/int/ - certified time wasters

>>22259
>The city feels historical and alive unlike any place that I've visited in Russia
What about Yalta? Is Yalta not Russian?

>>15888
(replying to old post)
Reminds me of when I was in (at?) an ethnographic museum. Another visitor, a child, was looking at Mongolian Mongols in Mongolia, with their yaks and gers, in a room about them and their folk Buddhist items and nothing else. Child exclaims something like "Indians!" or "Buffaloes!"
Child's parents didn't say anything. I wonder if they just didn't bother to correct the child, or didn't have the faintest idea about the exhibits themselves.

>>22261
Perhaps they just haven't visited Yalta yet. But I think a key difference is that Tbilisi is still inhabited mostly by a people that has always been there (even if it has lost diversity), whereas Yalta and all of Crimea is mostly inhabited by culturally foreign newcomers and probably feels fake and sterile after all the disruptions, deportations and genocides of the last centuries.

>>22270
still mad about that conference?
Not him, but Crimea is overpriced because for people with clearance level (many of military officers, FSB, MIC workers) it's the only possible choice as they can't leave the country until the clearance expires. Or because they have state-subsidized vacations there like gf's parents. They love Yalta and want to move there when their youngest child goes to college.

Georgia is overpriced too, but for another reason. Because people who left Russia in 2022 can't get into better country. So it's a pretty curious place, having vegan queer cafes and horizontal safe spaces. Like Tangier was for beatniks.

Good options for ordinary Russian (poorfag without Schengen visa) are Thailand and Turkey.

This poem conveys the atmosphere of the place:

mom took me to crimea

...mom took me to crimea
against my will
without my consent
to break me
to force
to love putin
to love this country
to stop thinking about freedom
about truth
about conscience
to stop thinking
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>>22275
Who else?

I haven't stopped smiling since president Trump took office! He's sticking it to the libs 24/7 exposing their corruption! DOE has been destroyed! I love it! Hope him and Elon ignore all the liberal judges trying to stop them and earmark them for later!

>>22291
I wonder if the dems will try to mobilize the niggers for their anti-musk pro-corporation pro-big-government protests. They are like teenagers who will not clean their room. You tell them once, you tell them twice, but they didn't do it. Then, you do it yourself and they throw a hissy fit, and that's when you know they have something in there they are not supposed to have like alcohol or dirty magazines. Sometimes, they break stuff. That is when you have to be extra tough.

When the libs start openly rioting, the national guard must come out. Arrests have to be made, and those arrested need to be imprisoned! All the rioters can be locked up or shot! The libs need to be neutralized before America can be great again!

There's a measles outbreak in Texas. Why now and why in Texas, I wonder?

The libs are foaming because DOGE is draining the swamp. Maybe they put the measles in the drinking water, to punish Texas for voting pro-America?

Maybe they did it to pressure people into having their children vaccinated?

Maybe it is both?

>>8100
That sounds like a misunderstanding. Renaming the image to have a different file extension is not the same thing as converting the image to a different format.
If I misread that you may ignore this post; and sorry for wasting your time in that case.

That's Richard II who was born in Bordeaux

>>20950
I made that post

>>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.

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?

>>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

2:42 in the night.
I know it's saturday, but:
VACATION WOOOOOO

The new kitten just realized he could make the jump up to my kitchen counter. It was only a matter of time.

>>21394
I have three days off next week. Another win for Jesus.

Are holidays a break from bickering, or will it intensify? Find out here!

Also
>>21395

Woke up pretty early. A siren was blaring but ultimately it turned out to be nothing.

Some more reading and also some writing. Not very happy with how it's coming along.
I lifted weights today.
Not much happening otherwise honestly. I need to ramp up my game.

I went to Barcelona for the first time this year and if it wasn't for the stadium you'd believe you'd be in a city with no actual big football club of it's own. No stickers (except for foreign clubs), no graffitis or murials etc.
It's like there's no fan scene in the city?

>>21288
>No stickers (except for foreign clubs)

That's because the Barcelonians are a proud nation full of well adapted people. Unlike other football people with their dirt and noise everywhere.

>>21289
All of them are bad, and they all need to be gassed. No exceptions.