/int/ - certified time wasters

>>22071
You've been heard, tomorrow is free and visiting more of Switzerland is in my bingo. Thus I decided to expand my usual cantonal field and pick a random comune anywhere in my country.

It'll be Arosa in Graubunden! Graubunden is a weird canton. It was its own confederacy of three mountainous microstates called leagues:the Grey League, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions and the League of God's house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Leagues.
Arosa itself seems to be one of those ski resort communes of the beginning of modern tourism history at the start of the XXth century. The most intresting buildings will most probably be historical hotels. I also noticed I missed the %Arosa Gay ski week% by only a few days.

>>22120
Exciting destination!
>tomorrow is free
In my mental map, Graubünden is the least accessible canton from western Switzerland on account of multiple hills in between, so you'd need a whole day just to get there and another whole day just to return.

Ah, looking at a real map and Wikipedia, it looks like you will pass through Zürich and the almost 4 km Kerenzerbergtunnel. It says the watershed near Sargans is "barely noticeable" where my mental map had placed the trip's most insurmountable hills.
Or you could take the slower but probably more picturesque southern route passing through Brig and Andermatt instead of Zürich.

>>22121
The only place made harder to set by topography would be Ticino I think, you are right. Though Arosa is not that hard to get to by train. It’s directly connected to the main valley of Graubunden.

>>22123
Fun fact: From where I live in the northern wasteland, I can walk to a station and ride a train directly to Chur / Coire and back without having to transfer.

>>21240
Peak british humour

What is white and disruptive to your dinner?
An avalanche

What is grey and bad for your teeth?
A cobblestone

An economics professor was crossing campus with one of his students and walked by a twenty-dollar bill lying on the ground.
The student was shocked: Professor, why didn't you pick up that twenty dollars?
Without looking back, the professor responded: If there was a twenty-dollar bill on the ground, someone would have already picked it up.

In order to increase cross-thread engagement and overall post lead generation by providing calculatedly controversial content in the form of easily digestible artifacts, I will now post some women jokes:

Never run after a bus or a woman. You will be left behind in any case.

The most expensive way to sleep with a woman is marriage.

He was a mathematician and she was incalculable.

Women often adopt bad habits from men and call it "emancipation".

I love women's movements, but they have to be rhythmic.

It's nice having found the woman for life. It's nicer meeting a bunch more.


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> Everyone who doesn't talk with his heart on the tongue is stupid by default, since such an act doesn't use the whole intelligence available to an individual being.

The used idiom is powerful.
> to talk with your heart on the tongue
This idiom is truth transcending science, logic and time.

And at this point it might be important to mention the following:

Mine Primärattribut iß LAZY
"My primary attribute is lazy." ?

Yes, all capital letters. Ernst, in all honesty: you can be really happy, that I do not write like I want to write most of the times. I wouldn't bother with capitalization unless it is camelCase or self-imposed meaning as in Wortneuschöpfung literally: wordNewCreation. correct translation: neologism. I prefer the look of all smoll, but wouldn't really care enough to hit the CAPS key, if it is enabled. (Why is it a "key"? It is a [binary switch] or [toggle], chrott færdømme !!. Just put an actual, physical switch on the keyboard. Isn't thaaaat hard, is it?! It's even hard to find decent hardware without RGB-BULLSHIT.
Just gimme my goddamn logical consistent hardware instead of bling bling faggotory !!
)

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>>6767
If he doesn't want to talk about them he sure fooled Ernst by typing a huge paragraph and spilling all

You think thoughts a think that's the truth when really women were there for you. If we criticize you you manufacture fake thoughts of non reproduction again and you're always right so what can we do?

You're a bitter fool full of thoughts. How dare you have treated women that way instead of making a family someday. Foolish. A fool.

Aye, led the thread die >:/

>>21142
> How dare you have treated women that way instead of making a family someday.
my current working hypothesis is:
- i'm hyper sensitive (2 separate people's diagnosis - dem might be right)
- my father loved and beat me
- my mother didn't love me and treated me "ok"
she once fled our home out of fear of death. she took my brother with her and forgot me. i've hid behind the kitchen door with a knife in my hands; for hours. i was ~5-8 yo -- recently a few things happened, bringing that memory back.
- - -> I've learned that love is something bad or at least makes you do bad things.

Since there was talk about a relationship thread, we already had something like that, so here's a bump for all the loney people

When life gets in your face, lean back.

>Tam miser est quisque quam credidit
Seneca the Younger

>Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
- Stanisław Lec

>>2353
>32 words
But only 22 distinct words.

Went out and helped with grocery shopping. I didn't really feel good while out and about. Mentally anyway. I just felt constant guilt over how much everything costs.

After coming home I had lunch and then I spent the rest of the day playing video games and chatting. Mostly video games. Though I sometimes end up obsessively going on a tangent because of a story element so it's sort of semi-productive.

>>22020
>I just felt constant guilt over how much everything costs.

Since when do you decide what everything costs?

I spent 80€ on four drinks, two fancy pizzas and two artisan italian lemonades yesterday. It just makes getting a raise more urgent.

My new sportsbook FanDuel is trying to make me an addict. Not going to happen. I work too hard for dollars to risk any on gambling, but I don't mind playing on their dime. To that end, I've recieved a different promotion every day this week offering bonus bets if I do %%x%. Took advantage of several offers and I now have more house money to wager. Not sure on what, but I want to avoid putting anything on our game this afternoon.

>>22024
Shouldn't that format fail have italicized the remainder of my post? Or does it only work if the code is closed?

>>18
hav been usin mint for a ~while now.

wanna switch.

mainly because I want moar flexibility with GUI/GX. Do not rly care about much else (assuming all programs run somewhat flawlessly. only thing i didn't manage to run on mint was LoL :/ -- a lot of other games worked decent to flawless)
mint is usin X11, 'ight?
i saw some nicuuu window snapping ... is that done with ~wayland?
i typically do not use multiple workspaces - maybe i should start with that once i return to coding.

currently leaning to some form of ~plasma … maybe ~tumbleweed

or should i switch to just debian and fetch/hack my own desktop environment together?

As my attempt to create a Windows Recovery USB failed, I found myself with an extra drive. Made a live USB of Linux Mint. Booted no problem and running it now. It works. This PC may have some life in it yet. Still need a new one for Windows but I'll hold off on my plan to throw this old tower in the creek.

>>21654
Debian with MATE or XFCE plus Compiz might be what you want.

>>21406
Chrome detects adblockers and throttles youtube videos. It's insane.

FF and on my smartphone I use the Kiwi Browser.

FF + user.json
OG: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/
prolly successor: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox
not too much into that, since i use
or use an FF-clone, which does all the stuff already, e.g.:
https://librewolf.net/

FF is, imho, still best browser, but it suxx in standard. mozilla took too much $CASH$ and now is bound to suck in exchange for $CASH$ (e.g. standard search-engine setting)

>>21422
> Kiwi
does it have a functioning ad-blocker?
i use brave since a while on mobile; don't surf much on mobile, but the current form of internet is unbrowse-able without a functioning ad-blocker. i fucking hate all the web-applets - which are basically a chromium without ad-blocker - flooding the market-place/app-store/whatev. kewl, you force me to see ads without giving me any benefit… great!/s

> use shitfox, which is derelict crap, but muh pronouns, zero market share, got to up compensation for CEO, because wokeness up to 11
> Use this chrome-skin instead of that chrome-skin
Thread summed up

>>19382
You forgot: Harder

>>19382
>>19383
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer [~1h 20min]
by Freya Holmér, aka acegikmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY

i tried to somewhat replicate at least one. i found even less human created content.

what are Ernst's thoughts?

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i do not think that A.I. in general is at fault here; it's not the tool, but the system. I would argue the core problem is rooted a little deeper:

The main model to make $CASH$ in modern internet is to lie, aka ads.
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>>21661
Your post formatting gave me parasitic cancer (unlike all those other, non-parasitic forms of cancer).

>>21662
form follows function - not the other way round.

i'm a retard, i function differently.

I have a better idea: why not scene casher, mmh? You can select scenes from movies in your network and such, mmh.

>>21562
How has Yves developed? I remember on EC some Ernsts dug it out again with him making vlogs in a flat that I think was under the roof of his parents house, his hmm going on and him talking about a Fasson(g)schnitt.

>>21563
That's the last Yves season I know of. He also talked about some project he called "scene casher" . Like I said, you can connect scenes, or videos respectively, big emojis, big emotions, like in cinema, you can make your own stories out of that, this interactive effect is really heavy there, mmhmm, the fifth dimension, guys, ciao, ciao! that makes about as much sense as OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMJD8CsQ3g&pp=ygUMWXZlcyBzdHJlaGxl

>>21561
> human DNA fitness
am not understanding.
in fact, is any human understanding?
afaik, we still ~cut it open >>>/b/28536 and don't understand the knots of DNA structure at all.
(haven't looked into the topic since that post; might have changed even before i posted in /b/)

what are you trying to game or maximize here?

I sincerely apologize for not fulfilling my quota recently. I shall enthusiastically integrate hyper-scale growth strategies to exceed EcKinseys novel KPIs.

Btw I kinda got back into reading manga. Finished Dragon Ball, caught up on Chainsaw Man and the post-Miura Berserk chapters, read Fire Punch and now started One Piece.
It's a lot of fun, nowadays I think I enjoy the shounen stuff more since I appreciate the creativity put into it and the positive messages more than when I used to be a gloomy teenager interested in more edgy & 2deep4u stuff. Though that also still interests me.
But I also want to get into some other genres. Maybe try reading Yotsuba in the original now that I'm back at studying Japanese.

>>18343
My current manga obsession is trying to finish every volume of Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei.
I'm on vol28 currently out of 30 and while it has no overarching plot, it was interesting to see the form, content and characters shift with between the start of publication and the later chapters.

It starts out with a huge cast which at some point gets into like the mid 20s and it slowly "degrades" until it only uses 5-6 characters at best regularly and even those seem to only lose from their initial traits. It's basically getting worse but I still like it in a sense.
I'm sick of it, I wish it was over and I also don't know what I'll do with my life once its over.

It baits you in with having a melancholic main character who's a homage to Dazai and then you stay because you realise that it's basically just the author's neurotic diary about what grinds his gears about Japan currently, which is usually that the LDP is ass (because they are not nationalist and effective enough), something baseball/idol related and then also some really awful pun you only understand once you look up the kanji and then you actually want to kill yourself because it was so fucking bad.

And you kind of realize that yeah, you also have these moments where something about everyday life really ticks you off, be it an odd expression, custom or procedure where the entire thing falls apart the moment you think a bit too hard about it.
So like it's really relatable at least for me.

Also been re-watching the anime. Honestly from an artistic standpoint it feels like a prototype of Monogatari. Same studio. The quality's is shit for the first season but it's really funny honestly. And it has a good soundtrack and some nice character-tracks, of which I understand nothing but I like the tunes and some of the VAs can actually sing and no I am not going down that fucking rabbit hole where I care for seiyuus.

Ernst, I think you will mostly enjoy this Arctic Permafrost Atlas (PDF, 225 MiB, 176 pages, published last year). I had to think of you when I noticed how often it mentions "infrastructure". I hope the link still works:
https://gridarendal-website-live.s3.amazonaws.com/production/documents/:s_document/1041/original/PermafrostAtlas_20oct_finaldraft.pdf
I was going to attach its cover here, but when I extracted the image it turns out the cover illustration is not what it looks like. Instead of just going with the aerial image, apparently they decided to subtly overlay some random "gritty texture" image.

People who looked at this item may also be interested in Canada's zone pushing thread: >>14759