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random niche internet sites/blogs/marginalia Ernst 09.05.25 06:43:44 No.24039 [Reply]

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This thread is for posting random niche internet sites/blogs/youtube channels, etc. You should try to post sites that you've actually followed and used for some time.

gwern.net:
"The content here varies from statistics to psychology to self-experiments/Quantified Self to philosophy to poetry to programming to anime to investigations of online drug markets or leaked movie scripts (or two topics at once: anime & statistics or anime & criticism or heck anime & statistics & criticism!).
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I am a freelance American writer & researcher. (To make ends meet, I have a Patreon, benefit from Bitcoin appreciation thanks to some old coins, and live frugally.) I have worked for, published in, or consulted for: Wired (2015), MIRI/SIAI2 (2012–20131, CFAR (20121, GiveWell (2017), the FBI (2016), Cool Tools (20131, Quantimodo (20131, New World Encyclopedia (20061, Bitcoin Weekly (20111, Mobify⁠ (2013–2014), Bellroy (2013–2014), Dominic Frisby (2014), and private clients (2009-); everything on Gwern.net should be considered my own viewpoint or writing unless otherwise specified by a representative or publication. I am currently not accepting new commissions."

Website is very neat.

https://prettyboytellem.com/:
Author of now long defunct imageboard specifically local to a North Carolina State University.

https://www.youtube.com/@FebrithDarkstar/videos:
Skyrim housing mods reviews by a 40 year old British cat lady
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Ernst 09.05.25 07:30:48 No.24043

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https://mashpoe.com/4d-miner :
4 dimensional minecraft. For real. It uses a cross sections where you can modify the x, z, and w axes (the game only allows you to do horizontal rotations) to view different cross sections. Blocks are 4-dimensional hypercubes. mobs and liquids can go through walls because the walls don't exist in a different cross section - like you would be able to "move out" of 2D plane onto another plane in the third dimension
Extremely cool. Cool liquid simulation and voxel based avatars that you can see the organs of (even though the avatars in 3D are not transparent) due to the nature of 4D space.
This is not a mod but a game built from the ground up using a custom engine.

Ernst 20.05.25 15:53:45 No.24220

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https://insearchofbasho.com/hello

A one-year weekly comic-strip haiku following a mouse who learns that he is dying. Completed in 2018. Contains a guest-blog with posts on the subject of death. Quality there varies.

Finances Ernst 14.02.23 20:28:59 No.6 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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How is Ernst saving his money?
This Ernst is currently just throwing everything he can put to the side in index funds.

DAX, S&P and MSCI World to be precise.

If i would actually have a lot of money to invest i could've made a lot of money that way in the last 3 month. Too bad.

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Ernst 19.05.25 10:19:05 No.24210

When will the Chinese and Indians completely replace the western industry? Where can we compete with nations that don't value human life and have billions of spare workers at hand?

Ernst 19.05.25 12:30:54 No.24214

>>24210
Impossible! The west is finished. The world belongs to those who exhibit a will to power, not to those equipped with slave-morality like the west. The West will be annhilated! And it deserves to be annihilated, as the strong deserve to triumph against the weak. Those who cannot deal with it will be smashed and destroyed!

Ernst 19.05.25 13:44:32 No.24215

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>>24210
BHARAT IS UNSTOPPABLE

Ernst 19.05.25 14:06:28 No.24216

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>>24215
Wtf why can't we on EC have such high IQ propaganda, what is EcKinsey even doing?

Tiktok thread Ernst 28.01.24 05:53:43 No.12871 [Reply]

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Burning our brain cells, destroying our attention span.
YouTube shorts are welcome as well

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Ernst 13.11.24 13:34:23 No.20543

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2RBwUUzZD-A
Great channel

Ernst 30.03.25 14:10:57 No.23196

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Ernst 19.05.25 10:59:24 No.24212

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Ernst 19.05.25 11:01:52 No.24213

>>24212
the boomers are raging they can do nothing against his prank

Drawing and Painting Club #5 Ernst 29.04.25 18:09:41 No.23868 [Reply]

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Share your work, offer critique, ask questions and dicuss related topics.

FAQ:
Will my art be scraped by AI bots?
Absolutely.

Do I surrender my legal reproduction rights by posting?
I don't know. Maybe.

I just picked up a pencil yesterday. Is my art good enough to post ITT?
Yes.

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Ernst 12.05.25 21:04:19 No.24071

>>24070
>extracted it from an existing shoop
Third generation art, very nice.

Ernst 13.05.25 15:48:58 No.24072

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Ernst 13.05.25 19:45:53 No.24074 KONTRA

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>>24072
Nice work, saved!

Ernst 14.05.25 04:05:21 No.24080

>>24072
Noice, looks like me IRL :3

Saved!

Ernstalbum V5 Ernst 07.05.25 15:57:10 No.24012 [Reply]

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It's 4 months until the first Sunday after the Radio birthday, time for the Ernstalbum-Thread, the fifth of its kind. After an untitled album, Jumping the Shark, Top of the Tops and Obso1337, the name of album 5 will be "Can I Borrow A Post?". The inspiration source should be obvious, furthermore it is a nod to the low posting frequency on EC, and the discussions about that topic. Additionally, the V in Van Wurfen is low key also the V for the number 5. Remember it, in V years you can larp as oldfag with that epic knowledge.

Like every year, 8 songs are the minimum. If we can't reach that, Ernstalbum will be canceled and everyone can do whatever they want with their songs, or we save them for next year. If you finished a song, please send it per mail to ernstiwan at protonmail ch. You can also post them ITT, but that would spoil the surprise for the festival. Ideally, you send the song per mail, and drop a post that you finished a song, so everyone else sees that something is habbening and has a rough idea about how many songs we have. Last year there were some comments about how important Ernst considers Ernstalbum to be, and that Ernst has many ideas for new songs. We'll see...

You can deliver whatever you want, as long as it roughly qualifies as "song", and shows some effort of your own. If you submit a fully AI-generated song, it might get rejected. Poor quality and horrible singing however are no hindrances, but requirements.

Today Ernst 02.04.25 06:57:39 No.23236 SYSTEMKONTRA [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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Poe edition

Old thread >>22649

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Ernst 06.05.25 08:07:29 No.23999

We are 100% headed first for Parable of the Sower and then The Road. There's nothing that can be done to stop it at this point. Most millennials and younger generations won't get the opportunity to die of old age.

Ernst 07.05.25 11:40:08 No.24004 KONTRA

Had an okay-ish day yesterday. Got some work done and I also finally managed to go running. I think it really did change something because I'm insanely talkative and my thoughts are racing.
Did fuck up my knee though. It was all fine right until the final 5 minutes I cranked up the speed to maximum and it all went to hell the next morning.
I mean I guess it only really hurts when I go down stairs. Got some tape on it and I will skip running on Friday and try not straining it while in the city.

>>23998
I approached it as primarily as a historical term of a group of people from Northern Germany moving to the British Isles.

Ernst 07.05.25 14:21:57 No.24007

If you think about it, might makes right has never not been true. In fact, it's been one of THE basic principles of humanity ever since, and no matter what you are doing, you will ALWAYS lose against someone with more power.

Ernst 07.05.25 15:01:38 No.24009

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Took the day off of work. I have accrued a lot of paid time off. Why not use some?

>>24004
Everone who runs gets injured. But we do it anyway. Endorphins are a hell of a drug.

Best song on the Twin Peaks OST:
Julee Cruise - Falling (Twin Peaks Soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIUeZ4OqLXU

MUSIC Ernst 30.04.25 20:50:09 No.23915 [Reply]

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because ye olde threda is on systemcontra

Is Brigitte Engerer's recording the best recording of the nocturnes ever made or do I think that because I'm a fucking casual? I couldn't even say why I like this more than others. (I'm a fucking casual, remember.)

Totally unrelated: They played https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jS6cWFnY8E on Sveriges Radio P2. It made Pachelbel's canon intersting again after listening to it a few too many times.

Ernst 03.05.25 00:08:42 No.23952

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What is the best song to have stuck in your head at work and why is it You Can Call me Al?
Pic unrelated.

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA

History threda Ernst 03.06.24 18:45:25 No.17093 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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or on the historical character of the english bourgeoisie

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Ernst 30.04.25 15:06:37 No.23909

> Let's look at the history of post-war Albania. In 1944, the communists came to power there. At first, Albania became a satellite of Yugoslavia, and there was talk of joining the SFRY as another federal republic. However, in 1948, local leader Enver Hoxha did a political somersault and reoriented himself toward the USSR, declaring his former overlord enemy No. 1.
> In general, this is normal. In the early 60s, Albania, however, declared the Soviet Union the flagship of revisionism, broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow and became a Chinese puppet. Okay. This is already exotic, but still possible. But in 1978, a "Chinese conspiracy" was uncovered in Albania, relations with Beijing were reduced to zero, and in 1981, right at the plenum of the Central Committee, the second person in the party, Mehmet Shehu, committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head, and he was declared an American-Soviet-Chinese spy.

The hoxhism was unusual even compared to other socialist regimes:
> 1) The only country in the world where practicing any religion is officially prohibited
> 2) On a tiny territory, 700,000 bunkers with machine gun nests were built (one for EVERY FAMILY). The bunkers covered the whole of Albania, from each one you could see several neighboring ones, often they were connected by underground passages.
> 3) Around EVERY HOUSE in the countryside, long poles were installed for impaling paratroopers.
> 4) Albania for two decades was the only satellite of Maoist China (while being located in Europe and bordering Yugoslavia, Greece and, across the sea, Italy).

Photos of bunkers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania

Ernst 30.04.25 15:15:44 No.23911

>>23909
Hoxhaists were a significant political force between '74 and '76. Out of all the countries to look to, a not insignificant amount of people looked to Albania.

Ernst 30.04.25 15:16:08 No.23912 KONTRA

>>23911
*in Portugal

Ernst 30.04.25 18:16:09 No.23913

>>23911
It's not a phase, mom!

prostitution Ernst 10.12.24 03:54:34 No.21145 [Reply]

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Suffering is unimaginable. What is prostitution like in your cunt tree? In mine it's horribly illegal except in Nevada for I'm sure bullshit evil reasons. But strip clubs are everywhere as well as sex shops.

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Ernst 27.04.25 21:02:48 No.23824 KONTRA

Just noticed during the whataboutism discussion, that if you take out the "bo", we could combine German autism and whataboutism to coin the term "German whatautism".

Ernst 27.04.25 21:10:06 No.23826 KONTRA

>>23824
What about :-) Gertismus, GERtismus, GERtism, Gerdtismus, Gerd-tism, Gerdtism?

Ernst 27.04.25 21:14:58 No.23827 KONTRA

>>23826
I like gertism, sounds crisp, but it feels like the "what" and the "autism"-part have been lost on the way. Maybe we can take gertism for something else?

Ernst 29.04.25 20:13:55 No.23876

I*t should be illegal, fatistan

Holy Christ it's been so long since I been back to me own cultire. I forgot how hard I jated all the othjer fucking USA Americans.God I hate you all. No idgaf whonyall voted for. You're all dumb cunts words couldnt evene describe what I justseen in walmart over the fucking pandmeic, holy christ.

sorry i took today off an am hella drunk si fuck word eduting

Time paradox Ernst 28.04.25 22:46:11 No.23852 [Reply]

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Have you ever lost anything to a time paradox?

https://youtu.be/mjq4pjvyPRA?si=xYM3JP1AyiIkh70g
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ey2mawPCIN8VjI4V8MkEN?si=yODQ5hDFRe23DEvm_Q-XMw

Ernst 28.04.25 23:38:24 No.23853

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>>23852
Once.