No.8077 KONTRA
It's friday against. Have a good weekend, everyone.
>>8069What is an elaborate southern outfit anyways? A shirt to go with the shorts and sandals?
No.8079 KONTRA
>>8077How dare you, Pekka? I've seen what your kind wear when they go outside. I've especially seen what your kind wear when they go outside, at night! The entire make-believe image of Helsinkites being cosmopolitan Europeans is shattered by visiting any night establishment and taking now of how these bog creatures decide to dress up. They dress like transplanted 18th century serfs given disposable income. Finland remains a beacon of hope for adult women over 30 who think their bright white outfits are improved with glitter and beads, betraying their short time under civilized rule. The men are no better, having "ironic" facial hair whose only real purpose is to distract from their asiatic features and thinking anything found in a second hand store is inherently cool. If they don't look like half-humans from countryside, they look like frail faintly asiatic men trying to impersonate someone's grandfather.
Now, to answer your question - I wanted to go all out and wear an extremely metrosexual white puffy Boss(tm) vest to a concert. It's just too hot.
No.8080 KONTRA
>>8079Also good weekend :DDD
Except mine started Thursday, get rekt :DD No.8082
bought new barthroom scales
diagnosis: I'm fat
No.8083 KONTRA
Shaved my face with a razor for the first time in at least 5 years. I had forgotten what my face looked like.
No.8084
>>8074HAHA IDIOT COUNTERPOPE
No.8085 KONTRA
>>8083Did the math, it was 7 years. Already regretting my decision but alas.
No.8086
How many bookmarks do you have in your browser? Currently, my bookmarks are from 2020 onwards and the potential read list is ~1000 (I even delete stuff from there sometimes), the "interesting articles" one is 430, the one for my degree program is 1003, audio/listening is around 500, and miscellaneous is also around 500. There is more but I stop here.
Are you also a bookmark hoarder? How orderly are you with your tabs? I usually trim them every then and now.
No.8087
>>8042>generating all sorts of shitConsider my interest piqued.
>>8086Have you thought about bequeathing a part of that pile to people with a longer remaining expected lifetime than yours? Before all those links die? I'm sure working through the hoard one's can't-be-arsed-to-read-all-that uncle has amassed will give young people a sense of purpose.
No.8088
>>8086I think I don't even have a hundred bookmarks overall.
But then again I usually read stuff directly, so there is no need for bookmarks in that case.
No.8090
There's a mechanism in normal peoples' brains that lets them hold onto stuff
No.8091 KONTRA
Had a pretty okay day. Made some lángos.
They finally paid out the stipend so I snagged a used GPU for the PC for an okay price.
Kinda makes me want to go ham and buy a bunch of steamkey for titles I want to play but I'm going to get like 2 at best and wait to get more until I've finished those.
Got a mail from the professor that he finished reading my thesis. He said it was an interesting read and in general okay, but he was dissatisfied with my grasp of Legalist terminology and that it has caused some misunderstanding during the analysis.
One thing that stood out in the letter was how he worded it addressing me as the Hungarian form of the Latin word "Collega".
Which is on one hand is pretty oldschool, but also kind of feels like a distinction that he has confidence in me and my intellectual capabilities.
Did some exercise and also harvested another pepper.
Going beyond my wildest dreams with this harvest.
Also my right eye is itching for some reason. But it's getting better. I wonder what irritated it so much.
>>8086Probably none if you don't count the toolbar bookmarks I have to reach dictionaries, emails, university pages and frequently used websites where I buy books.
If I need to read something at a later date I usually save the link into my notes application or copypaste the text into the notes app. (This is usually with random as fuck Classical Chinese paragraphs and fragments.)
But I've been told that using the notes app is boomercore and cringe.
No.8092
>>8089I have an opposite problem. Every few years my previous life annihilates regardless of my will. I don't feel like me in the past has much to do in common with me. Why even try if someone else will reap what I sow? Or won't because circumstances will change.
No.8094 KONTRA
>>8078>Finland ignored everything and opened another, welpTry making a today thread that's not absolute dogshit. How the fuck do you think "I something something something" is appropriate for the initial post? No one cares! It's a today threda. Accommodate the people posting in it. It is a vessel. You are not important. Not to mention all of the other shortcomings...
>>8079Incredibly racist post. Also, you watch one Helsinki City Boy music video and think we're cosmopolitan Europeans? Come on now. And a puffy vest with the shorts and sandals? Damn, a lot more elaborate than I thought :DDD
>>8080Mwah! You weekend-garch.
>>8089Can you share some of the things you thought were important? I find it difficult to even identify what's important in the first place. It's all so meaningless when you think what's within one's realistic reach.
No.8095
>>8092>someone else will reap what I sowWhy don't you show that fucker and ruin their life for a change?
No.8096
>>8086I bookmark everything. Completely unorganized. Rarely return to visit old, bookmarked sites. No idea how to count them. A lot.
No.8099
>>8094>Try making a today thread that's not absolute dogshit. I came up with the today thread
no really, who opened the first one, I cannot tell and opened many, there is no sense in lecturing me!
No.8101
*ominous daily chanting in the distance*
No.8103
>>8061that sounds very ... what is the word? analytic thinkenings.
basically you can devide "western" (anal) and "eastern" (hollow) culture in terms of how they thinkenings. here is a little video chain regarding that topic
analytic and holistic thinkinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ep308goxQ [~15min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opy-SjDU0UY [~13min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UAsN9wvePE [~35min]
reality, sadly, isn't always 100% logical, especially if humans are involved.
>>8086i don't have toooo many bookmarks.
i have too many tabs, thou. and too many browsers.
i have one browser for readenings - (vivaldi is very good for tab-management)
one browser for account fagging (yt, etc. pp)
one "standard" browser
one browser for multi-account-stuff
chrome to stream 24/7 sissy/goon-hypno for fake telemetry data.
i usually go over my tabs and either do a "fuck it, has been long enough" -> delete all
or just close those unlikely to be revisited.
bookmarks on this browser are for frequently visited pages, since i don't safe any cookies or the previous session on this one.
No.8105 KONTRA
>>8104Maybe this will bring me the emotional and indeological liberation/release Putler's Eurasia failed to.
No.8106
>>8104Will get another one in Yugoslavia soon! What peace NATO brings!
No.8107
>>8105This. The new wars will be used to justify new price hikes and new tax hikes, and the public in western countries will applaude!
No.8108
>>8104Aren't the Israelis a crazy army that can just invade Gaza? I never bothered looking deep into the conflict or the situation at large in the past or present. Disqualifies me as a leftist I think, lucky me, amirite.
Whatever, I can already see my basil, mint and Christmas oranges from Israel soaring in price, ((THEY)) did it again. I won't freeze for Israelis nor Palestinians, Im a Western European male after all, you hear that, movers and shakers of the world stage??!.
No.8109 KONTRA
>>8104I wonder what the totally adequate and not at all excessive answer of Israel will be
No.8110 KONTRA
>>8109Well, it seems like they killed over 100 Israelis.
If austrians would fly into Germany with paragliders and kill 100 germans, i would hope we bomb them to hell.
And yes, that is literally the same thing.
No.8111
>>8110>Well, it seems like they killed over 100 Israelis.Israelis kill hundreds of children every day. (Compare child mortality rates, Israel is the reason the Palestinian rate is so high.)
>If austrians would fly into Germany with paragliders and kill 100 germans, i would hope we bomb them to hell.That's because you are a nazi.
>And yes, that is literally the same thing.No, it isn't.
No.8112
>>8110So far there's like 30 confirmed dead.
Which is already enough to kill hundreds of palestenians.
You can say what you want, but regarding revenge killings the jews really took the lessons seriously they learned from the SS.
No.8113
This war proved to generate splendid serious discussions, that's all I can say so far about the situation.
No.8114
>>8113They call it a war, but in reality it's more like some kind of unusual endeavour of a non-civilian nature.
No.8115
>>8112Israel is also a literal apartheid-state, they teamed up with south Africa to produce their nuclear weapons in the seventies and eighties.
No.8116
Seems like nothingburger which happens more or less regularly, isn't it?
No.8117
>>8116Yeah but I think it's elections again or something and Bibi has to pull a strong leader.
No.8119
>>8117News from 2022:
> Israel will hold elections on November 1, its fifth time in four years.They always have elections.
No.8120
>>8119Well there you have your explanation!
No.8121
The great thing about Israel is that you can hate it either way - if you're a rightwinger you hate it because it's shifty jews, arabs and other semites, and if you're a leftwinger you can hate it for its apartheid regime, sterilization of blacks and far-right government.
Just how are they doing it?
No.8122 KONTRA
>>8121Right-wingers should love Israel because its existence delegitimizes the victim-role the Jewish diaspore often takes on.
"Don't like living here? Just fuck off to Israel then!"
No.8123
>>8122Spoken with true chuzpa.
Say, what was your last name, again?
No.8125
> Israel is the modern day nazi regime.
haven't they shot into a peaceful protest ~recently and switched from lethal weapons to some sound-based-non-lethal option, because it was more effective to get the palestinien pest away from their holy border?
i have something along those lines in the back of my head, but i might remember it wrong.
No.8126
>>8121Right-wingers and leftists also like Israel for certain reasons. Basically a reversal of yours.
No.8127
>>8126Brainwashed victims of the springer-press love Israel. They are pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-fascist ...
Sounds a lot like pic related to me.
No.8128 KONTRA
>>8127Right wingers like Israel too, why? Because it is a right wing government.
Did you crawl out of the sewer when you heard the rockets launch to make some quality posts?
No.8129
>>8124Can't watch the video. If it doesn't affect me it's nothingburger.
>>8127I think 99% of antifa types are pro-Palestine.
No.8141
>>8129>99% are proProbably not wrong outside of Germany, since the argument is that Israel acts as an imperialist power. The schizo has his idea from living in Germany, where a special kind of Israel-American-friendly leftist thinking exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Germans_(political_current)I wonder why it should not be possible to regard Israel as imperialistic while also rejecting antisemitism.
No.8143
>>8141>I wonder why it should not be possible to regard Israel as imperialistic while also rejecting antisemitism.Because the state of Israel and judaism are inseparable.
No.8146
>>8143> Because the state of Israel and judaism are inseparable.that actually would be my main-critique point.
haven't we kinda globally agreed, that state and religion should be separated?
No.8147
>>8146>haven't we kinda globally agreed, that state and religion should be separated?lolno, that's an exclusively christian idea
No.8148
>>8147isn't china of said idea as well? or do i have that wrong.
No.8149
>>8143>>8146And a secular Israel is not a possibility? Just like secular states in the arab world could be possible. Obviously, these seem far away nowadays. But I don't see a necessity. I mean secular jews exist. I think what I mean is anti-zionism.
No.8151 KONTRA
>>8143That's up to debate, depending on how you view "Jew" as a category. Is it an ethnicity or a religion? Or an ethno-religion?
If it's an ethnicity then the relationship between the State of Israel and its orthodox Jewish population becomes a lot more complex.
Not exactly sure if the secular Jews are happy about having the orthodox Jews around. (As in, living with them and such.)
The secular Jews do all the fighting and economic development in the country, and the orthodox refuse most work and even military service in a lot of cases.
But the seculars don't reproduce nearly as much as the orthodox, so the seculars depend on the orthodox for building settlements and syphoning their children into secular life to keep Israel, the high-tech country going.
Outside of this practical reason (they fuck, which is good in the long term) the only reason Israel keeps them around is for "marketing", because otherwise it's just your run of the mill democratic nation. Hell, a "colonial nation" if you look at it literally.
No.8154
For as long as jews consider themselves an ethnicity and culture, there will be no "secular" jews. It's an oxymoron.
No.8158
>>8154Does not make sense, explain.
No.8160
>>8158What exactly do you not understand about that statement?
No.8163
>>8160Explain your statement. You did not give a reason why it is an oxymoron, or you hide it behind two terms "ethnicity and culture".
No.8165
>>8163...and yet what exactly is it that you don't understand? Do you want me to explain the words to you?
No.8166
>>8165Ach Ernst. Use more words to reason instead of a single line with a few big words. I'm lay audience.
No.8169
>>8154The only thing which unites all Jews are antisemites.
No.8170
>>8166>big wordlachz
Ok, how about this: We asked a jew and a goy about some things:
Ernst Lauert
Religion: christian
Ethnicity: white european
Culture: german
Israel Lauerberg
Religion: jewish
Ethnicity: jewish
Culture: jewish
Being a jew can never be just the religious affiliation. A secular jew is still circumcised, a secular jew might still adhere to some of their dumb purity laws and other jewish cultural customs - which have all grown from and are part of the religion. A secular jew will still differentiate between jews and gentiles.
Also consider judaism with its congenital condition (convertites exist, yeah, but come on...). Unlike being a christian or muslim, you are quite literally born a jew or you are not.
Therefore you can't be a jew without any kind of overlap with the religion.
I won't talk about the need of a strong cultural identity in the face of adversary and prosecution, but that's irrelevant for the point I'm making.
No.8171 KONTRA
how do you get two rabbis fighting?
> you throw a coin in between them.
how do you get two priests fighting?
> you throw a child in between them.
how are the ones from the other big abrahamic sect called again? those who like mohammed instead of jesus
No.8173 KONTRA
>>8172> Imamsrsly?
it would be
> how do you get two imams fighting???
... no wonder the joke had no third episode.
No.8174
>>8173Imam is the guy preaching in the mosque, so I'd assume it's the analogue.
But I also can't come up with a good punchline, except maybe something like
>any two, as long as one of them is not a sunni No.8180
It's snowing
No.8181
>>8170>a secular jew might still adhere to some of their dumb purity laws and other jewish cultural customs - which have all grown from and are part of the religionI don't see how that is different for a secular Ernst Lauert whose history is influenced by Christianity.
Imagine Germans coming together on Christmas, never laid of their religion.
>A secular jew will still differentiate between jews and gentilesIn what way? Or will a secular jew differentiate between jews and non-jews on the basis of non-religious criteria like ethnicity?
>Also consider judaism with its congenital condition (convertites exist, yeah, but come on...). Unlike being a christian or muslim, you are quite literally born a jew or you are notHow is this relevant? The religious practice might need ethnicity and culture but I'm still not convinced of the other way around, namely that a jew needs Judaism as religion to be a jew.
No.8182
>>8149Secular schmecular. Judaism dors not distinguish between ethnicity and religion. Who is a jew? Someone born by a Jewish mother. Who can be a citizen of Israel? A Jew.
Israel will always be ethnically Jewish and of Jewish religion, it is a fascist theocracy by definition.
No.8183 KONTRA
>>8181Christmas is not a christian holiday, it just got put on a christian hat, and even if it were a genuine christian holiday, it's now been so far commercialized and removed from its actual origins that you can hardly make a point here, unlike with Jom Kippur or Passover.
>In what way?What do you mean? There are jews and there are gentiles. Anyone who is not a jew is a goy.
> but I'm still not convinced of the other way around, namely that a jew needs Judaism as religion to be a jew.There is no being jewish without judaism, so whatever you are not convinced of is irrelevant. See also
>>8182.
No.8186
>>8185Fun fact: Germans haven't really changed in the past 80 years. The denazification only scrubbed off the paint, but the underlying mentality never changed.
Else you couldn't get something like the Greens in power.
No.8188
>>8094>Can you share some of the things you thought were important? I find it difficult to even identify what's important in the first place. It's all so meaningless when you think what's within one's realistic reach.I got tired of leftist video essays on youtube and there's nothing else to fill in the boredom yet
No.8191
>>8186> something like the greensAn anti-German party in favor of open borders, capitalism
and total immigration, flavored with a sprinkle of environmentalism (but only where it doesn't hurt.)
No.8192
Got a new frying pan. The handle conducts heat. Need a potholder to move it. Who designed this thing? Our newest sponsor
Blue Diamond™, that's who.
>>8180F.
No.8194 KONTRA
>>8191Also the party with the highest approval of the war among its supporters.
Just tell them it's a righteous war and they will happily applaud and sanction every possible atrocity, as long as they think they're the good guys.
Also the party with the highest approval of "it's ok to ban things I don't like" and "censorship is good as long as it targets the right people", which is a pretty fascist stance, if you ask me.
No.8197 KONTRA
>>8194>Ban things I don't likeEvery party wants to ban things they don't like. The green party just wants to ban things you like, which is why you don't like them and call them fascist.
And supporting Russian imperialists so they can control Germany instead is not any better, either.
No.8198 KONTRA
Found out that Helsinki tracks UN "Agenda 2030" goals progress. It's not a great outlook. Most of the metrics are declining. Interesting nevertheless.
https://kestavyys.hel.fi/en/indicators/>>8188Were the leftist video essays actually important to you, or merely a way to keep away the boredom? In any case, unfortunate. May you discover another interesting topic with bountiful video essays.
>>8193Did you really have to post my profile picture on EC? Rude...
No.8199
>>8198Finland dissatisfied globohomo.
No.8200
>>8198>actually important to you, or merely a way to keep away the boredom? There's a distinction?
No.8201 KONTRA
>>8199I don't think many entities openly track their progress, so even if we're not managing better I'm sure it's appreciated that the data is public.
And please, cool it with the language. If you have gripes with Agenda 2030 or UN in general, feel free to elaborate. We should have surpassed such crass name-calling this late into the intelligent year.
>>8200For me there is. Maybe not for everyone.
No.8202
Dad with grandpa arguing over Yeltsin once again. >_<
No.8204 KONTRA
>>8203Everyone's favorite funny drunk uncle wasn't he?
Fostering substance dependency in a target is a method of subversion. Subversion is a method used by secret services. Vladimir Putin was an employee of the Soviet secret service. His ascendence to presidency was at least hastened by his predecessors decline in health and mental facilities.
The obvious thought is, of course purely speculative...
No.8206
>>8205I'm so bored, don't know what to do, don't want to read, watch a movie or use TikTok. I will continue with the footnotes and listen to Sailing the Sea Depends on the Helmsmen in the home keyboard variant. My fingers going over the keyboard in sophistication with the rhythm, progress, es geht voran, Ernst!
No.8207
>>8205Can't Zotero do different styles or am I confusing it with another program?
No.8208
>>8207Not the style I want as far as I have ventured.
Only 12 more pages to go now and footnotes are basically done.
Time to stop and think about the woman with the snatched waist, tight black leggings and backless top at the library bending over the table. I overheard the group studying economics and it seemed like they have a sort of "Instagram style", nothing I fancy usually but the body shape was remarkable, to say the least.
No.8209 KONTRA
Nothing interesting today. I translated a paragraph of classical Chinese, made a few twitter posts and also filled the dishwasher twice and took out the trash.
We made the remaining lángos dough for lunch.
Reading this article about van Gennep's Rites of Passage. It's scanned terribly.
Bought a few steam keys for when the GPU arrives. I'll probably blast through Postal 4 next weekend. It'll probably be fine but I'll complain how it's different from 2 and therefore it's le bad, even though it'll have more interactivity and more content than 2 ever did.
Give it like 5 more years and you won't even notice the dated jokes. Just like with 2.
Kinda funny because it's like with old text where some of the intertextuality gets lost as time goes on and it requires ever more effort to understand it, making something low-brow accessible only for those that have within their means to research it.
Also made the most bougie purchase ever and I got the Pleco professsional bundle. And I also figured out how to make dictionary groups so now I can switch between my classical and modern dictionaries by a single click, which is very good and has made my work a lot more efficient.
Honestly I've learned a lot about technology in the past year or so and my quasi-luddite attempts at dislodging myself from the system seem pretty foolish in retrospect.
What did we learn? Everything with moderation! A little twitter, a little using your phone and so on.
Just finished my flashcards for the day.
2bh the whole Israel-Palestine conflict doesn't really seem to stimulate my political contrarianism strangely enough. Maybe I've burnt out on Ukraine, as a sort of once-in-a-lifetime juvenile flare-up when you believe the work is changing completely in a week, only to realise it just made things suck for little gain.
>>8205Never really got Zotero.
Then again I never really wrote anything substantial. (I'm well aware that 30 or so pages is not "substantial" by academic standards.)
(I probably didn't get it because it was impersonally "forced on us" as part of a class on "digital humanities" and being thrusted into a piece of software to do some decontextualised task in the middle of covid when I've been forced to install 20 different fucking digital services because no one can agree on a standard didn't leave the best impression on me.)
I'm a lot happier to adapt stuff when someone I know says "hey I've been doing stuff this kickass way and you should try it too!"
I guess I already do something similar with the notes app, albeit probably less organised than I could do it.
Maybe I should give it a try.
I wonder how people did it 40 years ago. Did they just write down everything by hand onto "citation cards" or something?
No.8210
Bought overpriced hemp shampoo. It doesn't smell with hemp. Wasted money.
A lot of Siberians, especially Far Easterners, in Peterburg. Probably because they're already accustomed to shitty climate. I want to visit Peter and Paul fortress in this season, everything else can wait until spring.
>>8205If someone advises you to use TeX for your thesis don't listen to him.
No.8211 KONTRA
holy shit, noticed that the picture weights 17 megabytes
No.8212 KONTRA
>>8205Use kbibtex and latex. I can smell unwashed word peasants from miles away. Are you serious or are you some office-worker Lisa typing out 1-pagers for her boss between two bliwjobs?
No.8213
>>8209>Never really got ZoteroZotero can do more than what I use it for I think. Basically, Zotero is my library bibliography in that with copying an ISBN or DOI I get all the relevant info for a book or paper and then can use this info and copy it for footnotes instead of opening a pdf or real book and copy/type it from there.
Zotero can do your citation, basically no typing of citations if you add the plug-in or whatever it is, but it did not work for me because my citation style is not available. Zotero can also have notes and whatnot in it I think.
I use a digital Zettelkasten that is connected to my "library" (zotero directory of all papers/books I bothered to add) and when I type an @ and further characters in one of my zettel/notes it opens the list and suggests authors and year accordingly, makes it faster. I then use these zettel/notes and copy them into my document. From there it is building (text)blocks and a lot of editing. I squirm in horror at imagining editing a PhD thesis.
I wrote several ~25pp class papers during my BA and MA. The MA is at ~60 pages with about 20000 words. And as mentioned, the editing is the crucial part but also the hardest. Drafting is necessary and can be a first obstacle but the critical work is in iterations of editing which is not easy once you have amassed some text. I mean it is the first time I have to edit this extensively because I have never had so much text, a rather 'complex' (and thus cannot fully develop) argument and a paper that was basically coming together in its argument while writing for the most part. For many class papers, I already started writing having a clear structure planned and used as orientation but this time the most important claim was missing, trusting that something would come up from the smaller theses that in themselves are not very interesting, only in combination they assemble something that points towards something interesting. It was nice working on this MA and taught me something but research-wise it just opened a big space of necessary research to be done in order to actually answer the questions I posed, which is the normal reaction I guess, you realize you did not much, a good idea maybe but so many things that seem important to look at and need to be understood, analyzed and connected necessary to answer some questions but have been left unscrutinized, unconsidered and so on for this MA
I was also told to not to write too much, so this limits what is possible anyway, I used only half of the time everybody is granted, since I need my student fees back, no need for my MA thesis to cost me the complete fee of the winter semester.
No.8215
>>8212Yes, he is such a Lisa.
>>8214TeX was invented by Teutonic Genius of Donald Knuth who also wrote four volume monograph about algorithms. All code snippets in it are on assembler (almost raw machine code). Sadistic informatics teachers often recommend this book to schoolchildren.
It's like Word but instead of clicking buttons you write code of your layout. It's especially convenient for typing complex formulas.
No.8216
>>8208> nothing I fancy usually but the body shape was remarkable, to say the least.In Ernst humble experience this indicates an alignment in case of body expressions. Honestly, the most important factor.
you might be able to fool the mind. but you can't fool the body.Ernst's recommendation: impregnate her as soon as possible.
in the rare case she doesn't want offspring, you need to find another way to bind yourself to her !! No.8218 KONTRA
>>8215>It's like Word but instead of clicking buttons you write code of your layout. It's especially convenient for typing complex formulas.I know, it was preinstalled on university computers at my old university. The learncommandex alludes to learning to code within latex which I won't do. Maybe someday it is necessary but so far the Word that I know is easy enough to get everything done without getting frustrated.
>>8216She smiled at me twice but ignored me later. I might have asked her if she wasn't with a group.
No.8219
>>8218>>8215>>8212>>8208Ernsts, please feel my pain when I tell you the following story: I am about to officially declare the topic of my masters thesis this week and in preparation I had to write a summary of the topic I chose and justify why it's interesting to write about. I did this using LaTex, since that's what I use in my regular worflow for writing anyway; and when I handed it in last week the response was "Can you please transfer it to this docx-template?".
I'm studying in STEM and they didn't even have a TeX template ffs. But fine, I did as I was told and the result looked like any word document with its shitty formatting, it took almost 30 minutes of brainless bullshit work and was quite humiliating.
>>8215That image made me giggle because just yesterday I renamed about 20k pictures in my collection from jpeg to jpg, simply for austismal reasons.
In other news: I've been living with my new roomie for just over a month now and it feels like there's a pretty good friendship forming, even though we're 15 years apart. It's nice to experience (a bit) how much more exciting the life of younger people is. We've had more visitors in one months than I had over the entire last year with the old roomie (who was about my age). Really happy with my choice so far and their family is pretty much after my own taste, too (I got to know the parents when they moved in and all but one sibling has visited for a weekend so far).
We both like to cook, even the same type of food while also being excited to learn new recipies from each other. We have similar political alignments though I'm too awkward to actually go to protests anymore (I used to when I was much younger).
The humor is a nice fit as well, we laugh a lot about our own silliness.
Oh and I get to "play them the song of my peoples" when showing films from before their birth, like Matrix... when have I gotten so old and where did the last 15 years go?
No.8220
>>8218>without getting frustratedYour tolerance for frustration is unusually high.
No.8221
>>8219>But fine, I did as I was told and the result looked like any word document with its shitty formattingMy condolences.
The average word user doesn't think it's shitty.
Personally, I think a left-justified text written on a mechanical type writer usually looks better than anything that the average word user produces. But a mechanical type writer can't do comic sans, so check-mate.
No.8222 KONTRA
>>8214>bibklex You're killing me
No.8225
>>8224Frankly, to me it appears it's just one very opinionated German.
No.8226 KONTRA
>>8225>All people with an opinion I don't like are just one person samefagging, because that makes me feel better about myself and samefagging is what I do in this situation, ep. 123123You do this every fucking time and probably feel smart for playing the samefag-card. Could you try to stop being pathetic, or have you already given up?
No.8233
>>8224I will donate an extra large sausage for poor Portugal kids this Christmas for the way you made me chuckle. You always ask yourself what is this AI shit worth for until Portugal provides you with the necessary context.
>>8226I will fine you for intentional bickering.
t. Ordnungsamt
No.8237
>>8236In addition to renovating the facade
I never saw the old one at this location, as I was in Florida until 2020 Target did a complete interior remodel a few years ago. Not for the better, imo. There are now more clearly separated departments and large floor displays highlighting one brand or another. Feels like a
JC Penny or
Macy's which are a step up in the department store food chain. Those have multiple floors, large perfume and jewelry sections, more clothes and fewer consumer staples.
Target likely wants to attract that more affluent customer base while still appealing to guys who just need toothpaste and paper towels.
No.8242
>>8240What programm fo you use? I wanted to use AI to illustrate
>>8238 but all the AI that did not want me to sign up
tried just two were shit. Or maybe you should become a prompt engineer, Portugal. Rise from working class to professional managerial class.
No.8244
>>8240That's just regular regional league football though... they do more than just bicker.
No.8246
My dinner is frozen meat balls "hungarian style". It smells like the sauce with minced meat and paprika my grandma used to prepare.
No.8247
>>8240>>8242i friend of mine is playing around with AI as well. trying to break it or find loop-holes for usually red flagged content. he even got mail from one of the hosters, i think, telling him to keep going. they actually found a few buggy things because of his "work".
he showed me a little bit of adobes image generator. quite useful, honestly. there are i think 2 more big ones for images.
and learning promps can be done pretty fast... i think?
e.g. i wanted to test a gate to a different dimension. my initial approach was to just give a few words ~ "gate, natural, dimension" ... and i got a fucking garden-gate. a few promps later i had quite a few epic-tier looking sci-fy stuff pictures.
No.8249
I got up at 8 in the morning and didn't drink ANYTHING until around 8 in the evening.
I was neither thirsty nor did I get my usual desiccated headache.
Really fucking weird.
No.8251
>>8242I've just been putting requests via Bing.
>prompt engineerThis is the mindset I need in my life so I can succeed. I thought I was an input monkey up until now, I had no idea I was a Senior Prompt Engineer all along.
>Germans bickering in a picturesque park scene. Food is served over a large table cloth on the grass. A lake is seen in the distance.No idea why he went for military officers. I feel like I'm two words away from creating uncensored third reich imagery.
No.8252
>>8251i kinda love how you can always find something that makes no sense at all. e.g. nobody taught this one, that chickens can't fly.
but for "first impression" the pictures are surprisingly good.
No.8253
>>8240> bickering as a national sportI heard that some western universities have
debate competitions.
https://www.theglobalcitizenacademy.com/harvard-debate-tournament - for instance
No idea what rules are but maybe it's possible to hold them on EC in order to help some people let off the steam.
No.8256
>>8251This is also via log-in?
An old style realist painting of a German family aggressively bickering in a city park in 1911. The city is Berlin. The family is a father, a mother, a daughter, and a son. The family serves food of dark bread and sausage. In the background, a Kaiser Wilhelm parade is being held.
No.8257
Episode 2 of wiggle wiggle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmSjGbnEWk [~25min]
brb, building my own pew-pew cannon. seems to be a damn interesting tool.
> sixty symbolswelp, brady is an idiot, yes. (e.g. he still doesn't seem to understand the concept of Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation which can be seen at ~15:25 ff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmSjGbnEWk&t=925s)
and ye, he kinda spams too much content, but none the less he sometimes still has some gems in between.
What does Ernst think about this years Nobelprizefaggers?
No.8258 KONTRA
>>8257Your post makes no sense and I won't click some youtube links just shat into the thread without any context.
No.8259 KONTRA
>>8256Yes, all prompts will be tied to your outlook account, for eternity.
As expected, your prompt was rejected for potential content violations. The real art of being a Prompt Engineer like myself, is getting around these restrictions.
Behold, three images of turn of the century German bickering. It's about thinking ideologically correctly and fishing what you want out of the nigger AI gangster machine God.
No.8260
>>8259Pictured, forbidden German bickering prompts:
Teutonic Order bickering. Extremely rare and hard to generate.
I was going to post more but I have been temporarily suspended followed multiple tries at rendering an imaged parliamentary debate between Honecker and Kohl.
No.8261
>>8258Episode 1 was >>6915
which linked a video from 3b1b [3blue1brown], a pretty darn famous math yt-er.
the vid is an attempt at explaining certain math involved around bending light along a cylinder.
He uses the word "wiggle" a lot, since it is fitting in that context.
Episode 2 is about this years Nobelprize. Was awarded for very short light-pulses, which have been thought of as "impossible" for a certain time in science.
tl;dw: produced wave kicks elecetron in arse, electron goes pew. pulse ends and electron comes back crashing down. boom: new wave, which is very, very short pulsed.
No.8262
>>8259The first is displayed at the Nationalgalerie and schoolchildren pass it by the ten thousand every year. Little did these bickerers know what was to come onto Germany in the following years.
No.8264
If Germans don't want to move to Russia (not until first frosts), maybe Israelis will after inevitable Palestinian victory? We have our own Zion, it's placed in Siberia and has Yiddish as official language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast No.8265
>>8261my current thinkenings are looking if it is possible and how good it is to do some kinda off-tick phase-shifting with the initial pulse wave.
that is analog to this vid-thingy, where they shoot a laser x-thausend times, instead of ones, and every time take a picture a little later, to make it seem like you took a vid of the lasers.
just having some form of off-tick phase around the time it takes an electron for one "orbit" instead of "increased delay after each laser shot". you know, to look at density behavior and stuff.
No.8268 KONTRA
It's getting very cold. Only 18.5 degrees inside the house. I assume the thermostat is off. Mom's being very nice by telling me how awfully hot the weather is in Spain right now.
I started wearing my winter socks already.
Took out the trash and the wind shut the gate behind me, so I was stuck on the street. Tried to get the dog to put its feet on the gate's knob to open it (It worked before), but after like 2 minutes I gave up and just climbed over the fence. Man, am I glad it no longer has spikes and barbed wire on it.
I misplaced my digital copies of the Hungarian edition of Three Kingdoms and the publisher's website went down. (I assume forever, because it was basically a one-book operation.)
Gotta ask around friends now because of course the wayback machine didn't save the files proper.
>But Ernst, don't you own a physical copy? Yes, I do, but I can't read it in bed because it'll make me pass out, because it's so heavy it pushes all the air out of my fucking lungs.
Turns out I've been overplaying for Apple music, because I can get a student discount. They had me give my email to a third-party, so of course I used my meme burner email I use for shit like this.
(And my uni-email already gets bombarded by shitty scam mail asking me to send money to the nigerian prince can unlock his inheritance account and reward me. A few weeks back I even got spammed by a vanity press PR manager.)
Had seminar at college. Wasn't anything to write home about. After arriving I bought a small cup of tea from a vending machine to warm myself up. After class I decided to go to the reopened mcdonald's. Only option was takeout because the dine-in parts aren't finished yet, so I eat the two burgers on the way to the subway and it felt really nice to have something so warm with air cooling down for the night.
It feels like I've forgotten something for tomorrow's classes, but I don't know what. Nothing crops up in my to-do list.
Halfway done with that Chinese history book.
I still feel like if I were to read a novel (and by that, I mean something from an author West of the Oder), it'd fix my mood a bit.
>>8246You mean you can make meatballs without paprika?
The ones we have at home are always with paprika.
I think the canteen ones are just lightly spiced meat with tomato sauce and the like, but a good old homemade meatball/meatloaf always has paprika powder mixed into it for taste.
No.8269
>>8204Thought-provoking.
>>8223Speaking about text editors, I've always wondered about the "Columns" (IIRC) item in BabelPad's menu. It was always greyed out, laughing at me. China people, do you know anything about this?
>>8261Huh. When you wrote
>Episode 2 of wiggle wiggle:followed by a YT URL, I expected it to link to the anime adaptation of
Otherside Picnic (裏世界ピクニック), because I don't think I've encountered "wiggle-wiggle" (as opposed to a single "wiggle") outside
OP. So that part of your post did make sense to me.
>>8268>the wind shut the gate behind me, so I was stuck on the street.I faintly remember the same happening to me once, but nothing interesting ensued, otherwise I'd remember.
>It worked beforeAmazing.
No.8273
>>8267You are willing to do it at minimum, I now see that you are indeed committed to artistic research into German culture.
Maybe a lot of the free AI is bad but when I asked for Zeppelins in the background I got nothing. Germans bickering at a garden fence on a stormy, windy day got me the picture of a Fachwerkhaus, with an adjacent garden, its fences and two nonidentifiable people in it.
No.8274
>>8267These look like something you'd see on the cover of Stern or Spiegel
No.8276
>>8275Epic. Make also Kazakh, Australian and Ukrainian please.
No.8281
>>8278Yeah, polar bears and water buffaloes, two animals we're most famous for. Also, apparently we're taking over Bulgaria now, resistance is futile.
On the other hand, Finland's and Hungary's look ebin as hell, even if not very representative. Turan stronk?
No.8282 KONTRA
>>8281To be fair, it's about dreams and aspirations. Who's to say it isn't a deep seated Belarusian dream to have Polar Bears and Sanga Cattle?
Take this one.
No.8283
>>8282This one's more sensible, although I'm not sure why this AI wants to make us as some sort of a version of Gast's American Progress. Eh, whatever.
No.8285
>>8234Noice, that picture evokes cozy feelings of zombie apocalypse movies.
No.8286
>>8283Because the AI was born and raised in San Francisco. You have to be lenient here, it's impossible for the AI to entertain a non-US perspective because that's all it's ever known.
No.8287 KONTRA
>>8281The Finnish picture reminds me of night fishing at the summer cabin. Even had those storm lanterns lighting up my way back to the cabin from the shore. Definitely something I desire. Couldn't say the same for the American aspirations, which are to dream about owning a home while doing one's taxes.
Also, stars drawn on the dark side of the Moon... This is what we really want.
No.8288 KONTRA
>>8287I'm not sure it's about home ownership, the man is achieving great capitalist success. Money stacked, pressed suit and filing for taxes. Only on first analysis is it about money, ultimately it's about a desire to return to Kansas, to the small two bedroom house of childhood. The meaning of the raven eludes me.
No.8289 KONTRA
Additionally, Portuguese one is eerily accurate. All we really want is to sit and stare at ships going by.
No.8291
>>8290[incoherent ramblings about green weaklings stealing our cars and making us peasants instead of freedom-loving individuals]
I identify myself with my car, stop threatening my existence with your statistics.
No.8295 KONTRA
I'll stay vague, but I've lately been kind of presented with the opportunity of ascending to a higher social rank. If not monetarly at least socially. This made me realise I was pretty attached to cosy swiss middle class living. It just makes more sense for me to do things a certain way and not the other way around and to behave a certain manner. Or maybe not to have to behave a certain manner. The more I glance to the social upper class "old money" traditions, the more I find them stupid, pompous, frivolous and overall morally reprenhensible if not degenerate. Imagining me getting negatively judged by people I hate isn't really something I want.
I didn't think I would've been repulsed by a possible social ascension, but the idea looks less an less apealing the more I think about it.
>>8277I confirm the Swiss dream
No.8296 KONTRA
Back to classes now after visiting Shanghai (and Hangzhou).
My hostel was right in the city center so right out of the metro station I was greeted with masses of people
人山人海 as they say :^) since it was national holidays. Was completely dazzled by all the neon so I just drifted along with the crowds. Meanwhile there was police (and even some army guys and armored vehicles though mainly just police guys) who managed the flow of people so they kept moving in one direction on each side of Nanjing Road.
Had to counterbalance the culture shock somehow so I ended up getting some KFC and proceeded to the Bund for the insane skyline view. Afterwards just wandered the streets aimlessly since I was still in a daze.
Feels like I should've made some posts earlier since now the impression isn't so fresh anymore and it's hard to summarize the whole trip. I'll try to post some more pictures with commentary later.
Felt lonely, got a new tattoo, randomly met some girls from my class and we went for dinner/drinks. Was nice against the loneliness but we didn't vibe that well.
Lots of great and mostly cheap food, however I struggled adjusting to the nightlife. Large portion of the bars are either chains or (at least wannabe) upscale places. Upon recommendation of the tattoo artist I managed to find a bar with a run-down vibe that I like on the last night (though the beer was still expensive). Talking to some laowai in there, apparently it's the only place like it in whole Shanghai. Club scene also seems dominated by gaudy places that are concentrated in hubs where each club tries to attract customers by playing music louder than the place next to it. Then there was also Changle Road where a lot of locals seemed to be drinking on the street but it didn't seem like a place for a single foreigner to be.
My highlights were probably biking at night through the city with headphones on, slightly drunk, snaking through traffic or going over these huge intersections, as everybody just treats traffic rules more like rough guidelines. Other thing that I found fascinating was watching/listening to elderly people play music or dance in public parks. Moved me almost to tears somehow.
>>8290Most of the students live on/near campus I think. Other than that the metro system is pretty great, in Shanghai too. Also masses of rent-a-bikes that are nearly free to use.
No.8298
>>8295> I'll stay vague You don't need to answer, but i would assume either an invite to some think-tank, free-mason-type-group-fagging or gf has such roots.
i would agree. and it is prolly pretty easy to manipulate statistics into showing that old-money correlates with past crimes, which were "legal" at that time - e.g. slavery.
some of todays big money-makers should be illegal as well, in my honest opinion
vote me dictator, so i can fix the whole world, Ernst !! as an example this typical, automated fast "high frequency"-trading which is even done "over the atlantic" for no other reason than to have the legal framework to rationalize "my bling-bling-number is now different". my problem with that: welp, great... now ''you'' got money... but Ernst needed the damn energy you wasted for your imaginary number to build his pew-pew cannon. not to mention the initial barrier of entry bar; the whole system is designed around profiting those that already have a lot. a sophisticated pyramid scheme...
>>8290... at least we started to use energy instead of money in some of our statistics already.
isn't petrol super cheap in the points with high nrg cost?
just talkin about the end-consumer prize, which prolly doesn't include costs for war-type operations securing resource reserves... but once you secured them, you can use that nrg source "cheaply" compared to others. ..maybe in the long run this "trying to monopolize fossil fuel" turns out to be useful because others start to look for alternatives? No.8299
>>8297
> where a lot of locals seemed to be drinking on the street but it didn't seem like a place for a single foreigner to be.
out of cultural curiosity, Ernst would prolly try to vibe with the locals there. preferably some racist elderly Stammtisch where Ernst slides in. (initial impression is important, and you have to be careful in how you treat racist locals as a foreigner. i would recommend bringing some local-known brew. doesn't need to be fancy, but some kind of "insider". LARP being drunk, to fit in as well.)
No.8301
>>8300> banner.jpgis introducing something which i gonna dub labia-moustache.
my vote therefor goes to that one :D
No.8303
*ominous AI generated chanting*
No.8305 KONTRA
>>8304prepare for the ryze of prompt-engineer-content-spam.
i think at least a semi-A.I. generated banner is a worthy sacrifice to honor said moment in time.
Outside of the prompt, we can attribute the cropping and water-mark-placement as "OC".
which often times is enough in itself. No.8306
>>8300I like the second best, it's like from a children's book. A fairy tale.
>>8302I exclusively listen to my laptop speakers (rarely use quality headphones that I have), since I left my (expensive) monitors I used for making music at my parent's house. Sometimes I miss listening to loud music. Other than that, technical audiophile is stupid. It makes sense to a certain degree in certain circumstances.
No.8309 KONTRA
Thirty minutes before class I am attacked by hunger. Will I be able to order and consume a succulent American meal in this short window and still make it in time? Will I face humiliation, arriving late to a class that has already begun?
I don't know but I do know one thing - man's gotta eat. 🦅🍔
No.8310 KONTRA
>>8302I'd say if you really put your mind to it, then headphones-based audiophilia is affordable. An okay DAC and AMP with some entry-level audiophile headphones can be had for like 400-500 bucks tops and the more expensive you go the longer the headphones last basically. Unlike an expensive phone, these don't become obsolete. Maybe they will become more efficient so that the quality to resistance ratio becomes better (as in, you can use it reasonably from a laptop instead of having to plug it into a walk and a studio DAC to listen to it), but otherwise if a headphone sounds good now it'll sound good 10-15 years from now too.
I think it's just like with everything else in tech/computing etc.
In the lower price brackets, a little bit extra, like 10-20 bucks can go a long way and can mean the difference between something genuinely good vs buying e-waste.
And once you go sufficiently high you get diminishing returns on your investment.
That being said, I listen to music mostly on my Airpod pros.
I sometimes think about buying a pair of Sony XM4s but I never bite the bullet, even though the quality is supposedly very good and even after the batteries in it kick the bucket, you can still use it from just a desktop out.
Also as
>>8307 points out, audiophiles believe in some some mad shit.
I heard a stories about people debating whether or not drive speed impacts the quality of an MP3 written to a CD or there was also this story about a dude spending 20 years ago like 20k HUF (big money at the time) on a piece of marble slab to have under his CD drive and HDDs because he thought the marble would filter out resonance during the writing process or some shit like that.
Most people don't really seem to care so long as it makes any sound and fits their other criteria. (Is it wireless? Is it a status symbol/Luxury good?)
No.8313
>>8312Looks like you don't belong to the core audience. Ernst, you really need to lurk more if you want to be a true Ernst.
he started learning Chinese No.8317
>>8306>I like the second best, it's like from a children's book. A fairy tale.The fairy tale of little Angela and the butcher
Little Angela was a girl as thick and plumb as can be. But one day, she would not eat her sausage.
>Eat your sausageher mother said,
>or I will have to call your father!Little Angela answered
>no, I will not eat my sausage!so her mother called her father.
>Eat your sausageAngelas father said
>or I will call the big bad wurstmacher and he will force-feed you with sausage!But little Angela still would not eat her sausage. So her father called the big bad wurstmacher. The big bad wurstmacher stormed in with his extra long sausage. It was a whole meter long! Little Angela opened her mouth in shock ....
AND IN WENT THE SAUSAGE!
And the moral of the story is:
Children, eat your sausage or the big bad wurstmacher will come in and force feed you a giant sausage.
No.8319
>>8310Kinda insulting to all those engineers, programmers and matematicians who made digital audio possible, specifically to prevent all the things audiophiles fret over from happening, isn't it?
No.8320
>>8317> Verschollen gegeglaubte Texte der Gebrüder Grimmseems legit.
No.8322
> audio-philes>>8310i might have purchased a semi-trash product. the audio quality is fine,... for the price.
i wouldn't want to put myself into a position where i claim i can accurately describe sound quality :3 but the mechanism to wear it starts to annoy after ~3h+ hours. you might be able to bend the metal and maybe adjust a screw for the spring-mechanism or something, thou...
i also once head decently priced bose-in-ears, but forgot 'em in another country a few years back.
hopefully someone enjoys them currently :Dheadphones and in-ears are ok-ish, but i would argue the following:
real bass is felt with the body.
I don't care what kinda reasoning you come up with, but if you wanna do a rave-party, you can't just do it via head-phone-stream. you need real bass.
..and a drum-machine can't beat like a good drummer... No.8323 KONTRA
>>8296Would you say most commutes are done using a single type of vehicle, or are there modal switches? E.g. biking to a train station, riding a train and taking the bus close to the destination? I think I watched a documentary about some random Chinese factory workers +10 years ago, and they had a company bus to transport workers to-and-from the nearest train station. Thought that was pretty neat.
>>8302If you don't have Genelec speakers never reply to me or my son ever again.
T. Genelec pro
No.8325
>>8312>Or are you literally 17 years late for one of your classes?Maybe like 10 years late at most. But yes, learning Chinese. It turns out I was able to consume a burger in under 10 minutes. Thanks to Fordism applied to food. God bless.
Our wise and illustrious teacher explained that the Chinese take a liking to the number 88
Chinese phonetical luck number magical thinking. A student interrupted to explain that in the West, this term has a poor connotation. The teacher dared to ask why. I really thought a hard H was gonna be dropped in that classroom and nearly skeeted in enthusiasm. But, no. Deeply disappointed.
>>8324We have one overlooking the most central garden in Lisbon.
No.8327 KONTRA
>>8325We had something similar happen when the teacher mixed up the 2006 riots (to which the National Museum dedicated a photo-exhibition on the street the university is in at the time) with the 1956 revolution and we all sorta giggled as she talked about the "二零零六年民主革命" as an example sentence.
No.8332 KONTRA
Day was fine. Fucked up one sentence big time and I couldn't untangle it even in context during modern class.
Classical went okay, we finally finished the Tibet-text. I was able to use my knowledge of Shang and Zhou China to make parallels and comparisons with the rituals and societal stuff we read about.
Apparently not much is known about Tibet before the first unification.
We also talked about this ritual of "Sky burial" which parallels nicely with the Persian style burials. They de-bone and cut up the corpse and then leave it out for animals to eat in the mountains. And they still do this apparently.
Professor evaluated my thesis. I haven't read his comments yet, but he added 10 pages of red text to what I wrote and I feel like I'm going to get criticized more by this one guy than by the entire department in the last 4 years.
German class went okay. We had this image of a kid in a huge toy-car and the lecturer asked us if we had such a thing as a kid and we said no, and he said he didn't either, but it was all the rage back-then and I made this awful joke that "Es war ein Traum, jetzt es ist ein Trauma"
Anyway the plot behind the image was that the kid got the care during WW2. And his father, a member of the Wehrmacht looted it from the Netherlands.
The temperature inside the house kept dropping, and we were down to sub 18 degrees by the end of the day.
Mom and dad are finally back so the thermostat has been flicked on and the heating finally works.
No.8349
>>8348There seems to be some redundancy in this statement. Just a moment...
>If you eat a salad, you will be starving.Fixed.
No.8350
>>8348This specs seem pretty good for a salad of that price. Consider what feels like starving to you. 4h of not staving but at least feeling hungry at the end of that period seems fine for less than 3€. But my norther European standard of living and wage is stopping me from seeing crass injustice here.
No.8357
>>8332>Mom and dad are finally back so the thermostat has been flicked on and the heating finally works.Are you not allowed to use the thermostat or what was the problem here?
No.8359 KONTRA
>>8357Those with no hard-earned income shall be silent in matters of the household. It's an age-old wisdom.
No.8362 KONTRA
I tried installing the GPU I bought but I only got halfway with it. The drivers are gone and the card is in, but apparently the thing's really power-hungry, so I need an 8-pin to power it and my powersupply only has molex connectors so I'm going to pick-up a converting cable tomorrow.
Fucking thing's bigger than the motherboard I plugged it into. Pretty funny honestly.
My German teacher shot me an email that he needs my help with a Chinese citation in a Jung-volume he's translating. I quickly replied with the transcriptions he requested, plus some historical and biographical context for the references themselves, and he was apparently surprised that I wrote a "seminar-essay" as a reply and was really thankful. Apparently if the editor agrees with it I might even be featured by name in the footnote as a contributor. Wasn't expecting something like this honestly, but it's very nice I guess.
Second picture is the artist's representation of me being featured in a print volume.
I'm feeling very groggy after my nap. Hit that anti-Ballmer peak where you feel even more tired. I guess 45 minutes is not the path to Nirvana.
Feeling unmotivated.
Tomorrow's gonna be long. Extra classes at college plus I'll be attending a book-club event.
>>8357It was actually the boiler that needed turning on and I haven't a clue how to turn that thing on.
Ultimately I'd say it was the combination of "well, we aren't here most of the time, why heat the house?" and "I didn't expect it to get so cold so soon."
But it was like 22 degrees outside today and it'll be even hotter tomorrow so it was kind of a pointless complaint.
No.8364 KONTRA
>>8362Is starting the boiler more complicated than installing a graphics card?
No.8365 KONTRA
>>8364Considering that I started the day with a working computer and right now I don't have a working computer, I guess it'd have been much easier to just go to the boiler and press the button on it, but I never asked for the authority and I never wanted it.
(I guess wallowing in the suffering was much more enjoyable.)
No.8366
>>8365I see. Thanks for the disclosure.
No.8367
>>8364>>8365How hard has it become to install a graphics card? Last time I did that was in 2007.
In the good old days, it was only a matter of plugging in the card and rebooting, is would load some generic driver, install driver, done.
Before that, it was necessary to set interrupts and edit autoexec.bat, but that was when your daddies were still as retarded as you guys are today.
No.8368
>>8362>my powersupply only has molex connectors so I'm going to pick-up a converting cable tomorrowDid you check if your power supply is even powerful enough for this graphics card? Had to upgrade my own when I bought 3060 Ti.
No.8369 KONTRA
>>8368The wattage on the powersupply isn't amazing, it's 500W, but it's servicable. Peak performance of the card pulls like 150W. CPU pulls like 90W, so I think it'll be fine.
I think it has more to do with age than it has to do with the capacity. Though I haven't a clue how old the powersupply is.
Just needs the cable and it'll be fine. Standard procedure, not me fucking around with electricity. (I mean I can be a colossal fucking idiot, but electricity is one thing I take seriously.)
>>8367Well, since I'm switching from Nvidia to AMD it's a bit more "complicated".
Basically you nuke the previous driver with DDU in safe-mode, then you take out the card, plop in the new one and then reinstall the new drivers.
I assume if I had bought something from team green it'd have been much simpler but we decided to minmax cost-to-power and this seemed like the best deal.
It's dead simple basically it's just that I love making everything into a temporary, melodramatic monomania because I'm unable to live my life any other way for some reason.
Probably autism.
No.8372 KONTRA
>>8369>It's dead simple basically it's just that I love making everything into a temporary, melodramatic monomania because I'm unable to live my life any other way for some reason. I can relate to that.
No.8374
>>8367Last time I did in 2019, it was still like that, provided you did your research and considered size and necessary plugs of the card, though I wouldn't count that towards "installing".
No.8377
Why haven’t Germans developed fart collectors? I could cook dinner with my own fuel.
No.8378 KONTRA
Belarus Ernst was right and the powersupply can't handle it.
Joever.
I thought 500W is fucking 500W, why the fuck do I have to care about volts too? Oh shit it can't do 12V properly.
Time to yank a 700W modern power supply from a used marketplace.
This is probably why there's a huge market for pre-built shit. (And consoles. And Macs.)
No.8379 KONTRA
>>8378>I thought 500W is fucking 500W, why the fuck do I have to care about volts tooFeminist answer: Because physicists and electrical engineers are fascist sexist reactionaries. Otherwise, they would have discovered a set of completely different natural laws and we would live in a world that is to your liking, where voltage, current and power are one and the same.
And we would have non-phallic pens. It's obvious that the inventor of the pen made it phallic so I have to touch his metaphorical penis every time I use a pencil. So do the pencil manufacturers. They should all be in prison for rape!
No.8382
Today is the 47th anniversary of the death of Ribeiro Santos, a law student who would be shot by police in a classroom belonging to Lisbon University after an attempt to detain a suspected informant escalated into students attacking the cops who came to retreive their informant.
His plaque is still up in the atrium of his faculty and while he was backing schizophrenic Hoxhaist-Maoist ideas with just a healthy dose of personality cult for a lunatic, so were a lot of his colleagues who would later become cherished members of the liberal social democratic apparatus. I'll pay my respects today.
>>8378>I thought 500W is fucking 500W, why the fuck do I have to care about volts too? You've spent your entire adult life in the ivory tower of humanities academia. You can't even flick a thermostat on. When the revolution comes, I will personally see to it that you are doing 12 hour shifts in an electronics factory - you will love it too, as it will be a possibility for you to consider yourself a man. Heroic stakhanovite worker Hungary would never feel like an emasculated sissy when an electrician walks into his parents house.
Or you could just come out of the closet :DDD homo :DDDDDD No.8386
I kinda miss being schizo.
I used to have such fun thoughts.
Remember when I was a cartesian dualist for a while?
Haha good times.
No.8387
>>8386What role will you assume now since you can't be the schizo any more? I'd suggest something along the lines of "the grumpy oldfag", who complains about EC going downhill and that imageboards just were so much more fun and interesting in earlier days. Or maybe "the cynic", who occasionally tosses edgy one-liners into threads, and then insults everyone who dares to talk back as "weaklings" or "dreamers".
No.8388
>>8387My ideal would be a semi oblivious wholesome boomer who posts harmless comments about his bland hobbies and bland life, but I know that is out of reach for me.
I'm too much of a bitter argumentative sperg.
No.8390
>>8386What's preventing you from acting like one? I explicitly say *acting*.
Meds? Or a job? If so, why does a job do that to you? You some kind of weakling luftmensch?
No.8391
It's hailstorming. Pieces of ice are very small though.
No.8395
You know how when you are sitting in a train and on the other platform a train is moving you think you are moving?
Fun fact: That effect is called vection
Like and subscribe for more fun facts
No.8396 KONTRA
Me installing the card today was an utter failure, but I'll get another powersupply and it'll be fan-fucking-tastic once it's here.
(Apparently my sister also had doubts when I was spazzing out about how great this card is, but she just didn't mention it.)
But hey, at least it posts and runs for everyday use. It just crashes when New Vegas is running in 4k ultra and the Legion starts the Hoover Dam battle. Otherwise it's a damn-good computer.
Chinese philosophy seminar was great. Talked a bit with the professor afterwards. He said that my thesis is quite interesting and he'd like to see a version of it submitted to a journal because "I have good insights" which I guess is a good compliment to get from someone who's been doing this for decades now.
Though he also said that my understanding of Machiavelli is Machiavellian. I need to understand Machiavelli as Machiavelli.
He said that it'd probably be for the best if I just cut out most of the Machiavelli-stuff and re-structured the work to focus on Han Fei and my theory of the two-phased Chinese political system. (That is if I don't want to do more reading on Machiavelli.)
After classes I bought a bottle of wine for mom as a birthday gift and then I went to the Chinese book-club event.
It was interesting. This time they had 7 people talk about 6 contemporary authors. The first one was a short presentation on Wang Meng's "Long Live the Youth!" (青春万岁), which is contemporary only because Wang Meng's in his 90s currently.
The presenter, who's doing a PhD translated the book into Hungarian and is looking for a publisher.
After the event I talked with the librarian and my first reaction was
>Who's going to publish this in 2023 Hungary? Perhaps if you took a time machine and sent the manuscript back to the 50s. It feels so utterly anachronistic to hear something like this. "I translated a socialist-realist novel".
Another interesting one was talking about the sci-fi novella titled "Folding Beijing", which won a Hugo. The concept sounded interesting. The guy who presented it also translated it and was also looking for a publisher.
But the librarian dropped the bomb on me and said
>I hope the guy knows that this book has been translated already and was published And Hell, I felt devastated for the guy. Imagine translating a modern book only to be later told that it was done by someone before and your work is basically pointless from a practical standpoint.
I told her that whenever I come to an event like this I feel like that this is what I should be doing, actual, modern, relevant work instead of all the ancient shit, but her only question was "What makes YOU happy?" and my answer was that everything. I like doing everything. I like doing the ancient stuff, I like the modern books, I like the political analysis, Daoism, basically everything. I'm a jack of all trades with sinology I feel like.
I had two cups of strong black tea during the event. It was very fragrant.
Afterwards I still had a German class at college so I went there, jumping in at half-time. We talked about all sorts of random shit and came away satisfied. Talked a bit about the footnote and stuff with the lecturer.
The only thing I told him to correct is a typo in my name.
Celebrated mom's birthday. My sister baked a cake herself. It was pretty good.
I feel like today was a mostly successful day.
(I mean, I'd consider the card a success. The installation went flawlessly and it only needs more power to be perfect, but otherwise the purchase good.)
>>8379I'm not gonna blame the science for my own haughtiness. I probably could have checked what makes a good powersupply. Instead I just focused on the big number on the side and I thought I was good.
It will be rectified next week.
No.8397
I woke. I worked. 12 hours again. Missed lunch. Filled up my gas tank on the way home. Managed to stop the pump at exactly $40.00. Could have added another gallon but I like round numbers. Eating pancakes for dinner because my sister made a batch with some left-over buttermilk. Don't recall what she originally purchased it for. Weird, because I almost certainly ate whatever it was. Anyway, another day over.
Almost.
No.8398
Leftover Spaghetti with squash, tomato, tofu for breakfast. Went to work. Consultant was there and consulted. Had oatmeal for lunch. Risotto with mushrooms and white wine for dinner, some grapes afterwards. Did a few lessons in a systems engineering mooc. Checked where I can order materials for the embedded systems mooc. Unfortunately, mouser ships that stuff to select business customers only. Went to bed. Now time to get up and get my ass to work, consultant will be there to consult and expects me in an hour. Will have an apple for a quick breakfast.
No.8399
The AI for grammar/orthography and slight tone correction comes in handy. It's a bit of tedious work to copy all the paragraphs but I do get some useful suggestions to change the structure of the sentence once in a while and I also discovered a few more grammar mistakes that Word did not detect.
No.8400
>>8398Consultant seems like such a nice job. Go somewhere, exfoliate onions, get a bunch of money and fuck off.
No.8402
I am a gynecologist because I'm a cunt fan. This occupation is like a lottery win to me.
No.8403
>>8400Oh, he's an ace and definitely worth his money. Knows stuff about accounting and micro-economics I wouldn't ever think about.
No.8404
>>8391>>8180Meanwhile trees are almost green.
No.8405
>>8400Sounds like you think journalism and being in politics is a nice job.
No.8407
>>8406So everybody dreams of being Anal-Lena Baerbock? This is news to me. *WEAKLING, you wanna be a politician instead of welding steel, harvesting fruit, instructing machinery or glue plastics together?!**
No.8409 KONTRA
>>8408It's ok, your larping is not funny anyway.
No.8410 KONTRA
>>8407I would love to be as rich as Anal-Lena, and I would be to dumb to recognize my own stupidity. It would obviously be an overall win to be a self-important green-party politician who thinks she knows everything while being dumb as fuck.
No.8412
>>8409I should make a joke about women then.
No.8413
*ominous friday afternoon chanting*
No.8415
>>8411Please explain that video. I've watched it a few times now and still don't understand what is happening there.
No.8418
>>8415In online games when you have issues with internet connection and game can't update positions of others players, it just shows them running in place. Like the cat does.
No.8419 KONTRA
Friday night against. Have a great weekend, Ernsts.
>>8415I'm afraid I can't. But maybe ChatGPT can.
Ze cat is representing a character or entity in a game zat should be moving forward, but due to a glitch or bug in ze game, it appears to be walking in place or not making progress. Zis glitch is a common occurrence in video games.
Ze "Cat" with a military rank icon is a humorous portrayal of how video games sometimes display player or character names with associated titles or ranks. Ze blinking internet connection icon humorously mimics typical in-game indicators for network issues.
Ze background music, vich is often a part of video games, is timed to match ze actions of ze cat, adding to ze absurdity and making ze situation even more comical.
In multiplayer video games like Call of Duty, players often communicate using headsets. Ze cat speaking through a bad headset microphone is a playful exaggeration, reflecting ze sometimes poor audio quality experienced during online gaming.
In zis context, ze humor arises from ze exaggerated portrayal of common gaming elements (glitches, in-game text, network issues, and communication) juxtaposed vith a real-life cat, creating a funny and unexpected scenario zat gamers can relate to. Guten Tag!
No.8426 KONTRA
I just realised how fucking shit my internet is. I probably have the works network access in the house due to my room's placement.
The Mac barely gets a reception here so most of the time I just use mobile data to have proper internet access on it, but I gotta figure something out because mom decided to downgrade our plans.
But as it turns out, I just solved the issue. I had this over-the-powerline Ethernet thingy that stopped working. Apparently someone plugged it into a power-splitter, which filtered out the internet as electrical interference. So after months of sucking digital dick I plugged it directly into the wall, borrowed another ethernet cable from my sister and now I'm getting actually good internet here again. Everything's coming up Milhouse!
Fuck technology.
Found a power-supply online. Gonna get it next week and then this whole Passion of the Christ level torment that I inflicted upon myself will be over.
I could have been happy with just the Mac. But no. I wanted to play video games. (I actually don't have the time to play video games, so I will probably not be using this PC all that much to begin with.)
Honestly, if I did my research better, I wouldn't have had this many problems, which are mostly "problems" due to delivery time, isn't all that bad. A new powersupply is a sensible upgrade to any system.
Tomorrow I will study and not care about computers. Also I'll go to the tailor to get some of the new pants I have fitted.
And maybe grocery shopping.
I want to bake donuts. Not the frosted American shit. I've been craving a good lump of fried, sweet dough.
Mom said it's hard to make but I honestly doubt it's hard to make donuts. They are just sweet lángos.
No.8430
>>8429If the cat does not touch the food that's actually a good sign that you shouldn't either.
In that case I can easily see why, I wouldn't steal that and I have basically no impulse control.
sorry for disrespecting your culture No.8431
What types of human food do/don't cats usually like?
No.8432
>>8431My cat loved cooked potatoes (after they had cooled off).
In other news: Yesterday it was 26 degrees here, now there's a hail storm thrashing against my window. The fug is going on?
No.8434 KONTRA
Muslims at my job celebrate Hamas for punishing the Jews.
No.8435 KONTRA
>>8432>Yesterday it was 26 degrees here, now there's a hail storm thrashing against my window. The fug is going on?Warm air mass is being pushed out by cold air mass. See
https://youtu.be/Ujf-i5iUS5A?feature=sharedfor a short introduction to weather phenomena.
No.8437
>>8432Yesterday evening felt like a little bit tropical, quite warm and rainy at the same time.
No.8439 KONTRA
>>8429It’s actually normal (or at least not highly unusual) for cats to have impulse control and not eat when they aren’t hungry.
Though a lot of cats eat when they see food. Orange tabbies are supposely notoriously bad in this regard, and that’s why they are more often obese than other types of cat.
(Garfield is factual in this regard.)
No.8442
This night there was a massive rainstorm that moved around half of the stuff on my balcony.
No.8444
>>8442Temperature gradient big -> wind big.
Also, look at fancy pants over there, be has le balkon, oh lala.
No.8448
>>8447Add cat confusing to that list.
No.8452
>>8447Already exists in Germany. I advice you to instead train cat psychoanalysts and issue degrees from the renowned
Omsk Institute of Feline Psychology for the small fee of $15000.
Don't go digging for gold, sell the shovels!
No.8461
>>8430Pic wasn't mine; I was eating a roast beef sub. Gave him some of the trimmings.
>>8431Mine like tuna fish, chicken, and potatoes. Also, one likes the sweetened milk that is left after a bowl of breakfast cereal. He's actually the skinny cat; his sister is overweight but eats almost no human food.
>>8439One thing I can't trust him with is a cup of water. He will hop right up and stick his head in it. I probably shouldn't have trained him to drink out of human glasses.
>>8447Used to go to a veterinarian who offered acupuncture for cats. Had pamphlets in the office. A lot of pet owners like to burn money.
No.8462
How do you perceive that you're currently working hard with your brain?
With muscles it's easy, you can feel the strain, but with the brain?
I can feel my brain getting "tired", so to say, like a spiral spring getting tenser and tenser, or like a reaction wheel building up momentum and having to be spun down.
But never during the act of "thinking hard". In fact I am not even sure if I am even able to "think hard", because I can't solve problems by thinking about them for some time until I find a solution. I come up with (multiple) solutions on the spot and then try to decide which one is the best. Or IS that the process?
Or like during an exam - I was always one of the first, if not the first one to finish because I couldn't ponder over an answer - I either knew or it or I didn't, and if I didn't, there was no use to think about it because I wouldn't remember the answer anyway. A binary way of accessing knowledge, so to say.
So anything I know and can apply is readily available in plain view, so whenever I am doing something I don't feel like thinking hard about it. The only times I could say I come even remotely to that point would be that e.g. when programming something coming up with the necessary logical steps and conditions, i.e. when A then B and if not C go to branch D, but that's also merely "assembling" words already known in the right order.
I wonder how e.g. Einstein did his thought experiments, how his brain worked when he was coming up with his theories. Did he just iterate through possible solutions?
I am probably not making much sense, but just this week I had this very strong sensation of an exhausted brain.
No.8469 KONTRA
>>8462an exhausted brain is one that is stuck/confused and needs rest I'd say.
Also, many problems are solved by iteration I'd say. Some problems and questions take years to get answered so to speak. Or think of people resting and then having a good idea. This is a common experience. Even for me. When I was stuck in preparing the MA I took a break finally as everybody told me to and it helped. Made me come up with something. And I think all bigger problems need this time. All the work and time might not be visible, though.
No.8479 KONTRA
I feel like scattering some solar, battery powered decorative lights into public areas because of this dreadful darkness that's ever growing. I do wonder how long they'd survive before someone claimed them.
>>8461The cat comes in running when she hears me open up a ham package. No other noise creates such reaction. So, I give her some ham.
No.8481
>>8479Are Finns prone to stealing?
No.8492
I just found out that the government is providing a "Kulturpass" app for people born in 2005 (i.e. those who turn 18 this year).
After registration you get 200 Euros for free to spend on
>Eintrittskarten für Konzerte, Theateraufführungen, Kinobesuche, Museumsbesuche oder Parks, sowie Bücher, Tonträger, Noten oder Musikinstrumente.
That's tickets for concerts, plays, cinema, museums or parks, as well as books, *sound storage media* (anything from wax cylinders to CDs), sheet music and musical instruments.
So if there are any underage b& Ernsts here who didn't already know that, there's still time to grab your (for you) free shit.
No.8493
>>8492We have same but it's 50 euros for 14-22 years olds.
No.8496 KONTRA
Did the groceries. Bought a lot of flour. We're having spaghetti tomorrow.
I finished downloading two games. Checked out the menu of Total War Three Kingdoms and was pleased to see that Cao Cao is available from the get-go. Last time I played a TW game all the cool stuff was locked until you killed the faction and unlocked them that way.
The tailor's was closed. There were no frozen breadrolls as Lidl. The country is not burning on full flame.
>>8488I want to say that that building looks cool due to the shape, but it actually just makes me depressed for some reason.
No.8498 KONTRA
I've decided to do Erasmus during my MA's first year to Germany. Heidelberg if possible. Looking at their curriculum, it's pretty nice. Modular. "Modern order klassisch" in every single case.
Ours is fucking stupid. A real messed-up Frankenstein's monster type of deal that was made to be both yet achieves neither.
Damn I wish I were German. Or an Austrian.
Then I will go to Beijing for a year. And then I will get the MA degree and not do a PhD because fuck this country I want to die in my room. Or become a night watchman and work on my magnum opus translation there and show all these people tangled up in academia how it's done.
This MA program we have here sucks. I took one subject to learn classical "From the best" and he doesn't even hold the fucking classes, they just run under his name.
And like a third of them have been cancelled. Next week? Cancelled, not an assigned text.
Bullshit.
I could do this at home. I just pick something at random and then work at it and discuss it with people into classical online. I think I've said this before but the entire department should kneel before me and suck me off like I'm the second coming of Christ for putting up with this shit. Fucking buddhologist retards.
Why do I even care? If I care that means they have power over me. And I don't want that at all. I don't want these people to have any power over me, for them to decide over my fate.
I'm whipping myself into a frenzy over something stupid.
No.8499
>>8498>Damn I wish I were German.I will send you a Bickerwurst once you have arrived.
Heidelberg, Heidelberg. Always makes me think of this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Patients%27_Collective No.8504 KONTRA
>>8502False alarm, it did not.
No.8505 KONTRA
>>8481No. But there might be some Portuguese or other strange stock of people roaming around this great European metropolis. So you never really know.
>>8504Take it easy. It's all going to be alright.
No.8511
>put dvd format disc cases with the cover correctly in the shelf
>title on the spine goes either up-down or down-up
>flip cases so all spines show in the same direction
>title is either at the bottom or the top
WHY JUST WHY THIS IS INFURIATING
No.8512 KONTRA
Went to billiards practice, to the gym and a cool club event with some friends yesterday. A bit of fun was had.
Been two months of no contact now but I still miss her every day. During the days there's almost always something there to remind me of her, in the evening when I'm alone with my thoughts it's bad too but it's the worst on mornings when I can sleep in and it's my first thought, it's basically there before I even wake up properly. So I just lie there lonely and depressed until I manage to collect enough willpower to do something. Kinda fucked up.
Other girls are showing some interest but none that I'd be seriously interested in, so I keep my distance.
In other news my shopping addiction has been curbed since my Taobao account got frozen and without going into details it's an absolutely tortuous ordeal to try and make the customer service unlock it.
>>8462Feeling mentally exhausted seems like a good indicator that you did some mental work. If your brain is busy you should have no capacity to perceive it as being busy.
Though I think the breakthroughs usually result from subconscious processes or the sort of flows of thought, e.g. when you are taking a walk, doing some monotonous exercises/work or in a semi-conscious state when you're about to fall asleep.
Taking the exam as example, often I skip questions if I don't know the answer, but then it just pops into my head later (ofc unfortunate if it's after I've already handed it in).
Just my two cents, I also don't feel like thinking too hard right now :DD
>>8498>HeidelbergGotta be that guy and ask: why not Berlin? Is the program in Heidelberg that much better?
>BeijingNoice, you should check out CSC scholarship btw
No.8518
Right wingers are idiots. Leftists are mentally ill. It’s so tiresome.
No.8519 KONTRA
My mood hasn’t improved all that much. I read a few chapters from a Chinese history book. Had spaghetti for lunch. My father said I look tense. (After I told my mother to close the window and I fixed the position of a plastic laddle and a chair, because the plastic laddle’s fittings were dripping dishwater and I didn’t want it to land in the food and the chair was rubbing against the one my sister sat on and the sound of the two faux-leather surfaces having at it was killing me. And of course my mother decided to open the windows like two minutes after I told her I’m feeling cold.)
To be fair, I was probably tense, I just thought I could hide it better than this.
I played some Postal 2. Probably not a good idea in hindsight. It finally runs without hitches tho.
Went to the store to buy my sister something for her birthday. I found this one kilo bag of Haribo gummy bears but it had no price-sticker on it or near it. I dragged it to a terminal to check the price and I kept telling myself that if it’s like 1.5k I’ll buy it. Turns out it was 3800. Still got it. I mean if not for my sister then who else?
Also got her a pack of that raspberry flavoured candy she loves and some oils for the vapour-maker.
She seemed happy. I’d say more excited than for the silver chain my parents got her.
I’m considering going to the library tomorrow. Just make a thermos of tea, pack a sandwich and then go to the library and study there. Read some shit. Just to not be here. Maybe I’m going crazy due to the semi-isolation.
>>8512I’m currently just looking around. Heidelberg’s seems nice (the fact that I can choose freely between classical and modern at every turn of the programme is like a dream come true), but I’ve been told that within the Classical areas, they specialise in Archeology.
It was the first university the librarian dropped on me when I complained to her like a week ago.
Another one I’ve been told that’s a good choice for classical is München.
But I’m gonna take a look at Berlin too.
>>8515People are always shocked to learn it’s a logical system and not just 20000 random drawings.
No.8520 KONTRA
>>8519It is just random drawings.
No.8522
>>8519>Just to not be hereIt is beyond me how people can stay at home - let alone with their parents - to study. I went to the library nearly every day in the last three months or so
mainly because I cannot focus that well at home, temptations of distraction are strong, I even changed libraries to get some more variety. Libraries are great. I'm sure Budapest has also different university libraries with different interiors and vibes, check them out.
>been told that within the Classical areas, they specialise in Archeology. Are you really interested in that when it comes to the Classical era?
https://www.studis-online.de/studium/sinologie-chinastudien/studienorte/Here are all the cities that apparently offer Chinese Studies. Did not look up if they all offer a masters program though.
No.8523
ok, managed to go one full week without drinking
it was legit a pain in the ass, which suggests that I'm an alcoholic
No.8524
>>8523Serious question: did you think that you don't have a drinking problem thus far?
No.8525
>>8523There ist only one effective treatment for addicts: take them away from everything and everyone they know, take away all of their belongings, force them to be strictly abstinent from all legal and illegal drugs, painkillers, tobacco, coffee, sugar, etc., destroy their entire personality and built a new one.
No.8526
>>8525what if i like my current personality?
-,.-t. addict
No.8527
>>8525Why do you have a problem with loving yourself? :DDD
No.8529 KONTRA
>>8528>not understanding that addiction is acquired, while the need for water is physiologicalBe retarded elsewhere.
No.8530
>>8529There can be psychological and physiological alcohol addictions, in second case it's physiological need to drink booze
No.8533
>>8532Another person discovering its plant being, how nice. Which light do you like best? Now that it gets dark I'm thinking about buying a lamp so I don't suffer malnutrition like the last decades :3
No.8534
>>8533My favourite is crystal filtered morning light, which I absorb directly with my brain.
>Now that it gets dark I'm thinking about buying a lamp so I don't suffer malnutrition like the last decades :3I always keep a light in my fridge for emergencies.
No.8535 KONTRA
>>8534Did you ever try perineum sunning to absorb the light with your Prostoma?
No.8537
>>8524Well I got my first job, first real job, a good job and a promotion all while getting shitfaced 3 times a week, so it wasn't really a problem.
But now I can no longer handle a night of drinking without being completely useless the next day, so it's a problem.
Wonder how many years I shaved off my life doing this.
No.8538 KONTRA
Drinking a cola drink right after coffee tastes fantastic. Way better than the coffee-flavored colas.
>>8537>I got my first job, first real job, a good job and a promotion all while getting shitfaced 3 times a week, so it wasn't really a problemDamn. Brick identifying himself and valuing self worth through employment. A new leaf. In any case, one can have a drinking problem despite doing well at work or academia.
No.8540
>>8539>I tried helping an Asian couple who were failing to use the coffee machine. I talked to them in Chinese. They weren’t Chinese. Uhm, racist much?
No.8541
>>8540At least not very well versed in socially adequate behavior (at a university).
>>8539>Anyway, the place is fucking fullSo have you found the qt yet?
>hugging an entire desk just to have their bags on a chair. Universal experience. Go to the library more often, I think this helps with feeling and actually being less isolated.
>>8536Will change your job and become Chinese brand ambassador in Portugal anytime soon?
No.8542 KONTRA
>>8541>Will change your job and become Chinese brand ambassador in Portugal anytime soon?I don't know how things will play out. I'd prefer to live in Europe than Ch*na, but I've known plenty of, uh, "expats" who work sales for Chinese companies within China. The ones I met were fairly useless, just around to talk to foreigners in fairs while not really understanding the products they were selling.
Ideally? Consultant work for Chinese companies. Ernesto's Export-Oriented Brand Review. While there are alcoholic salesman foreigners who don't speak Chinese, and Chinese speaking westerners with the social know-how of rocks I don't know how big the intersection between these groups is. For now, get the drawings and scribbles down and then leverage the list of contacts I've made over the last 5 years. Truly too much time was wasted on, and God forgive me for even uttering this word,
Russophilia.
No.8543
>>8538>despite doing well at work or academiaThere's no "despite", doing well at work or in acadrmia are the only socially prescribed sources of meaning in [current year]
Nobody has ever said "he might be an unemployed, uneducated loser, but at least he's not an alcoholic"
Functional addicts are more valuable than dysfunctional sobers.
No.8545 KONTRA
>>8544You can bet those new libraries have better amenities and a higher capacity for students being here than ours has.
No.8546
>>8545>new1st one is a 1970s building, asbestos-ridden and too small.
2nd one is new, but it blinds traffic and has handycapped-access-doors that can't ever open, because of the slanted facade. The same facade leaks rainwater, mainly because it is slanted. The AC is not strong enough to cool a building that has so many windows, but it does manage to keep the air so dry that everyone who spends more than a few minutes in there gets dry eyes.
The floor in the entrance area caved in in 2016, one year after it opened, because it couldn't handle the load of books being transported over it.
The building was also absurdly expensive, costing about €60 million.
No.8555
>>8322Use
https://autoeq.app to calibrate to a Harman (natural) or V-shape (juicy) like curve, any headphones will sound better (but they still have to have good SNR and THD though for extra clearness).
No.8559
>>8555I don't remember writing this post
But anyway make sure you have enogh dynamic range overhead for tbe equalization
No.8562
>>8559I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me.
No.8571
>>8562You might have been a poet in another life
No.8575
>>8571I have a confession to make, I got this riddle of the Internet, not even close as good as the other brick at artistry and language juggling shenanigans, I'm more of a analyst/thinker/inventor type of guy