No.19964
From the thumbnail at first glance I thought that was a robot.
No.19968
Cutting my hair really short was probably the best descision I made in a while. I feel free and it looks ok.
No.19972 KONTRA
Work went without much trouble. After work I went to pick up a book, which was a selection of Leblanc’s Lupin stories. Had a linguistics class and then I went home to drop off some stuff and then went back for my evening class. It was raining all day and so my shoes got completely wet and my feet felt cold on the way in.
The art history seminar was fine. I think I’m way more of a Marxist than I ever give myself credit for sometimes.
Seminar lasted longer than I’d have expected. I learned of an interesting book. But I’m very tired now.
No.19974 KONTRA
>>19973Is Jon Arbuckle the whitest American Comic book character or is it Charly Brown?
No.19975 KONTRA
>>19974What does this even mean?
No.19976
>>19975> Pretending you don't know what whiteness isThese are comics for white people by white people. The humor is white. Well the characters are white. They are a product of white privilege and reproduce white privilege.
White people are the least humorous people, but these comics allow white to compensate for this insufficiency while taking humour away from everyone else.
It's structurally similar to how white people monopolized hygiene while being the most unhygienic race. White people used their privilege to code clean as white and black as dirty, while being the most dirty people themselves. Proof: white people don't even wash rice before cooking.
No.19977 KONTRA
>>19976It's hard to say whites aren't the least funny race when faced with this prime example of German subversive wit.
No.19978
>>19977Nothing here is intended to be funny at all.
Even today, advertising continues to equate cleanliness to whiteness. White bathroom tiles in every advert for cleaners, white cat litter with white cats, and so on.
Dagos, by the way, are not white, even if you don't wash your rice.
No.19979
>>19978>Dagos, by the way, are not white, even if you don't wash your riceI'm happier not having to share an ethnic group with Germans.
No.19987 KONTRA
I woke up early, worked out a bit and then I had breakfast and lunch and then went to the library. Read a bit of the Leblanc book and it was really fun and then I went to class where we mostly just studied vocab and did some light on the spot interpreter practice.
But before class I dropped by at the faculty library and asked to have my borrowings extended. The lecturer from last night’s class was there.
I bought a coffee which I regretted because my intestines started hurting after I drank it. I am afraid something’s not right but maybe I’m just paranoid. Honestly a good sing is that I’m sleeping well and I have enough strength to exercise and also an appetite. It’s just the pain is a bit disconcerning sometimes. I don’t know what’s “normal”.
After that I went back to the library since one of my seminars was cancelled and then read some more and spent some time online. German class afterwards was fine. The lecturer said I look to be in high spirits. Told me I’m in my 20s and that means I will “never die”.
Honestly I’m actually surprised how resilient I am right now. I fully expected to fall ill with a cold after how I spent hours in wet shoes yesterday but nothing. The current covidfluenza whatever season breezed past me. Half the university was out and I didn’t even notice it.
I borrowed a selection of Aby Warburg’s studies and based on that name (which when pronounced sounded like Abby to me) I thought it’s an up and coming female academic in her 40s writing “groundbreaking literature” but when I opened the book the portrait of the author showed a man with a moustache with the caption “Aby M. Warburg in 1912”.
I picked it up because supposedly he wrote some really good stuff on symbols that will make you go basically mad through finding associations and I need that in my life.
I think I will spend some money tomorrow on lunch. I’ll make rice (the way I like it) but I’ll buy the main dish. And breakfast too considering there’s nothing at home I could use to make a sandwich. I don’t want to honestly but can’t be helped.
>>19976Who’s the most Asian character in Naruto?
No.20003 KONTRA
I woke up way too early and went back to bed for like two hours and I ended up regretting it for most of the day. I was too tired afterwards.
Work went fine, I got paid. Wanted to pick up a book of Sherlock Holmes stories but they told me 10 minutes after I left the city that I could go and pick it up.
On the way home I bought some groceries. Went for a run but I didn't manage to do too well. I ended up quitting after around 3kms but I was actually going at a speed higher than usual.
No.20017 KONTRA
>>19987You hardly can go through humanities if only long and deep enough without somebody mentioning Warburg.
No.20018
I bought a 65 year old sewing machine on ebay last week. It showed in some Berlin package store until yesterday, then it arrived here today.
It is running with very little noise. The reduction gear works fine. The needle needed centering, the foot holder was a little offset. One of the belts is losing rubber, and I will probably change that. The brushes are not spectacularly worn, but they are pretty worn and it smells like an ozone generator, so I will probably change those, too. A rubber cushion which dampens the motor is totally worn out, but I will certainly not replace that. And it needs new rubber feet.
Unsure about the denoising capacitor. It runs smoothly, so the capacitor probably still works, but for all I know, that things could be full of PCB, which makes me feel more than a little uncomfortable.
No.20019
I woke up early. Had breakfast at home. Got my stuff ready and then went to the city. Had lunch and then I decided to buy a coffee. Turns out coffee is everywhere I went into a random shop and ordered an americano and drank it wandering the street. My bag was really dragging because I picked up my package and I underestimated how good quality the materials would be for a book being sold for like four dollars. It's a really nice edition of the Sherlock Holmes short stories.
Firs time in my life I was the person walking on the street in a trenchcoat drinking a coffee. What a day honestly.
Checked the book carts and I saw a copy of Maspero's history of ancient China for sale and I bought it and took it to the college library and handed it in. Then I went to the university library. The coffee made me feel nice. I read three studies and wrote comments on them. Which I guess is a good amount of work done.
I did mostly some light lifts at home. Helped a friend with editing his sci-fi short story.
Though I did express my doubts about me editing an English story when I'm not a native speaker. It was kind of odd to be at the other end of the stick honestly. I basically did what my professors did to me at university.
He seemed quite satisfied with my criticism and recommendations for improving his writing abilities.
Honestly I don't know what changed that I'm suddenly "getting stuff done". Not as much as I'd like to but things feel like they're moving again.
>>20017The Asian art history classes weren't all that in-depth to be honest.
No.20020
What is the oldest thing Ernst owns?
Me: A
Lettera 32 typewriter which dates to the mid 1960's. I received this as a gift ~5 years ago. While the typewriter has ribbon and functions, I appreciate it more as an aesthetic object than a useful and practical one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_typewriters#Lettera_32_(1963) No.20021 KONTRA
>>20020A book feels like cheating, but the oldest thing I own probably is an 1854 edition of the Odyssey in Greek.
No.20022
>>20020> Oldest thingMy grandma's chairs, mid 1950s, probably. Some of my grandfather's tools might be older, but I can't tell.
> Lettra 32Very Nice. If you have good accuracy, you can actually use them to do paperwork. I used on old Olympia Monica when I had no printer. (Picture not the actual machine, but same model.)
No.20023
>>20020Good question.
Cannot think of anything else than some books from the early 20th century. I guess anything else I have is not older than the 1980s. Maybe that one kitchen chair I have is from the 1950s or 1960s. I don't think it is younger
No.20024
Being all romantic with a girl. We haven't even had sex yet, but we've already exchanged vows of eternal love. Shit is so cash.
No.20025
>>20024How long has it been since you banged the squirter? Why don't you want to settle down with one woman and start a family?
No.20026
>>20025>How long has it been since you banged the squirterI think that was Tuesday. Maybe Monday.
>Why don't you want to settle down with one woman and start a family?I think that's what I'm going to do now. Oxalá.
No.20029
We went to a street food festival with the family. I’d say the offerings were staggering but ultimately it was just a bunch of stalls doing the same thing. Good stuff though. Not a checkered tablecloth or a chef who was educated during Socialism in sight.
Afterwards I had a coffee and then we also went into an Asian deli nearby. My father got me a waving cat statue.
“You should carry it around the store. It’s ritually proper since it’s a gift.” and when I handed him a pack of ramen he was like “Is this a ritual too?”
“Yes, it’s the Chinese ritual of 给钱, which means “to pay”.”
At home I ended up wasting colossal amounts of time.
They sent us an email that there will be no classical class this week and we should instead attend the lecture of some Canadian dude talking about the commentary of a sutra in Japan and I’m honestly just gonna go to work and make money. You can’t tell me to go to an extracurricular event.
I’ve evolved into what most people are like when they start university.
Also arranged for one book to be shipped out of China and I bough Rise of the White Sun on Steam because it was 50% off and I felt obliged to try it considering the period it talks about is fun.
No.20035
No home internet for a couple of weeks :(((
No.20039 KONTRA
Had to cut my workout short since I was late for a movie I was going to see with some friends. Hurried myself so I'd make it in time only to find out that I've been stood up. Tbh I kinda expected it since my buddy said he'll have to leave work early so I suggested that we move it to another date but he insisted on sticking to the plan.
So I watched that movie alone and afterwards went to see the new Joker which might without exaggeration be the most boring piece of shit I've ever seen. Really regret I didn't just walk out.
Went to get groceries on the way home and ofc my shitty local Penny only had one register open and some guy was trying to return some shit and the new cashier couldn't figure out how to do it and there was a group of kids who were being noisy and kept cutting the line with one item each. Everybody was on edge since the line kept growing through half the supermarket and we had to wait there like 15 minutes until they finally opened another register. So yeah, just one of those days I guess.
>>20020Bunch of early 20th/late 19th ct books. My grandfather left some Russian Empire coins when he died but not sure if my parents threw those away.
No.20046
>>20042There's weed and even clover in your lawn. What does the HOA have to say about this? You need to get some weed killer ASAP, capisce?
Are you trying to lower the value of everyone's home by making the neighborhood look like a slum area?
No.20048
>>20045
It must be very taxing carrying this internal monologue around. May I recommend finding a reason and purpose through obedience to Allah(SwT)?
No.20050 KONTRA
FYI: EC and radio were offline for a couple of hours earlier. It seems there was an issue with our provider, since both servers were down at the same time.
No.20057
>>20039>just one of those daysMaybe!
But maybe this is another call to action to choose Lidl instead.
Lidl is closer to me than Penny and I thank the Schwarz everyday for his wise choice in location No.20059
It's 21:14 and I'm still in office. Not because I'm hardworking but because I'm too lazy to stand up and go home.
No.20061
I worked hard all day. Then on the way home I bought groceries for tomorrow and also went to the pharmacy and picked up another Lupin-book. I swear there's a grand design behind me buying century-old pulp shit.
I think I will do a conference presentation on this topic. Actually drew up a small web of relationships at work during my lunchbreak. This is fun.
I had my other class cancelled too, so I instead just relaxed a bit and finally did a run again after like three days of not being able. It felt good. Wasn't a record or anything, but it felt really good.
Chatted a bit with a friend. He attended the Buddhology lecture. Asked him if my presence was missed or anything and he said "lol why the fuck would they have missed you it was about Japanese Buddhism".
Save for all the money I spent on stuff, this was a good day. Well, if I think about it, if I weren't so greedy I could have had an entire day off but I went to work instead. Oh well.
No.20062
>>20046>HOA No HOA. They primarily exist in large new developments where the developer continues to hold partial title to all homes even after the sale. That is one thing I do not miss about Florida. Now I cut the lawn when I want. Weeds? Nobody cares.
No.20070
Got a haircut and bought a new shampoo since the skin on my scalp has been kinda bad lately. Went to wörk, it was pretty böring. Managed to sell some Magic cards I bought in Japan for a solid profit and promptly spent most of it on more cards.
>>20057>But maybe this is another call to action to choose Lidl instead. Next Lidl is only 200m or so away and I usually go there (or Rewe) for dedicated grocery shopping, but the Penny is literally right across the street so it seems convenient if I just want to grab a few things but actually I do regret going there most times.
Though as a Wessi my favorite supermarket is Aldi Süd tbh. Or a big REWE. Ideally both next to each other.
No.20077
I bought prickly pear for the first time a couple of days ago. Now after work I bought another box. Read that citrus juice squeezed on top enhances the taste of the edible part. And it's true. I could probably eat two boxes right now. I have a new favorite fruit I will add to my rotation.
>>20070200m is worth a Lidl. Penny and Netto are trash, no good offerings nor any cool staples.
Edeka has best selection but is most expensive, then Rewe and then Lidl, followed by Aldi. Last place are Penny and Netto, something like Kaufland or regional grocery chains range somewhere in the middle usually.
>bought a new shampoo since the skin on my scalp has been kinda bad latelyHow so?
No.20078 KONTRA
>>20025>Why don't you want to settle down with one woman and start a family?Update: This girl is the one. I'm going to be with her forever. We are going on a trip next weekend and I'm going to just ask her if she wants to be my gf and I'm going to dedicate my life to creating a family with her.
No.20079 KONTRA
Woke up early. Packed breakfast and lunch and then went to work. At work I ordered a steel water can. I decided that I need a smaller container because I'm tired of lugging the huge as fuck sodas bottle around and everything else at home is also too big so I'll pay a bit for one that I like and I can also put tea in because I miss tea.
Went to class. Linguistics was suffering until we started talking about historical phonology and then my brain immediately switched back on. I then went home, had some warm tea, ate some jaffa cakes, put down some stuff and then went back to a lengthy art theory seminar.
On the way friend dropped me a message that apparently the communist party published some Kim Jongun speeches in Hungarian and they hailed it as a big victory. Even dragged here some NK ambassador dude for it and shit and I'm going to ask them for a free copy because it is so funny. The lecturer who was a Koreanist and also the Kordepthead was less amused by it though she found it interesting nonetheless that there are still communists in this country.
Afterwards I talked a bit with classmates. I think what's odd is that I somehow seem to have become freer. I talk a lot more and my jokes land and only afterwards do I realize how much I just talked and how I basically kept a group of people entertained for 30-40 minutes with anecdotes and jokes and the like.
So yes, I'm in a good place right now for some reason.
No.20093 KONTRA
I woke up very early and I then couldn't fall asleep for a bit but I went back to bed eventually after breakfast. Basically I woke myself up ever half an hour or so, and each time I fell back into bed, having a different, pleasant dream.
After that I had lunch and quickly re-wrote a comment I was asked to provide on an article which was denied by the lecturer leading the seminar. I went to class afterwards. I was a tad bit late because I stopped to pick up the German copy of No Longer Human I ordered.
Class started late anyway. My translation homework was mediocre. Lecturer said it's "overwritten" and she was right.
We then practiced on the spot translation of Chinese audio. I did horribly I think.
After class the lecturer found three of us waiting outside and invited us to some PhD conference or whatever because "You guys want to do a PhD, right?"
Told her to send over the call for presentations. Will probably dust off the Chao Cuo presentation again.
After that I had the Chinese environment seminar which was boring as shit. The lecturer said she's into "Marxist terminology" which really showed when she misused the term "capital" in an ancient context and I accidentally put her down and I swear I'm trying not to be a dick but it's just terrible how she can't dominate. Anyway, in the end it was fine.
Also wrote two emails. One is asking the communist party for a copy of their new Kim Jong-un book, and the other was me writing a letter of complaint to a Hungarian publisher for their reckless publication of No Longer Human in a terrible edition.
No.20116
Today was bad. I missed out on a gig job a friend offered to me online because I tried to haggle for 10 extra bucks and then I got a reply from the publisher I complained to, essentially dismissing my complaints as nonsensical because nobody else wrote them a letter like this. (The most popular review site is full of comments like mine btw.)
Anyway, I'm getting together with a Japanologist friend and we're writing a proper reply since the fucker asked for "something concrete".
Generally I just felt frustrated throughout the day.
Finally got paid again. I ordered a new mouse because I'm fed up with the apple one.
Voicechatted a bit and went for a run. I think the run really made me feel better. Though my performance was just average.
Tomorrow's gotta be better so I'm going to go to the library. Declined to partake in a family outing to some thingamajig museum. I got stuff to do.
Maybe tonight I will be able to get a whole 8 hours of sleep instead of waking up after 6.
No.20117 KONTRA
>>20116> new Mouse> fed up with the apple mouseLol. You replaced an apple original partb with cheap bullshit. Why not use a PC at this point.
What a loser.
No.20120
Heading into the house tonight, I used the key fob to lock my car. This also flicks the lights on and off. I noticed one of the driver rear lights stayed dark. Went back to check which one. It's not a brake light, so that's good. Means I won't get pulled over by the po-po. I just had that bulb replaced last month. Must have been a dud.
No.20123
I am sick and it's annoying.
Bought Nürnberger Lebkuchen. I also have a dishwasher running, which is great.
No.20125
Prove me wrong:
The eastern part of a country is always poorer than the western part.
No.20127 KONTRA
>>20121> 2.jpg> TempleOS as base> goal is to mimic nazi Taybased
No.20128
How does Ernst deal with idle time? I. e. empty wasted time where one simply isn't capable of doing anything meaningful because the mind needs to "recharge" first.
No.20129
>>20128I generally use that time to "recharge" my mind.
No.20130 KONTRA
>>20125Ireland
United Kingdom
Canada
Just off the top of my head
No.20131
>>20129Witty. Let me rephrase for you, smartass: how do you avoid feeling worthless when "recharging"? I'm not talking ordinary about relaxing.
No.20132 KONTRA
>>20131*about ordinary relaxing
No.20133 KONTRA
>>20131>how do you avoid feeling worthless when "recharging"?By not being a worthless nothing who needs to ask questions like this.
No.20135
>>20128I read comic books and graphic novels. More engaging than television or movies. Also feels productive if the story has a defined beginning and end. Not just passing time, but finishing something.
No.20140 KONTRA
Serious relationship ongoing. It's all pretty magical. Redeeming, even.
No.20141
>>20140Good for you. I wish you best.
No.20143
>>20135>I read comic books and graphic novels.I used to be into comics but not really anymore. If I stumbled about something cool, I'd still get it though. Maybe I should get into reading a magazine, seems better than the doomscrolling routine I do currently.
No.20144
>>20131Some people are so used to being worthless, it doesn't bother them in the slightest and they even are proud of that. As you can see here.
No.20159
Long day at work. Could have had the day off, but a coworker called out. Not a surprise. The
Buffalo Bills played late last night. Days following a night game are unofficial holidays.
>>20143>If I stumbled about something cool, I'd still get it though. There is a lot of bad work published but a lot of good, too. You just have to be willing to dig, skim, and move on if the material doesn't grab you. It helps that I read digital, so there is no cost to browse.
>>20158>I don't want to go back. But my greed makes me return.Feel known. I can't say no to overtime.
No.20161
>>20159> Buffalo BillsVery racist and problematic. William Frederick Cody was a genocidal murderer with the added distinction of contributing to the close extinction of the American Bison.
I suggest that people who do not condone the genocide of native Americans and the extinction of native species refer to the team as Buffalo Bigots or the Buffalo Butchers.
No.20181
Work passed relatively uneventful. I didn't do much I think because I concentrated hard on not falling asleep. Listened to some podcast by a fat fuck of a public intellectual me and my friends kind of treat as a lolcow because of his massive ego and how he has a meltdown every few months. I arranged with a friend to go to this fat lolcow's "Cultural space" café to shittalk the Dazai-book and write a reply to the editor.
The podcast itself was unbearably stupid. I should probably lay out my fascination with this retard someday. For some reason once a year or so I try to listen to his radio show but I get thrown off in about 40 minutes because it's just meh.
After work I went to the post office. I needed to send back my contract to the magazine for the shit I wrote. I was shocked to see the numbers because the interview plus the translation netted me around 120 euros alltogether. Plus I got to keep the nice hardcover book the publisher gave me. Good deal.
At the post office they had no numbers, you just stood in line. The interior bore the hallmarks of late socialism with woodgrain and fake, red marble.
There were two windows open, both had one group of people waiting. One group was two elderly women buying scratch tickets, the other was a woman and her friend sending a package. I hesitated where to stand in line (I was alone besides the groups) and I waited like a good five minutes because the old farts bought tickets one at a time and the woman sending a package needed to re-write the address and everything because the used a fucking pencil.
One old lady got her tickets and sat down at a table and then the other spent like 5 minutes trying to pay in coins. I kept checking when will one window be free and then finally the fucking lady managed to pay with coins, just as her girlfriend finished scratching her ticket off and was about to go back and check her tickets, essentially doing a shitty baton pass.
I sprung into action and cut in front of her, took the brief out of my leather bag, I paid for it and then I said "Sorry I took up your time and left" angrily, thinking about how the word "szüttyögés" described this situation perfectly when people don't plan ahead at all and just fucking eat up everyone's time.
But I'm genuinely surprised how old people are unable to criticize me ever since I've grown facial hair.
I went to the library where I checked out the list of thesis titles to see if anyone has worked with anything related to detective literature but literally nobody gave a shit so I have a head-start in a sense. I need to get as much done and out as fast as possible.
But apparently someone a year before me wrote a thesis titled "Recommendations of governance in the Hanfeizi" and someone wrote one called "The structure of the state administration of the Han dynasty". It was a bit odd to see because I never met with these people. I wonder if they were good theses or not. I mean I'm confident in mine, but it being a bit less unique is a bit disappointing.
Also checked out a book on North Korea but I didn't borrow it. It's very cheap if I order it from the publisher so I opted to buy it.
I also ordered another Lupin book.
No.20182
>>20181The linguistics class was boring as shit because I already knew everything about rhyme dictionaries I could ever care to know. The ancient Chinese stuff was more interesting but it's mostly theory so it's probably interesting because it's a mystery.
On the way home I was pretty fucking frustrated because I felt tired and then my mother asked me if I got anything for my sister's birthday and then she started doing this shitty mindgame thing where she wants me to figure out if something is improper and I just straight told her to save time on this and just tell me because I don't wan to figure out the moral and etiquette part of the deal so she said I should get something. I got her some sweets.
Her big gift's gonna be some collector's edition of a video game a few weeks from now so this just needed to be some token thing.
I then wasted a lot of time online and then I did a miniscule amount of homework because my brain is fucking fried and I'm frustrated that I'm not making progress with anything and I'm going to fail all my fucking classes at this rate.
No.20188
I'm buttmad. Shortly speaking, my friend and his wife live a luxury life they can barely afford at expense of their kids.
In 2022 they left Russia to live in 1-st world (they planned to do it before the war) but got stuck in Eastern Europe. Spent some time in Montenegro, then found it too provincial and moved to Romania. They can't return back to Russia (sunk cost + they read Meduza and say about "atmosphere of hate and schizery" here) nor can they accept fate of being Romanians, that's just below their standards. The situation is complicated by the fact that they have two kids: 3 years old daughter and newborn son.
They have high standards for themselves:
> Yes, we need 4 bedroom apartment in elite neighborhood because it has a proper moll nearby and I can network with startup-founders> Yes, my wife needs nanny despite being unemployed specialist on early development of children> Yes, my dog needs a dog-psychologist (no comments)But they care little about their kids. For example, the daughter forgot how to use the pot and started to piss herself from stress related to constant relocations. Also she has no friends to socialize with. They plan to send her to English-speaking kindergarden but she only speaks Russian (what for would she need it abroad?), so it won't be easy for her. Also despite husband's huge salary they have no savings and in if something happens they'll have to move to a small commieblock flat in Tambov to grandparents.
>>20187He's sometimes active in EC Board Games's Discord server.
No.20189
>>20188So he has a huge salary, why is it your problem if they piss it all on garbage? Maybe try to get a huge salary yourself, then you can do with that whatever you want and don't have to be buggurt about what other people do with their money?
OH YOU can't? Then you need to shut up for being a loser.
No.20190
>>20189> So he has a huge salary, why is it your problem if they piss it all on garbage? Because they have no money left on more important things, and their children are fucked.
Weak bait, try better next time.
No.20191
>>20187>I objectify women and there is nothing wrong with that.True. They on the other hand see you as a genetic/financial resource package, and there's also nothing wrong with that.
No.20193
I had to scrape ice from my car windshield this morning. It has never been more over.
>>20188>They have high standards for themselvesHave either of them ever been poor?
No.20194
Today, I learned that "dick-amphibians" actually exist. I always thought the German word for salamander was a childish insult, because it literally translates to "dick amphibian", but it's a real word people use to refer to salamanders, which makes those people gay pathetic losers to me. Why would you say "dick amphibian" instead of salamander, unless you want to ridicule yourself?
No.20195
>>20193> I had to scrape ice from my car windshield this morning.Yes, the summer is over. It sucks that you don't feel freedom in cold weather when you can just leave your home or office and walk for unlimited time. It feels like to be trapped in concrete cages.
Well, at least (you) can go to vacation to New York, which is nearby at it rarely even snows there at winter.
> Have either of them ever been poor?The guy is from rich family, he's never been poor. About wife - no idea, I've never met her IRL, and he's probably too too buttmad at me to answer if I ask. I have a suspicion that it's the same story as with Telegram's founder and his ex-wife:
> “The first time we flew economy class, the kids, who had only flown on private jets before, asked where the other people came from,” she said.In other words, socially-retarded tech-bro choosing a gold-digger over a normal woman. And greedy entitled lazy bitch, incapable of spending his resources properly.
No.20196
>>20195> “The first time we flew economy class, the kids, who had only flown on private jets before, asked where the other people came from,” she said.I wonder where the other people come from all the time. There is too damn many of them.
No.20202
I was in the office until late evening, all the surrounding offices were already dark more or less. Some cleaning personnel was seen among the few illuminated office rooms. There is something about this kind of lonely office work.
Got myself some Banh Mi after work, a very good one. Disposed of an old laptop of mine which does not start anymore. The hard drive is fucked. Gone are some photos of my ex and some other data from 2015-2019 I have no memories of.
>>20183You could have invited her over. Or be uninterested and maybe she will show up again because you don't care.
>>20188You certainly don't like freedom. You are one shade away from the red zone, Ivan.
No.20203
Work was excruciatingly boring. Made little progress. I came straight home afterwards. I relaxed a bit and then I wrote up half of a book review. Then I went and had a running session where I outperformed my expectations somehow.
I used another gadget machine to traine my abdominal muscles a bit and then I lifted.
Almost done with the second Lupin book.
>>20188I kinda feel it. When someone has it "too good" so they are both flushed with resources but also use them terribly ineffectively to achieve utterly below-mediocre results for the amount they invest into something.
Might be just my homo sovieticus heritage speaking. "Rich people should be flogged and made to give me money."
No.20207
Fellow ernsts, are there any smartphone pros among us? I need to buy a mid-range phone with the best possible camera. This is the #1 priority, above performance, screen size or whatever else. Could someone recommend a particular brand or model?
No.20212
>>20202>You could have invited her over.Yeah, maybe, but I think it's fine to take this slower. I think I was viewing it a bit too negatively. She texted me the next day about sth that we talked about and now we're setting up a movie date for next week.
>>20207Google Pixel is known for having a good camera, but you'll have to research which model fits your budget now. I still have the 3a and the camera is quite good but the newer models are probably affordable now as well.
No.20217
I drank too much last night at a party. I was supposed to sleep at my friend’s house but I was so drunk I apparently decided to walk back home. I blacked out and regained consciousness as I was walking on train tracks. I promptly stopped and went on the forest next to the tracks. There I lost my phone. I arrived home at 7, and organized a search with some friends for my phone, I managed to find it.
I’m still in shock and don’t really understand what motivated me to walk there, it’s the most dangerous thing I ever did I think, especially in that drunk state. I don’t know what to make out of it. Fuck
No.20218
>>20202> You certainly don't like freedom. You are one shade away from the red zone, Ivan.I'm pro-freedom, against liberalism. What I mean is that laissez-faire approach only works when majority of people have dignity and discipline. But when dominant ideology is "YOLO follow your passions" it leads to disasters.
And this is one more reason to dislike irresponsible people: they make freedom impossible.
No.20219
>>20212>now we're setting up a movie date for next weekHey that's great. Where will you watch the movie?
>>20207As other Ernst said, Google Pixel. I bought a refurbished Pixel Pro from one of the last patches and the camera is outstanding in contrast to my mid range phone I bought in 2020.
Just like you I was looking for a phone that I think is an acceptable price and makes the best photos for that price. Performance is great. I don't play any games on my phone so I cannot say anything about that, though.
No.20220
>>20217Drink less.
>>20218If you don't like that people can decide whatever they want to do with their money you are an enemy of capitalism and I will personally notify the United States of America that you might be a viable drone target in the near future. The danger with you is obvious.
No.20221
Visited my mother today. She purchased an antique sewing machine and needed a hand getting it home. Since my last trip over they repaved a few miles of road between here and there. Great to drive on but this is a major road, and the construction had to be hell for commuters. Glad I missed it. On my way back, the Tire Pressure Monitoring System light appeared on my dashboard. Decided to address it right away and pulled into a gas station for air. Their machine only accepted quarters. Went to another which had a credit card reader. Inflated the tires and the light went off. Hope that's the end of it, as this was the TPMS light, and not the Low Pressure light. So, if it comes back on then the sensor is going bad.
Also saw a Tesla cyber truck for the first time. I had seen pictures, ofc, but small images on screen cannot convey how ugly they are on the road.
No.20222
>>20220Yes, I am an obvious danger for United States government.
Please, stop panderingBTW in America there is an entire generation of people like that guy. Btw(2) he is libertarian.
No.20223 KONTRA
>>20222did understand post ()
did not understand post (x)
No.20224
I worked a bit on the assignment in the morning and then I had lunch.
Went to the city to meet up with a friend. We went to the café like we planned. He had a beer, I had a coffee and then we spent like 30 minutes talking about the Dazai book before talking about all sorts of random shit for like two hours and then departing from the café to grab a burger to eat.
Death Note came up as a topic and I said that "It'd probably make me unbearable for a few weeks if I read it" and he replied that "If something might have such an effect on you, isn't that all the more reason to read it?"
I guess he's right. Also told me that it has an actually good Hungarian edition.
I think the entire meetup was nice.
Finished reading a book on North Korea and Hungary's foreign relations in 1989.
My sister's friends were around early in the morning but it didn't really cause any emotional breakdown this time. (Maybe because I also had a social outing organised for today.)
Went for a run at home. I didn't feel it so I stopped earlier and then I went back to work on the assignment which I finished. Translating into Chinese is making me piss blood.
Odd thing is that I saw a guy running on the way home and I still thought "What a fucking idiot" like my mother taught me whenever we saw runners as kid.
No.20225
It seems my package with all my remaining stuff from China was addressed slightly worong so it might be getting sent all the way back to Beijing after arriving at German customs. Gonna try to call the customs office tomorrow but my hopes are low. I feel like this is gonna be a huge pain in the ass.
>>20217Drink more responsibly & stay safe there, Ernst
>>20219>Where will you watch the movie?Most likely a small indie cinema with cafe/bar so could hang out there before/after as well.
But it's not set yet.
No.20233
>>20223(V) Started bickering
( ) Having schizo rants
( ) Switched to German
(V) Being passive-aggressive
( ) Overthinking small-talk with woman at library
No.20236
The broken taillight on my car is working now. I did nothing to fix it other than opening and closing the rear hatch yesterday. That likely jarred the bulb. While the loose connection may go out again, at the moment it's fine and a win is a win. I'll take it.
No.20243
How is it possible to be childfree drug-addict and at the same time hate migrants? There is a whole bunch of such people around me. It's just wrong on many levels.
1) Lack of basic understanding of cause and effect: you don't reproduce where will next generation of people come from?
2) Being non-judgmental for yourself and at the same extremely judgmental of others: I'm abusing alcohol and drugs and having random sexual intercourse and don't judge me for that, but how dared they to be born in a different country and come to work here.
No.20249
>>20246Moreover, these people are driven by shitty emotions. Narcissism for themselves, hatred and lack of compassion for others.
No.20254
Work was uneventful. I have one more day left and then I'm done I guess.
My hairband broke and I didn't have the time to buy a new one so for a lot of the day my hair was loose. It actually looked okay and it wasn't really in the way.
I wrote an email that I won't be going to the classical Chinese class because I'm going to the Chinese literature event at the other university and the lecturer wrote back that "Oh yeah, I was going to go too" and then he cancelled the class for everyone.
Arrived half an hour early so I snagged a pretty good place to see an actual "big name" in Chinese literature.
Lu Min looked totally down to Earth and normal. I was surprised how much of the lecture and the interview I understood even without the interpreter.
In the final moments of the event (as in, we were already getting up and leaving) the head of the Hungarian partner publishing house arrived and it was an old bald pervert who basically drooled over the author, saying how Asian women look good in general and then he gifted her a painting he made and then the fucker as everyone was leaving went on a long ramble about how he just sold the rights to his books in China or some shit and how we just came back from Hamburg. Absolutely astonishing levels of inconsiderate grift on his part. Even after the event he tried to touch the author as much as possible it was genuinely off-putting.
Once the fucker stopped talking and they took photos of all the people involved, I asked for an autograph and I got one and I was happy because I was communicating in Chinese even if it was pretty basic on my part and when she asked about my Chinese knowledge I told her "I know a little bit" and then my professor just put his hands on my shoulder and said "He's a translator, actually." and I felt like I was going to faint.
But it made me very happy.
After the event we went drinking with classmates. Well, former classmates and other people from the new university it's kinda weird how we are at different unis but we also all kinda form a network.
I didn't drink. They were understanding I guess. It was okay, but I left early because I was sober and that way it's kinda not after two hours.
Also felt a bit melancholic because I sorta felt like I failed to connect with people.
Tomorrow's a national holiday so I'm free. Gonna catch up with some work. Probably.
>>20225I hope you get your stuff back from China.
No.20257 KONTRA
Absolute waste of a day. National holiday.
Sister's friends hanged about. I was on the computer all day. Lifted a lot.
No.20258
Deli pizza from ALDI for dinner. Huge. So dinner tomorrow, too. Not bad for $5.
>>20257>LiftedNot a totally wasted day, then.
No.20261 KONTRA
Went to work. There was no work. It’s geninely over this time. I got home by lunchtime, had lunch and then I wasted some time before going to class. I was a bit late. We discussed proper punctuation in Hungarian. These classes always make me fall into despair because I feel so clueless by the end simply by the virtue of how I felt like things have a different meaning to them depending on how you use commas and stuff, but it turned out that in most cases according to the standards it was just plain wrong what I thought was okay.
Actually considering getting a copy of Da Rules. It even comes with two year subscription to the digital version.
But it also feels like it’d be a vanity purchase kind of.
Then again I also have a 25% off coupon and it’s a reference work that will stay relevant for years to come and it’s like 7 euros like that. Will think about it.
Environmentalism seminar went okay. German class went okay. I ended up not drinking that can of coffee I packed myself. I slept little but I hanged on remarkably well throughout the day.
Started reading No Longer Human in German. And more Chinese detective shit.
Fall break’s starting. Time to get some shit done.
No.20268 KONTRA
>>20267I meant department store... certainly need to sleep soon.
No.20269
Well, I woke up and apparently I was so tired I apparently didn't drink the milk I poured out for myself. Also left half of the spongecakes out and the ereader's case open.
I dipped some of the ladyfingers in the milk before realising maybe I shouldn't be doing that because what if the milk went bad or something overnight.
Then I went back to sleep. My mother woke me up once thinking I need to go to work but I told her it's fine. I then got up at like 9. Had a missed call so I checked that and it was a postal worker calling me up before a routine delivery of my book. I don't know why he did it.
Whatever I then ate the remaining ladyfingers and started wasting time online.
I did a lot of lifting and then I had lunch. After lunch I sorta got stuck home some more. I had a shower and by the time I wanted to go to the library my mother got home with my book.
Honestly I was very happy with this Taiwanese edition of the Four Canons of the Yellow Emperor. It'll make my job a lot easier this semester.
Still went to the city because I wanted to pick up the manga I ordered. I kinda feel like I'm losing it a bit.
Never read a Hungarian manga before. It's okay. I guess it being okay is kind of a relief.
One thing that's interesting is that storeclerks only give a shit about the stuff I buy when I don't want them to. So this time the girl at the cash register complimented that this Hungarian edition of Death Note is nice. I had this idea that I'd day I'm getting it for a nephew but ultimately I just resorted to saying I'm surprised it exists at all.
On the way out the cute girl at the coffee stand said hi.
I got home read the first chapter and I also spent some time with the Chinese book. I'm really fucking happy with it. It's worth every penny based on my preliminary reading. For every three lines of primary source you have a page or two of commentary. Or even more. On top of the baihua translation.
I had a very nice run and then I took a second shower.
Rotted my brain some more with House MD again. I guess this is what women feel when watching the Office. Something that reliably puts you at ease. For some reason. I'll probably spend a day or two more on it watching youtube edits and if I can manage to not start re-watching the early seasons again (I never finished it despite how I tried like two times) I will just purge it from my youtube recommendations.
Wanted to go to the store but I cheapened out. Rather save the money and just tag along with mom tomorrow to get the stuff I want. (She needs me anyway to carry stuff because supposedly she still can't lift things after her surgery, but otherwise she's remarkably well.)
>>20262One one hand, I hope to experience the glory one day, on the other it sounds like it could be Hell, having to pretend I'm busy.
No.20270
The tip of my finger has been throbbing. Thought I had clipped the nail too short, but it now seems to be the beginning of a finger split. It is that season. My skin does not like cold, dry air.
>>20267Always have a comfortable bed and comfortable shoes.
>>20269>it sounds like it could be Hell, having to pretend I'm busy.Looking busy is the most important office skill. Master it. Then, in those moments when no one is looking over your shoulder, master MS Paint.
No.20271
>>20269>One one hand, I hope to experience the glory one day, on the other it sounds like it could be Hell, having to pretend I'm busy.>>20270
>Looking busy is the most important office skill. Master it.I would say this depends on the office situation (shared office, cubicles, own office room etc), the job position and your coworkers.
Usually, when I have nothing to do I can still inform myself about topics and such that are important to my job and which is also expected of me to do so. And it makes sense if I want to get into one of the various branches my job borders on in the future. Given that I got into this job by accident more or less and my "allrounder" degree, it also makes sense to use the job to sharpen my profile for other employers in the future
which will be necessary to pull enough money to live quite far away from financial worries.
or I use my phone and do something privateThat said, having nothing to do in the office and sitting through it for several hours is kinda painful mentally. I prefer having something to do, actually.
>>20270>Always have a comfortable bed and comfortable shoes.Yes, but I don't lightly spend 350€ on a duvet and two pillow cases, I could do it and it would be a noticeable chunk of my monthly "free to spend" sum. I will probably check out the home section again and touch some more duvets and see if there is something comfy and less pricey with good aesthetics.
No.20273
Out of the blue I have decided that I want to visit Istanbul next spring. I'm a bit of byzaboo though, so not sure that it's gonna be a good idea. What are some good resources to look up in order to plan the trip? Probably would be a good idea to also visit some of the Aegean historical sites.
No.20277
>>20269>One one hand, I hope to experience the glory one day, on the other it sounds like it could be Hell, having to pretend I'm busy.It's not hard to pretend, just sit in front of your computer and surf the net, read manga or study.
>>20273I'd just go with a prepared tour like this:
https://www.tez-tour.com/ru/dp/excursionTourEach.html?id=5000964But I haven't been abroad except with my parents. I traveled to Kazan by myself but that's the same country, it's easy mode. Next I'm thinking about Thailand and I'll just rely on travel agency.
But currently I'm not thinking about it because I'm too busy with finding a bigger flat to rent. That's ungrateful activity like finding a gf or a job because good options are being taken fast while bad options are occupied slowly and thus they take unproportionally much space. Hopefully things will settle down by December and then we can plan travelling in February. I've also thought about the Turkey - not a historical trip, just to spend time on seashore:
+ Flight takes much less time
+ Normal transport instead of auto rickshaw
- No ladyboy cabaret
- No exotic fruits
- No jungles
- It's NATO country, I feel bad for supporting our rivals
Everything else is rather the same
No.20278
Today I got back in the saddle and I finished translating the chapter in the Yu Dafu novella I abandoned months ago. I could be over halfway done with it by the time the fall break's over.
Editing it is going to be a bitch but it's coming along finally. Going to be so happy when it's done. (Not if, when.)
Otherwise I just went and helped with shopping since my mother still can't carry heavy stuff. Finally got some orange juice. It's good. I enjoy drinking it. It wasn't even horribly expensive at the place we went to.
Also got some milk. Can't comment on that yet but it's going to be fine too probably.
In the afternoon I felt sort of weird. Almost as if I was having a fever but I wasn't having one. Plus my neck felt weird. Maybe I was just paranoid. I don't really know. Probably just paranoia.
>>20271>>20270>>20277Oh I know it's infinitely important from time to time but doing it long term in an environment where you are watched would kill me.
I once read this is how they lay people off in Japan. (In some reliable source.)
No.20279
>>20277>I traveled to Kazan by myselfI actually visited it in August, was pretty fun. I'm not a fan of "lying on a beach" type of vacation, I'd rather see the sites, actually look at things I've read so much about, connect the history in my head with the places where it actually happened. I haven't been outside of the country since before the pandemic.
No.20280
>>20279> I actually visited it in August, was pretty funOh, we could even see each other :D
> I'd rather see the sites, actually look at things I've read so much about,Well, I don't know any foreign country's lore deep enough for such experience to be truly meaningful. And not even interested in knowing except maybe for France but we'll see.
Also, I've had enough of this in last few years. Lying on a beach (+swimming +doing watersports +gorging oneself +other fun activities) would be a good change.
No.20285
Are Russians allowed to travel to Europe these days?
I regularly hear Russian on the street, maybe it's Ukranians? Or rich dourists (oligarch profiteers) visiting this metropol?
>>20277>because I'm too busy with finding a bigger flat to rent.Why? Weren't you complaining about that friend in Romania? Do you expect children?
No.20288
>>20285> Are Russians allowed to travel to Europe these days?My relatives travel to Western or Central Europe regularly while having no citizenship except Russian. Haven't asked them how difficult it is though. In addition to visa and high cost of service you also need to transfer your money through sanctions somehow.
They are much richer than average. Countrywide, the most popular destinations are Turkey, Thailand, Georgia.
> maybe it's Ukranians? Or rich dourists (oligarch profiteers) visiting this metropol?Statistically, it's Ukrainians. There are millions of refugees, majority of them speak Russian. Also there could be Russian rich tourists, immigrants, foreign students but there are probably much less of them.
> Why? Weren't you complaining about that friend in Romania? Do you expect children?I want to live together with gf. So far we spend weekends in my rented studio apartment, rest of the week she spends at her parents' home. Sometimes we meet after work since our offices are close to each other and have a dinner at cafe. My plan is to live together for a few months and if it's fine, then propose to her.
Yes, it was me complaining about that guy.
>>20287I just walked into a tech store and bought a random 100$ worth Android, to be precise Samsung. It works fine.
No.20289
>>20287What are you looking for, what is your budget anything that is a no?
As mentioned in this thread above (I think) the Google Pixel series has good cameras and enough storage space usually.
Having a Pixel myself I can confirm that it's a bit annoying that it has that many Google services and wants you to use them, but not overly and regularly.
No.20290
>>20288>SamsungThat's the brand I have now and am 90% sure I'll stick with since I'm comfortable with the interface. Basically, I have to choose between four or five models.
>>20289My budget is $100-$250. I don't use it often enough to justify splurging on the higher end phones. Daily, yeah, but it's not glued to my hand. My main criterion is memory > 64GB. Just read on one which has better glass which is scratch/shatter resistant. So, things like that could factor in.
>it's a bit annoying that it has that many Google services and wants you to use them Samsung has a lot of bloatware, as well. I would love a clean OS.
No.20293 KONTRA
GF, work, uni.
No time whatsoever for anything. Fugg.
No.20296
>>20293Be an Ernst how it is supposed to be and tell us how work and uni are.
No.20297 KONTRA
>>20296Work is chaotic. I'm teaching subjects I'm hardly an expert on, some of which I might not know more than the people I'm tutoring. Thankfully, I'm managing pretty well and being appraised as an especially good tutor.
University is its own problem. Learning Arabic and coasting on how much Chinese I already know. The other introductory classes have gigantic bibliographies I'm just beginning to hack at. Will a decade of self-taught tiering hold up? Maybe. Some of my teachers are goofballs. They have esoteric views. One of them treats his geographic breakdown of the world into various geographical realms as a near exact science. Another, a fan of one Valerie Hansen, treats a supposed viking arrival to central America as an important milestone in globalism. I'll be alright. I think. Most of the things we are going over are stuff I've interacted in a dilettante manner. At least two of the teachers are genuine geniuses, masters of their fields and very eloquent speakers.
I should spend this Christmas in Poland but sadly I have been told the tradition of bathtub carp is a dead one.
Post composed in the back of an Uber in a rare moment of time not spent for uni/work/gf.
No.20299 KONTRA
Lifted, took back the bottles to the store.
Also got rid of the mold I found next to my window.
Yesterday I saw a mouse on the balcony so we set up some traps. Checked it today and I thought it was empty and went off without a reason and I kept trying to re-arm the thing with the slice of salami still in it and after a good few minutes of dicking around with it I accidentally made a dead mouse fall out from it and I didn't scream but I did jump a bit because I wasn't expecting the trap to be full.
The dead mouse was kinda repulsive but not as much as I'd have expected it to be. Maybe I've grown soft on techno music.
Classmate's in China and she texted me that she found me the book I was looking for. I don't know how much I owe her for it but by the looks I'm going to have a really nice copy of
Seven Heroes and Five Gallants. Can't believe people can be this nice she just did this for me.
Honestly people are not nearly as awful as I sometimes seem to believe.
I had a good lunch and worked a bit on my notes and my translation. Progress is slow.
Also made some minor progress on my other project on the detective stuff.
I've decided to transition back to morning runs. It's not hot and I have more time in the mornings now.
Found the new hot thing to be paranoid about. My neck feels weird. Been doing more hanging. Whatever this is it should pass in a couple of days.
>>20285I see mostly Ukrainians. Though less and less. Maybe they are leaving for the Wect.
Funniest one was some fat hohol dude with a huge iron cross hoodie.
No.20300
>>20299> I see mostly Ukrainians.How do you tell them from Russians?
>>20297What is your major in university?
Good luck!
No.20301 KONTRA
>>20300Asian Studies. Focusing on China and the Islamic world.
No.20302 KONTRA
>>20300Probability. There were basically zero Russians here but the Ukrainians have been steadily flowing accross the borner even before the SMO.
The number of slavic speakers suddenly jumped after Putler made a move so I just assume everyone here sounding vaguely Russian is a Ukrainian refugee for the time being.
And this
>>20301I went to college. I know everything now after getting a 3 year BA degree in a completely unrelated field.
No.20303 KONTRA
>>20302Weakling, I already knew everything even before graduating from highschool.
No.20304
>not coming into this world omniscient
lmao dumb thirdies
No.20306
My guts are aching and it’s progressively harder for me to take a proper shit. I may be constipated…
I’ve also been having weird dreams lately.
>>20302Same here, more and more of what seem to logically be Ukrainians. My diversity friends are quite the target for Ukrainians refugees. Apparently an Arabic friend had been seriously racially insulted in Switzerland 4 times in his life, in three of those four cases it was by Ukrainian refugees this last few years. One apparently even tagged something like a death threat next to his apartment door.
No.20307
>>20306Why do "people" feel the need to discuss their digestion in public? It's beyond disgusting.
No.20308
>>20307Digestion is a public issue and a good starter of conversations.
No.20309 KONTRA
>>20307Check out the "bump when pooped" thread on /b/
No.20321
>>20253She showed up again as she promised and she will show up again and again, she is that kind of person who is actually interested in reading Hegel. After the reading function we exited the room at the same time and she signaled she is open to talk. And we did, I guess almost 30min. A thought germinating in my head that this goes quite well, a lively conversation, smiles and laughter. Better than expected, could it be that we will spend time together sooner than later? But after 20min she dropped having a bf who wants to move to the city we both live in as well. Of course, she is not single.
A voice of reason within me says that, dude, she could be about ten years younger anyway and even if not, there is no way she is older than 25 and you can already see yourself having wildly different opinions on certain issues because you sank deep down into the abyss of political debates and fringe literature online when she was in her first years of high school. I'm giving myself too much credit :DDDDDD I guess she wants to get to know people if she freshly moved here and some other reading nerds are good candidates and I guess I need to get to know people
proven by this lengthy post I made sure to be lengthy as well so let's see.
>>20301No way dawg, I had high hopes you could be my way out of the humanities dump by teaching the fundamentals of supply chain management to misbeliever. My image of you is damaged beyond repair. After all those snarky posts ....
I knew that you would enjoy it enoughWhat political think tank will join after graduating? If you focus less on autistic stuff like ancient textiles you should be good for some international relations and analysis of foreign
enemies cultures mumbo jumbo
No.20324 KONTRA
I felt pretty bad. I suspect it's food poisoning from the milk. I didn't go to the city because of it but I did get some translationwork and some research done during the day.
I had a good lunch and I also managed to run finally. It wasn't an exceptional run but it was good. Will try to repeat it tomorrow.
What else? I redid the anti-mold cleaning again and I checked the traps and I found a second dead mouse in it. The techno never stops truly.
Gonna go to the city tomorrow most likely.
Bless my Hungarian life.
No.20334
I just watched a video of a guy who simulated all possible games of Pokemon Platinum and determined a series of inputs that will win each single one of them, which is something like 4.2 billion. Imagine if we could harness that kind of autism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNMWkD5VsZ8 No.20335
>>20334Autism grown from German bickering is of unmatched quality. It's a special strain one cannot harvest lightly.
No.20338 KONTRA
Felt pretty good today. I skipped lunch and then went to the library. Picked up a copy of the official spelling handbook. Spent some time reading and making notes.
There's something comforting about having a reference book in your home.
When I got home one of my dad's friends was over for dinner. Sometimes I feel like the guy comes over to talk to me instead of my father.
Had a pretty nice if a bit chuddish discussion with him about China and the decadent Atlantist block.
No.20344
Getting called "comrade" by a dirty communist in a non-political situation without giving any sort of input that could cause that idea.
I have become radical chic.
No.20356
day drinking is clearly superior than evening drinking
you get to enjoy your daytime activities while drunk, and when the comedown happens, you have a nap, then you sober up in the evening and have a proper night sleep
meanwhile, evening drinking you will be sleepier because the depressive effect of alcohol combines with general evening tiredness, then you go to sleep shitfaced, have bad sleep, and feel terrible the next morning
No.20359
Up until I was ~16 I didn’t really lived life as an individual. More like if I was some kind of reincarnation of my father, I intended to do nothing else than try having the not or less same life as him and life was sort of blissful as a consequence. The burden of individuality was artificially lifted in a way, I had a strong path to follow. Everyone always said I strongly looked like my father, that I behaved the same way, I really liked the idea.
No.20363
>>20359You're lucky. I'm my mother.
No.20371
Felt measurably worse today. Partook in another special cleaning operation in the garden.
I’m just feeling very drained for some reason. My neck’s still weird.
Need to get back into working out and my issues will fix themselves probably.
No.20376
I might be the dumbest retard who has ever lived. I had a warm coat in my closet and I still wore my light autumn jacket even though it's consistently been almost 0 degrees outside in the morning this week. Now I have a cold and I'll spend the next few days in bed instead of enjoying my vacation.
No.20377
>>20376Can relate. Indian summer finished suddenly, and now instead of 15C it's 0C and snowing.
No.20380
>>20376What were your plans for the vacation by the way?
No.20385
>>20380Nothing special really. I need to buy some stuff and fix my washing machine. Fixing it myself is something that I want to look into but doing that would be much easier without this cold.
No.20388
Felt better today. Well, as the day progressed I started feeling better. I woke up terribly groggy and I suspect it's because I didn't drink milk before bed for the first time in months.
Went to a market and bought some undershirts to replace the ones that got worn out.
Watched One Child Nation for an essay I needed to write two days ago apparently.(I almost finished it but not completely. Gonna do it tomorrow.)
Going to sound horribly egoistic but seeing this woman do all this research and making a documentary got me thinking how much of an ivory tower intellectual I am. I deal with dead people. I don't go around Chinese villages, asking questions that put people in pain. I don't think I could do field research like that.
Went to the cemetery to light candles. Hit my head on a big tree branch. Despite that I ended up having the best running session in weeks. My head still hurts a little though.
Still scared about my health though. I have an appointment for Monday so at least my paranoia won't last much longer hopefully. (That or he will tell me things are actually pointing towards something being fucked.)
Maybe I shouldn't be thinking about my own mortality when I'm tired and caffeine deprived.
No.20393
When you remove
Eggo™ waffles from their original box to save freezer space, you risk confusing blueberry flavored with chocolate chip.
>>20377My condolences. We had a couple of cold weeks, but now it seems Winter has been canceled.
No.20398
Do I support the Taliban when buying Shafa mango juice by Pamir Cola?
Also the west has fallen. While people make up with heated industrially produced dough, afghan bread is prepared and sold from a small backery located in the backrooms of a shop where a wooden board separates you from the room they prepare and bake the bread. You can simply watch them doing their craft. Tradition ist strong
No.20400
>>20398>Also the west has fallenAt least we stopped putting alum in our bread.
No.20403
I cut my hair. A few inches, to the shortest length in years. It no longer falls into my eyes and can be managed with a simple finger comb. This was a good decision.
>>20398>Do I support the Taliban when buying Shafa mango juice by Pamir Cola?No. If you can separate art from the artist and still enjoy Michael Jackson
and Diddy, then you can distinguish between a consumer product and the regime which produces it. I should add that, if revenue from cola was the only thing propping up the Taliban, and your decision to abstain would bring about their collapse, then yeah. Don't buy it. But that's not the case.
No.20408
>>20403If you can separate art from the artist and still enjoy Michael Jackson and Diddy.
I enjoy the juice but wonder how much control the regime might have over fundings. Well, maybe it is just taxes.
Then again Europe buys from dictators, high ranking figures show how this contradictive behavior ia european tradition
No.20409
>>20406Was she the one that you met at that party and you went out with a few weeks/days later?
The sun yesterday put me in a good mood and I went dancing. I want to get to know some of these people but wonder of they are interested even. I imagine they have lots of things to do and enough friends already. While I know this is typically fallacies of depressive thinking, I cannot shake it off properly and feel free to just ask.
No.20410
>>20344Last week I was thanked with "merci" by an old lady for whom I gave a seat in subway. Probably I look like a fag.
I was also greeted with "bonjour" by a coworker recently, but he could just see my workbook.
>>2039360 in Fahrenheit is +15 in international units. That's good. Here it's full blown winter, with thick crusts of ice on a ground. And as I said, it appeared very suddenly.
>>20398Yes, you do. Thanks for contributing to the worldwide anti-imperialist struggle.
No.20415 KONTRA
It was very cold and I remembered the story of the Ernst who did not change coats and I put on my winter coat. Went to the doctor. Herr doctor told me there’s nothing to worry about. Got my usual treatment and I actually felt better half an hour later like unironically all of my problems went away.
But there will be some more tests done just to be in the clear.
I went to the store and bought some stuff for lunch and then I cooked and had lunch and then went to class.
Got the copy of “Three Gallants Five Heroes” in Chinese that I asked a classmate to bring back. It’s a very nice two volume set. I owe her 9 euros for it.
Didn’t have my wallet on me. Actually I had money troubles throughout the day simply because I left my wallet in my mother’s car so I only had access to insanely big paper notes that are hard to ship with when you’re not buying something expensive.
Overall it was a very good day I think.
No.20429 KONTRA
Woke up well rested. I had breakfast and then lazed around a bit. Went for a run and then had lunch.
Told my father to stop burning incense because it’s vile and everyone is choking because of it. It worked.
Had a pretty frustrated chat with my mother over how she believes that university is just “me showing up” and not actually me working on stuff when I’m not sitting at a seminar or a lecture.
Went to university. Classical class went fine. I basically did it on the spot again and it felt good.
German class was nice. My talking partner for this session was this cute gypsy(?) girl studying classics. Absolutely astonishing how pretty women can be.
Had some “energizing drink” in the middle of class and honestly it had no caffeine but I actually felt pretty hyped up after having it.
Also my right boot’s bottom peeled off, so I will need to get new boots. I will most likely have to pay for it.
Otherwise I feel like things are going fine.
No.20448
Need new earbuds. The left one has died. Bluetooth stopped connecting. They pair independently, so I can still use the right side until a replacement is found. Since I only wear these when running, I'll probably wait until Black Friday for a good deal.
No.20452
>>20429>cute gypsy(?) girl studying classics. Absolutely astonishing how pretty women can beWill you give up all your values because of a beautiful woman? WEAKLING!
You should have told her she has to go Back, 2016 is not the past.
No.20453
I woke up in the middle of the night from a dream about the election. I chatted a bit and checked the results and then went back to sleep. I forgot to set my alarm so I woke up kinda late.
Skipped breakfast and read some of the assigned stuff for today and then I had some pasta for lunch before going out for class.
Went to the bookstore. There was an old lady standing in line in front of me. She was rambling on and on about some random shit about how she used to live in another district but she moved now so she needs a copy of the history of the district she moved to.
She then proceeded to waste time by struggling to pay with his Apple Watch™.
In the middle of her rant I told the cashier I’m here to pick up an order, liberating us both from her flood of nonsense.
Class was boring as fuck. I didn’t really care much to hear about Chinese characters for the nth time like yeah I KNOW THERE ARE RADICALS IN THEM THANK YOU.
Then I went to grab dinner with a friend. We went to a different burger place and discussed the election in-depth.
We actually met up because he got a volume of manga for me.
Anyway it was a good time.
Went to my last class of the day which was boring as fuck again honestly but whatever I survived. I didn’t read the assigned stuff for this because I genuinely forgot about it.
Lecturer got us a box of chocolate from Korea and every single choclate had a famous korean thing or landmark on it.
I saw that the box already had one single piece missing and I asked
>What, somebody already took the Kim Il-sung one? I can’t help it. It’s just so easy. There’s almost no sportsmanship in this thing.
But honestly it was a very fine piece of chocolate. Almost as if it had some extra spices in it. It was truly unlike any chocolate I had before.
I’m feeling very good. Really fucking good. Haven’t had a coffee in 3 days and I’m very awake. It’s great.
>>20448Do you have a model or brand in mind already?
It feels like there’s a lot going on with earbuds still. Like they haven’t peaked yet like phones have.
Also speaking of Black Friday: I thought I missed like 2-3 weeks of time or something because I saw Black Friday ads IRL without having heard about Thanksgiving this year so I thought I missed it, but no, it’s just local retailers being retarded.
>>20452Sorry she’s cute. I’m not going to deny facts.
But I don’t wanna ruin your fun.
Trump won, German government is collapsing…
It’s a great week to be a chud!
No.20454
Went to the office today since I was starting to feel fine but I had such a coughing fit that I got sent back to home office. Funnily enough the coughing ceased once I was out of the office.
Credit card got locked. I assumed it would be a false alarm but I called the support and they said someone tried to top up his Uber Cash with it several times. Luckily the fraud detection worked so now I'll just get a new card and won't have to deal with chargebacks and whatnot. Wonder how the credit card data got leaked.
My package is back in China. I hope my buddy can just pick it up and send it once again but I smell some terrible bullshit ahead
like it can only be picked up by the same person who sent it.>>20409>Was she the one that you met at that party and you went out with a few weeks/days later?That's right
>>20448I recently had the same issue. Got a "sports" model by Sennheiser, the better fit is really an improvement. The Sony earbuds I had before were constantly slipping out of my ears, especially when I was working out.
No.20455
>>20453My only solid criterion is that the new pair have over-the-ear hooks like the old ones. I have another set which just sit in the ear canal but they don't feel secure enough for me to trust them not to pop out while running. That second set is JBL and it has decent sound quality, so I'm looking at these:
https://www.jbl.com/wireless-earbuds/ENDURANCE-PEAK-3.htmlThe problem is that at the ~$100 price point, I would move outside of the cheap "these just broke, lol I'll just buy another" comfort zone. They would be expensive enough for me to care about them, which raises the question: should I just go all out and get a top quality brand in the $150-$200 range if that increases the liklihood they will last?
So, I have some decisions to make. In addition to my new phone quest which is ongoing.
>>20454>Credit card got locked.I'm Lucky enough to have never had that happen. Do they contact you with a notice it is locked, or do you not know until attempting a purchase?
No.20456 KONTRA
>>20452> Have to tell her to go backWhat are you talking about? The Hungarian king is literally a gypsy.
No.20457 KONTRA
>>20455Americans
> We are so poor, cost of living crisisAlso Americans
> I need new wireless earphones with over the ear hooks and I'm willing to spent up to $100 on this bullshitIf you invest $100 at 7% interest rate and expect to love another 50 years, they will compound to $3000. Maybe not buy earphones at all and do without?
No.20461 KONTRA
I really don't like having to study Buddhism. Of course it's necessary to understand Asian history, but I loathe the level of reverence given to it. At least I haven't had to interact with more South Asian stuff, yet.
No.20462
>>20461Maybe you should try to find your inner peace so you wouldn't have to be angry.
No.20463 KONTRA
>>20461>It's important to understand Asian historyIt's unimportant to understand Asian history.
No.20464
>>20461The most important thing to know is that Buddhism was invented in 19-th century in British Empire in order to control population of their colonies:
https://galkovsky.livejournal.com/168817.html No.20465
*ominous buddhist chanting in the distance*
No.20466
>>20464LOL. And western leftists keep falling for it! Leftshit woke dumb bullshit idiots really fall for every ruse because they are so fucking ridiculously stupid. They should be grateful for Bobby Kennedy who will protect them from another Vaxx Scam.
No.20467
Going to entirely rewrite a badly noted university assignment. I chose to study a local poorly documented social problematic, but it’s a real pain in the ass searching for documentation, I did a poor job and I’d have to base myself on this to elaborate in the next assignment I don’t want to rewrite it, I want nothing to do with it. I’ll choose something American as a new problematic, a simple subject where related literature is literally raining to your hands, like crime in San Francisco or something similar.
No.20471 KONTRA
Apparently writing a couple of lines on methodology in which you use scientific language to say "I looked up available sources and compared them" is what elevates mere journalistic work into scientific work in the social sciences. Methodology statements are a type of incantation that can inscribe your work with great power and are not to be used lightly. I respect the people in this field who understand the lack of absolute scientific rigor in their statements and conclusions and loathe those who think they're genuine data driven scientists.
No.20472
>>20461I’ve never met people outside Buddhologists and pothead retards on the path to becoming Bikkhus at the fourth rate Buddhist college in Budapest who actually like this stuff. It’s like being forced to read church law or some shit.
The thing is even if you bother to sit down and read a Sutra in Chinese it’s nigh unreadable because they fuck up the grammar/style on purpose (to adhere to the sanskrit’s structure and syllable number. I don’t even mean to shittalk it that it’s not proper wenyan, who gives a shit, it’s not even proper baihua.) plus it’s full of words you only get if you spent a year studying Sanskrit terminology.
And no, it’s unimportant to history save for the periods before the Chinese emperors actually curbstomped them and told them to stop trying to build state capacities of their own. (So like Late Tang tops.)
You don’t have to feel ashamed. I spent years feeling ashamed I couldn’t get into it. It’s just a very irritating death cult.
No.20487
>>20454I also have the sports model. Great for dancing, they stay where they need to stay.
>Credit Card Data leakedShit, I think revolut for example checks your location among other things to prevent this.
Some shop where you shopped must have fallen victim to a "hacker" attack. Not sure if preparing Card Readers IS still a Thing These days. I use one time virtual credit cards where I can. When I use my CC at all that is.
No.20488
>>20471Methodology is simply a systematic approach with theoretic reasons behind it, especially when doing qualitative research.
You can look at different sources in a certain way and compare them. The emphasis is on "in a certain way" - that is ignored in your post. But dont you worry, most people Go through university without thinking much about methodology and how to approach their object of reseach.
They just do something unconscious and instinctive.
I was never super into these discussions either but sadly it is true that they have a significant impact on reseach, arguments and finally results and you should understand how it works and why it is discussed and used.
I am actually shocked that an anti marxist thinks that methodology is not important. May the democratic socialist/progressive liberals turn on your faith towards methodologic pluralism
No.20492
>>20471Your infantile preoccupation with empiricism and rationality is masculinist and white-centric. (Besides revealing your castration anxiety). You must learn to accept that there are other non-white, non-male kinds of knowledges and modes of cognition, which have been rendered irrelevant by white male european cartesian and constructivist logics in the sciences. Empiric approaches purposefully neglect the deep knowledges of marginalized groups and their realities in order to produce dominant and dominating knowledges that further exploit and marginalize.
Methodology: auto-ethnographic. the porto-post was analyzed by using the authors (them/their) awareness of their own reactions to observe the consequences of exposure to the rationalist euro-centric thinkings of a shitlord.
No.20502
>>20500It is equal in Aboriginal numbers.
No.20503 KONTRA
Indigenous German ways of knowing (“Wissenschaft”) is superior.
No.20508
>>20505To the guy in the right picture:
>I think your left ankle might be broken, no way this is a natural position No.20511 KONTRA
Today I went and bought a new pair of boots for myself. They look nice. I hope they last a long time.
Almost had a breakdown while shopping for groceries but a bit of coffee fixed me.
No.20517
>>20472> It’s just a very irritating death cult.Yes, its ultimate goal is to commit suicide of your soul. It forces one to withdraw into oneself instead of paying attention to other people or material reality around you. That's religion for passive South-East Asian sissies. White men don't follow it, they take pride in actively transforming the world.
No.20518 KONTRA
I mostly wasted my weekend. I don’t know. I exercised, sure, but otherwise I just read pulp and manga.
Rearranged my folders on my computer. Listened to a lot of music.
It’s been hard again these past couple of days for some reason.
I thought my desk-lamp broke because it kept turning on and off by itself. Turns out it was a bad bulb. No idea how a bad bulb does that. Usually they just pop and that’s it.
I feel like I’ve lost my appetite for Chinese stuff. I’m not reading anything China related right now. Did a couple of chapters from Water Margin and then I put it back on the shelf. It feels like I’ve lost it somehow.
Tomorrow I’ll wake up, go to the library, waste a fuckload of time not doing anything, suffer through a class and then just come home.
At least I will get to have lunch. That’s good.
Maybe it will be fine. Maybe I will learn something cool. Maybe I will actually work on the stuff I need to get done instead.
No.20519
>>20518>It feels like I’ve lost it somehow. That's what you get for making your hobby your job.
Anyway, watch more wuxia films.
No.20521
Bought the parts for my new pc and assembled it. Surprisingly, everything went without a hitch and worked right away. Haven't done a build since 2012, expected something to go wrong, but seemingly everything is fine. Cost me like 1700 euros, which is a whole monthly salary for me, so I guess buying a new monitor can wait.
Already pirated Cyberpunk2077 to test it, pretty good performance in 1080p, 100+fps with raytracing and no dlss, 4070s seems pretty good. But what's more important, with a fast processor and ssd I can finally comfortably play the MEIOU&Taxes mod for EU4.
No.20522
>>20518>I feel like I’ve lost my appetite for Chinese stuffThat is probably a normal occurence. It's like being fed Up with an academic project you are working on.
I sometimes hardly read anything only get back at it with full force.
No.20523
>>20521What are you going to play on your new PC?
I have no idea about new games. Maybe I'd play Warhammer III since I'm too silly for EU4. Also people praise Baldur's Gate.
No.20524
>>20523Robocop: Rogue City came out in 2023 and is a competent mid-budget shooter.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II will come out next year.
No.20525
>>20523>What are you going to play on your new PC?Elden Ring, maybe Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 if my friends could be bothered to buy those. 2077 would probably interest my girlfriend, she's a big Witcher fan.
>I'm too silly for EU4Well, M&T is like next level EU4, full autism simulator with actual population, trade goods, meaningful estate mechanics etc. Pretty demanding too.
No.20528
Perfect score in Arabic. Alhamdulillah.
Tomorrow comes a test that's more important in a metaphysical sense. I'll face it without enough preparation, but I'll get the answer to how much KC tiering out over political systems in a dilettante manner can serve to replace genuine and honest studying.
No.20530 KONTRA
>>20528Noice. When the Arabs reconquer the Iberian peninsula, you can go full bosniak with ease.
No.20531
>>20528The Western think tank is pleased about his future analyst's merits.
He will be ours, inshallah.
No.20532
Turns out lunch was the key. The pizza really did make me feel a lot better. Had a nice little coffee afterwards.
Honestly I'm at the height of my erudition, I'm reading in 4 languages but I only use them to read pulp.
Had my one uni class cancelled tomorrow (happens way too often) so I will go to the library and actually work out my presentation for Wednesday. And do some homework.
Maybe there is a way forward.
Truth is, if my research actually results in a nice volume of Chinese translations, all of this will be worth it.
My current plan is to finish the presentation, and then I will finish an article and a poem to send it to the magazine to get some meagre cash (I'm not out, I'm just feeling uncomfortable, every single euro spent feels like I am slowly peeling my skin off.) and then I should fucking finish my translation of Yu Dafu's Chenlun.
Then I can my mind will be more at ease. New "projects" keep popping up. I should start squashing them.
Someone showed me a "next gen gacha game" on discord and I saw some gameplay of GFL2 and I was thinking to myself that the Chinese are making X-com gacha with hyper detailed anime waifu models and that the Japanese are fucking finished. The anime style remaining is a pityful consolation prize.
What else is there?
Nope, not much is happening. Wasting insane amounts of time. Gonna buy a new pack of coffee tomorrow.
No.20534
>>20524>>20525Yes, Kingdom Come. Also new Doom is said to be epic. Assassin's creed is such a goyslop but it's interesting to run around historical locations.
Wanted to say "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" but lol it's already 10 years old.
>>20528Congratulations! Arabic is a beautiful language.
No.20537
While answering a test's question on Islamic jurisprudence, I felt compelled to write the shorthand SWT after the name of Allah. Verily, His will is in all of us.
No.20538
>>20537Is your prof muslim or were you just feeling exceptionally halal today?
No.20550 KONTRA
Wasted too much fucking time online (plus my chest hurt the entire day) so I stayed up really late to have my presentation like 70 percent finished and then I did the rest before lunch and then half an hour before actually delivering it.
After like 5 hours of sleep I felt so fucking alive for some reason.
The presentation went very well. Very happy with it.
I bought a new pack of coffee on the way home and some sponge fingers.
Kinda funny how I feel bad for weeks, thinking I need more rest or something but the moment I put myself under strain and act as smug as possible all my worries go away.
Had a nap so I kinda can't sleep now.
It was a good nap. I had this mellow, hawaiian music playing I accidentally found on youtube, and I was sleeping on top of my blankets, covered by a bathrobe I used as a makeshift blanket.
It was a very good day I think.
No.20552 KONTRA
>>20538I've been feeling very halal.
I must even admit now that Arabic calligraphy is far more appealing than Chinese calligraphy. Forgive me, Master.
No.20559
>>20552No way they can read it. Arabs are just fooling us, telling that they can.
Would you be able to read the same mess but made of Latin letters?
No.20560
>>20559Wallah, I can read. But I won't say what it says, because you are a kafir.
No.20561
My late middle school brother got extremely invested in Emile Zola after he read Germinal for school and started reading other novels of him. I never got invested in a novel I had to read in class, I’m impressed he managed to do that and I’m proud of him. I started reading Zola to have discussions with him
No.20562 KONTRA
>>20561It’s hard to get invested when you have to read them in such a rush. The only one that I got really invested in in HS that was mandatory reading was Crime and Punishment.
No.20563
I think I hated almost every book I had to read for school. I didn't choose the humanities path, so I had to read even less, but of what I read, I think I liked "Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund" most, even though it was yet another book with nazis.
Apart from that we read old-ass shit like Antigone, Der zerbrochene Krug, even Faust I. (although that was ok, if only for the famous quotes).
In English class we read Moon Palace and I have hated Paul Auster ever since.
No.20564 KONTRA
>>20563Yea, where I hardly got invested in any school readings, I actively hated assigned English literature. All of the English teachers were ignorants and the books they gave us was relatively annoying second half of the 20th century liberal books: one book about apartheid,
The Giver dystopia which I remember spastically hating, Arthur Miller was also bad and annoying, a book about the Irish troubles, Montana 1942 about a war hero serial raping Native Americans women in a remote prairie town. It was bad and generic, I don’t think a single of these books was good.
>>20562The only HS book I got invested in was Bourlinguer by Cendrars.
No.20565
>>20559They can read it, I've seen it before my own eyes. I can't understand what the peacock one is at all. I can see the individual letters, but no idea the about the order or meaning.
Top one is easy to identify
from the style :DD it has a pretty regular style I guess. Plus, Arabs train from child in combining squiggles in esoteric ways and parsing words by only reading half of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_Verse No.20567 KONTRA
God, I hate sandniggers.(Thanks once again for enriching the today thread)
No.20568 KONTRA
>>20567What a valuable comment. Thank you for sharing.
No.20569 KONTRA
>>20568Thank you for feeding the troll instead of reporting him.
No.20570 KONTRA
>>20569Yeah, I was just trolling. Such a beautiful and vibrant culture, with respect for individual freedoms, women and the rule of law. We definitely should study and emulate it instead of just killing them all, just to be rid of them.
The Jews have it right, sorry to say that.
No.20571
>>20566Looks breddy cool. Though the ones with the multiple squiggles at the bottom give some sort of body horror-esque appendage vibes, like cow tits or quadruple balls hanging
No.20572
>>20571Shame, I can't find the "Al-Benise :-DDDDD" picture anymore I have saved years ago
No.20575
>>20561For a time, I became obsessed with the work of Henry James. Specifically, I loved his intricate sentence structure, which is actually what many readers find off-putting. My professor, discussing this style, quoted Oscar Wilde.
Even though I appreciate James, I have to admit that is an accurate assessment.
No.20576
>>20575Heinrich v. Kleist also loved sentences that spanned an entire paragraph.
No.20577
I was one of the few people in class who actually did all the mandatory reading, even "War and peace" instead of reading brief retelling.
What I underappreciated or misunderstood back then were Gogol (based schizo) and most of the poetry. This year asked gf to buy me book with all the canonical poetry for the birthday and didn't regret it.
Maybe I should reread some of the other books, I'm not the person I used to be in high school after all.
>>20566Wow, that's cool. Arabic script is in general beautiful, even usual one.
>>20570Curiosity is not determined by ethics. You can admire and research venomous spiders or predators, there is no contradiction there.
And for Arabs in Arabic countries, you don't need them to follow your societal standards. What you want from them is not to cause troubles for your country. After all, it weren't Arabs who blew up Nord Stream pipeline.
And it weren't Arabs who did 9/11 No.20581
Since when do schizos respect individual freedom, women or the rulen of law. They hate them all of it does not suit their little private interest taste buds.
>>20561I read germinal in uni. Quite good, the Belly of Paris or however the english translation is I stopped after a third or so. But in the end these are dense realism novels, perfekt for people who have the history'tism
No.20582 KONTRA
>>20581Islam is so cleansing that it turns schizos into social democrats. .
No.20583 KONTRA
>>20582EC doesn't allow for Arabic text. Boycotting.
No.20584
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No.20585 KONTRA
>>20583Reported to the bug thread in meta
No.20587
>>20586Is that Gaddafi beer right next to it?
No.20589
>>20582Aha, so schizos got it all wrong. White people will not be replaced. Bismillah, migration is a psyop to turn them into liberals by a sinister twist so far of their radar they will never notice.
No.20590 KONTRA
>>20589My methodology was analyzing the antagonistic forces of liberal social democratic societies against an Islam that fundamentally rejects our materialistic mode of living. By applying both a quantitative and a qualitative approach through an analysis rested on dialectical materialism, I have come to the conclusion that the Ummah will replace the social democratic body politic. All that takes away from the establishment of the ideal enlightened social democratic society will be deemed Tawhid. The oppressive power alone rests with Allah(swt). The greatest society in which any political action outside of working in the Maslaha is a sin.
Consider the words of Al-Bukhari:
“A charity is due for every joint in each person on every day the sun comes up: to act justly between two people is a charity; to help a man with his mount, lifting him onto it or hoisting up his belongings onto it, is a charity; a good word is a charity; and removing a harmful thing from the road is a charity.”
No.20591 KONTRA
>>20582Which of the three items is it you indescribable fool associate with social democracy instead of liberalism? Who in their right mind reads
> Rule of lawand thinks
> Ah, that's social democracy?
No.20592 KONTRA
>>20591I associate all good things with social democracy. I also describe the present system as a social democratic one, not so much a liberal one.
No.20593
>>20591Social democracy is a form of liberalism.
No.20594
Exploiters are mad at European social-democracy:
https://x.com/itsolelehmann/status/1856759960648257765And I'm mad that they weren't executed for their crimes against working class.
No.20597 KONTRA
>>20592That makes you both a libshit and a shitlib.
No.20600 KONTRA
Woke up very late. Had a run. Skipped lunch. Read manga.
Doing some reading for next week's presentations.
In my lane. Feeling focused.
No.20601
My desktop computer takes forever to update. Decided to start the process before leaving for work today and let it run in my absence. Returned 12 hours later. 72% complete. Hell no. Shut that down. I would like to use this thing tonight without Microsoft eating 90% of my CPU while the disk whines at 90 decibels. I need a better computer. Or at least to give this one a clean Windows install. After years of functioning without a crash, I've been getting a BSOD every couple of weeks. Always a different error code.
No.20602
>>20601You could get an SSD, that would probably help a lot. But you most likely won't be able to run windows 11. And since I can tell from your post that you are a luser, you will need Windows. October is when you will need a new computer.
Maybe do everything on your smartphone instead, since only spazes and nerds use fugly PCs in 2023?
No.20611
A sad realization that even small quantities of alcohol (a beer and two drinks) weigh heavy onto the next day and my stomach.
No.20614 KONTRA
>>20602>Maybe do everything on your smartphone instead, since only spazes and nerds use fugly PCs in 2023?See, this is why imageboards have become shit.
Smartphones and their consequences have been a disaster for the lurking race.
No.20619
It was only recently that I learned that pewter is a tin alloy.
It's less embarrassing in German because they are both called "Zinn" in everyday speak. Pewter is technically "Hartzinn" though. So a tin plate or cup would both be a "Zinnteller" or "Zinnbecher".
Also, while lurking I had Tommy (The Motion Picture) on. I know that back in the day and were I a girl I would have had a huge crush on Roger Daltrey. No homo.
No.20620 KONTRA
>>20619Gay.
>>20614Imageboards are a worse Version of forums are a worse Version BBS. You idealize a progressed stage of degeneracy.
No.20621 KONTRA
>>20620Imageboards are something entirely different than forums. What you mean is Discord.
That said, you idealize a past that you weren't even part of. Throw away your phone and touch grass, maybe then you will stop with your retarded trolling here.
No.20622
>>20621What a pathetic child. I posted before the best part of you ran down your father's leg, you are a homo.
No.20626 KONTRA
>>20622>I posted before the best part of you ran down your father's legIn the world of respectable people this is not an archivement but the declaration of the laughing stock.
No.20627
>>20626It's one thing to act like an ancient oldfag, but posting on an imageboar while acting like you're above all of it (and that you won't be here forever) is even worse...
Why don't you both just shut up?
The finn was right.
No.20628
You're my brothers.
t. Bernd
No.20636
Ex gf has apparently gone full catholic. It’s been almost a year now I still do not forgive myself for everything that happened. I hope time will make me forget a bit, I think I’ll go for therapy instead of religion, or psychoanalysis.
No.20637
>>20636>PsychoanalysisCould you perceivably just get another girlfriend and try to be a little more chill about it all?
If you feel like there's no chance of that ever working (the being chill about it-part, not the girlfriend-part) maybe consider therapy. But psychoanalysis is a method developed by one guy 120 years ago, how about CBT or something ?
No.20639
>>20638Obviously the french one.
She completely buck broke him.
No.20640
>>20639I suspect the Russian one. Reminds me of a gossip told by friend, about her former classmate, who is both gold-digger and religious fanatic.
Except it's USA and Protestantism in that case.
No.20641
>>20637>Could you perceivably just get another girlfriend and try to be a little more chill about it all?Not at the moment I’m afraid. My problems may predate my first relationships.
Psychoanalysis is funnier. If I was to do it I’d do it with a degree of distance from the discourse, the magical thinking associated with it makes self appropriation of the concepts easier. From my experience, people practicing it also have a less moralistic response to thing you tell them. Plus I had bad experience with therapist and psychiatrists and a good one with some "serious" psychoanalyst, that made me actually get significantly better in a short amount of time.
>>20640It’s the French one. She already had ties to traditionalist catholic communities by her upbringing. But she’s now knee deep in it thinking about some nerdy catholic concepts and giving speeches to nerdy traditionalists.
No.20642
I burned some vacation time this week. I've never taken a full week of time at once but prefer to parcel out my accumulated hours over an extended period, giving me some easy weeks whenever I choose. Work is better when it is optional, and keeping ~3 weeks of paid time off in my back pocket creates that illusion. Anyway, I have the next three days off and am definitely going to waste them doing nothing.
No.20643
>>20641>But she’s now knee deep in it thinking about some nerdy catholic concepts and giving speeches to nerdy traditionalists.I wonder how you know about all of that. Haven't I told you along time ago to cut off all contact and especially stalking?
No.20644
>>20643We still have common aquaintances including someone who helped her in that regard
No.20645
>>20644>We still have common aquaintancesSo? You have common acquaintances with thousands of people, yet you don't even know their names.
No.20646
>>20601Been thinking about this on and off and imho the issue with buying PC components right now is that you could get a used CPU or something for cheap to achieve a big performance increase alongside an extra stick of RAM and an SSD, but from a software perspective, MS is ending support for Windows 10 and a lot of older CPUs don’t support Win11 even if they technically meet the base performance requirements.
Though if the PC seems to be working fine except for writing and reading files it points towards drive failure.
No.20648
>>20646>drive failureThat's what I worry about, and why I backed up every file on an external drive. This thing might die, but it's not going to wipe out my data. I don't require a high performing PC, as I only use it for basic functions, but a replacement would still cost in the low hundreds. Hate to do that if it's not necessary. So, I'm basically taking a wait-and-see attitude. If things stay the same or get better, I do nothing. If they get worse, I reinstall the OS. If that doesn't help, I spend money.
>MS is ending support for Windows 10I am not prepared for this.
No.20649
>>20641So your ex is a traditional Catholic guru now. In my eyes, that's one more reason to move on.
No.20650
>>20649You are like a little baby.
There's nothing freakier than a catholic girl after the wedding.
No.20651
I have non mobile internet again. What a relief.
>>20636The NY scenster kind of catholic? Damn she must be a cool girl.
No.20653
>>20641Left side: your gf going to confession.
Right side: you going to psychoanalytic session.
No.20654
>>20653Wait, what is NASA doing there on the right side?
No.20655
>>20654NASA has gone woke
No.20656
>>20642Dog bless.
>Work is better when it is optional, and keeping ~3 weeks of paid time off in my back pocket creates that illusion. Very wise. Savings creates a similar feeling in some way.
>>20636She probably hexed you. Much to be concerned about.
No.20657 KONTRA
>>20653Lol
If I was to return to Christ, I would do it through joy, not hopelessness. And I really wouldn’t wanna hang out with trad Catholics, their shit are all retarded.
No.20658 KONTRA
Felt okay today. The day kinda went in a blur.
Helped make another table ornament. This one is a gift to someone else.
Went to class. On the way home I saw an 1892 copy of the Nibelungenlied. It's very nice looking but I didn't get it even though I was really tempted.
Saw the latest propaganda poster campaign. This year's topic is the "New Economic Policy".
The slogan is
Hungary can do it!.
Also got a "National Consultation" poll like usual. I filled it out and dropped it in a mailbox. My main motivation was to just to be able to tick the box to say "No, the pensioners don't need more money".
Took a book back to the library. I couldn't find the dropbox but it turns out they replaced it with a "smart shelf". You put the book on the shelf and it immediately knows which book it is and you can also request a certificate you returned it.
>>20648Well, you have around a year until they drop support for it and there's always
Linux.
(Or you might actually have a CPU that supports 11. I know mine doesn't but I don't daily drive my windows PC so it should be fine until 10 becomes really abandoned. (Honestly just banking on Proton actually getting good enough that I don't ever have to bother with Windows again even for gaming. However little gaming I actually do.)
No.20660 KONTRA
>>20658>suggesting Linuxthis has to be a joke, right?
No.20661
>>206602025 starts the half-pentade of the Linux desktop
No.20665
>>20661lol. linux was for edgy teenagers ... in 1997.
Now, it's for pedophile neckbeards with dirty underwear. If you use it, you are pretty much a child-fucker.
No.20679
>>20678Fucking weeb, your shitty touchy-throwy judo is no match for a proper Slouching Tiger's Pirouette Sneaky Fart Kick.
Now sit down, this is a 中国 board.
No.20680 KONTRA
I'm feeling so fucked up but also strangely okay. I overslept and went back to sleep anyway. Went for a run had a hasty lunch and a coffee and then went to my only class. I was half an hour late.
I spent the remaining hour translating the poem part of a sutra on the spot.
Finished like half of my powerpoint. I'm wasting so much time.
No.20683
*ominous catholic chanting in the distance*
No.20684 KONTRA
>>20680I'm an expert on wasting time. You're probably doing fine.
No.20687
>>20684>I'm an expert on wasting timeI require proof.
Please post your Zeitverschwendungsausführungsberechtigungszertifikat according to §3 Abs. 1 ZeitVerschwAusfG.
No.20690 KONTRA
>>20687Won't upload my statement of records from uni...
No.20691
>>20690Ha! Now you have outed yourself as a phony.
Everybody knows that you get a ZVAB only from a DEKRA/TÜV training.
I bet you don't even procrastinate.
No.20693 KONTRA
I was given a beautiful copy of the Al-Quran in recognition for my efforts in calligraphy. The Chinese never gave me anything. Time to come to water and be relax.
No.20694
>>20691I admit it, I am a mere hobbyist. And I stopped practicing. I just can't find the time for procrastination anymore.