No.7654 KONTRA
Today I replaced the CPU in the PC with the 20 buck one I bought. It's overclocked and has 4 more cores.
Actually fucked up bad during the installation because I accidentally removed the fucking socket holder for the CPU so I had to re-install the entire motherboard and also re-do all the wiring. I lost a screw, and I spend like 20 minutes looking for it borderline screaming but it was under a remote for some fucking reason.
So anyway, I installed it and I was very proud of myself that I achieved something practical without ruining something already existing.
I baked the remaining pizza dough and used the leftover sauce for lunch. I assembled my outfit for the little poetry translation event and I went into the city.
I felt quite good. I looked good, I was happy.
So of course I won fucking jack in this competition too. And my version wasn't even selected to be in the 16 poem anthology. It shouldn't hurt but I'm fucking mad that it's the third thing in a row where I fucking failed to achieve anything.
The head of the judges was some contemporary poet dickhead who basically had nothing good to say about anything, he just read out bad examples from the submitted works and said that the education system is in shambles and things were so much better when he studied poetry at university.
Funny thing is, none of the four winners showed up for the award ceremony. None. I'm sure one of you will tell me "Oh what if they live in the countryside and can't make it". Fuck you. They can make it. It's like fucking 5 bucks to buy a one month ticket and then take the train for three hours to Budapest.
At least send a fucking e-mail that due to whatever fucking reason they can't be there.
On the way home I bought a bottle of ginger ale and mixed it with vodka at home. Seriously fuck everything. I should devote my time to more practical matters instead of the retardation that it modern art.
Eating the last slice of leftover pizza.
>>7652Here it's called "Old hag summer". It saved my pepper plants.
Though I don't remember it ever lasting more than a week, but it's been like two weeks now.
No.7656
>>7655Vat ar yu referencing?
No.7657 KONTRA
>>7656This:
>>7648I read that post and the thought of German bioelectricity would not leave my mind.
No.7658
Did wrote down the structure and abstract of my MA for the PhD application.
Now what's left is telling them how my ideas for continuing fit into their project. The biggest hurdle since I expect that my ideas hardly fit anyway. Either my twist on their topic is great or it's just the worst shoehorning ever. Whatever, cannot let this chance slip. But I need to expect a rejection.
Still have to finish the last part of the last chapter where everything clicks together, the argument is already laid out in the application :DD
>>7654>Funny thing is, none of the four winners showed up for the award ceremony. None.You take this shit too seriously, these winners apparently have better things to do than attend this kind of event. When I attended the ceremony for my scholarship I used it as observational possbility and couldn't wait to fuck of from this bubble of young BA students from economics, law, stem, and the occasional humanities student in an atmosphere of self-congratulation and "networking".
then again I really liked the academic conference thingy thoughYou attend when you
know you won something perhaps. It's not the Oscars.
Not commenting on the cope though, hope you can laugh about it in the future. Failure is part of the process, private.
Just think of the chairman and that your sky will be red one day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNpRbNdR7E** shits just puts me in good mood ... nanana tong tonge
na na na Mao Zedonge.**
No.7659
>>7658Man, I enjoy how propaganda music from another century easily turns into a tool for mood-hacking.
If Ernst has more of this style of happy future that looks bright/progress, share it!
No.7660
>>7657In case that helps: I never think about being the best at anything. I can't fool myself that hard.
No.7663
>>7658>and "networking"Funny, since that is the chief reason to attend such events in the first place. Helps with applications, too :^)
No.7664
>>7663Not when you are from the humanities. At this event, networking was for economics, law and engineering. Do I have to mention that most people were law/economics?
I networked at my university by talking to professors/lecturers and working for them. I would not know of this position to apply without people forwarding it to me I guess.
No.7665
>>7662>guternstNah, I just hate myself. For good reasons.
No.7666 KONTRA
>>7658I might just give a testament to my naivité but the whole contest was anonymous. You had a codeword and the judges didn't know your name, only your codeword and the text you submitted.
Anyway, another cope I came up with is that the poetfag explicitely mentioned that he disliked the versions that "sounded like Endre Ady's poetry", and mine did. But then again, you have a guy who majored in Slavistik critique a translation of a Greek poem by a Sinologist. Realistically speaking we should have never met, and we will probably never meet again.
(I basically walked out from the "Sinologist translator" garden where the bushes aren't so thorny into the "Real world" and got my shit kicked in. Completely normal stuff.)
I just want one thing to succeed. It's so fucking gay how most of the stuff in life is up to luck and manipulation, and even if you manipulate it, the outcome isn't sure.
Red Sun in the Sky is overplayed.
This one is much better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA6TqXairZ0Just listen to that fucking orchestration, a real fucking banger.
No.7668
>>7666>I just want one thing to succeed.Merit is not simply objective. It's a worn-out coaching phrase but consistency is important and you should just continue what you do in general. These events are part of a series of experiences and they let you learn. Which is daunting but eventually becomes useful in retrospect. Stay consistent, try different things, or change things up if it seems like a dead end.
Sitting at my MA and writing the application I noticed how my writing changed over the years. It's gotten better. Surely, it's not as good as what I like to read myself but it's less convoluted, often more precise and more lively. The tone is a bit more nonchalant without sacrificing terminology or academic structuring and seriousness
I clearly have role models in this kind of writing history, people I enjoyed reading myself. It just took some time (years), and consistency pays out once it is paired with opportunities which are also luck, but not always. You can actively seek out opportunities and chances.
>Red Sun in the Sky is overplayed.It will never be boring though.
But thanks for the link, this post-1980 ( I guess) communist Chinese music rocks, right into the veines of the entrepreneurial self to tackle a new day of tasks :DDD They definitely used late 1970s/1980s gear to produce this, I know the clap sample, the drums sound so 80s. I sit from the 1990s though? I read Read Sky was published in 1992.
No.7669
>>7664>Do I have to mention that most people were law/economics?Eh, there are enough philosophers meddling in the economics.
You most likely can already talk better than them and knowing anything about the subject at hand isn't required.
No.7670 KONTRA
Tired of being tired
No.7671
https://oec.world/en/tradle/This whole ass milky country got me confused but I eventually managed and once it dawned on me what is close to the last one I entered it was obvious.
now I think of lamb chops and that I'm hungry No.7672 KONTRA
>>7668I think I'm just used to this sort of video-game like thinking where I know every variable and can predict everything with a 99% certainty. And well, not knowing every variable frustrates me. The blackbox of life is making me fall into despair.
No.7675
Red Sun in the Sky looped for the last three hours and I'm afraid of turning it off now :DDD (I'm serious in a sense).
>>7672>can predict everything with a 99% certaintyI can't help but think of tips feodora that think orchestrating the sheeple is a breeze of a task.
This thinking makes you prone to ugly surprises. But as I might soon find out this is normal
I haven't started Andy Clark yet, last chance to make up a reading circle, Ernsts!. Wrong predictions is something I experience a lot. Predictions AND expectations are fuckers of a special kind.
No.7676
>>7669Not sure how big the demand is for philosophers at mittelständische Unternehmen, which poured 50% of the money. I know humanists find jobs at Google and such
becoming engineers worst nightmare in management and communications. One other prospect of learning programming and being not the wiz kid later on but the one who can talk to customers while having an idea of what the wiz kids actually did or should do No.7679
>>7672Oh stop being so overly dramatic, you drama queen.
No.7682
>>7675>I'm afraid of turning it off nowThe worries were justified. Once the trumpets of a better tomorrow went silent and I returned to the thesis I quickly realized my thoughts need a lot of more work which I might not be able to pull in the time left. Might be panic-induced nonsense but of course I realize what I discovered could go much much deeper and needs much more literature and sources, the thoughts I develop seem not uninteresting, I think my perspective might be even be novel
a lot of work prior has been done that I might have combined in a novel way that is but it is still simply underdeveloped when I compare it to what I admire or at least think is solid work. I keep the argument I made for the application but I really have to return to the literature to make it clear to myself and the audience, the structure is clearly missing. I still think I'm onto something that does not exist in this form but partly it has exists all over the literature in a way.
I thought maybe I should try to finish the application by projecting my thesis into the future of the PhD project instead for today. While going over the job description for the x-th time I realized that their object might actually be very tight. If their object range is actually that narrow I cannot deliver, since none of the objects in particular interest me. One object is overly broad so maybe it is that, but now it dawns on me that I actually might have zero to contribute to the research intention if they really have a laser-sharp focus. I know that sometimes projects are articulated in a way that allows for a broad range of research but this one allows a broad range but seems to be focused on certain objects that I don't really care about nonetheless. Fuck, I wonder if I should continue, but of course I should. I could send an email and ask if it is futile or just get the sketch done and hand it all in and be surprised or get validated in my current feelings and thoughts.
No.7683 KONTRA
>>7679Rude. He's not being a drama queen - he is anime main protagonist.
>And well, not knowing every variable frustrates me. No.7684
>>7683>He's not being a drama queen - he is anime main protagonist.The difference being?
No.7685
>>7682What lessons did you use to study J*vascript?
I wanna make some visualization and hope that I won't have to dive too deep in it No.7686
>>7685I did not venture far enough (just had the basics like alert/conditionals/loops/functions/methods). I started learning html and css lately but it's been placed on hold for 2-3 weeks now since I have to concentrate on the thesis again.
No.7687
>>7686OK. So what sources did you use?
No.7688
>>7687You don't wanna know. It's baby tier for absolute beginners.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19319366-a-smarter-way-to-learn-javascriptthe exercises are available online, book can be found on libgen
For html/css I used freecodecamp courses, not bad, The instructions/steps are sometimes not well explained for absolute beginners I'd prefer step by step, and sometimes had the feeling I need to infer stuff and guess in the end.
No.7689 KONTRA
idea for a one strip comic:
a buddhist monk is assaulting another man, by hitting him in the face
the speech bubble says: "why are you hitting yourself, Dave?"
caption at the bottom:
"Upon hearing this, Dave was enlightened"
No.7691
>>7689Make it with setting the man on fire.
Would work on many more levels.
No.7692 KONTRA
>This is the second time Agent J and Agent K fight the main antagonist during the night-time, following from the previous film Men in Black (1997).
>T and J question the flower/giant worm (Jeff) in the beginning of the movie. Patrick Warburton later goes by the name Jeff in the television show Rules of Engagement (2007).
imdb trivia can sometimes be very informative and interesting, and sometimes you just know someone just NEEDED to get an entry in, no matter what.
No.7696 KONTRA
>>7693Then try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avuiK5FWBTI>>7694It’s literally just a collection of quotes from his articles, arranged into different sections based on theme.
Actually it’s remarkably traditional in a sense that they made something like this even though it’s the symbol of the fucking “cultural revolution”.
It was translated by the Chinese themselves into a bunch of languages and they kept handing them out from their embassies in Eastern Europe even after the Sino-Soviet split. (Though the unofficial ideological ban made it considerably rarer in Eastern Europe. I’ve hunted ages for a Hungarian copy before one turned up.)
If you read some of his actual speeches and conversations then you will find that Mao can be shockingly funny because past a certain point he’d just say shit like “So one of your friends isn’t going to struggle sessions, reads under the table during class and keeps returning after ten in the evening? That’s good. Tell him to keep skipping the struggle session, and to abandon classes alltogether in favour of reading. Also tell him to come back even later to the dorms.”
Or that infamous event where he tried to talk to the Campuchean delegation in English.
So yeah, read the red book but as with any canon he said so much random shit that you can basically prove anything using Mao. I think that’s why there isn’t an official complete works out in Chinese to this day. Very legalist if you ask me.
No.7697
>>7696>he said so much random shit that you can basically prove anything using MaoTucholsky said something similar with regards to Nietzsche.
No.7698 KONTRA
>>7697I’m sure it’s true for Nietzsche too.
Basically it’s true for any sufficiently large corpus.
That’s why working knowledge of a canon and the power to include and exclude things in and from it are so important.
In Mao’s case this got to the point where the Left-wing and the Pragmatist-wing of the party were racing to find Mao-quotes to back up their programmes and were actively fighting to be able to edit the 4th and 5th volumes of Mao’s selected works to influence what parts of Mao Zedong Thought are commonly available to the population.
No.7699
>>7698>Basically it’s true for any sufficiently large corpusSomehow but in the case of Nietzsche and Mao it might also be the style. Afaik Chinese language is poetic or picturesque in a sense? Nietzsche wrote aphorisms and was also making use of picturesque language which can wrap truths an easy to understand fashion (which might be less complex though)
>>7696>Try thisI want to exclusively listen to Chinese propaganda songs or other foreign language songs that have synths and home keyboard drums (so probably post-1980-1990s). Those (probably synthetic) trumpets are straight ️🔥️🔥️🔥
Do you know how to get my hands on this era's propaganda songs? There must have been compilations on vinyl. How was music listened to in 1980s and 1990s China anyway? They probably did not have CDs and cassettes readily available.
No.7700
>>7699I think vinyl and casettes were common enough. At least by the 80s.
Common enough that during the last hardline flare-up they made posters warning people about bourgeoisie subversion in culture flooding in from the outside world.
“Eliminate the vandguard of spiritual contamination!”
I assume the Chinese themselves probably have it up online somewhere either on their video sharing websites or as a download or in an archive of some sorts.
“Chairman Mao’s Radiance” was on a casette titled “We miss you, Mao Zedong!” for example. its box-art is the video’s image. The channel has the other songs from the casette, such as “Golden mountains of Beijing” and “I love Beijing Tiananmen”.
Speaking of I love Beijing Tiananmen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJmjljQP3oYHere’s this banger. This was the version they used for that 5 second loop in that shitty Hong Kong ‘97 NES game some Jap made as a joke.
No.7701 KONTRA
>>7699The smartass talking about truth again, which he claims to have found in Nietzsche.
Your formulation rejects concurrent truths! The singular form 'truth' is paradoxic. 'Truth' does not exist, only competing narratives!
No.7702
>>7701Just like Nietzsche said!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism#Nietzschenot sure if it is narratives though No.7703
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Ytv8CikWYI laugh when I think about this as the opener for a TV show. Peasants waving, youth marching, sun setting. It seems a bit melancholic while exploding with joy. I think of grey western cities and people getting headphones put on and suddenly transforming via trashy CGI effect (their motion freezes and the cgi does its magic before the real world continues) into uniformed peasants.
A tomb of modernity.
No.7706
I see the sun but where's the shit?
No.7707
They sound like silly children songs. Due to high pitched music and Chinese language. And something else in melodies. Still pretty good but probably not in a way which originally intended.
-100 social credits
No.7708
>>7702I'd say 'perspective' and 'narrative' are pertty interchangeable. Unless specifically defined for a given context, of course.
No.7709 KONTRA
Remind tourists how their travel and airBnB rental choices drive up the cost of living for us poor natives. They will buy you drinks if you say that'll atone for their sins. I'm more concerned about the state of my liver after unlocking this forbidden knowledge.
No.7710 KONTRA
>>7709Just some back of my hand math now that my brain is functional again, if we take last night's success, assume it is replicable to get ~3 drinks at 7-8€ each and assume that there are 4 weekends in a month, I can get a tenth of my rent refunded in alcohol. It isn't worth it, what with alcohol damage and whatnot, but when life gives you tourists who want to be "sustainable", you take the booze.
No.7711
>>7709I wouldn't do that if you met me, but I fully support your endeavour.
No.7712
>>7707>high pitched = childrenWesternized degeneracy
Just as I came back from the library listening and awaiting to cook lunch I was thinking this is like what Germans call Schlager music: an old people and drunks/rural wedding favorite clapping joyfully to a catchy forward-riven rhythm.
Can't get enough, I thought about the phone in my hand, god speed workers of China.
No.7714
>>7708Not every perspective is a narrative, but maybe every narrative is a perspective. (I studied literature for this)
One could go into why this is technically right from a literary standpoint, though. Telling a story involves making choices that imply a particular perspective in the sense of angle No.7715
>>7714Then my question would be: Can there be perspetives without viewers?
I would argue that any perspective a viewer has is automatically a narrative because in our heads everything becomes a story.
(I'm obviously assuming human viewers at this point, though; if you take into account abstract viewers or different intelligences my argument would be void)
The argument then goes like this: Since stories are the primitive with which we encode memories, the moment any information has gone through the process of memory coding, it's become a story. Thus any perspective evaluated or taken on by a human is in the form of a story, thus a narrative.
If we consider perspectives without viewers, then there absolutely has to be a difference between narrative and perspective, though.
Just to be clear: This is purely my take on things and I don't claim certainty or any sort of authority in the field. I wouldn't even know what branch of philosophy I'm violating here. Epistemology?
No.7716
Dear Chairman Mod Zedong,
when will this board reveil its political stance and take on its historical role as the first imageboard with Chinese characteristics? It is undeniably so. A chinese native, a German enrolled in China Studies, a Hungarian enrolled in China Studies, a monobrow southerner that enrolled in Chinese language and a media studies student who uses Chinese propaganda as medium for mood enhancement. The signs are undeniably there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Ytv8CikWYThis music lets everything glow with harmony and hope, the early autumn sun envelopes life in a golden hue, and children frolic in the park, elderly slowly move on the path, a smile on their faces. Throw yourself in the ocean that is life, Ernst, become history!
>>7715Perspectivism is a stance on how we know things, so yes, epistemology.
>because in our heads everything becomes a story.One could argue that everybody has a certain perspective and putting these together forms a story but this is not a necessity. Being a female in this society makes for a certain perspective on things but that is only the potential for a narrative. A narrative is a sequence, a perspective is not a sequence. You can cobble together perspectives in a sequence to render a story. Or perspectives allow to line up a sequence in a certain way, a bit like coloring.
No.7717
>>7716>A narrative is a sequence, a perspective is not a sequence.Good point, perspectives have no temporal component. I yield, perspectives and narratives are reasonably distinct. I learned something, thanks Ernst <3
No.7718
Drove in to work on my day-off because last night I accidentality left with a security badge we use for visitors still in my pocket. The dude handed me the badge after departing and I meant to drop it off with security but forgot. In all likelihood, no one would notice if I just kept it at home for a couple of days, but I didn't want that task sitting on my mind. Feel better knowing it's done. I Already have enough things on my 'gotta do that' list at home. Fix a cabinet door. Hang a shelf. Clean...everything. The yard...
Yeah, this one was easy. Now I'll continue procrastinating the other stuff. Except the yard. Need to do that. Neighbors will get mad. Well, madder.
No.7719
>>7649>Women clothed in Sun and shitI would buy a record with that name
No.7721 KONTRA
I did a lot of cleaning during the past two or so days. Finally entered most of the books into my catalogue, though I put off entering the Chinese language ones because the system I chose for them is a pain in the ass to do. I also gifted away three books I had two copies of. Basically I just posted a picture of the stack in the uni facebook group and asked who wants any of them as a freebie and they were taken within 20 minutes.
Disseminating hardcore Russian propaganda like Dostoevsky and Akhmatova.
Had the outlet behind my desk fixed. I helped my father with it. Some of the grounding was loose and that's why metal stuff kept shocking me.
Apparently while I was out on that ill-fated ceremony my mother and father did a sweep of the basement. Lot of trash was thrown out. On the shelf I found an old phone. The battery in it was swollen so I took it out and tried turning it on with a new battery after cleaning it. (It was an old-ish nokia).
It turned on but the screen was fucked because the battery expanding inwards broke it before the pressure was relieved by popping off the back case.
Kinda sad but oh well.
I'm neglecting my duties so hard I feel like. Okay I read the articles I had to for tomorrow but I gotta do some more Chinese stuff or my ass is toast.
>>7699>Afaik Chinese language is poetic or picturesque in a sense?That's a very complex question. It's "picturesque" because you are literally writing ideograms and hieroglyphs and it's used in puns and association.
I think with Chinese, it's more about how due to the grammatical quirks it's a very high context language, and the isolating nature and the conservative writing system therefore lends itself well to a very high level of intertextuality.
It's basically a race to making obscure, subtle memes on multiple layers so that you can critique your opponent or superior without getting fucked in the ass as a result.
Mao's language is also full of allusions to "old culture". Though he himself has also made up a bunch of new quotes and sayings that live on to this day as a part of the language and they are no better or worse than the ones from a thousand or two thousand years ago.
Really, in a lot of cases they are indistinguishable from actual, old-style chengyus.
Like I remember checking the 4 character idioms in my textbook from the 2000s and most of them are actually from Mao or were popularised by Mao.
I've not read much of Mao, but I don't feel like he was aphoristic or in any sense esoteric like Nietzsche was. (Which obviously contributed to him becoming the strongest autism magnet from the 19th century, save for maybe Marx.)
Mao's writings are important because it was Mao who wrote them. And Mao wasn't important because he wrote a lot of theory.
Ultimately we remember him because he is a borderline legendary historical figure who only feels even remotely human because he lived so close to us in time. Mao the historical figure is a billion times more powerful and influential than Mao the Marxist theorist.
No.7722
omnious home keyboard brass playing
dà hǎi háng xíng kào duò shǒuwàn wù shēng cháng kào tai yáng>>7720Oh, don't feel too safe. I know there is another German still ;;;;))) but did not know how to shortly describe you.
Anyway, props for the Dath picture. I tried reading his Book with Kirchberger thinking it would be a lighter read but instead their writing is like reading a MG/GSP article kinda, not very readable and articulated. Like it is mandatory to use long sentences with lots of Einschüben and shit.
guilty of it myself when writing, I usually try to cut it down, though No.7723 KONTRA
Ernst there must be more folkloristic Chinese music that good a flashy post 1980s update by getting a forward-driven plastic drum computer beat and synth lines and classical instrument (samples?) with a voice singing over it. However, I fathom the propaganda is like the icing on the cake when it comes to being a mood booster due to creating a hopeful look into the future. This is just so good in its composition, catchy af.
No.7725
>>7722>their writing is like reading a MG/GSP article kinda, not very readable and articulatedHaven't read that exact work, but it's kinda funny you compare it to MG/GSP, because while I agree that both are not exactly readable, I would argue that MG/GSP is very precise in wording but loaden with Karl Held 70's vocabulary and stylistic attempts to reproduce Marx, whereas Dath to me has his own style which always seems a little sloppy, messy even - in a stream of consciousness way. It appears he doesn't really craft his sentences after he has written them down, not fully turning them into "real" prose - probably because he is simultaniously watching an anime and a BBC documentary on ancient archery while writing.
I actually picked his photo because he is writing on a book about Deng Xiaoping, which he considers so important that he prefers to work on other books instead because it's not coming along that easy. No.7726
>>7723If you're fine with North Korean revisionism you should go for Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1guuFLVVgiw No.7727
>>7725>I would argue that MG/GSP is very precise in wording but loaden with Karl Held 70's vocabulary and stylistic attempts to reproduce MarxPretty much what I meant. MG/GSP is not unstructured or incomprehensible just the style that makes it hard to read because it is mostly unfamiliar. Let's see, I've read pieces of Marx but I will attend a reading circle soon.
Maybe I thought the Dath/Kirchberger book would be an introduction but it is not really, I mean structurally it is but the style and jokes make it not very accessible. I guess it's a good book when you are more familiar with the matter. For me it was quite clear that it is a good book but I'm better off getting basic knowledge elsewhere, presented more clearly.
>>7726We're getting closer but too few trumpets and little marching forward workers chant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaEdJPceuggThis type of beats and dusty sounds, but the texts of course are terrible when you speak the language. Also, more workers chant-ability is needed
No.7729
>>7728As I mentioned things like this lack the marching forward energy. Sailing the Sea has a distinct groove that is like the backbone for the excellent rest. Kickdrum on every beat, an offbeat hihat/hit, snare on every second for clapping, and an up and down motion in the bass I think alternating every beat (left foot right foor -> march) now layer this with synth sounds from the 1980s and it's perfect. Making it uplifting and funny though it's aged sound makes it a bit trashy to smile some more over this fact that this was actually produced for a certain audience/goal. You know it's like "10 classic children songs TECHNO edition" but in the case of propaganda the orchestra is substituted with "new" music technology from the 1980s, very modern.
No.7730
>>7729I did produce music in the past and I have a heart for post-1980s gear and sounds and some knowledge on it, this probably adds to the enjoyment of the song, I just like the sounds.
No.7735
>>7734>(he ofc wants to go to the US).Did he give reasons why?
>Oh, and I also signed up for the film and billiards clubs, so will try to join those activities.Good idea.
>it's actually freezing or having other issues from all these bloated appsWill you buy a new one? I remember these apps also as looking bloated but I did not so much of it anyway so far.
No.7736
>>7735>Did he give reasons why?You mean apart from getting out of that shithole and getting a better education?
No.7737
Set up a new modem and router; cancelled a doctor appointment I had no intention of attending; went to the gym; mowed the lawn. Productive day.
>>7732Oscar™ gold.
No.7738
>>7736I was waiting for a more refined answer. I thought the US is on its way to becoming a third turd shithole itself.
No.7739
>>7738> I thought the US is on its way to becoming a third turd shithole itself.Just on its way?
Nevertheless, going from China to the US is a big upgrade, and the nominally best universities are still located there.
No.7740 KONTRA
Depression update: I’ve been happy the whole last two weeks. I may make it.
No.7742 KONTRA
I finished translating the remaining four lines of the Classical Chinese homework I forgot about and also did half of the modern homework.
There was this one part in the classical text that infuriated me. I’m not sure what exactly happened but to me it seemed like a modernism inserted into the text, and there was a (Verb-Object) type verb that got parted halfway through by the actual object of the sentence. Gotta ask what the fuck was going on there next seminar.
They finally finished the stipend calculations so I know I’ll be getting good money again for a few months. I wasn’t feeling any profound happyness from this for some reason.
Like okay it’s there, but recently I feel like I have a hard time to be both devastated and elated by things.
I get mad and butthurt and stuff but I don’t feel like I have this ability to be emotionally mobilised as much since that catharsis I had. (Though I’ve been craving that feeling of catharsis ever since.)
Had a single workshop class today. It’s the seminar on burial rituals and transitioning rites.
Assyriologists are great. Our lecturer just came back from a dig in Iraq and he told us this story about how they wouldn’t let him out because the Iraqis thought he was a Kurd for some reason, only for them to think he was Turkish when they failed to communicate in Kurdish.
Anyway, we didn’t really do any actual burial-related talking this seminar. We just all introduced ourselves as a way for the lecturer to gauge how communicative and competent we are, plus to see how far away from the selected topic for this semester’s workshop seminar.
I haven’t been taking iron for like a week now because I keep forgetting to go to the store, and I noticed my right hand getting cold again.
No.7749
Sore throat, several meetings today, had to talk the whole time.
Shit sucks, I don't want to be struck down by a cold right before a long weekend.
No.7750
>>7749One is under the impression you work in a social facility or education with all these colds you are catching.
At least there is one German that seems to catch a cold quite often.
No.7751
>>7750This is my first cold for this year.
Normally I get it around late spring/early summer, but it seems like it's shifting towards autumn. In ten years I will probably be right within the flu period.
No.7776 KONTRA
Was up Norf with some friends and gf. Nice place and had a good time.
>>7652No Indian summer here, but had some warm days here and there, always followed by rain. Or snow in the North.
To make up for the usual G*rman shortcomings when it comes to posting, the previous today threda is here:
>>7182 No.7778 KONTRA
I think today was mostly fine. The modern class went well enough, I didn't fuck up anything and I knew the grammar. The previous test I wrote turned out to be an A for the vocabulary part and a C for the translation part, because I used 视 instead of 见 in the sentence.
Afterwards I picked up the ram I ordered for the PC. Turns out this is a "legacy component", but it works for my machine perfectly. (I installed it after classes.)
Then I had Classical Chinese class. I didn't really any grave errors in the translation of the text about Tibet. Though since the lecturer is a Tibetologist, we wasted a considerable amount of time talking about Tibet, to the point where we made a 20 minute digression to talk about the relationship of the Tibetan and the Devanagari writing system.
Honestly I didn't feel like I was critiqued harshly enough. Like I was expecting to be told off because I didn't follow the text "too closely". It's a bad habit that I sometimes care about the quality of the prose so much that I don't make a literal translation.
I read an email about another possible stipend. This one is more like an internship. You apply and if you're accepted you become a paid intern at a ministry for 7 months, and then spend 3 more months abroad training. At the end of the internship you get a position at one of the ministries.
Sounds like a sweet deal and I honestly already began envisioning myself as a successful civil servant, wearing a suit and a tie, writing reports and managing a department.
Of course that'd mean giving up on doing a Master's degree.
I talked with my mother about this and somehow I actually ended up telling her about all the bullshit I hate about going to university and our department and I think she was shocked how much I hold back in everyday life.
She asked me "But what do YOU want Ernst?" and I just said not to expect any reasonable response to this because at this point what I want is to tell everyone to fuck off and to become a basement dweller until the day I die.
I honestly feel like this idea that you have sacks of trauma inside your body you milk out regularly is such bullshit. I was perfectly fine not recalling most of these woes and issues I have with the world all at once, but now that I did "half the healing" by "talking about it" as my mother put it, I just feel madder than I have ever been and I honestly almost had another retarded breakdown on the way to my last class.
The German class really helped. Just talking about random shit with people. Afterwards we spent like 20 minutes at the Philosophy Workshop's library looking for a copy of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in German on a bunch of categorized shelves. It's the nachlass of a philosophy professor. He had a lot of Marxist shit because supposedly he was a hardcore communist. (Despite being a Reichstipendiat in the 40s.)
I found two volumes of Mao's writings, and the funny thing is that I think I said it before, but those were for internal party consumption only, so they were also numbered to keep track of them. The 235th copy was actually his.
Also saw a volume of Stalin's writings and he fucking clipped a picture of Stalin from Pravda and glued it into the front of the volume as an ornament.
No.7780
>>7778>I hate about going to university and our departmentYou are not a real academic if you don't hate something about the institutional realm,
No.7781
>>7776Looks pretty cozy. Can't wait to be done with Uni and make some more monies so I can finally make a trip to Finland.
No.7784
Sore throat mostly gone, but that's just the next stage: Mucus everywhere. Usually it's lungs first and then sinuses, though I don't feel the cough yet, but my nose is slightly runny.
I am such a great worker, getting sick right before the long weekend so I can recover during my free time and then go work again. I deserve a raise for this.
No.7785
>>7784Sore throat and eyes here, now. Since two weeks or so it felt like a have a slight cold, but sometimes I didn't notice anything at all. Yesterday I felt well and tried some sports without any noticable impairment, but today I feel worse. You know that feeling when you have a cold and it feels like you've been hit by a truck? That's what I feel right now, only that it was kind of a small truck, and just a moderate hit.
No.7786
I just learned that a casket and a coffin are not the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ytcg5pYEA&t=4s No.7787
>>7786I just beat this guy by one second with my post. That's enough success for today, for the rest of the workday I'll slack off really hard now!
I set my goals really low, so it's hard to miss them.
No.7789
Stepped outside early this morning to put garbage on the street for pickup. Saw Venus low on the horizon. Was suddenly reminded how I used to see that every day. Walking and/or running before sunrise. Not sure how I found the motivation to get out the door so soon after waking. Now I putter about for an hour or two before the day really gets going.
No.7791
Just did the maths on what I still have to do this year-
Nominally I still have 60 man-days to process. This means I could just do it until mid-december.
No.7792
>>7789>Stepped outside early this morning to put garbage on the street for pickup.I just imagined you getting up early to litter in front of your house so other folks could pick it up later on kek
No.7793
>The Russo-Khivan War of 1839–1840 was a failed Russian attempt to conquer the Khanate of Khiva. Vasily Perovsky set out from Orenburg with 5,000 men, met an unusually cold winter, lost most of his camels, and was forced to turn back after going halfway.
No.7796 KONTRA
>>7781It sure was cozy. If you end up visiting Finland some day, I would recommend renting a lakeside cabin for a week or more. Or getting a local friend. Many own a cabin or at least have a family-owned summer place which you could probably visit for no cost.
T. Sneaky fuck Finn Swimming in a lake, going to sauna, relaxing, eating and drinking well is the the quintessential Finnish summer experience.
No.7798
>>7796I actually know a fellow German who bought a property with a lake and cabins in Finland.
No.7799 KONTRA
>>7798t. not the German you are conversing with, tough.
No.7800 KONTRA
Grandma's in the hospital. Times like these are linguistically interesting, because my mother goes to great lengths not to mention death in any shape or form. It's like all those tribal taboos you can read about in Religious Studies textbooks, but instead of being in the fucking Australian outback, you're living in it.
>>7780I'm perfectly aware of that. I just usually don't complain about everything at home. Thinking about it, we don't even meet all that often with family since university started again.
No.7801
A lot of people in masks outside. Is coronavirus scary again?
>>7791New year is in 90 days. A good time to make to make some goals this arbitrarily period and later check them.
What are EC's milestones until 2024? For each Ernst individually and for us a community? Remember, we must ensure 2023 to be a smart year. How far are we from achieving this goal?
No.7802 KONTRA
>>7801Failure in some fronts, but at least I finally quit smoking. That qualifies this as one of the most intelligent years of my life, if not the most.
No.7803 KONTRA
>>7801No. We wanted it to be an "Intelligent year". Big difference in style.
Just thinking about the original post is so funny. Like it was something along the lines of "Why must it be happy new year? Why can't it be an intelligent new year?"
It's peak assburger imho. Good stuff.
Having EC era names for each year like it's imperial China:
2023: 光慧 Guang Hui (Radiant Intelligence/Wisdom)
2024: ?
Proposals:
正毅 Zheng Yi (Upright resolution)
修強 Xiu Qiang (Cultivating strength)
No.7804
I never supported the "intelligent year" nonsense brought forth by a vocal minority that most certainly does NOT represent the will of the people.
No.7808
>>7803Haha hui year)))
2024 is year of Green Dragon according to Chinese.
> There are typically marked spikes in the birth rates of countries that use the Chinese zodiac or places with substantial Overseas Chinese populations during the year of the Dragon, because such "Dragon babies" are considered to be lucky and have desirable characteristics that supposedly lead to better life outcomes.[7][8] The relatively recent phenomenon of planning a child's birth in the Dragon year has led to hospital undercapacity issues and even an uptick in infant mortality rates toward the end of these years due to strained neonatal resources.Interesting
No.7811 KONTRA
>>7803The later and we all stick to an exercise program.
No.7813
The evening made me think of Italy when I was there as a child. Dark, sodium vapor lights, still warm enough but noticeably chilly. A swarm of crows (I think) like every year against the sky's light, quite beautiful. Another season. That makes me melancholic, probably bordering depression again, like falling from the good mood of the last days.
No.7817
>>7811Sounds good, I've already started tbh. Though the gods clearly fear my potential were I able to work out consistently so they struck me down with food poisoning once again.
Apparently there's actually an outbreak on campus>>7735>Did he give reasons why?Nothing specific, I suspect it's basically
>>7739
>Will you buy a new one?Yeah probably, I'm getting my scholarship bucks for this and next month in a couple days, but gonna have to do some research first.
>>7741Pretty sure it's shēng
zhǎng rather than cháng!
No.7818
>>7817Get well soon!
>>7811I support this, do we still have a workout thread on this version of EC? I've never participated in those threads before, but this time I might.
No.7819
Sore throat basically gone, but now I am breathing like a terminal smoker. Head is surprisingly clear; usually the sinuses are so clogged I can't think anymore, which has proven once again that as long as I don't have anything in my head, I don't really feel the illness (apart from hurting bronchi).
This may change of the course of the day.
Or tomorrow I might wake up with clear lungs and a clogged head.
No.7821
Coughing feels like rusty nails being pushed through my lungs and throat and breathing is slow and laborious.
Over ten years ago a doctor told me that I can expect getting asthma in the near future. Still not there, but I assume this is what a beginning asthma attack feels like.
Please note that I am in no actual danger or anything, I am just trying to document my state.
No.7822 KONTRA
>>7818Thanks.
Just spewed out a shitton of black liquid. Looked like something straight out of a horror movie, but was mostly just water and a dissolved activated charcoal pill. Feel better now though.
Ordered some crackers, bananas, 3 bottles of gatorade and impulsively a six-pack of 7up since I was fiending for some sugary liquid to restore my energy. ~4€ in total and the delivery guy actually delivered it to my door this time for some reason (they usually drop it off in front of the building and send you a photo of the location)
No.7825
>>7823In the past years when I was sick and alone at home I've resorted to making some Aglio Olio, wich is 3 minutes of work and thus 2 minutes more than canned food, but I've always got all the ingredients at home anyway and don't have to resort to canned food, which usually makes me feel even worse.
I'm basically following this recipe but when sick I skip the steps that mean more than a few seconds of work each:
https://youtu.be/watch?v=ZqeJOg-kKAYCan recommend, it's an amazing dish when you're sick.
No.7828
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq4rDJqaUlY - Germans are fleeing to Russia from LGBT lessons in kindergartens and neoliberalism.
Sad that it's just propaganda. EC made me like Germans very much, I wish there would be more of them here, as in Russian Empire.
Unfortunately Tiktok shills here are only paid 700 euros instead of 1500. But if you know foreign languages you'll probably be paid more than average in the international department of Lahta. And cost of living is much smaller.
Please think about such option.
No.7830
>>7828Russia is a neoliberal hellhole, probably more so than Germany. You get all the Germans with a generalized psychosis, basically. Germans that don't care if they get fucked in the ass by a certain political economy, as long as they don't have to deal with rainbows they take it in the ass.
I am considering a PhD in shillonomics, thanks for the perspective, doc.
No.7831 KONTRA
>>7828also I like how almost all comments are either of the type user-kdsfk728 or $russianname$randomfourdigitnumber
No.7833
>>7828Very informative video, danke shon! I'm tired to live under American occupation and also planning to move to Russia.
t. simple worker Hans from Hamburg.
No.7834
>>7833Good luck, we are waiting you here. Hurry up before winter or you'll freeze!
t. farmer Mishel from Kaluga oblast
No.7841
Spent the night sweating like a pig. When this is over, new sheets are imperative.
Throat feels pretty normal again, breathing better, but there's still a bunch of waste that needs to clear the lungs. Nose is slightly runny, forehead feels slightly hot, but I don't have a headache (yet).
Let's see how this works out. If it doesn't get worse than this, I would be glad.
No.7855
>>7841Being in the trenches, fighting at the home front :DDD
No.7856 KONTRA
Yesterday I stayed up late. The Chinese teacher asks us to send her a recording of us reading the text of the lesson and I felt a bit anxious to record myself. Don't really know why.
So it was very late when I managed to muster the courage and just do it.
I was very tired when I woke up. Powered through the class and then went home and slept.
Had to go in for a night class at the workshop but I came home half an hour early because my father asked him to help installing a door and I had to get up at like six in the morning for it.
So I did that.
Started taking iron again and it's working. Hell, this new type is even better. My eyes just pop open even after like 6 hours of sleep.
>>7828Thank you based Russia. Big support.
I will wait for liberators here. Slava!
Z!!
Regards, Iosif from future Vengriya Oblast
No.7857 KONTRA
>>7734Well, bĕi jīng huān yíng nǐn ♫. I've only one advice: get a chinese phone number if you haven't already and start using all sorts of chinese apps. As much as everyone hates the intrusive app ecosystem, one simply cannot manage without it nowadays. For example, you should book your hotel in shanghai in advance via apps like meituan, since some hotels are only willing to cater to chinese nationals. Going to shanghai on national holidays... I won't call it a good idea but oh well :DD
>film clubFor cinephilic minds, maybe check out 中国电影资料馆, but you're probably gonna learn about things like this sooner or later from club members.
>>7735Every single student in a somewhat decent Chinese university thinks about going to US for higher education (not necessarily staying thereafter), but that's probably less of a truism after recent years.
>>7803>era namesObligatory mention of my personal favourite:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%99%AE%E9%80%9A No.7864
There's a rather stupid employee at my job who happens to be a woman.
From the outside, by the way I have to talk to her and explain basic stuff, one could get the impression that I am a sexist.
Well I am, but in this particular instance it's because she's dumb, not because she's a woman.
Also, she's my superior.
No.7868
>>7857>but that's probably less of a truism after recent years.That is why I was asking.
No.7873
>>7870Why must you post these pictures?
No.7874
>>7873Do you have a problem with self-portraits?
No.7875 KONTRA
>>7874It's the kind of 4cancer shit that belongs on 4cancer and he's 100% right in taking offense.
No.7878
>>7873It represents how smug I felt about getting Chinese Ernst's reference.
>>7874I've seen a video on that issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BVGPkdzkThe idea is that these memes are associated with internet racists from /pol/ so if you post Wojak or Pepe the frog, you promote far-right ideology.
Well, anyway they have already become omnipresent part of normie culture. It's too late.
No.7879 KONTRA
Had a leftover breadroll with some butter, salami and a pepper for breakfast. Then a slice of bread with three fish fingers I found in the freezer for lunch.
Reading two Chinese history books. One is Shaughnessy's newly released "A Brief History of Ancient China" and the other is Henri Maspero's "Ancient China".
Visited grandma in the hospital. She lamented that she must've made some mistake in her life to end up like this. But she wasn't sure what it could be. She also said that she wants to die. It was very hard to watch.
Afterwards I went over to my college to listen to the presentations our workshop decided to organise as part of the "Night of Researchers" event series we have annually. The girls did wonderfully. I feel like I was moved by their presentations. Don't really know why. One of our freshmen were a bit anxious but I told her it'll be fine and afterwards I told her she did great. She actually did great. Really fluid speaking, genuine interest. Turns out she was so anxious she had a few sips of alcohol beforehand. Didn't really show.
I was proud of them and happy for them.
On the way home I was happy that I went out and spent time among people. But I also felt a bit melancholic. I was there but it felt like I didn't face life up to life. I wasn't grasping it as hard as I could. I confronted death in a sense. I saw someone in old age, asking the same questions I sometimes ask myself foolishly in my 20s.
In short, I felt like a Mishima-protagonist. So prematurely concerned with the end that I destroy myself on the way to it.
No.7881
>>7878>The idea is thatMaybe, it's probably not totally wrong.
But my simple intention was to say that you post this because you are basically like this. Not its connotation but the style and content.
No.7883
Yesterday afternoon I sat in a chair in a park, about to finish a novel on sports, dedication, willpower, competition, exhaustion and so on. There was a sort of gathering with adults and children. The latter playing soccer or running around playing catch sort of (it was sex/gender divided activity).
From that chair it felt like an enormous screen or like I was looking into a giant real-life painting.
I was startled how I noticed the noises of delight being rhythmically structured by breathing. It always strange to sit in the park and read a novel, everything becomes more alive and immediate, urging than when sitting at home. I like reading the park.
No.7884
>>7878>The idea is that these memes are associated with internet racists from /pol/ so if you post Wojak or Pepe the frog, you promote far-right ideology.I wrote about that in another thread: While Pepe and Wojak have existed before any connotation and were then pushed into a certain direction by the media, the soijaks have never been anything but bad-faith and destructive.
It can be likened to the swastika and nazi flag. The swastika in and by itself is not an "evil" symbol - on the contrary. But if you put it into a white circle on a red background, you have something that has never been associated with anything positive.
It's the same here. Wojak is just a guy who feels. Soijak is a caricature only meant to rile up and degrade.
You can post Pepe in a positive context, like how good it feels to pee with your pants down, but you can never post a soijak in a positive context. It just was never meant to be.
It's the visual equivalent to posting nothing but KYS KYS KYS NIGGER NIGGER etc.
No.7885
Feeling better than yesterday, though my throat hurts a bit now when swallowing. Cough has become more productive, sinuses seem rather free.
However, I woke up DRENCHED. There were actual wet spots on the bed; I hung the sheet on a drying rack so it could properly air out while the bed could, too.
Also, my feet hurt. It feels like they are swollen in spots and standing on them hurts. Also, the first phalanx of my left index finger seems swollen in the same way.
I assume it's from the coughing shockwaves. I don't get DOMS or anything from coughing, but there's probably some tiny vessels bursting from all the heaving and huffing and puffing.
I am also not sure if I ever had this before 2020.
No.7889 KONTRA
>>7886This took longer than it should have :D
No.7890
>>7888He partook in the best and most important John Woo films.
No.7892
>>7890Ah, main protagonist of Hard Boiled, I see it now.
No.7896
>>7895You also spelled "football" wrong
No.7901
>>7900What do you mean by "doing after"? Like, how to spend the evening or what?
That's usually decided somewhere around noon, or even earlier.
Choice for dinner is usually made during grocery shopping, i.e. days before.
Or do you mean "thinking about time after work"?
That depends on the day and how motivated I am, but also normally not later than noon. Sometimes I start work and instantly wish I weren't at work.
And it's not like I don't like my job, but well, work is work.
No.7902
I sit on my bed listening to tracks from my early adulthood, which puts me in a good mood, ready to head to the library for a few hours and I'm gonna meet with a person later on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTgaHcyDRsAlso I should make Schumi with sun glasses and cyberphone my new avatar after I dropped Chinese propaganda again.
No.7903 KONTRA
Visited grandma in the hospital yesterday. Brought fresh clothes. My sister was with me. The whole point was to get her to see grandma.
We ran into our uncle. He was going in for a visit too.
I think the visit went about as well as it could have gone. She was very happy to see us, but didn't really recognise us any more. She had no socks on so I put some on for her, which felt like it could be some form of really ancient ritual or something.
There was no doctor in so we didn't learn anything new. Uncle went to the city and we decided to head home. Outside the metro station there was this park with an exhibition of posters and my sister wanted to see it, so I agreed to see at least part of it with her. (Because she wanted to see the remaining posters with her friends)
I said I try not to be negative most of the time nowadays but the exhibition felt like you could get most of the posters from an anti-Orbán political facebook group. It really was just a bunch of shit tier memes printed out and plastered onto billboards as a form of social activism. The only remotely interesting one we saw was one with a tram that was photoshopped to have multiple decks on top of each other, and also shopped to be really short at the same time.
I think it was supposed to represent the decreasing standards of the Budapest transport-system or some shit like that, which feels kind of like a self-own considering Budapest has a liberal Lord Mayor right now and he was the one who stopped infrastructure development in favour of bike lanes.
But I digress.
I just feel like that politics could be so much more than millenials making gotcha memes about the rainbow being gay no matter what Christians say and shit like that. Maybe it'll be one day.
Afterwards we went shopping. Mom and dad did a grocery run beforehand but they left money for us so be bought some more essentials like butter and cheese. Maybe the economy is getting better because we were lamenting how much we were going to spend on all this random shit we were buying but in the end a nearly full handbasket of groceries came up to like 30 euros, so it was a pretty okay.
No.7904
>>7903The difference is that it is a public space in the city and not online. Another kind of visibility and structuring of public city space. Surely feels tame when it's just memes.
Also, is your grandma cold? Could be that she dies. I think you mentioned it already. Mine left the hospital but then it was just one or two weeks and she died. Dying a natural death in modern societies isn't dignifying. My grandma died in an elder care, I visited her the night before, kissed her on the forehead, talking about rituals and such.
No.7905 KONTRA
>>7904>Dying a natural death in modern societies isn't dignifyingWas it dignifying to die in pre-modern societies?
No.7908
>>7901>And it's not like I don't like my job, but well, work is work.Feel known.
I'd rather work than not work, but at the same time some days are like
c'mon, this again?>>7903>Maybe it'll be one dayDemocrats have been waiting 20 years for the 'youth vote' to save us from boomers. Sadly, on the America politics is just another excuse to party.
No.7909
>>7905Of course not necessarily but there are certain ways one dies in modern societies that weren't possible in pre-modern socities. For example, dying in an elder care way from your family.
Pre modern deaths might have been more painful but I'm not so sure if mitigating pain these days is the better option if it prolongs for example the agony.
No.7910
The American has a bf, she repeatedly mentioned him today unlike last time, she probably already senses that I might be interested in her specifically and made it clear. Well, that's sad kind of. Haven't met a funny and chatty woman like this in a long time. The conversation flow is great, which is not that often the case. Oh well, might see her again anyway, I enjoy her company still.
No.7911
>>7909In contrast to that you are way less likely to die from dysentery or being eaten ass-first by cave lions and such.
I am wondering though what happened to actual old people, with ground-down teeth or none left at all.
Very old animals with ground-down teeth just can't chew anymore and consequently die of starvation. Could early humans also die by starvation through lack of chewing tools?
No.7912
>>7911Yeah and I could also imagine that modern societies might find a different way to deal with death than is done today. Maybe.
No.7913
>>7908>I'd rather work than not work, but at the same time some days are like c'mon, this again?Same here, I guess? Though I still struggle to get some things straight in my head. Both the following things either are proven true by experiment (1) or need to be true for life to not be depressing (2) in my opinion.
(1) As soon as I have no work for periods longer than one or two weeks, I feel my energy level decreasing, and even mundane tasks become more exhausting
(2) The more spare time I have and the less work I have to do, the better my life should be
Now obviously those statements can't both be true, but if statement two is wrong, it would basically mean that being forced to work would be an improvement of my life. Since I realized this, there is always a few percent of my brain busy with calculating reasons why this is not true and less work and more spare time would still be a blessing.
No.7914
>>7913People enjoy having something to do.
In this context, "work" really means "working on something" instead of "doing a job to earn money".
So I don't find your statements to be mutually exclusive, and if we use the first definition of "work", the second one is indeed wrong.
No.7916
>>7914>People enjoy having something to do.Yeah. I need to stay mentally and physically occupied. Doing so for extended periods without any external pressure or structure has proven impossible. Kind of a disappointing personal revelation.
>>7915Everyone has been sick at work these past weeks. No idea how I've made it this far unscathed.
No.7918
>>7916>Everyone has been sick at work these past weeks. It's weird since I wfh, but we still have like 5 people at the moment who are sick, and they don't even live close to each other.
No.7919
I tried using chatGPT as my MA editor since I won't have the time to give it to people for reading (and I simply don't know enough people whom I can give it to in that time who want to read an academic text).
What could go wrong? So far it seems to have no issues with the paragraphs I was feeding it with. How good are these AIs in checking German grammar and orthography? I assume it is not rule-based in the end, is it?
No.7921
>>7919It all depends on whether it was trained with german language input or not.
Why would an AI trained solely on english language be able to check german grammar?
No.7922
Why is it so important in english to not end a sentence with a preposition?
No.7923
>>7921I'm pretty sure it was trained on German language data otherwise you wouldn't be able to talk to it in German.
No.7924
>>7923Well I think if a sentence sounds better, take it, else not. The final is on your supervisor/professor (should he even actually read it) anyway.
Orthography... Shouldn't you already be pretty sure about your orthography? For simple typos you can just load it into any text editing program.
Just saying because I was just thinking about what data it could have been trained on, and what if it was the most available "newspaper" in Germany? You know, the one with the white letters on red background...
No.7925
>>7924>The final is on your supervisor/professor (should he even actually read it) anywayI have an oral exam and I get a Gutachten, so I guess they need to read it in order to write these and ask questions.
>Shouldn't you already be pretty sure about your orthography?Yeah, thinking about typos as congruency mistakes here which is more of a grammar issue as well. Text editors do not always get it. Also placing comma's sometimes is not working well. So far chatGPt just blurrted out tips that hardly are tips in most cases. It's good to know that it notices long sentences and makes suggestions about readability, though.
No.7926
>>7925I fiddled with the prompts just now and you can get some more out of it. Maybe it's not bad, like giving it to an "average" reader you will get useful tips but also things you don't want to be changed as well. I mean this is also true for professional editing perhaps but I don't know too much about that.
No.7927
>>7922>end a sentence with a prepositionPrepositions are supposed to precede nouns, but nobody cares.
>What are you looking at?>At what are you looking?Using the second- technically correct- sentence in casual speech will raise eyebrows and invite ridicule.
No.7928
>>7922>>7927It's don't
Prescriptivist poppycock
No.7930 KONTRA
I am ready to truly begin work on my novel. I expect release in 2027 and it widely being widely acclaimed as the next great American classic.
I can't share much right now, but it is about 2870s Ernst - this, a prompt half-stolen from some kraut on the radio.
No.7931
aaaahhhhh there is no ground of being I'm going insaaaane
help me hegel
No.7932 KONTRA
Doing the handwriting exercises and my hands hurt so I'm having a break.
Played some Atari games. It's pretty interesting to see a nowadays utterly alien game design philosophy.
One thing that's interesting is how the more "grandiose" sounds are still exciting.
Made a pizza and shared it with my sister. We talked some about games. Apparently Valve shut down CS:GO in favout of CS2. She doesn't like the loadout system in the new game. Didn't know CS2 was already out. Or that Valve pulled a Blizzard on the old game.
Damn last CS I played was Source.
I made an anki-deck to learn Bopomofo. So I can use it as an input method on my phone.
Also learned that they demolished the giant Guan Yu statue. Damn.
Well apparently in the middle of the post I got called over and spent the last three hour helping my sister make a powerpoint presentation about different operating systems and I basically talked about this shit nonstop.
Also I basically know nothing about powerpoint by the looks. She spent more time customizing a single textbox I usually do an entire ppt.
But it was great fun. Even if I'm now behind on my own homework because of it.
Hope she gets an A for it.
>>7931I think I told you this before but if you had a twitter you'd be a niche internet microcelebrity by now with these bangers.
>>7904Yeah, she's cold. I don't think anyone in the family has any illusions about what's to come.
She had her stomach removed like 8 years ago and since then every year we've been told she will die soon.
Though I think her not recognising us any more is more telling than the cold.
No.7933
>>7932Girls play Counter Strike?
Also, best to your grandmother. That is, a swift and painless death. My grandma spent almost have a year in ICU and then a week or two in a regular hospital before she was finally allowed to die.
Situations like these are why my mother has a patient decree and why I have a .44 revolver in my safe. I will go out on my own terms, should I be able to detect the onset of dementia.
No.7934 KONTRA
>>7933>Girls play Counter Strike?No, women are physically unable to play CS, actually they die when they get past the main menu of any other games than Sims and Animal Crossing.
No.7935 KONTRA
>>7934>womenThat was not the question, you illiterate, condescending cunt.
No.7936
>>7935It's the same for girls (what is a girl and what is a woman to you anyway?)
t. other German
No.7937 KONTRA
>>7936I was thinking about deleting my post because I overreacted, but I explain:
I was genuinely surprised that teenage girls seem to play CS.
At least in my time, girls did not play CS, at all. It was either guys I know or boyfriends of girls I knew.
And the only person I know who still plays CS is a 40 yo dad who has been playing it since Sierra times, so I was genuinely surprised to hear about a teenage girl discussing Counter Strike, a game which I presumed had basically no audience beyond teenage boys. Obviously I know about female-only e-sports teams and streamers, but those are more like advertisements to expand the audience (like all of e-sports, honestly).
But now thinking about it, what is it with other games that are popular? Overwatch and Fortnight and PUGB and the like?
No.7938
>>7937The gaming demographic probably changed since your teenage years, e-sports marketing or not. An equivalent of yours would be asking if "boys" care about grooming sort of.
That said, his sisters enrolled in university as far as I know so I wouldn't consider her a teenager or a girl.
No.7939
>>7937>but I explainWho is he to explain yourself to him? Don't apply principle of charity, give him hell.
No.7940 KONTRA
>>7937She's probably a bigger gamer than I am. I think I saw her play Rainbow Six Siege too. Also a lot of Minecraft.
I think she will basically play anything as long as the multiplayer is quick to jump into and play with friends.
(The only story-based game I ever saw her care about deeply was Life is Strange. And it's billion sequels and spinoff. But she went to the point that she bought boxed copies of them.)
>40yo dads Maybe CS1.6
GO was kinda big because of the skin gambling system and the fact that it was free and ran on a toaster well enough while also being supported by Valve.
No.7941
Had only light sweat this night, despite even wearing a t-shirt to provoke more sweating. That is a good sign.
Also my appetite has risen slightly.
Cough is still there, as is the stuff in my nose, but I don't feel sick anymore. I am not totally recovered, obviously, but I'm certainly over the hump.
What was remarkable this time was the almost total lack of clogged sinuses.
On friday and saturday I noticed the heat and "heaviness" associated with slime collecting in my head, but those were just temporary and went away pretty quickly. I also discovered on saturday when I was showering that I could shake my head. With a skull full of snot that normally hurts like hell, as would bending over and picking something up etc. would. But that's self-evident to anyone knowing how sinuses work.
Now what I am still trying to figure out is why exactly it didn't happen this time, when it used to be the main vehicle of the illness to throw me down, and there are only two possible explanations:
1) This was an atypical (for me) cold that just didn't go upstairs.
2) The only thing I did differently was not blowing my nose.
Explanation 1) is the Occam's razor explanation, but since I did actually feel it creeping into my head, I can't support that theory with full certainty.
The second one sounds pretty unintuitive because blowing one's nose is supposed to get that shit out. But then I was pondering whether maybe I have been doing it wrong all my life. Maybe I have been blowing mucus INTO my sinuses all the time and that's what made it so bad all the times before, but of course I can't substantiate that claim fully either.
Now of course I could try and go full handkerchief waste the next time I have a cold, but I'd rather not conduct human experimentation on myself.
By the way, I have an interesting minijob offer going on right now. 20 Euros per day, plus as much hot chicken soup as you want. You can work from home, you just need to fill out a questionnaire twice per day.
No.7942
>>7940So "gamer" is synonymous with "playing mainly multiplayer stuff" now?
LiS doesn't have a billion sequels and spinoffs btw, I think it's not even a handful.
The first one is actually pretty good if you can get over the fact that you know who the villain is within the first five or so minutes.
No.7943 KONTRA
>>7942To me a handful is a billion. It was a hyperbole. Sorry.
Well, you could argue definitions. She plays more games than I do, and does so more regularly.
I follow this non-recovering addict pattern where I don't play and then suddenly get hooked on one of the same 6-7 games I've been playing for the past 10 years for two weeks and then not touch them again.
No.7945
>>7943>To me a handful is a billionJesses, what do you call Final Fantasy, then?
>I follow this non-recovering addict pattern Eh, nothing wrong with that. Games are supposed to be fun and if newer stuff isn't fun to you there's not need to play that. Unless you'd get bullied in recess, of course.
No.7948
>>7911People used to eat softer food because everyone had bad teeth.
t. watched a video about restaurant of medieval kitchen
No.7949
>>7948According to looksmaxxers medival peasants then had weak ass sissy jaw lines. Common knowledge is though that people unlike today looked older and had crazy jaws because of the food they ate and its strain on the jaw.
Thoughts?
No.7951
>>7909>but there are certain ways one dies in modern societies that weren't possible in pre-modern socities. For example, dying in an elder care way from your family.Let's not forget that there are also certain ways one dies in pre-modern societies that aren't possible in modern societies. For example, dying away from your family after being pushed onto an ice sheet and abandoned there to starve because you're deemed a burden on the tribe's dwindling stocks.
Then again, through the dialectical process, we may yet re-adopt a form of this practice as a way of salvaging social-democratic healthcare and dwindling pensions funds. It's important to never resign yourself to what the societal modus operandi currently is.
No.7952 KONTRA
>>7949>Thoughts?Spend less time on entertainment websites
No.7953
>>7951> For example, dying away from your familyThe common denominator being dying away from your family, the experiences aren't comparable beyond that though. This changes nothing about this modern mode of dying and that it is bad.
>>7952Good advice. Put in that case I came across it and filed it under cultural phenomenon -> personal amusement.
>>7950Yes although in the case I mentioned they used highschool year books from the 1950s. Cherry picking within the media aside, these people might look older because with assign their looks like hair and clothing with old age these days.
No.7954 KONTRA
>>7948I don't believe you.
T. Culture of rock-hard bread and tough meats
No.7955
>>7953I don't know what's so different beyond a higher level of comfort involved. I'm sure that the old eskimo would appreciate it if a nurse or orderly visited him in his floating sheet of ice, gave him some bland food and wiped his butthole. In my view, dying in undignified circumstances is something that transcends this "modernity". A true and recurring human experience that has been repeated to untold scores of people since the dawn of time.
Ultimately, in the ideal(!) pre-modern circumstances, I don't think it'd be much different if you're the village patriarch spending the last weeks of your life in senility before ultimately shitting yourself to death before whatever poor relative has been entrusted with feeding and providing you basic hygiene. I'd prefer having a relative doing this to me than some nameless medical professional in a hospice environment, but there are more things to consider. In certain situations, I'd take the option that could at least provide me with effective pain relief so my final days aren't spent in agonizing (if dignifying!) pain.
If you're the modernity studies kraut, you should really feel bad. There's something sick about thinkers and intellectuals who project the fundamental horrors of being alive onto modernity/capitalism/socialized medicine. Arguably, it'll be modernity that will free us from slow deaths, what with euthanasia options - not that this does away with the fundamental issue at hand.
This post has multiple references to pooping, so it'd be more comprehensible to a German No.7956 KONTRA
>>7954Finns have spent less time under the bane of civilization, so they maintain more of their hunter-gatherer vitality (and mental barbarism).
No.7957 KONTRA
>>7956>they maintain more of their hunter-gatherer vitalityTrue.
>(and mental barbarism).Watch it, Southern boy.
No.7959
>>7955The whole discussion began when I was talking about natural deaths. Maybe that was too unspecific, I was basically talking about dying of old age and not falling of a cliff while hunting a mammoth or getting snapped by the plague. Obviously, modern medicine delivers pain reliefs and even cures that pre-moderns will readily take and I don't think the progress made by modern medicine is a necessary evil.
I was basically talking about the phenomenon of outsourcing death to an anonymous institution whose care of (dying) people is a business and calculated as such more or less with certain consequences (no time for people dying). Saying that pre-moderns did not have this mode of dying does not mean that pre-moderns never died in less dignifying circumstances as well.
I don't critique people dying in death camps for example not even hundred years ago, albeit one could argue that is also specific to modernity as in "industrialized" killing and certainly not a dignified way of dying.
No.7960
>>7955One thing that needs to be mentioned is maybe that modern medicine as in curing and mitigating pain is something else than ways of organizing (in modernity, early modern times, ancient greece) social/psychological events like dying within a society or tribe.
No.7961
>>7959>I was basically talking about the phenomenon of outsourcing death to an anonymous institution whose care of (dying) people is a business and calculated as such more or less with certain consequences (no time for people dying).You're talking about hospitals that explicitly DON'T have people dying as their business model or hospices whose business model is to explicitly NOT make death as undignified as it might be in a hospital?
And what does "dignified" dying even mean in the first place? Isn't that extremely culturally specific, too?
People believed that a dignifying death can only happen in battle, others say it's falling asleep in the circle of your loved ones, others might say it's going to the jungle and never coming back.
I have a really hard time grasping both your premise as well as the point you are trying to make here.
No.7962
>>7961>I have a really hard time grasping both your premise as well as the point you are trying to make here.1. Modernity makes for certain modes of dying that appear to be/are undignified (institutionalized, hidden away, in capitalist modernity care-taking also is a business which does not provide the actual care oftentimes because time is money)
2. an indignified death is bad
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3. Modernity makes happen an undignified way of dying
>You're talking about hospitals that explicitly DON'T have people dying as their business model or hospices whose business model is to explicitly NOT make death as undignified as it might be in a hospital?What do you want to say exactly?
Hospitals, elder care. Their function is not solely in providing death care obviously (hence the brackets) but it certainly is part of their institution. Both elder care and hospitals are oftentimes privatized services that need to make profit. They do this in different ways, a hospital can "sell" unnecessary treatments, but being understaffed and thus saving on labor costs is another one. Understaffed means less time/care for people dying for example.
>And what does "dignified" dying even mean in the first place? Isn't that extremely culturally specific, too?Yes. But I was not thinking of my argument as an absolute. So perhaps in my initial post there should have been an extra addition like oftentimes.
And just as I mentioned to the Portuguese this institutionalized way is not the only way and dignifying and dignified deaths both happend and happen in pre-modern as well as modern times.
No.7963 KONTRA
>>7962under 3. the ...which is bad is missing
No.7966 KONTRA
>>79621 and 3 are the same point, you just threw in #2 to pretend there is a semblance of an argument there. Shame on you, modernity kraut.
No.7967
>>7966Not necessarily, some people might think it is a good thing. Per moderns for example...
No.7968 KONTRA
>>7967#1 and #3 are still the same point, #2 still has no relevance in the conclusion.
I wish we could go back to pre-modernity so I could beat you with a stick (in a pedagogical, dignified manner).
No.7969 KONTRA
>>7968Will also say why that is at one point in your posts?
No.7970 KONTRA
>>7969I really wonder if you will ever, just once, be able to admit that your opinion is wrong.
No.7971
>>7970Maybe if you tell me why.
No.7972 KONTRA
I think what's at the root of this argument is, that healthcare as it is, is currently more preoccupied with patient longevity than with patient quality of life.
It's a conflict between ethics and the perception of dignity. From an ethical and personal standpoint, it's impossible to say that "We will not help someone". It's a positivist perversion of "do no harm".
The question is whether or not is it worth it to keep someone alive in a borderline vegetative state, inflicting everyone endless trouble and suffering. It's like a gravitational field of problems and suffering for the patient, the family of the patient and the caretakers of the patient.
The undignity of dying in a hospital setting from old age comes from the fact that a lot of the time they will keep you alive way past the point where you are functional as a person, with no recovery in sight. You become a field to deploy medical tools on in a futile battle against death.
No.7973
>>7972At my root, it is a reading of Elias, vaguely in mind, about 5 years ago. And the experience of my grandma dying.
https://monoskop.org/images/f/fc/Elias_Norbert_Loneliness_of_the_Dying_2001.pdfI think Ernst has been blowing this up because modernity was mentioned, a horrendous leftist dog whistle.
No.7975 KONTRA
>>7973"They criticize me because I used leftist lingo!"
You horrendous, deflecting, cowardly, weakling shit-kraut. I'll kontra your posts, I'll kontra your family. If I could, I'd kontra your birth.
No.7978
>>7977Do you even know at this point what we are talking about? Because I don't know to which aspect of this conversation you actually refer to, is it the meta on syllogistic logic or the actual posts before that about dying in modern and pre-modern societies? I was referring to the latter not the former in that post.
No.7980
>>7972>The undignity of dying in a hospital setting from old age comes from the fact that a lot of the time they will keep you alive way past the point where you are functional as a person, with no recovery in sight. You become a field to deploy medical tools on in a futile battle against death.It's important to understand why this happens. If in Ameriga, it's to keep a macabre cutting edge medical systems - in glorious social democratic Europe, it's because we have never set a price for the ratio of days one realistically still has left. In gerontocracy, a grandfather may cost the tribe 45.000€ to extend his life span by 8 months and really live a shitty life. I still haven't learned the correct Chinese characters for economically unviable, but if I had, I'd post them now.
No.7983
>>7962This is an empty post, just a German being racist.
Here, I'll summarize your previous three step logical argument onto a simple one sentence:
>Modernity makes for certain modes of dying that appear to be/are undignifiedYou might not recognize it but it's actually the first sentence of your "premise". Shit weakling.
I'm being dragged in. I've tasted the bickering. I know why they do it. I am 0.28% visigoth. Mama, Ich will bicker und bicker und after zis, bicker again.
No.7987
>>7948https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_cuisinewas English Wikipedia's Article
du jour of the day on 1 October and I learned from it both that what you wrote is what some people actually believed and that it has been proven wrong. Wow so interesting!
No.7988 KONTRA
>>7983ERNESTO: QUIERE PICOTEARSE
Y SU MAMÁ NO LO DEJA
No.7990
>>7983You are right and you are also right implicitly about arguing on the internet. It's terrible and yesterday I noticed how much of an energy drainer it can be.
However I don't think that cynism, sarcasm and irony as replacements for "serious discussions" is something I think makes anything better, not by accident is humor also a form of cope I would be happy to discuss these things but it becomes bickering, tiring and negative.
No.7991 KONTRA
>>7990So you admit that you bear joint responsibility for making discussions bickering, tiring and negative?
No.7992 KONTRA
>>7991Negativity and consecutively exhaustion stem from bickerung which I think is of dynamical origin, so partly, yes of course.
Post like these, which I could imagine is you
>>7979>>7977Are terrible though, they lack any argumentative substance and simply try to attack a person not what is said. You can talk about rhetorics but not in this way. It's purely negative to me because it does not seek any form of exchange anymore.
No.7993 KONTRA
>>7992>It's purely negative to me because it does not seek any form of exchange anymore.Funny, that's exactly what your posts are, just in a more verbose manner.
You don't seek any form of exchange, and don't try now to claim the opposite, because everyone can see it's not true.
You monologue about your (inherently correct and righteous) musings to a layman audience and when somebody challenges these, you get defensive and deflecting.
You don't discuss, you just attempt to intellectually beat someone down, every single post of yours is a smug gotcha of some sort that is supposed to show that you are so much smarter than everyone else.
I am really wondering why it's exactly EC of all places that you are doing is.
Is it because elsewhere you would be called a faggot right away?
Because people have actually punched you in the face irl?
Or because you can't perists in a RL environment because it would mean that in order to get any engagement you would have to go against people who might actually be able to put your ramblings in a context and just completely destroy you?
If we look at the bickering, there is a common element, and it seems now like it's more specific than "any german".
tl;dr: I agree with
>>7975. You're a coward, and a (wannabe) bully.
No.7994
>>7993I think that is a projection. Also, I don't really consider Portugal lay audience, he seems to (have) read enough books of that sort.
>when somebody challenges these, you get defensiveI don't see why when somebody challenges my thoughts I have to immediately give up my position. I actually felt that Portugal and me could continue and it made me realize that precision was missing but also misunderstandings popped up, for example modern medicine and modernity as not being the same thing, albeit there is a connection between those.
>Is it because elsewhere you would be called a faggot right away?>Because people have actually punched you in the face irl? No, but you are heavily projecting anyway. It seems like to you I'm a plate you can direct your contempt for academics as elitist and fraudsters and what not, while you are the honest, authentic and down to earth and actual intelligent person. I'm not actually smart, but you are.
Either way, you direct personal hatred onto me and it's completely irrelevant to what was of interest originally (ways of dying through the times and ho to evaluate that). Instead you do everything to foster bickering further. And I answer to continue this trash.
No.7996 KONTRA
>>7994> Also, I don't really consider Portugal lay audienceOhhhh, so that post was directed at Porto in the first place?
Sorry, I must have missed the part where you specified that.
But see, this is what I mean.
You just can't help it. You are deflecting again, and you are accusing others (in this case me) of not understanding what you mean, or projecting. It's just a verbose NO U, and therefore there isn't any other way of apprehending you than by using greentext one-liners. Because that's exactly your level, but you are too high on your own farts to even realize.
>Either way, you direct personal hatred onto meI tHinK IT's a ProJeCTiOn
But in all seriousness, I don't *hate* you, because that would mean spending more than no time thinking about you while not directly confronting you. You just seem like an annoying, irritating, insufferable person, that's all.
Oh, and one last thing:
> Instead you do everything to foster bickering further. And I answer to continue this trash.Ernst, you ARE the reason for the bickering. Without you, there would be no bickering.
Deleted post because I forgot to Kontra.
No.7999
>>7996You always end up talking about my personality, why is that?
Anyway, I will stop bickering now and hopefully learn from Portugal to just not take things seriously even if they are deep down and deflect my fingertips from stroking keys since I don't like keeping distance by using humor when it comes to this and I think is Portugals and many others way to go.
No.8000 KONTRA
>>7999>why is that?Because you make it impossible to talk about the topic on account of your personality.
But I'm glad Portugal came in and gave you a chance to pull out without losing face :3
Thank you Portugal, you helped a German today!
Anyway, I hope you make true on your announcement, buh-bye!
No.8001 KONTRA
>>7998me on the left :DDD
No.8002
Is it absolutely necessary for buddhist monks to reach enlightenment by doing absolutely nothing of value?
Couldn't they reach enlightenment while also contributing to society or is that too much to ask?
No.8004 KONTRA
>>8002You're not the first one to hold such views on the topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wuzong_of_Tang No.8007 KONTRA
>>8005Because most of these are not contemporary depictions of them and there's not really much to go on besides their regalia.
The histories and biographies rarely if ever spend time talking about how someone looked like, even if they were an emperor.
If someone is very influential/infamous/popular then they will have a set of symbols and special depictions, but otherwise they don't really care.
No.8008
>>8007So you're telling me they just had some sameface standard "emperor" character they pulled out whenever someone asked for an illustration?
No.8009 KONTRA
>>8008Generally the earlier they are from history, the more likely it is that it's basically just some semi-generic placeholder art.
The Qing Emperors for example had their portraits done in their lives.
Even a contemporary portrait of Genghis Khan from China survives.
No.8010
It is hot. 82°F. Tried making iced coffee. Failed. Too much ice. Tasted like dirty water. Dumped it. Made regular coffee. Much better.
No.8012
>>7973off-topicIt's interesting that you attribute complaining about modernity to leftism despite leftism being ideology of progressivism. I think that it's consequence of western leftists being blinded by self-pity and narcissism and absolutising their suffering in [current year].
For example, Marxism claims that capitalism is more progressive and le better social order than feudalism. But on Ernstchan I've read an opinion that all the good things which we have under capitalism precede it and exist in contradiction with it. Instead of yet another formation capitalism becomes analog of Satan in Christianity.
No.8014
>>8012>ideology of progressivism>feudalism>the good things which we have under capitalism precede it and exist in contradiction with itAre you trying to intimidate and outsmart me with big words? Enjoy sniffing your reactionary farts?
I always chuckle when I think how very German it is to speak about sniffing farts and having things stuck up your ass. You can detect the percentage of Teutonic genes by analcentric word count
>that you attribute complaining about modernity to leftismIt was simply a joke about me using concepts in my posts and the attitude towards that: Ernst apparently does not like it. So there is nothing to explain, actually, because this was not meant to be serious.
No.8015 KONTRA
At this rate everyone will be fluent in Chinese but me on EC
I did my modern Chinese homework in the morning. There were a few little issues with the grammar here and there, but they were small.
Afterwards I had lunch and tried to see the Chinese Philosophy prof to hand him my essay, but his office was closed. He doesn't have office hours or an email address on the website.
I had it printed out and also attached a short letter detailing my own criticisms of the essay in the hindsight of almost a year.
Read some Confucius. It's painful to read after the Legalists.
Some guy walked by me and he said "Oh wow, the number 2 bestseller in the Sinosphere!" and for a quick second I was unsure what number one is and I asked him immediately to correct myself by saying it's the Red Book and why the fuck was I even asking it in the first place. He patted me on the shoulder and said "But you figured it out and that's all that matters".
Don't even know who he was.
I internally debated getting a coffee, but in the end I decided against it.
Classical Chinese class went well. Corrected some little errors in the text. I feel like we wasted a lot of time on Tibetan culture again. This sounds kinda insensitive I guess.
The lecturer had custom-made Taylor Swift shirt. It depicted her in the middle of a Buddhist wheel-of-life, with some Chinese-language mantra under it. I heard that apparently a class of students made it for him after seeing him regularly in a Taylor Swift shirt.
Plus apparently his macbook is called "Jojo-chan's Macbook Air". Well, I assume it was his, considering I saw no other macbook in the classroom when I looked around after I saw the device as an option on airdrop. Genuinely what the fuck.
I was very tired. On the way home I stopped at the store to buy sugar, lemon juice and tea. Can't make tea without these and we need tea. It's a physical need at this point.
Almost fell asleep and honestly I kinda just zoned out for like an hour or so as I played Tetris.
Wrote an email and skipped the last class of the day because I genuinely felt like I wasn't going to make it.
Then I whipped up some lunch. Fresh pepper, freshly baked breadrolls and some cheese. Good stuff.
The entire country is in a Nobel-frenzy since two Hungarians won in two categories. And Krasznahorkai is still a runner-up for the Literature prize. I hope he wins. It pains us to no end that we were forced to bear with Kertész' bullshit.
No.8016
A bunch of ESLs try to have serious discussions but fail repeatedly due to miscommunications and misreadings, the thread
No.8018
>>8012>Marxism claimsMarx is not the prophet, his writings are not holy scripture. Curb your marxist orthodoxy.
>capitalism is more progressive and le better social order than feudalismMarx understanding of feudalism was flawed by his view on 'the' 'middle-ages' and black legends spun by humanists, enlightenment-historiographs and the historians of his own time. (Barbarians conquered and destroyed a corrupted Rome, dark centuries full of idiocy, illiteracy and zero progress followed.)
The rightless peasant in dirty rags bringing his daughter to the lord so the lord can execute the ius primae noctis is a historiagraphical fiction
Using very polite words. Bullshit exceeding the nonsense of jew-soap.
No.8020 KONTRA
>>8018>Bullshit exceeding the nonsense of jew-soap.Odd and specific example. Hallo, Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes?
No.8021
No.8024
I read through a slideshow of twitter posts where people in retail, fast food joints and other customer contact jobs say "embarrassing" things like wanting to pee and asking the customer "can I go to the bathroom" instead of "do you want a receipt", ordering pizza after work, getting the order repeated and instead of saying yes saying "is that all?", wishing a nice weekend in a Wednesday and so on.
It reminded me of humans are these creatures that are basically automatic (involuntary), that need automaticity to function but that leads to fascinating and funny moments, since humans often regard themselves also as autonomous (voluntary) and in control of themselves.
What have been your moments in which your brain took over and made weird things? I also think of Clarks predictive brain theory and how these "glitches" might emerge.
The inevitable fart follows:
“An automatism refers to an involuntary movement, one without a ‘soul.’ But in Greek automatos also means ‘that which moves by itself,’ spontaneously. The concepts of automaton and automatism thus bear a double valency of mechanical constraint and freedom.” (100) Both “push at each other without ever separating”. (101)
No.8026
>Fun fact: the artist who composed this brilliant soundtrack also composed the score for the Avengers saga. It’s no wonder why this soundtrack still sounds epic to this day.
Easy mode: guess artist
Hard mode: guess soundtrack this comment was found under
No.8028
>>8025I wasn't aware of Modern Times being a film about neuroactivity and not a critique of rationalized labor and an administered world as Adorno was mentioning in a half sentence once!
Brilliant minds are seldom but on Ernstchan they are plenty, I know why I come here every day.
No.8029
I dont believe "wars" exist at least since the napoleonic wars which IMO were fake. USA civil war, WW1 and WW2, Cold War..I think its a hoax, a phoney, a smoke-screen.
most men masturbate. masturbators arent brave. soldiers need to be brave. therefore most men cant be soldier. 90% of men ever all across the Earth cant be soldier. where are all soldiers COMING FROM?
Do you really think someone as pathetic as an american, an austr*alian or a german who lived his whole life in a cushy-cushy first world country can just pass an "special forces" exam and become Rambo in afghanistan?
here arent enough non-first-world men on earth to carry out the alleged military campaigns attributed to NATO or SOCOM or whatever
actual "warfare" is just 2 groups of chuds shooting at each other behind a brick wall.
If you dress a monkey with a suit he's still a monkey.
warfare is a huge racket and a mix of cinema, mass crisis actors, racketeering and controlled demolition + forced relocation + allocation of resources trough crony capitalism
No.8031
>>8029Reminds me of
https://stopmasturbationnow.org/civics/should-people-who-masturbate-be-allowed-to-vote/It can't be serious. But writing 50 articles about masturbation ironically? Weird too.
> Do you really think someone as pathetic as an american, an austr*alian or a german who lived his whole life in a cushy-cushy first world country can just pass an "special forces" exam and become Rambo in afghanistan?Firsties are smart enough to make third worlders fight for them.
No.8034 KONTRA
I tried AI image generation today. It runs surprisingly smooth on the machine. Though I gotta find a better model and some auxiliary models to generate something actually good. I guess I underestimated the capabilities of the Mac.
Sister's presentation I helped her prepare for went well. They got 38/40 points. I guess all that autistic collecting of facts and tech history has paid off in some form. I'm happy.
I feel sick. Kinda dizzy. Don't know why. I feel like I'm gonna throw up as I'm writing this. I wonder if it was the chocolate I had.
Would be pretty funny if a swiss dark chocolate would make me throw up.
No.8035
>>8034>Would be pretty funny if a swiss dark chocolate would make me throw up.Ì ďon't get the humor
No.8036
>>8024>What have been your moments in which your brain took over and made weird things?Five minutes ago. Walking out of the kitchen thinking
I need to switch out the lights. Brian sent signal. Arm raised and extended. Feet kept walking. Entered bedroom and reached out to a wall with no switch and tried to flip it.
No.8042 KONTRA
My suffering is too much to bear.
>>8034I got addicted to generating all sorts of shit for two weeks or so. Then it suddenly became very boring.
>>8033Huh.
No.8044
Woke up in the night because I though I was getting heartburn.
However, this didn't feel like regular heartburn, but it was literally a burning sensation in my chest behind the heart.
The last time I had this was when I took an aspirin against side effects of the jab and thought I had a stomach ulcer.
Could barely sleep at times, especially when it felt like I'd have to throw up.
Felt like that all day. It will probably be gone by tomorrow, but it's just weird what the body does. However, I noticed that whenever I am coughing the pain gets worse, so it might have to with that, because my coughing fits have been, at times, pretty violent.
Happy when this is over.
No.8045
>>8044I'm not sure what to think of your body monitoring everytime you are sick.
>it's just weird what the body doesYou could also visit a doctor if you experience these things you describe frequently and it does not feel normal. That is if you have not done it already anyway.
No.8046
>>8045>everytime you are sick.You must confuse me with someone else, because I have been doing that only for the recent cold.
No.8047
>>8046Maybe, it just feels like German Ernst(s) are frequently catching a cold and then monitor and report here. Then again it has been some years by now.
Whatever, my point still stands, if it is the case that your body does strange things more often than not in some way or another.
No.8048
>>8047There seems to be something going around at the moment.
We all WFH and like five other people have done a yellow vacation in the past week(s), and they also don't live close enough to each other that one could assume a common source of the plague.
No.8049
>>8048One of my roommates has also been sick. But she frequently is somehow.
No.8051
I plan to go sleep before 7pm and wake up early after a great and restful sleep.
I'm hoping just a little under 12 hours of sleep.
There won't be any bickering on EC by the time I'm back
No.8054
Why do some people call any serious discussion "bickering"? Do you want EC to be circlejerk or hugbox?
No.8055
>>8054It's basically a meme of its own at this point.
Third worlders are not capable of prolonged discussion, so they had to invent a term to cope.
webm related, one of the aforementioned posters when encountering a mirror
No.8056
>>8055>Third worlders are not capable of prolonged discussionPlease be patient. Malnutrition affects our cognitive abilities. We can't keep up with context of long discussion and become angry.
No.8057
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntinousStatues of emperor's boyfriend were omnipresent in Roman cities and still widespread in Gayrope. Same as with statues of Lenin in USSR.
> After the tragic death of Antinous in Egypt, Emperor Hadrian deified him. The cult of the young man reached unprecedented proportions in Roman history: the city of Antinopolis was founded not far from the place of his death, a new constellation was named after him, holidays and games were established in his honor in various cities of the empire, temples and altars dedicated to him were erected, coins with his portraits were minted , numerous sculptures were created No.8058
>>8056It's ok, that's the teutonic's burden, to bring the light to all the lesser peoples.
For those who are currently standing in the shadows, to provide a place in the sun.
No.8060 KONTRA
I got up early in the morning, but I got on the wrong bus so I was like 20 minutes late to class. I seem to understand the Native Chinese lecturer now rather well. I'm honestly surprised. After class I told her why I was late and she understood what I was saying. Went to the library and had my borrowing extended and also my overdue fees removed.
Whined a bit to the librarian about my life and then told her I don't want to use her as a therapist and that I'm sorry. She recommended I go to Germany on Erasmus if I have the chance. To see "how things are done properly".
I should just go to fucking China finally.
She joked that if I had written my thesis on Buddhism instead of Legalism then the department might have given a fuck. Apparently like 90% of the new people hired to teach have been specialising in Buddhism. Someone needs to pull an Emperor Wuzong at this dept.
Anyway I shouldn't care so much about my career. I should just get my degree and then figure my life out.
Afterwards I went home and had lunch made. Then I returned for the Chinese philosophy seminar. I handed over my thesis work to the prof for him to review it. He told me he was expecting and email but I told him I couldn't find it on the website.
This week's topic was the Lunyu. I was a bit bored in the beginning but then he got into untangling the relationship between terms like 德，義，君子 and 仁 and I was hooked on writing notes into my copy of the text for both the original and the translation. It felt so clear finally.
Class was in his office, because this way the department can free up a "PhD room". He has two desks. One of them is huge and has piles of papers and books on it. His pipe was also there on a stand. The other one had an old PC with an early 2000s monitor on it that had the stand built into the frame.
Really, just re-reading the Lunyu again for the 4th time after studying Chinese for 3-4 years has made it a lot more colourful book. I was actually feeling almost a connection to Confucius as I read about his little adventures and opinions, even if from a legalist standpoint he says some crazy retarded shit about governance.
On the way out I saw an Asian girl stand in the hallway, waiting by the office's door. She asked me in Hungarian, with a small accent if the professor was in and I replied in Chinese that he's in and she may go in. It was like one of those "Whiteboy shocks Asian restaurant by ordering in fluent Chinese" videos.
Thinking about it it was one hell of a fucking gamble, considering the offices of the Korean Dept are on the same floor, so everything is full of Koreans.
Went to German class afterwards. Was paired up to talk with the Japanologist chick who rejected me. We had such a lively discussion about hanzi/kanji. I had a coffee before class. She rushed to the subway afterwards so we didn't hug like we usually do.
It's getting kind of cold. My nose and legs feel cold at least.
I assume the thermostat is still on the "let's save money" settings, so it will turn on once we reach 18C inside.
No.8061
>>8054Because there is nothing to discuss or argue about.
Any given topic has an obvious correct answer that is plain to see to everyone with common sense, and any attempt to question things is a subversion by bad faith actors who have something to gain from muddling things and introducing confusion.
All normal people possess this ability to perceive reality as it is, through common sense (God given).
People who go to academia or read too many leftist books lose this ability, and become the agents of chaos, trying to sow doubt about things that are perfectly clear to normal people.
Normal people have an instinct for such things however (Detect Evil), and will band together to reject and destroy the well-poisoners, as long as the well-poisoners don't outnumber them.
Test this on common guy Vas'ka from the district: start telling him about the effect of modernity on the human perception of meaning. He will tell you to shut the fuck up, or punch you and take your smartphone. Defense mechanism in action.
EC used to be a den of such mentally compromised individuals, but after being called retarded enough times, they left and now we have a majority normal person posterbase (the good guys won).
No.8063 KONTRA
>>8061Indeed, indeed. Though becoming agents of chaos is not exclusively a gommie leftist problem, but holds true in the context of EC of course.
>(the good guys won)We did it, Ernsts.
No.8065
Yesterday morning I smote three mosquitos in my office, which is only inhabited during work hours.
When I went to bed I was kept awake by a faint distant buzzing, which I first mistook for some appliance or something outside, until I realized it was a mosquito.
Then I heard a slightly different buzzing joining in, at which point I knew I had to get out of bed and hunt the beasts down, lest I stay awake all night from the cacophony.
So I took a small light and a flyswatter and slowly scanned the - luckily for me - white walls.
One of those assholes sat on the ceiling, but I smashed it with the power of a thousand fists.
The second one actually sat behind the wardrobe on the wall. It is slightly projecting into the room to leave a generous gap for ventilation, so I could actually see behind it and swat the fiend; I left its shattered remains on the wall where the blow struck it.
And just when I wanted to go back to bed I heard a third buzzing voice rise.
This one was still airborne, hovering around in front of the window. I let the swatter whip down, hurling the perilous parasite right onto the windowsill, where it perished a moment later.
Thus, I could finally go back to bed, with the flyswatter next to me like a cowboy keeps his gun ready, to get a full night's sleep that I was in dire need of.
No.8066 KONTRA
>>8061suka give cigarette
No.8069 KONTRA
You can't wear elaborate outfits when it's 33c outside.
No.8071
>>8061Now when leftists are no longer majority on EC, I'll have to become one of them in order to stay agent of chaos.
The teams have been auto balanced No.8073
>>8071Lord Fartula is still here, don't worry.