Well now that we have established this whole discussion was sparked by literal shitposting I guess I'll just conclude by saying no, this video the German poster isn't even remotely propaganda. I honestly almost wondered if you weren't just shitposting but fatposting through a proxy

But oh God, that one woman with her "I'm afraid of bugs" and all these damned yuppies sleeping on a lawn. You know what especially makes this unrealistic? Because they weren't arrested or hassled by cops, ever. Try even taking a nap on someone's hippity hoppity. To this day one of the things that's made me angry IRl was someone gave this one homeless dude $100.00 and the fucking Brueggers wouldn't let him buy any food. They flat out refused to sell him food even though he wasn't even begging in front of their store, so fuck that corporation.

Lastly I'd like to point out this part
https://youtu.be/JHDkALRz5Rk?t=2433
Yes that is also actually true. In most places in this country if you eat food from a trash can you'll be arrested for stealing. Lots of cops will often look the other way as long as you never stop walking and just keep moving around, since you'll pretty much be told to leave or be arrested virtually anywhere not a public library it's probably a sad commentary that sounds like hyperbolic and unbelievable Soviet propaganda but literally 90% of the people in American libraries are homeless people because it's the one place you won't be arrested, and the other 10% is either college students or very poor people filling out job apps on corporate websites or whatever because they can't afford a computer but they don't stay long. The year is 2020AD, 40 years in the future in America, and only the homeless ever visit libraries, packed in there hiding from the cops.

I actually first had this explained to me at some shit food job. If something is getting thrown out because it's around the expiration date, then the only loophole to take it home and eat it is catching it in mid air, because if you take it before the trash can then you're stealing from the company regardless if it's thrown out or not, and if you take it after it lands in the trash can you're stealing from waste management companies, but technically it's not stealing if you grab trash in mid air before hitting the receptacle because at that brief 1.2 seconds of time it is no one's property. I am unclear on whether this pertains solely to landing inside or whether it becomes the property of the county and/or waste management companies after passing the event horizon of the receptacle lid however. That would probable be a thing for the lawyers though I suspect the legal argument would hinge on intent as the prior owner had communicated a property transference from themselves to the trash collectors that had been unlawfully intercepted in a similar manner to stealing a package from a delivery service, though it could be disputed since something being orally communicated does not hold the same legal weight and is typically unenforceable contractually in the same manner as written agreements. Regardless I'm pretty sure that in any case you could still be arrested for petty larceny at any stage between company to landfill of taking old food, trash, or anything else.

Actually I kind of wonder how this works legally with something on the curb, since by not being in a bin it is not the lawful property of the city or trash companies, and by being on a sidewalk is public property and thus officially no one's property in particular. This just makes me wonder the legal status of old TVs and furniture left for trash removal or free depending where it is on a property line.

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Nice posts. You seem more educated in this stuff than I am.

My problem with Asian urbanism is the absolute over-saturation of advertisements and signage. To a westerner like me, it looks cool when the hangul and hiragana is nothing more than exotic decoration. It's iconic, but it's a little overwhelming.
But in general, I would agree. Japanese urbanism in particular is top-tier.

>arrested sense of the importance of aesthetics to the religious experience.

Yes, I don't find that Protestant churches inspire a sense of the divine. But then, they generally believe that the divine isn't found in things of this world, and that it's useless to pour money into places of worship. Personally, Rococo churches are my favorite religious sites from an aesthetic perspective.

I envy Arabesque for it's ability to pour such great detail and value into such small spaces without using any icons, just combinations of geometry and calligraphy. It feels grandiose and subtle at the same time. The Irish Catholic tradition was able to convey something similar by combining Celtic rope-work motifs into engravings and illustrations- but never to a scale similar to the Muslim world. You see floral motifs across the continent, too. But, again, the Arabs were really masters of that.

I'll need to look more into these vernacular styles. I'm not really educated in them.

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Exorbitantly so. Not just in terms of maintenance and equipment and all that as well as being typically much more difficult to care for than cold or freshwater, but the fish themselves easily run into the hundreds of dollars for the smallest setup and the typical marine fish is easily like $40. In fact I'd say that $40 is pretty standard from what I've seen at a LFS with the absolute cheapest marine fish tending towards $20 a piece, and with the more expensive ones quite easily running up into $70 or $120 for even just one specimen.

Oh wow some of these are actually pretty cheap apparently
https://www.liveaquaria.com/category/871/marine-fish-sale?c=747+871

That yellow tang alone is close to a $50 fish.
A piece.
Now look at how many of those he had and you do the math. Iirc I saw a blue spot fish and a few parrot fish and so on, and the Tangs are probably the cheaper ones he's got.

Here's another list to give you an idea
https://www.azgardens.com/product-category/saltwater-marine/
Keep in mind, these are just fish. Although it didn't look like a nice enough vibrant reef tank all of that stuff in there that looked like seaweed and rocks? Yeah that was probably also a collection of corals. Coral is absolutely not cheap. Coral is unbelievably fucking expensive at retail. One tiny little polyp is going to cost you quite a lot of money.

Oh holy Jesus yeah I just looked at the clip again and yes he does indeed have lots and lots of different corals and anemones. There is easily ten thousand dollars worth of coral alone in there.
https://www.azgardens.com/product-category/saltwater-marine/coral/

I don't know if because he lives in Israel it's cheaper or he has closer to native fish but I guarantee that tank is an absolute minimum $50,000 and I highly doubt it was anywhere near that cheap. His electric bill alone must be pretty intense. If he's doing all that himself without hiring helpers (which judging by what he said, is also true right down to designing the thing) then that is an absolutely fantastic amount of weapons grade autism he's sunk into that hobby and is probably like an almost full time job dealing with it himself so I'd have to imagine he's retired.

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>i really think once you get up to 5k or 6k and you're feeling good, you can just say fuck it and run a 10k, just like that.

Well, you were right. I went out yesterday, intending to do a brief run, but my legs were feeling great and so I just kept going. It honestly felt like a "fuck it" moment, as in "let's see what these months of training have accomplished". I didn't quite make 10km, though, but did 9. That was my phsyical limit, as I stopped after trying to lift my leg for the next stride-and it didn't. A weird feeling, but not in a bad way. There was no cramping, just exhaustion.
You know one thing that I think actually helped, was running on an unmarked route(normally I know my half-mile markers). It prevented me from mentally quitting after going a certain distance. I didn't actually know how far I had gone until marking it later using Gb.mapometer.com.
That site also provides elevation data. I decended from a height of 63ft, all the way down to 42ft! Like I said before, this is a very flat area.

Oh, and I've been getting more motivation from rap/hip-hop lately, so it's only a matter of time before I throw in some of those techno beats :D.

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Congratulations, ernst. I remembered your post about walking all those kilometers, and it's great to see you're still making progress.

not sure why you didn't put this in the vidya thread but I guess it deserves its own. Downloaded it.

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I can't stand and hate the fact to no end that "visual novel" has become nothing but a byword for weeb shit and more hentai anime trash. That shovelware was clogging my goddamn screen so much it was the one and only thing that actually forced me to figure out a way to filter my recommendeds and such. To this day -anime is my one omitted tag, in addition to -nudity, because for some fucking reason a lot of anime trash still was getting around that filter. Since blocking -nudity from my results too I have been unharrassed by such spam.

God anime is such garbage. I simply cannot believe how much of it is polluting steam.

I am particularly annoyed by this just because "visual novel" basically describes a broad array of games that I actually like. For instance Planescape Torment and Tides of Numenera can both much more easily be called a visual novel than anything else--and no, I don't mean "comic book" bullshit either I mean a game that is actually much more like an interactive book than anything else. The main problem is if it's a good book, which in many cases it is not. P:T and T:ToN are both technically crpgs but really they're so far gone to that direction that I would basically describe them as visual novels, thus, I am constantly fucking angry whenever I see shit thrown around like "VN" because weeb garbage has basically tainted the tag to being nothing but hentai waifu shit.

Anyway thanks OP I'll check it out. How long is it btw? Because I'm kind of running on a huge backlog so idk when I'll be able to get back to you if it's a longish one.

Also recommending some german Lieder, you can find the translated lyrics online (and should really read them).

>Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings "Four Last Songs" by Richard Strauss

https://youtu.be/Cs0vSC9DUhU

>Christa Ludwig sings "Kindertotenlieder", written by Friedrich Rückert and composed by Gustav Mahler

https://youtu.be/9edKNmyiLBc

>Kirsten Flagstad sings "Wesendonck-Lieder", written by Mathilde Wesendonck and composed by Richard Wagner

https://youtu.be/XpAd7yTQOY4

>Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings "Goethe-Lieder", written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and composed by Hugo Wolf

https://youtu.be/N3v3e-8PA90

I've only been a few times, and mostly because I could get in for free as a student or due to my current part-time job at the theatre. Nonetheless I feel impelled to share my unqualified opinions.
My absolute favorite was Macbeth by Verdi, I don't remember the sound that well, but the staging was really memorable, very surreal with colored lighting, monumental set pieces and good costumes. All the other ones I've seen the stage design and the costumes were pretty average/bad. In fact they seem to recycle most of the costumes from various different pieces without too much regard and put it off as creative freedom or whatever. I don't mind it that much but it's just kind of sad.
Recently I've seen Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (based on a play by Pushkin) which was pretty good (again if you didn't pay too much attention to the stage design, and to the accents, and to the bad subtitles). They even made a trailer for it, see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvQG6CzrV4
Though I'm afraid that either something is wrong with my ears or the acoustics aren't all that great in the theatre I've watched it at. Then again I didn't exactly have the best seat of course. And it really matters where you sit so if you're actually paying for your ticket you need to really make sure it's a good adaptation else it might not be worth the money.
Also I've seen half of Der Ring an einem Abend which is a shortened version of Wagner's Ring cycle with intermittent commentary written by Loriot which is performed by a speaker. It wasn't as cringe as I expected it to be, but I didn't really enjoy it either. Maybe I just don't like Wagner that much, it's a bit too pompous, too many crashing cymbals. Though I did enjoy the Parsifal movie adaptation by Syberberg, but it's also a visual feast. What's the appeal of Wagner to you?
Then I've also seen Eugen Onegin by Tchaikovsky but that was quite immemorable, also the accents again pained my ears.

Also, in general, I think I'd enjoy opera much more if they'd just project proper subtitles which really can't be that hard given current technology. But I guess there's still quite a bit of elitist/conservative mentality going on around opera.