/int/ - certified time wasters

>>20312
Due to regular old Ernst fail there was a mixup concerning the start of the stream.
It will start one hour earlier, at 19:30 UTC.
I apologize for the mixup and will pray a bunch of hail marys to make up for it.
Tits for grabbing your attention

Since the last stream was a failure do to technical difficulties, i will try again.
Instead of regular movies i fill the poll with documentaries. Maybe they allow for more conversation (which sadly only happened on /b/).

In the poll:

The Barkley Marathons - The Race That Eats Its Young (US, 2014)
A documentary about a "Marathon" in the wild which goes on for over 2 days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IUKC9gS-8


My Best Fiend (DE, 1999)
A documentary by Werner Herzog about his relationship to Klaus Kinski.
It's well made but probably not that interesting if you have no idea who Werner Herzog or Klaus Kinski are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lae8FewbnuU

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>>20355
>Carts Of Darkness
I watched it like 7 years ago, if I recall correctly because it was recommended by someone on EC.

>>20401
I saw it a few months ago and can recommend it as well. Just like all the other docs in the poll.

t. >>20401

Don't be shy, Ernst!

This could be you :3

The Ernst Alliance will soon be opened. It's never too late to join!

>>20395
>It's never too late to join!
Never had the makings of a salesman.

Had this odd dream that this old lady my mother used to care for was still alive and having a heart attack. Of course I diagnosed it and then I had to call the ambulance. Which didn’t come. It was odd. Instead I saw 6 American-style cop cars race down the street before I called again and the ambulance turned up, only to find the old lady being fine.

There was also something about public transportation and bridges in the previous segment but I really can’t remember it.

Woke up from a nightmare where me and some friends wanted to prank some fishermen by putting sushi on their lines but they didn't think it was funny and just started catching my friends and methodically and unperturbedly carving them up with their knives.
Second dream was about that girl I haven't seen in over a year where I kissed her and said I'm sorry (for what?).
What watching a horror film with a romance subplot when you're feverish does to a mf. Not sure which dream was worse.

Dreamed that we just got home with my mother and sister and we got the US election results by looking at the water level in the pool. The water was overflowing. We turned off the garden hose and I said that this means a Trump victory. We checked the water level with my sister, measuring it and we declared that “This was basically rape, he fucking raped her he won so fucking hard dude.”

Had a very weird dream, and very disturbing.
First I was in Spain or somesuch where I wanted to sleep at an inn. I had to climb through a window.
Then it was dinner with parents, but for some reason the food took very long for some while others were already finished.
Then I went to my room and unpacked a gift. It was a blanket with a happy birthday greeting and an explanation about the gift, which was special badges that I needed in spanish winter as a foreigner, and it was in english.
Then I went to attach the badges to my car. It was very snowy, the road was covered. A long WW1-style bayonet was just put into the ground, so I pulled it out and put it under my car to retrieve it later. I also had to change tires or something, though it was only the rubber part and I managed to get them all in the trunk WITH ROOM TO SPARE. Then I laid down next to the car, in the snow, to sleep, but was disturbed by a man taking pictures of me with his phone.
Next I remember I was kidnapped, or got there on my own, in some kind of castle/dungeon. I was part of a group that was apparently torturing and was tortured (the woman giving the introductory speech was saying something like "let's all have fun now") with all kinds of nasty stuff. I remember a woman being suspended over a hot cauldron and her skin "melting" so her upper body was kind of fused together.
I can't remember more because I think that was the moment my alarm went off. I hate these kind of dreams, I want to dream about flying and travelling through space, not this shit.

"Appetitive conditioning plays an important role in the development and maintenance of pornography-use and gaming disorders. It is assumed that primary and secondary reinforcers are involved in these processes. Despite the common use of pornography and gaming in the general population appetitive conditioning processes in this context are still not well studied. This study aims to compare appetitive conditioning processes using primary (pornographic) and secondary (monetary and gaming-related) rewards as unconditioned stimuli (UCS) in the general population. Additionally, it investigates the conditioning processes with gaming-related stimuli as this type of UCS was not used in previous studies. Thirty-one subjects participated in a differential conditioning procedure in which four geometric symbols were paired with either pornographic, monetary, or gaming-related rewards or with nothing to become conditioned stimuli (CS + porn, CS + game, CS + money, and CS-) in an functional magnetic resonance imaging study. We observed elevated arousal and valence ratings as well as skin conductance responses for each CS+ condition compared to the CS-. On the neural level, we found activations during the presentation of the CS + porn in the bilateral nucleus accumbens, right medial orbitofrontal cortex, and the right ventral anterior cingulate cortex compared to the CS-, but no significant activations during CS + money and CS + game compared to the CS-. These results indicate that different processes emerge depending on whether primary and secondary rewards are presented separately or together in the same experimental paradigm. Additionally, monetary and gaming-related stimuli seem to have a lower appetitive value than pornographic rewards."
"Appetitive conditioning with pornographic stimuli elicits stronger activation in reward regions than monetary and gaming-related stimuli." Human Brain Mapping. 2024 Jun 1; 45(8): e26711. PMID 38798103. doi:10.1002/hbm.26711.

"Decades of research have examined the association between pornography use and sexual coercion, with the most significant relationships found between more deviant genres of pornography use and sexual violence. However, researchers have yet to provide a comparable body of research examining the theoretical mechanism of this association. One theory that has shown promise in explaining the association between certain variables of pornography use and sexual coercion is the sexual script theory. In this theory, scripts can best be understood as a mechanism through which society defines and disseminates what is acceptable, desirable, and pleasurable sexual conduct. Studies examining the application of the sexual script theory to the association between pornography use and sexual coercion have found that pornography use has a significant indirect effect on sexual coercion and correlates of sexual coercion through sexual scripts. The current study sought to extend this line of inquiry by examining the relationship between pornography use, sexual scripts, and sexual coercion. A structural equation model examining direct and indirect effects of sexual scripts and pornography use on sexually coercive behaviors was run using a sample of 390 college-aged males. Results of the study indicated there were significant direct and indirect effects in the model. Specifically, pornography use, while not directly related to sexually coercive behaviors, had a significant indirect effect on sexual coercion through sexual scripts. These results further support the use of the sexual scripts theory to help explain the relationship between pornography use and sexual coercion."
"The Role of Sexual Scripts in the Relationship Between Pornography Use and Sexual Coercion." Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2023 Apr; 38(7-8): 5519-5541. PMID 36181240. doi:10.1177/08862605221123291. Epub 2022 Sep 30.

We are so back.

"This study moved beyond previous investigations concerning the associations between pornography use and IPV [intimate partner violence] by using a sample of young adult couples from the community, examining the directionality of associations using a 2-year longitudinal design, and using a dyadic design considering both partners’ pornography use and IPV perpetration. The findings suggest potential bidirectional links between pornography use frequency and sexual coercion perpetration. This highlights the relevance of addressing pornography use frequency as an important risk factor of sexual coercion perpetration in prevention and intervention efforts targeting young adult mixed-sex couples, especially during this period in life where they are learning healthy romantic relationships. This supports the Sexual Script Theory (Simon & Gagnon, 1986) that young adults are at risk to reproduce violent pornographic scripts with their partner in real life leading to sexual IPV perpetration. Pornography literacy and teen dating sexual violence prevention programs may be beneficial to young adults to help them understand that sexual behaviors depicted in pornography may represent sexual violence and are not necessarily enjoyable for their partner, as opposed to what is shown in pornography (Dawson et al., 2020)."
"Associations Between Pornography Use Frequency and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Young Adult Couples: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study." Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2024 Nov; 39(21-22): 4260-4284. PMC11465595. doi:10.1177/08862605241234656. Epub 2024 Mar 7.

>>20242
If you're that shy about your benis we can go for a swim in a frozen lake before. Then there's absolutely no chance of me seeing it x--------DDD

Can't relate with the shocking part. Good luck with the gf and dog bless.

>>20240
>It seems like you didn't even read my incredibly short post before replying and dragged in a bunch of unrelated bullshit to bicker about.
It's just banter mate :-DDDDDDDDDDDD - but funny that you reacted to that post like a german would.

But seriously, it sounds like you had different expectations to what top should be than basically everyone else, especially concerning the Ukraine thread, which could have never been expected to be anything but a trashcan thread.
I mean, I would welcome stricter moderation, especially with regards to actual shitposting, but it's a discussion I have already had with mods in the past. But I also understand that banning the schizo is a fruitless endeavour because he's of that special (as in special ed) kind that he will actually get another IP to continue his retardation, and that is something that can only be resolved by real life violence.
Although I think more important than banning the schizo would be banning the people actually interacting with him and especially the one german larping in that fashion.

In general, mods are too nice, and that's a factor in what killed xyz.

Last, however, your whole post seeps with butthurt and you seem rather thin-skinned right now, which has never been my impression of you before. I will not assume things about your private life, but this is "just" an imageboard, there's no reason to let it get to you like that.
And "not making threads because shit" is an excuse I won't accept on EC. This is not the 4channel where a good thread will get drowned out immediately by an ocean of shit, but as someone mentioned in the other thread, Ernst interests are very narrow, so it's not necessarily a good place to talk about certain topics. But how can you know if you never try? But I understand your sentiment.

>>20242
>Speaking of, interesting cultural dialectics with gf
Is she Finnish?

>>20319
Polish. At least she's naturally a Russorealist.

>>20162
Thank God I'm not fr*nch

>>20156
I've worked in food plants. Food safety is mostly kabuki. When bad shit happens, someone is blamed and fired, but chances are they just did what everyone else also does all the time, and if anyone took the time to do it right, they'd be fired for wasting time.

The workers might not actively snip boogers into the food (allthough some might), but be assured that if dough is spilled on the floor, it gets shoveled back into the machine. And the floor is not as clean as it is supposed to be, because that double-door-room is used as a junk room and people do carry dirt from the street inside.

>>20228
I’m not either, at least I hope

>>20229
>but be assured

Yes, the food industry and food service industry does not work to regulatory's satisfaction. My expectation, though, is that the process of canning food is already quite automated and leaves less chances for workers to do something dirty. Other than that, we live in a quite intoxicating environment anyhow.

>>20197
I may not be a reliable source.
Camus is considered middle school or highschool French class literature. Treating the stranger is almost inevitable at that age, I did an entire 20 page essay on his protagonist when I was 16. Same for Sisyphus, high-school philosophy. I think his international recognition comes first of all because he is so easy to translate.

Sartre, I think people see him more as a public figure and a play writer than an author or a philosopher, even more than Camus. According to Beauvoir he was extremely inspired by Celine and his writing style radically changed once he read « voyage au bout de la nuit ». He’s like a may 68 figure, even if he has not really participated to anything. He’s also read in high school.

>>20198
No adult (mind) would ever concern themselves with Camus. It's just a different kind of edgy for edgy teenagers than, say, a superficial view on Nietzsche.

>>20198
> I did an entire 20 page essay on his protagonist when I was 16.
That's a lot. Did you study in some lyceum focused on humanities? I don't think that I have ever wrote essay longer than 5 pages.

BTW I decided to study French as 3-rd language few months ago. There is no practical purpose, it's just a hobby. But as a pleasant bonus there are French movies, songs, books, etc without translation. French culture is very rich, after all. That won't be soon obviously, it will probably take 2-3 years at current rate (10-15 minutes of practice per day) to reach a decent level. For now I'm reading translations.

For instance, I've read a fragment about Gavroche by Hugo. Well, it reminds me of Soviet writers. 100% socrealism. Given the timing, it's they who imitated his style.

Balzac - just a few short stories, another kind of propaganda about old regime. It's just some dirt about how priests and nobles were corrupt and lustful and courtesans bossed them around.

"The second sex" - almost a half of the book is done, will write more then it's finished, but for now it strongly reminds me of "Das capital": a huge influential Talmud with historical and other broad overview though prism of narrow ideology (dialectics/existentialism)

Also I've read "The Little Prince". Not sure if this book is actually for kids, more like for adults. But it's ideal for non-native speakers because of its simple language. I hope to reread it in original in few months. Liked it a lot.

>>20200
> you study in some lyceum focused on humanities?
No, I was focusing on mathematics and physics. Swiss public education system is complicated, every canton used to be completely responsible of its educative system up until very recently where some accords among French speaking cantons have been made to uniformise education.To summarize, at ~16yo in Gymnasiums, people are supposed to write and defend an ~20 pages essay about the topic they choose as long as a teacher in the school is ok with helping them on the topic, teachers can also propose specific topics. I chose a humanity related topic just to test something else.

> decided to study French as 3-rd language
Godspeed

>le petit prince
My mother read it to me when I was a kid. I still remember some scenes vividly. I think it’s one of the best selling books in history. It’s still very trendy in Paris…

>>20032
Just a hint: If you write like a 14 year old incel, people don't read your posts. I stopped after the first sentence and I guess I did not miss anything worthwhile.

>>20033
>still replying to him
You're should be banned along with him.

I received an email from Coinbase asking me to verify my personal information. Nothing unusual, just KYC regulations. I had forgotten that I even had this account. Just logged in. Seems I own some ALGO.
I think I bought this stuff when it was close to a dollar.

>>20031
> They had a few bad months.
Why did it happen, in your opinion?

>>20069
It's more like C++, has templates and classes. Its main feature is that you need to put extra efforts in writing code in exchange for an illusion of safety.
The language itself is not as bad as its cult-like community. The last straw before writing this post was my friend shilling to me noname package manager just because it was written in this sacred language. Besides Rust he's constantly obsessed with tech news (=marketing department's propaganda), Nixos and other exotic Linux distributives, mechanical keyboards and so on.

>>20072
>shilling to me noname package manager just because it was written in this sacred language
I hate that every language now has its own package manager. I want to install libraries and everything else with the system package manager and be the fuck done with it. If I wanted to pick software together from here and there and everywhere, I'd be using Windows.

>Nixos and other exotic Linux distributives, mechanical keyboards and so on.

The idea of nixos sounds great, but I doubt learning to use it will pay off during my lifetime.

I kind of have a thing for niche low-level bullshit, but once I have it running, I do not touch it unless I absolutely have to. Haven't touched the login script in a decade.

Gay things in IT, which will die off in 5 years as managers will switch to new trendy gay things:
1) Overreliance on recommendation systems
2) "Stories"
3) Virtual assistants

German tanks on Russian soil is Barbarossa 2.0.

The German folk song "Negeraufstand ist in Kuba" (there is a negro-uprising in Cuba) has the following to say about Barbarossa:

Near the long road to Canossa
Hangs the ass of Barbarossa
Many thousand desperate arses
Are now winding funeral marches

Juxtaposing Barborassa (the famous Kaiser Rotbart Lobesam from Uhland's ballad, the laudable Emperor Redbeard) to Heinrich IV's shameful trip to Canossa, but also alluding to the spectacular initial successes of Operation Barbarossa and the less successful end of WWII. Canossa is on the Northern edge of the Appenine mountains overlooking the Po valley. There are no defense lines left, next stop is the alps. Italy initially was where troops from the eastern front were sent to rest, until a front was opened there. The Gothic line through the Apennine held through the winter of 1944, but was breached in the spring of 1945. This is the road to Canossa, where they "hung" the ass of Barbarossa (that ass being a metaphor for the worn down German formations that had seen battle on the Eastern front).

>>20000
GET
Good money for translation work too.

It's really strange to watch this war from afar. It's like bums at the train station that you walk by every day, who are getting drunk together and one day you find out police had to arrest them because they tried to kill each other with broken bottles