/int/ - certified time wasters

>>13255
Probably not much higher than the share of people under 40.

Had no luck with the coffeemaker. The price was right, the material was right, but it seemed like it’d hold too little coffee for my taste during the brewing process.
When did this happen that basically everything is the same on type of product but just a different no-name branding? Maybe I just never noticed as a kid.

Got a new pair of running shoes. They worked fine for the treadmill session. Had an absolute schizo moment while shopping because I noticed that a repeating graphical element on the shopping cart looked like the numeral for 6 in Hebrew and of course it repeated 3 times, making it 666.

I fell asleep during the afternoon. It seems to have cured some of my problems. It’s raining.
I had another odd dream, this time I had a bumb on my head. I think I just had a cancer-related dream.

Tomorrow I’ll go to the Far Eastern library and borrow some stuff and work there on my article. Though the place has the most terrible opening hours this semester.
Also reserved a copy of a book at the German Institute. I’m going to do a lot of stuff this semester. People will think I’m crazy, but I will be in the best shape possible.

The votes have been counted and the winner has been declared. Behold, the bresident of Binland.

Ordered new headphones and a microphone. Hope they're better than the logitech gamer headset I got couple of weeks ago. Have to go return that piece of crap.

>>13254
Hell yeah brother! Did you place any bets for the Super Bowl games?

>>the bresident of Binland
Number 8 on the ballot, but number 1 in our hearts.

>>13260
>Did you place any bets for the Super Bowl games?
ofc. DraftKings had a promotion where any $10 bet would earn a $10 bonus bet. I put that on a parlay: Kansas City money line win, and 3 players with high probability yardage totals. Kelce over 36 receiving, Mahomes over 10 rushing, and Kittle over 25 receiving. In retrospect the parlay could be my undoing, as any single event can ruin the line. Mahomes is elusive, but not really a running quarterback. Either way, $10 to pay out $28 seemed like a fair wager. And, win or lose, I have that bonus bet. So, it's basically house money.

>>13262
Interesting. I didn't know there were so many things to bet on. Anyways, rooting for you(r bets)!

Also, forgot:
>When filling a glass with water, I invariably swirl a small amount around the bottom and dump it before refilling to drink. Even when the glass is unquestionably clean.
Sames, but not necessarily with swirling. For me it stems from having to run the tap for 1-2 seconds before the water is cold enough to drink. So I use the lukewarm water to "wash" the glass. I don't think I do this when I'm on cabins with no running water. Bottled water has to be conserved.

>>13263
>When filling a glass with water, I invariably swirl a small amount around the bottom and dump it before refilling to drink.
I eben leer that Tap run until the water runs cold because I don't want to drink water that has standard in the pipes for hours. How exuberant of me!

I actually forgot to mention this but apparently they did publish those Chinese ghost stories I translated last year they just didn’t tell me. So I had to write the magazine a letter because they published it under the name of the wrong author and I also want to get paid for it, because they paid me the last two times.
I wonder if they’ll just tell me to beat it or if I’ll actually get like a token sum.

>>13262
The parlay was, in fact, my undoing. 3/4 legs hit. Kittle- who had gone over 25 receiving yards in 11 of his last 12 games- finished with 4.


>>13263
The options for betting are nearly endless. With Live Betting and Flash Props you can even lose money by guessing the result of each play. This app is like formerly known as Twitter opened a casino.

>>13264
>I don't want to drink water that has standard in the pipes for hours.
Feel known. When switching the tap from hot to cold, I let it run to clear the faucet. Don't want to drink water that has been sitting in my hot water tank for God knows how long.

>>13265
Pic related.

Dr. Carmack' condition is IRREVERSIBLE.
Because Dr. Carmack's condition is that he's trans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f7iH2UxXV0

>>13244
Sexual selection is done by women because they have higher cost of choosing wrong partner.
For man mating with low quality woman is a matter of one load of cum. For woman choosing low quality man means bearing a child for 9 months, caring about it for years, and all of that during short period of fertility. Better not to waste so many resources on bad genes.

>>13270
Being trans is reversible, for many people, especially teens, it's a temporary phase. But genital mutilation isn't reversible.

>>13271
Cultural inventions make these obsolete. You can easily decrease the "costs of mating" these days.

>>13272
Evolution doesn't catch up with these rapid changes.
That's like our bodies are adapted for physical activity and food scarcity, so if you work at office and have cheap ready food for microwave, you can easily become obese.

>>13273
>Evolution doesn't catch up with these rapid changes.

Says who? I agree that some things are quite ingrained but to me this sexual selection statement makes no sense. Cultural artifacts definitely interfere and change evolution and that can happen quite fast.
I would even agree that women seek tall men but given the mating dynamics that are visible in public I say these don't play a really big role. There is probably a lot more to that selection than what some dudebros take on evolutionary theory has to offer it is probably just evolutionary psychology papers diluted through randos who sum up papers online.

>>13275
selection process*

>>13275
>Cultural artifacts definitely interfere and change evolution and that can happen quite fast.
ARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT EVOLUTION THIS HURTS ALMOST AS MUCH AS "IT'S JUST A THEORY"

>>13277
Well, do you want to tell me that the theory of evolution with all its subfields has not changed since its inception?

>>13278
Define "changed". Define "subfields". Improve your english.

>>13279
>Define "changed"

Do you have a basic idea of how science works or the history of science?
Knowledge about things can change and has changed in the sciences. This usually can be attributed to new discoveries, new questions, new methods of research and so on. Of course, some basic things probably do not change or not change as drastically.

>Define "subfields"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Subfields_of_evolutionary_biology

>Improve your english.

I think that English was quite correct and had enough informational load at this point. If you would use your brain for more than being angry you could have guessed where my statement is pointing at.

>>13275
>Cultural artifacts definitely interfere and change evolution and that can happen quite fast.
Yes, humans are complex social creatures. For example, we have culture of gyms to compensate for the lack of physical labor.

Same way there are non-biological (but cultural) adaptations in a sphere of sexual selection, for example institute of monogamous marriage. But structure of modern society creates all incentives for women to sleep exclusively with high value males and intensifies this biological mechanism instead of countering it.

>>13280
>Deflecting and unwarranted smugness without actually answering the questions
Ah, it's you. Before I tell you to fuck yourself, consider the following:
Evolution is still not considered a directed process and any "cultural" component is most likely not old enough to make any difference on an "evolutionary" time scale.
"Evolutionary psychology" or whatever broscience this is about is considered that - broscience, or even a legit, intentional scam.
Therefore this whole discussion is pointless and has been from the very beginning.
Now go fuck yourself.

>>13281
>But structure of modern society creates all incentives for women to sleep exclusively with high value males

When I step out of the door I see the opposite tbh. Maybe you should do that too instead of consuming red-pilled infographics on Stacy's sex life.

>intensifies this biological mechanism instead of countering it.

If that is benefical and good, why complain?

>>13282

Stop lying, as if you are interested in a discussion.

>Evolution is still not considered a directed process

Where did I say it was directed? Learn to read.

>any "cultural" component is most likely not old enough to make any difference on an "evolutionary" time scale.

The (in)voluntary transport of animals and plants through vehicles like ships and such probably had an effect on (local) evolutionary processes of different species.

I'm still waiting for the proof that women only mate with tall men and men exclusively want big titted women for mating. Sexual attraction is part of the selction process but I refuse to simply accept that there is nothing else without an actual argument. Since it is broscience I don't expect anything to come despite opinions from an imageboarder that I should accept their knowledge on evolution.

>>13284
> When I step out of the door I see the opposite tbh.
Dude, you live in a country where parent tests are banned. The encouraged female strategy in Germany is to sleep with high status male (who has plenty of other women) and let the state or other male take care of your children.
You can tell me what you see, but I'll just ask two questions as an illustration:
1) Portugal, how many partners have you had?
2) Hungary, how many partners have you had?

> If that is benefical and good, why complain?
Well, whether it is good or bad is another question, we can discuss it if you want. So far I've just claimed ( >>13226 ) that this contradicts dominant egalitarian ethics: "low quality male -> doomed for loneliness and that's your problem".

>>13285
>Dude, you live in a country where parent tests are banned.
How is the father confirmed in a contested case then? Why wouldn't every woman claim that the father is the richest man in G*rmany? Or to make it a little more provable, claim that the CEO of their workplace is the father or something.

I need to become a birthing person and move to G*rmany.

>>13285
And you live on the internet, did you major in incelnomics?

Going out in the street I see a lot of normal people whom neither seems high status to me. And I doubt that some "high value men" whatever that is but I expect a chad archetype even care about these people.

People are generally having less sex, especially young people is what I can remember from news.

I went to the Far Eastern Library today and borrowed the first volume of the Hanfeizi again. Talked a bit with the librarian. Apparently the Monday opening hours are shit because a Tibetan studies class booked the library. Which is funny because I was late and crashed through the door 5 minutes before closing and nobody showed up for that class, save for a group of Japanology students and their lecturer who got lost trying to find another room on campus.

While I was commuting the shoulder strap on my bag snapped. The hook holding together the bag and the strap fell apart. I don’t think it’s broken, it’s just that I lost the spring from the hook, so it needs to be replaced. So I have to carry it around like a briefcase until I can get it fixed.

Picked up that old volume of Germanic epics at the German Institute’s library. I made a funny observation about how the book is called the “Little book of Heroes” and how it was also physically small, and the librarian didn’t seem amused. She just told me that it’s also old and hard to read.
The thing that I found interesting besides the text itself is how the book was from 1859 and apparently the university owned it since 1861.

Afterwards I scooted over to the central library and read there for a while and also just generally wasted time I think.
Almost done with the tarot book and I’m going to power through the entire Hanfeizi again in preparation for my thesis.
I need to concentrate harder on things. Though I feel like I also made good progress today. But I still feel like I could be more effective.

Tomorrow’s the first Chinese class of the semester and I gotta confess that I slacked off. It’ll be humiliating. But I will climb back to the top by next week.

Still doing the exercises. Even if some days I feel a bit tired and sore.
I also had an odd dream before I woke up. It was adventurous and esoteric. Though the only part I can remember is my mother pointing at a book with a red spine and a library binding. Which I assume is the Stalin-version of History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, because it’s the only book in my collection that looks like that.
I guess I shouldn’t be reading too much into my dreams. Considering I also dreamed about Sienkiewicz’s “Crusaders” before even hearing about the book but then I proceeded to never read it.
I have a lot of dreams nowadays. Most of them are just simply unpleasant. Not nightmares, just unpleasant or violent.

Oh, and the magazine wrote back. They corrected the error and handed my payment claim to the responsible person in the office. So in the coming days I will probably set the wheels in motion to sign the contract and mail it back to them. All is well that ends well I guess. I will spend this money on Chinese books probably.

Billion lines long posts. We’re so back.

>>13287
> Going out in the street I see a lot of normal people whom neither seems high status to me.

That you see such couples is a consequence of male civilization forcing women to make mating choices they do not desire. Due to economic circumstances and prevailing social norms, women are pressured to enter sexual relationships with men who are not attractive to them. We could call this rape culture. That you are unaware of these anthrocentric, opressive, sexist aspects of male civilization signifies your blindness for female realities. Underrepresentation of female narratives in the public discourse normalizes these seemingly equal pairings, which are forced on women, who are oppressed and used as the collective property of all men and are not allowed to freely choose the sexual partners they desire.

If you speak German, I suggest you read 'Female choice'by Meike Stoverock. It has been reviewed very positively, for example in taz, see
https://taz.de/Biologin-ueber-Gendertheorie/!5755490/

The author is a woman, not an incel.

>>13290
>taz
Like posting an anti-immigration article from the NZZ lmao

Sure, within that highly ideological framework that's a rather sane kind of attitude presented there, although the conclusions drawn are pretty speculative, and highly questionable in my opinion (like talking about medicine being tailored to men, when we have specialized doctors for women, but not for men), especially that part about gender. A hormonal imbalance is not a gender, it's a medical condition (and unlike what the article is suggesting, she says herself that it's her opinion).

>>13290
>The author is a woman, not an incel.

Femcel, bro. Do you think because it is taz I will say nothing against it? Do you think I'm not wary of all types of evolutionary explanations that mix with politics? It's a common pattern.
Also I wish somebody would explain to me how both incels and this women go so crazy over the 80/20 rule (I think it is common in economics?) which appears more like a handy claim for interpretation than anything. It's really interesting how these people mix biology and economics. Perfect ideological springboard.

>>13291
> Taz

funny how we are attacking the messenger again, isn't it? I think you are a beta male or gamma male afraid of losing his male privilege, because you know it is all you have.

Alpha men welcome the sexual freedom of women and are happy to explore sexuality together with women, while the weak betas and the pathetic sub-betas are bike sexists and oppressors who give all women the creeps. Like you. Yuck, you are giving off really rapey vibes!

>>13292
>go so crazy over the 80/20 rule
The Pareto principle, as it is also called, is used to identify factors that have the highest impact with the lowest investment, i.e. how 80% of results are achieved with 20% of effort. It does NOT mean that 20% of men get 80% of women, or whatever the interpretation is supposed to be here.

Will the 20% of high value men want to mate with 80% of the women that exist anyway? Not sure if I'm part of the 20% but I had sex in the past and my last affair texted me if I would be in town again soon, I guess that is what female choice looks like according to other sources what Meike S. understands as high value men when its female choice are those with the highest intelligence and a portfolio of skills. So Ernsts can sleep calmly now.

>>13292
> Do you think because it is taz I will say nothing against it?
You can't call her incel, can you? You can't claim she's a red-pilled woman-hater, can you?

>Do you think I'm not wary of all types of evolutionary explanations
Why? Do you believe humans are ethereal beings devoid of biological urges?

> Over this 80/20 rule
Are you serious or is this very successful trolling? Are you writing this with a straight face? 80/20 rule is a consequence of pareto distribution.

>It's really interesting how these people mix biology and economics.
The Pareto distribution only exists in economics, obviously. Micro-economics, to be precise. Nothing outside economics follows a pareto-distribution, ever. It's not like the degree of nodes in scale-free networks is pareto-distributed, and it's not like scale-free networks are common as dirt, from the Internet to social graphs.

Some stuff that's apparently pareto-distributed from fucking wiki fucking pedia:

> Clusters of Bose–Einstein condensate near absolute zero
Fucking physicists, mixed in economics here!

> Fitted cumulative Pareto (Lomax) distribution to maximum one-day rainfalls using CumFreq, see also distribution fitting
Fucking meteorologists, they obviously measure precipitation the wrong way, otherwise, their results would not be distributed like personal wealth

> Sizes of sand particles [26]
Damn, mixing economics and sand!

> The size of meteorites
They need to stop mixing economics and astrology! If we rid ourselves of market-logics, sizes of meteorites will follow a continuously uniform distribution! Establish social justice among meteorites!

>>13296
>You can't call her incel, can you? You can't claim she's a red-pilled woman-hater, can you?

I could call her a femcel.
Maybe she is some sort of twisty mix of radfem and libfem.

>Why? Do you believe humans are ethereal beings devoid of biological urges?

Ach Ernst, you simply don't want to understand that science and ideology can make very good bedfellows, do you?

>pareto distribution

Ok and while you wasted all your energy on my bringing together evolution and economics might be fishy (because see above) you should rather deliver on why the Pareto distribution is a fact/applicable in mating, whether true now or will be an observable fact once the female choice society has been instantiated.

>>13297
I could call you an idiot and be done with this.

>>13298
Then I simply have to assume you cannot deliver.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einzelsiedlung
Apparently Germans have an historical official way to refer to a lonely structure in urbanistic terms. And it’s a very old medieval term still used today. I‘m amused

Yes, but have you considered human nature

>>13301
> I'm amused
The Germans also have a word for when someone splits compoundnouns, that word is Deppenleerzeichen, meaning 'space character introduced by idiot'. Since the idiots usually win, we will soon neither have a word for einzel Siedlung nor for Deppen leer Zeichen, and 'the Germans have a word for that' will stop being a thing, since it's purely a result of the German idiosyncracy (or idio syncracy?) of writing compound nouns in closed form. (As opposed to openform.)

It's amazing just how different the Ernsts on /b/ are from those on /int/.
In fact, /int/ sometimes feels like /fefe/, just with less informed opinions.

>>13304
True. In some way this is a strength of EC, it's basically two boards with different culture coexisting. Good for german Ernsts who can enjoy whatever they prefer in a given moment: The autistic arguing of /int/ or the laid back shitposting on /b/. I only feel a little bad for non-german speaking Ernsts, because they don't have that choice.

>>13305
>because they don't have that choice.
What, not learning german?

>>13305
>>13306

Imagine learning German and then finding out German Ernsts were lying and /b/ is also autistic.

I'd say the difference between /int/ and /fefe/ is a matter of language proficiency in the end. My vocabulary is greatly diminished in English which has an impact on how I will argue.
Any tips are welcome on how to improve English vocabulary. I used Anki but the sets I used weren't that good was my impression.

>>13306
I had an idea of reading and posting in /b/ through online translator to see how fast you will notice anything.
But /b/ turned out to be silly and boring

>>13307
>Any tips are welcome on how to improve English vocabulary.
Arguing autistically in English.
Preferably with native English speakers thought.

It's how I expanded my vocabulary.
t. autistic arguer.

>>13285
I prefer not to answer, while my number of encounters are limited enough that I could go and count them up, I would rather not relive them. Less than you'd think.

>>13307
Read books. It's that simple. Imageboards actively damage one's English skills due to all the dirty non-natives.

>>13270
I'm sorry I haven't called.

>>13311
>Read books. It's that simple.

Did you specifically mean novels or books in general?
I consume a lot of English language media already. Mainly academic but still. That said I think novels can be challenging vocabulary wise. Maybe I should read more novels. English language poetry I imagine can also be a pain in the ass depending on whom you read but I assume it is there were you can run quickly into not knowing words.

I had to write an English research proposal and after finishing, I ran it through chatgpt and every paragraph was basically fine but the details made it really "native" sounding and I knew all the suggested vocabulary changes. A bit frustrating. My passive vocabulary is quite good. Some phrases and special fields vocabulary lacks, though. The latter is not really a problem as long as my special field is known to me.

>>13312
Academic papers are limited in their vocabulary by their nature. Go read Confederacy of Dunces if you haven't already.

Going to the army and losing a limb is technically an IRREVERSIBLE identity-affirming surgery.

tired of veteran propaganda in mass media. especially veteran pride parades. look, I don't care what you do as long as it's in the privacy of your own home

did you know that 99% of veterans who go through IRREVERSIBLE identity affirming surgery regret their decision and want to de-veteranize?
Worse, they want US to pay for their medical bills. NOT ON MY TAXPAYER DOLLARS