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 No.24016 [Last 50 Posts]

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If nobody is gonna do it, I AM gonna do it!

>>23236

 No.24017

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A day with 2 (two) new threads on /int/. Outrageous.

 No.24018

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>>24017
EC servers overheating.

 No.24019

Do you guys think the James Webb Space Telescope marks the last big stretchmark in NASA history before further and further decaying into irrelevance?

 No.24021

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>>24019
Their lustre has dimmed in recent years, ceding headlines to private industry and rival nations. Still, I expect NASA will reclaim their former glory once the wars over space begin.

An aircraft carrier in space? US Space Force wants 'orbital carrier' to easily deploy spacecraft in Earth orbit
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/us-space-force-orbital-carrier

 No.24022

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This is probably the worst OP picture for a Today thread in the history of Today threads, probably ever.
It's tremendously unpleasing to look at and seems even more random than others.

 No.24023

>>24022
> the worst OP picture for a Today thread in the history of Today threads
And /int/ has a long history of Today threads. Also:

/int/ - tremendously unpleasing to look at
/int/ - more random than others

 No.24024

>>24022
It was only slightly randomly chosen. The effect of the picture was in my calculation.

 No.24025 KONTRA

>>24024
>The effect of the picture was in my calculation.
Didn't expect anything else. Congrats, I guess.

 No.24026

>>24024
> I put ugly freaks on OP-pic in order to annoy people
Seek help

 No.24028 KONTRA

>>24026
Not to annoy people.

 No.24031

I drank 800mg of caffeine yesterday and did not have these symptoms:

https://www.businessinsider.com/man-overdosed-caffeine-800-mg-for-tiktok-dietician-recommends-against-2023-11

I was a bit more jittery (noticeable but not overwhelming), and had to take break every hour or so to walk around. I had no mood swings or euphoria. I didn't have that much increased energy.
I had some trouble sleeping until 4am because I drank caffeine until midnight.

 No.24033

>>24031
I drank 400mg today and I'm literally yawning right now.

 No.24036

>>24033
Coffee doesn't stop me from falling asleep, but it does prevent me from staying asleep. Only drink decaf with dinner or I wake up every hour until morning.

 No.24052

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Today I did home tourism.
I encountered many people who seem to think it's fine to film and take pictures without making sure to exclude strangers as long as it's a tourist place; I didn't like that. I guess it's to be expected but that doesn't make it alright. But I also saw a few beautiful people, and heard bits of other varieties of German and other languages such as British English (including a reminder that the word "minge" exists, from a conversation between two women), French and Italian. That was nice.
The place itself was nice, too, and the weather couldn't have been better. I encountered some wildlife where I least expected it. I listened to a bird sing. A beetle landed on my head.
I didn't take any pictures, no IWO for you.

>>24022
I'm glad I'm appreciating this imageboard with graphics blocked. I can only imagine.

 No.24053 KONTRA

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>>24052
Maybe it's because I'm British, but when I glanced at that image I immediately assumed Donald was pissing in the fountain.

 No.24060

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New York State's 2025 budget includes a one-time inflation rebate to residents. With consumers paying inflated prices, NY received more tax revenue than expected. Or something. Anyway, they're mailing us money. I should receive $200 at some point this year. Which is nice. A little gimmicky and a shameless attempt to curry favor with voters, but still nice.

>>24052
>I didn't take any pictures
Living life rather than documenting it for later consumption. Cool.

 No.24063

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It's Mother's Day. Spent the day visiting mine. Lives a few towns over. First visit in six months. Intended to go numerous times in that span, but things kept popping up. Weather. Ilness. Work. General inertia. Was a good day. Relatively drama-free. She made lasagna and sent me home with leftovers.

 No.24073

I'm enjoying the birds singing from a tree. My shift is about to start and I'm happy for begin alive.

 No.24075

I just remembered this from grapes of wrath

We saw a nigger
With a trigger
That was bigger
Than an elephants proboscis or the whanger of a whale

Great poem, isn't it?

 No.24076

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I just learned what Free Comic Book Day was. Obviously it's a marketing event during which local comic book stores give away comics, but I assumed they were promotional issues. Spider man meets the Nesquik Bunny or something. The word Free is so often misused in sales that I automatically associate it with trickery. But no. Not in this case. Stores have stacks of normal books free for the taking. If you go in on that day. Which I didn't. It was last week.

 No.24077

>>24076
I've been knowing about it for years (although, like you, I assumed it wouldn't quite be the real deal), but each year, it passes before I notice. Same this year: I had been meaning to look up the exact date, only to realize "oh bother, it's today" forty minutes before the last book shops closed.

This time, the focus was on comics for children, after all the years the industry spent trying to promote the idea that comics aren't just for children and maybe should be called "graphic novel" instead. Of course, many works of sequential art with panels and speech bubbles are not comical, and many have little in common with novels, so both terms can be misleading. In German, they are known by those same terms adopted unchanged from English, and within German, there are no homonyms I'm aware of (Komik is pronounced differently, and a "novel" is Roman), so they are probably less misleading than in English as long as you learn them before you learn where they come from.

Publishers offer promotional previews throughout the year. A little on paper, a lot online if you are willing to jump through their hoops.

 No.24078 KONTRA

>>24077
>I've been knowing about it
I've known about it.
English much hard, also it are late

 No.24079

Had a conference that went okay-ish. I mean I hated my performance, someone talked in the middle of my presentation very disrespectfully but ultimately based on the claps people seemed to like it.
Shook hands with the head of a think tank by chance because I was arriving alongside a professor and we were talking about my translations that I have submitted. He told me I need to learn to use commas. He is right.

Turns out the exam was this Monday, so I only had two days to prepare, which made me really stressed. I wrote so hard that my hand feels cramped even a day later. Idk if I have passed. But at least I will have everything covered before my trip to China. Mostly anyway.
The trip is imminent almost and I feel a bit stressed about it for some reason.

Today I just spent time translating stuff for seminars and making a presentation and also working through my backlog for the classical Chinese Seminar which I have not attended.

Wrote a catalogue of my mangas. It's not part of my book collection but I opened a separate worksheet for it in my main excel file for cataloguing stuff. Very modest collection. Relatively well rounded I feel like despite this.

 No.24082

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You know you have a meme for eternity when you can make it seem like a chinese wisdom and people would believe it.

 No.24083

>>24078
Hold your mowl, whorenson. No one liking better knowers and I fucks your mother.

 No.24086

Not happening much here. Real life has some serious grip on me.

 No.24087

>>24086
5 days work week. Got appointments for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all of those came in today. And then it's another 5 days of work. I am already overdue on some visits to friends, so who knows how the next weekends will turn out. Not that I wouldn't want to do the things people invited me to, I just don't like when each and every day is riddled with either work or appointments.

 No.24093

>>24087
>whiny-whiny-whiny
>look at me
>I'm so popular I barely have time to be an autist
>look at me

 No.24094

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>>24093
Yes. People must know about my troubles.

t. posting from wörk

 No.24095

>>24094
Everybody is posting from work

 No.24101

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>>24095
Indeed, posting from Home Office is a welcome distraction. I mean, you can't expect me to wank for eight hours straight.

 No.24102

>>24101
I wish I had the time to jack off all the time, but the truth is that I work more from home than I would in the office.

 No.24108 KONTRA

>>24087
Yeah, I barely manage what I want to do in weekends.
Need a few more social contacts and another project to work on thinking about joining the historic association of the surrounding borrows and look into archives and perhaps do a bit of historiography of the area I live in now. But getting gf made me too comfortable in that regard.
Also, I still dance and need to get better, spend more time with that.

 No.24113

It's everything they do. Their fake smiles, the way they hold their children, pretending like they care when all they're doing is just cradling their mini-me who they want to control. The way "families" dress, all wholesome and reeking of sappiness.

There are only two kinds of people: breeders and those of us who understand Science.

It sucks to even be among breeders at work.

Breeders are so gross. Children are gross and sex is gross. People are so disgusting. It's like I have to live inside a colony of dirt rats copulating and rising their young.

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 No.24118

>>24073
>>24073
I'm in love. I'm an idiot. I know how it ends.

 No.24120

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>>24118
>I'm in love. I'm an idiot. I know how it ends.
Are those things merely coincidental, or do you suspect causality at work between them?

 No.24121

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Is there any animal dumber and more self-important than a cyclist?

he fucking mouth-breathers in their sausage-skin-spandex suits are so ugly, stupid and disgusting.

Why is cycling not illegal?

>Look at me I'm a cyclist I'm so important and enviro-green look at me I'm a cyclist

 No.24122

>>24120
I never thought I could feel such things again, never, and I'm even feeling new things right now. I never ever felt this explosive love to the point of physically experience pain in my heart, dizziness like if I was drunk.

I need sleep.

 No.24123

>>24121
what is it with cyclists randomly crashing into cars?

 No.24124

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>>24121
I'd respond with a video of car drivers doing stupid things, but there are none. I checked the whole internet.

>>24122
>explosive love
Say no more, say no more. I have the feeling that, before the day is over, I will also experience that same explosive love.

 No.24125

>>24123
They are extremely stupid. Otherwise, they wouldn't be cyclists.

 No.24126

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>>24124
>I'd respond with a video of car drivers doing stupid things, but there are none. I checked the whole internet.
See, this is the problem with cyclist apologists. Every single driver will agree that asshole drivers exist and nobody would ever come out and defend a shitty driver.

Cyclists or their apologists will always immediately resort to some kind of whataboutism and hedindunuffin etc. and be irritatingly smug about it.
I think it's in the very nature of that kind of person to be a piece of shit that doesn't want to take responsibility for anything.
>I ran a red light and got run over? It's the driver's fault!
>I didn't look in front of me and ran into a car? It's the driver's fault!
>I crashed into a pedestrian? Their fault for walking on the pavement!
>I could have yielded, but I'd rather have the right of way than not be dead? Fucking drivers!
>I ran over a little kid? Shithead shouldn't have been in my way!

Cyclists wouldn't have such a bad reputation if you weren't constantly denying that there are assholes and even protecting them and making excuses for them.

 No.24128

Back in the days I've rode all over the city in a bicycle. On a small expensive gay triangle bicycle like these:
https://www.strida.nl/en/
Not as a mean of commuting though, just as a hobby and to explore the surroundings. But I've moved to another city and the bike left at parents' place.
Hopefully, this summer they'll bring it to me by car, no one except me uses it anyway. I'll still need to buy a second bike for gf. Something small and convenient too. Maybe, Shulz? What does Ernst recommend?

 No.24132 KONTRA

>>24128
> recommendations
Don't have left shit granola eating hobbies like some Fynn-Malte Berlin hipster, maybe?

 No.24133

I saw a young woman perhaps taller than any I've seen before. On top of that, I think she was pretty (not sure as I tried not to stare) and had good fashion sense (not sure as I have none), so she was quite the looker; I noticed a guy pointing her out to someone (his wife?) out of my view.

>>24128
>pic 2
Euclidian values on proud display.

 No.24134 KONTRA

>>24133
> I tried not to stare
Tried. Maybe don't try? Maybe instead of trying, just do stare instead? You think you can do that? Or is it as impossible as not man-spreading?

>(not sure as I have none)

Of course not. Fucking Alman-Thorsten gawking at young women in public. Yuck. Do you even know how creepy you are, weirdo?

 No.24135 KONTRA

I don’t think I’ve been leading a healthy lifestyle recently. I’ve been staying up way too long. Though the upside of that is that I’ve been talking a lot more with people online.
I’m working down my backlog of university shit.
My China trip’s in a week and I don’t want to leave a lot of shit for when I get back.
I’m a bit anxious. A professor joked that “Me not liking my time in China would be a great loss not just for me but for the university too”.
Ultimately, there is nothing to worry about. I will eat stuff, see stuff and buy stuff. (Tea, cigarettes and books. Maybe something kitsch too.)

I got up in time relatively today. Decided to go out for lunch just so I leave the house. Clerk tried to sign me up for an app or something at the McDonald’s. I sometimes think I should try this stuff but when I was a kid my mother basically told me that every single one of these point collecting things is just something the state can leverage to find dirt on you.
That seems bullshit too, but it’s a strong enough reflex that I never sign up for shit like this.

Exciting times ahead I guess.

 No.24139

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>>24135
I also inherited paranoia from my mother. Don't give up personal information, don't sign up for things, and use a fake name whenever possible. Had this book in our house growing up. The twist? While I took her teachings to heart, she did a 180° and is now on Facebook.

How long will you be in China?

 No.24141

>>24135
>that every single one of these point collecting things is just something the state can leverage to find dirt on you.
That seems bullshit too, but it’s a strong enough reflex that I never sign up for shit like this.

Not sure why your mom thinks it will be the state, must be post soviet mind. The truth is that companies use it to optimize profits by better data about its customers or making a plus by selling the data to a data broker or whatever, state has nothing to do with it.

 No.24148

>>24135
> I sometimes think I should try this stuff but when I was a kid my mother basically told me that every single one of these point collecting things is just something the state can leverage to find dirt on you.
McDonald's would be first in line for using your data so they can better manipulate you into buying more of their burgers.

Why are you so afraid of the government? I think that's suspicious.

>>24141
This. Law-abiding citizens have no need to be afraid of the police.

 No.24149

>>24148
He is not really afraid of the government or the state, it's just a reflex. But once the mind interferes, the state is about to become the best thing to have happened. He will be a willing contributor to the nation state.

 No.24150

>>24148
He is not really afraid of the government or the state, it's just a reflex. But once the mind interferes, the state is about to become the best thing to have happened. He will be a willing contributor to the nation state.

 No.24156

>>24141
"States" and "companies" are just different tools of the same upper class.
>state has nothing to do with it
States' role in this is that of enabler. States make sure nothing and nobody interferes, while putting up a show of consumer protection.

 No.24157

Time for some state derivation debate on EC.

 No.24160

I overheard a woman on the street saying tomorrow is election day in Portugal. Which rightwing party is Portuball voting for?


>>24156
>States" and "companies" are just different tools of the same upper class

Wrong. The state is wanted by all classes.
I will refrain from talking about companies.

 No.24162 KONTRA

>>24160
>The state is wanted by all classes
Wait, are you really total sheeple or are you just trolling? What a turbo-Michel.

 No.24163

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>>24160
That's right, tomorrow is Po-Po day: elections in both Portugal (legislative) and Poland (presidency, 1st round – Which two candidates will make it to the June runoff to succeed Duda, and will they have a similarly funny name?).

 No.24164

>>24157
>Staatsableitungsdebatte
Today I learned a new term, but I haven't learned its meaning yet.
… Judging from the Wikipedia article, I don't think I even want to try. It really sounds like something Germany and Portugal would discuss on Ernstchan.

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>>24163
fixed

 No.24168

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 No.24175

Why are so many people on the roads with shitty weak cars and people that can not drive? I drive 110km/h like a normal person, and then, there's some faggot retard who only goes 95 kmh after indicator so it's really 90 highest the faggot and I must him overtake. How become so stupid people their driver license?

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 No.24178

>>24163
>>24160
It's true, today I'll have to vote and then drive gf to the Polish embassy so she can vote.
>Which rightwing party is Portuball voting for?
Cornering me in, awful. The only viable choice in the rightwing sector is the liberal party. The ruling coalition is sick and corrupt, the far right party is too goofy. I'm not happy with the choices presented. Maybe I'll vote for PCTP-MRPP in solidarity. Voting is useless anyways.

 No.24179

I learned yesterday that physical punishment was still legal and in use in Canton Wallis’s public schools in the mid-2000s, back when I was a kid. And that teachers were still very much hitting students. I thought it was banned in the whole country in the 80s.
This canton apparently still has some of its public high schools ran by catholic monks.

 No.24180

>>24179
Children need to be beaten. ADHD, Autism, etc. are just results of a lack of punishment. Beat the children for misbehaving, they will stop misbehaving. They learn that there are consequences to their actions.

Children who are not taught to behave or who are even rewarded for misbehaving will grow up to become irresponsible dysfunctional adults. They will grow up to be hedonistic and irresponsible, unable to bear themselves in public, chewing with open mouths, talking loudly on the telephone, unable to control their spending and going into debt for buying frivolous nonsense, and so in.

All the people with problems once were the children of parents who were unwilling to be a parent and the pupils of teachers whose hands were bound.

>I thought it was banned in the whole country in the 80s.

It's still legal in Switzerland for parents to physically punish their children.

but it's sad to see Switzerland slowly going the way of it's neighboring countries. When women were given the right to vote in 1971, the floodgates opened, and when Appenzell-Innerrhoden was forced to give women the right to vote in cantonal elections, it was clear that there would be no going back.

Sooner or later, even Switzerland will become a dirty shit hole like Germany and France.

 No.24181

>>24178
>Voting is useless anyways
Things are getting so bad in Brazil, so bad, that dairy products are shrinking in size and getting tons of corn starch so they get still. All junk food is shrinking in size and getting extremely expensive, to the point of not be affordable for the masses anymore.
It's currently impossible buy a house or new if you aren't rich.

I don't have any hope for tomorrow.

 No.24182 KONTRA

>>24180
I sure miss the good old days when everyone was sane because they were beaten up as kids

 No.24185

>>24179
A map of States which allow for corporal punishment in schools, and one with States ranked by years spent in education. Correlation? Causation? Who knows.

 No.24187

>>24185
Education beyond grade 10 is useless. Those who have not learned to express themselves in writing, a foreign language, the basics of calculus, etc. by grade ten never will. It is more important to get young people into the workforce early were they can acquire useful skills. The absurd extension of youth has infantilized society. Millions are learning this as they leave universities with important looking, but worthless papers telling them they are oh-so-smart. It's weird how those oh-so-smart people can't find a job if education is so great, isn't it?

 No.24188

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>>24187
> It is more important to get young people into the workforce early were they can acquire useful skills
It's not important. Industry and agriculture have been automatized, service sector doesn't need that many people. There are not many jobs for low IQ people, especially in developed countries. So there is no problem keeping them away from workforce by kindergardens, where they learn grievance studies. On the opposite, there is a problem in keeping them busy.

 No.24190

>>24188
With AI, there are not many jobs for 'high-IQ'-people. Learn coding, lol. The only jobs are those that are to automate. Trades, welding, etc. all the 'knowledge workers' are getting made redundant by ai, lol.

All those business school graduates and software development graduates are all jobless.

 No.24193

>>24181
A German schizo would say the same about Germany.
We should thank our employers for letting us have jobs and an income to survive.
After me:
>Dear employer, I think about and thank you every day that I am not part of the capitalist surplus population

 No.24194

>>24181
Thank the leftist and enviro-green for creating artificial scarcity.

 No.24195

>>24182
The Bible says that the man who spares the rod hates his son.

American and European manufacturing is not only more expensive than Chinese manufacturing, it's also worse. A Chinese worker shows up on time, does his job, and is proud for doing so. Even the day after he got paid. The three days after a Western worker is paid, he goes partying and does meth. When a Chinese worker's child is sick, the grandparents will take care of the child. When a Western worker's child is sick, they call in sick, because the grandparents are busy exploring Europe in an RV, spending the money they inherited from their own parents, leaving nothing to their own children. When a Chinese worker just stops coming to work, he knows he can starve. When a Western worker stops going to work, the government will house and feed him and give him money to spend. The Western worker might even have a 'baby momma' who will demand his money, and it might turn out that the Western worker can live better when he doesn't work and let's the government pay his bills, so he might stop working at any time.

In the West today, most people have lifestyles and attitudes we would have associated with marginalized minorities 30 or 40 years ago. They are hedonists who live for today. They do not value education or culture, they value cheap, loud entertainment. They consume excessive amounts of alcohol and/or illegal drugs. They have promiscuous sex, contract veneral diseases and have the government pay for three treatment. They do nothing to improve their lot in life, but expect government to improve it for them with free stuff, coming like mana from heaven. They trash their surroundings, vandalizing private and public property for fun. They steal like ravens. In the workplace, they are lazy, do not follow orders, carry on private conversations during work time, etc.

Why do people act in such a way that must make the blood of every sane hard-working person boil? Because people think they are oh-so special and important. Rules do not apply to them because they are special. Their actions won't ever have consequences, because they are important.

They haven't had the self-importance and arrogance beaten out of them and a love for hard work and discipline beaten into them.

This is one of the reasons China is flourishing while the West turns into Brazil-tier or Jordam-tier or Albania-tier shit holes. Low-productivity mid-income countries where few sane people would invest, with worthless joke-currencies and very limited industries, backwards, run-down, dirty, corrupt, sometimes with entire cities ruled by criminal overlords. All because we refuse to punish children when necessary. One rotten apple spoils the bunch.

Of course, once we get there, people will even pay bribes for hazardous shit jobs without anything we consider work-safety today, with long hours and crap pay, because after they plundered all the coffers for their frivolous excesses, this will be the only possibility to make ends meet.

Strict discipline needs to established to straighten the ship and limit existing damage. Those who are not ready to learn humility, those who exhibit hooliganism, or those who litter, need to be punished, so we can create a clean, healthy, productive environment. Those who are not ready to pull their own weight, because they continue to slack off, to do drugs, to litter and produce noise, need to be to disposed of.

 No.24196

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>>24188
>yarwin.jpg
Are they are more concerned about the American wooden toy industry than about their child not being bored?
>agricultural labor, for which an arbitrary level of demand can be created simply by banning industrial farming techniques.
Sounds familiar. Let's all rally around the Party and boldly implement Juche Farming Methods!

 No.24197

>>24196
Also
>If my children are going to have toys
>If

 No.24198

>>24181
Fico triste com o incompreensível sistema político do Brasil. O Brasil deveria ser uma grande potência do novo mundo e eu devia estar a tentar imigrar

Historical electoral change in Portugal. Incomprehensible how the ruling party scored a gigantic win, with the far right party as #2. Historic loss for the Partido socialista. Never thought I'd see this.

 No.24200

>>24198
Even the party that is much like the schizo kraut is up there with the communist party. Things really are changing. Lord have mercy on our souls.

 No.24201

>>24196
Most of all, he's concerned about his children not being stabbed by gangsta thugs. So he wants to provide jobs for them:
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/03/sam-altman-is-not-blithering-idiot/ - full article
Making artisan toys is a sinecure.

Btw Yuval Harari provides Ortodox Judaist community as example of post-work society. These zealous people in funny hats don't work, just pray, make babies and leech on Israeli welfare. And according to statistics they're much happier than western secular people.
If you think of it, it's somewhat similar with the mentioned universities. Instead of Talmud keep population busy by Hegel, Said and Derrida. It probably doesn't make them happy people, but on the other hand it solves the problem of overpopulation.

 No.24206 KONTRA

>>24201
> The leeches are happy
> Let's create more leeches!

 No.24217 KONTRA

>>24201
>overpopulation

You mean surplus. You should be stoned by the CEO king for your mistakes. No pardon for creatures of the uncivilized sphere.

 No.24221

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>>24141
>state has nothing to do with it.
100%

 No.24223

>>24221
We were speaking about bonus programs with consumer product vendors.
Everybody knows that the state has an interest in surveillance of its population and long before any anti soviet 1984 libertarian freaks wrote books about states surveilling people. It's even better under capitalism and libertarian Paradise will be worse **not for company owners, there will get a better protection against transparency in their jurisdiction*"

 No.24225

>>24223
>We were speaking about bonus programs with consumer product vendors.
Accenture has enough computer to serve both the State's desire to control and your local bakery's desire to sell you biscuits.

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/artificial-intelligence/understand-customer

 No.24226

>>24225
Yeah, but it's not the state behind Accenture unless the state is investor in Accenture and the state does not use the bonus programs to spy on you.
Maybe the state uses data from data brokers. The US and Europe might be very different in that regard. I know that in the US it is easy to get data on people that is hard to come by easily in european countries.

 No.24227

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>>24226
Law enforcement regularly purchases information they would otherwise be barred from gathering without a warrant. True, Geo location data is more valuable than tracking McDonald's purchases, but you can never be too paranoid.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/montana-becomes-first-state-close-law-enforcement-data-broker-loophole

 No.24228

>>24227
>Law enforcement regularly purchases information they would otherwise be barred from gathering without a warrant.

What kind of data? I have the feeling that a lot of data is available in the US for private persons legally anyway.

 No.24229

>>24228
Legally for corporations and business, yes. The fourth amendment limits what law enforce has access to. Or, it is supposed to. Now that location history or DNA, for example, can be purchased, the government has the ability to monitor whomever without involving a judge in the process.

 No.24230 KONTRA

>>24229
>law enforce
enforcement.

 No.24231

>>24223
> anti soviet 1984 libertarian freaks
> under capitalism and libertarian Paradise
Are these libertarians in room with us now? Please, go touch grass.

 No.24234

I cleaned up the dream thread, and some more. Please note that ironically replying to cancerposters is still propagating cancer, so don't be surprised to get caught in the cleansing process if you do. That goes especially for pol-posting in dedicated non-pol topic threads - which are all threads except the pol thread, and, to a lesser extent, the today thread.

 No.24235 KONTRA

>>24231
It's definitely not you, right?

 No.24238

>>24235
I'm not libertarian, I swear

 No.24239 KONTRA

I can't do shit rn I feel like. China trip is imminent but one exam before it. Couldn't really concentrate on studying. My appetite is down the drain.
Spent some time with friends. We re-watched Stargate and shit. Also played some friendslop games.

I finished my classical Chinese assignments. Lecturer was nice and told me I don't have to do all 12 of the texts, 6 is more than enough.
Also helped a friend with some Buddhist shit even though he knows I "hate it".
It was a right mess.

Honestly I don't really like Buddhism as much as I like reading about Nichirenism and the insane shit its modern followers are up to. But I increasingly find myself referring to it in conversation or explaining tenets to outsiders and I feel like that even if I don't cultivate myself, if I spin the dharma wheel enough then at the end of the kalpa the Buddha might give me a fully furnished kitchen or some shit as an end stage bonus.

They sent me a pre-print of my review to "look through" and like, I personally don't really give a shit I already read through it twice, they edited it a bit it's not like this matters. I know it's going into print but I really only did it to get a grade at a seminar.
Which is kinda the equivalent of an academic press-gang but whatever.
It still rings so strangely.
"Why me?"
"You read fast and write well."
I don't think I write well. Like I don't think there is a shred of authenticity, stylistically speaking. It's a strange roleplay I started playing in high school.

Also I keep forgetting to write these diary entries but really not much is happening. That and I sometimes just legit forget to send them and they then get lost.
But really, I'm just playing games, reading, working out and watching anime with friends.

Not much stuff left. A 10 pages long study, some notes, and some online exams plus a German exam.

>>24141
>>24148
>>24149
I genuinely don't know why she was like that at the time.
Though as far as I can tell she doesn't have an ideological disdain for socialism.
She had a disdain for the lukewarm thinking late-socialism instilled in some people and nostalgia for socialism in general, but I never heard her share any ideological gripes or any ideologically bad experiences.
(And no, I don't come from a family of former cadres, I know one family member who was member of the party but also got promptly thrown out for refusing to renounce Catholicism.)

Ultimately I just feel stupid because I have this hunch that as someone without an app I am subsidizing the "regulars" who use the app to get coupons.

>>24139
I will be spending 17 days in China, chiefly in Yunnan.
I've assembled a list of things I want to get. Basically I want some tea, I need to buy some cigarettes and the books.
Strangely enough one of my mother's coworkers asked me to try and bring back some anime figurines for their kids I think. Was pleasantly surprised when mom showed me the link and it was Maomao and Jinshi from Apothecary Diaries.
Idk if I will oblige tho. It's 8 bucks on Aliexpress, why should I put it in my luggage?

I will probably just get rid of my usual neuroticism and it will all be fine by the end of the third day or so.
One of my professors joked that "You having a bad time would be a huge loss not just for you but for the university too."

 No.24243

Spilled milk yesterday. Full glass. On the carpet. Cleaned it up with a towel. Put towel in bathroom. Woke up this morning. What is that smell? Oh. Yeah.
So anyway, I'm doing laundry at 6 am.

 No.24244

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>>24243
Spoiled milk is a disgusting thing. I was once visiting a pal of mine, and since we're basically brothers, I just went to the fridge and took a bottle of milk. Since I have high milk consumption, milk never gets close to spoiling at home, so I simply assumed it's like that for everyone, and since there was just a small amount left, I drank from the bottle.

Bad idea, I barely avoided puking.

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>>24244
The worst milk I ever drank was poured into a cup of coffee. Not close to the expiration date and only open a few days. Sipped coffee. Tasted like an onion.

 No.24247

Tried chicken waffles today. Don't you dare to say something bad about American cuisine again, Ernst!

>>24245
Ever tasted spoiled mozzarella? The one in brine? Weird and disgusting I don't even know what to compare it to

 No.24248

>>24247
Recently I stumbled upon aged Camembert which smelled like ammonia. I didn't dare to try it.

 No.24249

> French poet and novelist Leon-Paul Fargue described the aroma of Camembert as "the smell of the feet of God."
> (Le camembert, ce fromage qui fleure les pieds du bon Dieu)

 No.24252 KONTRA

>>24249
> Le bon dieu
> Der Liebe Gott
> God

> L'état

> Der Staat
> government

> Le gouvernement

> Die Regierung
> government

Are island monkeys retarded? If they are not retarded, what made their language so retarded?

 No.24253

>>24252
> L'état
> Der Staat
It's "state", not "government"

 No.24254

>>24253
I disagree, and so do dictionaries. While anglos might refer to foreign states and federal states using the word state, they do not use it to refer to the state they are citizens of, that state is always just 'government', as if it consisted only of its executive branch. I swear on your mom, they are retarded.

 No.24255 KONTRA

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>>24254
>let me tell you about your language

 No.24256

>>24247
Never really had spoiled cheese. Or any cheese that didn't come wrapped in plastic. Worst that can happen there is mold, which is then tossed in the bin.

Got home from work to damp towels in my dryer. Should have let it run longer, but I don't trust hot appliances unattended.

 No.24257

>>24255
>Let me tell you about your language
I will tell you some things about your language you seemingly do not know. (Or, more likely, pretend to not know for the sake of the argument.)

It's 'government issued', not 'state issued', 'government cheese', not 'state cheese', 'government debt', not 'state debt', and that debt was taken out to pay for 'government expenditure', instead of 'state expenditure'. Part of the 'government expenditure' is paying for 'government employees', who might be employed by the judiciary or by the legislature, which are two 'branches of government'.

We have no choice but to conclude that English does not use 'government' to refer to the political leadership of the executive branch. Instead, the term 'government' refers to the entirety of all political institutions of a political entity with a clearly defined territory and population.

I conclude: the translation of the German word 'Staat' is usually 'government', not 'state'. Otherwise, we would need to translate 'staatsschulden' with 'state debt' instead of 'government debt', 'Staatskasse' with 'state coffers' instead of 'government coffers', 'Staatsangestellter' with 'state employee' instead of 'government employee', 'staatlich kontrolliert' with 'state controlled' instead of 'government controlled', etc.

Examples for when English does use the term 'state':
- fragile state
- stateless
- satellite state
- authoritarian state
- islamic state

If it is foreign and has a negative connotation, translating 'Staat' with 'state' works very well.

 No.24258 KONTRA

>>24257
Peak German.

 No.24259

I keep forgetting to hit the reply button.
I packed my stuff and I’m anxious about it. Had my mother look through the stuff and said that I did well.
My luggage is half-empty so it feels unfinished, but then again I never went on a journey this long and this far away.
Guess the empty luggage and backpack means plenty of space for souvenirs.
Realised I could get some snacks too for people. They would like that.

First hurdle will be the food honestly. I’m a picky eater so I’m afraid. It will probably be fine.
Everything will be fine. I shouldn’t nearly be this anxious.

 No.24260

>>24259
It's normal. I went on a business trip lately for the first time with getting on a plane and all that shit. Couldnt sleep more or less. It's the unknown but things will turn our just fine, trust the process as some people of your generation like to say in social media.
I hope you will return less picky

 No.24263

Anglos are so dumb they mistake the government with the state as institution.

t. Cleverle

 No.24264

>>24259
Anxiety is part of every journey further than the front curb. Keep your phone charged and money in your pocket. Enjoy the trip.

 No.24265

>>24263
The government is more labile and refers chiefly to a particular administration and its goals. It often involves topical decisions such as fiscal policy.
The state however is the structured organizational substrate that the government uses.
The state refers more to capability, while the government refers more to decision making.

For example, the department of state establishes relations with changing governments, and thus focuses on constant statuary (literally representing the country) contact.
This is why the Monarchies such as Britain have the tradition of the monarch signing bills into law (I don't know the law and history of Britain besides the pop version). The Monarch assents that the governments' goals are realized by the copiabilities of the state.



I'm guessing.
Did I get it right or am I a dumb anglo?

 No.24266

>>24265
I didn't read the prior posts btw

 No.24267

>>24265
This is besides that notion that the state is often used as an abstract representation of the country while the government is thought of as comprised of people

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>>24257
Well, there are nuances, but there also could be nuances between "etat" and "staat".
I don't really trust neuroslop, but French speaker could correct it.
@swissball is it true?

 No.24270

>>24268
The definition of état is accurate.
It’s all about the French vs. German conception of the state. Possibilism and determinism. So I guess the opposition also holds quite some ground

 No.24273

>>24268
Only mildly correct for German regarding emphasis, depending on context. In everyday-usage, the emphasis is on institutional aspects.

Correct elsewise.

 No.24280

Is this thing on?

 No.24281

> French vs. German conception of the state.
GOOD-THING I'M=SOVEREIGN LIVE-LIFEBIRTH CITIZEN OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Hegel suck my dick

 No.24285

The plane was cold as shit for some reason. The transfer at Xi’an was long as fuck, but otherwise uneventful. Everything is nice.
My Chinese has been more useful compared to the translator gadget someone else in the group took with them.
Had an insane spat with my father’s soon to be ex-business partner.
Talked with the guide in Chinese. He said that my Chinese name is nice. For a foreigner I guess.
After that dad said he is proud of me. He literally had tears in his eyes I think.

Had hotpot but it was unbelievably hot. But it was nice regardless and honestly it gave me a bit of confidence. Give me a bit of rice, some soup, some meat and I will be fine. Let me wash it off with a bit of tea like Judge Dee.

Internet seems to be working okay-ish.

Kunming is a “mid city” but it’s not really run down or anything. Amazing though how many gadgets these guys have and how many e-scooters are running around transporting the most random shit.

Gonna have to buy some good quality tea and cigarettes. Maybe a book or two…

 No.24286

>>24281
Sheesh, how amateurish. Here is the ID-card of King Peter the first of Germany.

The so-called authorities recently incarcerated Peter I. But since he most certainly has declared his will to return his citizenship and leave the jurisdiction of the federal Republic of Germany, arresting him was a crime, and those who ordered and executed his arrest will without a doubt be sentenced by the proper courts once those are reinstated.

If any of the Germanballs wants to stop paying speeding tickets, he can order the documents from the reichsdruckerei www.deutsche-reichsdruckerei.de.

 No.24287

>>24285
I first read the city's name as "Kumming" and was about to have a laff, but then I properly read and it was not funny anymore.

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 No.24289

>>24288
Really fucking gay. Where is the last name? What is that crest? Why are Reichsbürger such embarrassing retards?

 No.24290

Mid Chinese cities be like: More people live here than in my entire country.

 No.24291

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>>24286
Does he claim to be relative of Wilhelm II or something else?

> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sovereign-citizens-uk-antivaxxers-b1947186.html

> One group recently “seized” Edinburgh Castle. The aim was to return the castle to its “rightful owner” – an unemployed security guard who they believe is King Arthur.

> he can order the documents from the reichsdruckerei www.deutsche-reichsdruckerei.de

We have multiple similar organisations, Supreme Councils of USSR. Since they're busyness rivals, they sentence each other to death penalties for counterrevolutionary activities.
But there are also "living souls", who try to detach themselves from their legal persona.

 No.24293

>>24290
Our major cities have 1-5 million people. I think that qualifies as rural in China.

>e-scooter

tfw these exist and China has them first. The West has fallen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiWQHpEnScg

 No.24294 KONTRA

>>24293
The west needs more diversity! Diversity is strength!

 No.24295

>>24290
Where is the 100 pictures IWO, bring chinese city life on to the EC. Pictures of sights and ancient stuff behind museum Glass is verboten though

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>>24291
> Does he claim to be relative of Wilhelm II or something else?
Not at all. He is a cook from East Germany.

> But there are also "living souls", who try to detach themselves from their legal persona.

That's about the gist of Peter's argument. He claims that he isn't really registered with the authorities as a natural person, but solely as a legal entity. So he could crown himself king.

Of course, we do have nobility trying do away with the Republic. In 2022, the obscure Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuss planned to storm the Reichstag, to establish himself as regent of Germany.

> Since they're busyness rivals, they sentence each other to death penalties for counterrevolutionary activities.

I wish they would do this here. Imagine all the entertaining videos of sessions in kangaroo-courts...
Supreme Judge of The High Court of the German Empire sentencing the High Judge of The German Imperial Supreme Court to death by strangulation would be good for a few laughs.

 No.24298

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Life is about attainting a global maximum and avoiding local maximums.
When people fuck up their lives it is because they put effort into achieving local maximums because they can't see the global maximum

 No.24299

>>24298
More specifically, how to get to the global maximum

 No.24300

I'm a pretty smart person trapped in a retard's brain because I have very poor working memory
I can't repeat back more than 5 letters in the digit span test

 No.24301

>>24300
I can't keep track of what someone is saying in a conversation and can't put enough thoughts in my head at the same time to make use of them. I'll forgot what I was thinking before conjucting it with something else

 No.24302

You have so much potential!!

lol my working memory is around the 20th percentile

 No.24309

The groundhog which lives under my shed has been raising a litter of pups. They have started coming out on their own. For food. Five of them. In another month they'll be independant enough to dig their own dens, but for now the lot of them are extremely skiddish. Turn tail and bolt back into their hole at the slightest movement or sudden noise.

 No.24310

>>24309
Cute. Can you take a picture, or would the location be too telling? Maybe if you zoom in real hard from afar?

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>>24310
Photo taken from a distance with personally identifiable details replaced with a cutting-edge AI generated background.

 No.24312

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>>24311
Awwww!

 No.24314

>>24311
Can't see shit, chief.

 No.24315

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>>24311
>pups

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People seem to understand me relatively well compared to my expectations.
The food is good I think.
I still haven’t spent a single yuan on stuff. After lunch I wanted to buy a can of herbal tea called 老王吉 but when I asked they gave it to me for free.
Sometimes on the mountain roads when people see me they are a bit startled.

My dreams have been nothing but a nightmarish collection of Chinese gibberish for the past two nights.

I have to hold off on buying books rn because the luggage is quite limited from Kunming to Beijing and I will be taking on some of my father’s stuff.
This has been a surprising bonding experience honestly like I am helping him genuinely.
>>24295
I am working on it but data is limited. Plus it’s so foggy in Yunnan right now I have a hard time taking any photos.

 No.24323

>>24322
>posts a picture of a sign prohibiting to eat bats
Das raciss!

 No.24334

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The transmission fluid in my car is low. Checked it twice to be sure. Reading about possible causes. Could be a relatively cheap to fix hose leak, or an expensive Johnson Rod. Either way, the uncertainty is killing me. Dropping it off at the dealership before work this morning. First appointment I could get after the Memorial Day weekend.


>>24322
>Sometimes on the mountain roads when people see me they are a bit startled
Are there many foreigners in the area, outside of your group?

 No.24335

>transmission fluid
what you sent the trainee to fetch once he got wise on blinker fluid, Siemens-air-hooks and file grease.

 No.24336 KONTRA

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I tried using Wechatpay for the first time today and it worked very well.
Got two boxes of cigarettes as a gift to friends.

My stomach is doing okay-ish. Talked a lot more Chinese with the driver today and he gave me some betal nuts to chew and oh boy I wasn’t feeling good for half an hour or so afterwards!
Guy seems to be blissfully unaware of the world outside China. Was surprised to even learn the name of my country and the fact that we don’t chew betal nuts.
But he seems to understand what I am saying so that’s sorta reassuring.

Got stuck at a road. The Chinese love lying about time. They say this will take 2-3 hours and then they solve it in 30 minutes. Otherwise the ride was smooth.

Some people laughed at how bad my Chinese is at the restaurant. And another one just politely giggled, told me “听不懂” and continued giggling.
Visited a local Catholic Church. Couldn’t go inside because the priest wasn’t here.

>>24334
I haven’t seen a single white person outside the group since we left for Kunming. Even then it wad other people at the airport having a layover in Xi’an.

 No.24337 KONTRA

>>24336
>Was surprised to even learn the name of my country
Would you expect the average European cab driver to be aware of the existence of Burundi?

 No.24340

>>24337
The difference in relevance between e.g. Germany and Burundi is certainly higher than between Hungary and Burundi, so trying some gotcha with "european" taxi drivers is a bit silly, isn't it? But it's nice that you are such a cosmopolitan who can instantly point out the shortcomings in the quick, likely unedited and spontaneous musings of a kid seeing the world for the first time.

 No.24341

>>24336
>I tried using Wechatpay for the first time today and it worked very well.
You might run into troubles with it a few times because sometimes the local system is not set to accept wechat linked to a foreign credit card, at least I still had that problem last year.

 No.24342

>>24335
>what you sent the trainee to fetch once he got wise on blinker fluid
They reccomended a bunch of fluid changes, but I declined them all. And, believe it or not, the transmission was fine. Well, the fuild was low, but nothing that needed repairs to remedy. Dealer said my model and year have a known issue with fluid consumption. Just burns it or something. Only solution is to top it off now and then. About a pint every 6 months. Of course I didn't get away scott free. They found other problems. They always do. I just spent a week's pay on two parts I didn't know existed prior to today. Some belt was cracked, and some cover was leaking oil.

>>24337
>Burundi
I'm not going to google that and just assume you made it up.

 No.24343

>>24340
>The difference in relevance between e.g. Germany and Burundi is certainly higher than between Hungary and Burundi
That doesn't take away from the validity of the comparison, but adds to it. Why do you think I should have compared a relevant country to an irrelevant country instead of comparing an irrelevant country to another irrelevant country? Please do not answer, I don't really want to know what you dumb little asshole think.

> so trying some gotcha with "european" taxi drivers is a bit silly, isn't it

I have no idea what you are trying to tell me with the quotation marks. Are they ironic? Lol he said "Europe", what a dipshit?

> But it's nice that you are such a cosmopolitan

> Such a cosmopolitan
Nah, I just frequently deal with uneducated people, like Taxi-drivers and you.

> who can instantly point out the shortcomings in the quick, likely unedited and spontaneous musings of a kid seeing the world for the first time

How arrogant of me. In the future, I will always expect every foreigner everywhere to not only be able to locate "Germany" on a map, but to have heard about the small town I where I live. Like a genuine person, not some wannabe cosmopolitan. It's not like most "Germans" can't even tell "Japan" from "Korea" or "Lithuania" from "Latvia", so I should totally expect "Asian" cabbies to be able to list ~180 nations and their capitals. Otherwise, some idiot on an imageboard will call me names.

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>>24343
lmao are you the schizo or the schizo larper? Your incredibly assmad post sounds a bit like it.

 No.24346

>>24345
> haha meme picture lol schizo xddd
Now, everyone has been "completely" "convinced" that you are not a "retard".

 No.24347

It pays well to stay away from EC. How are the other Germans able to put so much energy into posting? Besides being a national holiday today, are you guys even working at your job or are you just pretending to do so?

 No.24348

>>24347
Thank you for your assessment.
I shitpost on the job, but that of course only works with a certain cranial capacity ;^) Of course I hardly put any thought or care into those posts, and if you do, you're doing it wrong

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>>24347
>How are the other Germans able to put so much energy into posting?
>so much energy
Good one.

>are you guys even working at your job or are you just pretending to do so?

Depends. I'm there to help if shit hits the fan. But if I can afford to slack off, then I do. At work, I'm not aiming for new heights, I just want to keep my head low, so that I don't get into trouble. Basically, I want to make my life as easy as possible. That can also include working hard, in case I think that working hard now will make my life easier later.

 No.24350

If I wasn’t an autistic looser, I would’ve been a merchant. Going around the world and reading XVIth century travel stories

 No.24352

>>24341
Yeah it happened once but we managed to solve it by just having the guide pay and then we sent the money over to him.
Otherwise I could buy a pack of cigarettes at the top of a mountain from some Tibetans while drinking yakmilk tea.

 No.24353

I seem to have found the right combination of medications that makes me feel like I don't have mental problems;
Non-stimulant ADHD medication and mood stabilizers

 No.24359

A friend and his wife recently had their first child and he now wants to tint film to his car windows, so pedophiles can't see the rear seat at traffic lights or in traffic jams. He thinks they will take photos of his infant daughter and share them on the dark web.

He asked me to order it for him online, since he's already paying so much to Klarna each month, because of the stroller, crib, etc. He says he will pay me back from his Christmas bonus. I told him I'm going to think about it. His wife just messaged me and told me that she thinks I am a pedophile, since I never had a gf and don't want them to have their windows tinted to protect their daughter. She says she's going to tell everyone.

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>>24359
This story is so retarded that it must be the truth, can't make that shit up. Also: Are you sure those guys are your friends?
> since he's already paying so much to Klarna each month, because of the stroller, crib, etc
Didn't understand that part, I thought Klarna was a banking service provider, not a loan shark?

 No.24361

>>24360
> Also: Are you sure those guys are your friends?
I've known them for a long time. But now, they are obviously just trying to get free stuff out of me. Still, I think about paying because the wife knows a lot of people. She's in many clubs here.

> Didn't understand that part, I thought Klarna was a banking service provider, not a loan shark?

Klarna offers installment plans. They bought lots of stuff on installments.

 No.24363

>>24361
>Still, I think about paying because the wife knows a lot of people. She's in many clubs here.
Lord have mercy on this fool. Do not negotiate with terrorists, Ernst. i also believe in this story because it's so unreal and I want to believe

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>>24361
You shouldn't allow yourself to be caught on the back foot here, time to start some preventive counter-rumours. Maybe tell people about financial troubles the man wants to keep secret from his wife, and how you were asked to buy them tinted windows, and how the story leaked, and the man tried to cover it up by denouncing you as a pedophile in front of his wife. Show the messages and whatever you have as proof. Also wait for the next toime the kid has an injury (kids always have injuries) and spread rumours of the father bring abusive when drunk.

 No.24366

Why perpetrate this circle of violence and lies?
Just gtfo and don't associate with them anyone.
I, too, believe this story is real, btw, because it just sounds too retarded to not be true.

 No.24368 KONTRA

I told them to get their car tinted when they can afford to do so. I got a message back how disappointed they are, how it's to protect their child, after everything they did for me, etc.

Hope people don't believe her over me, since she's a native and my parents only moved to this village when I was four, so I'm just a newcomer.

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>>24368
Bro, please pay that AMG tuning for my car. I need that to race away from paedophiles more effectively. It's just for the kids, I swear. Bro, why don't you give me the money, can't you for once think of the children? After everything we've done for you, like, for example, threatening you to slander you as a paedo...

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What I am sharing my board with, jeezzzzzz......

 No.24378

Shangrila was very touristy but still nice I guess. It’s essentially a plastic town for the Chinese to LARP as Tibetans.
We took a tour of a monastery. The guide was Tibetan. She held an excellent tour. She was impressed I knew the Buddha’s called Shakyamuni.

Today we are in Baoshan Stone Town which is rural as fuck but it should be fine even of it’s slightly out of my comfort zone.
We are making our way back to Dali. The roads are good.
Saw some old graves and old-style housing on the road.

 No.24380

Checking if I have a Buda-Ball.

 No.24381 KONTRA

>>24380
Re-checking

 No.24382

One more time.gif (298.94 KB, 320x218)


 No.24383

...and a fourth time. Wonder where I'll come out now. Seems that with those chinese firewalls you'll never know where you're routed to.

This seems like a good opportunity to cause some mischief.

 No.24384

>>24383
I just have an esim so everything just works.

 No.24387

>want to buy game merch directly from the devs
>shipping from the US, almost half the price for the products
>would have to pay almost 90 Euros overall
Fucking hell. It's not like I can't afford it, but those shipping costs are really killing me, especially since the merch itself is already pretty expensive.

 No.24389

Don't tell me what your are looking at, Ernst. What do you see? You get me? What do you see?!!

 No.24390

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>>24389
I see a door. Clear as day.

 No.24391

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>>24390
I see a board, the best board on earth!

 No.24392

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Lijiang was pretty if a bit touristy. Shaxi’s the real deal. Saw some beautiful stuff. The whole place has a chill vibe.
Tomorrow we return to Dali. Then I’m off to Beijing.

 No.24394

Visited touristy places in Pest. Crossed Margit Hid, went to Szimpla Kert, visited Goszdu Udvar. Drank a Házmester at the Danube beach on the Buda-Site. It's called Romai Part. Not in that order Had the young female cooks make fun of my pronunciation of 'thank you very much'. My English might be above average among the international staff of a multinational corporation, but it's admittedly insufficient with semi-educated Gen Z. Did not even try to say köszönöm, because that would be worse.

Hungarian is a language only Hungarians could come up with.

Budapest has seemingly been transformed into one big tourist trap, but compared to Berlin, it's a very nice tourist trap, with just a hint of fading K&k charm.

The flora in Hungary is vastly different from Germany. Lots of poppies and mulleins.

There will be an appointment in the hinterland this week, might report if anything of interest happens.

 No.24395

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Had our first actual hot day in a month. Maybe longer. Hit 80°. F. Went for a run. Running in heat requires acclimation. Been too cold for that and my lungs did not appreciate the added exertion my cooling system requires. Dealing with chest constriction and wheezing ever since. Added bonus: my quad also cramped.
Honestly felt OK while I was out there. Problems started when I stopped. Lesson: don't stop.

 No.24396

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Idroscalo, Milan. Drunk and happy

 No.24397

>>24395
Very good. Keep going.
I don't mind running in the heat per se, though 26C is not THAT hot. I've ran in >30C noon sun before.
However, I hate running when it's also humid because I feel like drowning on dry land.

 No.24398

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>>24394
>The flora in Hungary is vastly different from Germany.
Every time I cross a border, I am disappointed when there is no immediate change in landscape or flora, and there are no mammoths and unicorns running around. I was promised a border which divides nations, but all I got is the same shit all over again.

I guess it works better when traveling by airplane.

 No.24401

>>24118
>>24122
I'm even worse in love now after I kissed, sucked nibbled and had sex with her... but she said "I can't have a relationship right, I'm not able of doing that".
I think I will burst out crying as soon as can go somewhere safe to cry, no... I'm already crying right now.

It hurts, hurts a lot, but I had it coming.

 No.24403

>>24397
Turns out it was more than the hest; our air was bad yesterday. Not something I usually pay attention to, but my sister looked after she heard my nagging cough. Ozone levels were over 100. That's when they tell people with shit lungs to reduce outdoor activity. I have shit lungs. Still coughing today. Good thing I had the day off work.

>>24401
At least you tried. Now you know.

 No.24404 KONTRA

>>24403
>hest
Heat.

 No.24405

>>24401
You have to learn the way of the Buddha. Desire is the root of your suffering.

>>24403
> ozone levels
That used to be a thing in the nineties. The public lost interest, so it stopped being a problem. Easy fix.

>>24398
>Every time I cross a border, I am disappointed when there is no immediate change in landscape
Sometimes, there are changes even where there is no border.

 No.24406

Today I learned that the word "datum" exists in the english language, but it is a false friend to the german "Datum".

 No.24407

Pop quiz: What is the first word in the dictionary for your language? And the last?

 No.24408

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>>24407
I tried to find out, but the first few links of online dictionaries only have search fields, no ordered list of entries. Curse you, you played me like a fool!

 No.24409

By the way, what is THE prime authority on english words, anyway?
For German there's the Duden, and that's it, but for english? Oxford? Merriam-Webster? Something else?

 No.24410

>>24409
Probably, in USA and Commonwealth authorities are different. "labor vs labour"

 No.24411

>>24410
Those are just different spellings of the same word though.

 No.24412

>>24407
https://sinonim.org/t/%D0%B0%D0%B0%D0%B0
Aaa - expresses indignation, gloating, threat or irony
https://sinonim.org/t/%D1%8F%D1%89%D1%83%D1%80
Yashur - (veterinary term) acute infectious disease of cattle and domestic animals

 No.24413

>>24411
"Labor" is American spelling and "Labour" British
Also you have "lift" vs "elevator" and so on.

 No.24414

>>24413
>"Labor" is American spelling and "Labour" British
Yes, that's what I said.

 No.24415

It was a pop quiz. Not ‘google the right answer’

 No.24416

>>24415
Now I have to google the meaning of "pop quiz".

 No.24417

>>24415
Pop quizzes are virtually unknown outside the US.

 No.24418

The best ones I could think of would be:

Aal: Eel
Zyste: Cyst

 No.24419 KONTRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHSeIK6tmfg

Wow, in motion and sound this is even worse than OP's picture. Imagine what kind of life one must have led and how the parents failed their kid to find this kind of stuff.

Kontra'ing because it's the only thing I can do.

 No.24420

>>24419
I am more shocked that, after googling "Balenciaga", I found out that there exists at least one Ernst, who voluntarily watched a commercial by a fashion brand.

 No.24421

>>24419
> Imagine what kind of life one must have led
You tell us, you're his compatriot and more informed about the context.
I only know that he used be paid 1500 euros per month for negative essays about "tech bros". And also someone said that he used to be PUA chud before switching to leftism.

 No.24422

>>24421
Wait, who are you? I thought dutchball was also german?

 No.24423

>>24422
I am he as you are he as you are me
as we are all together

I am the egg man
They are the egg man
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob

 No.24424

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>>24421
I cannot verify any of this EC lore. But I can tell you I earn considerably more working for capitalists while reading books by MG and having gf.

 No.24425


 No.24426

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>>24405
They saved the ozone layer, but at what cost?

>>24415
Aardvark? and...something with a Z.

>>24425
Baby. Why dirty a glass if a bottle is perfectly functional?

 No.24427 KONTRA

>>24419
What did I just watch?

 No.24428

>>24424
Video meliora proboque; deteriora sequor

 No.24433

What are your Plans for the weekend? I will watch high fashion artmmercials and go to an smokers and black clothing only bar.

 No.24435

I totally forgot the joy of discovering new music, although in my case it was not discovering entirely new music, but actually listening through a whole album by a band I only knew a handful of songs.
When I was a teenager and filesharing really took off an entire new world opened for me. Of course today I can afford to buy a CD whenever I want, but so many concerts, merch and music that I would have never gotten my hands on, had I not listened to shitty 128kbps rips with missing or mislabeled tracks in my formative years.



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