/int/ - certified time wasters

I got myself Bumble. I liked two women I think, or only one. Now I have to wait because I cannot swipe anymore. Most profiles gave me nothing. Funny to think it may be the same the other way around making a profile is so cringe. Though, I got three matches albeit none from the one or two I assigned a like and Bumble wants me to pay to see who liked me. Should I get another app already, Ernst?

>>21571
o-o-ok Carlotta, I will never message you again :(((

Eating eggs again. With toast. The only thing I can stomach this past week. Tried a few other dishes, nothing sits right. Other than my appetite, most symptoms of illness fade with Tylenol. Strange it persists. I am rarely sick more than a day or two.

>>21565
To you as well, ernst.

>>21574
>making a profile is so cringe
Lmao, I installed Hinge yesterday after a friend advised me to, but entering all the info to create the profile was pissing me off so much already that I gave up. Instead reinstalled Okcupid and got a match with a cute girl.
I was having a bit of meltdown trying to come up with something interesting to text her but then a buddy called me up to go out. Thought I might as well go out and meet some people irl, but little did I know that I was going to be barhopping with a group of middle aged lesbian moms on ketamine and a gay Indian dude until morning. It was fun to develop this weird camarederie with this random group of people throughout the night. But also cocaine is a hell of a drug. Gotta watch that I don't pick up a habit.

>>21576
Sounds fun tbh. But on the other hand thinking about the comedown I would have declined.
Okcupid is a good idea. I will probably download that and Tinder and Hinge at different times and check them out. I have a suggestion of cute spanish grill but no likes REEE not that she will match with me anyway :DDD

Going to sleep now. I will probably do nithing on NYE because the only contact in this city I have that is here and that I know well enough to ask is sick and maybe not ready until tomorrow it would mean going to a club, which I'm not super fond of

>>21376
The one in orange who almost made it.

>>21398
>At times you need to take risk, as the downside is much more limited then the upside.
Agreed. RCAT didn't play out for me last week and I lost x. As I look back on my decision-making process, I can't fault the move. If it had played out, I would have made 3x. Worth the gamble.

>>21376
I usually don't start to run at all and then I'm mad because i could've made a lot of money like the first guy.

PLTR -4% today... finally going back towards breakeven price for my damn puts.
Still a month for expiry tho, so at least 2 weeks until theta decay becomes really painful.
Strike price is at 62$, but them being "option warrants" and not real options, there isn't really much to gain by holding to expiry other then decay, it's just the full... 50x leverage applies when it gets under it.

That fucking urge to bet against trends, a pitfall one falls just to easily into when trying to apply to much immediate logic to the market.
Just value will be evaluated, but quick enough for Ernst?

I have compiled a comprehensive spreadsheet of every stock trade made in 2024. Results: 93 trades for a loss of $25.74. Many good buys offset by a handful of poor ones. Strange that is ends so close to even.
My big winner was my most consistent investment: T-Bills and Money Market dividends. Not much when set beside S&P gains, but 5% is 5%.
On to next year.
When that 5% will be 4%. Thanks, Powell.

>>21537
Not only people are consooming, but also they order delivery for that. The legal framework is made in such a way that couriers have almost the same social benefits as 8/5 workers, but they don't have to pay taxes and thus raise unreasonably high wages. This creates a situation when in wartime economy with labor shortage millions of couriers are busy delivering stuff for people who are too lazy to use their legs and walk to the nearest store.

Germans are wise people that they banned stores on Sundays (including self-checkouts): people should have a break from thinking about material issues.

>>21531
>>21534
This is why in Indian tradition Vaishyas stand lower than Kshatriyas and Brahmins: capitalists, merchants are only able to think about short-term easily-quantifiable profit. They are unfit to rule a state.

America has lost 3 planes in 2 weeks. 2 F-18, shit down by Huthi, and 1 F-16, shot down by Russia, so-called Game changer. It is certain that F-16 was piloted by NATO pilot, because it takes 3-4 years to become pilot, but Ukraine has had such aircraft for merely 6 months.

Nato is weak and a joke. But Western News media keeps telling us: Russia is retreating forwards, and almost all westerners believe the lies!

The average man on the street in India and China can only laugh about the immense stupidity of westerners who fall for propaganda lies time and time again!

The impudent bog-dwellers Finland stole Russian tanker. They claiming it was spy ship. Finland feels emboldened by joining NATO. They think they can do whatever they want, they believe America will protect them!

Such hostile actions have have consequences, so Finland has a chance to learn that empty American promises are worthless to them!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEG7b851Ric
Sabrina Carpenter is doing something for me

>1,5m
>thick
>funny

I deserve a Sabrina Carpenter gf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATr_LHaItOc
Song based on Michele Houellebecq's poem

Just finished this one. A fitting song for the season.

Auld Lang Syne - The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_6Vs8pADrQ

>>21458
>christmas
>radio stream
Indeed, good times.

I got into real college radio because of radio ernstivan

This weeks winner is "Psychlona - Venus Skytrip"
Good album.

New to the poll:

The Baboon Show - Radio Rebelde

A Swedish pop-punk band.
Radio Rebelde is already the 8th out of 9 albums that have been released since 2005.

Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3yq3pxF6yc
Good album


Geggy Tah - Sacred Cow
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>go for a shit while some 60s teen bop music is playing
>come back to get SLAYED by some HEAVY ASS SHIT riffs
Noice.

Finished Countdown to Zero Day by Zetter. It's about how the US and Israel trying to stop the Iranian nuclear program for atomic weapons with malware. Well written forensic nonfiction but at times it feels a bit bloated. Important for me the role of infrastructure in cyber war. It's 400 pages.

>>21497
I heard Weil is cool. Eilenberger wrote a few books on pre WW2 philosophers I think. Sounds interesting but my pile is too big.

>>21500
>Eilenberger wrote a few books on pre WW2 philosophers I think.
Yes, I also read Zeit der Zauberer a few years ago and it was very good as well. I think Eilenberger has a talent for weaving abstract philosophical concepts with biographical sketches in an entertaining way.

The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
I did it. It was not worth it.

In 1949 author voiced views which by now have become default feminist opinion, as well as default normie and default establishment opinion in western countries. So it's a book of great historical interest, if you have this interest. Otherwise it's mostly boring, because after her ideas has been put into practice, they are proven to be either obviously right, either obviously wrong.

That's the main content of the book. Besides that there is an annoying narrow philosophical framework ("immanence", "transcendence", "transcendence through immanence", "immanence in transcendence"), there are quotes from lovely poems about women, and there are funny quotes by different misogynistic thinkers. I've bookmarked them, I'll collect and post this "based compilation" a bit later.

>>21547
>18+
Since when is there an age recommandation on philosophy books? Does Russia do that on a massive scale?

Finally managed to take some pictures. Not really eventful, but when you're trying to not crash into the ground, I think it's acceptable.
I made a small single mission just to practice divebombing.
From Graz you fly a bit south towards Murfeld, kill a radio station and some AA cannons there (smoke visible in last picture) and return north across Stubenberg to land again.

I must admit that most of the flight I let the autopilot do because for some reason I can't get the plane to keep calm and climbing doesn't work well. Might be the stick because I noticed that I have bad deadzone problems, but I still have to learn a lot, of course. Only for the actual diving I switched to manual. And I landed by myself, which worked way better than anticipated, considering that over the past few days I usually crash-landed, often fatally.

Still practicing divebombing.
First one looks cool, but missed one AA.
Second and third are from a run where I thought I missed, but as it turned out, the bombs still had some way to fall, as evidenced by the third one, with total annihilation.
Last one is total annihilation of my own plane after AA killed my ailerons and I started banking to death.

Also, this stick isn't really usable anymore for this kind of fine-tuned work.
I'll have to get a new one.

There is games

https://ernstchan.top/b/res/36801.html

* = Number 0-9

Sulfur was quite a ride, but for now the content is exhausted after 30 or so hours.
May do another run every now and then to craft some more weapons, but my highly tuned SMG with multiple exploding boolets and the assault rifle gone shotgun with mass stun does the job mighty fine, creating a mess wherever they are aimed at.
They claim that they'll add multiplayer once 200k copies are sold, but until then at least 3 more levels and plenty of guns and customization shall be added as well.
The evil witch remains still unslain by the ripping and tearing father of the lord.

Next up a action RPG with a pretty sus artstyle and banger low-quality OST.

>>20088
>Overreliance on recommendation systems
This is the core feature "social networks" and search engines are built around, because it's the best known way to control the masses.

>>21205
No, social networks came to being earlier than recommendation systems.
> it's the best known way to control the masses
Yes, that's why recommendation systems will always be present in sites like Facebook. You don't want boomers to learn opinions from each other naturally. You want to force reptilians' opinion on them through pushing establishment's shills into recommendations.

>>21159
Nobody liked Clippy and it was only short lived.

https://www.perplexity.ai/
Interesting service, which automatizes googling. You ask a question and it makes search queries, summarizes found results and gives you an answer with links to the sources.
You can test it on some niche knowledge such as information about your local music band, or something related to your profession. Sometimes it sucks, but often it proves to be useful.

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