No.11777 KONTRA
Final day before Christmas. I went out to buy some last minute grocieries with mom and also dropped off some trash for recycling. She managed to slam the car’s trunk on my head an if it wasn’t for me wearing a hat I think I would have legit gotten fucked up by it.
Solved the last gift thing, got my father a pair of handwarmers and some candles, because I know he likes those. Should be okay.
I finally had the willpower to make that sausage-french pastry thing and it turned out very nice. I liked snacking on it a lot.
Also bit the bullet and helped clean the coffee machine. I still stand by it that getting this thing wasn’t a good decision, because so far it has caused an unnecessary amount of misery and fighting among us due to how needy this fucking thing is and how often it breaks down.
I feel like I am going to have to cut my hair next year, because there are two, growing parts which I am unable to properly comb out and I see no other solution than to cut. Don’t even know how these things developed.
No.11779
Just typed ernstchan.xyz, simply out of habit.
And it worked. I was completely banned ever since the happenings, and now I wish I hadn't seen it.
It's like seeing a friend who was good in school, met the wrong people and now harrasses people at the train station for drug money.
Thank you for being here guys, even if we often bicker and argue, at least we're not xyz.
No.11784
Do Germans Ernst remember that Coca Cola sold Cola with stevia as sweetener? Do non-German Ernsts also had Coca Cola doing the campaign in their country? (US for example?).
Also, does Coca Cola still sell coke with stevia? It felt like there was a stevia hype but it never took off. About 10 years ago.
No.11786
>>11784I remember two things about stevia: it was marketed as
healthy beause it was made from plants, and Walter White used it to kill Lydia.
No.11788
>>11784Wasn't that "Coke Zero"? And isn't it still sold?
I don't consoom cola, so I don't really know anything about what is happening there.
Don't certain chewing gums not still have it as sweetener? Or was that Xylol?
No.11789
> xyz
always getting a 403 error.
even getting a 403 error for stuff that is supposed to tell me I am getting a 403 error.
403 error trying to show 403.png -> 403 error trying to show ErrorDocument -> 403 error :DD
><div class="error">
><p>HTTP Error 403: Access forbidden</p>
><p>Access to this resource is not allowed.</p>
><br /><img src="/img/403.png" alt="Error" />
></div>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> <html><head>
> <title>403 Forbidden</title>
> </head><body>
> <h1>Forbidden</h1>
> <p>You don't have permission to access this resource.</p>
> <p>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden
> error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
> <hr>
> <address>Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Server at ernstchan.xyz Port 443</address>
> </body></html>
you also get a 403? or do you see actual content? (didn't even try a different proxy)
No.11794
After stuffing myself to the point of almost bursting at a Raclette (german version, not the swiss one where you scrape molten cheese off the block), I am now in bed letting the day end and anticipating the christmas lunch tomorrow where I will stuff myself with a very nice chicken roast.
Merry Christmas to everyone still here.
No.11795
Went out to get a car wash. I paid for unlimited monthly washes, so why not? Snowed last week and needed to ensure there wasn't any salt clinging to my undercarriage. Traffic was crazy. A lot of travelers, shoppers, and people out doing dumb stuff like getting a car wash.
>>11794Have a good holiday, ernst.
No.11797
Happy Christmas, westoids!
>>11789I get the same with proxy. Opens normally without it
No.11802
Despite what you said about "muh recommendations systems", "muh personalized experience", I've composed a classic canon of tiktok. It's 11 short videos, mostly from post-sovoqueue. Before I contact ministry of education with my proposal, I need to find 11-th video. It's in English language and it's woman dancing about her son's suicide. Could you help me find it?
No.11803 KONTRA
Man, I'm not feeling the Christmas spirit. Honestly I don't even want to write a post concerning it.
Nothing bad happened. It just all feels so anemic.Like damn it just happened. How could it have gone by so fast?
I wish I had the concentration to read. I feel like I'm slowly killing myself by staying home.
No.11804
I mindlessly browsed the internet til 4 AM and now it is the next day and I am tired.
This is such a Sokal affair smh.
No.11805 KONTRA
>>11802>Despite what you said about "muh recommendations systems", "muh personalized experience", I've composed a classic canon of tiktok. It's 11 short videos, mostly from post-sovoqueue.Are you trying to sokal me?
No.11807
I'm totally having New Year spirit. There is a lot of snow, garlands everywhere, pines for sale smell nicely. my inner Greta is enraged, but not too much . Also 9 days off in a row = best gift.
How are you supposed to have Christmas Spirit if you live in a hot place such as Portugal or Florida?
No.11810
The second-hand book dealer app (C2B2C model) I'm using has some social features. You can check who eventually bought the books you sold to the platform, see their historical purchases, and chat with them, if they made their profiles public. Sounds like a good way to meet like-minded people.
But of course I kept my transactions anonymous, and I suspect most of the users worth talking to will also have the decency to keep their profiles private, instead of seeking attention on a book recycle app. So probably not a very useful feature after all.
>>11724I don't see it. Mochizuki never intends his theory as a prank. And unlike in Sokal's case, his proof wasn't accepted for publication, not until a decade later and only on a journal he himself edits. Mochizuki still has a group of serious supporters even now, so the dust has not settled yet. And even if his proof is fundamentally flawed (probably is), some of the theoretical toolsets he developed could still be useful. It isn't really comparable to the Sokal affair.
No.11811 KONTRA
And merry christmas to you mlecchas!
No.11814
Angloid positivists invented Alan Sokal in in 1955 to render epistemology debate impossible.
No.11818 KONTRA
You get stuck home for like 4 days and you immediately begin going psychotic from being closed in with other people. I'm just glad I hasn't been the subject of one of my father's temper tantrums he seems very keen to throw in the past couple of days for some reason.
Decided to try ordering from Taobao through an agent, because they don't ship to the third world (EU) directly. I mean even if I have to pay 20 bucks to post the stuff from Guangdong then it's still a competitive price which is honestly shocking. (Like I'd pay like 30 bucks for two books, which is "normal" by local pricing, but the fact that I would have no other venue of getting some of this stuff makes it the deal of the century kin my opinion.)
I feel like I'm pulling off some esoteric, grand heist, even though all that happened was that I placed an order for two books sitting in front of my computer.
We played some monopoly. Nobody really wanted to play, but we still played it. I feel like we've grown out of the "family board game night" thing. Not that we ever did it. Every single time we do this someone gets offended or is visibly tired of it.
My hunch is that we do it because we're chasing some unattainable image of an "ideal family".
I know I owe some ritual obligations to my parents, but I'm basically my own person at this point. I can decide how I allocate my free time and stuff like that.
Honestly staying home this much is just not good. Past couple of days I've been fixating on an odd sensation I feel in a single spot in my beard, reminiscent of an itch, but not exactly and itch and I just keep thinking about it what if I were to die from this? Though I'm reasonably sure that it's just a hair that failed to sprout properly or something like that.
If that. Most likely just my brain freaking out.
No.11819
>>11814Sokal is a sock puppet that was furious about postmodernists saying the big narratives like progress (soyence good will ideology
but actually mostly coming steming from the horrors of totalitarianism west and east) are over. He wanted to make a proof that this was not the case so he stylized a paper like all humanities people do and that is it. Did he engage with what they said? No, but that is not what Sokal wanted anyway. He wanted to save soyence for us against the barbarians who's babble he did not understand because their were speaking in frightening tongues, a click-clack bamboo hut speech, more a problem for linguists than serious researchers trying to figure out how the universe works and how to apply this knowledge to make everybody happy, like working for Lockheed Martin, but also inventing water filters. A wise barbarian once referenced the old greeks and theit notion of the pharmakon. I wish there was a mathematical formula for it so you would understand it and not fish the nonexistant substance from this post that had to go without a single operator.
No.11820
>>11819lmao get over it already you butthurt monkey,
Getroffene Hunde bellen.
No.11821 KONTRA
>>11814The one about Bismarck inventing Germans to render online discussion impossible was better.
This one is a 7/10.
No.11822 KONTRA
>>11820It was a funpost. Remove the wood from your butthole.
No.11823
>>11822Sure thing. Thou, if this is what you consider "fun" I really never want to experience you being serious.
No.11828
Got what I wanted for Christmas: A warm day. 55°F. No wind. Went for a run through the park. Felt good.
Received various chocolates from my mother. And socks. As is tradition. My sister made dinner. Ham in the slow cooker with brown sugar and pineapple. 10/10.
I've found myself consciously avoiding all holiday movies this season. Haven't been in the mood. First year in memory which didn't include a single one.
>>11818>My hunch is that we do it because we're chasing some unattainable image of an "ideal family". Our game was
Scrabble. Kept playing long after it was fun. Or rather, we'd start to play remembering it
used to be fun, then realize it wasn't anymore and wander off. Rituals die hard.
No.11829
>>11828> Ham in the slow cooker with brown sugar and pineapple. 10/10.This sounds very unusual. Do you have photos? =)
No.11834
>>11832>>11833Thanks. Interesting how it tastes though I doubt that I would like it.
No.11838 KONTRA
>>11837>reminisce about itWhy? You can get the ingredients any time you like at any supermarket. Even the Kraft singles.
No.11845
>>11838It's called "nostalgia". You wouldn't understand.
No.11851
Went to bed at 2.
Lay awake until 4.
Got up again. Well, this day started early.
I hate it.
No.11854 KONTRA
I nearly died. Don't ever leave me again, EC. Not in my most trying time.
No.11857 KONTRA
Yesterday my mother and sister were discussing the effects of intelligence on interacting with others. The interesting part was that my mother said that "Your brother thinks I'm an idiot", but she said she gets it, because she knows both her own and my IQ and she also hates talking to idiots.
In a sense this is flattering, but also kind of devastating because yes, I find mundane, normal chitchat to be unbearable, but I also don't want to seem like a jerk who wishes things would run silently like in some fascist utopia.
Of course then she went on to paint this image of me as a troubled youth who was 2 smart to meld into the crowd and how I had troubles with authority. That got me pumped up, full of adrenaline. Not a good thing.
Last night I couldn't sleep for two hours. I felt shortness of breath and I was in panic and sort of couldn't breathe without concentrating on it. It was terrifying. When I woke up I still had some trouble breathing normally and if I wasn't focusing on something else I'd forget to breathe.
Thought kind of hard about it and I decided to make a herbal tea because I haven't had one in two days and once I downed it I started feeling fine again, so I asked my chemist friend if what I experienced was withdrawal and he said yes, it's just that the anti-depressant I'm taking is not a synthetic one.
So I guess in the end I was retarded. But at least I'm not dying. Well, not right now anyway.
Just glad to be back to breathing normally. But I'm really fucking retarded for getting hooked on something.
Professor asked me to help him with some menial tasks. Basically there was a book from which he wanted to quote something, but he couldn't copy and paste it out because of the encoding, so he asked me to help and I obliged. It took me like 5 minutes to find the parts he wanted and then I just used the screenshot tool on Mac and then converted the image to text from there.
You could say that he got me to do his dirty work, but I think I can take my time to help an elderly person with his work in this rapidly changing, ever more technological era.
Some relatives came over. It was fine. I guess. Brought over their little kid. Had some food, caught up a bit but not much else.
Kid had this little toy-camera. Like it was an actual digital camera with some built-in games. But it was also an actual digital camera.
And I was thinking about how much tech has advanced. I remember having a 2 megapixels digital camera as a kid. Well, it was the family's anyway, but I used it to create stop-motion films. But like that was a srs camera for srs family photos at one point. Now it's a children's toy.
I wonder what else has turned into a children's toy over the years thanks to the march of technology.
>>11854I wasn't distressed. I trusted the plan.
I knew EC would be back.
No.11858
>>11856A future German hit song is the Arabic alphabet song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BleXQpQDQbITurn that shi up
No.11859
Wait, it's only been two days?
It felt like weeks.
Also, I demand explanations!
No.11860
>>11859Disregard the second sentence. The joy over being able to funpost again led to a hastily made post.
No.11861
>>11860No wait I meant the third sentence. See what I mean?
No.11862
>>11774Not only it was the Sokal affair of food delivery, but also it was 9/11 of food delivery.
>>11859> Also, I demand explanations!And I demand reparations.
No.11866
EC is back so we can discuss the sokalization of the sciences in seriousness.
>>11864Never owned a car. When I freshly owned my license I looked up cool used cars to potentially buy. Among them were the Volvo 440, the Renault R19 (facelifted), the Citroen BX, the Mercedes 190 and 220 I think, and Seat Ibiza with the around 2000 facelift.
I have the same favorable opinion towards edgy cars
see Volvo 440, generally, today many cars really seem to look alike. I hardly care about performance in a car even though driving fast and sporty is fun, I would generally care about the car being not a repair carousel and it looking extravagantly nice bc of age.
I will never drive any of these cars, because in the future I will own nothing and I will love it.
No.11869
>>11864Modern cars are a jewish plot to make boys homosex
No.11870 KONTRA
>>11858Glad to see yhat Almans are ready to learn to read and write properly! May Allah in his wisdom lead the honorless kuffar right!
Destroy the pre-Islamic Germany!