social.noyu.me

so today i visited https://www.insm.de/ 's neoliberal agitprop project, the “bureaucracy museum”. it has no actual exhibits, it's all… anti-government vibes expressed through cheaply produced art. no surprises there.

what's hilarious though was the bureaucracy they put me through to get inside!

it has free entry, and there weren't many people there, so you'd think i could just walk up at the desk with my gf and ask to go in? or get a ticket at the desk?

ahaha, no.

i had to scan a qr code to get to a website where i could book a ticket…

… for which i had no mobile connection because i was indoors at the museum, so i had to walk outside first. then i had to fill in my legal name and email address… twice, with copy-and-paste disabled…

but then it'd just give me the ticket, right? no :)

… i get an Email. telling me i have ordered a ticket. and i wait a minute or so to get a second email telling me i have now actually received it. but then it's attached to the email, right?

no! i must now log into the account i just created!

which is just a tap, right?

…nope. i have to go to the website. and then enter my email again. and then choose the option to log in without a password, which i never created. and then confirm i want to do that. then i must open my email to get the third email, providing a link that lets me log in…

…at which point, I just have a ticket? no. i must now explicitly accept the terms and conditions of the service i have apparently been forced to just sign up to.

and then, finally, my ticket is right there… inside a pdf, which i must download

lmfao

oh and that's forgetting to mention the worst part! you can't book tickets for two people at once! my gf had to go through the same excruciating process herself, repeating every single step! a true bureaucratic experience