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 No.14564 SYSTEMKONTRA [Last 50 Posts]

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>>14093

Now with 10% more dance content

 No.14566

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Let's dance

 No.14567


 No.14568

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I want to be euthanized before I'm unable to walk. I guess everyone would want that. Except for assholes like pic related who seemingly only lives to spite healthy people and make ever increasing demands of society.

> No 24 hours of help-helpers is not enough!

> It's so unfair that I'm supposed to contribute to the cost!
> I need 24 hours of help-helpers for free!
> And I need all cable ways to be wheelchair accessible!
> And all climbing routes!

 No.14569 KONTRA

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 No.14570

You cannot even make an imageboard joke IRL without being in danger, sad what happened to the world.

 No.14571 KONTRA

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You can never tell if a G*rman post is a retarded bait or a serious post by a total retard.

 No.14572

>>14571
Haha good joke my mongol friend!

 No.14573 KONTRA

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>>14571
Be careful what you say with a physiognomy like this!

 No.14576

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>>14570
It's funny because he looks like the guy from the BWL-Björn meme. Just trying to come up with a proper english version, but can't. Just imagine a rich kid with a stereotypical slimy rich kid's name who looks like Draco Malfoy and studies economics, and at age 20 wears clothes more expensive than your first car.

While we're at it please also imagine a comic where the club promoter became a graveyard gardener, and is working on the boys grave and saying "Oh my god, he was right all along". Badum-tss.

 No.14577

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The only plausible explanation:
The finn got anxious about a revenge punch from one of the countless delivery donkeys that spent their energy to maintain his high CPI.

 No.14578

>>14576
I think it is BWL Justus.

 No.14579

Work continues.
Whatever state it's in I'm sending it in for a round of consultation on Tuesday just to see what the professor thinks.
Edited together Appendix B, which is the first chapter of the Hanfeizi in Hungarian.
Appendix A will be Han Fei's biography from the Shiji probably. If not I will just rename B to A and that's it.

I feel like completing a chapter a day is probably the best. Like I'd like to hit 10k characters a day, but working on a smaller, self contained thing, revising it a bit and then not overburdening my thoughts while I can afford it is probably a sensible approach. Like I'll complete a biographical chapter and then set tomorrow's target and follow from there.

Dunno if I want to go to the library tomorrow. It's a lot better to work on it at home with two screens at my disposal than just on the tablet.

>>14568
>I want to be euthanized before I'm unable to walk.
Reminds me how my mother whenever she has to deal with an elderly relative's nonsense she afterwards turns to me and my sister and tells us "If I ever become like that, just shoot me."

 No.14580 KONTRA

>>14579
>Dunno if I want to go to the library tomorrow. It's a lot better to work on it at home with two screens at my disposal than just on the tablet.

Be where you get shit done the way you ideally want it get done. I need to go to the library because otherwise I will distract myself in a cozy home environment (working in bed). Luckily one screen suffices for what I do

>Like I'd like to hit 10k characters a day


You need 40k characters, 4k/day (about 1.5 pages with standard format I think) gets you plenty of time to revise when you have about 25 days left.

 No.14581

Got into an internet beef in a forum I go to. I found that a guy who was well liked was being malicious in some pattern to certain women. I thought he was clever enough that I could tell him to chill out, I saw him being good to a few depribros but it didn’t go as planned. So I was in his sight too, so he "bantered" until I told him I thought he was an asshole. It’s all so pointless, but the shit has become my primary source of interaction. And with this asshole against me I think it will be hard to get to a positive experience. I cope by telling myself it gives me an excuse to not go there anymore and to go out a bit

 No.14583 KONTRA

Also damn I wish I could play video games. But complete abstinence is the only option if I want to achieve the goals I've set.

Been thinking and I think that once I start working I will probably take up a sport to do on Fridays or something. Probably cliché but I think I will give kendo a try simply because I feel like it'd make my movement "more cultured". Plus I think it'd be good for the soul too.

>>14580
Well, the reason I'm not hitting 10k is probably because I feel like I have time, so there's really no "pressure". It's a comfortable pace. I was at like 9k yesterday, today I'm at around 14k, so ~5k is the realistic amount I guess.
During the writing of the previous paper for that competition I reliably knocked out 10k a day during the worst parts of it, but there's no pressure like that now.

I guess the only "Cheating" I do is just that I include every quotation from the classics in the original too for ease of use and findability. (And because I would personally expect it to be there. I know others are using English translations to draw their conclusions, but I'm using the originals and I want whoever is evaluating it to know that I'm just simply better.)

Honestly I find it odd how sensible this is. Like I'm not doing something the last minute and I will have time for the exams and everything. Feels like I've grown.

 No.14584

>>14583
>Like I'm not doing something the last minute

I never understood this. Maybe because I luckily had the time but I could never write a paper in a few days. If you have all the material in notes and glueing them together maybe. After gathering material and reading, note-taking, I think I often left two weeks for writing when it comes to student papers in the range from ~15 up to ~25 pages (including 3 days for correction or so)
If you have more material than you can use that is good because it should be like that anyway. Usually, you always have more than you can make use of.

 No.14587

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>>14563
SS thugs are antisemites because they belong to SS, which is antisemitic.
Same way Tiktok is antisemitic organisation, and you're tiktoker.
Care to add 2+2?

 No.14588 KONTRA

>>14587
This is an infantile post.
What should be a real concern for social democratic Europeans is that these people start with the Chesterton, move on to the Ländler and then it's a very short distance from the dance hall to the beer hall.

 No.14589

>>14587
>Care to add 2+2?

5 according to your reasoning.

>>14588
> it's a very short distance from the dance hall to the beer hall.

Der totale Tanz, in tradition of the dancing mania of 1374.

 No.14590

>>14588
> it's a very short distance from the dance hall to the beer hall.
That's more of a southerner problem than a beer hall problem, Senhor 14(5)88

 No.14592

>>14588
> it's a very short distance from the dance hall to the beer hall.

Really makes you think. Who would know that nightclubs are the epitome of fascism (and antisemitism)?

 No.14593

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You are all very silly.
If I like boobies it is the truth.
I *really* like boobies.

okdatwuzall ;)

 No.14594

>>14593
People like you are the reason why women don't feel safe on a beach

 No.14595

>>14594
They're not supposed to feel safe, they're supposed to feel desired.

 No.14596 KONTRA

>>14595
This. They don't even want to feel 'save'. They only want to feel save from yucky losers. Alpha-Chad can straight up tell her he wants to fuck her, and she will giggle "oh, Chad, you are soooooo cute".

 No.14597 KONTRA

>>14596
>save

 No.14598

I stopped talking and behaving like a yucky loser, rate.

 No.14599 KONTRA

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>>14598
Shit format, shit cameraman, shitty fuck retarded effects, shit everything, -Googol/10.
Destroy all social media and all social media users.

 No.14600


 No.14601

I read some Kant today for a seminar and I found it enjoyable. I actually felt like it was tied nicely to Nietzsche in some passages. Brought me joy.
Also read the Prometheus related materials from Karl Kerényi's book on Greek mythology.

I was out in the garden for a bit but it was very cold so I had to come inside. My nose was running for an hour or so afterwards due to the cold. (It's never pollen, it's always the cold.)

Went to the store to buy some bread and milk. The sun was shining brightly. The sky was crystal clear. I switched over to my light spring coat. I wish I had one that has better pockets though.

Best thing that happened today is that I managed to produce around ~8k keystrokes for the thesis. And I still haven't started cannibalising the previous study.
I feel like I'm at the peak of my hubris but it feels so good. It's like I'm flying through it. Crushing it with all that I've learned.
Anyway, it's probably time to get cut down to size and send it in to the supervisor for comments. Second consultation of the thesis work so far. I need to conduct three afaik.

If I got any higher on the fumes of victory I'd drink a coffee right now pretending I could stay awake and happy forever.

 No.14602

>>14601
> I actually felt like it was tied nicely to Nietzsche in some passages.
That's because Nietzsche is tied nicely to basically everything. Tell me what you need and I can get you a Nietzsche quote.

 No.14604 KONTRA

>>14602
No, thanks but I know it was a connection between how Nietzsche describes overcoming obstacles in the fragments of the Wille zu Macht in the Nachlass and how Kant describes the nature of humanity's development in Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht

I guess I should stop acting surprised and excited when I notice intertextuality like this. Like of course Nietzsche was influenced by Kant, why is it surprising. Nothing to get excited about. But I'm still excited.

 No.14605

>>14604
>Like of course Nietzsche was influenced by Kant

The important and interesting question is in what way, though?

 No.14606 KONTRA

>>14605
I wish I could answer it but I feel like I just found the thread in the middle and I'd need to start rolling it up to find the end and make proper sense of it. So it's back to the reading desk for me if I want to answer this reasonably.

 No.14608 KONTRA

Btw I forgot to mention but very important that I had a classmate ask me to help her with her thesis because there was a classical Chinese phrase she was stuck on. I managed to solve it in like two minutes with a bit of searching around because it was actually a Zhuangzi reference but whoever quoted it made sure to make it sound confusing.
Like yeah, people depend on me and I can live up to those demands. My life is worth living.

I think I could eat a horse right now.

 No.14612 KONTRA

>>14605
> In what way
Nietzsche read Cunt and decided it was slave morality, gay, and weak shit.

 No.14617

>>14612
Sounds plausible.

 No.14618 KONTRA

>>14617
Which is also funny because Nietzsche is like the proto schizo and he went mad later on.

 No.14619 KONTRA

>>14618
Only because he was syphilitic.

 No.14620

>>14619
He had to sleep with prostitutes because women rejected him.

#incelVisibilityMonth

 No.14622

Nietzsche ist dead

t. God

 No.14623

>>14620
>because women rejected him
He had this ridiculous moustache and was a son-basket, what can you expect.

 No.14624

When did reading change from a basic cultural technique to an elitist activity? Is it the (moving) image-based media that are the devils in this process?


>>14623
Yucky ducky!

 No.14625 KONTRA

>>14624
> Is it the (moving) image-based media that are the devils in this process?
Even 20 years ago people were still reading more and better. I wonder what could have changed within the last 20 years....

 No.14626 KONTRA

>>14624
Of course it’s the image based media, information overload and so on. Stop answering your questions in your own posts.

Debord was absolutely right, consumable product is slowly completely becoming “immaterial”, at least for the consumer. It’s a mass hypnosis where what is asked from us ideologically is changing every two days

 No.14627

Went to Korean BBQ and a bar afterwards with my new classmates yesterday. Had a bit of anxiety beforehand but told myself that I can just leave any time if I don't like it, however it ended up being a lot of fun. Played drinking games like "I have never" and bantered in Chinese, made me feel really young. Don't think I ever got this drunk on a Monday.

 No.14628

>>14625
Cultural devolution, the pessimists were right!

>>14626
>Stop answering your questions in your own posts.

My smugness gene prohibits me from doing so.

>consumable product is slowly completely becoming “immaterial”, at least for the consumer


???

What do you even mean by this? Be careful with your greenhorning! Young and energetic!

how is reading or any other symbolic consumption not immaterial? books or phones, they are all based on material conditions. The invention of moving image, its attention capturing capapbilities and the humanization of interfaces are a deadly combination to the linear abstracting cultured brain

 No.14629

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>>14626
The thesis of Crary will fit your bill but the execution of this study was kinda boring and not sure how well it fits the thesis even, maybe I was too dumb to understand this cross of art history and history of (physiological and philosophical) knowledge

 No.14630

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>>14629
Ups, I was talking about Techniques of the Observer.

 No.14631

Woke up, made breakfast. Checked phone. Work needs me to come in. Dammit. Can say no, but I'm the reliable one. At least it's overtime.

 No.14633 KONTRA

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GF wants to get some silly cordless vacuum. Comes with a charging stand that's called a Z station. Not sure if we can have that in a NATO household.

>>14631
>I'm the reliable one
Worrying sentiment. Though overtime is great if you're being appropriately compensated for it.

 No.14634 KONTRA

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Everything feel sort of fucked after the first half of today but I think it will come together after lunch. It has to.

 No.14635

>>14634
Why don't you make a twitter account so you can livestream each and every of your mood changes?

 No.14636 KONTRA

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>>14635
He must protect his appearances and ego from the people around him. Ernst on the EC are not real, thus he can vent freely. amogus

Today threads are meant for livestreaming mood changes anyways. No harm no foul.

 No.14637

>>14635
He has a twitter account. How many subscribers at this point btw?

 No.14638

>>14633
tfw no CPI pilled gf

>>14635
He should use https://howwefeel.org/ ngl

 No.14639 KONTRA

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>>14635
I have one actually thank you.

>>14637
Over 600 now actually.

 No.14641 KONTRA

>>14624
>When did reading change from a basic cultural technique to an elitist activity?

Let me answer this with a quote that's about three decades old at this point:
>Look at this one he's reading a book hey you book reader do you live in the year one hundred or something? Have you heard there's shit like TV?

Reading was never for ADHD-riddled morons or cool kids.

 No.14642

>>14641
Yet people were still reading more even when TV was at its peak.

 No.14643 KONTRA

>>14642
This.

Not a very substantial post made by the other German.

It's not just about reading books but also newspapers and magazines.

 No.14644 KONTRA

>>14643
>newspapers
>magazines
You think the grandparents of today's illiterate zoomers routinely made their way through weekly broadsheets as thick as phonebooks?

Back in the 80s, people might have read the TV program, but they mostly went by pictures. (Car=good, cowboy=good). And maybe a regional newspapers. (But only the obituaries.)

 No.14645

>>14644
Boomers still read more (books) than zoomers, and it's unlikely that they didn't back then.
Interesting statements of yours you have there though, I am sure you can provide sources.

 No.14646

>>14645
Interesting statement you have there, I am sure you can provide sources.

 No.14647

>>14646
A few hours ago I looked up google scholar for studies on reading habits. There was one from the Netherlands done in the 1990s

https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/29763/29763.pdf

TV is the main reason it declined but it also shows that people were simply reading more back then. A study in the distribution of reading from back then and today would be interesting tbh.

>>14644
>routinely made their way through weekly broadsheets as thick as phonebooks?

Not sure why you think magazines and newspapers must be as thick as phonebooks to count as more reading done but I guess cheap rhetorics and boomer tier "I know it better" will do the job just fine

t. other German

 No.14648 KONTRA

>>14647
>in the 1990s
And now, we simply extrapolate from 1990 onwards and conclude that in 2024, the <12 cohort spents negative hours reading or what?

 No.14649

>>14648
>GAGAAAAACK! PROOOOOOOOFS! PROOOOOOOOFS! GACK-GAAAAACK!!1eins
Despite your idiotic attempt at polemics, let me entertain your proofster mind:

Here's a study about kids having worse reading comprehension https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/iglu-studie-2021-lesekompetenz-kinder-100.html
Here's a study about how older people are STILL reading more than younger (and poor people expectedly reading less) https://www.splendid-research.com/de/statistik/statistik-geringverdiener-lesen-weniger/

>GAGAAAACK! PROOFS! KIKERIKIIIIIIII


imagine I also posted some proofster picture

I'm thrilled to see what moves you will be employing to weasel your way out of this.

 No.14651 KONTRA

>>14649
>Here's a study about kids having worse reading comprehension
Hypothesis: that's not because they read less in their spare time. The bottom quartile did not read in their spare-time in the past, either. It's because schools are worse. Why are schools worse? IQ75 Mohammed, IQ75 Mohammed everywhere.

>Weasel

No need to when there's a barn-gate open.

 No.14652 KONTRA

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>>14648
Not sure why you have to be this dumb but the other German was right that you are weaseling yourself out of this but in the most idiotic way possible.

 No.14653

re: reading

Reading isn't always a good thing. Let's remember that, historically, something that set off the Germans was that laymen were not allowed to read the Bible. The church feared that half-literate yokels would interpret the Bible in a way that would only harm them. Now, after centuries of bizarre coprophagic sects, mass suicides, unhinged isolationist cults and centuries of mass murder - they're still bickering about reading.

 No.14654

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>>14653
Be careful bro, your interpretation of Germans might warrant two weeks of dance camp. and 1 and 2 and 1 and 2, 5 6 7 8

 No.14655 KONTRA

I used to ressent my autistic traits and strangeness. Since I know it doesn’t stop me from having sex with interesting people I care a lot less

 No.14656

>>14655
#chadVisibilityMonth

 No.14658

We didn't have a Classical Chinese class this week, we instead went out drinking for the duration of the class with the lecturer. It was okay. Though afterwards I felt like the drink didn't really change anything. Went over to German class where I did okay but I was very tired. Had a nice chat afterwards.

On the way home I felt a bit melancholic. Like looking at the moon, thinking how my life right now is different than what it was a year ago, and it's different right now from what it'll be like in a year. Tonight only happens once.

Came up with this idea of "Alchemy of the soul" here through simply thinking and recontextualising I will try to transmute feelings of despair and terror into more bearable and beneficial feelings.
I wonder if I'm actually a late bloomer of sorts. I was always told I'm "mature" but I find myself constantly grappling with things you'd think teenagers grapple with every day.

I should lay down the coffee for a few days probably. It's no longer as fun as it used to be a few weeks ago.

 No.14659 KONTRA

>>14658
>I wonder if I'm actually a late bloomer of sorts. I was always told I'm "mature" but I find myself constantly grappling with things you'd think teenagers grapple with every day.

Useless attributes in that stage, maybe even later on. To me it seems like one can act mature but not simply be mature because it depends on how you engage or react to things on a daily basis, even when you are 45 you can be childish or mature.
That said, yes you pretty much are or will be a late bloomer.

 No.14663 KONTRA

>>14659
>will be
>implying

>>14658
>late bloomer
You are like an eager first-grader trying to get busy-bee stickers from your teacher by doing your homework extra good. You basically are still a child. You should have learned that this gets you nowhere and that the system only plays losers like you for the laughs, dangling carots in front of your nose that will never materilise. Women can sense this, by the way, and they laugh about your absolutely immaturity and naivity.

At this point, your development is retared by at least a decade. You will not bloom. Better kys.

 No.14664

It snowed again. Two days after I put my Winter boots away.

>>14633
>Worrying sentiment.
I have a lifelong habit of feeling responsible for things which aren't my responsibility. Had a job once where my car broke down mid-commute (timing belt- expensive fix) and I walked the remaining five miles rather than let someone else fill in. Not sure if this is because I like to be helpful, or if I just don't trust other people to not screw things up. Probably both.

 No.14665

Whatsapp now has the status bar at the bottom.
I don't like it.
A. Single. Bit.

Exterminate all "UX" designers.

 No.14666

3 days of "working" from home completely cooked my brain.

 No.14668 KONTRA

This no coffee thing was a really stupid idea but I'm committed so long as it will allow me to feel that rush again after a cup. You know I'm actually surprised I'm not abusing some sort of prescription drug already.

Met with the head of the workshop to get his signature for a paper I need to pick up a book donation for our library. Discussed the state of the affairs within the workshop.
He said to me it shows that I've been reading Kant because of how I used the Hungarian equivalent of Leitfaden but I wasn't actually trying to reference Kant or anything. In reference to this he also told me that he hopes that during my studies I won't have an aimless course of nature, and blind chance take the place of the guiding thread of reason.

The seminar went well enough. We went over to Hegel in the latter parts and I was genuinely mortified by the idea of the dialectical process as the professor explained it. The part that really got my hair standing was about how he explained that "Grass always regrows, but that one blade of grass that shrivels up is never seen again." and it kind of reminded me of my musings on the moon on the way home last night when I thought to myself that "this night only happens once".

Some dudes were handing out copies of the New Testament in front of the university. Too bad I already have one of those blue pocket editions they were trying to spread the word of God with.

So yeah, overall it was a good day I think.

>>14663
There's always a way out. Or rather, forwards.

 No.14669

>>14668
>trying to spread the word of God with.

Interestingly some older guy was giving out flyers at the doors of our multi party house with the word of god recently. I said thanks and smiled a (smugly I think) smile and closed the door and went straight to the trash, the flyer was not even interestingly made. Not sure if these are Russian Mennonites or the same people that have a bible display at the main station or other well frequented areas. Or are these even the same people?
They really are present, though.

 No.14670 KONTRA

>>14669
Their tactics are similar, but they are often from quite different sects or so I've been told by someone who gave enough of a shit about them. Personally I always thought they were all just Jehova's.

At least the Bible they were handing out here was the standard Hungarian translation and not the travesty the Jehova people made based on their own English translation.

 No.14672 KONTRA

>>14669
>smugly
And then, everyone clapped

 No.14673 KONTRA

>>14670
It was Jehovas, I remember a JW on the flyer and jw.org is Jehovas

>>14672
I added this with a purpose and it worked.

 No.14678

I'm contemplating an idea I had before about becoming a ghostwriter for BA theses and student papers.

 No.14679 KONTRA

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Wonder what happened to that guy shilling for West(?) Papuan independence on the KC back in the day. Should've gotten one of those passports he was selling. Would've been ebin.

 No.14680 KONTRA

The world has been restored.

 No.14681 KONTRA

>>14680
Great news!

 No.14682 KONTRA

>>14678
Business Idea has been obsolete by generative AI.

 No.14683

>>14682
You are right probably, and I think that the agencies who do it don't pay their writers too well. Or I would not be fast enough.

 No.14684 KONTRA

Yesterday I was contemplating really hard whether or not to stay or go home after German class, because they organised an anime screening and on one hand I thought that it might be enjoyable but on the other hand the cringe might obliterate me. And I ended up staying. Sipping on chocolate liquor throughout, we watched three episodes of Chuunibyou. And I had fun. I felt like part of the audience. I was part of the choir.
The city was beautiful afterwards. The lights, everything.

I slept very well. I dreamed that I was talking with Nietzsche at college.
And I feel very alert now which is refreshing after how I could barely stay awake last night, so I guess I won out over the coffee-craving too.

 No.14688

Going to someone's house and finding the walls sporting multiple paintings like pic related is somehow more damning evidence of them being a perfidious drug dealer than finding coke bags and assorted currency. At least in the later case, it might have been someone dealing drugs out of circumstance and need. Owning one of these paintings should be enough grounds for a judge to issue a search warrant.

 No.14695 KONTRA

>>14673
>I added this with a purpose and it worked.
...he thought, while smugly smiling to himself for being such an irritating cunt for no reason

 No.14696

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Currently watching clips from bri'ish daily life.
It's such a c&a language. You won't get quite the same quality of interactions here in Germany.

 No.14698

>>14695
You are living proof of my playful hypothesis that it just needs an extra bracket to get someone agitated. You cannot win against the smugthug.

 No.14699 KONTRA

>>14698
>of my playful hypothesis that it just needs an extra bracket to get someone agitated
You're on the internet, on an imageboard for that matter.
What you think is a profound insight is obvious to anyone with more braincells than you.
A word of advice: If you want to make posts solely for riling people up, go to the 4channel. That should be more up your alley.

 No.14700

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>>14699
>a small fire has been ignited

Not this time, buddy.

 No.14701

>>14700
who are you quoting?

 No.14703 KONTRA

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 No.14704

>>14703
Being an obtuse, inflammatory newfag is a conceivably bad way of interacting, not just here but everywhere.
I bet you don't dare to act like that irl because you would get punched a lot.

 No.14705

>>14704
Yes and IRL you are the most confident Chad the world has known so far.

Anstatt meinen Pfosten irgendwelche nebulösen Profunditäten anzudichten (die nicht vorhanden sind, weiß der Himmel, warum du glaubst, ich glaube das von meinen Pfosten), solltest du dich lieber Fragen, warum du solch minoritären Scheiß zum Anlass nimmst dich extrem angegriffen zu fühlen und in Wallung gerätst. Über deinen (scheinbar kaum vorhandenen) Selbstwert lässt sich zum einen sehr einfach eine Reaktion provozieren, zum anderen scheint es mir so, als würdest du Dinge als Angriff empfinden, die dich nicht einmal betreffen aufgrund genau dieser Lücke.

In der Tat habe ich es im 'wahren Leben' nicht nötig, mich mit so einem interaktiven Durchfall beschäften zu müssen. Dementsprechend bin ich nicht dazu genötigt, besonders "gewitzt" aufzutreten gegenüber Menschen, denen anscheinend übel im Leben mitgespeilt worden ist, die aber sich aufgrund dessen für das falsche Denken und Handeln mMn entschieden haben. Und das lasse ich sie durchaus spüren, auch wenn der Portugiese damit z.B. ein Problem hat, wie es mir aus einer nicht allzu entfernten Diskussion vorkam. Gelobt sei der Herr. Schwerter zu Schreibmaschinen.

 No.14706 KONTRA

>>14705
>yeah bro I'm totally not mad, and I totally don't have a superiority complex, that's why I will even write this post in german.... Post too long. Click here to...
LOVING
EVERY
LAUGH

Now go be disruptive somewhere else, you piece of shit. EC is not your personal trashcan.

 No.14707

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Solving the problem of involuntary celibate is not a rocket science, it's not a global warming or something. It takes 2 minutes of sex to cure an incel, and there is roughly as much women as there are men, so if every women dedicated two minutes once in her life to make the world a better place, involuntary celibate would cease to exist. Every tenth women spending 20 minutes works just as well.

And yet the problem is unsolved and only gets worse with time. Says a lot about society.

#incelVisibilityMonth

 No.14708 KONTRA

>>14706
>EC is not your personal trashcan.

No, but apparently you are and you give yourself readily to it. What kind of masochism is this where you readily expose yourself to someone's smugness. Are proof farming to feel morally superior to that smug inhuman green voter, the devil in innocent virtue-signaling cloth?

The rules of the schoolyard reach beyond the time of adolescence. You will likely agree with that statement and I just play along here online and jump to your predictions.

Don't you think it is interesting that I build your smugness accusation as a joke into my post and you jump on it as if I mean it seriously?

 No.14709 KONTRA

Könnt ihr Deutschmongokinder vielleicht einfach mal eure behinderten Fressen halten?

 No.14712 KONTRA

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No one remembers the West(?) Papuan fella? Too bad.

Have a nice weekend, Ernsts.

 No.14713

>>14712
No, anybody else has some forgotten KC lore to share, though?

me: nothing comes to my mind

 No.14714

According to National Geographic male ancient Greek statues had small penises to stress the intellect. Small genitals make for big minds.

 No.14715

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The last weeks were warm and life was returning, but early Spring just rug pulled. Drove home in a whiteout. Second Winter sucks.

 No.14742

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Photographed a common buzzard in flight yesterday.
Here we call it the "mouse buzzard" because, well, it preys on mice and such.
There's also at least one red kite, but I haven't managed to take a proper shot of it yet.
Maybe I should invest in a better telephoto lens; this one has a 250mm focal length, which is still pretty good, but still not good enough to take good pictures of animals 100 meter away.
Shame they're always so expensive.

 No.14749 KONTRA

I've done nothing in the past two days. Well I managed to run a lot better yesterday and I also baked a pizza.
But like I enjoy the first slice and then nothing else. It's entirely pointless to make this much dough. Next time I'm making the "normal" amount.

Got the money for the translations and I spent a bit of it on a physical copy of Zarathustra and some random Middle High German text they were selling for a buck. My German teacher told me about a stash of German philosophy books they dropped of at an antiquary and this copy of Zarathustra is from there, but I ordered it through the internet and I can't help but feel like I somehow robbed myself of an authentic experience of sorts by not going to the antiquary on the recommendation of someone to find something.

The weather's really fucking me up I feel like. Or it still could be the caffeine withdrawal, but but in that regard I think the worst is over because I no longer want to fall asleep in the middle of the day, I just feel encouraged to go to bed earlier. I feel like I could sleep until morning right now 2bh.

Haven't done any thesis work in the past few days but I did think about it and also re-read some parts due to an online argument I had so it seems clearer. Using the dialectical method of having arguments crash into each other. The large hadron collider in Switzerland? It's a dialectics machine. Anyway, sometimes tomorrow the review will come in and I will get to work again. Maybe even have a coffee to go alongside with it.

 No.14758

Has Ernst come across AI made advertisements? I've seen a TikTok where a German magazine was shown in which an ad was AI made a picture of two children, one child having six fingers

 No.14769

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Today, the castle was red. Something to do with the 50th anniversary of the revolution, probably.

 No.14770

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Been hobbled this past week. Injured my right shin/ankle. Swollen and bruised, but no idea when exactly it happened. Noticed on Tuesday. Just slowly started to hurt until walking normally became impossible. Eating OTC painkillers like candy to get through the work week. Also, ice. Then switched to heat. Oh, and applying this stuff. Can't forget the sponsors.

Staying off of it today. Pain has been gradually decreasing, but swelling remains. Feels weird to move the ankle, like I'm wearing a thick sock.

 No.14771

Today I have this heavy feeling around my chest again.
Multiple shortcomings of mine I become aware from time to time but never actually try to improve.
My job not being fun at the moment, despite liking the work.
A certain inner agitation that I can't name, grasp or take action against - except for maybe getting drunk, but that would only be a temporary solution and recently I've been sleeping unwell when drinking; mainly because I started sweating and then wake up way too early.

 No.14772

>>14770
Have you seen a doctor yet?

 No.14773

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>>14770
>Injured my right shin/ankle
>walking normally became impossible
>Eating OTC painkillers like candy to get through the work week
Calling in sick not a thing in the United States of Freedom? This Ernst doesn't call in sick very often, but you bet he would if he wasn't even able to walk.

>>14771
>Itake action against
Chuckled, you know, there's a therad here that might be able to help you.

 No.14774

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>>14769
Are you sure...?

ominous dialectics in the distance

 No.14775

>>14772
No. I hate going to doctors. Don't like being prodded and such. Everything eventually heals. At least...so far.

>>14773
>Calling in sick not a thing in the United States of Freedom?

See >>14631
I am the reliable one ;_;
Told the boss not to expect much, but I still showed up.

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 No.14777

>>14775
>I am the reliable one ;_;
Can't be the reliable one forever though when your own body can't rely on you to respect red flags. in a way you're letting yourself down here.

 No.14778 KONTRA

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I had a cup of very weak coffee but I didn't feel anything. I felt very bad throughout the day, until it rained. Afterwards I just felt kind of mad for no reason. Everyone was on the edge in the house I feel like.

Worked my way through the leftover pile of books that I didn't bother to enter into the catalogue a while back, so now my catalogue is up to date. Though I'm hopelessly out of shelf space at this point.

Supervisor sent back the thesis and called it "very good". Though he warned that I should try to make my sentences not so overcomplicated. He only had like three comments and also ordered me to produce the actual middle part of the work. And a Shen Buhai and a Shang Yang chapter too. So I will have to quickly read through the Shangjunshu again. And do something for Shen Buhai. But those are just fragments if I recall it correctly. Anyway, it's going fine I guess. Besides the fact that I didn't work on it today besides slightly thinking about it.

I decided to review my savings only to realise I actually have no savings I can cannibalise, besides a single 10k banknote. Which is like peak 1880s Hungarian nobleman moment where you think you have money and "burn the candle on both ends". I guess you kind of cannot expect the money supply to increase when you don't have a regular income.
Or maybe I just misplaced the money. I don't know. I should have kept a book on it better. Fingers crossed that I win with one of the Easter scratch tickets I guess.

The best part of the day was honestly was when frustrated, I just left to buy a pack of tea because there was none at home and nobody was doing anything about it, and the wind was violently blowing and it felt purifying.

I'm deathly afraid that things will go back to "how they were" and honestly would take death over that emotional low point. Worst is that I feel like I can only stave it off, that some sort of collapse is inevitable.
But then again, maybe the unshakeable emotional stability I want to develop and uphold is impossible.
I fucking hate it. I'm fucking mad. And sad.

>>14758
Haven't yet. Though that's probably because I block all ads on both desktop and my tablet. And phone.
IRL I haven't seen anything like it. The only thing remotely close was an "AI-designed energy drink" but that was just nonfigurative art plus cherry flavour basically.

 No.14779

>>14778
> that things will go back to "how they were"

two steps forward one step back is normal procedure for somebody who works on their emotional/psychological problems

>maybe the unshakeable emotional stability I want to develop and uphold is impossible


Yes, because what you need is proper emotional regulation so that you know how to deal with the whimsical emotional weather not trying to pretend there is no change at all hoping that cope will do the job. You demand unrealistic things of yourself, fail and in the process probably hate yourself for these shortcomings and "failings" even more.

>I fucking hate it. I'm fucking mad. And sad.


This dumb app I have shoved in your face actually helps with this now that I have it in use for two weeks I can more easily deal with such feelings and changes, their temporary state, the good things that happen etc. and that makes tackling them easier among other things. It also works as a blog post to yourself once you log in an emotion or emotion combination you can write a little bit, add a photo or a voice message.
Easier regulation that is, I still feel fucking mad or sad I actually felt around 50 distinct emotions in two weeks according to the log every other day.

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>>14758
>Has Ernst come across AI made advertisements
Not directly, but these sorts of ads made rounds as idiots took screenshots and posted them everywhere. Free advertising yippeeeee!

To be fair, it was quite novel at the time. SD had just been released and not many people had access to image generation yet. And the use of animu girls was quite a shock as well. Especially for such a "real" job (wood products/sawmill).

The text on the pic
>We're looking for new workmates

T. Another idiot spreading advertising for free

 No.14782 KONTRA

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>your non-anime workmate

 No.14783 KONTRA

>>14779
>two steps forward one step back is normal procedure for
the ZOGs running the great replacement

 No.14784 KONTRA

>>14782
Thanks to you spreading this advertisement I am now packing my things to become a woodworker in Finland. (REAL MEN'S JOB)

 No.14785

>>14784
They don't take Balkanites, try becoming a woodworker in Romania instead.

 No.14786 KONTRA

>>14785
Thank God I'm from Mitteleuropa™

 No.14787 KONTRA

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Feeling kinda depressed for no apparent reason just the usual hedgehog's dilemma and minor annoyances adding up. it will pass. i am not looking for advice
Mb I should get a fresh haircut or sth

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>>14769
As per your picture, this geolocation attempt was a shot in the dark. I'm guessing you could be somewhere where the red line starts, arrow pointing approximately to the castle direction. Can't really get to the right spot with streetview. Did I get it anywhere close?

>>14784
FUCK! Should've negotiated a fee before posting that here.

>>14785
Please refrain from insulting my Turanic brother.

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>>14789
Solid work. I was standing in the area on the other side of the road. Very impressive, didn't think this one would be that doable. Need to get more creative.

 No.14793

Had to accept to receive a giant lootcrate that my ex-gf was planning to offer me as a gift before we broke up but since she fucking cannot get a fucking thing done she sent it four months post breakup. 4 months…

That’s not even the best part, she insisted to use a certain French only app for saving up shipping fees. I’ll have to go get that damned gift in a French depot. I know she’s unstable and want me to still like her as a person to be at peace and suspect she’s hopping that the gift will actually please me and not hurt and bother me. I guess I still like her enough to make her the gift of pretending I’m not offended and pissed off by every single step of this process.

 No.14795

Fuck, I’m so pissed. It’s so fucking stupid.

 No.14796

>>14795
What's in the box, Pierre? :DD

 No.14797

>>14795
Is it a walking clock?

 No.14801 KONTRA

>>14796
A lot of gifts. I think there’s clothing items and books. For the rest idk but probably one or two drawings, she draws well

 No.14802

>>14801
Relationship severance package. Seems like a good deal if you ask me. Burn the paintings, get rid of them. NOW.

 No.14803

>>14802
>burn the paintings

Most sane advice, probably. Any of these items will be connected to her in his mind, though.

 No.14804

>>14803
Yeah but I assume the emotional significance is different between clothes and whatever romantic art she made. I got rid of some drawings from the ex, but didn't worry much about other assorted gifts. Ultimately a pen won't have the same emotional draw as a drawing of some sea otters holding hands.

 No.14805

Thinks she still wears my favorite sweater I offered her. And I have one of her plushie. It’s a souvenir it’s nice. I’ll see depending on the nature of the supposed drawing

 No.14806

>>14803
Yes, but as Porto said, the clothes and stuff (provided it's not something special they talked about, graphic tees with her portrait etc.) can be "overwritten" with a regular purpose.
Like, I still have a scarf my ex gave to me. It was a really bad breakup and made me bitter for quite some time, but today it's just a scarf. I know about its origins, but apart from that it doesn't affect me in any way. I use it like I would any other thing, and when it falls apart I will throw it away like any other piece of tattered textile.
On the other hand, she once had a pendant made for me as a gift. I threw it in a lake, as a stone with something written on it that she had given me.

>>14805
Get rid of the plushie, too. Keep only "usable" things, but not decorations, trinkets, souvenirs, drawings, handicraft and the like.

 No.14807

>>14804
Yeah, probably. I still have a mug of her which I really like because of its shape and color and photos which I rarely looked at and while it is mainly useful and asthetic to me, I still connect it to her, but without big feelings.

>>14805
I wonder if my ex still wears this coat she bought while we were in classified she looked so good in that one. I guess the dress I once gifted her might not be part of her attire anymore even so it was a rather timeless simple one for the summer.

 No.14810

Woke up in a better mood. I had a light breakfast and then I ran the usual amount and had a shower. I opted to have a second breakfast instead of a lunch because I felt like digesting something heavier would negatively impact my alertness. I also made a fully strong coffee and drank it. Life has become better, life has become merrier. On the way to the library I picked up a copy of a book titled Deutsche Literatur im Mittelalter. It was curiously cheap and sold as a softcover, but I feel like Kröner wouldn't make a softcover. Lo and behold it was actually a usual Kröner Taschenbook with a cloth binding.
For like three bucks. It's basically unread. Even has the feedback-card the publisher put in it.

As went along the front of a literature museum on my way to the library, I saw a large poster hanging there advertising an exhibition titled "Ownerless factheaps" and as I kept pondering on the phrase, I found it to be quite self-serving. I drifted off into a daydream where I was an internal security officer, interrogating a dissident author who thought this was actually clever. And I was thinking about how the pen is mightier than the sword, because it can impeach people long after they have died, but each second the regime holds onto power is a second the opposition will never be able to recover, each second is more and more of our influence seeping into the consciousness of the people and how they view history.
I was a bit shocked afterwards. It was very vivid.

At the library I returned the copy of the Hermetic texts I've borrowed (since I have my own copy now) and then settled down and read a bit from the Shangjunshu, before turning my attention to translating Shen Buhai fragments for my thesis. I managed to produce like 2.5k keystrokes' worth of translations, which is probably ought to be enough. There's two chapters' worth of fragments, and I did 90% of one of them, the other chapter's just quotations included in the Hanfeizi.

Gonna have to survive three classes tomorrow. Still need to cram a bunch of new words for the test and I then will just wing the sutra reading.
Honestly I thought the break starts tomorrow. Doesn't matter. Things are progressing just fine.

>>14801
I feel like a jerk for asking but what kind of books?

 No.14811

>>14810
>but what kind of books?
What a stupid question. It's obviously a bunch of grimoires, plus the Necronomicon, written by the mad arab Abdul Al-Hazred.

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Very little sleep, nightmares, huge ongoing stressors. Fuck this shit man.

>>14790
Nice, thanks. Appreciate the confirmation!

>Need to get more creative.

Please don't.

 No.14817

Does Ernts have a Linkedin profile?

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 No.14820

>>14819
How useful do you think is it?

 No.14821

>>14820
Entirely depends on how many people of your field are there.
In my case basically everyone whom I have ever had professional contact with.
A colleague also told me he was contacted by headhunters once.
It's certainly better than Stepstone or Xing.

 No.14822

>>14821
I knew somebody with my education being on Linkedin. Maybe I should open a profile. I cringe already.

To present something to the Jobcenter I even applied for a job as recruiter in a corporate hellhole. The corporate world is the only way out it seems. Other job offerings are either rare, sound shit or the skills required don't seem to match. But on the other hand I have to learn anyway.
The potential employer connects STEM professionals with people who need those for their projects and firms. So basically I applied being a headhunter and I guess that shit is a normal job but reeks of "self employed" pyramid scheme when it comes to being annoying online.

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Give me a like if you remember this game, Ernst

 No.14824

>>14810
I don’t know yet, it’s a surprise.
I promise you a unboxing of the books later on.

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this last month has been an absolute whirlwind for this Ernst.

purchased (still not settled though) first home (I'm not sure how it is on Europe, but it's absolutely fucked in Australia, on prices - I'm shocked I got something as cheap as I did - but it is only a terraced house, so I must get flatmates to accumulate further money for the dream of yard, small orchard, and chickens). Even living in a second rate city - there is still scarcely anything affordable for a solo median income earner. Quickly we devolve back to feudalism. To be honest, the only reason I felt obliged to do this, is that rents keep skyrocketing. Somehow keeping builders and tradespeople specifically excluded from the skilled immigration lists, while bringing in hundreds of thousands of people who need homes, is sound policy.

I just feel sad for my younger brother - he is still years off where I am, despite living like a monk. Things might be too far gone by that point.

Ernst is also preparing to go to Taiwan for a month (will also go to Kinmen island). I will endeavour to make an IWO. It should be interesting. It wasn't intended to coincide such life events, but such cases.

>>14817
>>14820
I think it might depend a bit on your industry - I find that in healthcare, personal networks seem to have more weight. I hear about many people being hired as old coworkers give good references - I haven't really heard too much about people being poached on linkedin.

t. lurking ernst

 No.14826

>>14825
Wow cheers, I wish you strength for the rest of the process mate

 No.14827 KONTRA

>>14826
The cheers and mate were incidental and/or unconscious sorry

 No.14829

>>14827
Sali Kollege, s'isch doch ke Problemli.

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>>14825
Very nice! Let us know when the deal has been sealed.

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How smart are you, Ernst?
Can you solve these riddles?

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there's a problem in shippement, I'll have to collaborate with her to sort things out. She doesn't want to tell me what happens, she gives me uncomfortable names, I'm grumppy but I think I'm able to manage myself. Soon it's all over and she doesn't think I hate her. It's a shameful divine punishment

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>>14832
>she gives me uncomfortable names
Post every single one of them.

 No.14835

>>14832
Can't you just not accept the package and just cut off all contact? It's probably better in the long run because, mark my words, this is not going to be the last contact you will have.

 No.14836 KONTRA

>>14834
Totipouce
>>14835
I’ll do as I please and that’s including stupid mistakes.

 No.14837

>>14835
Cmon, guy just wants to play in a drama and unhappy love. Your advice stems from American cult of positivity and success.

 No.14838

>More than 600 German companies have created around 700.000 jobs in Portugal

How grateful are Portuguese people for German imperialism?


https://www.capital.de/wirtschaft-politik/portugal--tourismus-first--bedenken-second-34564724.html

 No.14839

>>14837
Stop defaming the science of happiness

 No.14840 KONTRA

>>14836
I don’t speak a lick of French but it immediately feels erotic for some reason. Sorry.

 No.14841

>>14838
Lazy southerners such as Greeks or Portuguese hate Germans for giving them money and opportunities. They vote communist parties in hope that they won't have to work. Germans should stop support for this shitholes and watch them collapsing.

 No.14844

>>14836
>and that’s including stupid mistakes.
There's a difference between making stupid mistake and making one stupid mistake REPEATEDLY.

 No.14845

>>14841
Germany is giving away economic opportunities to Ausländer in Portugal,--making profits through imperialism-- no wonder Germany is a weakling, sharing its economic wealth with the world.

 No.14846 KONTRA

>>14838
>How grateful are Portuguese people for German imperialism?
I don't claim to speak for all of us, but I think a policy of turning Sines into a German colony and relocating Germans (All of the different subspecies too - Dutch, Swedish, etc) at gunpoint from their Lisbon homes to immobile camper vans and tents in close proximity to the cliffs of that rocky cape, would be a policy that could find widespread and cross-political support. The Germans would probably be happier with this arrangements themselves, those perverted creatures.

>>14845
No, shit-weakling. The Federal Republic is paying welfare to people of German stock seek their new Namibia in Alentejo. They pose as hippies outwardly, but really they're agents of empire. I say, take them back to their black forests where they can be aryan chicken farmers for the leader. It'd at least spare me from seeing Günther talk about finding himself in DMT trips over grassy hills. When it's clear to every person around him that he only way he'd really be at peace with his inner self would be if he didn't cut contact with his parents, who by all accounts, seem to be reasonable people. Send them all back.

 No.14847 KONTRA

>>14836
Toutipouce, dans ton cul mon pouce XDDDDDD

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>>14841
> Germans should stop support for this shitholes and watch them collapsing.
That won't happen. German capitalists are conspiracy with Southern communists. The German capitalists use German labor to produce goods they sell to the southern populations, and Germanics and the Finns pay for it through the target-mechanism, inflation induced by southern debt and direct transfers.

Thanks Kohl Birne.

 No.14849

>>14847
Rampânté toutipuce violençè.

 No.14850

>>14846
Guten Abend Ernesto, do you know Sintra? :DDDDD

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Yeah, it's the caffeine. I feel smug. Picked up two books. Both of them were like a buck and I'm quite interested in this Spanish picaresque novella simply because I read it inspired Persona 5's story a bit and I guess I will never get rid of the habit of taking things apart by the threads and then looking at them with a magnifying glass, trying to find the end of the threads. Though I'm not sure why I treat it like as a sick habit from time to time. Curiosity is, all things considered, a good thing. In most regards anyway.

It's kind of funny how social context changes the reasons a given text is pursued by people. In '58 they probably printed it because it's anti-clerical, but almost 70 years later I'm carrying it in my pocket and checking to see how it influenced the writing and themes of a Japanese video game. I mean, isn't this fluidity great?

Started wording a project report in my head about that potential German translation project I'd like to undertake in the future. As I said, it'd be genuinely interesting but also funny that a member of the Oriental Studies Workshop has a Germanistik publication.
Honestly, the older I grow the more I treasure German. Don't exactly know why. Initially I just didn't really care for it, I learned it, but now, I seek it out.

I found the savings I thought I lost. Turns out I played myself and it was in a different place and I spent like 5 minutes laughing how ironic it all was.
Was thinking about spending some of it, but then I started thinking about it logically, and I came to the conclusion that even if I want to buy the Persona 3 remake, I haven't the time to play it, and ultimately, there's no reason not to wait for a sale, besides me wishing to satiate an unreasonable desire to claim ownership of something for the future right now.
But otherwise, I will probably be tapping into it just to alleviate my psyche a bit. I like having some financial breathing room and this is what savings are for I guess.
Maybe I will go out and eat in the city one of these days. Once I have my degree I will start applying for jobs.

I just winged the classical Chinese class though I was still able to contribute some. Tomorrow I'll try to assemble a set of Shenzi fragments to comment on and then also produce the Shen Buhai chapter of the fucking thesis, like 5-6k of text to be produced. Most likely gonna try to remedy some of the comments, like "Put more exact dates in it."

Spring break's on now. Time to knock out the thesis. I know I said I wanted to knock it out last weekend but I really couldn't go any faster. But now, I have a week uninterrupted. I will draw my sword and slay this beast! And achieve much glory in the process!

>>14853
Well, I'm sure it sounds better when a crazy French girls says it in that crazy French girl voice. (You know the one.)

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>>14855
>Well, I'm sure it sounds better when a crazy French girls says it in that crazy French girl voice. (You know the one.)
Fun fact: Any language sounds good when spoken by a sexy female voice, even dutch and turkish.

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 No.14871 KONTRA

Chinese teacher asked us to write a short text on our life ideals and share it in the group chat. It was kinda depressing how the majority of classmates wrote some variation of "make lotsa money so I can consume stuff". Makes it seductive to fall back into old patterns of misanthropy. I guess I should see it more positively and appreciate the few people who wrote something more interesting. Shoutouts to the girl whose life goal is to open a bakery with her friend R. who's the only non-stupid person in the world she's met.

 No.14872

>>14871
At first I confused you with Hungaryball because I didn't look closely.
But honestly, what did you expect? And I hope your life ideals contained some variation of "I pick up heavy things in order to pick up heavier things".

 No.14873 KONTRA

>>14871
>Makes it seductive to fall back into old patterns of misanthropy.
People are assholes what did you expect?

 No.14875

>>14871
What did you write?
> girl whose life goal is to open a bakery with her friend
Wannabe petit-bourgeoisie. To be guillotined.

 No.14877

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>>14871
Sounds like it is congruent with the impressions of Xiaowei Wang. Chinese Dream is American Dream.

 No.14878

>>14877
What is German dream?

 No.14879

>>14878
Eko Fresh :DDD only some Germans will understand

 No.14880

I woke up very early today for some reason. Maybe I actually invaded Ernesto's dream and I woke up upon being kicked out lol.
I had breakfast and then I immediately went back to bed to sleep more. After I woke up I had lunch and then read some outside. Some Nietzsche and I also quickly wrapped up Lazarillo de Tormes. De

I'm now thinking about the Shen Buhai chapter. Added some more sources and I guess I will end up writing something tonight. Maybe.
Honestly I don't feel like working on it, my stomach's acting up but I should make some translations regardless.

Heating broke so there's no warm water until tomorrow.

>>14871
Our semester for the project is to conduct a debate in teams on the topic of stay at home women receiving financial support.

>>14878
Verboten.

 No.14882

Wind is going hard right now. Shaking up the trees really good, I bet there will be a lot of drop wood in the forest tomorrow.

 No.14883

>>14878
To have more living space.

 No.14884

What do you think of the term social justice schizo ir sjs for short?
It's the right wing pendant to an sjw. A person capable only in making mostly moralistic arguments and heavily virtue signaling

 No.14885 KONTRA

>>14884
Better ask on twitter or some other social media shithole, you will probably get a better response there. Or behave like an actual human and stop it.

 No.14887

It's +10C today. Eeeeeeeppiiccc

 No.14888 KONTRA

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>>14887
It's over.

 No.14889

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>>14888
It has only started. Snow has already melted and dried. I haven't been to most of the parks in the city, gonna visit them this spring/summer.
> 14888
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 No.14890

Teacher brought in a Li Bai poem today to counteract the materialist tendencies in class. I am still struggling to decipher it. She also told the class that making lots of money is less important than doing something you enjoy. She seems to really enjoy being a teacher. I hope she will continue to do so, she's in her early 30s, only teaching since a few years.

Went to eat Peking Duck for the first time today. Very tasty, but it's much sweeter than I imagined. Almost like a dessert. Also didn't know you're supposed to do these little wraps to eat it.

>>14872
>And I hope your life ideals contained some variation of "I pick up heavy things in order to pick up heavier things".
It sort of did

>>14873
>People are assholes what did you expect?
I'm trying to greet the world with a different kind of attitude lately for a change

>>14875
>What did you write?
Sth along the lines of "I don't have any great life ideals, as long as I progress a little bit every day that's fine with me. I want to develop my spirit, body, mind and relationships with other people. Money and a career are not that important to me."

>>14877
It was my non-Chinese classmates from the language course. So mostly Koreans, Japanese, some Americans. Also most only early 20s.
But yeah, my impression is that most Chinese are also quite materialistic.

>>14880
>Our semester for the project is to conduct a debate in teams on the topic of stay at home women receiving financial support.
Are you pro or contra? :^)
We're doing discussions on all sorts of contemporary topics like that lately: 男女平等,歧视,不婚族,等等

 No.14892

Chinese tourists are cute. They dress bright and fashionable and are addicted to their phones, often use them for streaming. I welcome our Eastern masters.

>>14890
> making lots of money is less important than doing something you enjoy
The latter is hedonistic and selfish as well

 No.14893 KONTRA

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>>14889
Congratulations. You have been awarded the Mannerheim cross (2nd class) for your post.

I've got some similar plans in regards to parks and other places within the city. But I'm going to wait until there's some leaves on the trees. Still a lot of snow on the ground and we've been getting light snow about every other day. Maybe not anymore.

 No.14894 KONTRA

Ate SPAM (corned meat in a can) for the first time in my life. I rate it as barely edible.

 No.14897

>>14894
Did you eat it pure? The Japanese have some recipes for SPAM

 No.14898

>>14897
I fried it in olive oil so it'd feel less like eating dogfood.

 No.14899 KONTRA

Glory glory!
I had half a bottle of soju, half a bottle of southern wine! Glory glory!

I love you all! The final conflict!
Life is oh so great! Das ist dein Welt!

 No.14900

In moments like these, howerev much I respect Nietzsche, all I can say is that God lives!R

 No.14901 KONTRA

>>14900
Whatever this force is, it is God

 No.14902 KONTRA

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 No.14904

Human is a social creature. He is forced to partake in society or he will go insane. This feels like more of an impediment of my freedom than wage slavery.

 No.14906

>>14904
We truly live in a society

 No.14908

Yesterday I read some outside, I selected a bunch of Shen Dao fragments to translate and also found some cross-references with the Xunzi and the Mengzi I could use relatively well to form a chapter. I want to produce some translations and a chapter today.

Once I cam back inside I wrote a chapter of my thesis, so I'm currently up to around 27k, almost at the minimum threshold. And I still haven't touched the previous paper. Two weeks left. This weekend I want to reach 40k.

Later in the evening I went to college for another one of those anime screening nights that was organised. I baked some pastries for it and also brought a bottle of soju to repay that last time I got to drink so much of that chocolate liquor.
I got horribly drunk but everything was in harmony afterwards. I almost missed the bus, so I quickly had to run down to catch is, while the only tune that would come to my mind was the Internationale.

Today's going to be great too, I can feel it!

 No.14909

>>14898
An acquired taste takes time to build.

fried SPAM on romanesco puree with a laurel red wine sauce and latticed potato construct when?

 No.14910


 No.14911

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Also, to get this out the way right away:

 No.14912

>>14910
From behind a rock where they know something like linked must exist.

 No.14914

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And I also remembered something I posted in a fat thread somd time ago:

Pure breakfast meat with Hela Curry spice ketchup.

 No.14915

>>14914
Imagining that it is actually dark around this constellation for eating makes it even more funny. McPomm level

 No.14916

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>>14914
Ngl, just looking at it triggered a mild gag reflex

 No.14917 KONTRA

>>14915
>>14916
Agreed. Only an Alman with socks in sandals would eat >>14914

But Döner made from rotten meat with yogurt sauce is just fine.

t. Wannabe-Fynn Kliemann with Mark-Forster-hat

 No.14918

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>>14917
>Only an Alman with socks in sandals
Reminder that Ernstchan is pro-socks in sandals.

 No.14919 KONTRA

>>14918
ironically.

 No.14920 KONTRA

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>>14919
You're wrong. Socks and sandals are so comfy. Can't wait for warmer weather to finally wear them again.

 No.14921

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>>14920
How warm is warmer weather in Finland?

 No.14922 KONTRA

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>>14921
Around 12 degrees should be good. Right now it's +6 outside.

Socks do a good job keeping your toes warm. Otherwise I'd only wear sandals when it's hot outside (above 18 degrees).

 No.14924

Went to visit the grave of my friend. Took my parent's car and blasted some music on my way there. It's in a small village in the countryside where one part of the family seems to live.
The name was still missing on the stele It's a collective grave. After Easter, I will ask the cemetery administration how long it will take until the name is added. Had to take my present/funeral object for him back with me. Luckily, they seem to allow these objects to be there for a while, others also placed objects.

So, saying farewell will take a little bit longer.
At least I know that the grave is there and his remaining family who did not have contact with him anyway did not fuck me over I was at the wrong cemetery first because the other has no address in google maps and I wasn't given any specific address for they contracted with the mortician that nobody should participate and know where it is. So I had to ask through the mortician and I wasn't so sure how they will receive and answer the question.

Since I like cemeteries I can safely that this one a well maintained and aesthetically pleasing small village cemetery. Usually, they are good, quite old and have their own distinct atmosphere on par with an old park cemetery in the city. Newer cemeteries from the later half of the 20th century are not well layed out and "designed", not grown "organically" enough (yet?)

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 No.14926 KONTRA

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Worked on my thesis today. I translated a bunch of Shen Dao quotes and then I assembled it into a 10k keystrokes length chapter, plus with the citations. Also referenced the Shiji, Xunzi and the Mengzi in it. I'm like 90% there to the minimum length.
This is actually cutting into the meat and potatoes of it, like actual textual analysis of legalist works now, so I'm not too heavy on the introduction any more.

The heating got fixed finally so I took the best shower of the past year because finally there was hot water for more than 3 minutes, and it was actually hot, not just warm.

Gonna have to get up very early because I want to go to the store to help with the shopping. It's gonna fucking suck because due to Easter nothing will be open so people pretend it's the apocalypse. We just forgot to buy bread. (And we're out of flour and year too so I can't just bake more.)

Bit tired but I feel a bit hyped.

 No.14928 KONTRA

>>14926
They must buy everything they can, because buying large volumes of sub-standard goods is what defines the good consooomer-sheeple of late stage capitalism.

 No.14933

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> Biden declares Easter Sunday, March 31, "Transgender Day of Visibility" to show support for people who have transitioned.
Since it's Incel Visibility Month, let's mention that many of transgenders are incels who gave up on finding love, and to avoid loneliness tried to find a pair as girl.

#incelVisibilityMonth
#transgenderVisibilityDay

 No.14934

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Another work week in the books. Another small sum added to savings. Don't even know what I'm saving for, only that more money translates into more options. More things I can do, even if I ultimately choose not to do anything at all.

 No.14936 KONTRA

>>14933
So they are incel homosexuals, or do they hope to fool a lesbian?

 No.14937

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I really fucked my own shit up yesterday by waking up so early to help with the grocery shopping. Even after sleeping some more I felt tired as shit throughout the whole day and I ended up doing not much besides just planting some flowers and reading a chapter or two.

I had the two chapters I produced come back. Some criticism but otherwise they are fine I guess. I haven’t really checked in depth, but there was this funny bit where my supervisor told me he really sees no point in me re-translating passages from Confucius and Mencius when there’s already a translation available, even if my “heavily interpretative” translation is otherwise fine.

Today? I’m knocking out the Shang Yang chapter. For real. And then in two-three days I’ll wrap it all up and then start editing this shit to finish it finally so I can be more free.

 No.14938

>>14936
>or do they hope to fool a lesbian?

This.

>The lesbians who feel pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385

>“Lesbian” Dating App Frames “Trans Exclusion” A “Hurdle,” Attempts to Cater to Male Users


https://reduxx.info/lesbian-dating-app-frames-trans-exclusion-a-hurdle-caters-to-men/

It goes the other way as well.
There are straight men who make accounts on gay dating apps to have sex with women that pretend to be men.

>Grindr is slammed by Stonewall Riots hero for banning searches for biological men because it’s ‘transphobic’ while allowing users to purposefully seek out trans partners


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13056363/grindr-app-stonewall-riots-biological-men-transphobic.html

Good times.

 No.14940 KONTRA

>>14938
Absolutely degenerate. The west needs to burn. Luckily, it will burn!

 No.14941

>>14938
>Stonewall Riots hero
Anorectal veteran. I kneel.

 No.14942

I once was obsessed with sexual deviation. Like, I would out in gay places and visit trans shacks to study them and their devious behavior. My moral righteousness increased but I realized this is not normal as well. It was back in the old Kaycee days.

 No.14943

>>14942
Nah, you're just gay.

 No.14944

>>14943
You think so? I was deeply concerned about the direction of my interest and then stopped my thoughtful adventure. the right moral should not be paid for a price like this. I want to be normal, only that way I can claim a certain moral position. And my interest was not normal anymore.

 No.14945

>>14944
If you ask me, a real gonzo journalist/ethnographer would have slammed tranny ass - for a deeper (hehe) understanding.

 No.14946

>>14945
>a real gonzo journalist/ethnographer

But I'm just a humble imageboard user with a moral compass to adjust, not some non-working covert tranny lover.

 No.14947

>>14946
>not some non-working covert tranny lover.
Yes, we have already established that you are just gay; the homosexual kind.

 No.14948

>>14946
Are you the Ernst that's interested in "lolcows"?

 No.14949

So now I have a gf and I still don't have sex. But now I can't even go to prostitutes since it would be an adultery.
Maybe go to a "massage parlor", after all, does handjob even count as a cheating?

#gfcelVisibilityMonth

 No.14950 KONTRA

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>>14949
>I can't even go to prostitutes since it would be an adultery
What do you mean you can't go? Is it illegal?

 No.14951

>>14949
Rape her, she is your property.

#incelOpinionMonth

 No.14952

>>14947
I'm not gay even though I took a rather obsessive interest in what trannies do.
I did it for moral reasons but had to find out it is counterproductive to my moral righteousness.

 No.14953

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 No.14954

Germans even made a song about transgender people, have a translation of this fun song for beer driven evenings

[Lyrics to "Lady Boy"]

[Intro]
La, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la
La, la, la

[Verse 1]
He saw her at the bar with long blonde hair
Her body beautiful with an ass implant
They got intimate, he was instantly in love
But later in the hotel the voice sounded a little deep

[Pre-chorus]
My buddy spent the whole night
Making out with a transgender guy
He didn't see the bulge
And then it hurt

[Refrain]
She's a la-la-la, la-la-la-ladyboy
La-La-La-, La-La-La-La-Ladyboy
La-La-La-, La-La-La-La-Ladyboy
The horny pig looked like a ten
A la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-ladyboy
La-La-La-La, La-La-La-La-Ladyboy
La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-ladyboy
And the rest, he'll just drink it up

[Verse 2]
Inflatable, inflatable, inflatable boat lips, awesome sledge
Her doctor was a professional, how was he supposed to know?
Curves in her jeans, she was just his type
Even though he knows she's lying when she says her name is (Jacqueline)

[Pre-chorus]
My buddy spent the whole night
Making out with a transgender guy
He didn't see the bulge
And then it hurt

 No.14955 KONTRA

>>14954
Crazy. Don't remember asking tho.
You should consider suicide.
Or just stop posting

 No.14956

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>>14955
What is your problem?

 No.14957

>>14952
Damn son, your gayness is off the charts!

 No.14958

>>14950
Sex work is formally illegal, but practically they just give share to cops and nobody cares.
The problem is, my guilt wouldn't allow me to. Also what if I catch STD and transfer to gf later? I love her after all.

>>14951
You have a point. We were cuddling a lot, and then she said, let's go on watching the movie. And I stopped. Didn't want to push it since she is 1-st time at my home. Next time I won't stop.

 No.14959

>>14942
> Like, I would out in gay places and visit trans shacks to study them and their devious behavior.
This is how Blanchard, sexologist, came up with his theory of transsexual typology. Also he had very poetic and erotic descriptions of trannies in his works, so he probably banged them -- I've seen quotes in Contrapoints' video where she tries to prove (unconvincingly) that she's not an autogynephylic maniac.

I would bang a tranny if feminine enough. I don't think that it is gay, but I don't care much about labels anyway.

#transgenderVisibilityDay

 No.14960

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This thread is becoming increasingly gay.

Let's instead try to answer the question why he did it.

 No.14961 KONTRA

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>>14960
> This thread is becoming increasingly gay
> Posts a rooster

 No.14962

>>14961
No, Ernst, you ARE the rooster.

 No.14963

>>14962
Yes, I am. The bird on my countryball is actually a rooster. You've been zashquared by replying on my posts, so soon you'll get a bird countryball too.

 No.14964

>>14963
But I am not in Omsk, so that won't happen. But you phallicly loaded language is more than concerning and your posts are even a bit brickesque in their general vibe.
Maybe we are witnessing a rising star here.

 No.14965

Attention law abiding Ernsts - do NOT reply to Omsk posts.

"so soon you'll get a bird countryball too"
Really, he already has one. Germans themselves all have, as they share posting flag with one.

 No.14966 KONTRA

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What the hell happened here?

>>14955
Great fucking post.

 No.14968

>>14955
Yikes, reactionaries are so easily triggered. Do you need a safe space, sweetie?

 No.14969

Didn't do a thing today. Not. One. Thing.
It was nice.

Happy Easter, Ernst.

 No.14971

>>14955
>>14966

t. made out with a transgender guy and did not see the bulge

 No.14972

Now when #incelVisibilityMonth is over, what should be next month?
I have a thought to declare #safeProgrammingMonth and shitpost about Rust, but maybe you have better ideas.

 No.14973

>>14969
Very nice. Happy Easter to you, too.

 No.14977 KONTRA

It's +17C today! Imagine!
Sadly, next time such temperature will be somewhere in a month.

 No.14978

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tfw no derrorist gf

really glad cute women these days rock hair like that

 No.14979

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I'm now Telegram Premium user. Bow before me, plebs.

 No.14980 KONTRA

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>>14979
I have a donor badge in Signal. Out of my way, peasant.

 No.14981

>>14980
You don't get "Jude" badge by spending money, you get it by making money.
The problem with "Signal" is that no one else uses "Signal". Who you do talk to there?

 No.14982 KONTRA

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>>14981
You went the wrong way with your interpretation.

>The problem with "Signal" is that no one else uses "Signal".

Sounds like a "you" problem. Everyone in my circles uses it.

 No.14984

>>14982
I'm struggling to imagine your circle. Drug addicts? Cryptobros? No, you seem to be not like that.

 No.14985 KONTRA

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>>14984
>I'm struggling to imagine your circle.
Good to hear!

 No.14988 KONTRA

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The battle continues. My head hurt the entire day and I was tired as hell so I opted to just reading stuff unrelated to the thesis because if I had to look at one more fucking quote on ctext I was going to throw up.

Now that it is the night I've started working more and my headache has stopped. I've produced a substantial number of translations, I think just one more passage about state formations will be needed and then I can just assemble this shit like lego pieces into a chapter and then we are onto the final stretch of the Han Fei and post-hegemonic legalism plus some shitty closing chapter before just editing.

Currently like 1.5k chars into the chapter.

 No.14993

>>14985
You're an lawful obedient pro-NATO citizen, you don't have anything to hide from Sanna. That must be just a tech-enthusiast thing.

 No.14999

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This thread is getting too gay again, have something to take the edge off

 No.15001

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> see an eco-store with a curios label
> go in
> it's a recruiting point for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_Cedars%27_Anastasianism
Epic!
Bought a hand-made bear-spoon and took their booklets.

 No.15002 KONTRA

>>15001
> recruiting point
Reading their booklets, they are not much interested in proselytism, rather in selling production of their farms.

 No.15006 KONTRA

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Using Python and taking whatever comes from an public online API and passing it to a microcontroller over USB.

#unsafeProgrammingMonth

 No.15010

>>15006
What does the microcontroller control?

 No.15011 KONTRA

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>>15010
Tiny e-ink display, for electricity spot prices.

 No.15013

>>15011
So theoretically I could inject false data to cause you financial harm?
Or just make it continuously display BENIS :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

 No.15014 KONTRA

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>>15013
Yes and possibly.

In theory it could be possible to reprogram the whole microcontroller by sending a specifically crafted payload. I think it would have to be some sort of an exploit at least based on some cursory knowledge on the (re)program sequence. Displaying false values would of course be trivial as I'm trusting the API for the validity of the data.

 No.15015

The experience of the 20th century shows that alcohol prohibition does not work. But what about tobacco prohibition? Could it eliminate smoking? New experiments are required to find out.

 No.15019

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Posting this in the Today thread because it's mainly a rant.

Currently watching along "Last One Laughing", an Amazon produced german tv show apparently based on a japanese format where they put a bunch of comedians (like actual standup and comedy film comedians) and "comedians" (like tv/radio/podcast hosts, models and regular actors) into a room for six hours and they are not allowed to laugh. Anyone who laughs twice gets thrown out.
Obviously this concept works very well with german comedians, doesn't it?
Well, for them it's probably nice, they can celebrate themselves constantly and show how funny everyone is because eventually someone WILL laugh.
The thing here is that while most german comedians are as stereotypically unfunny as foreigners will probably expect. In fact, kidnapping the people in this itt thread and putting them into a room under this stipulation would probably yield a much funnier end result.
With a good script those people can indeed be funny, but left on their own, it all boils down to 80% funny voices and 20% "humor" of the kind that the fart-huffing german would call "humor", and they all do bits. I don't know how much of that is improvised, but it's really, really not funny. They will of course claim the opposite and constantly talk about (in one of those interview rooms) how they were always short of pissing and shitting their pants from all the funny.
And because it's an Amazon production I automatically have a lower opinion of everyone involved, especially after learning that they had a preview gimmick where you had a webcam track your face and end the preview after you laughed twice.
It's absolutely genius from a marketing/data kraken point of view, but I really don't know what kind of 89IQ bydlo would really do that. Probably the same kind of person who pays for youtube, or converses with companies on facebook.

 No.15020

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>>15019
>it all boils down to 80% funny voices and 20% "humor" of the kind that the fart-huffing german would call "humor"

I hate German comedy not surprising given that you call me a self hating German, kek and avoid it like the plague, needless to say that your "humor" is included in "German comedy" as well. These days I get my media consumption related laughs from polemic marxists Germans though and the occassional TikTok.

t. lofty clouds connoisseur

 No.15021

>>15019
They don't have any good German comedians like ikke hüftgold, Mario barth, Dieter nuhr, the guy with the woolen hat and the creepy Austrian woman. If course it's going to suck.

 No.15032

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I slept terribly last night for some reason. I blame the syrup based drinks. I just felt like I was in pain and as if I were getting baked alive. But it somehow passed and then I could sleep a bit.

I woke up late and had breakfast and then ran and took a shower. Left to buy some groceries and to turn in the Easter scratch tickets I got to claim the 5 or so euros I won on them.

We called an electrician to do some repairs so there was no electricity for most of the day. Turns out that years ago, during the renovation most of the wiring was done by old electricians who were about to retire so the results were essentially what the terminus technicus call "*Zigeuner Hufbeschlag*", so like my outlets weren't grounded even after we put grounding in it a year ago. After a lot of cussing the issue turned out to be that there was one box with incorrectly connected wires.
Which kind of feels like being absolved of a sin really. No, it wasn't me who was an idiot that sometimes the top of the PC would shock me and so on.

Electrician asked me if I knew where a box was or how it was wired and I replied "I don't know, really. I just live here." and he said "That's a healthy approach". Well, for his pockets anyway, but I think he rather meant that if you don't know anything about electricity, you probably shouldn't be thinking too hard about it anyway.

Later in the afternoon I was finally able to cook lunch and have a coffee. I finally knocked out the last requested chapter before going onto Han Fei. I'm 10k characters over the minimum requirement, so this thing's in the fucking bag.
It's so fucking close to getting done.
I find myself resorting to listening to Mahler and Wagner while working on it. It just makes me feel good honestly.

The quest continues...

Once I'm free of the thesiswork, I will reorient myself wholly to modern Chinese, because yet again all I'm doing is basically translating classical all day.

 No.15036

>>14977
And today it's -2C and heavy snowfall...

 No.15037

>>15036
Der April macht, was er will.

**It's rainy here, I dread that there still is no permanent sun and +15-20°C

 No.15040

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I woke up late. Had breakfast, exercised and left early for class to get some business taken care of before then.
As I left I was feeling kind of melancholic. I wasn't really depressed or in despair or anything it was just a mood where I wanted to sigh and acknowledge that the times are changing and that I have desires for things. Honestly it just felt kind of normal otherwise.

In essence all I did was pick up a German copy of Zarathustra and return two of the books I borrowed from the Germanistik library at university because I foolishly let my borrowing lapse and I couldn't extend them. Thankfully I didn't have to pay them any fines because I'm sure they would have actually shook me down for like 80 something forints if it came to that. (Which is not the fact that I cannot pay it, rather just the pettiness of it honestly.)

Afterwards I went and camped before the professor's office, waiting for class to start before I realised that I could pick up my print copy of the journal I got my book review published in so I rushed over to another building to get that thing done. They didn't have a list ready yet but they let me take a copy regardless and asked if it's okay with me that I don't sign that I've taken a copy and I was like
>Yeah, what is it to me? I mean it's more of a thing you need, with this being a Chinese institution and paperwork being the heart and soul of things.

Once this came to pass I went back to finish reading a chapter of Hegel for class before, which I managed to finish. Other guy didn't show up so it was only me at the seminar. It went rather well. We also discussed the state of my thesis.
Next week we will be discussing a shorter Marx piece. Funny how this is the first time I had Marx get assigned in any capacity. I borrowed it from the library and I was kind of embarrassed how the librarian said "Ah, the Marx-volume" with such significance.

Honestly I just wish I finally got through the thesis and the midterms so I could breathe some. And the whole degree honestly just so that I could be a useless retard and play video games and read random books and translate random shit.

 No.15041

>>15040
>Next week we will be discussing a shorter Marx piece

Which piece?
People hardly read Marx in university these days, yes. He gets some honorable mention most of the times when you study humanities or social sciences

 No.15042 KONTRA

>>15041
It's "Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations". I wish I knew the German title but the Hungarian edition doesn't have it and the Marxist Internet Archive is exceptionally shit when it comes to providing the original title.

 No.15043 KONTRA

I think it's just selections from the *Grundrisse*.

 No.15044

>>15043
Which MEW is it?

 No.15045 KONTRA

>>15044
Honestly don't know. The texts are from 1857-58 if that's any help.

 No.15046

>>15045
Well looks like it is from the Grundrisse looking up Wikipedia. At least likely.

 No.15049

>>15040
>And the whole degree honestly just so that I could be a useless retard and play video games and read random books and translate random shit.
But won't a degree be followed by the ultimate soul crushing time thief- a career?

 No.15050

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Ernst, are you from the northern part of your country or the southern part?
How is the northern/southern divide perceived or stereotyped?

 No.15051

>>15050
I'm from the north western part of the south and i look with disgust at anyone from any other place.

 No.15052

>>15051
> north western part of the south
Like what, Baden or Eifel?

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>>15050
As usual, southerners are cunning materialistic peasants. And northerners fart-sniffing snobbish intelligentsia.
I was born in a place without special stereotype.

 No.15054

I joined the German Association for Media Studies because I feel like a beggar asking my former advisor or an acquaintance for the newsletter every other week it contains academic job postings for media studies. Luckily, it is a bit cheaper with my current status now.

Have you ever joined an association?

>>15053
Interestingly I was born in a part that is rather north but without many stereotypes on a national level. Now I live in northern Germany and I dislike the idea of ever moving south, like Munich, Freiburg, Stuttgart or Würzburg etc. Even Kaiserslautern would be too south. Italy or Vienna would be great, though.

 No.15055

>>15054
> but without many stereotypes on a national level.
Hannover area? They are so boring they don't even have their own dialect.

 No.15056

>>15053
>As usual, southerners are cunning materialistic peasants. And northerners fart-sniffing snobbish intelligentsia.
Wow. Is it the same in every country?

 No.15059

>>15055
Not Hannover but it is not too far away. Yes, we speak Hochdeutsch though idioms exist here as well



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