal life, so I'm looking for some new adventures. I'm from Canada but just got out of a 4 month job in Brasil where I travelled all over the country. I'm open to anything can be work, leisure, or volunteer, I just want some adventure. I've already been all around the world for leisure and work before so NPC shit like teach english in Korea. I've also have a decent amount of money in savings so money isn't a priority or I'm not to worries about having to spend a bit. Open to any suggestions just want to get out.
>>2900619https://youtube.com/shorts/TydpqqnEV3I?is=XnyrN8a8MA80uI_REstonia, bro
>>2901060>https://youtube.com/shorts/TydpqqnEV3I?is=XnyrN8a8MA80uI_Rlooks nuts
>>2900619why not Kenya, Tanzania or Nigeria? Pretty and enthusiastic women, nice weather, , beautiful nature, cheap adventure as well
>>2903248Because people spend money to get away from blacks not to be around them
>>2900619safaris
To my 9-5 wagies that travel internationally with limited amount of PTO days, how do you make the choice between:>3 separate week-long international trips (typically just stay in one city)>1 two-week trip and 1 week-long trip>1 three-week international tripAssuming you have the standard 3 weeks PTO like most corporate amerimutts. Also, has lying ever helped you get more leave time?
>>2902230>Have each trip cover at least one holiday if not two This stretches it to 4 weeks>Have flex hours so you can work a 4/10 and can arrive a day early and leave a day lateThis stretches each week to 11 days (including travel).To answer your question, I generally do >1 international 2-week trip (1 destination + day trips or 2 destinations max)>1 domestic 1-week trip (almost always West Coast since I will just use long weekends for easy coast)This generally leaves me with left over PTO that I can use for longer international trips (3-4 weeks, generally reserved for Asia/Africa) or additional domestic trips here and there. Also the standard PTO is actually 10 days if you can believe it. I currently have 16 which I consider the bare minimum to be workable. I would switch to a job with more PTO if I could, but they're basically impossible to find, even public sector generally limits vacation to 15 or less until you have seniority, they just offer additional sick days. The main downside for me is that I have to be very intentional and have all of my trips for the next 2-3 years planned out, or I risk not having enough PTO to cover.
Used to do one for around 12 days, one for a week and a few long weekends. Thankfully now I have unlimited PTO.
>>2903107Do your coworkers or management get bothered by that? Usually unlimited PTO comes with a trade off that you’re not technically supposed to use it because you’ll be seen as a “slacker”
I'm stupid enough to actually do overtime at my job, and instead of getting overtime pay, I opt for bank hours. It's the only way I can take PTO longer than ten business days. I have a month-long trip coming up, which is the longest I'll ever be gone for.t. not even American. Canada really does copy the worst parts of American culture.
>>2902230second one
I just have to get out of my room I’ve been stuck in my room for like 5 years since Covid was my last trip to Thailand. Where do young people hangout? I’m a 38 year old guy but I look 17. Btw yes I took that photo cuz I lied and I went to cebu in 2024. But I’ve been stuck for 3 years atleast now and it fucking sucks living with boomers and I have about 9k in a brokerage. No job but that’s how I like it, but I do make some trades
>>2902842You’re not special or admirable because you waste hours of your time on dates getting “””free””” pussy lmao
>>2902842You're not special. I pay money to cum in a bag next to diseased whores. Then I kick them out. Who wants to hang out with dumb smelly women they're all the same amirite. Then I invite men over and cuddle with the boys. Lmao
>>2903016>>2903008I’m not special but I’m better than the likes of both of you and that’s a solid fact
>>2903050Keep tellin yourself that dorkie
>>2902201nashville
Can anyone tell me what the FUCK is going on with countries demanding health insurance all of a sudden?Last time I traveled internationally was back in 2019 then this year out of the blue every time I go on Youtube I get an ad (I don't use Youtube as much as I did in the past so that's why I don't bother with an ad blocker) for health insurance to travel abroad.I've done some digging around and apparently countries are demanding it to prevent tourists from getting treatment for free(?)Like, how often do tourists get injured or sick to warrant this measure, the danger of national healthcare systems getting overwhelmed is realistically very low. What happened to doctors having to swear the Hippocratic Oath in order to get their license? Just eat the L and move on.
>>2902852Anon, the country Georgia is a shithole
Because people show up, get injured then put a strain on the socialized health care system, and they need a way to bill them.Free healthcare is only for boat niggers and single moms.
>>2902999This, and also some people have long term illnesses and medical issues, then say "now that I'm here you have to treat me." Most doctors won't just turn away a patient and risk them dying, so they treat them.
>>2903024>Most doctors won't just turn away a patient and risk them dying, so they treat them.Youve never tried to use healthcare outside the US have you
>>2900592hospital fees
Going to checkout St Louis since I'm an architecture fan and have a soft spot for shitty cities that used to be good. I already got a lot of a big stuff on my list, but for anyone who lives there/been there, what do you like to do? My hotel is west in Richmond Heights. I was told to try Salt + Smoke but really any good bbq place will do.on the list:>Arch + riverboat>City Museum>Zoo>Botanical Gardens>Basilica>Union Station>St Louis Wheel>Old Courthouse>Vintage Vinyl (rec'd by a local)Maybe cross over to ESL to see the urban decay there. I love the old bridges that cross the Mississippi.
>>2902941>i love these cities because China could never make them nor tolerate their sickness. Other cities in this tier are Memphis and New Orleans, Tulsa, these cities would have been destroyed by Order of Xi and all people would be sent to the education camps for processing.>he doesnt know about guangzhouhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li497m8Iu4s
>>2902871>even responding to people begging for moneyamateurAlso, I get that there's tons of ghetto shit, I am simply asking if there's anything nice in the city, or even within an hour's drive, simply because it's along the interstate and is kinda a guarantee to have to go through it get from east to west and back.
>>2902947There's tons of nice things, it's just the downtown is treated like a containment zone for nons outside of Cardinal gameday. Think of it how Manhattan was turned into a prison in Escape from New York. They've basically given up on it.>>2902223The Dems run every major city dipshit. And they are all segregated. >Wahh muh skin colorPeople dgaf about that as much as people don't like living next to people from different cultures than them. For example, low trust cultures that have a high tolerance for filth, crime, and noise don't go well with high trust cultures that don't.
>>2902941>skuzz, crime, sin and filthThere is plenty of that in Hong Kong in a way that does actually add to it and make it interesting, and can be engaged in, if we insist on the China comparison. OTOH there is nothing interesting or additive about dead zone, bombed out nog suburbs north of Delmar. The nice things about St Louis like CWE, Forest Park, or pleasant suburbs, gain nothing from the incursion of volatile blacks. There's simply nothing even remotely able to be romanticized like maybe you could have done with pre-90s NYC
>>2897819visit the bbq
What's Eastern Russia like?Are there any fun things to do or see as a tourist?
>>2901750In Siberia, an unimaginable number of mosquitoes swarm in the summer, gathering in clouds and swarming around humans and animals. Moreover, these mosquitoes are large, and their bites cause intense pain and itching.
>>2901745They'll give you a free trip to Ukraine.
>>2901745Can't imagine much is worth seeing outside of Lake Baikal
>Let me tell you everything about the place I've never been toThis whole thread.
>>2901745pretty
I am looking for smaller towns to simply relax in and get away from the noise and chaos of suburban and city life .Europe or Asia would be idealIdeally there's not much traffic noise, barking dogs, airplanes, mass tourismI am totally okay with there being nothing to do other than go on walks, enjoy nature and a restaurant or 2The last small town i enjoyed was Rakhiv. I found a cozy hotel and mostly listening to music in my room and dined in the restaurant downstairs and went on walks around town.Cheaper is more ideal too
>>2902418Sanok. amazing open-air museum /heritage park, they literallt made a village in a forrest from hundreds of years ago together with orthodox church. You can also drive and look at some damn fine UNESCO wooden orthodox churches - but lot of them converted to catholic and far from each other. You also have Beksiński museum , so sanok seems like comfy base to me
>>2899746Duncannon, Pennsylvania. It's the heart of Appalachia.
>>2902724>be hiking at hawk rock>hungry>pre-order tacos>just random truck by highway 15>they are not that good>somehow random bbq truck is nearby but too late>never seen that bbq truck sincethe 15 corridor is kinda weird there's like abandoned stripper places and adult stores and harrisburg blows but it gets very pretty after williamsport and there's a ton of hiking up that way there's some sign for a scenic overlook somewhere near duncannon I think but I've never gotten to itOHand they turned the old jewish dry goods store up the road from duncannon "shine coffee" i think its called into a christian coffee shop that plays "praise" music"
>>2899746Craig AK
>>2899746cornwall
Having seen the Grand Canyon and a few forests and mountains already, i don't feel the need to ever come back.Jordan or India also have natural wonders, every big country does, but when the political regime stinks too much it really outweights the nature.
>>2900775It's not quite as dire as >>2902434 makes it out to be but he's kinda right. USA has excellent nature but that doesn't mean there aren't other countries with great nature of their own. But yes the US has god tier nature of pretty much every biome fairly well preserved and relatively accessible, that's what makes it kino.
>>2902752Everybody knows Niagara falls are mid.It's like Mount Rushmore
>>2902434Take your meds mate, you write it like you would actually believe that deranged nonsense.
>>2902367Most american buildings won't make it 2 centuries.Alcatraz, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building (...) probably will, but anything built in the XXth century will collapse.Apparently even the Chrystler building doesn't get proper maintenance, the private owner is cutting costs.
>>2900753yes
How do y'all feel about the new trend of gouging tourists on admission fees?$35 to walk up a tower and they make you pay $9 more for an audioguide that doesn't work $35 to walk inside the Hagia Sophia when most of it's closed off and 2 years ago it was free
>>2902510Good thing it was built as a church then
>>2901704im in istanbul and i literally thought the same thing yesterday for hagia sophia and palacewe are basically funding the poor here its fine
>>2902513muzzrats squatting in something they murdered 100,000 christians to take doesn't make it impressive, it makes it disgusting and sullied
>>2902308>the hagia Sophia wasn't impressive
>>2901704incredible
