/int/ - certified time wasters

>>14486
>Spends every cent they make by buying too expensive things, ordering in meals, useless subscriptions, consumer loans/credit and other crap.
>and other crap
like laptops, for example.

Been error hunting, bugfixing and and on the phone with customers all day.
My brain is full of fuck, and there's a job interview in half an hour I have to attend.
I think tonight I will drink more than one beer.

>>14489
Or gadgets with airplay to connect your speakers to a multi speaker system so the level of personal convenience is developed further.
Social progress should be measured in CPI (level of) convenience per person

>>14498
I hope you understand that something being too expensive is relative to the person's wealth. If gadgets are too expensive for you, don't buy them. Don't worry about my finances.

>>14498
The indicator you propose is clearly insufficient. It does not measure the quality of life people derive from being fart-smellers.

Example:
A 'wireless speaker' is a gadget that increases convenience.

But some people feel the need to make it a point that they use airplay (TM), not DLNA or some shit like that, but the standard developed by APPLE, unlike plebs.

I suggest a new index calculated as CPI * SPI. SPI being self-perceived importance

>>14498
See, >>14499 is what I meant by >>14500.

Friday against, have a good one.

>>14500
>But some people feel the need to make it a point that they use airplay (TM), not DLNA or some shit like that, but the standard developed by APPLE, unlike plebs.
This point doesn't work at all. I would've brought up the specific protocol regardless. Be it an Apple one or not.

Anyways, this is the level of discussion you get with G*rmans. Snide and catty indirect comments. Tiresome.

>>14499
>Don't worry about my finances

I'm not worrying about your finances, I'm concerned with you buying crap products that yield a high CPI

You can twist and turn, you are a person maximizing for a high level of CPI.

>>14502
I'm not talking to you, I'm talking about you. Keep out of this.

>>14503
>>14504
yeah

Today is the first day of elections of Putin of Russia.
Also it's maslenitsa. Pre-christian holyday of coming spring. Everyone eats bliny. They are the most tasty with sour cream, honey and caviar.

>>14503
>CPI
What kind of bullshit job terminology acronym is that now again

>>14507
Don't know what a CPI is?
Bro, start symbol decodemaxxing

Today was a national holiday. I wasted a bit of time on politics out of morbid curiosity. It wasn't worth it. Marginally funny at best. I'm really better off doing my own thing.

Sowed the pepper seeds. Hopefully I'm not too late, but the packet said third month of the year so it should be fine. Spent some time in the garden and read. Not a new discovery, but I love Nietzsche. I'm reading him and some of the lines make me want to cry from joy.
The weather turned colder in the afternoon so I came back inside.

Started working on my thesis. So far the progress has been disappointing, I managed only 30% of the planned 10k keystrokes for the day, but the intro chapter is now finished. Still, that's roughly 10% of the minimum length knocked out in a day.
I'm determined to see this through.

>>14511
>intro chapter is now finished

You haven't written your thesis but your introduction which frames and sums the thesis is finished?
Introduction is written last. You might want to pin ideas as notes for the introduction of course. But why write a full text already?
Kids these days have weird behavior going on.

>>14512
He probably meant the actual intro chapter, not the summary.

>>14516
Ok, maybe this is a word issue. But what is an intro chapter if not the introduction?
An introduction in the humanities frames the work/text, states the thesis and research question(s) and sums up what the argument will be **in a book that would be "in chapter 1 xyz is ... chapter 2 traces..."
Both introduction and summery are written last simply because you usually don't know what the middle part will exactly look like until you have written it out. Only when that has happened you can give a fitting introduction and summery.
My guess would be that Hungary is not the only student who writes a paper chronologically and then edits a lot later? but I simply cannot fathom why people do it like that. Seems like unnecessary work or even worse: bad research because your paper is put on rails.

>>14517
>>14512
I don’t intend to write it chronologically. I knocked out the intro part because I have 30-35 pages of material I can already work from due to the essay competion I took part in.
I’ve done the research over the past few years and produced texts on the topic before, so I know what the middle part will look like, kind of, I just need to produce a text that can be my BA thesis.

If it’s “on rails” then it’s because I’ve painstakingly built the tracks over the past 2 years myself.

Been procrastinating kinda hard, it's just too much homework and presentations and reports lately and it all just seeps into the weekend. I really don't envy the people who study here full-time.

>>14471
>I don't know what she wants and I don't want to hurt her. Not sure how experienced she is with this stuff. I can be very tenderly to a woman even if I don't really love them, simply because I couldn't imagine otherwise. Like a love simulation. I enjoy it myself probaly also because it comes with less responsibility but it can be very hurtful if the other party mistakes that for an expression of true love.
Sounds like a dangerous game to me tbh

>But you are in China now with through your degree, right? Or is it not a masters degree?
I'm here as part of a second bachelors

>>14512
As an accomplished multi-disciplanary researcher with several publications under his belt, I would assume Hungaryball has this stuff figured out by now :^)

>>14519
I still find it irritating tbh.

When I write a thesis I gather material just like you did (over the course of a long period even). Then put it together into an argument and only at the end when I know what this argument written out looks like I will write the intro and conclusion. Because even when I broadly know at the beginning what the argument will be like because I already know the material to be utilized, the actually produced middle part might give away things you did not know before writing. Or you restructure the argument while writing etc etc. Writing from the material itself can change how you think about the material, hence "determining" this in the intro seems unnecessary work for it will probably change.

That said, writing an abstract, or a proposal for a thesis is a good thing of course.
My PhD proposal has 9 pages, 5 of them are the proposal "proper". The proposal frames the project, states research questions, assumptions and expected results (so in essence it's already a mini argument), Such a text works as orientation for yourself and others, your supervisor or some commitee not as rail but guiding star through a still rather foreign country that I of course read a lot about in the available literature and know briefly from short research trips (student papers) building tracks to travel is fine but building a track to ride an argument on it while not having written out that argument seems wrong to me.
Maybe you simply use the intro text as such an orientation then and will edit it later on. Then what I think of as a proposal might be your introduction. To me using it as an introduction might entail the danger of writing fitting to the introduction and not the other way around where the introduction is fitted to the argument as it is made in the main part.

It's like this fine difference when it comes to research questions:

How did the italian economic output influence Germanies war efforts?
Did the italian economic output influence the German war efforts?

The first question already assumes it is true, the later asks if it is true at all. It is the better question, though with enough material, the assumption underlying the first question can be justified.

Like I get what you mean but do keep in mind that at some point you actually have to sit down and write this shit and not just develop endless new paradigms to make it more sophisticated.
I've spent over two fucking years of this shit. It needs to be written, not jerked off over at this point. I'm not a fucking imbecile I know how to write a fucking paper even without you explaining thought patterns and methods to me as if I was a Balkan chimpanzee.

I'm probably lashing out but the point is that it's infinitely more beneficial for it to exist in any form than for it to be in a perpetual state of increasing and fluid sophistication in my head.

>>14530
>for it to be in a perpetual state of increasing and fluid sophistication in my head

That was not what I said is what you should be doing at all.

Let's give it a rest. I'm not thinking you won't make it, to be clear here.

Progess has been slower than I expected, but I've managed to increase the amount of text considerably.
Wrote a chapter about Zhou society.
Re-checked the style guide and it's actually 40k characters without spaces, so I'm going to have to put a bit more work into this than I expected. Still, I'm almost a quarter of the way done with it in two days.
Honestly the only reason I feel at all despaired is because I'm just simply tired at like 2AM.

I doubt an appendix counts to the total character limit but I will add my Hanfeizi chapter translation to it as an appendix. Just gotta edit it a bit into a coherent Hungarian text. Though I had to recover it from among my emails because I somehow misplaced it. I seriously gotta re-arrange my filesystem.

I did some shopping. Weren't that many people at the store despite the closures the previous day. Some old cunt kept staring at me as I was buying pastries as if I killed a man or something. The weather was meh so I didn't go outside to read. My right eye kept twitching for a bit.

>>14536
> Writing papers at 2AM

When I was your age, I was coding at 2AM, so I can kind of relate. But now that I have reached the stage of white-bearded wizardry, I dispense the following piece of unsolicited advice:

Nights are for sleeping. Days are for working. A regular sleep schedule is going to help your mental health.

>>14536
how much time do you have to finish this thing?

Heh, reminds me of the time I wrote the main body of my master thesis during a Magic Man energy drink fueled all-nighter.
Sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

>>14538
The timetable says the deadline for uploading it is April 15th.
So about a month, give or take. But I desperately want to avoid doing what I did for the contest where I did it during the last week.
The sooner and cleaner I take this out, the more time I will have for the actual battle: The modern Chinese final exams which are the last actual hurdle in getting this fucking degree.
At least to me, writing this just feels kind of like a formality. I won an award for a BA-style text before, I’ve been published, so it’s not like this thing is proving my abilities or anything. I just need the text to serve this purpose until the sun dies.

>>14537
I know. But for some reason my mind works the best between eleven to two ‘o clock in the evening. For some reason the great leap forwards always come in that timespan. Don’t know why.

But I’m actually feeling great right now unironically. Even if I’ve went to bed late. Don’t know why. Could be the sun. Or the magnesium. Or the iron. Idk. What matters is that I got out of that slump in like 2-3 days and I’m back to feeling like I can achieve anything.

Despair migth wash over me from time to time, but I’m never letting it soak me again.

>>14541
Feelings are like the weather, just very much more variable. Just need to understand them to deal with them better

t. cognitive behavioral therapy emotion tracker app

Anyway, a month for 40k characters is very much doable if you have 30-35 pages of material, just be consistent. Go to the library and do 2-3h/day and you will finish fine and on time.

>>14542
*but not everyday, not necessary, take some breaks.

>>14544
I'm quite glad I went through my formative years in subcultures where it'd be incredibly gay to dance like this. I've never had to learn how to really dance in order to achieve ulterior goals. People celebrate the shedding away of machismo but they never consider the benefits wasted.

>>14545
>it'd be incredibly gay to dance like this

Interestingly, it originated in the 1920s, a period less gay than you will ever be. It was when men were men, Capiche?

I don't like shuffle dance but the charleston is a step occuring in different dance styles including the one I'm doing and the tutorial is breaking it down quite well, gotta train my dance vocabulary

>>14546
The 1920s in big cities were incredibly gay.

I am at a point in my job again where I can't stop thinking about it. I actually woke up this morning thinking about work.
This is not good, and it's the fault of the upper management. There are changes bound to happen over the next six months or so, but if it doesn't get better, I will have to look for another job.

>>14547
Shhh, that is gay revisionist history!

Imagine not shuffle dancing to Elvis. smh

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6XOTIKbnp_g

>>14546
>a period less gay than you will ever be
>"Gee whizz! I took my baby down to a Broadway show and the cats on stage were all doing this new nifty dance!- The Charleston, why, it's the real bee's knees! We're going down to this juice joint come Saturday and me and my dame are gonna let our flappers down and wow the crowd with our dapper moves!
You raging homosexual, you.

Maybe this man has a point:
>>14552

>>14553
>raging homosexual

Ok but never call me dapper again, or I will put out my cigarette on your forehead and kill you.
Do you dance or did you grow up moshpit punk or whatever that is?

>>14544
Why are you so antisemitic? I thought, Soviets has beaten that out of you 80 years ago.

>>14554
Mosh pits but also dancing to a slow song with a grille or simply rocking back and forth in a nightclub. As judged by society, choreographic dancing is for women and gays. Not that being a good dancer is something bad, but it very easily veers off into something that can make you appear overeager. Generally, I think condemning artistic expression as unmanly is very negative for the well-being of men. But as someone who doesn't really know how to dance, I can't say I haven't welcomed it. I'm damned if I'm gonna watch tiktok videos to learn dances, and having a culture that didn't expect me to is an unexpected boon. Not that I'd always deny learning how to dance, it's a great skill and something I've missed when abroad - because people are racists and they expect the brown one to bust it down. Society, and the difference in expectations towards men between them.

Stavropol pancake elephant.
Mysterious russian soul.

>>14557
Starvopol :DDddD

>>14557
Stunning display of autochthonous art.

>>14555
>Why are you so antisemitic?

I am not an app.

>>14560
> it's organization which is problematic, and I was just following orders
You have learnt nothing since last time.

>>14556
>nightclub

That is what my dancing experience prior to taking classes boils down to.

>that can make you appear overeager.

I dance a variety of street dance, apparently. Usually, these are cool? I'd say dancing is intimidating because it demands being comfortable and secure with your body and its movements.

>Generally, I think condemning artistic expression as unmanly is very negative for the well-being of men.

Yes, though that appears to be the case only for certain artistic expressions. Many men are and have been very successful artists without being perceived as unmanly, probably the majority of them.


>But as someone who doesn't really know how to dance, I can't say I haven't welcomed it.

Well you should try, it is fun and rewarding once you feel it.

>I'm damned if I'm gonna watch tiktok videos to learn dances

Certainly not to learn goofy ahh dance moves :DDD

Attached footwork is what I will try soon as this is from the style I actually learn and it combines steps I already know. It has been 5 months now that I started and I will finally start to combine moves instead of learning them in isolation. My goal is to be able to freestyle to music in a few years so I can dance and feel good and be thus more resilient toward depression :DDDD whenever I want to (and with others hopefully).

>the brown one to bust it down

Will you go to Salsa class with me, Ernesto? I want to do that soon to learn some latin heat moves (diversify my dance experience) and maybe get to know some cute grills. Dance classes are 95% women btw. no surprises here

>>14561
You posted an article snap that said TikTok is antisemitic and asked me why I am. Logically, I have to tell you that I am not an app, not sure why you think I am but I'm not surprised by some of your intellectual merits anymore, fam.

>>14563
It must be really hard being so far beyond everyone else both intellectually and morally