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.24023
>>24022> the worst OP picture for a Today thread in the history of Today threadsAnd /int/ has a long history of Today threads. Also:
/int/ - tremendously unpleasing to look at
/int/ - more random than others
No.24024
>>24022It 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 peopleSeek help
No.24028 KONTRA
>>24026Not 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-2023-11I 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
>>24031I drank 400mg today and I'm literally yawning right now.
No.24036
>>24033Coffee 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
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.
>>24022I'm glad I'm appreciating this imageboard with graphics blocked. I can only imagine.
No.24060
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 picturesLiving life rather than documenting it for later consumption. Cool.
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.24077
>>24076I'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 itI'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.24083
>>24078Hold 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
>>240865 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.24094
>>24093Yes. People must know about my troubles.
t. posting from wörk
No.24095
>>24094Everybody is posting from work
No.24102
>>24101I 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
>>24087Yeah, 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.
No.24118
>>24073>>24073I'm in love. I'm an idiot. I know how it ends.
No.24122
>>24120I 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
>>24121what is it with cyclists randomly crashing into cars?
No.24124
>>24121I'd respond with a video of car drivers doing stupid things, but there are none. I checked the whole internet.
>>24122>explosive loveSay 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
>>24123They are extremely stupid. Otherwise, they wouldn't be cyclists.
No.24126
>>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> recommendationsDon'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 2Euclidian values on proud display.
No.24134 KONTRA
>>24133> I tried not to stareTried. 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
>>24135I 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.
>>24141This. Law-abiding citizens have no need to be afraid of the police.
No.24156
>>24141"States" and "companies" are just different tools of the same upper class.
>state has nothing to do with itStates' 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 classWrong. The state is wanted by all classes.
I will refrain from talking about companies.