No.11479 KONTRA
I woke up a bit late. I managed to break my French press while trying to empty yesterday's leaves from it to make herbal tea again.
I had some freshly baked scones for breakfast and then I baked the pizza I threw together yesterday.
I took a shower because apparently in all this stress I forgot about it and I felt disgusting so I washed my hair too.
Then I went to the library. It was full as fuck so I had to take shelter in one of the lower rooms which is also a teaching room. It also has the IT facilities. Which means they have like 15 thinkpads chained to desk to be used by people.
They looked relatively new. Well, as much as the proud "Intel Core i3 8th gen" stickers made them new anyway.
I just don't get it honestly. Why spend millions on shitty laptops instead of database access in 2023 when 95% of people come to this place with their own laptops or tablets?
Anyway, I couldn't drink or eat in that room. Not at the desk anyway. Getting up for a drink is okay. But any time someone disregarded the rule they made an automated announcement that drinking and eating is forbidden.
I guess that's my true gripe with the computer room, not its existence.
(I'd never sit there if the upper rooms weren't completely full.)
Funny thing is, there was a Chinese guy sitting in front of me, taking notes from a linguistics book onto a fancy, e-ink tablet. An older woman came in, pretty rugged looking. She pressured the Chinese guy into giving her his seat at the desk and forcing him onto a bench in the room without a desk, because she needed the laptop (now that I raged about nobody needing it)
Then she proceeded to use Facebook and Instagram for two hours. (I periodically checked in on her and that's what she was doing.)
Makes me wonder if I'd have given up my seat for her. Probably not.
I spent around three and a half hours there, if I don't count the breaks. Looked through the grammar, did another complete passive review. Honestly my hands were shaking. I didn't even have a second coffee, but the mere act of studying was stressing me the fuck out.
Though, speaking in general terms, I feel a lot better. Maybe it's the different environment but the stress isn't taking a toll on my digestion at all.
My father apparently figured out Temu exists so he ordered piles of stuff from there. When I got home he asked me how my day was and I started saying stuff and he suddenly bolted up to make a phone call to a friend to talk about his Temu purchase.
I relaxed a bit and I did another round of reviews for the general assembly of cards. I think I'm going to go to bed.
Tomorrow is my last day before the exam. More grammar reviews, more character drills. More coffee.
No.11484 KONTRA
>>11482> didn't go to work> my cat has been sickI'd fire you.
No.11486 KONTRA
Went to a clüb on Friday night.
Even after just the couple of months of working out and dieting a bit dancing felt pretty different, I was way more conscious of my muscle movements, especially in my back.
A
Western girl came up to me on the dancefloor and asked me where I'm from, both due to the identity crisis this simple question triggers inside me as well as the fact that a girl just initiated contact with me out of nowhere, I was baffled for a moment. So it took me a while to respond and then after I asked and she told me where she's from I just let out a slow "oh reaaaally", after which she left. Guess I made her feel embarassed. Even if I'm a bit flattered, sth about a girl initiating contact just doesn't feel right.
Was surprised to see the actually have Club Mate there. 9€ for a small bottle. Worth it.
>>11482Hope your cat gets better, Ernst!
No.11487
>>11486>Was surprised to see the actually have Club Mate there. 9€ for a small bottle. Worth it.Oh, you're one of THOSE...
No.11488
>>11486>9€ for a small bottle. Worth it.Absolutely not.
t. initiator of the second food and drinks war between Germans on EC
Hope you get better with talking to ladies out of nowhere. She clearly was interested in you, otherwise, she would not talk to you with smalltalkest of smalltalk questions in a club No.11489 KONTRA
>>11479>he asked me how my day was and I started saying stuff and he suddenly bolted up to make a phone call to a friend to talk about his Temu purchase. Oh well
No.11490
>>11486>Was surprised to see the actually have Club Mate there. 9€ for a small bottle.9 € for a SMALL bottle. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
No.11491 KONTRA
I'm just surprised people drink club mate.
No.11493 KONTRA
>>11490Berlin Drink in China! Do people in China know how cool of a city Berlin is?
>>11489Your father turning you down while talking about what is going on to chat with a friend about a Temu order is a sign of a healthy relationship for sure.
No.11494
>>11491You are right, Flora Mate is underrated and Mio Mio has a broader palette.
No.11495 KONTRA
>>11487>>11488In good clubs were people are cooler than you, prices are higher. You have to take that into account. Of course it's cheaper at C-Base.
No.11496 KONTRA
Inspired by recent discussions, I decided to do some horrendous blog-posting, just so other country balls can see how much we suffer in this country.
Some non-German-poster complained about the blandness of the German "Knoppers"-Treat, which contains nothing but sugar and palm-fat between two card-board-like waffles. This poster clearly has not yet tried the products of smaller German manufacturers, which are spectacular in their simplicity and blandness.
We will start discussing Hosta. Their flagship-product is 'nippon', which is a rice-waffle covered in the cheapest chocolate imaginable. Knoppers rates a solid 5/10 on the sugary card-board scale, while nippon is 10/10.
Hosta's other bread-winner is 'Mr. Tom', formerly known as 'Uncle Tom'. This snack is roasted peanuts glued together with a sugar-syrup that's it. It is pretty hard and tastes like peanuts and sugar. Nothing more to say about it.
Hosta has one other product of significance, that is 'Romy'. It is a bounty-bar, but filled with less coconut and more sugar, in an oversized Rittersport shape. This pattern of 'take what is successful and oversize it' will repeated later on.
No.11497
>>11496Puffed rice in chocolate is great, you tasteless pleb.
In fact, I have a pack of Nippon here, and this pack of Nippon, I am going to imbibe now.
Puffed rice WITHOUT chocolate though, which is pretty popular among women and effeminate men, is indeed bad.
No.11498 KONTRA
>>11496Hosta's biggest competitor in the rice-waffle-with-chocolatte-market is WaWi. Wawi has an entire line of chocolate covered rice-waffles. Compared to nippon, the share of rice is lower and the bar is much denser than nippon. When you bite on it, it feels like actually biting on something other than air.
WaWi also produces Eiskonfekt. Eiskonfekt is a nougat/chocolate-mixtgure particularly rich in palm-fat. The palm-fat is solid at room-temperature, but melts at body temperature, creating a cooling sensation when eaten. The palm-fat is literally a the main sales point. Of course, it fails to cool anyone down. Actually, the palm-fat and sugar are more likely to give you a heat flash.
Another classic in the category of "summer treats that are supposed to cool you down, but will not cool you down" is "Erfrischungsstäbchen"-"Refreshment sticks". This timeless classic is a 4cm long chocolate, filled with a liner of solid sugar, containing an orange-flavored sugar-solution.
From here on, we will venture further into the territory of "pure sugar with added artificial flavoring". And one of the mainstays in this category are "fruit sweets" produced by Böhme. This is a gooey sugary mass flavored with the finest products of the chemical industry. More often than not, the paper will stick, and more often than not, people will just eat part of the paper.
No.11499
>>11498Erfrischungsstäbchen are 10/10 GOAT yes I will die on this hill
No.11501 KONTRA
>>11498Böhme also produces an oversized, cheap version of 'After Eight'. (Remember
>>11496? I told you the pattern would repeat.)
It's chocolate bar filled with a mint-flavored sugar-mass. The sugar-mass is fairly solid, because they need to make 100g-bars from it, but the chocolate (the expensive part) is as thin as in 'After Eight'. Instead of artificial mint flavor, you can also get artificial citrus flavor and artificial raspberry flavor, but most shops do not carry that last variant.
The uncrowned king of sugar-with-artificial-flavoring is Trolli, famed gummy-candy producer of Nuremberg. If Haribo, BASF and Satan fathered a child with a sugar-mill in a four-some, it would be Trolli. I will just leave you with some advertisement photos of this color-intense nightmares.
No.11502
Nippon is a 8/10 in taste for me. Is the name subtle racism? Maybe, yes.
Trolli dentition is also great, I enjoyed it as child. These days I usually only eat chocolate and things combined with chocolate.
No.11504
>>11502> Is the name subtle racismIt contains rice. It is named nippon. It's from the fifties. Their other product until recently was called 'Uncle Tom'. I wouldn't call it subtle.
No.11505 KONTRA
>>11504>It contains rice. It is named nippon. It's from the fifties.Could have been an actual Japanese sweet treat, although that was unlikely to begin with I have to admit.
No.11508
>>11504>until recentlyI'm an old fart and I've never seen it called that.
No.11509 KONTRA
>>11508Tschörman Wikipedia says "until 1993". Whoever calls thirty years ago recent must be a vampire or something.
No.11510
>>11508>>11509>1993Funny, it actually says that. I never noticed they changed the name until a few weeks back.
No.11511 KONTRA
HAAHAHA GUISE THIS CANDY HAS SUGAR >OMG LET ME HARP ON ABOUT THAT TO NO END HAHAHA NEXT TIME I TALK ABOUT BEERS AND HOW THEY CONTAIN ALCOHOL
It's amazing how only a german can make posts that are rather interesting in content, but provide that information in such an irritating, unfunny and pretentious way.
I bet you are a vegan and smoke weed.
No.11512
>>11511>HAAHAHA GUISE THIS CANDY HAS SUGARI read these posts more like "boring and not special", which is obviously a matter of bias and familiarity.
There are tons of videos on youtube of foreigners trying German candy from a totally different background and thus not sharing the perspective posted here.
No.11513 KONTRA
I found the German posts very informative. In minor shock over the burger gummies being German.
No.11516
>>11513> In minor shock over the burger gummies being German.How so?
No.11518
>>11511I love how you ended you post in a parody of Germaness.
No.11520 KONTRA
>>11516Did Germans really create these food shaped gummies? Did they have a hand in the melon bubblegum? I had never connected in my head that maybe the EXTREME SOUR GUM BLEEDING variety of candy was German.
Childhood memories corrupted by German influence, these candies should be banned.
No.11521
>>11520Calm down. The burgers you had were most likely fini-brand from brazil, same as the melons (and the camel's balls.)
The trolli burgers are not liquid filled.
I have no idea which one of them might be the original burger -- trolli or fini. The trolli version has been in the market since 1989. Can't tell for the fini version.
No.11523
>>11520>melon bubble gumThese?
Also is Centershock German? It sounds like Germans had to think of the name and went like: yeah in the center of the produce there is a super sour liquid core, let's name it centershock because in the center it's shockingly sour. Functional name.
No.11524
>>11523Center shock is perfetti van melle, so dutch/italian. Center shock would be the van melle part, not the perfetti part.
No.11525
Do you people have any family heirlooms?
And I mean actual, dedicated heirlooms and not "I grabbed some of my late grandpa's coats after he died" kind of things.
Because I don't, and in fact the only things I can think of are indeed of the second category; it's a wooden pepper grinder that belonged to my grandma which I saved from disposal after she died, and a comb that belonged to my grandpa who died in the 60s.
I also don't own anything I could actually pass on to my children in such a fashion to start a heirloom sequence.
No.11526 KONTRA
>>11525No, and I can hardly think of anything besides jewelry. Mass production is the norm and has been in many cases since the beginning of the 20th century. What kind of heirloom-worthy things should these people possess? I can only think of individually crafted objects like jewelery.
No.11527
>>11526I don't think the production process of an heirloom is relevant to it being considered one. Obviously even heirlooms can be mass-produced. Like Butch's watch in Pulp Fiction, for example.
No.11528 KONTRA
>>11525I have a copy of Sienkiewicz's "Quo Vadis?" that belonged to one of my great grandmothers. Supposedly it was special to her, because she had the pages repaired and the book itself rebound and that was a big deal because as my grandma put it, "she was one hell of a German". As in, she was a penny-pincher.
No.11529
>>11523I ate a Center Shock lately and it was not sour at all. Great disappointment. I'm afraid they might have changed the filling for the worse.
No.11530 KONTRA
I'm so fucking stressed out there are no words for it.
No.11531
Visited my cat in the hospital today. Twice. He's looking and acting much better. Eating voraciously. Probably giving him a lot of steroids. On the second trip the vet technicians couldn't retrieve him from the kennel because he was lunging viciously at them. I laughed when she said this. Glad he has some fight in him. A tech led us back to the kennel itself, where they boarded all of the other sick and injured pets. She showed us how to open the door and asked that we-
my sister and I- keep his cone on for their safety. He softened up as soon as he saw us. Hand fed him and gave him numerous chin scratches. Sad leaving him there, but we still don't know what's going on internally. Waiting for his ultrasound tomorrow.
>>11486Thank you.
>>11525There is a UK half penny which my mother was given by her mother. She gave it to me when I was a child and in the hospital for something. We also have my late father's bowling ball and hammer. Not heirlooms yet, but they have the potential to one day be passed down.
No.11532
I’m now off my psychmeds. I’ve more libido and stronger will but I’m more moody and aggressive, may fall back again into warm complacency of racist jokes. I have to learn to cope with my own mind without brain fiddling pills
No.11535
>>11529Yeah they're definitely not as sour as they used to be.
Same with all the sour candy, tbh, like sour fish and sour fries.
No.11537
>>11525>And I mean actual, dedicated heirlooms>not coatsWell, I can't really tell the difference between the categories. How often does something have to be inherited before it becomes an heirloom? Basically, there is the normal stuff that accumulates in middle-class families who are lucky enough to not be subject to bombing or ethnic cleansing.
I have some books my grandfather read on the eastern front and after being wounded, in various lazarettes. I have a painting he had in his office, some meadow in provincial German mock-impressionist style.
My mom has my great-great-great-grandparents pendulum clock and an elaborately carved art nouveau credenza and some more furniture from 1920-1960, much of it made by carpenters. (No Gelsenkirchener Barock.)
There's some German classics editions from the 19th century that have been passed through the generations. Some ancient family bibles, the oldest one is from the 1820s.
No.11539
>>11527So what an heirloom then? Could be anything as far as it just has a special meaning or passed down several generations?
No.11540 KONTRA
>>11539>>11537Hungary and Burger understood perfectly fine, why are you like this?
No.11542
>>11540Why are you like THIS is the more important question tbh.
No.11543
>>11542Why are YOU (plural) like this. I think it's a miracle nobody mentioned heirlomentrinker and generazionerloom as two important and distinct German words whose meanings are untranslatable to English.
Personally, all I have is my grandfather's gold lighter. He never smoked, but he was a baller.
No.11544 KONTRA
>>11543> I think it's a miracle nobody mentioned heirlomentrinker and generazionerloom as two important and distinct German words whose meanings are untranslatable to EnglishIt's probably the opposite. The literal German translation of heirloom is a word that applies to everything that was inherited, no further qualifications needed. Pepper mills and coats included.
No.11545 KONTRA
>>11543>all I have is my grandfather's gold lighter.This is against the semiotic heirloom rules.
No.11546 KONTRA
>>11545FAMILY heirloom
Are you the german without reading comprehension, by chance?
No.11547 KONTRA
I thought about writing something that it doesn't matter whether it's a pepper mill or a lighter or whether it was willed to you or if you just saved it from the dump, what's important is what it means to you, etc...
Then I read the thread and decided against it.
Please die in a fire, all of you.
No.11548 KONTRA
>>11547The post we needed. Another productive day for German Ernst.
No.11549
My next "coding" challenge is making a product landing page and I think about doing one for ordering Germans. They come in three different price ranges.
No.11550 KONTRA
>>11547>or if you just saved it from the dumpThat's certainly not an heirloom of yours. Obviously it could be someone else's heirloom they then threw away, but it's not yours.
I think you are confusing "Kleinod" with "Erbstück", which are not necessarily congruent.
No.11551 KONTRA
>>11550Oh come on. What I meant was the case in
>>11525> grabbed some of my late grandpa's coats after he diedAnd now you go all pedantic 'hurr not really yours durr you don't know your vocabulary durr let me educate you'
It's fucking annoying and you'd better get rid of the habit.
No.11552 KONTRA
>>11551Please read that post again, very closely, and actually try to understand it.
And something you found somewhere is STILL not an heirloom, else every single penny I pick up from the street would be one.
No.11553
>>11549I order one "left-green German weakling", one "angry racist German schizo" and one "tall blonde German with huge tits and square face". How much would that be?
No.11554 KONTRA
>>11552>something you found somewhere is STILL not an heirloomPoint me to the place where I said it was. Maybe read my post again.
No.11555
No, I won't order "meticulous German obsessed with definitions of words".
No.11556 KONTRA
>>11554>I thought about writing something that it doesn't matter whether it's a pepper mill or a lighter or whether it was willed to you or if you just saved it from the dump, what's important is what it means to you, etc...>or if you just saved it from the dumpYou didn't write that?
No.11557
>>11556Í wrote that. And I explained it to you. See
>>11551> Saved from the dumplike
> grabbed some of my late grandpa's coats after he died No.11558
>>11557> And I explained it to youNo you didn't, you just put a quote in the post, which probably made sense in your head, but not to anyone else.
What are you trying to say, that a trinket you fished out of the trash is the same as my grandpa's coat and both are family heirlooms?
No.11559
>>11558It's in the very post that posed the question.
t. someone else
No.11560 KONTRA
Starting to think linguistic prescriptivism should be as illegal as advocacy for national socialism within Germany.
No.11561
>>11559>It's in the very post that posed the question. Which question?
No.11562 KONTRA
At times it gets tiresome skipping over all the G*rman posts. Should look into a browser extension that would do it for me.
Missing link to previous thread once again, so here it is:
>>11100 No.11563 KONTRA
>>11558Why do you keep putting words in my mouth? What I said is that by
>saved from the dumpI meant cases like
>grabbed some of my late grandpa's coats after he diedas opposed to were something was willed to you. For reference, see
>>11547> whether it was willed to you or if you just saved it from the dumpIt's the same difference made in
>>11525. By grabbing some old coats (or anything else) from the estate, even if they were not willed to you, you prevent their disposal as garbage, or save them from the dump metaphorically speaking. Which is clearly different from having those coats (or an other object from the estate) willed to you.
Somewhere in your thought process, you removed the context from the discussion, decided I referred to a random pile of trash, then decided to stick with it no matter what, even when it was explained to you multiple times. This is the third time I explain it to you, and I have had enough of this game, look for someone else to play.
No.11564
>>11553We don't sell female Germans.
The schizo is the basic German for 100€, we also have the annoying yet non-schizoid lecturing German for 250€
lectures you on your body, your reading abilities and general cognitive apparatus and your political view points and the expat German that wanted to get away because he hates Germans for 350€.
Unfortunately, I really struggle to get the CSS right. My page looks like an abomination between self-styled early 2000s homepage and startup subscription service, kek.
Though I used a food produce instead of Germans.I could just add the demanded media query and then be done with the challange but it feels not good to be this bad at CSS. I need to read up flexbox again, still did not understand it it seems. Maybe also go over grid again because at moment it looks alright but not sure.
No.11565 KONTRA
>>11563>This is the third time I explain it to youYou didn't explain anything, you just strung random quotes together and expect others to be able to follow your thoughts. Seems like the Porto is spergy enough for that.
But you're basically just repeated the original post, yes? Then all this back and forth was completely unnecessary just because you can't make yourself understood. Good for you for shitting up the thread, then, I guess.
No.11566
Can non-Germans distinguish Germans when they bicker like this?
I was coding the whole time, but I was part of the sperging in the beginning. Now I wonder who is who because I know one of these Germans is the one I bicker with every then and now. But I cannot force myself to find out who is who or if that is even possible.
No.11567
>>11564>Unfortunately, I struggle to get the CSS rightYeah, you'll get used to that.
You'll get used to not getting it right, that is, not to the CSS. Either you are a specialist who does little else or it will be highly annoying. I just checked the css for some application I mostly write backend logic for, it's 5483 rules. I don't touch it if it can be avoided.
No.11568
>>11567Good to know. Well, I tried a media query to make three columns in grid into one when it is a mobile display. While the code was syntactically correct it did not change the columns when minimizing the display but the automated recognition of the query made me pass. Feels a bit meh.
I really have a problem understanding how flexbox and grid work. Also all these varieties are hard to think of and what I probably also struggle with is clever thinking when it comes to div elements, choosing classes etc. This seems to require a certain sort of thinking I am not used to. Nonetheless, I will simply continue. I can go through it again. HTML is quite easy though, it seems.
No.11569
>>11568Like I said, I do little css, but flexbox and grid make things much easier compared to when we had to achieve similar effects without them.
No.11571 KONTRA
>>11496>>11498>>1150110/10 Fetternst
5/7 quality posts
> nipponhow does it taste with rice, though?
>>11509> 1993> vampire>>11510> I never noticed they changed the name until a few weeks back.the vampyre slept.
good morning, good sir.
No.11572
>>11564How do I handle my pets? What should they be prevented from except for violent videogames, national-socialism and linguistic prescriptivism?
No.11575
>>11574>The thing with unicorn is tasty.It looks terrible tbh. Sugar pearls vibe
I chuckled about the fact that it reads docile, does it have another meaning in the language?. I'm a sour pencils kind of guy, though I haven't had these in ages.
No.11576
>>11574I like licorice. My grandma always had those spirals.
I also like the salmiakki ones.
No.11578
>>11575> Sugar pearlsIt's compensated by a very juicy jelly inside and results in a perfect balance.
No.11579
>>11577Doce = Sweet, goofy company name. Even in Portuguese it reminds one of dócil (docile).
No.11580
>>11576I like the spirals, but I absolutely love licorice confectionary.
> My grandma always had those spiralsDid she also call them bear-shit?
>>11575I imagine it more like pic 2.
>>11574>The thing with unicorn is tasty.With sweets like that, much of the fun is in the texture. They feel hard and rough on the outside, but smooth and gelatinous on the inside, and they have a little bit of a crack when you first bite on them, right?
Pic 3 is unicorn stuff, too, but a different part of the unicorn.
No.11581
>>11580Yes, I think that was the intention - to copy Haribo Berries. And they taste the same as I remember Haribo.
No.11582
>>11580>Did she also call them bear-shit? Nope. But I also like the licorice pieces, cocos and chocolate are my favorites.
I can't eat a lot of them though before I get sick.
No.11583
>>11580>I imagine it more like pic 2.Thought of those as well of course. Same vibe, sugar mass.
No.11585
>>11584Narcocorrido could run on some polka-show for pensioners. Weird how the music the cartel bosses have produced for themselves is nothing like yoyoyoyo motherfucker I'm a big gangster rap
No.11586 KONTRA
>>11585I don't speak Spanish but don't they glorify narcos/gangster and the problems of these lifestyles? Content-wise it does not seem to deviate much from what gangster rap is about.
No.11587
>>11586Yes, it's about gangsters, the one posted in
>>11584 is about running drugs and being a good smuggler, I think.
But I don't speak Spanish either, just took some latin in school.
No.11589
>>11588Is that a trick question?
No.11591 KONTRA
I did the exam. I don't want to talk about it. Results on Wednesday. No earlier. I just hope I got 61% and that's it.
Wish the stress would stop. Like leaving the classroom I noticed I felt immediately better. But it's creeping back slowly.
I just honestly hate my body hurting in random places.
I went and had a pizza in the city. I got home and I felt a bit aimless. Well, I felt very aimless. Idk what to do now. One of my friends says it's time to game, the other says I should try doing things wholly unrelated to what I usually do.
I tried gaming a bit. I played some Powerslave Exhumed and I spent around 20 minutes playing it before I just sort of turned it off. I played some Red Alert 2 and then for some reason I started grinding out the remaining 5-6 Terraria achievements. There's only three left now.
Talked with my sister about her university progress and how grades are counted and stuff. She also told me about some genius professor she has. Woman never holds classes and basically berates you for writing overly eloquently (because if you write too eloquently you are just copying the book instead of understanding it) or writing too simply (because that's no way to understand economics).
She had a few funny reviews online about her teaching methods.
I guess tomorrow I'll try to get the present shopping done for Christmas. At best I want to be done by Wednesday night. I shouldn't have left it until the last moment like some dysfunctional retard.
No.11593 KONTRA
>>11591>the other says I should try doing things wholly unrelated to what I usually do.You should find solutions for these phenomena, yes. And solutions for less stress. Stress is part of the game, but it sounds unhealthy. You can achieve things in university without being a nervous wreck over long periods.
No.11594
>>11593This. Just procrastinate until the last minute, then you'll only be a nervous wreck a few days before the deadline.
No.11596
My cat is home from the hospital. His ultrasound revealed mostly good news, as did his bloodwork. Pancreas, intestines and kidneys all looking better. Liver is our main concern now. Following rapid weight loss-caused by all of the above- the liver can accumulate fat. Can be serious if it doesn't resolve. If he keeps eating, then it likely will. If he doesn't eat enough, he'll need a feeding tube. So, not out of the woods yet. But better than where we were a couple of days ago. I think.
No.11598
>>11594This could be ironic or not, you can not tel with people.
Ideally, you do work continually yet stop the pressure that is put by your mind. Your mind lets you return even when you have done a substantial amount of work for the day. It's a form of art to be less stressed in an environment that consists of "project" deadlines.
I read into a little book about becoming a software developer and it says working overtime because of deadlines or immediately demanded solutions make this work stressful among other things and you never stop learning, there is always more to learn, the ride never ends - and this is basically the same in academia.
Deleuze so pointedly said in the control society you never stop doing things, the Californian-cybernetic-mindset No.11599
>>11598>This could be ironic or not, you can not tel with people. Oh you :3
No.11601
>but Heisenberg refused to masturbate: he was convinced that all his body’s energies must remain bottled up so that he might devote them to his work
A 1920s noFab. I had to look that up, completely forgot what that male esotericism was called
No.11602
>>11601>noFabNever heard of any "no Fabulous" mysticism.
Only of commie plans to steal our precious bodily fluids.
No.11604
pet ownership is funny
our empathy towards other living beings seems to be highly based on proximity and circumstance
it's not that we care about animals in generals, but we do care about the particular animals we have adopted.
lmaoing @ universality
No.11605
>>11604>it's not that we care about animals in generals, but we do care about the particular animals we have adopted.I think most people care somewhat. Tell someone you observed a boy shooting a cat with a bb-gun, tell them it took the boy about 80 hits until the cat stopped moving. See how they react.
My guess: most of them will not be delighted at your inaction, and they will tell you what they would have done to the boy or what they would like to do to you for just standing there and watching.
No.11606
>>11604Vegans, the outdated green universalists of our time.
No.11607 KONTRA
>>11601This is actually true.
No.11608
>>11606I'm obviously not the first one to ask. But how do vegans cope with wolves eating rabbits and so on? It's not universalism when you think that humans are exceptional in the way they must refuse to eat meat, drink milk, etc.
No.11609
>>11608What kind of universalism are even talking about?
>>11607t. archives great mental strength by keeping hands of penis
No.11610
>>11608Some of them advocate action against predators. Pretty good honestly, better than the hypocrisy of being a cat owning vegan.
No.11611
>>11610>Some of them advocate action against predatorslolwut
No.11613
New dietary ethics: libertarian veganism.
You can't eat a cow because she dindu nuffin. And you can't drink milk unless cow sold it to you. But when you see how a chicken ate worm, it violated NAP (non-aggression principle) and thus it gives you aggressor's sanction. So you can eat it.
No.11614
>>11612Death to 1-st world
No.11615
>>11613Works for vegans and with just a different packaging you can also sell it extreme carnivores. Market eating herbivores as a sissy thing, a real man only eats predators. Call the brand Apex Predator.
No.11616 KONTRA
>>11613I like it.
1. Create hospitable conditions for tasty animals on your land
2. Demand the animal inhabitants to pay rent
3. If they refuse to pay they've violated your property and a swift punishment must be rendered
4. Meat.
No.11618 KONTRA
Did not know Erwin Schrödinger was a pedo. And always a little bit of esotericism is mixed in:
>Schrödinger kept a record of his sexual liaisons including children he sexually abused in a diary he called Ephemeridae, in which he stated a "predilection for teenage girls on the grounds that their innocence was the ideal match for his natural genius".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_abuse No.11619
>>11618>children>teenage girlsNow which one is it?
No.11620 KONTRA
>>11616I might be able to call myself vegan under these conditions.
No.11624 KONTRA
I spent most of the day sleeping. Also grinding down the final achievement. I skipped lunch completely.
Didn't do any Christmas shopping. Well, I ordered something for my sister anyway.
I discussed with her buying a lipstick for my mother and how she specified what colour I get. She laughed because I often mix up colours. Told her that if these things were organised along a line at the store, because all the colours are on a spectrum, even a colourblind person could buy the right one. She replied by saying "You're on a spectrum".
Sometimes I forget how sharp she can be.
Gonna go in early tomorrow. Then I'll do some shopping and come back to university for the talk with the professor.
Honestly, I'm anxious, but my health feels a lot better than it did before the exam.
No.11625
>>11618Didn't know this either. Seems like Klaus Taschwer of Der Standard has decided to jump to a national idols rescue:
https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000132657725/erwin-schroedinger-missbrauchstaeter-undoder-rufmordopferhttps://www.derstandard.de/story/2000140122217/schroedingers-verlorene-ehre-und-ein-versuch-ihrer-wiederherstellungHe makes some fair points imo, so maybe the whole affair is indeed more complex on second look, as it is quite often the case. Nevertheless it seems there might have been something rather weird (to say the least) going on with Schrödingers private life.
No.11627
They're doing a Secret Santa at work. The first I heard of it was this morning when someone asked who I picked. Told him I didn't. At the end of the day another coworker said it wasn't too late to draw a name- gifts will apparently be exchanged tomorrow- but I declined. Explained that gift giving and receiving was beyond my social capabilities. I mean, I know and converse with everyone there but would rather not be put in a position where an emotional display is expected.
No.11628
>>11625> Klaus TeschwerIt's always some 'Thorsten', 'Uwe' or 'Klaus' who explains to us why a white bio-German Alman-rapist is not really a rapist and why the victims he groomed were not really victims of grooming. Do you actually believe these white old man trying to defend a white dead man he idolizes, likely because he has unresolved Daddy-issues?
To me, it does not come as a surprise that another renowned physicist has been revealed as a sexist and a pedophile. Pedophilia is common in STEM types, as well as sexism. The chauvinism inherent in physics has long been documented. The incestuous pervert Einstein married his own cousin. Feynman preyed on female students. The list goes on.
No.11630
>>11625Anglos are notoriously prude, and I'd imagine there was some rival involved.
No.11631
>>11630> Some rival> anglos>>11625Yeah, come on. 39 year old physics professor tutors a 14 year old girl in math, even when he thinks little if women's intellectual actually.
Weird enough, but ok, maybe he did it as a favor to her parents. But stuff starts to smell when he fucks her. You maybe could maybe try to make excuses if they had met when she was 17, but that didn't happen. It looks a lot like Erwin Schrödinger, at the age of 39, tutored a 14 year old girl, planning to get into her pants. Pathetic and creepy at the same time. But that's just how STEM-NERDS are, I guess.
No.11632 KONTRA
>>11631The other schizo is way more entertaining than you.
No.11634 KONTRA
>>11632It is the schizo I'd say, but he tries to ridicule.
>>11625The family should open the archives. They are afraid of further gossip but then again why should they worry? You can be a physicist and a pedo, that's for sure.
No.11635 KONTRA
>>11632>>11634In all honesty, "I'll tutor you in math (but I want to low-key get into your pants)" would be weird if a 17 year old did it to 14 year old, but OK, and kind of cute, I guess.
If a 39 year old tries to use tutoring to get into a woman's pants, I'd say he suffers from developmental delays, behaving like a shy teenager at 40.
If he does it to hit on 14 year-old, it's downright creepy.
No.11637
>>11635You forget that in those days the potential age gaps were far wider than today, and even 14 year old girls were married to (much) older men. This was far more common even in the 19th century, and you will find many famous scholars, writers, scientists and men of reputation who had very young wives. It's a weird illness of today that people aren't able to view things in context, only through their own (very limited) 21st century lenses. If there was consent, it was not abuse, period. Even if there are people who think women are mindless puppets who can't think for themselves.
That said, it is certainly appropriate to question the way and circumstances he approached those girls.
No.11638 KONTRA
>>11637>You forget that in those days the potential age gaps were far wider than today, and even 14 year old girls were married to (much) older menthose days being the early 20st century, mainly Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland.
Statistics of average age at marriage for bavarian villages, up to the late 19th century:
https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Heiratsmuster,_europ%C3%A4ischeSo late 20s, even early 30s.
https://www.oif.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_oif/andere_Publikationen/fb99_band1.pdf, page 124, 81% of 20-24 year old women in Austra unmarried in 1934, 80% of 20-24 year old women unmarried in 1910.
https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/007975/2013-10-03/Average age at first marriage for women about 25 up to the 1950s, then falling.
Considering those statistics, I think it unlikely that 14 year old girls were routinely married to men decades older. Maybe you can substantiate your claim with sources?
No.11640 KONTRA
>>11638> were routinely marriedthere were =!= routinely
No.11641
>>11640OK, so seemingly, child marriage was so uncommon that it did not affect statistics, but socially accepted. Then provide sources on that, please. Otherwise, I will view your post as bullshit along the lines of "in the middle ages, only noblemen could afford meat".
No.11642
>>11641Sources are hard to look up with just googling because all you can find anymore pertains to immigrants bringing their child brides.
And I assume age of consent will not suffice.
I definitely remember not just one, but several people having very young brides.
Mozart married his wife when she was 17, but that's probably already too old (unless you count him meeting her when she was 14). Priscilla Presley was also pretty young when they married, although that was already far into the 20th century.
I'll come back to you when I find it.
No.11643 KONTRA
>>11641>>11638Although, actually looking at your sources, your claims are equally as unsubstantiated as mine.
The austrian one doesn't even look at the <20 years age bracket and the swiss one puts everything under 25 into one bracket.
Get better sources while I get mine.
No.11644 KONTRA
>it was common once so it is alright teenage girls marry men double their age
>these girls are not mindless puppets and can decide for themselves
Ach Ernst.
I think we can agree that teenagers don't have that much experience and cannot probably compete with people double their age on certain things. Let alone that these men double the age probably exert only through their age a certain authority. Not even saying these people are wiser or whatever, they just know more social behavior as their young brides. You can ask women who married young to rather old men and many will tell you about problematic relationship dynamics, that is the problem.
It is interesting because I talked to a girl on the street asking for her number after she smiled at me. It was dark outside pretty much but she still could have been a student, 20 or 21 maybe. Turns out she was 17 and thought that I was max 25, which is very much questionable as well from her side tbh. We stopped talking upon finding that out, since while she was attractive and I cannot see a difference to women starting out at uni (her styling was great) we have barely anything in common concerning problems and life worlds to make a relationship work. She is simply too young.
Since I'm trying to counter my depression I've come in contact with women in their early twenties (I'm ten years older than them) and I think it is pretty similar in the end. However I think I would have a sex with a women as "young" as 21. She is old enough to have experience in that regard and decide what she wants. But I would still say a relationship has an imbalance due to age. If that is the same case for sex, I don't know really.
No.11645
I need to jack off, but I am still at work.
This is torture.
No.11646
>>11628>bio-German Alman-rapistHe was bio-Austrian you folkish-nationalist Hitler-lover :DDD
No.11648
>>11646Those are the very same tbh
No.11651
>In seeking a new telephone appearance, the Bell people were confronted with a consideration in which the user was not primarily involved. The form had to be classic so that it would not be out of place with shorter-lived objects in homes and offices either at the time of introduction or twenty years later, the estimated life span of the instrument.
It is crazy to see that around 1950 people estimated a telephone lifespan to be 20 years. Forget the smartphone and still people changed their telephone probably more than twice since 1990 or what do you think, Ernst? euro-consumer-centrist question?
No.11652
>>11651I have never heard of anyone changing their phone before it became unusable in any way.
My mother's last phone was 25 years old or so when she had to replace it.
I guess planned obsolescence determined the replacement frequency.
No.11653
>>11651>Forget the smartphone and still people changed their telephone probably more than twice since 1990I think it depends on what advantages new telephones could offer. Wireless was probably the biggest game changer here. Also dial keyboard instead of rotary dial. Sound quality as well, though the old telephone with rotary dial at my grandparents place never seemed worse in sound quality than new ones tbqh. Also the possibility to have several phones for different rooms in the house has to be considered. And price of telephones obviously.
No.11656
Question: Are many website designs build in photoshop or other design programs and then these elements are cut up and put together via html/css? Or is the Youtube seach bar for example an input element stylized in CSS with border-radius etc
given that there si not some JS that does more magic>>11653My parents chanhed to wireless in the 2000s I think.
No.11657 KONTRA
Are you high IQ? How high to you estimate your own irl racist dragonball power-level?
No.11659
>>11657No, I am a perfectly ordinary midwit.
This means that statistically I am smarter than 50% of my fellow citizens, but that doesn't really mean much.
No.11661 KONTRA
>>11657>Are you high IQ?No. I did one of the better online test versions once and I got 109 as a result I think.
No.11663
>>11657What would you think if I tell you my IQ was measured 141 while in school? What will you do with that information?
No.11667
>>11657Personally, I find IQ tests to be fundamentally flawed. I've estimated my own intelligence using a patented personal formula and it was in top 1 percentile.
No.11668 KONTRA
>>11667Saaaaame bro
you're also top one percentile w/ me in my head :3 No.11669
Today I was asked if my coat is a heirloom fr though, it was an older lady who admired the coat and told me these are coming back with the young people :DDD.
Chuckle di Chuck.
No.11670
>>11663>What will you do with that information?Shrug and carry on after making a post telling you exactly that.
No.11671
Currently reading a scan of a WW2 tank manual.
I find it funny how it's written in this typical exceedingly boring bureaucrat german, although it shouldn't be surprising, but thanks to the media I probably expected something with a bit more flash and glamour.
Check this:
>In der Vorschrift D 652/43 a sind nur die Punkte enthalten, in denen das Sturmgeschütz 7,5 cm Kanone, Ausführung E, von der Ausführung A-D abweicht, die in D 652/43 beschrieben ist.
>Die Beschreibung des Geschützes und der übrigen in D 652/43 a nicht enthaltenen Teile ist aus der Vorschrift D 652/43 zu entnehmen.
or
>Zubehör- und Ausrüstungsteile sind im Fahrzeuginnern an den Wänden der Panzerwanne und des Panzeraufbaues, auf und unter dem Fußboden untergebracht (s. Bild 1 bis 4 und Beladeplan D 652/46).
For our foreigners who have no grasp (gasp!) of the german language, I will provide a shitty translation:
>Regulation D 652/43 a only contains those points in which the assault gun 7.5 cm cannon, version E, differs from version A-D, as described in D 652/43.
>The specifications of the gun and the remaining parts not included in D 652/43 a are to be taken from regulation D 652/43.
>Accessories and equipment parts are located in the vehicle interior on the walls of the glacis plate and hull, on and under the flooring (see Fig 1 to 4 and laoding plan D 652/46).
No.11672 KONTRA
>>11671>typical exceedingly boring bureaucrat germanWhy do this to yourself?
No.11673 KONTRA
I woke up early in a daze. I took some valerian to help with my sleep, and in my experience it really fucks with you if you don't sleep enough on it. I was groggy the whole morning.
I got dressed, put on my winter coat and hat and left for university, walking in the fog.
I felt like I was going to faint multiple times during the trip, especially when going up staircases. Arrived a bit early, so the building wasn't open. Checked out the other building with the official place marked for the review, but the lecturer wasn't there. I went back to the other place which was now open and sat down. Lecturer was 15 minutes late as usual.
I followed her to her office with a group of other students, all from other classes. They got handed a stack of papers. She looked at me and told me that she need some time to summarize the results for my group, and I reclined back into the desk from the shock that I'm going to get teased even more by the results. She sat down and started having at it. She said "I'm going to do yours first." and my reaction was that "I was hoping you wouldn't be doing it alphabetically", considering my name is always the last one in lists like these.
I scored 80 out of a hundred. I was one point short of getting a B, but even then, it was a 10 point increase over the midterm results, and it was a lot more balanced too, compared to that.
Checked it a few times and then I left after I wished a lecturer happy holidays.
I had lunch in the city. I ate myself really full. It felt good. I had an appetite. Then I decided to get some Christmas shopping done, so I bought my father some of those fancy Belgian seashell chocolate, my mother some cashew nuts and a lipstick and also some chocolate for my sister.
Friends remarked that buying seashell chocolate is pensioner-core, further solidifying their theory of me having a very dualistic personality split between a naive child and a stone-hearted 70 year old.
At home I drank half a bottle of tonic and just existed until I had to go back to university. Discussed something with my sister, I don't exactly remember what, but it was most likely very amusing.
Once I got back to university I realised that I mixed up the dates and the last exam before Christmas is tomorrow, not today, so I walked home. Made another trip to the store, because I forgot to buy teabags, but DM had no stock, so I just left. Kinda sucks. I have a lot of tea and herbs, but no teabags. Well, it's not like I couldn't make do without them for the past week.
Honestly, I'm craving something salty. All this sweet stuff at home is killing me. Like I've started washing my mouth with mineral water just to get the sweetness off from my tongue.
No.11675 KONTRA
>>11671This is the right choice. Keeping D 652 / 43 a limited to the points where it differs from D 652 / 43 prevents the documents from accidentally diverging when new (corrected or updated) versions are created.
No.11676
>>11657Yes. Was tested in school. Put in the
gifted class. They never told me my IQ, only that the class was for students 130+.
>>11671>For our foreigners who have no grasp (gasp!) of the german language, I will provide a shitty translation:Appreciated. Wonder what kind of accessories a tank has.
No.11678
>>11676Could’ve been tested and put in the gifted “high potential class” but refused because I wanted to integrate
No.11679
>>11676>Wonder what kind of accessories a tank has.I probably didn't choose the right word. I assume they mean stuff like starter crank, bucket, close-combat weapons, cooking utensils and such. Auxiliaries?
No.11680 KONTRA
>>11679Maybe it gets better when we do not skip the equipment?
>Zubehör- und Ausrüstungsteile sind im Fahrzeuginnern an den Wänden der Panzerwanne und des Panzeraufbaues, auf und unter dem Fußboden untergebracht (s. Bild 1 bis 4 und Beladeplan D 652/46).Accesories and equipment are stored inside the vehicle, on the walls of the tank hull and the tank body,on and under the floor (ref. Picture 1 to 4 and loading plan D 652/46).
No.11681
>>11680>when we do not skip the equipment?????
No.11686
>>11668Citing this as supporting theories.
Trying to make the AI say naughty things it shouldn't is very fun, increasingly so as they keep tightening the bolts on them. More stringest timeout systems add a lives system to trying to get the machine to spit out the desired result. 3/3
No.11688
"BPD" is just a pseudoscientific term for "being a bitch", and it should be cured by beating
No.11689
I can apply for me FreeCodeCamp certificate in HTML & CSS but I guess the projects will be reviewed by a human and while I fulfilled almost all user stories and all structural demands the styling is utter shit on all later projects.
I decided to continue with the JS section while also going through Mozillas web development course to get my hands on CSS again, mainly understanding the relationship between display modes and position of elements, which gave me frustrations so far - a clear indicator for me not understanding how these actually work. So far while it is frustrating at times to not be able to do certain things I like writing code so far as I can see results (if it works ofc).
No.11695 KONTRA
I missed a package delivery because I was sleeping. Thought to myself, "how do they expect me to be up by 8:40" and then I realised normal people wake up by then so it was me being an idiot.
Had my last exam. We just talked for an hour about the problems of studying Chinese thinkers. Professor told me about the issues he sees with my terminology.
And I see his point and the issues, but what irks me is that nobody else ever went into details like this. And I'm not sure if I have the ability to be this consequential at every turn of my writing.
Not at my current philosophical level. I feel like my utter ignorance of Aristotelianism is crippling me severely. I am observing Chinese thought, but my own lenses are dirty. I am working off instinct.
Still missing a present for dad. I just need some sort of knick-knack. Will go out to find something probably.
He tried to "trick" me today. He unplugged to coffee machine because the filter needs cleaning or something like that. I asked why he unplugged it and he said that it's because it needs to be cleaned, and if I were to just check the manual how to do it, I could clean it and I said no, because I have zero interest in repeating the same thing with the bread machine where I had to do everything with it because everyone else was too lazy to read the manual. You wanted a fancy coffee machine, you clean it. Or someone else. Or order me. Don't try to trick me by asking me to check in the manual. Be honest. Don't give me that "Would you kindly?" nonsense.
He already tried this once with the coffee machine. That time it was insulting too because he then spent the next 4 hours watching tiktok at the dining table.
Don't know what my plans are for the holiday season. I have some minor work to do. But honestly I'm not sure I want to play video games. I have Persona 5 installed but I just don't feel like starting it.
I'm definitely not gonna read more from that book on Chinese agriculture.
Plans for tomorrow: Eat that pasta in the fridge and find something for dad besides the chocolate. Help with the groceries. Desperately need to stock up on cheap tea and some tomato paste to make pizza sauce.
Also de-frosted some French pastry more savoury baking to prevent sugar-poisoning. If I eat one more Salonzukerl I'm going to fucking perish. Each year this stuff gets worse I swear.
>>11688So true.
No.11697 KONTRA
>>11695>Professor told me about the issues he sees with my terminology. And I see his point and the issues, but what irks me is that nobody else ever went into details like this. And I'm not sure if I have the ability to be this consequential at every turn of my writing. Not at my current philosophical level. I feel like my utter ignorance of Aristotelianism is crippling me severely. I am observing Chinese thought, but my own lenses are dirty. I am working off instinct.It takes a lot of time and writing to be concise, precise, information dense and with a solid base in terminology and general text/argument architecture that is not deluded by terminology but enhanced. I have a very good master grade and still my texts have their weaknesses and wonkiness, quite a few.
It takes just a lot of time. Professors see potential through quality paragraphs/sentences/thoughts but not a quality whole a person handed in would be my impression. I have been part of the people who deliver this kind of stuff it seems throughout university and I can safely assume some people do it better than me, but frankly, I seldom met people who are so brilliant that leave me way beyond, but they exist is all I know. Then again I don't study or write much on philosophy at all. A friend of mine will start her thesis on a philosophical topic soon and I was impressed by the structuring and literature review she did in advance. I finished my shit after having luck with some sources being online and available for doing the historian's craft and handed everything in half the time to get my fees money back.
You have been made aware and will act on it as well as you can. If you don't know already but check what you like about others people's writing except for wit or whatever but in how they deliver density and foundation to their argument. It can be simple things. During the last student papers I wrote I started incorporating counting (first, second, lastly, (1), (2), (3)) to better structure my arguments and points for readers after noticing it so often in texts I enjoyed reading. That is one way on how to become a good (academic) writer.
No.11701
Marx was a revisionist.
No.11702 KONTRA
>>11695>SalonzuckerlThere has to be a decent Hungarian name for that that's much better than this disgusting imperialistic Germanism.
No.11703 KONTRA
>>11697>During the last student papers I wrote I started incorporating counting (first, second, lastly, (1), (2), (3)) to better structure my arguments and points for readers after noticing it so often in texts I enjoyed reading. That is one way on how to become a good (academic) writer.I did that, my professors hated it. Itemized lists are bad.
No.11704
>>11703I don't speak about lists but enumeration.
No.11705
>>11703>>11704An example of what I mean.
>In my description of contemporary ubiquitous computing environments and data-driven sciences, I have therefore specifically drawn attention to three elements that emerge prominently in cybernetic accounts: the way contemporary discourses on data revise epistemology, create temporalities, and produce aesthetics. The book genealogically traces these three aspects of our present that are so critical to this reformulation of observation and knowledge: first, the reconceptualization of the archive and the document in cybernetics and the human sciences; second, the reformulation of perception and the emergence of data visualization and the interface as central design concerns; and third, the redefinition of consciousness as cognition in the human, cognitive, and social sciences. These three loci—the reformulation of temporality and truth, the reformulation of attention and distraction into interactivity, and the reconfiguration of reason into rationality—structure the book. My argument is that the reconceptualization of evidence, vision, and cognition are the foundations for producing new techniques of calculation, measurement, and administration. No.11706 KONTRA
>>11705And that is what counts as precise and concise in your field?
No.11707 KONTRA
>>11704> not list, but numerationThe difference is the item-token you put in front.
>>11706It has the right buzz-words, it doesn't have to mean anything.
No.11708
>>11706The enumeration gives a clear structure to the argument. That is what I used the quote for.
What further problems do you have? You don't understand what is written there?
No.11710 KONTRA
>>11709That maths excerpt you posted simply states features and conditions.
It's like saying "the car is green, has a Diesel engine and a maximum torque of 247 Nm at 2000 rpm, therefore we can achieve 200 km/h on a tarmac plane".
If we stay at the car analogy, the equivalent to your post would be some advertising gobbledigook, like "this car provides not only a way of transportation, but an entire lifestyle and its impact thereupon; first, the economical Diesel engine and its environmental impact, second, the ramifications of owning this car and increased chances with the other sex, and third the sheer ingenuity with which it was produced".
No.11711
Math is such a strict and unambiguous thing that it can be done by computers, which go over chains of syllogisms until they find one which starts with the premise of the theorem and ends with its result.
Meanwhile some sort of humanities... Top journals fell for Sokal's hoax, so yes, it's just correct buzzwords and no real meaning.
The only similarity is using terminology, unknown by outsiders.
No.11712 KONTRA
>>11710And why didn't they say so?
If you had understood the quote you would have formulated your car analogy differently.
The crucial sentence is the last one
the sentences before account for the same but in more detail, it is a summary paragraph as you may have noticed
>My argument is that the reconceptualization of evidence, vision, and cognition are the foundations for producing new techniques of calculation, measurement, and administration. Since this is an historical account ("genealogical", certain method) it is about tracing a shift in concepts (within certain sciences among other things) and thus the knowledge that makes way for "new techniques" to calculate, measure, and administrate things (people mainly to say it simple), so consequences for the practical ordering of (living) matter if you will that is also a new social and cultural ordering. In case you did not notice the humanities are just as interested in the order of things as the STEM sciences are interested in the order of things, they have different objects.
Staying with the car analogy one might try to formulate it as the use of cars shifts ideas about mobility, comfort, infrastructure, environment in a certain way which has consequences for how society or parts of society is organized, how people are differentiated and so on.
No.11713 KONTRA
>>11711You committed a logical fallacy in order to justify and maintain bad faith.
No.11714 KONTRA
>>11712>And why didn't they say so?Are you now pretending to be retarded and not understanding the utility of professional terminology?
The difference here is that the special terms make the whole thing more readable and understandable because you don't have to spend whole paragraphs on explaining the concepts behind them, whereas your use of terminology is hollow and only serves to pad and inflate, not to illuminate.
No.11715 KONTRA
>>11714>The difference here is that the special terms make the whole thing more readable and understandable because you don't have to spend whole paragraphs on explaining the concepts behindIt's the same for my quote. It mentions a lot of concepts. Since it is - like the abstract - a summery of a book these concepts will not be explained in that paragraph, obviously. I don't need to look up what genealogical means when I'm part of the research community. Just like a mathematician does not need to look up Rieman spaces or whatever if they know it from their education/research.
I have to pretend here in order to uncover your bad faith of something that is structurally similar but because it is humanities it is buzzwords of course and not a summery paragraph that for readability sake does not explain all of these concepts in-depth in a single paragraph.
No.11716 KONTRA
>>11715It's not the same though.
Let me try to make it clearer:
The syntax in the maths example is very simple, yours is not, and that's on purpose.
Btw, it was not me who brought up the totally-not-in-bad-faith maths example.
No.11717
>>117131) No, I didn't
2) You did
And thus you post is
1) Projection
2) Cope
3) Cringe
Q.E.D.
No.11718
>>11717>1) No, I didn'tYou did and if you don't see it that is concerning.
>>11716> yours is not, and that's on purpose.What is especially hard with the syntax and how do you know it is on purpose?
No.11719
>>11716> it was not me who brought up the totally-not-in-bad-faith maths example.Ehm, that was just to picture the problem with terminology that was singled out as the problem in the beginning by somebody in bad faith of the humanities. I don't have bad faith towards mathematics. Terminology has a reason. In mathematics and the humanities alike. Now we can argue about mathematics ontologically and epistemologically but I don't know too much about albeit I would be interested in it. You can use mathematics to fathom phenomena that are usually scrutinized by the humanities, the question is how far and what resulst are yielded by it. Quite simply, a rigorous method is not a guarantee for truth or a guarantee to understand everything, it is logically sound though.
No.11720 KONTRA
>>11719>I don't have bad faith towards mathematicsThen why resort to this whataboutism? Surely someone who is able to convey information in such a clear and concise manner as yourself should be able to do that without throwing others under the bus.
Unless it was all done in bad faith of course :^)
No.11721
>>11720I don't know why you are playing the retarted now but it was simply a comparison of terminology in mathematics and humanities and they equally indulge in heavily conceptual language when summarizing. Im not one of these retards who simply equal conceptual language with buzzwords.
>I don't understand it so it must be bullshit>QED XD No.11722
One the first day of Christmas my true love gave me to me -
One German bickering.
No.11723 KONTRA
>>11721>and they equally indulge in heavily conceptual language when summarizingNo matter how much you keep harping on about it, the problem is still not - and has not been from the very beginning - the use of special terminology, it's the fact that what you consider "concise and precise" is, in fact, NOT any of that, and all your replies show that very clearly, because you all you are doing is deflecting and obscuring and using many, many words to say, essentially, nothing.
>>11722Christmas isn't until monday, estafermo.
No.11725
>>11723So far you proposed several times that a summery paragraph of a book I posted is not precise and concise. Yet you never told me why that is. Why won't you be precise and concise for once?
It is precise and consice and several posts above I already stated why I think that is and why this paragraph is not hard to understand and quite clear when it comes to the structure of the book and its trajectory. Read the last sentence of that initial quote and tell me why that is not concise and sums up the argument in a rather precise way No.11726 KONTRA
>>11724But nobody gave a fuck about the Sokal ""affair"", except for smelly stem nerd incels.
No.11727 KONTRA
>>11723> it's the fact that what you consider "concise and precise" isAlso I see the misunderstanding from your side that when I posted the quote I posted that as an example of being precise and concise. I posted it forenmost because of the effect of enumeration. But I also think that for a summery paragraph this is quite clear, precise and concise. Namely: Shifts in concept/knowledge has certain consequences for how humans do things and how they order and govern things (including other people)
No.11729
>>11723>estafermoPrecise (and hurtful!) use of this word. Impressed.
No.11730
>>11724Hey, thanks for that, I may have no idea who Sokal is but reading up on Mochizuki and his proof is actually quite interesting.
No.11731 KONTRA
>>11697You know, I just feel amazed by how much of a higher level he's playing on. How even the most minor shades of meaning are so clear to him. Makes it feel like what I've been doing is nothing but putting words in order instead of meaningfully engaging with them.
Of course, there's also the fact that he's been studying and teaching philosophy and Chinese thought for over 50 years, so he got an at least 46 year headstart on me.
Not gonna lie, the trust actually feels motivating. Like yes, I could one day grasp this thing and develop a terminological apparatus that's sufficient for writing an actually good paper. (Not that my current papers are awful, they are just not precise enough.
A part of my heart is telling me he is splitting hairs on some cases when choosing words. But another, larger part of my heart is telling me that the ability to do this is important. That utilizing Kant and Aristotle and then being able to discard them while reading Confucius and Mozi is really good. I should learn my own philosophical biases.
I just experienced meeting a great Teacher (as in, someone who finds it important to impart learning onto people that attend his seminars) and I'm all fired up because of it.
No.11734
I had two clever ideas today
But I didn't write them down, and then I got drunk, now I don't remember them, I just remember that I had two clever ideas.
>>11733I'm a single man who works 1 job.
No.11735
>>11734>I'm a single man who works 1 job.A steppe survivor.
No.11736
>>11735An ethnic majority single cis man with a good job in the prime of his life in the third world has it worse than a poc single mother with working two manual labor jobs supporting disabled children in the west.
True facts.
No.11737
I have Budenkoller (cabin fever in English apparently) today after spending a week inside with Corona, but there's no place or event close by where I feel like it would make sense going to alone. I asked a friend if he wants to go out be he replied he is on holiday in Jamaica. No one has it as hard as me, my suffering is truely infinite.
No.11738
>>11737Have you tried just going for a walk (outside)?
No.11739
>>11738No, weather is shit SHIT here today. I went to LIDL tho.
No.11740
>>11737> Herpderp le coronerI love that people now have a new more dramatic sounding name for the common cold, thanks to media induced panic. It impresses no one, even the biggest idiots understand the the 'rona was just a giant nothing-burger, a made-up pandemic that made common people poorer and the rich richer and gave them the opportunity to treat their gene-manipulating vaxx on willing human guinnea pigs... Or was it sheeple???
Everyone has grasped that,
Except for you. You still think it is something special not the common cold.
No.11743 KONTRA
>>11742I love Grugman.
Whenever I happen to come across any of his takes, its usually the most blatant, brainlet regime propaganda you can find.
I don't think I ever read anything by him that wasn't a comforting lie or an idiotic attempt at whitewashing those in power.
No.11744
>>11739There is no bad weather, just bad clothing. The cabin fever can't be that bad, then.
No.11745
>>11742Lol hes shitting his pants because Biden has record low popularity, lower than even Jimmy Carter.
No.11746 KONTRA
>>11744Maybe stick your head into a gas oven, I heard there's someone in there who's interested in your retarded German boomer proverbs.
No.11747
>>11746German boomers are right, these is literally no bad weather in central European climate. No harsh winters, no tornadoes, no burning heat.
t. sitting in gas oven, looking forwards to more proverbs
No.11748
>>11741Chuckled.
>>11747I have one but it does not translate well because it is a wordplay
Lieber arm dran als Arm ab.
Better poor than having no armarm = poor Arm = arm No.11749
>>11748That's not an actual proverb though, just a Sponti saying, which is a special kind of proverb/aphorism parody.
Like "Yesterday we stood on the edge. Today we're already one step further." or "Petting not Pershing", "Blondes not bombs", "Brunettes not fighter jets".
No.11750
>>11749> just a Sponti sayingReally? I always thought older people used it like a seriously-meaning proverb. Interesting.
No.11751
>>11750>used it like a seriously-meaning proverbWait, are we still talking about "Lieber Arm dran..."?
No.11752 KONTRA
Today was awful. Woke up early, picked up the package I missed yesterday. I grabbed something for breakfast and then I had a nap and slept into the afternoon.
Sister organised a little jamboree at home for her friends and they ordered takeout so I parasitically joined up with them for a gyros.
I had a coffee and drank two glasses of coke with lunch and all the caffeine ruined my day. I probably should have aired out the room earlier.
Honestly I'm just feeling tired. I wonder if it's because I haven't been drinking my usual combo of herbal tea and coffee like I did in the week or two leading up to the exam.
I hear from friends how easy it is to get tranquillizers and anti-depressants in this country, and all I can think of is that the only reason I'm not abusing Xanax like an 8th of the population does is because I'm simply too much of a lazy and prideful cunt to go and get a prescription. As the proverb goes "Laziness is halfway there to being healthy".
Binging House MD episodes. I guess at least I'm not doing anything academic. Feeling kind of ashamed. Also most likely not helping with my usual health-related paranoia.
Honestly I'm feeling very aimless now that I'm no longer in immediate danger of dropping out. Yeah I gotta finish one translation by January but I could also do something else. Taking a nap is also great.
Still didn't buy the last present. Gonna have to do it tomorrow. Also gotta buy some tomato sauce.
Gonna clear out my room tomorrow. Also gonna bake. And start reading a novel.
On second thought, it was definitely the window. Had it open while writing this post and I already feel more awake.
>>11702Well, I could have written "Szaloncukor" but a considerably smaller number of people would have understood me I feel like.
Stuff's terrible. Each year the artificial cocoa coating gets cheaper and thinner, and the filling becomes more tasteless and sugary. I can feel the crystals grind under my teeth.
No.11755
>>11742Economics as a field is the Sokal affair of the sciences in general.
No.11757
>>11754Nice cat bro. Why so late with the presents?
What dish are you preparing? I will help out my parents here and prepare a cake for the first day after Christmas when we meet the relatives.
>>11755The models are real, Mr.
No.11759 KONTRA
>>11757The models are real. They are just not "real".
No.11760
AI will solve macroeconomics.
No.11761
>>11758Austrian economic school rejects models, math and empiric, it prefers vague "philosophical" talks about freedoms. Just like Marxism, it's pseudoscience, which has little to do with mainstream economics.
>>11743Krugman is genius, and this means that he has same demands as Schrödinger. So he has to engage in shilling in order to secure invitation to Epstein's island. Society isn't yet ready to accept him, same as it was with Turing.
No.11762 KONTRA
>>11703>>11704>>11705> using graphical stuff instead of pure words to enumerate a finite content list is bad.> look at this example, where I talk about the importance of graphical representation of data while avoiding such in my own work.kinda ironic, tbh.
>>11708> What further problems do you have? You don't understand what is written there?idk, if i understood. usually it is gud to giv content with own words in order to see if understood correctly
>>11705> i've read a book. it was about data analysis. i wanna point out 3 things:>> 1st: data be digital atm, yo> 2nd: graphical representation of multi-dimensional data is trippy af (and hard)> 3rd: the mind, bro. you need it to connect data -> graphic, graphic -> conclusion, conclusion -> whatev.>> i think these 3 thingies inspire stuff. No.11763 KONTRA
Why the fuck is it even called like this, when all the "Austrians" come from Lviv? Time to decolonize Ukrainian School of Economics.
No.11764 KONTRA
>>11763Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks.
No.11766
>>11761The pedos are not even ashamed anymore about going to Epstein's pedo island. That inbred fool son of the lizard queen at least tried to lie. Not very hard, but he did try.
For decades they told us that stories about elite clubs where they meet to abuse children are lies. Turns out it has been true all along.
Now, they tell us
> We totally did rape little girls but the stories about adrenochrome are all liesAnd sheeple believe them, lol.
No.11767
Btw., the prosecutor and many witnesses in the dutroux case died tragically young. Accidents, heart attacks, suicides. Investigator Franz Kroell who investigated Priklopil committed suicide.
I think judge Loretta Preska might soon die of suicide, and what a coincidence that would be.
No.11768 KONTRA
> what are you doing with all these pieces of paper?
> Father, we are playing corner shop and we're founding stock companies
(Father bursts into tears)
No.11770 KONTRA
I think Christmas makes the Germans more active. Nonetheless, I'm going to LIDL.
No.11771
>>11769Der feuchte Traum von Finance-Influencern
No.11774
Today I ordered some fast food delivery, but they forgot to put the condiment packets. And I thought "this is the sokal affair of food delivery".
Then later I went to the store, and at the counter one of the items couldn't be scanned, so I had to leave it behind. It was such a sokal affair ugh.
No.11775
>>11762Wow, you indeed need context, otherwise, posts such as this are born that just sound dumb and uninformed. Let me explain. Your posts is an arrogant I know what this book is about hand waving, but this book is exactly not this. Rather one might say it is about people that think like this.
I don't blame you for not knowing about the context. But multiple times it was stated that this is a summary paragraph. A summary paragraph differs from a definitory, explanation or (detailed) argument paragraph. These paragraphs differ in style and content.
>>11761>which has little to do with mainstream economics.That is why they won all these nobel prizes.
No.11776 KONTRA
>>11775My intend was to mainly ridicule the language, not the content. I've never read the book nor cared to find out where to find it; it might be a real good book.
> Your posts is an arrogant I know what this book is about hand waving"Arrogant", yes. But, like said, I know nothing about "what this book is about" :^)
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!