No.21945
>>21944>though by the end of the year your priorities may seriously changeI agree, my philosophy is to put things I want to do and will take pleasure in doing in the bingo.
Seeing 100 movies, reading n books, start to learn Ancient Greek… leisure is more consistent than duties.
>But he didn't say it was a public pool.More than a private pool, it could also be one of the numerous very swimmable and clean rivers and lakes of my beautiful country
No.21946
>>21945>More than a private pool, it could also be one of the numerous very swimmable and clean rivers and lakes of my beautiful countryRivers and lakes here are not swimmable, because the EU/Greens made rules that forbid it.
No.21948
>>21945Composed my "Project 2025", consisting of 25 possible goals.
Usually I have something in between of TODO-list and monthly (or biweekly) plans. Experimentally I found out that it suits my psychology best.
>>21946You remind me of my dad. He can also turn any discussion into complaining on his unlimited suffering in this country. Same obsessiveness, same constant and abrupt change of topic.
I'm a son of an IRL EC-schizo.
No.21949
>>21940OK. I calculated. There are four teams remaining in the NFL playoffs. Taking into account the odds of each winning the Super Bowl, and the total house money I have to play with, I placed bets on three of them to win it all. If either Kansas City, Buffalo, or Philadelphia take home the Lombardy trophy, I walk away with 2/3 of the total I was granted for opening an account. Free and clear, I can withdraw it and walk away. That is over the expected value of 1/2 the money, assuming all bets were placed at random on 50/50 propositions. This is not without risk, ofc. If somehow Washington wins, I get nothing. That is- by far- the least likely outcome. I expect their Cinderella run to come to an end this weekend, and even if they beat Philadelphia, they would still be huge underdogs in the Superbowl.
>>21942>erase something from his memory because he didn’t want to deal with it, now I’m pretty sure everyone does it.I have done this at least once that I know of. The weird part is realizing there could be more instances, and I simply have no way to reaccess the information.
No.21950
>>21945>cleanExcept for the contaminated waters around chemical dumps from factories like Lonza Group who has poisoned the groundwater and tries to make the state pay for it. Taking profits, externalizing costs. Oh, and giving everybody who lives downstream only the contamination, without the jobs.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonza#ControversesThis is upper Rhône; I wonder if Basel is any better.
No.21951
>>21950It must be really hard being such a negative Nancy all the time. I am sorry. You should get some therapy.
No.21952
>>21900Thank you. My, she's grown!
>>21902Nothing wrong with that.
>>21951I think you're mixing me up with somebody else. See how I did not blame the Greens. It's just when I think of Swiss rivers, my last thought would be swimming in them. I hope water quality has improved since, like it has in Germany.
No.21953 KONTRA
>>21952make that rivers anywhere, actually
No.21954 KONTRA
>>21952>See how I did not blame the Greens. You know, having people talk about rivers and then chiming in with a HAVEN'T YOU HEARD is not that far away, and my point still stands. Less *Betroffenheit*, more solutions.
No.21955 KONTRA
>>21950I have to admit I never swam in any rivers… Except maybe the Doubs when I was a very little kid. Still, our lakes and rivers used to be dirtier, they no longer are.
And Valais is a bad example of Switzerland done right.
No.21958
>>21954Yes, I think I got your point. I was just unsure if Switzerland was joking or genuinely thinks Swiss rivers are clean, which triggered my one minute pol rage.
>>21955Valais is probably all sorts of weird.
No.21959
Cold worsened. Played games. No fever or anything, just my nose running mostly.
Feeling pretty good otherwise.
No.21960
>>21958>Valais is probably all sorts of weirdCome to think of it, all French speaking cantons are. Neuchâtel was a Hohenzollern holding in south Germany, has its own brand of Protestantism.
Vaud is an artificial creation from revolutionary France.
Geneva is a city-state and the birthplace of Calvinism.
Juras is the result of a successful separatist movement, which most radical political action was to steal a rock and paint on barns.
Valais is a confederacy in its own right, had a bloodier civil war than the (not so bloody) Sonderbund war -a XIX century conflict between progressive Protestant industrialized cantons and the conservative Catholic cantons- for the same general reasons at the same time with a similar outcome.
Of all, Fribourg may be the less weird and follows mostly the other Germanic cantons history norms.
No.21961
>>21960Interesting, didn't know half of that.
I noticed Valais votes conservative in all referendums, unsurprisingly correlating I think with less urbanization than the other French cantons except Jura.
No.21962
>>21950> If basel is any betterThere was the HCH-dump in Huningen, for example. But that's not made much worse by swimming in the Rhine, it was bad enough to exist in the general vicinity. The dump directly next to the factory has been cleaned up, but there was a quarry that was filled up with it and it was used as a component in low-quality concrete and given away to farmers in the area. Just one example.
In the 60s, it was not unusual to have incidents where the citizens were advised to keep their windows shut or to not nurse their infant children.
No.21965 KONTRA
>>21962Huh.
Not third-world tier, but still.
No.21972 KONTRA
>>21965https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my0dglDd66UDocumentation about Hüningen from the late eighties/early nineties, I think. The cleanup started in the 2010s, and as I said, they didn't clean all the sites. Chances are they don't even know where all the sites are.
If you are interested in such stuff, here's a document I particularly enjoyed. If you want to look for others like it, look for the older ones, they use examples sparingly in the newer guides.
No.21974 KONTRA
Cold got worse instead of better.
Held the presentation regardless. I was criticised but I still think I'm God's gift to the department.
Made a very good coffee today. I enjoyed drinking it.
Having honey with my evening cup of milk.
No.21976
Cleared my driveway of all the snow which fell yesterday. Went inside with a feeling of accomplishment. Hours pass. Look out the window. More snow is now falling. Whatever. That's tomorrow's problem.
No.21977
I wonder if there's something like Violent Femmes, but for alcoholics instead of nerds.
No.21978
>>21972Thanks, will watch later!
>PDFFifth chapter looks interesting!
I cannot into scienc, so the rest is lost on me.
>>21976News says
>Historic snowfall is expected in the US South, and historic blizzard and whiteout conditions are expected on the Gulf Coast.I think your regular North American winters are severe enough. Happenings incoming. Stay safe!
t. no snow, temperatures around freezing point
No.21982
>>21981> permanent snow> -8°CIs any one of the muh-global-warming-crowd reading along? Dumb motherfuckers!
No.21984 KONTRA
>>21983that makes the climate-homos even dumber!
No.21986
Swizz Ernst, I congratulate you and the individual that thought Ovomaltine is of good use value. Better than Nutella ngl.
>>21589It's not a lonely year anymore and it's not even February. Everything went better than expected.
No.21989 KONTRA
>>21986...
The original Ovomaltine is a powder that is mixed into milk. This is a bandwagon-product to cash in on the brand.
For the German market, the chocolate- and sugar-content of ovomaltine are dialed up (because Germany is basically a third-world-country, and the inhabitants of this colorful and diverse republic are unfortunately too poor to afford the real deal, aber deutschland ist ein reiches land, no näischens no borders ASÜL FÜR ALLE IST MENSCHENRÄÄÄÄÄÄCHT DU NADDSI-SAU!) so it does not taste like real ovomaltine.
God, I hate how crappy and ramshackle and poor Germany is compared to Switzerland or even B-tier first-world-countries like Sweden. Germany is a C-tier first-world-country like Italy now, and on its way down.
No.21990
>>21989Manic phase was replaced with a depressive phase.
Not good. Whiny bitter cunts won't survive THE COLLAPSE.
No.21992 KONTRA
>>21991Thank you for that information, Reichsmarschall Aufmerksamkeitshure.
No.21995
>>21992>AufmerksamkeitshureToday I was called a Aufmerksamkeitshure in a thread called Today.
I might dare to post about music in the music thread next, who knows.
No.21996
>>21986>Swizz Ernst, I congratulate you You’re welcome, cheers.
Here’s a list of ovo products I eat on at least a yearly basis: hot chocolate, energy bars, biscuits, cereals, the paste you posted, carton of cold chocolate, bottle of cold chocolate, chocolate bar.
No.21997
>>21989I rather take the product that cashes in on the brand than the real deal tbh. I'm a good German, a German who dates a woman with Migrationshintergrund even.
>>21996Godspeed, fulfilling a national duty.
No.21999
>>21998>Humanities is water and I am fish.It's just about being critical of things :DDD
No.22000
>>21995You were not called an attention whore for merely posting in the today thread. But you probably already knew that, you dishonest pos.
No.22001 KONTRA
Went and picked up a book from the bookstore after breakfast. It was cold. I still haven’t recovered fully from my cold yet but I felt confident and ran the last two blocks home just to feel alive a bit.
Had a coughing fit afterwards.
Finished reading a book and then played more Persona.
Been enjoying drinking my milk with some honey mixed into it for the past two days. Very tasty and wholesome.
Tomorrow I plan on writing.
Personal stuff and also I need to draft my performance report for college.
>>21998*Congratulations!*
No.22005
>>22000Then what for if not that?
No.22009 KONTRA
>>21999>It's just about being critical of thingsAnd conforming this criticism to acceptable modes of thought that are in accordance to what the zeigeist/reviewers want to read.
Nobody is ready for the Absolute Truth(tm), this is why I must shape my criticism into something that is palatable. It's harsh to say he was primarily driven by palestinian bughurd and that his book focuses primarily on arabs because of this - and therefore is not a study on orientalism in general, but specifically about French-British-USA (evil trifecta) interactions with the arab world. Especially in the present year, such criticisms don't fly. So I switch it around. He claims he focuses on Arabs because it was araps that resisted Europeans the longest, where as other Asiatics were always passive losers towards Europeans. This is obviously some arab nationalist ahistorical schizophrenia, but that's heresy. So instead, I paint this as western chauvinism - one that accepts Arabs as the strongest of the orientals because they are the closest to us, hiding this silly thought throughout a full paragraph of complicated words. Now why does he focus in the French-British-USA trifecta and ignores all other empires that interacted with araps or islamics as the other? The answer might be clear as to why he ignores the Russian/Soviet case and the Ottoman case, but it's hard to say it without saying it. Thankfully in the book he tries to justify why he only focuses on these countries, he says Orientalism there is simply more advanced and other countries are merely downstream from the original Franco-British thought. There it was, explicit western chauvinism I can point to. Of course it's not real chauvinism, it's something else masquerading as it but alas. I am the only holder of the Absolute Truth(tm).
No.22010
>>22009I'm pretty sure worded non-polemical, your argument would have worked. Maybe not with a zealous postcolonialist but usually the humanities are pretty open to criticism of theories, persons attached to these theories and arguments that had a large impact on reasoning and so called "turns". People like Foucault were hotly debated when they entered the scene and are also debated later, It's like people who want to do away with strict "postmodernism" - it's a thing and its not like this stuff is not criticized by many humanities scholars these days.
I was remembered of my presentation on Franz Fanon during my BA. There was a book from 2001 or so that already showed he was quite problematic in his reasoning. Had inceltier views on sex between white and black people, problematic towards women. In other words if you have good arguments/proofs, there will be people open to follow your train of thought, including teachers, without the need to disguise it.
No.22011
>>22010It would be too difficult to shit talk Said by saying he only wrote what he did how he did because he's an ethnocentric arap driven by bughurd. Especially in a degree that had its foundations shaken by this work, causing a real identity crisis in it. This work has been described as "the bible of this course" by a teacher. Which is insane, because if we take his work to he religious canon, we should dismantle it but alas. It simply wouldn't work to call someone a bughurd ethnocentric Palestinian during an active ethnic cleansing.
No.22012
>>22009So your criticism of Said is basically "but what about Russia?"
As one orientalist said,
> Once again, whataboutism only benefits the shittiest most rotten party who stands to gain from comparison to a superior opponent No.22013 KONTRA
>>22012I have been expoZed...
No.22016 KONTRA
>>22011Well if you want to make a psychological case out of it, yes than that's not humanities anymore. You need to show bogurt arab nationalist reasoning within the text not within some res cogitans.
>>22013It's so normal to say "x forgot y" that is a core sentence, though. Sell it as research gap.
No.22017 KONTRA
Tried running today. Had to stop midway my usual time because I just kept coughing. Wasn't really happy about it.
I ended up writing a page. Very pleased with it. I'll probably do more writing tomorrow.
I then watched some anime with friends, talked a bit and I played some more Persona.
Btw I'm not commenting on the Sayeed debacle because I never read him and I don't feel like evaluating his ideas based on my experiences of midwits on twitter just calling everything "orientalism" they don't like in Asian studies or even just liking a foreign culture is very productive on my part. (Just like how them shouting "orientalism" isn't very productive either because it's just tearing down modes of engagement, but doesn't really build anything in its place.)
No.22020 KONTRA
Went out and helped with grocery shopping. I didn't really feel good while out and about. Mentally anyway. I just felt constant guilt over how much everything costs.
After coming home I had lunch and then I spent the rest of the day playing video games and chatting. Mostly video games. Though I sometimes end up obsessively going on a tangent because of a story element so it's sort of semi-productive.
No.22022
>>22020>I just felt constant guilt over how much everything costs. Since when do you decide what everything costs?
I spent 80€ on four drinks, two fancy pizzas and two artisan italian lemonades yesterday. It just makes getting a raise more urgent.
No.22024
My new sportsbook FanDuel is trying to make me an addict. Not going to happen. I work too hard for dollars to risk any on gambling, but I don't mind playing on their dime. To that end, I've recieved a different promotion every day this week offering bonus bets if I do %%x%. Took advantage of several offers and I now have more house money to wager. Not sure on what, but I want to avoid putting anything on our game this afternoon.
No.22025
>>22024Shouldn't that format fail have italicized the remainder of my post? Or does it only work if the code is closed?