/int/ - certified time wasters

Epic of Gilgamesh
Powerful poetry, especially the parts about HOES, like Gilgamesh rejecting Ishtar or Enkidu cursing Shamhat but later blessing her.
I read an edition based on one prime version where some of the missing parts were borrowed from other versions.

Also read Sumerian myths, by Yulia Chmelenko. A short popsci book, quite interesting.

>>22759
What did you think of it? I read his previous book Schizoid Man - was kind of an enjoyable Gen Z smorgasbrod of Bret Easton Ellis/Houellebcq/Palanhiuk in the beginning but in the second half the plot got kinda lost and the initially comeplling style got repetitive. Left me with an emptiness and regret much like just having binged a fast food meal, so I'm hesitant to read more.

>>22987
>I read his previous book Schizoid Man - was kind of an enjoyable Gen Z smorgasbrod of Bret Easton Ellis/Houellebcq/Palanhiuk in the beginning but in the second half the plot got kinda lost and the initially comeplling style got repetitive.
Interesting you say this. On this neonazi literature podcast one guy was complaining that it was boring at the beginning but got very good in the second half.
Anyway, Heil Hyperpop is very close to Schizoid Man (and very short), it has some good ideas and builds traction but it lost me a little on the last pages but I'd recommend it. I think the follow up novel will bring a shift in topic tho, I can see it working a third time but that's the peak, afterwards it would get old.

I've been nabokovmaxxing recently. Did read "Luzhin's defense", then "The gift". Former is OK, good depiction of aspie's life and mind. Latter is epic, it's a book about writing books (according to wikipedia, metafiction), Russian history and literature and as always - emigration. Also watched movie "Despair"(1978) based on his novel. Can't say that I liked it much (just moderately), but became very interested in what's in the original.

Then, inspired by certain Ernstchan's thread I read "The gambler". Very enthralling, couldn't stop reading until the end, but after Nabokov who can spend multiple pages on describing characters and background, here I felt like characters are low-poly 3D models acting on an empty scene. Despite poor graphics, plot and physics were great :D . Well, "The gambler" imitates a diary written by one of the characters, so it's supposed to be like that. I wonder how it's like with other Dostoevsky's books, haven't read them since high school until this point.

Now I'm thinking of reading something simple in English, like Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs". Or one of other edgy books which I liked as a teenager. There was a special series of them, all in orange covers: Hunter Thompson, Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk.

Sonichu: The Animated Series Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJLLPSMeZE

Just released 5 minutes ago.

>>23601
Who gets the YouTube money from this? Can Chris file a copyright strike?

>>23613
I'm pretty sure Geno Samuel, the guy who also made that Documentary gets the money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxj_0xPleg

I don't know about Chris Chan's financial involvement but i imagine he gave his okay.

>>23615
>but i imagine he gave his okay
maybe or maybe not. Anyway, Chris is extremely gullible, so he likely got tricked in some way. I hope he was! Lolcows need to be milked!

>>23093
>I don't understand this question.
Major types and subtypes of women.

Questions of theoretical womanology:
1) What is a woman?
>A series of codes of behavior and desires imposed by patriarchy
2) What does a woman want? What is her purpose?
>She wants whatever she currently has to desire to effectively be a woman.
3) Classification of women.
>A woman satisfied or unsatisfied with the current things she has to do to be a woman. In other words, hysterical and unhysterical woman.
4) Origin of women.
>The fear of man

Questions of applied womanology:
1) How to defend against woman's sorcery?
>why should we defend? I don’t want to defend myself against this.
2) How to filter out bad women?
>avoid women who want to control your desires
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Women are extremely talkative. Gf calls her mom and sister several times a week and they talk for hours. I remember the same thing about my mom in childhood. I need to eavesdrop them and learn what can they discuss for so long (for scientific purposes).

>>23545
>Women are extremely talkative
I don't know how far this can be generalized, but I can say that all the women in my family fail to grasp the concept of confidental information. Every information they get their hands on, they will share with everyone else. When I was young, I noticed that every information I gave my mom, no matter if personal or not, was brought up later to me by my grandma or aunt. There simply was no such thing as not telling others. When I was in my late teens, I was fed up with this: I did a few tests, leaking information here and there, and waiting what happened, and soon enough everyone knew about it. That was the moment when I stopped telling anybody in my family (my dad fucked off long ago, and was an alcoholic anyway) anything of importance. I have zero trust in those people, and I doubt they even realize the problem. For them, it's just natural to gossip about everything. On the plus side, I don't think that all women are affected by this, and I learned that whenever someone gives me confidental information, that I need to keep my mouth shut.

>>23405
lol you know that Trump is winning right? Europe practically begged him to end the tariffs.

>>23376
It's because they are dumb sheeple. 'Retail investing' was invented by the stock-exchange-gangsters to rob people of their money. They need someone to whom they can sell their worthless papers. Retail idiots think they are 'buying the dip', while in reality, the prices are fixed by real traders to where they want the to be. Idiots are to dumb to see through this and think they get free money.

What a bunch of pathetic wannabe Jews

>>23249
> I put my head down a few years ago and started grinding hours and overtime
Does it help you to advance your career? Or you just get paid extra money for overtime, but without grade-ups and exponential growth?
> only make necessary purchases
Me too (almost). I can cook my food instead of eating out, it's not much in effort/result ratio (because my labor costs more than labor of average cook), but I want to cook as a hobby anyway.

Questions of science of careermaxxing:
1) Job-hopping or streak-maxxing?
2) Results-maxxing or responsibility-maxxing?
3) Socializing with boss and other coworkers. Howto?

>>23544
>Does it help you to advance your career? Or you just get paid extra money for overtime
Both. Hard work earned me a reputation and recognition from the higher ups. That turned into a promotion with more money and more responsibility. Now, though, I look at the next step up- what my boss has to deal with. I like my job more and have likely plateaued for the foreseeable future.

>Questions of science of careermaxxing:
1). Streak-maxing. I hate change.
2). Results. I don't really like responsibility, either. I have enough.
3.One coworker has been to my house one time. We were both on a lunch break and I live close. Other than that, no socializing.
Howto? I hear other people make plans often enough. One guy asks another if they want to head to some place or other. I've been asked a time or two. Said no thanks, ofc. Seems natural if you get on well at work.

>>23461
>but more recent albums are too blunt
And earlier albums weren't?

>>23464
No, their earlier albums had more emulation of historical material where they take a perspective of an actor "as is".
The songs themselves served the context of a theme instead of the author's personal opinions. The lyrics are a lot worse as a result of personalizing lyrics.

>>23465
Ah, that's what you meant. I see.
Frankly, I don't know anything newer than Passage to Rhodesia, but I immediately thought about "Die Brandstifter" from Masse, Mensch, Material that I found to be pretty blunt, but not in the way you understand it.

>>23466
> He said Rhodesia
This is racist and you are a racist. Nazi.

>>23229
I woke up at 12pm and it's nearly 8pm now. I wasted nearly the entire day.

>>23225
> Fremdgänger
You can write that on an MB Sprinter, 7m version. But on a normal car, you would need to make do with Frmdgng., otherwise, you wouldn't be able to fit the broken heart.

>>23228
Berlin or Hamburg?

>>23233
If you don't apply the paint with a fire hose, you could easily fit "Fremdgänger" even on a Smart, if you're smart (heehee) about it, and then the broken heart underneath, or on the hood.
Also, when vandalizing cars, the windows are free, too.

t. car vandalizing pro

>>23229
>How do you have the discipline/self-control necessary to task switch from work to playing videogames/relaxing/internet surfing?
Easiest way to stop one task is to start another. Regardless of how focused or into it you feel, if you are physically in the act of working/playing/sufing your mind should follow. Easier said than done. I know.

>>22950
Read the joke, it does not makes Sense when reading it tbh because it's
>I said:"jeez ..." (2x)

You cannot convey any echo this way but simple wrote up something that contradicts itself logically. It's not a good joke that written like that.

>>22953
You're one ugly motherfucker

A man goes to a fortune teller, they tell the man that in about 18 years, his heart will get broken.

Hearing this forecast left the man very sad.
To cheer himself up, he got himself a kitten right away.

>>23206
I chuckled.
Plot twist: He called the kitten Pluto.

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

>>22783
You know that he is right. Everything JavaScript everywhere.

Also, be more grateful to the mammoths and dinosaurs. As long as they are alive and can be enticed to come out of the woods to fix shit, the world keeps running.

>>22785
Javascript won't be used outside of ghetto of Frontend development. Python will be default interpreted language, and Rust - default low-level language.

>>22807
Why do we have server-side Javascript? It's because Javascript is universal now. Will there even be any low-level development? Probably not. The only thing that needs to be developed on a low level is Operating systems, but we only use those to run browsers that run JavaScript. Built JavaScript directly in the OS and no one needs to do any low-level development again, ever.

>>22898
> Built JavaScript directly in the OS
Think bigger. You can build JS directly in hardware:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chips-have-an-instruction-with-javascript-in-the-name-fjcvtzs