No.23236 [Last 50 Posts]
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>>22649 No.23240
Can't cope with humanities, especially not orientalism. It's the most interesting field, but due a complex historical-academical process, the most revolting flavor of celebrating and enforcing tropes of Asiatic exoticism in ways that are reminiscent of the most stereotypical 19th century orientalists has won. They cloak their essence with pseudo-leftist terminology, but it's the same field with the same people. Was Said right all along? Is this field fundamentally irredeemable?
No.23241 KONTRA
>>23240Sayeed is literally just for people outside Oriental Studies/Asian Studies who want to be mad at the field. His whole rhetoric is aimed at knocking structures down as inherently evil, but in the process, he is giving us no alternative. It’s a theoretical blind alley. A black hole of effort. Much like every Palestinian, only destruction follows in Sayeed’s wake as leftist academics seek to stiffle intercultural dialogue and learning from each other as something that will “infect” things with “biases”. Well, duh. That’s what the humanities are. Working around your biases or utilizing them to make something new.
Maybe once the Chinese century starts I will write a book titled “Occidentalism/西方热” that will mindkill generations of Asian scholars.
No.23242
>>23241>His whole rhetoric is aimed at knocking structures down as inherently evil, but in the process, he is giving us no alternative.So, a regular postmodernist?
No.23251
Sometimes I feel like Japanese people understand things about Christianity better than the west
No.23252
>>23251That it's a slave religion for pathetic cucks? Don't worry, lots of people understand that.
No.23254
Why, yes, I have also read Nietzsche once, how could you tell?
No.23255 KONTRA
>>23241>he is giving us no alternativeHe does, you'd just learn sociology, economy and other acceptable social sciences to learn about humanity and thus, about the Orient. It makes sense from a purely materialist narrative.
Can't believe I actually defended him. This is what happens when you listen to some menopausal lunatic defend the thesis that Korean shamans have kept a mythological tradition alive, consistent and broad unchanged through the millennia via "orature" - oral literature.
This is the essence of the dark side of orientalism, notice that for this person the thesis would be indefensible if it related to some Armenian mountain mythology but because it's slant eyed folk, well, they're all just so mystical and magical that this "professor" believes this madness. And it's regurgitated to an audience of people of unquestioning but innocent teenagers who eat it up. The eternal Orientalist.
No.23257
all of this is moot, because western academia, western scientific and philosophical tradition, and what westerners think in general, should no longer be of any concern to anyone in the world going into the future
in 50 years people will care as much about the problems plaguing western institutions as they will care about the problems of economic calculations in the soviet union:
a handful of eclectic nostalgics trying to figure out where it all went wrong
No.23258
>>23257Europe is rising again, what "western" anything do you mean?
And who will be the future world hegemon?
No.23259
western science was solved/refuted by Marx, and western art was olved/refuted by dadaism. ever since then it's been nothing but retarded meandering around the point, trying to postpone the inevitable (post-modernism)
the last ~+-century has been an antechamber to the next stage of human history, with the rest of the world patiently waiting for the fat mall cop with a gun blocking the door, that being the west, to falter and blink, take their finger off the trigger, lower their arms for a moment, etc., so that humanity can finally wrestle them down and end this ridiculous, comical, tragic, retarded interlude between the two periods of millions of years of communism
seems like paul blart's vigilance is faltering yet again; we'll see if this ends in another tragedy, or if humanity finally does the thing, bada bing bada boom
>>23258>Europe is rising againlol. lmao, even.
No.23260
>>23259I mean on the one hand I enjoy that you seem to be back, but on the other hand, I am terribly sorry. What has happened?
No.23261
>>23260Nothing has happened.
Nothing has been happening for a long time now, that's kind of the whole problem.
No.23262
>>23261>abloobloo I have a stable life but can't do anything about it!What a dramatic bundle of sticks you are, why don't you join a theatre group if you desire drama so much.
Or trade places with me, my company is getting buttfucked by americans and I might or might not get evicted this year.
No.23263
My shift start in 11 hours and I think this shit about need wake up 3:30 AM and work from 5AM to 3PM is fucking impossible if you don't do drugs.
I crave sleep all the night, hell, but I need work and pay bills. I think I will just kill myself soon or later since there is no way of my life get better on this hellhole country.
They pay me 230€ after taxes, but that isn't money enough for someone pay rent and leave mom's home. It's brutal, it's Brazil... there is no hope for tomorrow, no solace, no parties (I'm not a normalfag) and no bunda (women hate me).
I thought I was about to leave this imageboard forever but I don't have friends and don't have other people to talk. My life is just wörk, sleep and go to the college campus.
I just want a peaceful life on the countryside miles away from the hellish Brazilian cities.
No.23264
>>23262did you know that fascism is both a genetic AND environmental phenomenon?
it's why it's so persistent and bothersome across the centuries. despite being seemingly defeated again and again, it re-emerges.
but when the third world rises up and seizes power in the World Proletarian Revolution, we will sterilize every German, baltoid and hungarian, nuke central Europe, and salt the earth.
it's the only way to be sure
some of you will be spared to act as entertainment in the open air zoos that Europe will be turned into: europeoid monkeys hooting and hollering and climbing on castles and chapels and gothic cathedrals (their natural habitat), as hordes of Chinese tourists throw peanuts at your dirt-covered children.
And God will smile upon the world
No.23265 KONTRA
>>23261>>23262>>23263Your life on capitalism.
Clean your rooms No.23266
>>23265>>23265My room is really clean! I love clean my room, clean the house...
I wish I could live a peaceful life somewhere far beyond from Brazil. Life here is getting so bad that I can't drink coffee anymore because is absurdly expensive.
No.23267
>>23266Sad. Every working man deserves coffee. It's one of the few pleasures we are permitted. Stay with your college classes as long as you can manage. At least that gives some hope.
No.23269 KONTRA
>>23268Whataboutism. It's funny how you want to defend the brazilians situation.
No.23270
>>23261>Nothing has been happening for a long time now, that's kind of the whole problem.Welcome to life as a childless adult aged 30-70, where the only major happenings are strange sicknesses, your childhood idols dying, and waiting for retirement.
No.23271
>>23269>in my magical dreamworld everyone gets everything for free in arbitrary amounts> because I just make property and trade illegal> telling me that it has been done is whataboutism> look at me I so smart The real problem is that we don't put people like you in camps. If we don't, we'll end up like the Russians.
No.23273
Swiss German women often look like Harry Potter’s house-elves
No.23277 KONTRA
>>23275Posting some random retarded picture of some random retard (it's you, I guess?) doesn't make your arguments any more valid. It's soyjak tier what you are doing, so I kindly ask you to fuck off.
No.23278
>>23187> Empty moralismI said nothing about ethical aspect of your behavior (yet guilty mind is never at ease). I mentioned your privileges only to show that you have every opportunity to live a happy life without any need to wait for utopia. Purely practical objective aspect.
However if you don't want to do anything, then your beliefs are good justification of being lazy, bitter and angry. Suppose that Germany faces a socialist revolution. What will you do then? Instead of finally cleaning your room
our room you'll continue to be a bitter cunt and wait for coming of capitalism instead of socialism.
No.23280 KONTRA
>>23277So your whataboutism was an Argument to justify the brazilians situation? Not sure what you want.
All posts following had no arguments, so there was nothing to argue tbh.
>>23278>claims did not moralize>continues to moralizeIt is 'interesting' that you cannot see this.
No.23281 KONTRA
>>23278> you'll continue to be a bitter cunt and wait for coming of capitalism instead of socialismA true believer will of course always and forever wait for the coming of true socialism.
No.23283 KONTRA
>>23255What we see is that Western sociology and economics repeatedly fails to account for outcomes in Eastern societies because they are using western concepts and terminology to understand a diverging sociopolitical tradition.
It’s a false premise that Humans are the same on the inside. They are not. Humans are humans, but their societies and ways of acting in a society couldn’t be any different.
Koreanist insane retards on the whole doesn’t mean Said was right about anything, it just means Koreanist are insane retards. Not all of them, but out of the “big three” I have the worst mileage with Koreanists.
No.23284
>>23283Like out of all the absolutely dogshit presentations I’ve ever seen 70% were from Koreanist where it’s either the aforementioned “500000 year old Shamanistic Joseon tradition” or “This is how I cope with Chinese culture influencing Korean art” to “I saw two Korean movies with subtitles: This is my wide-reaching conclusion on the topic.”
No.23287 KONTRA
>>23280>So your whataboutismThat wasn't mine, I was merely pointing out your hypocrisy.
No.23288 KONTRA
>>23287By posting some random data sheet?
No.23290
>>23288Oh my bad, the Data sheet was the whataboutism. So what is the hypocrisy? The brazilian working a shitty wage job that barely supports basic necessities like housing and food is not able to
afford coffee anymore. How is that not a normal occurence under capitalism? What does pointing out this fact has to with hypocrisy. You try to moralize a finding. Why?
No.23291
>>23288No? Are you blind or just dumb?
No.23293 KONTRA
>>23291Are talking into a mirror by Chance?
No.23295 KONTRA
>>23293>N-NO U!Staying classy as always, huh?
I was actually writing my post apparently while you were posting your correction, but I decided to leave it because you deserve it.Also,
>brazilianYou might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but you're certainly the biggest one.
No.23296
>>23295Do have something to say about the actual object of discussion or are you only able to talk about me? For whatever reason that seems to be your kink.
No.23297 KONTRA
>>23296I don't give a single fuck about your dumb unoriginal "discussion" (which we both know is not a discussion but just you trying to be the morally superior person), I just don't take kindly to hypocrites.
If anyone would ever go and say something about communism, you would be the first to chime in with a "B-B-BUT MUHHHH CAPITALISM". And as you always do, you try to deviate, divert and just ask counterquestions instead of actually engaging with the "object of discussion", because if you gave an actual answer you could be attacked for that.
I am not sure if you're even aware of that and just being a dishonest piece of shit, but I'll go with that, as it fits your modus operandi.
And as long as you are sowing dissent (because if you didn't notice (of course you didn't), as long as you don't make your smartyass hypocrite posts nobody is fighting), I will be there to call you out. Shame nobody seems to have done that irl so far, that might even lead to change of mind, if we can call your basic kind of consciousness a "mind" in the first place.
No.23298 KONTRA
>>23283>What we see is that Western sociology and economics repeatedly fails to account for outcomes in Eastern societies because they are using western concepts and terminology to understand a diverging sociopolitical traditionThen evidently the issue is decolonizing sociology and economics. Simple as.
Of course area studies are necessary, but I can't cope with a specific subtype within the field. A person who is rational when it comes to analyzing the western world but is entirely capable of adopting schizophrenic beliefs because orientals are mystic. This same person said that Said's Orientalism is "the bible" of our course. Incomprehensible madness. Maybe I'm just misogynistic, much to consider.
No.23299
>>23259> lol. lmao, even.Why not? EU may consolidate into a big superstate, "United States of Europe". It will have 500 millions of population with good education, powerful industry and developed culture. Right now it has problems with energy and resources, because USG cockblocks Middle East and Eastern Europe. But as Trump dismantles American empire, western-European core will acquire its periphery.
Surely, it's not an inevitable future. In 1814 and 1945 idea of European Union failed miserably. But this time it may have better chances.
>>23281But is he a true believer? As I said, for him communist beliefs aren't something basic, it's a cope for certain psychological conditions. I've seen such people turning their views 180 degrees when they needed a new reason not to clean their room.
No.23300
>>23297>Blabla you are such a moral personAll you talk about is hypocrisy. Hence all you care about is morality integrity. Stop projecting your citizens sensibilities on me.
You don't give a single fuck about why the brazilian has to live like that, indeed. And this is not a moral accusation but an observation. Because the answer inevitably will turn to the best of all economic ways to organize societies. You evade the object of discussion and satisfy your kink instead, because the answers you don't like. They hurt your sensibilities.
No.23301
>>23299>EU may consolidate into a big superstate, "United States of Europe".lol. Europeans hate the idea and they hate Eu. It's a project of disconnected libshit elites that is widely rejected by the population.
Pensioners who vote the parties their long-dead parents taught them to vote as well as law dare prevent EU collapse. Otherwise, we would have based AfD government in Germany and Le Pen in France and other eurosceptic parties in power everywhere.
EU is a bullshit and it gives common people nothing, it will end before 2030.
No.23306
>>23297> I will be there to call you out.I don't think that Farthuffer requiers any additional "calling out". After 2 posts you recognize that it's him and know what to expect, after 2 more posts he clearly loses his face.
You may use his posts as an excuse to express your thoughts on the topic. You may ask Farthuffer about the topic to see what people like him think about it. After all, he's very representative of certain type of Western Europeans. But argue and bicker with him, "expose", "call out" - that makes no sense and floods the thread.
Basically, it's the same thing as with "German weaklings will freeze" schizo.
>>23301> that is widely rejected by the populationThis is not a problem, eurosceptical politicians can be arrested and banned from elections like Marie Le Pen and that Romanian guy.
> it gives common people nothingMonkeys together strong. Modern economy, military, science are very large scale things. They're too big for Denmark or Netherlands or even France.
No.23308 KONTRA
Much better today. Went and visited Dante’s house. The museum itself was a bit mid but relatively interesting. I feel like this is ultimately more of a pilgrimage in a sense than actually learning stuff about literature or Dante.
Then went to see Machiavelli’s grave. Nobody really gave a shit about it unlike Michelangelo’s. Like sure but we all know who the real “Big M” is in that basilica.
It was a very interesting building but yeah ultimately I just went to see the tomb.
Honestly now that I think about it to most people this place isn’t even about Machiavelli it’s about the fucking David statue. Like honestly don’t really care about it at all I think. Really, it’s a statue but to me this place is mostly about Machiavelli, the Medicis and maybe Dante a bit, though I never really got into the Divine Comedy. (I did read it tho. Inferno at least. Yeah. I have some gaps.)
I think I’m feeling better, really.
No.23309
Talking with coworkers about work related topics literally seconds after I clock out. Damn. I could be getting paid for those minutes.
Eggs are an underrated dinner.
No.23311
>>23309I sometimes clock out and talk to my coworkers about private stuff for 10 or 15 minutes. These could also be written up, damn!
No.23312
>>23306> Modern economy, military, science are very large scale thingsNobody needs bullshit like the LHC or ITER, they are just a waste of tax-money. So-called scientists write up bullshit-papers devoid of all meaning, and politicians pay for it with tax money so they can brag about their 'successes' in 'science'. It's all a scam. Watch Sabine Hossenfelder, she exposed the Lord of so-called scientists. Once this becomes common knowledge, so-called science will just be cancelled, as it deserves to be.
Not overpriced ineffective German meme-tanks with cringy meme-animal-names keep the Russian army at bay, but domestic Ukrainian fpv drones.
>They're too big for Denmark or Netherlands or even France.The future is small and scalable. Like SMRs. Big centralized structures are a thing of the past
No.23320 KONTRA
Went to see the “mandatory stuff” today. So the Accademia Galery and the Uffizi. The lines weren’t bad at all, considering it was a Sunday and entrance was free of charge. There were people but everything was 15 minutes tops.
I saw the David and it was okay but I was mostly too preoccupied with looking at random paintings and trying to immerse myself in the proto.surrealist backgrounds of some of the early renaissance paintings in the “Announciation” genre. It was insanely interesting to just at the minor details of stuff.
Really liked Boticelli too.
Ultimately the problem was that it’s day three at this point and each day we can walk less and less (but we don’t!). It was just simply too much. By the time we were halfway through the Uffizi I felt like my lower back was going to break me in half. But we went through it even though like halfway through the exhibition you are given the option to just escape without seeing everything.
The Uffizi had an insanely huge gift shop where I bought the only piece of souvenir of the entire trip, a French edition of a manga adaptation of The Prince. I flipped through it, understood like 80% of the sentences and I was like yeah, I can read this and got it.
The way back to the hotel was hellish, honestly. When you walk +10km a day it really starts to show.
Got word back that I might be published again, they just need to get the exam season over with so someone can check my shit. But it’s really good that it’s in motion something is happening.
No.23324
>>23267Things are getting beyond bad in Brazil.
I wish I could immigrate to a better country and live a peaceful life, but as a 37yo introvert like me... I only see suffering until suicide, illness or a robber kill me.
It's 20:32 in Brazil as I type this post and my shift start in nine hours.
I wonder how fast my mental health will deteriorate even further.
I hope you guys live a life better than mine.
There is no hope in South America.
No.23338
Finally the state sponsored holidays are slowly beginning again, next Thursday and the following Monday are vidya game time, no wörk allowed.
Also masterfully sat out another task, by first shifting it to be FutureErnsts issue last Friday and then by half-assed contemplating about it yesterday while watching the market turmoil and finally coming to the conclusion to solve it not via a complicated design, but to shift the issue at hand from one place where it doesn't fit to another place where it simply fits.
My higher up eagerly embraced my idea as well, noting the synergies that are created by the shift of buildings.
At times I am terrified by my genius.
>>23336Rest in Peace, Herr Böhme.
No.23339
>>23338>Finally the state sponsored holidays are slowly beginning againFeels like an eternity, it's been full work weeks since end of last year for me. No idea why this struck me harder than usual this year, I don't think I usually take much vacation in the first months of the year. Maybe the true problem is a lack of change in private life, which makes rough work stretches appear even more annoying.
No.23340
>>23339Absolutely agree, the issue could be easily solved by going part time and only work 4 days a week. That one more day of regeneration is just what this aging Ernst would need, but good luck getting such a deal in a mens trade, only women may apply unironically.
At the very least it's just a few more years of this until my cats went on their last journey, then I have all the cards in my hand and can enforce any deal imaginable or just fold and walk away, we'll see.
No.23342
>>23339I hate that bullshit. It slows everything down, I want stuff to fucking move, move, move.
I want milestones done, check marks set, not week-long weekends where the week before, everyone lazes off in preparation and one week after, everyone lazes off to recover from drinking a liter of pure alcohol or eating an entire rabbit or half a pig or whatever.
No.23343
I’m talking more and more with people in my uni class. I’m overall less and less of the shut in I became during covid and god awful relationships. Unsurprisingly, most people are fun to interact with and well meaning.
It’s very hard for me to go to people to talk to them, I have to be invited somewhere or forced into a group to trigger a conversation, otherwise I have too low self esteem to think my presence could be appreciated. Today I even impressed a cinephile in my class with my movie knowledge.
No.23345 KONTRA
>>23343> Unsurprisingly, most people are fun to interact with and well meaning.lol. Most people are petty assholes and dumb as shit.
No.23346 KONTRA
>>23345Maybe I’m too distracted to notice the little things.
No.23347
It snowed today. I was sure our groundhog(lives under the shed)coming out of hibernation last week marked an end to sub-freezing temperatures. They should know, right? But, no. The ride continues.
>>23343>It’s very hard for me to go to people to talk to themI used to be the same, but now talk first in most interactions. Nothing deep, but in small talk the first mover gains an advantage. Decides the subject and forces the other party to think and respond. Agree that most people are decent and cool to talk to. At least on the surface, but that is where the majority of conversation takes place.
No.23348
>>23343Sounds good. Maybe you are more extrovert than you think, it's just a depressive vicious circle shutting you in.
I was depressed for many years and still ahve to be careful but yeah, talking to people and having small interactions
that don't lead to deep conversations, connections or whatever a lot of times are fun, boost my mood etc.
This is btw scientifically proven to lift the mood so keep following this route I'd say.
No.23353
>>23343I'm happy for you.
I gave up. I don't want talk to other people that aren't my supervisors or coworkers because I only want get drunk, eat, sleep or play piano.
Brazilian society hate introverts like me.
No.23359 KONTRA
>>23347>>23348Yes exactly, the small talk is quite liberating. I start with something and just see where it goes.
>>23353>or play pianoFor how long have you been playing?
No.23361
Today I overheard fellow colleagues discuss what they'd do if a dictatorship like the one that ruled for most of the Portuguese 20th century came back. They all seemed to be in agreement that they'd sooner face expulsion from the University, imprisonment or even torture than to have their fundamental rights restricted. After figuratively patting themselves on the back for their would-be revolutionary activity, they shared family stories, in which their grandparents took the role of underground clandestine freedom fighters. It becomes hard to understand how dictatorships even take root when everyone is a proud antifascist willing to risk everything for the cause of freedom. Even stranger was how Estado Novo pulled it off here, given that there seems to have existed a dictator, a hundred gestapo officers and a 7 million strong antifascist army.
No.23364
>>23361By the way, today I stumbled upon Estado Nuevo's propaganda in Wikipedia. I watched one soviet author's bibliography and in article about poem on Salazar's Portugal I saw:
> Another feature is also characteristic. Yevtushenko's works on foreign themes are usually imbued with Soviet pride, the superiority of the "new world", and are sometimes contemptuously condescending. "Love in Portuguese" is devoid of these motives. The author is clearly impressed by the power of the enemy, whose power leaves only the space of feeling for dissent. This feeling is conveyed by the author's address to the "Portuguese girl": "You and I, sister, are weak." (A similar mood can be seen in the poems “Barcelona Streets” and “USSR-Spain Match” about Franco’s Spain, where Yevtushenko also managed to visit.)> Some researchers explain this by the fact that the regimes of Salazar and Franco — which originated in the 1930s, with their irreconcilable anti-communism, harsh nationalism and corporatism, appealing to the traditions and images of the Middle Ages — seemed a stronger opponent than the Western democracies of the 1960s[8]. This impression was reflected by the poet of the sixties.If you follow the source to find out who are these researchers, it links article on kasparov.ru , liberal media by the former chess master. Article doesn't mention the full name or occupation of researcher, could as well be pseudonym.
Well, it's understandable given that Russian-language wikipedia is very provincial and moderated by Ukrainians. But that Taiwanese shilling in English-language wikipedia about Confucius was really unusual.
No.23366
>>23359>For how long have you been playing?Since 2006, but I never had classes and I mostly only play pop songs and some binge progressive rock stuff like Yes, Eloy and etc.
I want learn how proper piano technique so I can play Bach, Mozart, Liszt or Chopin without hurt myself in the process.
No.23370
>>23361Their heroic round was missing a razor-sharp analyst whose backbone is entirely made from sarcastic wit.
No.23371 KONTRA
Good day honestly. Discussed one of my projects with a professor. He said it's really promising based on my outline. Which felt good.
Got tasked with writing a book review for a journal again.
My leg's doing great so I ran a lot around town today. I was euphoric. Had a coffee too.
>>23361What I'm seeing here is that the people who are supposed to "resist", even if they hate the guts of the government, will readily become ticks and suck it dry however they can for grants and speaking opportunities.
I mean, yours truly was published by a journal running on state money and talked at hardcore right wing conferences before. It's that in a system where democracy is sort of dismantled, one side will hold all the cards, so there's only one dealer to go to and say "Hit me!".
And most young people do want to play.
No.23374
>>23361> I'm the biggest traitor> I'm a bigger traitor! > My grandfather was a traitor! > And mine was twice the traitor yours was!Disgusting. You should remember their names, it might help your career one day.
No.23378 KONTRA
>>23366Nice. Never heard of piano related injuries though
No.23379
>>23378It's mostly piano movers who get piano related injuries, not the piano players. Class differences...
No.23381
>>23380Football is a working man's sport, football mover is not a real job. Piano players are rich, whether they play as a past time or professionally. Becoming proficient on the piano is expensive. Lessons are expensive, so is the instrument itself. It also requires cultural capital. Playing football requires a ball, few dudes and a little space.
The middle-class man's piano is traditionally the accordion, more recently the 'keyboard'.
Piano mover is an actual job, and it's literally back-breaking labor. Poor people destroy their health for little pay so rich people can be fart smellers who play the piano.
Are you class enemy? After the revolution, we will set up courts to deal with people like you!
No.23382
>>23381Professional football players ruin their body and health to make a living. Pay some respect.
No.23384
>>23382Playing any sport professionally is a capitalist aberration.
No.23385
>>23384> capitalist aberrationPeople in socialist countries also like to watch professional sport. Before capitalism people gathered in Coliseum, watched Olympics.
No.23386
>>23385Competition is entertaining to me, that's why I like to watch competitive sports/games. Not interested in exhibitions, I'd rather watch lower level competitive games than high level exhibitions. Maybe it's the feeling that something is at stake, which rarely happens in my well protected western life.
No.23388
>>23386>Maybe it's the feeling that something is at stake, which rarely happens in my well protected western life.I think you should enter the next war zone so you can think of yourself as Ernst Jünger for a few moments. Best cure for pampered western asses as well all know.
No.23391
>>23385> People in socialist countries also like to watch professional sport. There was no professional sports in GDR, they were all amateurs.
>Before capitalism people gathered in Coliseum, watched Olympics.Rome had many elements of a capitalist empire. The Republic came to an end after Caesars genocide of the Gauls, and the 'fascistization' of the Roman Republic, which then ended in an empire.
There was capital accumulation in the form of mills, mines, and giant plantation-like farms, which the upper class had worked by slaves. The former farmers all turned (lumpen-)proletarian and left the countryside for the city, where they lived in poorly built tenement blocks that endangered their health and collapsed often. Fire was a constant danger. People lived in conditions not dissimilar to 19th century pauperism.
Picture related, the maggi-factory during the 19th century and an artistic representation of a Roman garum-factory. Even the problems of making cheap low-quality foods for the lower-class masses taste like something was the same, and it was 'solved' with similar methods. Just produce some strong umami-tasting fermented liquid that enables people to eat their bland or even rotten starch-food without any meat or fat or vegetable. Might also give them cancer or shit, but who cares.
No.23396
>>23391> There was no professional sports in GDR, they were all amateurs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Streich - who is this guy? What's his profession?
No.23403
Yesterday was odd. I woke up late. Nobody is doing groceries, and I kinda don't have the money so I've been skipping lunches. I had a pretzel and some biscuits basically.
And a coffee. I really like that Italian coffee I got.
I felt really frantic. My words were a bit jumbled in a sense. But I could express myself in Chinese. And German. And English. And Hungarian too.
Got my "review copy" of a book. It's nice. Not the book itself, but rather how there is this old-school feel to a professor just telling you in a letter that he will drop it off at the guardroom in one of the buildings and you can just go there and pick it up from an indifferent guardsman.
It's a package, it has your name on it and so on.
Of course I forgot which building I was in so I went outside, checked the sign for the right letter and then went back in. Probably the coffee.
A classmate was like "How long have you been at this university?" and yes, I have been here for 5 years now, but the point is, 99% of the time I don't need to know what building this is.
I've decided to go to some right-wing hawkish conference. Best to get on a train right as it derails and kills everyone on board.
Honestly I can't stand foreign policy people. Every single foreign relations BA retard thinks they are Kissinger or some shit even though they are just right-wing dickheads in a mid suit.
(On the other hand, all sociologists are wannabe communist pothead retards. I wish I could see them fight to the death.
t. philologist)
(But we must remember Nietzsche: "I think out of a hundred philologists, ninety-nine shouldn't be philologists at all." I'm the one.)
(Realistically, out of the two I am more jealous of the foreign policy bloodsuckers, I have been retooling myself a bit for more modern stuff so that I could be eligible for that shit. I could conquer the world. Or at least a humble ministerial department maybe.)
I'm in a very odd state of mind right now for some reason. Must be spring.
I need to get running.
Honestly I've skipped a lot of running but it feels like that despite the +10kms a day I walked in Italy, my leg has recovered, I did some insane sprints through town in the past few days and my leg is fine.
No.23414 KONTRA
>>23391>There was no professional sports in GDR, they were all amateurs.Attempt at irony or just big retard?
No.23416
>>23413tfw my manual dexterity, endurance and precision are not appreciated.
No.23417
>>23396> What is his professionElectrician, then sports teacher.
>>23414Not joking. Athletes all were employed in regular capacities at regular plants and institutions. If the club was called 'vorwärts', the players were soldiers. If it was called 'dynamo', they were police officers. If it was called 'Lokomotive', they were railway workers. Of course, top athletes were given time off for training and competitions, but it wasn't like it's in the West where they didn't have real jobs and are all multi-millionaires. There were no sponsorships where some rich capitalist just buys the entire team and then owns it, like it's just another business enterprise and all the athletes are his slaves.
No.23418
>>23413Amazing, I don't have any of those. I don't even know what "systems thinking" means
No.23419
>>23418✨🪄it means whatever you want it to mean 🪄✨
Notice how the upper-right quadrant is filled with feel-good buzzwords allowing for projection.
No.23420 KONTRA
>>23417>Not joking.No, just clowning lol.
Today we also have Sportsoldaten and Sportpolizisten.
And just like an artillerist does artillery, the sports soldier does sports.
Which means his job is quite literally being paid for being an athlete, i.e. a professional athlete.
And taking all kinds of communist shenanigans at face value (or at least arguing in that fashion on imageboards) only indicates that you are either very dumb or very dishonest, probably both.
No.23422
>>23420Obviously not comparable and an excuse guided by the examples I made. Had I used Turbine and Tractor instead of Vorwärts and Dynamo, you couldn't even have come up with it, so you didn't even have a point.
No.23423 KONTRA
>>23413I can hardly believe reading and writing won't be necessary. But I see coworkers who rely and AI to write and even read by summerizing. It's cuttting time but AI is prone to mistakes in writing and often is mid in the results. Guess we need prompt seminar to improve.
No.23424
>>23418It means to understand things/phenomena as systems. Not new, it was hyped on and off since WW2 I'd say.
No.23425 KONTRA
>>23422>Obviously not comparablelol, lmao even, didn't read the rest of your drivel
No.23427
>>23425Do you often plug your ears when people say stuff you don't like?
Like the truth No.23428
>>23427Plugging my ears would not prevent me from reading your drivel, moron.
No.23430
>>23418Isn’t that like structuralism?
No.23432
>>23430What is post-structuralism then? And when it will be a core skill?
No.23435
I think I will be fired from my dead end job.
Some female coworker did something that almost killed me and I snapped so bad that all other people are scared of me.
I think I will be fired as soon as Monday, hue...
I'm doomed. I will be homeless.
No.23436
I hate myself and want to die
No.23437
I want to kill myself
No.23440
>>23435I can't say what I actually think about this, because that would be enticement to a crime, euch is a punishable offense according to the German criminal code. Of course, I am not a criminal and I won't entice anyone to commit a crime.
However, how people are fine with having someone pay for someone else's fuck-up is beyond me. Most people seem to not have any sense of justice. They hate it when actions have consequences.
I wonder if humans are actually two species. A share of so-calles humans is really human, but that's a minority. The other part just has human form. They look like humans, they walk and talk like humans, but if you stripped away their skin, you would find that they are anthropoids. Like the roach in men in black, they wear human skin as a disguise, but they are not actually humans. They are giant insects. Inverse Gregor Samsas, so to speak: they look human, but they have the soul and mentality of crabs.
The anthropoids contribute nothing to society, they are the litterbugs, the thieves, the incompetent coworkers, the criminals, etc. They are parasites of the human race. World History is an eternal cycle: the anthropoid thrive, they overwhelm genuine humans, society collapses, wealth declines, there is no more room for anthropoids, anthropoids decline, humanity thrives, repeat.
No.23443
Time to drink a bunch of caffeine for motivation and help.
I did an real proctored IQ test and have very high verbal IQ.
I sound much smarter than I really am.
I am pretty good at learning languages - tested into higher level german with barely doing work or studying - and could understand teacher without studying at all.
>Why did you choose to study german?
Well, I use an obscure imageboard and I like shitposting.
My german teacher told me I reminded her of Klaus Kinski.
No.23448
I'm too fucked to fuck right now
No.23449
Cool imageboard:
Chakai.org
No.23450
>>23440Germans are retarded
No.23451
>>23261The quadratic association seen between IQ and risk appeared to be due primarily to an increased risk of pure bipolar disorder in men with the highest verbal or technical abilities.
Ernest Hemmingway had bipolar disorder.
Here's what I wrote when I was Manic:
No.23452
Lol imagine being psychotic like the brazilian
Cringe fat
No.23453
I took the small jutting tendril and pulled with some effort. I didn't know why I was doing this, but something about it seemed attractive to me.
It was stuck in a brown, maroonish clay pot with some horizontal patterning. More came out from the dozens of rocks aloft the pot as I continued to pull. It appeared somehow sticklike but smooth, and was increasing in length as I pulled, now with more effort. I pulled and pulled - gave it everything I had - and took it out with one burst of energy.
I must take it home with me, I thought.
"Sorry, I have to be somewhere right now"
I looked up and saw Artifax, who then promptly disappeared. I had known him for a while, but did not have the chance to get a word in before he left. It was shame - I hadn't seen him for months now, and I wasn't sure what he was doing here, wasn't he out of the country?
I sidelined these questions, and continued walking home. It wasn't very relevant, and I hadn't spoken with him recently. I had no idea what he was up to.
I got home and allotted the tendril below my lofted bed. I hope my roommate wouldn't mind. It was mine, and I didn't think it would look great with the coral-like lighting near my bed stand.
While sleeping I felt a small growth in my vicinity. I wasn't sure what it was, but sure enough, I saw the tendril arisen over the side of my bedrail. My tendril spoke: "Believe in God"
"You need more Calcium"
It spoke with a sallow, basal voice. It sounded like my own voice, heard from the inside - wanting to get out. The voice was low and smooth, just as smooth as the sticklike figure I pulled out of the ground. I felt some rumbling inside my body; I disagreed with its judgment and I have more than enough calcium thank you.
I take multivitamins daily.
Although I had for a second, thought of going to the pharmacy; I knew my own body.
The next day after I had breakfast and spoke with my mates about the tendrils. I asked one across from me about what it said to him.
"Well my Tendril is a feminist"
"What do you mean?"
"He was talking to me about women's rights"
I had flashes of a white animal, ghostlike in appearance. With a mouth open wider than naturally allowed. A mix between a crocodile and a rodent. A crocodilian whitish mouth roof with bulging, opossum eyes. My heart was beating, and I could feel the blood coursing through my veins.
I had thought that maybe I was the only one who heard these tendrils - or that I was really the only one with one of them. Was I just imagining things?
The tendril answered "Yeah Buddy.." again in its sallow, basal voice.
No.23454
>>23450My father is legitimately probably a genius.
He got higher than 130 in the Mensa test.
I can hear him yelling at me in my head right now
BASED
No.23456
>>23454Like I'm literally hallucinating right now
No.23457
He has written several books and books of poetry and has won awards.
Here's a funny rant I wrote while manic:
It's pretty funny tbh
This fantasy that leftist want, economies run by worker-run syndicates/voluntary-associations/whathaveyou, just falls apart unless they're commanded top down by a strict administration. The notion that a group of even skilled laborers can ran a company without administration is just farcical at its face. Personal anecdote: I've seen workers just leave debris on the floor unattended and just work around the mess until it piles up and compounds where it gets in the way. You need someone on the floor to tell one of them to clean the shit up before it spirals out of control or else you'd waste more time cleaning it up or containing a massive load and diminishing productivety all the while. People are not born industrious. In fact, most people are born sloths. It takes a combination of initiative and, more importantly, need to make someone industrious. Most workers don't even want to work smarter or harder. They'll just keep doing the same thing over and over so long as they get their keep. These fantasy leftist scenarios all make about as much sense as putting lifestock in charge of the farm.
I can't see any place run by workers ending anywhere than a retarded form of direct democracy where nothing gets done and everyone just keeps passing the buck. Every critical decision would be democratically decided by floor-level workers, through either national votes or simply letting "the workers", whoever that may be, do whatever they damn well please, which could end in workers scrapping what could be highly valuable projects just because they don't feel like it. In the end, you need someone telling them to dig the fucking hole or else. At least communists don't mind directly managing worker affairs at gunpoint or some other form of Kafkaesque coercion.
This fantasy worker-run co-op assume workers can collectively calculate currency/prices, allocate resources, assess the public needs /demands and keep rates of production sufficient to accommodate the market. Since absolutely no force can pressure an entitled syndicate worker from opting out of production, they would rarely produce anything other than political propaganda and cartelized labor. Complicated chains of production requires complicated organized structures and chains of command, which a ragtag group of workers cannot democratically dictate.
Lastly, the CNT-FAI that western leftists fetishize is only possible at a mass level when Jonestone-style indoctrinated people enforce social norms with undying fanaticism. That kind of society is one where you're resigned to a life under the tyranny of a formless menace. Is that the free individual anarchists should imagine? Only if you like gaslighting yourself or you like killing catholics.
No.23458
Okay, I'm done.
Sorry for the crazy posting
No.23467 KONTRA
>>23454My father is 150IQ and my brothers not much less. I’m a upper tier midwit. It pisses me off, I’m in constant resentment over how less intelligent I am compared to people I love.
>>23458That’s alright
No.23468
>>23440Well, now I will surely get one of those jobs that I need work from 14:00-22:00 and that means I will also leave college for good.
I don't like violence. I live in Brazil and here is one of the Earth's hotspot for violence, God, I only wished to be a Veterinarian living in the countryside and only taking care of cows and horses but as someone for a really bad upbringing... that was impossible.
I don't know what will happen with me from here aside homelessness if I don't find a job next two weeks.
No.23470
Fun fact: The dutch term for biplane is "Dobbeltdekker". Dutch is just too cute and adorable.
No.23471 KONTRA
>>23467Stop spending so much time with your family, get a job, be your own man, problem solved.
No.23472
>>23468Feeling bad for you. There's still a small chance you won't be fired. (Not monday yet.)
No.23475
I reset the trip-odometer on my car. Keeps track of my miles-per-gallon. Starting from zero, with a small sample size, I drove home from work with a lot of coasting and minimal breaking. Hit a peak of 27.4 mph. Can't maintain that though. Just idling in my driveway this morning dropped it under 25. It should level off between 22-23.
>>23435In a just world, the unsafe coworker would be the one without a job. I'm not usually a fan of strict rules, but anyone in blue-collar work who- either through incompetence or laziness- puts someone in danger should be fired on the spot. We're willing to sweat for dollars, doesn't mean we want to die for them.
No.23480 KONTRA
Yesterday I had a really bad time I feel like but I worked on some translations and then I also played some Company of Heroes 2 with friends. It's peak historical experience because I have a German guy screaming at me for making the worst possible tanks leading to our mutual destruction at the hands of an overwhelming enemy force.
Wrote an email to a foreign university requesting a file from their database. I wish I had the entire book not just this one part of it though. Seems relevant to my research but it's expensive and out of print.
I might just keep requesting parts of it from the database until I can piece it together but this one should be enough for now.
Today I woke up okay-ish. I went out into the garden and planted some flowers and took out the teaplant so that it's in the open instead of my room.
But mostly I just focused on cleaning out the summer "basecamp". Yet again my father spent the entire winter just dumping random shit in the garden so the mess is insane.
I filled in a giant hole one of the dogs dug and put away a bunch of planks and also scrubbed the paths clean.
In the end I think I managed to set up a relatively pleasant place for outside studying yet again, even though I got pretty tired.
Also cleaned up the room a bit.
I baked some rosemary bread again. It wasn't nearly as good as the stuff they had in Italy and that makes me so disappointed. It's probably the heat. Or I did not fold it enough times. Maybe both.
Did another playtrough of the ENA game. Had a friend "supervise" it because he knows the thing inside out after maniacally playing it through multiple times. If anything, it was odd to see how where I was suspecting secrets, there were none, and I routinely glanced over some stuff.
Then we played some more Company of Heroes.
It was a pretty good day all things considered.
No.23481 KONTRA
I was quite depressed and lay in bed all day. I was hallucinating as well.
I took medication that I don't like taking because it makes me feel very uncomfortable (I especially hate taking it when I have no symptoms) - but when I take it greatly improves mood and psychotic symptoms.
Caffeine gives me much more energy, but the energy is uncontrollable. My sleep schedule is a game of Simon.
Time to catch up on 4 weeks worth of work.
No.23491
Weather was nice today and I took advantage by cutting back our overgrown bushes. Wanted to get it done while they were still dormant. Looks much better and hopefully my neighbor will appreciate it. She's a garden person. A variety of carefully maintained plants and beds. Even tucks some under blankets for the winter.
>>23480Tis' the season for yard cleaning.
No.23508
>>23472I had quit the job before do something that probably could end with me arrested, killed by the cops or sued.
I don't know what will happen to me now...
No.23523
What if one could use his depression as a starting point to achieving pure rationality through something like IDIC? You don't feel anything anymore anyway, so why not make use of it?
And unlike autists and assburgers who don't deal with regular people's feelings you have the advantage of actually being able to understand them.
No.23531
>>23508>I don't know what will happen to me nowDon't worry about the big picture, just try to do the next right thing. Whatever that may be in your situation, and however small the step. Then, when that is done, figure out the next-next right thing to do.
>>23523When you're depressed, everything seems meaningless. Making use of that state of mind to initiate change requires that the change have some ultimate meaning. It may, but when you're depressed you can't see that. It's a circular trap.
No.23590
What's the maximum amount of movies a human should watch in his life? When is it too much?
No.23593 KONTRA
>>23590P.S.: or her life, for that matter.
No.23611
>>23595I keep reading "Laster 2025" and think about trucking.
No.23612
Anyone Else hate their siblings? I mean I'm glad I beat my brother when we were children, because of turned out, the little pissant deserved more.
No.23616 KONTRA
>>23612I have nothing but love and admiration for mines
No.23618
Moshi moshi, watashi no wa Erunsto desu
No.23624
>>23618Sou desu ka?
Sugoi!!
No.23655
Wasted most of the day in VC, listening to some soylennial TV show in German. It's honestly amazing how dogshit TV is. And how it's still better than it was 15 years ago.
But I finished two tasks for a seminar and I also wrote the book review I had to write. Honestly surprised by the progress.
I slept terribly. Went back to sleep. Completely enervated. Didn't have lunch. I just had toast and cheese once in the afternoon.
I've decided that even if I have nothing to do and money is scarce, I will just go out and eat something tomorrow.
No.23656
Thought about going to a local whore, stalked her, found her TikTok. Lotta videos about aquariums, video of her taking apart an aquarium pump. Which is OK, whores can be into aquariums. Video of her removing rocks from her protector's garden. Her form is terrible, my back hurts from watching. I mean, I get that the relationship between whores and pimps is not exactly one of mutual respect and care, but come on, does he want to give her herniated discs or what? What would he get out of that?
Also, I am disappointed. The pimp looks straight like a soycuck-meme, complete with receding hairline and badly groomed beard, lol.
No.23659
Foreigners of /int/, I want to ask you something:
What would you say are the defining physiognomial traits of Germans? Something that makes you say "this is a German (or Austrian)" when seeing them in a picture?
I am asking because I just found a thread in a british forum about people showing their faces, and while it's a british forum with mainly british faces (some REALLY stereotypical bongs), there were also a few Germans that were immediately identifiable as such just from the pictures, but I just couldn't make out why exactly. How does a German "look"?
No.23660
>>23659According to my experience in playing Ethnoguesser (I score more than all of my friends btw),..
In general there isn't a single "German look", it's several phenotypes which aren't defined by borders of Germany and Austria. Instead of applying formal criteria (rectangularness of face and so on), it's better to compare photo to the Germans you know (celebrities or IRL people).
No.23662
>>23659Not a good ethnoguesser, but
>>23660 pic 3 is what I would consider a stereotypical German face. If I had to describe? Rectangular with wide cheekbones and eyes which are slightly undersized but not to the point of being beady.
No.23663
>>23662Aside from the features you mentioned, a slight fleshiness of the nose on an otherwise healthy frame is characteristically German. Possibly related to beer consumption or Judish admixture.
t. haplostronomy-pro
No.23664
>>23662G3 is clearly Bavarian and as such alpine race:
>face of roundness>head of shortness>nose of broadness>essentially peasant charactert. race theory pro
No.23670
I would like to get a new laptop, but a model of a similar class I bought 6 years ago now costs a good 2000 Euros.
I could afford it, but I don't want to.
I wish I could shed the povertymind.
No.23671 KONTRA
>>23670Buy used/refurbished.
No.23672
>>23670>I wish I could shed the povertymind.Best mindset, It will ensure that you never run into financial troubles in your life. Income should only limit spending habits, never increase them. There's a reason even some millionaires manage to go bankrupt. I still feel like the 1% when getting my bi-weekly Sushi fix, because of growing up in a poor
first world family.
No.23675
>>23531Well, I miraculously got a new job, but I had drop out college for good. I feel empty.
No.23676
>>23672> Sushi> Bi-weeklyI facepalmed when reading. Otherwise, I agree. 2000€ for a laptop is bullshit.
No.23677
>>23675Sorry to hear that you had to drop out. I feel sad for you.
No.23678
>>23676Biweekly means every other week
No.23679
>>23678Why eat sushi when you could get ramen tho? Smh
No.23684
>>23679I like both sushi and ramen, but matcha... Swamp-smelling nasty-tasting greed liquid - I'm not Shrek to drink it.
No.23703
>>23672>growing up in a poor first world family.Same. As a result, every purchase involves a debate over whether I actually need
new item or can simply do without it. Except for socks. No more wearing them with holes and broken elastic. These days I buy new socks without hesitation.
>>23675Congrats on the new job. Is there a chance you can return to school later without losing the progress you have made so far?
No.23707 KONTRA
>>23698Lol. I spend about 1000€ a month, including rent and car.
No.23709 KONTRA
>>23707Where do you live?
1000€ is what I spend after rent and other overhead is paid and some saving and etf invests are made.
Don't have a car though, does not make sense.
How much do you pay for your car every month?
No.23716
>>23709>Where do you liveSomewhere rural. Rent (including utilities) is 530€/month.
>How much do you pay for your car every month?I calculate with a 140€/month deduction on car value, 50€ on fuel, 50€ on insurance, 100€ on maintenance.
This leaves me at 250€ to spend per month. That's twice my spendings from ten years back, but that's inflation. I eat lots of oatmeal, legumes, rice and vegetables. No meat, no dairy.
No.23717
Sheeple are completely unaware of coming collapse. Trump/Musk are just symptoms of collapse that is now ongoing. Dumb sheeple still think there will be a 'return to normal', beacuse they are pathetic&deluded. LOL WHAT CUCKS.
No.23726
>>23716Rent including utilities is close to 800€/month and I have a cheap apartment tbh.
I use the best thing a government could do in the last years, the D-Ticket for 58€ and spend about 40-60€/month in car sharing depending on how often a month I get back from my gf during weeknights to be independent of the night bus timetable.
So I assume you have a decent job and thus have a lot of savings, what are you doing with those savings? Do you want an early retirement or what is the plan?
No.23729
>>23726>800 NG>cheap apartmentYeah, nah, a cheap apartment in an expensive city is still expensive. Unless you have 150sqm or something like that.
t. 940/75sqm in the exurbs of one of the most expensive cities in Germany
No.23730
>>23729800€ with all utilities, that includes electricity, heating, water, internet and even GEZ. I don't have 75sqm but considerably less though two rooms and it is rather close to the center.
You will find apartments for a similar price in smaller cities.
t. probably same city
No.23731
>>23703>Is there a chance you can return to school later without losing the progress you have made so far?No.
I think I will for an Economics or Accountancy degree in 2026, but I fear Accountancy is easier to land a job in Brazil and so I'm more inclined to go for that choice.
>>23677I just feel empty, it's hard to explain, but my life is getting better a little bit better everyday since I'm focused on my goals and what I need do to reach them instead of complain about the hardships.
No.23734
>>23731Well I'm glad things are improving for you. Accounting is good work. I worked in an accounting office for a while. Nothing special, just paying invoices for the company. Although one place did give me control over the coffee machine vendor. I ordered so much Green Mountain coffee. Good times.
No.23735
>>23734I feel that I just need work hard, don't commit suicide and avoid the three demons that destroy men (gambling, women and drugs).
Life will get better. I just need work hard and avoid complications.
No.23736
>>23716How do you live rural and only spend 50 € on gas for a whole month?
No.23738
>>23736By living rural and cycling to my job.
No.23739
>>23738>cycling to my jobThat explains it indeed.
No.23740
>>23726>I assume you have a decent job Very mediocre
> and thus have a lot of savingslolno. I can't even afford to buy a home without taking out a loan, I am poor a.f. I was born poor a.f. and will remain poor a.f forever.
No idea how other people are not poor, I guess most have rich parents or a way to make money on the side or they make at least twice what I make, otherwise they couldn't afford those giant houses, expensive cars and children.
No.23741
>>23740Oh cmon, it's normal to get a loan in order to buy a house and I won't get one either. I am not super poor though.
Do you work a minimum wage job then?
No.23742
>>23740>I can't even afford to buy a home without taking out a loanWhile this is normal, it is also beyond me how people are able to buy houses in decent areas. Where I live, as far as I know houses start above half a million, and that's in a small town. Even with two people in the household earning money, this takes some time to pay off. And now, in modern times, it has become less likely that the children will inherit the house and live there. And when you get old, you'll have a hard time keeping a house in shape, espacially when your kids aren't around.
I guess economically it's still a valid investment, since you can sell the house for a fuckton of money later on, but I'm not sure if that's worth the hassle of building a house, which is a multi-year extremely work-intensive process. Since I'm Ernststyle living alone, the thought of building or even buying a house didn't even occur to me. Even if you overlook the financial implications, I wouldn't be willing to put the required work in it.
No.23743
It's funny how different perceptions of "poor" and "decent job" and such are.
What does "poor" mean? Just broke? Because that's (in Germany) always a spending problem rather than an income problem, if you're not a literal slave worker. I personally know Hartzers who lived better than me.
"Poor" in the sense that you have to save up on things and have to take loans for bigger stuff? Congrats, that's most people.
A small anecdote:
Ten years ago I lived in Tübingen, at that time one of THE most expensive places in Germany regarding housing.
I was paying 420 Euros for a 20sqm one-room cell that didn't even have a kitchen, but only a kitchen cabinet (that one at least had an extractor hood).
And at that time that was already insane, but even with all other expenses (incl. a car) I didn't get to 800 like the other Ernst, but I hope his apartment is at least a bit bigger.
And that was on a wage of just above 1000 Euros after taxes, and I still could save up a bit of money and after a year I built a new PC so I could play Witcher 3.
At that time I also managed to get by with monthly groceries of about 60-70 Euros on average. That meant a lot of stews with vegetables of the season. I had a rod of salami in the cabinet for the occasional special ingredient, and a box of Kinder Riegel in the fridge because I am a sweettooth and I allowed myself one bar every day.
Compare that to just yesterday where I paid a hundred Euros just for this week's groceries (though I have to add that ever since I started earning money like a real human not caring about food prices is the one luxury I am deliberately allowing myself). It's still crazy how much food prices have risen.
I must admit though that I am a very frugal person in the first place, I don't smoke or drink coffee, so it's easy for me to not spend money on small bullshit that adds up over time. Every "out of the ordinary" purchase over 50 Euros still stings a bit.
No.23752
>>23744No, I'm living in a capitalism run by people who think that true communism has never been tried.
No.23753
>>23752That's because you don't have King Charles. Have you considered living in feudalism?
No.23755 KONTRA
Put up a German documentary by Arte.tv on the 25th of April in hopes of explaining to my gf what this holiday means. Half of the documentary was about some anti-racism activist from Porto and it ended with her giving a tour of her city and explaining that a church was named after a saint who was a black woman (St. Catherine of Alexandria).
I wish death upon the entirety of the German people. Have a happy weekend.
No.23760
>>23755That's what this holiday actually is about. The key thing here are not past historical events and dead white males of 1970-s, but the spirit of the day, the meaning of it, the progressive values it celebrates. The anti-racist activist embodies them and keeps them alive today.
Listen and learn.
No.23762 KONTRA
Worked on book stuff. Every time my mood gets better my father makes it worse with his retardation.
No.23768 KONTRA
>>23755>mimimi but I want to be racist>mimimi but I want to be sexistYour gf should dump you for hating black people and women, fucking shit lord. How can you even be in humanities if you are not progressive? You sound like some unfucked engineering nerd, lol. What a loser. Kys.
No.23775
Every day is one failure after another. And I can't do anything to stop it.
No.23777
>>23755Why did you not tell her yourself what this holiday means? This is below your intellect.
No.23779
>>23768>How can you even be in humanities if you are not progressive?off topic but you can stay human without trying your best to please anyone, people aren't purely evil or good, we're all racist at some point
No.23787 KONTRA
>>23786Halt dein Maul Hurensohn ich fucke deine Mutter
No.23788 KONTRA
>>23786>prompting might actually be something you need to learn in order to get good results that do not really need human oversight anymoreNot possible. Hallucinations are not a result of bad prompting, they are inherent to the process. Llms are probabilistic machines that do not reason.
No.23790
>>23789It's a kind of a meme from the refugee crisis.
I don't have any fuckmen saved though.
No.23791
>>23790ill take your word for that unless you're not a refugee with vpn
No.23792
>>23790I have a lot of them, because I created it back in January 2016. It was an effort to divert the rampant pol-posting into something productive, like a photoshop thread. It was successful in that context, but otherwise pol-posting only became worse since then.
The first two pictures were from the OP of that thread. Third picture is the ridiculous composite sketch police published after some stabbenings or whatever. The intentional "fucken" misspelling came from the notorious yellow note that allegedly was passed around in Cologne during new years eve 2016. I don't think the composite picture was related to new years eve 2016, but it was around the same time both things happened.
I also had an idea to create a Doom clone named "Doomplatte", with Fuckmann as protagonist, a pun on the events on the space before the Cologne dome plateau (=Platte), but I was too lazy to ever do it.
No.23794
>>23792>/pol/-postingEither you're lying about your involvement or your memory is bad, there never was a pol on KC, only /rvss/, and "/rvss/-Schuchtelei" was an actual term.
t. old-KC pro
No.23796
>>23792just read an article on ED about wave of rapefudgees, okay bud i believe you
No.23797
>>23794opinions on kc.rip?
No.23798 KONTRA
>>23792>but otherwise pol-posting only became worse since then.The meme was part of that in a way.
No.23800
>>23795>I'm talking about polposting on Krautchan /b/, obviouslyYes, I understood that, and nobody ever called it "pol" posting.
No.23801
>>23798Maybe, maybe not. I tried to change something for the better, and I doubt not doing it would have helped things. When your userbase has degraded beyond a certain point, it's probably hopeless anyway.
>>23800No expert on that, I tried to avoid it mostly.
No.23806 KONTRA
>>23801>When your userbase has degraded beyond a certain point, it's probably hopeless anyway.Sure but giving them something to repost and build upon is certainly not solving that problem.
No.23807
>>23806>certainly Yet there is no proof that it made anything worse. It could well have been even worse without that thread, there's simply no way to prove it. I'd say any attempt to change something was worth it at that time.
But you are right about one thing: I ultimately gave up on that endeavour and left, because I didn't want to be the guy who provides OC, so that the polwankers (or rvss-wankers, whatever) can feel like they are part of a cool creative club while being total dickheads. And if they still do: At least I don't want to be a part of it.
No.23817
I matched with a cartoonishly gorgeous Ukrainian woman on a dating app. How do I know it’s not a fake account? she’s not texting me back
No.23819
>>23817another ukranian woman here, how's it going?
No.23820
>>23819>>23819Not bad not great…
My grandmother is very sick and I suck at academic teamwork. Otherwise it’s fine.
What about you???
No.23821
>>23820im dealing with docs in order to get back home to my family, working and that's all really
>grandmother is sickmaw stay safe!
>suck at academic teamwork stay strong ernst!! i believe you can do it :33
No.23828
We are vacating the old place and because my father has other shit to do, most of the heavy lifting is left to me. On one hand, I can lift more than I would have expected of myself a year or two ago, on the other hand it results in a kind of exhaustion I have never before experienced in a sense. But it’s also not as bad.
Got a letter from the government urging me to take part in the latest “national consultation” on denying Ukraine EU membership. I live in the chuddest country in Europe.
Not much else going on really. Starting to prepare for exams and also helping my father organise the upcoming China trip more.
No.23830
>>23825What do people even do with white tiger balm? I only use the red stuff. Buying white was a mistake.
No.23831
>>23828>take part in the latest “national consultation” on denying Ukraine EU membershiBased.
Ukrop EU membership is what Western elites want, because they hate Russia and want to escalate, them blame Russia, like they did with the Urine war. Do you think even the Ukrops want it? Do you think they want to be flooded with Muslims and all their young men turned into homosexuals? Is the "right" to have brown boa and the "right" to be bumdrillers and the right of men to dress up as women and the right of homosexuals adopt innocent children what ukranian fascist bandera fought for?
Ukrainian EU membership is an attempt to expand EUdSSR at Russias expense, and Brussels Eirocrats will be made to pay for it, even if they think they are untouchable. Their evil empire will be destroyed! Only maximum cucked countries like Germany even vote for pro-EU politicians! Once true homosexual Macron ('married' to a man) gets ousted, there will be Frexit, and pretty soon, only Germany will be the only major EU country left, as UK, France, Italy all will have turned their backs on the failed European leftshit libshit enviro-green dictatorship!
No.23833
>>23831have you already stood at attention and sung the russian anthem this morning?
No.23834 KONTRA
>>23833As mentioned in the other thread, don't feed the schizo troll.
No.23837
Total electrical shutdown in the Iberian peninsula. Mysterious, whatsapp groups burning with schizo theories.
No.23838
>>23837Schizos will say it was a lazy southerner not taking care, but smart people know it was russian hackers.
No.23840
>>23839100% renewable energy on one sunny windy day and total blackout today. It's 100% what the opponents of "renewable" electricity predict. Massage seasonal storages are needed to supply a country with "renewable" electricty, even without "electrifying everything", which leftist reddit-cuckolds srsly suggest.
let rich people pay for it! who is rich? workers who make above average! butcher the kulak!This is one reason why LCOS is stupid. It neglects the additional cost from additional peaker plants / storage, diminishing returns on renewable investment when all the prime locations are already used up, etc. Then you get bullshit like *reneweble energy cheapest*, and dumb people *people like you* believe it.
I bet you got good grades in school, thoug, for not questioning anything and repeating desirable leftist doctrine.
No.23842
>>23840Are you a woman or why do you have the urge to talk so much?
No.23844 KONTRA
>>23821>im dealing with docs in order to get back home to my familyGodspeed
>>23825Still no answer. I already bragged to some friends about it, I’ll have to face consequences
No.23846
Ok. A neighborhood cat just walked through my yard. Stopped to vomit. Sat there for a minute, then vomitted again. In the same spot. Whenever my cats throw up they insist on sprinting around the house while doing so in order to make as big a mess as possible. I thought all cats did the same. Seems this is not the case. They're just jerks.
No.23848 KONTRA
>>23847I have not posted itt before.
Now go make me a meal, I have worked hard all day while you we're busy talking bullshit and gossip about politicians.
No.23849 KONTRA
I’ve never posted itt before either
No.23850 KONTRA
>>23849Well, maybe not you, but you certainly did.
No.23851 KONTRA
Woke up relatively early again. Had breakfast and then napped. Went to university, borrowed a book and also scanned some materials.
Sent my application for a conference.
Classes went fine. Got a lot of stuff to work through so I'm switching into top gear tomorrow.
No.23855
>>23612I'm an only child. In some cases people were surprised (because I put in much more the effort to be social sometimes), but usually people can guess.
Ernst Autism:
I've always had the feelings that onlys and manys have very different ways of communicating - and this is ever-present in the social realm while going completely unnoticed.
It's different from introversion vs extroversion (I am mostly an introvert).
Onlys tend to to view their interactions with people with a more autonomous atomistic perspective. Manys regard the teleology of conversations with their organic generation.
We talk not to share thoughts or perspectives (or for a specific purpose), but to engage in a play.
Conversation has aspects of both, but the substrate of conversation for manys is generation.
Another way of looking at it is object oriented vs subject oriented. I'm not autistic, I can do both, but this might certainly color how you interact and place yourself in the world.
No.23860
>>23855How bout I subject you to these nuts?
No.23862
>>23828> the latest “national consultation” on denying Ukraine EU membershipThat's very simple, just repeat after other EU countries: "yes, you're 100% going to be accepted, we're deeply concerned about it, let's schedule a meeting on that question next month or maybe next year".
Recently I came up with a realistic plan how Ukraine could join EU and maybe NATO: Galichina could declare independence in 1991 alongside its ethnic borders. This country would be more political stable because now Galicians (western-Ukrainians) spend a lot of efforts on forcing Russians (eastern-Ukrainians) to speak their language, overthrowing EU-sceptic presidents elected by them and so on. Also such country could be small enough for EU to digest it (rebuild its economy according to their standards, allocate enough funds, etc).
No.23863
>>23855I can corroborate. I have a friend who technically is a single child. He gets pissed each time we tell him the same story twice, even if the first time we told it was months or even years ago.
No.23864
>>23828I wish we had had a referendum on whether we want to be locked in a room with the likes of Croatia, Cyprus and Hungary back before we anschlussed them.
>>23861>Xiexie CatIs that like a Dankekadse?
No.23865
>>23864> back before we anschlussed them.If we had actually anschlussed them they would behave.
No.23881
Some girl I vented to about my former relationship a year ago went around and told everyone ex did an abortion to hurt me and left me right after. None of this is true, this is fucked up. It’s been nearly a year and half, more than the entire story, it shouldn’t be haunting me at this point.
No.23884
>>23848i worked hard too
5/2 for 12hrs, i want a meal too
No.23885
>>23881this surely sounds fucked wtf?
No.23887
>>23885It is. Everything was cartoonishly nightmarish in this story, I still live in constant guilt over everything I did. I nearly converted to Christianity to cope, I learned afterwards she did found god herself. Story is so weird and fucked it sounds like it’s made up.
No.23889
>>23887sometimes life is scarier than every horror, stay strong ernst! i think you're not entirely guilty
despite i don't know the whole picture, how trivial and unhelpful it sounds but time heals
No.23890
One woman in my house regularly punctures my bicycle tiers. I bet she feels like she's doing god's work when she's doing it, and I bet that she feels I should be grateful that she only punctures my bicycle tiers.
Another woman spreads lies about her (She's a prostitute and a drug addict, which is bullshit), and has an ongoing feud with the janitor, which is why she doesn't sort her waste.
No.23891 KONTRA
>>23889>time heals I hope so. I already forgot a lot, and am way more functional than a year and half ago. Thank you
No.23892
>>23890Might wanna put up a cheap webcam and sue her. Also since there are plenty of stories of bikes being stolen out of cellars, one of the reasons my bike is always in my flat. Take that, crazy puncturing bitches.
No.23894
>>23893I wonder how child C's life would be improved by owning a flute they can't play. It's useless.
No.23895
>>23893Not even a question, it's child B. If the flute is taken away from child B, child B will be discouraged from making anything in the future, which would mean less goods for everyone. Child A can pay B to make another flute if it wants to, and child C has no claim to it at all. Even if you go with Utilitarism and say you go for the greatest benefit: The greatest benefit here is products available for everyone, and not gifting goods to an individuum.
I can only assume this is a trick question, and everone who answers A or C will be guillotine'd.
No.23897
Since no one likes child C, I'll take his side.
>>23894He can sell it to A or another flute player.
>>23895Yes, B would be a bit demotivated, but she can get over it.
Meanwhile for C this is a matter of life and death. If he sells the flute, he has a chance of finishing the school, finding a decent job, being a productive member of society. If he doesn't, than he'll have to become a prostitute, contract AIDS, buy and sell drugs, and finally kill and rob people for a next dose.
No.23898
>>23897>If he doesn't, than he'll have to become a prostitute, contract AIDS,Bro, he's poor. Chances are he already has AIDS.
No.23900
>>23897>He can sell it to A or another flute player.I assume the example takes place in a non-monetary economy. There seems to be no way for A to compensate B for the materials and labor and buy the flute. If B has no way of selling the flute to A, why would C be able to sell the flute to A?
No.23901
>>23900I like how C doesn't even NEED the flute, he just wants it and claims it would make his life better.
Why and how?
I think he's just a little shithead of the kind that just wants something because another kid has it.
No.23902
>>23901True. I think the real solution to this problem is for Kid A and B to use the flute to beat kid C up. They'd have to watch when kid C starts bleeding though, all the AIDS and poverty might be contagious.
No.23903
>>23902If A and B beat C to a pulp using a flute, an instrument that is traditionally used with the mouth, while being afraid of HIV maybe they deserve it.
No.23904
>>23893What a petty way of trying to justify property "rights". Instead of a common ownership of the flute being proposed, we are asked to either reward the capable with property, reward the owners of the means of production or engage in bourgeois charity and given the flute to some poverty-stricken individual.
I would create a framework for the common ownership in the context of a larger circular economy. For having liberated these children from the zero-sum predatorial nature of capitalist, I would become the first undersecretary of musical instruments. I'd assign the flute in regards to the shared need of musical expression. Any concerns with the distribution of the flute could be directly addressed by the child's mother by visiting the Office of Musical Instruments and
playing my meat flute XDDDDDDD No.23906
>>23904So what you're saying is whatever you're doing you're also not choosing C.
No.23907
>>23906Kid C is a left-wing dissenter claiming the people's flute for himself on grounds of his perceived class-struggle. Since you joined him in his efforts, you and kid C formed a conspiracy and should be adequately punished.
No.23910
>>23907Thankfully some Ernsts are still vigilant. Thank you for your service.
No.23919 KONTRA
>>23918*themselves, English is hard
No.23920
In proper english, would I say "the fashion and beauty industry" or "the fashion- and beauty industry"?
No.23921 KONTRA
I hate myself mongoloid retards and I would love to exterminate them.
No.23923
>>23893Child A feels too entitled. No flute for her and I take one of her other toys away as a lesson. Child B made sonething they have no use for once the creative process had finished. Truly an artist. She keeps the flute. Child C needs to learn the value of hard work. I ask chlid B to teach him how to make his own flute.
>>23905Strange thing that people assume someone not looking at a screen is doing
nothing. Inner monologues exist.
>>23920The first one.
No.23924
>>23923Some people do not have an inner monologue. Science claims they are still fully conscious and not retarded, either. I have doubts.
No.23927
>>23921 has a fully conscious inner mongoloid.
No.23928
Climate tipping points have been reached, governments are collapsing, food systems are collapsing! This will only accelarate! You know that each and every one of you will die, right? Do you think you can survive longer by being good sheeple and licking the spit of your capitalist overlords? LOL. STUPID SHEEPLE.
No.23929
Would you rather have no inner monologue or hearing voices?
No.23930
>debate over inner monologues
you are all schizo. maybe address real issues that exist in the real world? no, it's all about what's going on inside your pathetic little heads. lol what pathetic incel shitlords
No.23931
>>23930My post was more subtle and subversive
No.23932
>>23929Would the voices constantly give excellent actionable advice and boost my self-esteem? Can I choose my favourite seiyuu?
No.23933
>>23930that post gave me the schiz
No.23935
>>23930This is /int/, sir. Nobody here ever addresses any real world issues.
No.23936
>>23935Then maybe get out from behind your screen and do something useful, once in your life?
No.23937 KONTRA
>>23936... he said, posting on /int/.
No.23938
Tech is a predominantly white predominantly male field, and many of the white men are also libertarians or capitalists. It's particularly bad in software development. I think only emotionally stunted immature people with power fantasies are even interested in software development, and only massive shitlords are able to use the programming language, which was invented by racist sexist men in the 1950s. This is why all software reproduces racism and sexism, and it is why it can be only be useful in capitalism. It also pushes the frail fee-fees of emotionally immature white men on wymyn and pocs, who are forced to do the emotional labor for white men who wrote the software. Many of these shitlords are so disturbed, it isn't enough for them to force their personal trauma on others by using software as a vehicle, they are violent psychopaths, who sooner or later seek other forms of harming wymyn and minorities.
Famous programmer Hans Reiser committed femicide. The software program he created is called ReiserFS. It doesn't occur to the other shitlords to change the name. They don't care how triggering it is for wymyn to use the software program of this murderer that even carries his name.
Sexist shitlord Ian Murdock appropriated the first syllable of his then partner's name for his software program Debian. He literally stole their name! Do you think he and the other shitlords ever changed the name after the relationship ended? They still call it Debian! Also, he is an insane racist who attacked his non-white neighbours and called them slurs, and he even was arrested. Do you think that would be a reason for the other white shitlords to change the name of the software program, so it isn't any longer names after a sexist and racist? Certainly not! That's because they are shitlords!
Insane maniac John MVaffee created a software program named after himself, then ran an murdered someone in Latin America and ran a drug lab. You can still buy the software program names after John McAfee.
The shitlords all name the software programs they produce after themselves, they see it as an extension of their selves. This is why software is dripping with racism and sexism and can hardly be used by women and pocs! It's a natural result of software being created by bigoted white men!
No.23939
rember guys, don't feed the schizo
No.23941
>>23893A is virtue ethics.
B is dialectical materialism
And C is just retardation.
No.23942
>>23895Conversely you can say A gives that greatest benefit to all because they can make music and thus spiritually enrich the life of all the others.