/int/ - certified time wasters

Donald Trump is chancellor Palpatine and antifa are Jedi. Have you watched "Revenge of the Sith"?

>>18250
There is 0 chances for the democrats now.
NATO is over, empire America is over, Urine is over, NWO is over, EU is over. Because obvious leftshit is too homosex to shoot straight.

>>18252
Imagine believing that the future free world depends on you, and then not training. smh. The secret service sniper demonstrated the enormous gap between an amateur and a pro.

>>18253
The SS clowns should probably buy some glasses

With the thread now on autosage, I decided to do a short retrospective of what happened in here and noticed that I must have posted almost half the pictures in the thread and probably made the most posts as an individual poster.
Basically I am almost only working and gaming anymore.

>>18181
It really is.
One of the rare, finishable games that I actually finished and even rarer, have the urge to play again not too far out.
Deus Ex on LSD and capitalism.

>>18182
> Only working and gaming
I can say the same about myself, at least for the last week. Trying to become decent at workers and resources, I play on hard, but I still make stupid mistakes. It's the worst kind of pseudo-achievement I'm chasing here. I need to stop. But the little cats and people going round are so nice to watch...

New thread

>>18298
>>18298
>>18298

Have a badd ass weekend everyone!

>>17875
Will you travel? Have you considered doing an interrail, young sparrow?

>>17882
He's not in school anymore. Uni summer break means working a job to pay for shit.

>>17290
>the soviet union sat on huge oil- and gas-reserves, but did not built super-yachts, because it could not afford them

Ok, and?

I'm pretty glad somebody did not feel the need to construct an unnecessary luxury item for an elitist circle just to make money by doing so. Again: how is that intelligent energy budgeting? It's been a waste of energy. All that energy was used to fulfill the desire of an elitist circle. Yoyu could have used that energy to produce something which many more people could have used and deem necessary or beneficial. Certainly the best resource allocation there is: using energy to ultimately make money - and it helps the people!

>>17290
> a piss-poor agrarian backwater
USSR had pretty developed science and industry. However, they were serving military industrial complex and not consumer economy, so quality of life was low.

The discussion about socialism vs capitalism is stupid, because big busyness has to follow state's will anyway. Don't you think that Rheinmetal, Gasprom or Google are independent entities? And small busyness is ruled indirectly, though regulations, fiscal and monetary policies. You could switch from mixed to fully planned economy and have local bakery micromanaged from Gosplan, but it will only make things worse.

>>17295
>because big busyness has to follow state's will anyway

Can you elaborate on how you see the relationship between the state and private companies in capitalism?

>>17307
Roughly like between farmer and fauna on his farm. He doesn't mind control his cattle, but he makes frames to keep it in stall, provides environment for it to grow and prosper and rips benefits from them such as milk and fur.
For big cattle such as horses farmer also cares enough to make strategic decisions, such as to mate this mare with that stallion. For smaller animals he doesn't make individual decisions and treats them groupwise (butcher 10% of chickens).

There are two exclaves in Switzerland. A German one - Büsingen and an Italian one - Campione d'Italia.

Both of these have held referendums to join Switzerland but the Swiss have rejected them.

>>16889
> Have rejected them
Wrong. The county of Constance was not ready to hand over Büssingen to the Suisse.

>>16890
Supposedly in 1945 the Swiss refused to take over it due to being nazi German sympathizers.

>>16898
Back then the Geistige Landesverteidigung was still strong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_national_defence

>>16665
>The all so great commercial CAD software, according to your words
Never said that, maybe learn to read actual words instead of just code.

>maybe don't start it? you know i am a troll, don't start feeding me :)
Wow, an amazingly smart and successful galaxy brain crypto bro who also does victim blaming.

I totally believe you, btw. With all those details it can't NOT be true.
Kontra just because.

>>16641 (me)
> Linux
>>16647
> [wall of text ad-hominem, no content]
> how you dare mention linux you low-life sub-human edgy neckbeard man child homo.

>>16656 (me)
> how about you post some actual talking points
>>16657
> lol, no.

>>16658 (me)
> ad hominem
>>16660
> stop hurting my feelings, please leave me alone T_T
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>>16658
> personal home computer
It's even worse for that. Can't really play videos without tearing the stream, can't use gpu for vidoe codec, can't run games properly because no directx (no, opengl is bullshit and doesn't compare), etc.

Luckily, only old people even have home computers, everyone else has an iPhone and maybe a switch. (Android if they are paupers.)

>Can't really play videos without tearing the stream,

No tearing since the amdgpu driver is out so AMD GPU users can have tearfree video since a few years ago. On Nvidia the problem never existed afaik.

can't use gpu for vidoe codec,

see above.

can't run games properly because no directx

Most directx11 games are running fine with proton so if you don't need the latest dx12 games you will be fine. Some of the latest games even use vulkan API directly, no more directx.

CAD-SW: Having used AutoCAD at uni and FreeCAD at home i must say that FreeCAD wins hands down. That doesn't mean it's the best CAD-SW on the planet but good enough for many needs.

Office: ALL office-SW sucks. Microshit Office stinks but so does Libreoffice. I seriously can't decide which stinks more. It's like comparing dogshit with catshit.

I found out that training body part isolation is a good way to get that flowy movement in dancing while in the past I thought it mainly came down to stretching which according to a website is false and I think it is quite convincing. While a low flexibility hampers my attempts at making crazy cool kicks or floor work (I suppose, never tried because it's quite straining for my body rn) moving "the whole body" in dance comes down to controlling small muscle movements and coordinating them right.
I actually can see a difference after doing isolation exercises.

I used videos that teach you isolation for Salsa but found a Korean (?) guy who does videos on different body isolations for popping - the dance style where people can move robotically or like computer animations. Looks pretty cool in how controlled it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1LcUYkJqg

I lost 4kg the last week alone, from 90 to 86kg. In two weeks, my BMI probably won’t be in slightly overweight anymore. I just decided to just eat less, like three or four times less. This ascetic change seems to make me generally jollier and helps me have a stronger will. If I get a better sport routine into all that I’m set for life

>>16463
>>16528
Once a month, I eat my 461Kcal milk shake during the Saturday and walk 14km. The usual route is walk 7km, go to the straight to the lake, chill out in the really shallow water for 20 minutes and walk 7km back home.
My waist is already 89cm... things are going smoothly.

sometimes I go to the gym holding in a shit
because I like to live dangerously

>>16378
>>16380
I am Confucius.

While your post hasn't much outside of emotional information, I feel like you wanna point towards something. Since your posts lack factual information, all I can do is some guess work.
Do we have the same definition and separation of "religious" and "spiritual"?
e.g. ~"religion" is the act of forcing your believe system upon the next generation via laws, propaganda, force and indoctrination from childbirth on - often symbolized by either cutting off parts of reproductive organs, LARPing a drowning or something of that sort at very early stages of ones life.
> You either follow us, or we kill you - or even worse, cut your reproductive organs off completely.
Granted, the human is naive and not everyone trapped in a religious believe system is the devil himself - but they are still stupid for still following and enabling it.
Aren't we, as scientific community, even in agreement that the "dark ages", where religious power was at it's greatest, was a time where humanity barely progressed, if not even degenerated? - Pointing towards that with the Galileo habbening. (And we are pretty certain today, that Galileo was by far not the first. Not even by a millenia.)

Assuming todays religious people are any different from those in history is nothing but wishful thinking. Still power hungry idiots, that wouldn't be able to survive without a social community supporting their needs.

~"spiritual", on the other hand, I would define as something more of an intrinsic value to some/all humans. There is a lot out there which we cannot explain. Doesn't matter if we look into science or fantasy. Maybe there is something beyond our senses (most certainly; our senses are super limited and fine tuned to our earthly habitat). Maybe there is not. A single divine being? Multiple spirits? One love? One consciousness web everyone is connected to? Everyone is free to believe, what they assume to be the most likely reality.
Not sure if "intrinsic" is the right label/word for this, but I would categorize this as something
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>>16391
>Since your posts lack factual information, all I can do is some guess work.
Definitely a good choice in retrospective, as it allows me to see you bring up even more points that would be out of place in a pop history magazine for children - all punctuated by the smugness of a man whose sole reason for not sentencing the ones he sees as mentally unwell to death is that "senseless killing hasn't shown effective".

>Do we have the same definition and separation of "religious" and "spiritual"?
Of course not, you have an imbecile's definition of religiousness, whose defining traits are obscurantism, oppression and genital mutilation. I don't know if you really believe sentencing apostates to death is a fundamental criteria for religious belief, but I must take your potato headed ignorance at face value. In a sensible definition, religion is to be understood as a system of cults, beliefs and modes of worship practiced by a community of believers. Spirituality being the ethereal base for all of this.
Being the intellectual equivalent of a worm, you're eager to shit on the formal and organized system while giving credence to the broader and more mystical non-denominational 'spirituality' - a creed that exists in our modern Europe as an unexamined and uncategorized sludge of very limited knowledge of various traditions all condensed together by people sporting mandala tattoos and drug induced brain damage. Not that I think you, yourself, are a spiritual person in any way. You've just suspended your core rationality and scientism long to enough to adopt the idea that there's something laudable in this sort of spirituality at some point - I could only try to guess why, but I'll spare you from it. Instead, in my next post ("body too long") - I'll make the case as to why, even in a rational and non-religious ideal society, you should be sentenced to a burning in the public square.

>Aren't we, as scientific community, even in agreement that the "dark ages", where religious power was at it's greatest, was a time where humanity barely progressed, if not even degenerated? - Pointing towards that with the Galileo habbening. (And we are pretty certain today, that Galileo was by far not the first. Not even by a millenia.)
This quotation alone would be enough to convince a merciful deity to sentence you to spend multiple lifetimes in purgatory wearing a dunce's hat. But we don't have such a deity to arbitrate, so we must break this tremendous sentence into bite sized pieces for the potato mind.
Scientific community - If we were a proper scientific community, we would not use terms of such questionable historiographical merit as "Dark Ages". But in the event that we, as a scientific community, would use this loaded term in a meaningful way, maybe refering to the early middle ages, maybe reaching all the way to the Renaissance period. I wish I could crack your square head open and understand what you actually mean by this term - to see what historiographical horrors lay dormant inside this Hun mind. What was this dark age? What did it entail? When did it end? 1789 with the French Revolution? 1971 with the release of John Lennon's Imagine? Good lord, by Galileo's trial, we already past the Renaissance and mere decades before the age of enlightenment. Was all of history up until then just a time of obscurantism and religious repression? How does a mind buy wholesale into such a simplistic notion? Was it all through pop culture osmosis or did you ever try to learn about the periods you discount as Dark Ages? Only through preserving your brain in a formaldehyde solution can we hope to one day, in the near future, have answers to these questions. Maybe then, future generations will run a scalpel through your brain, slice off the appropriate sections, place them into some advanced machine and only then will we know what you meant to say by Galileo "not being the first by a millenia". It's definitely a curious case to single out, it has all the trappings of secular power - a favored subject losing his patron's protection and encouragement due to court intrigue, nearly a century after Copernicus' work - and being sentenced to house arrest. It's almost a white washing of the crimes of the Catholic Church to single out this event as thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>16419
The narrative spun by that Germanposter reflects somewhat what I was taught in school. Not factually, but after forgetting enough details what remained was a vague impression that the middle ages were bad, enlightenment was good but all of that is mostly irrelevant when compared to the more recent history of the 20th century.

I'm sure you know that WW2 takes up more than half of the history curriculum in most schools here. Since most students can't find genuine interest in the subject being taught it boils down to heavily compressed anecdotes being remembered, if at all.

For reasons I don't dare to guess I found some interest in the subject of history roughly 5 years after being done with school. The past decade was filled with moments of realisations that my understanding of the past was less of an understanding and more of a caricature of history.

What I'm trying to say is: You're shitting on the little people, Mr. Portugal!

But don't worry, everything will be better when schools are replaced by AI teachers hosted in the Microsoft cloud.

Please leave cabbage problems on the cabbage. There is a global rule on EC, resulting from the flooding of cabbage meta in the later phases of xyz, that we do not want this topic here. Thanks for your understanding.

Still on my lunch break. See you in 30.